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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Open Media series |
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Open Media book.
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| Contents |
Foreword: Remaking the future / by John Stckney -- Threats, talks and a hoped-for accord with North Korea -- Tortilla wars -- We own the world -- Gaza and the future of a Palestinian-Israeli peace -- Containing Iran -- Hypocrisies and hopes in Annapolis -- The Somalia syndrome -- "Good News" from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan -- In the campaign, the unspeakable war -- Would a democrat change U.S. Middle East policy? -- Delaying doomsday: this century's challenges -- Middle East road trip -- Iraq oil: a deal with the devil -- Nuclear threats: all options are on the table -- Georgia and the neo-con cold warriors -- The campaign and the financial crisis -- Challenges for Barack Obama: Part 1: The election and the economy -- Challenges for Barack Obama: Part 2: Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Nightmare in Gaza -- Barack Obama and Israel-Palestine -- Latin America, defiant -- Down with the Durand Line! -- A tradition of torture -- Barack Obama and Israel-Palestine -- A season of travesties -- Making war to bring peace -- Militarizing Latin America -- War, peace and Obama's Nobel -- The legacy of 1989 in two hemispheres -- Presidential "peacekeeping"in Latin America -- The corporate takeover of U.S. democracy -- The unelected "architects of policy" -- A "regrettable" event in East Jerusalem -- Rust Belt rage -- The real threat aboard the freedom flotilla -- Storm clouds over Iran -- The war in Afghanistan: echoes of Vietnam -- China and the New World Order, Part 1 -- China and the New World Order, Part 2 -- The U.S. elections: outrage misguided -- The charade of Israeli-Palestinian talks -- Breaking the Israel-Palestine deadlock -- The Arab Word is on fire -- The Cairo-Madison connection -- Libya and the world of oil -- The international assault on labor -- The revenge killing of Osama Bin Laden -- In Israel, a tsunami warning -- America in decline -- After 9/11, was war the only pption? -- The threat of warships on an "island of world peace" -- Occupy the future |
| Summary |
Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Unipolarity (International relations)
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World politics -- 21st century.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 21st Century.
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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Unipolarity (International relations)
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World politics
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Internationell politik -- 2000-talet.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
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United States
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Förenta staterna -- internationella relationer.
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Förenta staterna -- politik och förvaltning.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780872865594 |
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0872865592 |
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