Tag: United

Free Download Sébastien Boussois (Author, Narrator), "United Arab Emirates: Conquering the World"
English | ISBN: 9782315018987, 2315018986 | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~03:32:00 | 97 MB
The United Arab Emirates has emerged in a few decades to sell itself as an enlightened, modern, liberal beacon in the midst of a dark and chaotic Arab world. As the first country in the region to implement a "Vision" (Abu Dhabi Vision 2030), the UAE quickly became a resounding success beyond its borders. This is the bright side.
The dark side: the UAE contributes to the stifling of democracies in Muslim countries. When they are not waging war, as in Yemen, they interfere, as no Arab power has done before, in the affairs of other countries, namely, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia.
Abu Dhabi does not care about the Arab revolutions-for ten years, the country has engaged in a powder keg policy, which heralds new dangers for the region’s equilibrium.

Free Download Safe Haven: The United Kingdom’s Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT9D7NS3 | 2024 | 10 hours and 45 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 296 MB
Author: Jon Silverman, Robert Sherwood
Narrator: Jon Silverman
The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some £11 million, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States, Germany, and Australia, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together, the authors argue that these-including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial-meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court.

Free Download The United States and Argentina: Changing Relations in a Changing World By Deborah Lee Norden; Roberto Russell; Roberto Guillermo Russell
20002 | 167 Pages | ISBN: 0415932793 | PDF | 7 MB
Following a long history of conflict and distrust, the end of the Cold War witnessed the emergence of a strong friendship between the United States and Argentina. Historically one of the strongest and most independent countries of Latin America, Argentina developed a foreign policy during the post-Cold War period characterized by a strong allegiance to the United states. Deborah L. Norden and Roberto Russell show how Argentina’s economic and political instability encouraged the government to redefine U.S.-Argentina’s relations from prior patterns of animosity in order to improve the country’s international image and attract foreign support. Although unable to prevent Argentina’s renewed crisis in 2001, this shift nonetheless allowed the country to approach the crisis from a very different international position than previously. The United States and Argentina sets out to explore the nature of U.S.-Argentine relations by concentrating on the issues which have shaped and stood out in the dialogue between the two countries and how this shifting relationship has been played out in international institutions. — Back cover.

Free Download Rowland Brucken, "A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953"
English | ISBN: 0875804713 | 2013 | 450 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within certain domestic non-governmental organizations, and explains why, after issuing wartime declarations that called for the definition and enforcement of international human rights standards, the US government refused to ratify the first UN treaties that fulfilled those twin purposes. The Truman and Eisenhower administrations worked to weaken the scope and enforcement mechanisms of early human rights agreements, and gradually withdrew support for Senate ratification. A small but influential group of isolationist-oriented senators, led by John Bricker (R-OH), warned that the treaties would bring about socialism, destroy white supremacy, and eviscerate the Bill of Rights. At the UN, a growing bloc of developing nations demanded the inclusion of economic guarantees, support for decolonization, and strong enforcement measures, all of which Washington opposed.

Free Download Alan J. Kohn, "Conus of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean"
English | 2014 | pages: 476 | ISBN: 069113538X | PDF | 42,8 mb
Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world’s tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity. The shells of these marine mollusks are prized for their amazing variety and extraordinary beauty. The neurotoxic venoms they produce―injected by a hollow, harpoon-like tooth into prey animals that are then paralyzed and swallowed whole―have a range of pharmaceutical applications, from painkillers to antidepressants. This beautifully illustrated book identifies 53 valid species of the southeastern United States and the Caribbean, a region that supports a diverse but taxonomically challenging group of Conus. Introductory chapters cover the evolution and phylogeny of the genus, and notes on methodology are provided. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, toxicology, life history, and evolutionary relationships. The book includes more than 2,100 photos of shells on 109 splendid color plates; more than 100 additional photos, many depicting live animals in color; and 35 color distribution maps.

Free Download Ellias Aghili Dehnavi, Seyed Mohammad Ardam, "Balkans’ Trinity: The Role of the United States in the Relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Balkan Countries"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3347318382, 3347318390 | EPUB | pages: 86 | 1.0 mb
The Balkans, also known as the Balkan peninsula are a geographic area in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea in the east, the Adriatic Sea and the Greek Sea in the west, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and by the Dinaric Alps and Transylvanian Alps in the north. The Balkans comprise the areas of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Republic of Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Turkey (the European part). Its total area is 728,000 km2 and the population is about 60, 00,000. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that are extended from central Bulgaria to the eastern region of Serbia. The great importance of this region in terms of geopolitical, geo-economic, and geostrategic issues has resulted in the regional and supra-regional great powers being interested in this part of Europe and they are making efforts to make an influence in the region in a way that enjoy the interests of this area. The Islamic Republic of Iran, due to the history of relations with the Balkans, is trying to make an influence in the region and establish a position for itself. The United States (US) as its traditional rival, however, has made efforts to apply its influence in the countries located in the region and prevent the establishment of relations between the Balkan countries and the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the same time, the US is making use of its prominent foreign policy tool (i.e. sanctions) to avert the Islamic Republic of Iran’s influence in the Balkans as well as preventing the cooperation between the Balkans with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thereby, in this book, we discuss the economic, political, and cultural relations of the Islamic Republic of Iran with the Balkan countries, in addition, we address the effects of U.S. sanctions on the economic, political, and cultural relations of the countries located in this region with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Free Download Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4BGRQQY | 2024 | 18 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 524 MB
Author: Jonathan Blitzer
Narrator: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer. Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances.

Free Download The United Nations and Changing World Politics By Forsythe, David P.;Coate, Roger A.;Weiss, Thomas G.;Pease, Kelly-Kate
2014 | 422 Pages | ISBN: 0813348471 | EPUB | 7 MB
A comprehensive and contemporary examination of the United Nations, using a thematic approach to explore the UN’s role in three core issues in international relations: international peace and security; human rights and humanitarian affairs; and building peace through sustainable development.

Free Download Social Policy in the United States By Theda Skocpol
1995 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 069103785X | PDF | 39 MB
Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs–all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and political alliances, can illuminate the limits and possibilities of American social policymaking both past and present. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to social spending and suggests why President Clinton’s health care agenda was so quickly attacked despite the support of most Americans for his goals.

Free Download Ian Martin, "All Necessary Measures?: The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya"
English | ISBN: 1787385841 | 2022 | 224 pages | EPUB | 580 KB
The international intervention after the 2011 Libyan uprising against Muammar Gaddafi was initially considered a remarkable success: the UN Security Council’s first application of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine; an impending civilian massacre prevented; and an opportunity for democratic forces to lead Libya out of a forty-year dictatorship. But such optimism was soon dashed.