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Free Download Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States by John D. Ciorciari
English | March 16, 2021 | ISBN: 1503613666 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 0.8 MB
In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking redundancy, confusion over roles, and feuds between partners when their interests diverge.

Free Download Tómas Joensen, "Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: Politics and Governance"
English | ISBN: 3030662020 | 2021 | 318 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015-2016 migration crisis. The contributions highlight the challenges small states and the European Union faced in addressing the massive irregular flow of migrants and refugees into Europe and the Schengen Area. Small states adopted a number of coping strategies and proved relatively effective in navigating the storm they faced. Externally they pursued strategies of shelter-seeking, hiding, hedging and norm entrepreneurship, while domestically they tended to securitize migration and to pursue scapegoating by blaming the EU and other states for the nature and magnitude of the crisis. During this crisis management, their small administrations proved resilient and flexible in their responses, despite suffering from limited resources and being subject to the shifting preferences of stronger actors. This book shows that independent of whether we view the migration crisis as a crisis for the European Union or Europe as a whole, or how we interpret the intensity and severity of the crisis, this was a crisis for small states in Europe. The crisis disrupted the liberal and institutionalized order upon which small states in the region had increasingly based their policies and influence for more than 60 years.

Free Download Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States’ Wrongdoings? by Avia Pasternak
English | August 27, 2021 | ISBN: 0197541038 | True EPUB/PDF | 264 pages | 2/11.9 MB
States are often held responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, as did Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait. States pay reparations for their historical wrongdoings, as did Chile to the victims of the Pinochet Regime, or Germany to Israel and other countries because of the Holocaust. Some argue that they should pay punitive damages for their international crimes as well.

Free Download Lighthouses of the Southern States: From Chesapeake Bay to Cape Florida by Ray Jones
English | December 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1493047280 | 128 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
Lighthouses of the Southern States is the classic guide to the most significant lighthouses in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Through stirring historic accounts and stunning color and archival photographs, the stories of more than thirty-five lighthouses come alive in vivid detail. Each light–from Bodie Island Light on the Outer Banks to the Cape Florida Light outside Miami–tells its own engrossing tale of survival. Discover the rich history behind these majestic sentinels, and learn more about visiting them.

Free Download Historical Dictionary of the United States (Historical Dictionaries of the Americas) by Kenneth J. Panton
English | September 15, 2022 | ISBN: 153812419X | 782 pages | MOBI | 2.25 Mb
The evolution of the United States from a late-18th century coalition of rebel British colonies to a 21st century global superpower was shaped by several forces. As the nation expanded its boundaries after the Treaty of Paris confirmed independence from Great Britain in 1783, it acquired a rich variety of resources – coal, fertile soils, forests, iron ore, oil, precious metals, space, and varied climates as well as extensive tracts of territory. Technological innovations, such as the cotton gin and steam power, enabled entrepreneurs to exploit those resources and create wealth. Federal and state legislators provided environments in which the economy could flourish, and military strategists kept the country safe from external attack. Diplomats negotiated commercial agreements with foreign governments and cultivated multinational alliances that strengthened freedoms. Through its focus on the people and places that shaped the country’s economic and political development and its detailed accounts of the processes that enabled the U.S. to expand across the continent

Free Download Ronn Pineo, "Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0820329703 | PDF | pages: 277 | 1.5 mb
This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. Ranging from Ecuador’s struggle for independence in the 1820s and 1830s to the present day, the book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, and-from the U.S. perspective-often unintended consequences that have sometimes arisen in relations between the two countries.

Free Download Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President by Michael S. Schmidt
English | January 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1984854682 | 496 pages | EPUB | 4.21 Mb
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Free Download Donald F. Kettl, "The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them"
English | 2008 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0393051129, 0393978699 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
This book exposes the reality that our twentieth-century government is no match for twenty-first-century problems and proposes a solution.

Free Download Malcolm Barber, "The Crusader States"
English | ISBN: 0300113129 | 2012 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God’s favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God’s plan: to reestablish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is devoted to the resulting settlements, the crusader states, that developed around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and survived until Richard the Lionheart’s departure in 1192. Focusing on Jerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessa, Malcolm Barber vividly reconstructs the crusaders’ arduous process of establishing and protecting their settlements, and the simultaneous struggle of vanquished inhabitants to adapt to life alongside their conquerors.

Free Download Bernard Stiegler, "States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0745664946 | 2015 | 200 pages | AZW3 | 579 KB
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity and madness. However, philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century abandoned the critique of political economy, and poststructuralism left its heirs helpless and disarmed in face of the reign of stupidity and an economic crisis of global proportions.