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Book Provisional Authority

Download or read book Provisional Authority written by Beatrice Jauregui and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studying the day-to-day lives of police officers in its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she offers an empirically rich and theoretically innovative look at the great puzzle of police authority in contemporary India and its relationship to social order, democratic governance, and security. Jauregui explores the paradoxical demands placed on Indian police, who are at once routinely charged with abuses of authority at the same time that they are asked to extend that authority into any number of both official and unofficial tasks. Her ethnography of their everyday life and work demonstrates that police authority is provisional in several senses: shifting across time and space, subject to the availability and movement of resources, and dependent upon shared moral codes and relentless instrumental demands. In the end, she shows that police authority in India is not simply a vulgar manifestation of raw power or the violence of law but, rather, a contingent and volatile social resource relied upon in different ways to help realize human needs and desires in a pluralistic, postcolonial democracy. Provocative and compelling, Provisional Authority provides a rare and disquieting look inside the world of police in India, and shines critical light on an institution fraught with moral, legal and political contradictions.

Book Occupying Iraq

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Dobbins
  • Publisher : Rand Corporation
  • Release : 2009-04-01
  • ISBN : 0833047248
  • Pages : 411 pages

Download or read book Occupying Iraq written by James Dobbins and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the activities of the Coalition Provisional Authority during the first year of the occupation of Iraq. Based on interviews and nearly 100,000 never-before-released documents from CPA archives, the book recounts and evaluates the efforts of the United States and its coalition partners to restore public services, counter a burgeoning insurgency, and create the basis for representative government.

Book Homeland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Beck
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2024-09-03
  • ISBN : 0593240235
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book Homeland written by Richard Beck and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched—by an acclaimed n+1 writer “Richard Beck, like many people alive today, has spent his adult life living in the shadow of 9/11, and Homeland is a devastating inquiry into the new world that day created.”—Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas even as the threat of sudden mass death permeated life at home, Americans found themselves living in two worlds at the same time. In one of them, soldiers fought overseas so that nothing at home would have to change at all. In the other, life in the United States took on all kinds of unfamiliar shapes, changing people’s sense of themselves, their neighbors, and the strangers they sat next to on airplanes. In Homeland, Richard Beck delivers a gripping exploration of how much the war changed life in the United States and explains why there is no going back. Though much has been made of the damage that Donald Trump did to the American political system, Beck argues that it was the war on terror that made Trump’s presidency possible, fueling and exacerbating a series of crises that all came to a head with his rise to power. Homeland brilliantly isolates and explores four key issues: the militarism that swept through American politics and culture; the racism and xenophobia that boiled over in much of the country; an economic crisis that, Beck convincingly argues, connects the endurance of the war on terror to at least the end of the Second World War; and a lack of accountability that produced our “impunity culture”—the government-wide inability or refusal to face consequences that has transformed how the U.S. government relates to the people it governs. To see American life through the lens of Homeland’s sweeping argument is to understand the roots of our current condition. In its startling analysis of how the war on terror hollowed out the very idea of citizenship in the United States, Beck gives the most compelling explanation yet offered for the ongoing disintegration of America’s social, political, and cultural fabric.

Book United States Congressional Serial Set  Serial No  14926  House Reports Nos  756 772

Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set Serial No 14926 House Reports Nos 756 772 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Senate Document

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  • Publisher : Government Printing Office
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780160750229
  • Pages : 1014 pages

Download or read book Senate Document written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foreign Policies of Arab States

Download or read book The Foreign Policies of Arab States written by ʻAlī al-Dīn Hilāl and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable aid for those studying or teaching the foreign policies of the contemporary Middle East. Not only are the elements of foreign policy discussed and presented as a whole region, but the editors provide the established analytical framework by which each contributor, in their individual chapters, has analyzed and evaluated the foreign policies of nine Arab countries. Their framework perceives foreign policy in the context of its environment : domestic, regional and global. This edition has new material reflecting the earth-shaking events at the end of the Cold War and the continuation of violence and terrorism.

Book Appropriations  Budget Estimates  Etc

Download or read book Appropriations Budget Estimates Etc written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global War on Terrorism  GWOT    accuracy and reliability of cost estimates   hearing

Download or read book Global War on Terrorism GWOT accuracy and reliability of cost estimates hearing written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Statutes at Large

Download or read book United States Statutes at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global War on Terrorism  GWOT

Download or read book Global War on Terrorism GWOT written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Gazette

Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stand Up and be Counted

Download or read book Stand Up and be Counted written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States

Download or read book Elite Theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States written by Bamo Nouri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates US elites as members of corporate elite networks and drivers of corporate elite interests, arguing that studying the social sources of US power plays an important part in understanding the nature of their decisions in US foreign policy. Exploring the decisions taken by American elites on the Iraq War, the author argues that the decisions and agendas US elites pursued in Iraq were driven by corporate elite interests – embedded in them as individuals and in groups through the corporate elite networks they were rooted in – which they prioritised, using democracy promotion as a cover up. Using elite theory, membership network analysis and content analysis, this book explains who these elites were, how their backgrounds and social influences impacted their world-views, and what this looked like in a detailed exploration of their decision-making on the ground in Iraq. Nouri examines the nature of US power, what drives it, what it looks like and its legacies. This volume provides valuable understandings and lessons to scholars and students of International Relations studying democracy, US foreign policy, post-colonialism, elite theory, US imperialism, neoliberalism, orientalism, Iraqi politics, and the making of the Iraq constitution.

Book The Findings of the Iraqi Security Forces Independent Assessment Commission

Download or read book The Findings of the Iraqi Security Forces Independent Assessment Commission written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: