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  • RECONSIDERING THE EAST ASIAN PEACE
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    RECONSIDERING THE EAST ASIAN PEACE
    THOMPSON, WILLIAM R.
    This volume re-examines the notion of the East Asian peace, arguing that it requires updating for the current and near-future context of US-Chinese rivalry. The “East Asian peace” refers to the remarkable change in conflict levels in eastern Eurasia over the past 80 years or even the past 130 years or so. Prior to the late 1970s, East Asia was regarded as the most conflictual r...

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  • CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
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    CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    WILLIAM R. THOMPSON / LEILA ZAKHIROVA
    Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region. The book delves into a broad set of historical literature from the past 15,000 years that neglected to consider environmental factors to their full effect. Beyond the broad historic analysis, the chapters derive conclusions for toda...

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  • WAR AND STATE MAKING
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    WAR AND STATE MAKING
    KAREN A. RASLER / WILLIAM R. THOMPSON
    Originally published in 1989, this is an empirical study of the impact of global war on the expansion and shaping of nation-states. Individual chapters examine the effects of such wars, and the preparation for them, on debt financing, expansion, military spending, welfare spending, GNP and domestic violence. The authors conclude that by virtue of the changes they spurn, global ...

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  • SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
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    SACRED COWS AND HOT POTATOES
    WILLIAM P. BROWNE / JERRY R SKEES / LOUIS E SWANSON / PAUL THOMPSON
    Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of current agricultural policies—such as equating "farm" with "rural," high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food programs—and examines the agrarian roots of these policies. From the origins of agrarian myths to the latest controversies over farming and the environment, this book provides a...

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  • LIMITS TO GLOBALIZATION
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    LIMITS TO GLOBALIZATION
    WILLIAM R. THOMPSON / RAFAEL REUVENY
    In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the rich via trade-driven growth and the economies of developed and less developed c...

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  • GLOBALIZATION AS EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
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    GLOBALIZATION AS EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
    MODELSKI, GEORGE / DEVEZAS, TESSALENO / THOMPSON, WILLIAM R.
    The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization. The editors and contributors develop a ...

    $1,600.00

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  • TRANSITION SCENARIOS
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    TRANSITION SCENARIOS
    DAVID P. RAPKIN / WILLIAM R. THOMPSON
    China’s rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat this transitional period as a novelty, but history is in fact replete with such systemic transitions—sometimes with perilous resu...

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  • THE ARC OF WAR
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    THE ARC OF WAR
    JACK S. LEVY / WILLIAM R. THOMPSON
    In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups, The Arc of War draws on a wealth of empirical data to enhance our understanding of how war began and how it has changed over time...

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