Search Results - "corruption"

Gunboats, corruption, and claims foreign intervention in Venezuela, 1899-1908 / by McBeth, B. S. (Brian Stuart), 1951-

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Romania and the European Union how the weak vanquished the strong / by Gallagher, Tom, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The EU discovers Romania -- Crafty natives lead the Eurocrats astray -- The futility of EU funding -- Labour of Sisyphus: administrative reform in Romania -- Justice clings to its chains: 1989-2004 -- NATO, the EU and Romania's strategy of duplicity -- The EU at its most incoherent: April-December 2004 -- The EU regains and loses the initiative: 2005-07 -- Corruption and anti-corruption -- The expiry of reform after 2007.…”
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Crossing the Rubicon the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil / by Ruppert, Michael C.

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The Cuban connection drug trafficking, smuggling, and gambling in Cuba from the 1920s to the Revolution / by Sáenz Rovner, Eduardo

Table of Contents: “…U.S. prohibition and smuggling from Cuba -- Drug trafficking and political anarchy during the 1930s -- The Chinese and opium consumption in Cuba -- Corruption and drug trafficking in Cuba during the Second World War and the early postwar years -- Lucky Luciano in Cuba -- The Prío Socarrás government and drug trafficking -- Gambling in Cuba -- The Andean connection -- Contacts in France -- The Batista dictatorship and drug trafficking -- Revolution -- The diplomacy of drug trafficking at the beginning of the Revolution.…”
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Idriss Déby and the Darfur conflict / by Toïngar, Ésaïe, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Chad, Sudan and Darfur -- Idriss Déby struggles to maintain Zaghawa power -- Bour, survivor of Zaghawa attack -- Déby's international counterfeiting operation revealed -- Chad's black gold -- Deadly betrayal in the oil fields of Sidegui -- Darfur's troubles begin with Déby -- Chad, Sudan, and rebels -- A leader in deception and corruption -- A skeptical look at "The usual suspects" -- Birth of the Janjawiid (militiamen with horses) -- The voiceless children -- They called each other "younger brother, older brother" -- The fall of Bangui -- Misperceptions -- The International Criminal Court -- Proposition for peace in Darfur and the sub-region.…”
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Greater America a new partnership for the Americas in the twenty-first century / by Scheman, L. Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Undermining prosperity : corruption and narcotics -- The Americas in the global economy : building a Greater America -- Commerce and foreign policy -- The new Americans -- The new geopolitics of Latin America -- The muse of the markets -- Trade and integration -- Investment and economic growth -- Building a greater America.…”
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How "American" is globalization? by Marling, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Seeing ourselves everywhere -- The resistance of the local -- Language -- Communicative distance -- Food -- Gender -- Education -- Work -- Land use -- Tribalism -- Corruption -- Smuggling and counterfeiting -- Taxes -- The resistance of the local -- "More than we know" -- ATMs -- The money market -- Flexible manufacturing -- Franchising -- Airfreight -- Containerized freight -- Bar codes -- Computing -- Logistics.…”
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Journeys to war & peace a congressional memoir / by Solarz, Stephen J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Crossing the Allenby Bridge : Israel, the Arabs, and the peace process -- A Jewish agenda : rescue abroad and relief at home -- African encounters : liberation struggles, civil war, corruption, and tyranny -- Indochina : bringing peace to Cambodia, protecting Vietnamese "boat people" -- The Philippines : the impossible dream -- Korea and Taiwan : the struggle for democracy and human rights -- South Asia : the "voice of India in Congress" and "the Lafayette of Pakistani democracy" -- Central America and Cuba : revolutions closer to home -- Encounters in Europe : Turkey, Cyprus, and Poland -- The Gulf War : when evil is on the march, it must be confronted -- The year of the Shlemazel.…”
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The 1970s a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / by Borstelmann, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising.…”
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