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Books of Bayern volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Young Razo travels from Bayern to Tira at war's end as part of a diplomatic corps, but mysterious events in the Tiran capital fuel simmering suspicions and anger, and Razo must spy out who is responsible before it is too late and he becomes trapped in anenemy land.
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Fourteen-year-old mermaid princess Lana reluctantly visits her mother on land for the Royal Festival after her mermaid-father appoints her a royal ambassador, but when an earthquake strikes back home and Lana is forbidden to go back home, she discovers nefarious forces may be at work against her kingdom.
3) Utopia
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Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...
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From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to "break the cross and spill the wine," this book brings to life the Catholic Church's role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney provides a comprehensive guide to the remarkable path the Vatican has navigated to the present day, and a first-person...
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"Unveiling the Divide" delves deep into the complex, centuries-old relationship between Greece and Turkey, with a sharp focus on the persistent and contentious issue of Cyprus. As two regional powers with divergent cultural, religious, and historical narratives, the diplomatic interplay between Greece and Turkey has seen moments of collaboration but also prolonged periods of tension, particularly around the status and future of Cyprus.Critical components...
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Con la transformación del sistema internacional, las fronteras deben dejar de ser vistas como límites o líneas estáticas. Esta obra, resultado del diálogo transdisciplinar que por más de tres años sostuvieron investigadores latinoamericanos en coordinación con la Fundación Friedrich Ever Stiftung (FESCOL), constituye un valioso aporte a la literatura sobre el estado de las relaciones fronterizas y la política vecinal. Se abordan aquí los...
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How is critical thinking taught? How will the next generation cope with an ever-changing and increasingly complex world? These are questions that the Grand Strategy program at Yale seeks to address. The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy seeks to revive the study and practice of grand strategy by devising methods to teach that subject at the graduate and undergraduate levels, by training future leaders to think about and implement grand strategies...
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Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea-charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil"-is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable of delivering them to America's West Coast. But, as Bruce Cumings demonstrates in this provocative, lively read, the story of the U.S.-Korea conflict is more complex...
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We are living in times of unprecedented globalisation. Instead of making the world multipolar, history is being repeated as corporates blur the sovereign boundaries and indulge in the cartelization of resources. The world has always been at war over resources behind the façade of trade, politics, religion and ideology. Though the global order has evolved, the key has always been geography for "he who controls the geography, controls the resources...
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Esta es la primera publicación del recién fundado Instituto de Estudios Europeos (IEE) de la Universidad del Norte en Barranquilla. el objetivo de esta compilación es propiciar un acercamiento a la comprensión de las relaciones políticas y económicas entre Colombia y la Unión Europea.
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Los rumbos de la historia se determinan en cabinas de mando de difícil acceso. Contadas personas tienen el privilegio de estar cerca de los pilotos y captar de primera mano los movimientos esenciales. Es el caso de un diplomático de larga carrera, Juan Antonio March, que ha podido tratar con líderes de talla mundial desde los años ochenta hasta hoy.
En este libro traza unos retratos impagables de cada protagonista para llevarnos de la mano a los...
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How did the world's most warlike continent become its most peaceful one? Mehta argues that the process of political integration through the European Union has eliminated the reasons for conflict, and that this same model can be exported to Africa, The Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Middle East and North Africa region, providing a promising glimpse of world peace.
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Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy is a biography of Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons written by Thomas Legh, Baron Newton, who served as a member of Lord Lyons's staff at the Paris Embassy. Newton collected Lord's carefully preserved correspondence and draw upon his own diary and recollections to compile this biography of an eminent British diplomat, the favourite of Queen Victoria. Lyons was the most influential British diplomat during each...
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Recent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to alter the behavior of other states. From public browbeating through economic sanctions to military invasion, the last several presidents have chosen to use coercion to advance U.S. interests when dealing with adversaries. In this respect, as Miroslav Nincic notes, the United States differs from many of its closest allies: Canada has long maintained diplomatic...
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Este libro es representante de una corriente paulatinamente vigente en la realidad mundial y, por tanto, en los estudios de las relaciones internacionales; se convierte también en pionero de tales temas en la academia de Jalisco.
Lo que propone Actores locales, impactos globales: aportes académicos en paradiplomacia, es imaginar que los estudios hechos desde las relaciones internacionales puedan tocar tierra inmediata. La tradición de análisis...
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Russia is the world's other nuclear superpower — the only country that has the ability to wipe the United States off the map within 30 minutes.
With Russia and the U.S. currently having 1,700 nuclear weapons pointed at each other on hair trigger alert, our relationship with Russia is one of the most critical, requiring a rational policy.
In order to conduct a rational foreign policy, we must understand the other country's point of view. That doesn't...
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Among the highlights of this autobiography are interviews with such world leaders as General De Gaulle, Pinochet, Castro, Nelson Mandela, and Gorbachev. While serving 30 years in the British Parliament one of Sir Eldon's pet projects was building the Chunnel in the English Channel to France. After moving to Southern California 20 years ago he headed the World Affairs Council and wrote a daily column in the Orange County Register and was fondly known...
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"The U.S. government has essentially two choices when dealing with adversarial states: isolate them or engage them. Isolate or Engage systematically examines the challenges to and opportunities for U.S. diplomatic relations with nine intensely adversarial states-China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, U.S.S.R./Russia, Syria, Venezuela, and Vietnam: states where the situation is short of conventional war and where the U.S. maintains limited or no formal...
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"Navigating the Challenges" offers a compelling exploration of the unique predicaments faced by landlocked countries worldwide. Devoid of direct coastal access, these nations grapple with a distinct set of economic, political, and logistical challenges that shape their developmental trajectories and diplomatic approaches. This comprehensive guide delves deep into the intricacies of these challenges, providing insights into how these countries adapt,...
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The authors of this book are uniquely qualified to analyze the contemporary security landscape and promote necessary and pressing change. Each is a thought leader in his or her field. Four out of six authors are seasoned military professionals who share the view that the over-reliance on kinetic approaches over influence operations accounts for some of the failures of nations against extremists. Combined with civilian academic leadership, this book...
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