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1 online resource (6 volumes) |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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| Contents |
Volume 1 / Meghan Appel O'Meara, editor -- The Afghan Taliban: emerging government or civil rights tragedy? -- Deforestation of the Amazon: economics and biodiversity -- Bosnia-Herzegovina: civil war -- Brazil: racism and equality -- Chechnya and Russia: a war of succession -- The Chiapas rebellion: indigenous people's rights in Mexico -- Colombian drug wars: guerrillas, paramilitary groups, and the government -- The Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa): the African world war -- Cuba and the United States: revolution, nationalism and enemies next door -- Ethiopia and Eritrea: border war -- The Gaza Strip and West Bank: statehood and security -- German right wing extremism: anti-foreigner violence in the country of the Holocaust -- Humanitarian aid: compassion and controversy -- Iraq: economic sanctions -- Kashmir: war in the Himalayas -- The Kurds in Turkey: the capture of Ocalan -- Liberia in civil war: haven for freed slaves reduced to anarchy -- Nagorno-Karabakh: self-determination and ethnic identification -- Oil: protectionist pricing and fuel dependence -- The extradition of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet: justice delayed? -- Roma in Eastern Europe: the wall in the Czech Republic -- Rwanda and Burundi: culture, history, power, and genocide -- Serbia and NATO: the 1999 war -- The Soviet Union: collapse of the USSR and formation of independent republics -- Sudan: slavery and civil war -- Syria and Israel: negotiations for peace -- Taiwan and China: unification and nationalism -- U.S. militant separatist movements: freedom fighters or terrorists? -- Venezuela: new military populism -- The World Trade Organization: the battle in Seattle |
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Volume 2 / Meghan Appel O'Meara, editor -- Algeria's post-colonial civil war -- Angola: civil war and diamonds -- Austria's shunning by the global community -- The Basques: the ETA and separatism -- China and Religious protest: the Falun Gong -- China and the World Trade Organization: values in conflict -- The Colombian U'wa Indians: sacred land and oil -- Cyprus: an island divided -- East Timor: the path of democracy for the world's newest nation -- The Ecuadorian indigenous people's movement: autonomy and the environment -- European Union conflict: the British beef controversy -- Guatemala: Indian testimony to a genocidal war -- The Iranian revolution: Islamic fundamentalism confronts modern secularism -- Jerusalem: divided city -- The Korean Peninsula: a fifty-year struggle for peace and reconciliation -- Kosovo: ethnic tensions and nationalism -- Mexican-U.S. border relations: opportunities and obstacles -- Mozambique: independence and a dirty war -- Myanmar: the agony of a people -- Native Americans: centuries of struggle in North America -- Nigeria and Shari'a: religion and politics in a West African nation -- Northern Ireland: the Omagh bomb, nationalism, and religion -- Peru's Shining Path: revolution's end -- Romania's cyanide spill -- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Sri Lanka: civil war and ethno-linguistic conflict -- Tibet: struggle for independence -- United Nations peacekeeping forces: peace and conflict -- U.S. immigration: sanctuary and controversy -- Zimbabwe's land reform: race and history |
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Volume 3 / Nancy Matuszak, editor -- Pol Pot and the prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leadership in Cambodia -- Splitting a nation: Québec separatism in Canada -- Disputed drilling rights in the Caspian Sea -- China's Muslim challenge: conflict in Xinjiang -- Unrest and assassination in Congo-Kinshasa -- The diamond cartel: monopolizing an industry -- Economic sanctions: a valuable weapon? -- Currency exchange: Ecuador adopts the U.S. dollar -- Opening Europe's secret cold war files -- Female circumcision: culture or cruelty? -- Overthrowing democracy: Fiji's coup -- Haiti's rocky road to democracy -- Hong Kong: walking the tightrope between capitalism and communism -- Indonesia: grappling with unrest in Irian Jaya and Aceh -- Israel's assassination of the opposition -- Electing change in Mexico -- Pakistan's coup: new regime or old tradition? -- Whose marbles are they?: controversy over the Parthenon marbles -- Fujimori and Montesinos: power, politics, and scandal in Peru -- Rooting out corruption in the Philippines: impeachment of a president -- Free to speak?: establishing a free press in Russia -- After Somalia's civil war: putting the pieces back together again -- South Africa's struggle with AIDS -- Retained assets: Swiss banks release previously held funds to Holocaust survivors -- Threats of terrorism in the twenty-first century -- Turkey's tug of war: straddling the divide between East and West -- Death before doomsday: cult members found dead in Uganda -- New Labour and the devolution of power in the United Kingdom -- U.S. military presence at world ports: a welcome stay? -- A democratic ousting: Yugoslavia elects a new leader |
