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Book The Arms Bazaar in the Nineties  From Krupp to Saddam

Download or read book The Arms Bazaar in the Nineties From Krupp to Saddam written by Anthony Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Sampson's updated bestseller plunges the reader into the real heart of the arms trade and culminates in examining the role of this multi-billion pound industry in the Gulf War. Beginning with the first giants like Vickers and Krupp, he analyses the Lockhead and Northrop scandals in the Middle East, the role of Adnan Khashoggi, and the deadly build-up of arms to the Shah. From the dramatic events of Irangate to the aftermath of the war in the Gulf, Sampson gives a unique insight into the world's most secretive and dangerous industry.

Book The Arms Bazaar

Download or read book The Arms Bazaar written by Anthony Sampson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Book The Shadow World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Feinstein
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2011-11-08
  • ISBN : 1429932716
  • Pages : 738 pages

Download or read book The Shadow World written by Andrew Feinstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Now a major PBS documentary "An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging."--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history--between the British and Saudi governments---to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking.

Book Arming the Sultan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naci Yorulmaz
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 0857725181
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Arming the Sultan written by Naci Yorulmaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy. Sending military advisors abroad and promoting arms sales, each legitimizing and supporting the other, became indispensable tools of alliance-making starting from the eve of the First World War until today. To the German Empire, as a relative latecomer to imperialistic rivalry in the struggle for colonies around the word in the late 19th century, arms exports performed a decisive service in stimulating and strengthening the German military-based expansionist economic foreign policy and provided effective tools to create new alliances around the globe. Therefore, from the outset, the German armament firms' marketing and sales operations to the global arms market but especially to the Ottoman Empire, under the rule of Sultan Abdülhamid II, were openly and strongly supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bismarck and the other decision-makers in German Foreign Policy. Based on extensive multinational archival research in Germany, Turkey, Britain and the United States, Arming the Sultan explores the decisive impact of arms exports on the formation and stimulation of Germany's expansionist foreign economic policy towards the Ottoman Empire. Making an important contribution to current scholarship on the political economy of the international arms trade, Yorulmaz's innovative book Arming the Sultan reveals that arms exports, specifically under the shadow of personal diplomacy, proved to be an indispensable and integral part of Germany's foreign economic policy during the period leading up to WW1.

Book Hard Choices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Moore
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780847690312
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Hard Choices written by Jonathan Moore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find themselves in the midst of confusion and weakness where what they seek are clarity and stability. Competing needs, rights, and values can obscure even the best international efforts to quell violence and assuage crises of poverty. More attention must be paid to the complexity of issues and moral dilemmas involved. This volume of original essays by international policy leaders, practitioners, and scholars brings together insights into the conflicting moral pressures present in different kinds of interventions ranging from Rwanda and Somalia to Haiti, Cambodia, and Bosnia. From their various cultural and professional perspectives the authors cover issues of human rights, sanctions, arms trade, refugees, HIV, and the media. Together they make the case that, although there are no easy answers, moral reflection and content can improve the quality of decisionmaking and intervention in internal conflicts. Published under the auspices of The International Committee of the Red Cross.

Book The Post Imperial Age  The Great Powers and the Wider World

Download or read book The Post Imperial Age The Great Powers and the Wider World written by J.P.D. Dunbabin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern Africa, South East Asia and India, East Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. It concludes with a sustained analysis of the International System -- the functioning of international organizations and the global role of money and trade.

Book The British Economy in Transition

Download or read book The British Economy in Transition written by Royce Logan Turner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of attempts at economic regeneration in areas that have experienced decline in 'traditional' industry. Coal, steel, defence, textiles, and the motor industry are discussed by an expert in the area.

Book The Arms Bazaar

Download or read book The Arms Bazaar written by Anthony Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Insecurity

Download or read book Global Insecurity written by Mary Kaldor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the reader to works in the Wallace Collection through the voice of its Director.

Book The arms bazaar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Sampson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The arms bazaar written by Anthony Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Criminal Finance The Political Economy of Money Laundering in a Comparative Legal Context

Download or read book Criminal Finance The Political Economy of Money Laundering in a Comparative Legal Context written by Kris Hinterseer and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first cross-disciplinary analysis of money laundering - fully recognizing the activity's economic, political, and juridical dimensions - Criminal Finance clearly identifies a useful array of appropriate criteria that may be used to develop and implement effective control strategies. The book will be of immeasurable and immediate value to bankers, legislators, regulators, law enforcement authorities, and concerned lawyers and academics everywhere.

Book The Factory and the City

Download or read book The Factory and the City written by Teresa Hayter and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerning itself with the relationship between corporate planning and local communities who must live with the consequences of corporate decisions, this book is based on a case study of the partial closure of the Rover Group's plant at Cowley in Oxford (part of whose work is to be transferred to Honda's new, non-union plant on a green-field site at Swindon). The authors show how corporations take decisions based on private profitability which override the interests of workers and communities.

Book The True Cost of Conflict

Download or read book The True Cost of Conflict written by Michael Cranna and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines seven recent civil and international conflicts, including the Gulf War, the struggle for independence in Kashmir, the civil wars in the Sudan and Mozambique, Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, and the guerilla war in Peru. The contributors describe the price of conflict not only in terms of deaths and injuries, but also in terms of social, economic and environmental consequences. They ask who, if anyone, really benefits from conflict. They also explore the impact of these conflicts on the Western world, and current approaches to conflict management and prevention.

Book The Twentieth century World

Download or read book The Twentieth century World written by William R. Keylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twentieth-Century World is a narrative account of twentieth-century world history, with extensive coverage given to the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The book uses a distinctive analytical framework in order to examine the rivalries between major world nations. The forth edition has been thoroughly updated, to take the narrative all the way through the end of the twentieth century, Keylor has expanded the book's coverage of very recent events such as the Middle East peace process, NATO expansion, negotiations for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and the war in Chechnya. The book includes 27 maps for ease of reference. With its up-to-date bibliography and its clear, concise style, the book is perfect for undergraduate classes on twentieth-century world history.

Book In from the Cold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurence Lustgarten
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book In from the Cold written by Laurence Lustgarten and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security and intelligence agencies are granted unparalleled powers, human rights are restricted, governments keep secrets from their citizens, and huge sums of public money are spent, all in the name of 'national security'. Beginning with a critical theoretical examination of 'national security' and arguing that this concept should be infused with values of democracy and human rights, the authors go on to discuss many important topics, including telephone tapping, bugging, and the collection and retention of personalinformation on file. Other issues analysed include employment vetting and security, detention and deportation, restrictions on the press, and the use of criminal law to stifle criticism. Finally, the mandate, powers, and mechanisms for executive and ministerial control of the security and intelligence agencies are scrutinized, the nearly-completed Scott Inquiry is considered, and the Intelligence Services Act 1994 is analysed in a detailed Coda. This comparative study draws upon a wide range of sources, and, uniquely, upon numerous interviews with security officials in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In From the Cold is a timely and comprehensive treatment of issues which continue to pose the greatest challenge to democratic states.

Book A World of Nations

Download or read book A World of Nations written by William R. Keylor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now updated to address recent developments in the post-9/11 world, A World of Nations, Second Edition, provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. The second edition has been reorganized along regional lines while still maintaining the chronological approach of the previous edition. It discusses International Relation theory and explores such timely topics as human rights, environmental issues, NGOs, immigration, and international terrorism.

Book The Anatomist

Download or read book The Anatomist written by Anthony Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: