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Fallen Isles trilogy volume 1
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From the New York Times bestselling co-author of My Plain Jane comes a smoldering new fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Kristin Cashore about a girl condemned for defending dragons and the inner fire that may be her only chance of escape. Mira has always been a symbol of hope for the Fallen Isles, perfect and beautiful-or at least that's how she's forced to appear. But when she uncovers a dangerous secret, Mira is betrayed by...
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DJ Funkyfoot volume 2
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As the new butler, it is up to DJ Funkyfoot to convince President Horse to stop playing mini-golf and sign a peace treaty with the Queen of Wingland before a war breaks out.
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Colombia se enfrenta actualmente a uno de los mayores desafíos de su historia reciente: poner fin a más de cinco décadas de violencia armada. El proceso de paz entre el gobierno nacional y las FARC en La Habana permite vislumbrar una posible salida negociada al conflicto armado, pero genera también varios interrogantes en cuanto al modelo y contenido del posible acuerdo, así como a las diversas exigencias y desafíos de la construcción de paz...
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Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international...
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Le réchauffement climatique a des répercussions considérables sur l'environnement arctique, dont l'une est de rendre cette région beaucoup plus accessible au commun des mortels. Les nouvelles dynamiques géopolitiques laissent-elles entrevoir une ruée vers les ressources conflictuelle? Au contraire, l'Arctique deviendra-t-il un territoire gouverné par l'intérêt commun et le droit international?
Les auteurs, spécialistes reconnus des affaires...
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Ningún fenómeno político internacional nace de la nada. Los principales eventos son resultado de un juego de fuerzas que determinan un clima de época. La caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989 no solo marcó la debacle de la Unión Soviética, sino que fue el punto de inflexión para el ascenso de China promovido desde Estados Unidos que suponía que, estimulando la esfera de los negocios, se achicaría el ámbito de influencia del régimen político...
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Este libro es un acercamiento al rol de los actores no estatales catalogados como grupos de interés económico (GIE) en la negociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con China, en el que se toma como precedente el acuerdo comercial con Estados Unidos y se identifican las principales características de dichos grupos.
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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Dans moins d'une génération, l'ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique mondial sera manifestement différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces dynamiques à l'oeuvre étant le résultat de la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et des « nouvelles routes de la soie ». Amorcé en 2013, le mégaprojet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), avec pour objectif le déploiement à partir de la Chine d'un ensemble multiforme d'initiatives économiques,...
13) Compendium de la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme relative à la peine de
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Assurer le respect de l'une des valeurs fondamentales de l'humanité dans notre société par le biais de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme.
L'objectif de ce recueil est d'aider les juges, les procureurs et les avocats des 46 États membres du Conseil de l'Europe à traiter les affaires d'extradition ou d'expulsion lorsqu'il existe un risque d'application de la peine de mort dans des pays...
14) Hopes and Fears
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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...
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This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people. The rhetoric of sovereignty among political elites and the population at large is found to conceive of Britain's engagement with Europe as a zero-sum game. A second theme is the power of geographical images – island Britain...
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The United States has a unique leadership role because it is made up of people from different ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Elected leaders have very close ties to their old countries that international relations to those countries are very personal. In this book, you will study some of the reasons for the United States' influence. You will also read about the leadership roles the US have internationally.
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"Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation" "Winner of the 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association" Christina L. Davis is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Food Fights over Free Trade: How...
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À l'approche des cent ans de l'armistice entre les Alliés et l'Allemagne, un historien, un philosophe et des témoins de massacres de masse abordent les questions de la violence, de la vengeance et de la réconciliation. Dans sa préface, l'historien Maurice Vaïsse dresse un panorama des différentes tentatives des nations, au cours du XXe siècle, pour établir un monde un peu plus pacifique. Et constate que la plus aboutie, malgré ses imperfections...
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The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and tangled alliances ensued.Despite the gravity of the situation, the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria, in opening his splendid rococo palace to the European royals and providing elaborate banquets and lavish entertainments, set...
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La Argentina atraviesa momentos difíciles. En efecto, la aparición de esta nueva pandemia, un contexto internacional más complejo del que estábamos acostumbrados, la falta de acuerdos internos y una clase dirigente que no logra elaborar una visión de país nos ha puesto en una encrucijada.
En esta obra, Francisco de Santibañes nos presenta un amplio panorama sobre los desafíos que enfrenta la Argentina, y también nos propone caminos a recorrer....
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