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This book presents different views on nuclear disarmament and arms control and a brief history of nuclear non-proliferation policy and the nuclear test ban issue. It describes the preparations for and results of the 1990 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the 1991 Partial Test Ban Treaty Amendment Conference. With a view to 1995, it assesses the chances for consensus or dissension regarding regarding nuclear proliferation and the test ban, and the prospects for an extension of NPT. It concludes by examining the future and the threat of a new North-South divide over these issues.

Stephane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel BartosekAlready famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years. "Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience-in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes against national and universal culture, from Stalin's destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescu's leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Mao's Red Guards. As the death toll mounts-as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on-the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression. An extraordinary accounting, this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism

From the Middle Ages to the end of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty; From the Enlightenment to the modern imagination; From the Spanish Civil War to the present.

This case study of Botswana focuses on the state building qualities of biodiversity conservation in southern Africa Drawing on extensive fieldwork Annette A LaRocco argues that discourses and practices related to biodiversity conservation are essential to state building in the postcolonial era These discourses and practices invoke the ways the state exerts authority over people places and resources enacts and remakes territorial control crafts notions of ideal citizenship and identity and structures economic relationships at the local national and global levels The book s key innovation is its conceptualization of the conservation estate a term most often used as an apolitical descriptor denoting land set aside for the purpose of conservation LaRocco argues that this description is inadequate and proposes a novel and much needed alternative definition that is tied to its political elements The components of conservation control over land policing of human behavior and structuring of the authority that allows or disallows certain subjectivities render conservation a political phenomenon that can be analyzed separately from considerations of nature or wildlife In doing so it addresses a gap in the scholarship of rural African politics which focu

What is the current state of local government in Britain and where is it going? Edited by two leading authorities and with an all-star cast of contributors, "British Local Government into the 21st Century" brings together a set of specially-commissioned and tightly-edited chapters to provide a comprehensive assessment of the issues and challenges facing local government today.

Now in its eighth edition The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book s tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social economic legal and political matters pertaining to environmental policy while also developing the student s own unique views The text explains why some environmental ideas shape policy while others do not and illustrates that even when the best short and long term solutions to environmental problems are identified the task of implementing these solutions is often left undone or is completed too late New to the eighth edition New topics including environmental social movements and the anti environmental countermovements environmental justice corporate influence in regulatory affairs Analyzes the growing policy divide between the two parties and the efforts of both Republicans and Democratic presidents to undo the policies of their predecessor Updated discussions of environmental justice issues Includes a range of visual aids in figures and tables to demonstrate trends in the topics covered A new co author Peter Jacques recognized for his teaching and scholarship in global environmental politics and sustainability A must buy for courses in Environmental Policy Environmental Studies and Public Policy and as a

This book showcases fifty-five structured analytic techniques-five new to this edition-that represent the most current best practices in intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security, and business analysis. With much more depth, detail, and utility than existing handbooks, each technique is clearly and systematically explained. Logically organized and richly illustrated, and with spiral binding and tabs that separate techniques into categories, this book is an easy-to-use, comprehensive reference.