Tag: States

Free Download Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3TQ384 | 2024 | 13 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Afshon Ostovar
Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi
The September 11 attacks upended America’s relatively strong influence in the Middle East and prompted President George W. Bush’s plan to remake the region through a war in Iraq. By bringing liberal democracy to Iraq, Bush hoped that the country would be a springboard for the spread of democracy to neighboring authoritarian states. Yet the war’s disruption created an opportunity for Iran to advance its own opposing ambitions-one that would turn the Middle East into a bastion of resistance to Western hegemony and bring an end to Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. The resulting clash not only intensified the Iraq War, it reverberated in states across the region.

Free Download Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4Y1NWCT | 2024 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Hannah Farber
Narrator: Linda Jones
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation’s institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

Free Download States of Adventure: Stories About Finding Yourself by Getting Lost by Fitz Cahall
English | July 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 074409271X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 158.02 MB
From completing the Great Divide Mountain Bike route in a wheelchair bike to swapping the city for van life in Yosemite, these 30 stories will inspire you to pack a knapsack, head outside, and push yourself.

Free Download John J. Mearsheimer, "How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy"
English | ISBN: 0300269307 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 947 KB
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?

Free Download Brian Ganson, Achim Wennmann, "Business and Conflict in Fragile States: The Case for Pragmatic Solutions"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138213977 | EPUB | pages: 234 | 0.7 mb
Large-scale investments in fragile states – in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia – become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.

Free Download Sandra Clemens Mcmahon, "A Brief History Of The Future: The United States In A Changing World Order"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0813316219, 0367004860 | EPUB | pages: 156 | 0.6 mb
Looking at the interaction of four central tendencies – democratization, technological expansion, regional integration and the obsolescence of war – the author sketches a picture of a future imbued with ideas, populated by ordinary heroes and governed by the power of vision.

Free Download Jeff Friesen, "United States of LEGO®: A Brick Tour of America"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1510750487, 162914682X | EPUB | pages: 112 | 4.8 mb
See the United States as You Never Have Before: Brick by Brick!

Free Download United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War: Ghost Soldiers and Sea Commandos, 1963-1971 by Leo J. Daugherty III
English | March 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 1476690960 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 24.05 MB
Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon’s selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on actions with the South Vietnamese ARVN highlights important lessons for today’s Special Forces community, illustrating the inter-service cooperation of Recon operations. Firsthand accounts of Marines who served are included, along with photographs, maps and appendices.

Free Download The Academic Library in the United States: Historical Perspectives edited by Mark L. McCallon, John Mark Tucker
English | October 10, 2022 | ISBN: 0786495871 | True EPUB | 294 pages | 3.3 MB
This book advances the belief that the library-more than any other cultural institution-collects, curates and distributes the results of human thought. Essays broaden the debate about academic libraries beyond only professional circles, promoting the library as a vital resource for the whole of higher education. Topics range from library histories to explorations of changing media. Essayists connect modern libraries to the remarkable dream of Alexandria’s ancient library-facilitating groundbreaking research in every imaginable field of human interest, past, present and future.

Free Download Nicolaas Buitendag, "States of exclusion: A critical systems theory reading of international law"
English | ISBN: 1779952392 | 2023 | 230 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The theoretical underpinnings of public international law have taken the sovereign status of the nation-state for granted since the beginning of the modern era. After centuries of evolution in legal and political thought, the state’s definition as a bounded territorial unit has been strictly codified. The legal development of the nation-state was an ideological project informed by extra-legal considerations. Additionally, the ever-narrowing scope of the juridical idea of sovereignty functioned as a boundary mechanism instrumental in colonising Africa and other regions. While international law claims universal liberalism today, the current system based on sovereign nation-states represents not social inclusion but fierce and dangerous exclusion.