Elliot Ackerman, "The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan"
English | ISBN: 0593492048, 0593653025 | 2022 | EPUB | 288 pages | 55 MB
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy
The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East: Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West by Phillip L. Lieberman
English | June 23, 2022 | ISBN: 1316512223 | True PDF | 300 pages | 4.98 MB
In this book, Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history―that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a livelihood based on agriculture and move into urban crafts and long-distance trade. Here, he presents an alternative account that reveals the complexity of interfaith relations in early Islam.
The Evolution of Martial Arts in Combat Sports: A complete guide to developing elite level striking from the world's leading coaches by Stuart Tomlinson
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09HQ8F13Y | 298 pages | EPUB | 55 Mb
The Evolution of Martial Arts in Combat Sports has been put together with the practising martial artist in mind. It is a training manual filled with training drills, combinations and concepts from some of the leading striking coaches in the world.
Michael Holmes, "The European left and the financial crisis"
English | ISBN: 1526124289 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 464 KB
The global financial crisis of 2007-8 did not offer the political and economic opportunities to the Left that many thought it would. As financial institutions collapsed, traditional left-wing issues were apparently back on the agenda. However, instead of being a trigger for a resurgence of the Left, in many European countries left-wing parties have suffered savage electoral defeat. At the same time, the crisis has led to austerity programmes being implemented across Europe. This book brings together essays that consider ten EU member states, including all bail-out recipients and some of the main 'donor' states, in an examination of this crucial period for the Left in Europe from a number of perspectives. Comparisons are presented between the various EU member states, as well as different party families of the left, from social democracy through green-left to radical left.
Arantza Gomez Arana, "The European Union's policy towards Mercosur: Responsive not strategic "
English | ISBN: 0719096944 | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 958 KB
This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union's relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). It seeks to examine the motivations that determine the EU's policy towards Mercosur; the most important relationship the EU has with another regional economic integration organization.
The European Union's Energy Security and Turkey's Role in the Southern Gas Corridor: Interdependence on the Natural Gas Pipeline between Turkey and EU By Faik Tanrikulu
2018 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 3631744781 | PDF | 2 MB
This study analyses the issue of energy security and natural gas in the Southern Gas Corridor, and its effects on the relationship between the European Union (EU) and Turkey. The increasing consumption of natural gas in the world as an energy source has rendered it a greater strategic importance in the world. Additionally, the conflict between Ukraine, Belarus and Russia over natural gas has threatened both the short and long-term security of the EU's gas supply. Consequently this conflict has created the necessity to find alternative routes in order to meet Europe's increasing gas demand. In this context, Turkey's and the EU's dependency on Russian natural gas has increased in the last decades, causing both Turkey and the EU to search for outside energy sources. Turkey plays a key role as part of the strategic Southern Gas Corridor initiative, which is a proposed gas pipeline in corporation with the Trans Anatolia Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP ) project, proposed to run from the Caspian region through Turkey to Europe. This study argues that the energy dependency among the countries not only affects the economic decisions, but also the political decisions.
Laurence Cooley, "The European Union's Approach to Conflict Resolution: Transformation or Regulation in the Western Balkans? "
English | ISBN: 1138487198 | 2018 | 230 pages | EPUB | 897 KB
This book investigates and explains the European Union's approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation.
Jonathan Zeitlin, "The European Union Beyond the Polycrisis?: Integration and Politicization in an Age of Shifting Cleavages "
English | ISBN: 0367432641 | 2019 | 154 pages | EPUB | 1059 KB
The European Union beyond the Polycrisis? explores the political dynamics of multiple crises faced by the EU, both at European level and within the member states. In so doing, it provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on the relationship between politicization and European integration.
Edoardo Bressanelli, "The European Parliament in the Contested Union: Power and Influence Post-Lisbon "
English | ISBN: 0367466945 | 2020 | 166 pages | EPUB | 1071 KB
The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making.
Luke March, "The European Left Party: ."
English | ISBN: 0719081076 | 2020 | 296 pages | EPUB | 901 KB
Transnational Party Federations (TNPs) have been critical prisms through which to analyse the EU's tensions between intergovernmentalism and supranationalism. This study focusses on the radical left TNP, the European Left Party (EL), founded in 2004. It centres on four general questions: first; the conditions under which TNPs might be successful; second, how the EL compares to other TNPs, particularly those of the broad centre-left, the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the European Green Party (EGP); third, to what extent the EL has fostered a consensus over positions towards the EU previously conspicuously lacking among the radical left; fourth, the degree to which the EL has enabled an increase in the electoral or policy influence of the radical left in Europe. The study highlights the strengths and weaknesses of TNPs as networks of Europeanisation; they have important roles in the EU political system but remain timid actors with only selectively developed transnationalism.