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Volume 4 / Sonia G. Benson, editor -- The Afghan Taliban strikes out -- The expanded U.S. drug war in Latin America: a downed missionary plane places the spotlight on the Andean initiative -- Hard to say sorry: indigenous Australia's reconciliation movement -- The Euro versus the Pound: Britain and the European single currency -- Reading, writing, and warfare: children in armed conflict -- The Sanxia (Three Gorges) project in China: a crisis in the making? -- The spy plane incident: China-U.S. relations -- Côte d'Ivoire: a cosmopolitan society descends into political chaos and violence -- Post-cold war espionage between the United States and Russia: how has the mission changed? -- India's caste system under attack: the Dalit movement -- International military tribunals: bringing the world's worst to justice -- Africa's ivory trade: fighting for the bearers of "white gold" -- Japanese voters seek change as their economy deteriorates: new prime minister vows to break political logjam -- Quitting the Kyoto Protocol: the United States strikes out alone -- Libya, Qadhafi, and the African Union -- The Lockerbie trial on trial: was justice served? -- Macedonia faces division and violence -- Defending against the indefensible: creating a national missile defense in the United States -- North Korea: the hermit kingdom in the global era -- The missing girls: son preference reshapes the population in India and China -- Russia agrees to take the world's nuclear waste: but where to put it? -- Sierra Leone: lasting peace or a cruel mirage? -- The World Health Organization takes on the tobacco industry -- World trade conflict: has the Third World been cheated? -- United States loses seat on United Nations Human Rights Panel |
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Volume 5 / Sonia G. Benson, editor -- Air security and terrorist threats -- Biological threats of terrorism -- Chemical terrorism threats -- Civil rights suspended -- Domestic terrorism: Oklahoma City to anthrax and beyond -- The European Union's response to 9/11 and its aftermath -- Extremism: the fundamentals -- Financing terrorism: money for the cause -- Fighting terrorism with force -- Homeland security: guarding against terrorism -- Hostage taking and terrorism: the human bargaining chip -- U.S. intelligence in the twenty-first century -- Forging international rules against terrorism -- Osama bin Laden: a face of terrorism -- Living with terrorism: everyday life and the effects of terror -- The media's relationship with terrorism -- The Muslim world reacts to September 11 -- Nuclear terrorism: threats, challenges, and responses -- The Olympics confronts terrorism -- The PLO and Yasser Arafat: from terrorism to statesmanship to terrorism -- Prosecuting terrorism -- (Psychology) Understanding the 9/11 perpetrators: crazy, lost in hate, or martyred? -- Al-Qaeda and the reach of terror -- September 11, 2001: the United States is attacked on its own soil -- State sponsored terrorism -- The United States vs . terror: a new kind of war |
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Volume 6 / Sonia G. Benson, editor -- Africa's small arms trade: an infection of guns and chaos -- Argentina: from economic miracle to political meltdown -- Australia's illegal migration: an Australian dilemma or a worldwide challenge? -- Bangladesh: the democratic election of 2001 -- Children exploited: combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children -- China and ASEAN agree to free trade area: but why? -- The cloning debate: the future is burdened by its past -- Cybercrime: is the Internet outside the law? -- Enron: how did this happen? -- European Union: advancements and delays in European integration -- Gibraltar: a thorn in the side of the EU -- The International Criminal Court: accountability at last -- Jamaica: gun battles in Kingston -- Japan: history and the textbook controversy -- Pakistan: partner against terrorism -- The Philippines rebellion: freedom fighting, banditry, or terrorism? -- Portugal at the forefront: the decriminalization of drugs in Europe -- Russia-NATO relations in the post-cold war world: rethinking the future of collective security -- South Africa: a slow economy delays some post-apartheid goals -- Turkey: women are granted equal rights -- Ukraine: a president stands accused: murder and politics -- War correspondents today -- Water wars: myth or reality? -- Women, peace, and security: United Nations Resolution 1325 -- The World Bank and the IMF in developing countries: globalization and the crisis of legitimacy -- The World Trade Organization: the technical side of globalization -- Zionism: a perspective on the Jewish-Israeli experience in the Arab-Israeli conflict |
| Summary |
This searchable book presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. It provides historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs |
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Editor for volume 3: Nancy Matuszak; for volumes 4-6, Sonia G. Benson |
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Title from title page, viewed August 31, 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 20th century.
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History, Modern -- 21st century.
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World history.
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World politics.
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History, Modern.
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World history.
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World politics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Benson, Sonia, editor.
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Matuszak, Nancy, editor.
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O'Meara, Meghan Appel, editor.
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| ISBN |
0787691593 |
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9780787691592 |
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