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Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
epub |eng | | Author:Kumari Jayawardena

Women in the Left Movement In the early 1930s, a Youth League of radical nationalists and socialists was formed with branches all over Sri Lanka to agitate for national independence. ...
( Category: Nationalism September 11,2016 )
Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society by R. R. Reno
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:R. R. Reno

RENEWING SOLIDARITY Friedrich Hayek wrote his classic The Road to Serfdom during World War II in the hope of shaping the postwar reconstruction of society. The West, he believed, faced ...
( Category: Democracy September 10,2016 )
Edward Heath by Michael McManus
epub |eng | | Author:Michael McManus

Almost unbelievably, Heath began 1980 by criticising the EEC again, this time for its lack of urgency. He was readily drawn into the controversy over whether British athletes should boycott ...
( Category: European September 10,2016 )
The Red Bandanna by Tom Rinaldi
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-18 | Author:Tom Rinaldi [Rinaldi, Tom]

• • • Very early Friday morning, long before dawn, Alison was back at her task. The girls were sleeping, she hoped. Her job was to call the city’s hospitals ...
( Category: Philanthropy & Charity September 9,2016 )
An Introduction to the Causes of War by Greg Cashman
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Greg Cashman

ROOTS OF WAR: LONG-TERM CAUSES Religion The conflict between India and Pakistan is often presented as a conflict between Hindus and Muslims, one that links religious rivalry with territorial identity. ...
( Category: History & Theory September 9,2016 )
Pakistan at the Crossroads by Christophe Jaffrelot
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Christophe Jaffrelot

PAKISTAN’S POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1947–2008 When Pakistan achieved independence, it did not have the capacities of a functioning state. That was not the case for India, which could simply take over ...
( Category: Asia September 8,2016 )
The Euro by Joseph E. Stiglitz
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

PROMOTING EQUALITY Markets, on their own, often produce excessively high levels of inequality—levels that are, or should be, socially unacceptable, and actually undermine economic performance. Sometimes this is because governments ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 7,2016 )
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jason Brennan [Brennan, Jason]

Is King Carl Acting Unjustly? Imagine that the unfortunate kingdom of Bungleland suffers under the rule of King Carl the Incompetent. For the most part, King Carl means well. But ...
( Category: Democracy September 6,2016 )
The Duel in European History by Victor Kiernan
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Victor Kiernan

11 Decline and Rebirth I find in one memoir a note of a newly-joined ensign after mess addressing the assembled officers as follows: ‘By Jasus, gentlemen, I am conscious you ...
( Category: European September 6,2016 )
Power Shift by Richard Falk
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Richard Falk

It is my overall argument that the gaps between HF and HN are unsustainable, although assessments of the specific timing and forms of collapse remain speculative, contested, and hidden from ...
( Category: History & Theory September 6,2016 )
Latin America's Leaders by Rut Diamint
epub |eng | 2015-09-05 | Author:Rut Diamint

The reasons for the crisis in Ecuador In Ecuador, economic instability and unpopular government decisions brought about the collapse of the political party system. Historically Ecuador had strong political leaders. ...
( Category: Political Parties September 6,2016 )
In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...
( Category: Social Policy September 6,2016 )
Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism by Nima Sanandaji
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nima Sanandaji [Sanandaji, Nima]

Similarly, Danish researcher Casper Hunnerup Dahl has concluded: “The high degree of distribution in the Danish welfare state does not merely reduce the concrete incentives that some Danes have for ...
( Category: Fascism September 5,2016 )
My First Life by Hugo Chavez
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Chavez

10 Conspiring and Recruiting Gently flowing water – The Power Within You Sandinista victory in Nicaragua – Marx and Bolívar ‘About-Turn’ – First micro-cell – Winning over cadets Crisis theory ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2016 )
Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Sarah Jaffe

IT HAS ONLY BEEN RELATIVELY RECENTLY THAT ABORTION AND GAY rights were assumed to be the major concerns of people of faith. For much of US history, when politicians took ...
( Category: Human Rights September 5,2016 )

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