Global Union

Do you want to get ahead in your career in international affairs and help build a peaceful prosperous world? You need to know the rules and reasons of international and European law. This book gives you a complete detailed guide to European Union law, with over 400 pages of commentary, legislation, regulations, directives, and case-law. Your book covers key concepts such as proportionality, subsidiarity, margin of appreciation, discretion, balancing, general principles of law, competition law, taxation, capital markets law, environmental law, direct effect, third party effect, fundamental ...

A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires...

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of...

In this new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides a deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution. This tension drove Soviet policies from Stalin's postwar scramble for territory to Khrushchev's reckless overseas adventurism and nuclear brinksmanship, Brezhnev's jockeying for influence in the third world, and Gorbachev's failed attempts to reinvent Moscow.

This book includes 3 scholarly works on Global Human Trafficking including an expose on Human Trafficking by the US Church of Scientology; Russia - a major sender State; Pakistan - the leading transit State and a discussion on how the Schengen Agreement will enhance the flow of trafficking victims around the expanded European Union. More than 10 individual stories of real victims of Global Human Trafficking. An interview with a leading criminologist in Russia who identifies actual ways victims are trafficked from Russia. Strongly recommended as an added source for students studying ...

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, a historian and former State Department official who focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, offers a wide-angle, historically informed account of the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine war.

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures...

Two top trade experts with popular economics podcasts argue for a new way of operating between the biggest economic powers in the world. We used to take trade for granted. No more. Everything we know about trade has changed. With Trump’s tariffs throwing everything up in the air, this is the...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No one would foresee that the greatest success...

Fractured Continent is an urgent examination of how the political and social volatility in Europe impacts the United States and the rest of the world. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors.

As beautiful as marriage is intended to be, many of us have learned through firsthand experience that expectations are often a far cry from reality. The covenant of marriage is always riddled with paradoxes that are seemingly a struggle to make feasible and such seems to be the case for Marcellus and his wife Sara in this touching narrative, U.N.I.O.N, (undermining, neglect, infidelity, omission, and naive), all traits that exude the opposite of a healthy and loving partnership.

Cooler Smarter is based on an in-depth, two-year study by the experts at The Union of Concerned Scientists. While other green guides suggest an array of tips, Cooler Smarter offers proven strategies to cut carbon, with chapters on transportation, home energy use, diet, and personal consumption, as well as how best to influence your workplace, your community, and elected officials. The book explains how to make the biggest impact and when not to sweat the small stuff.

Achieve a Unified Africa with a Single Currency in Just 3 Years, even if We’ve Struggled with Economic Integration for Decades Do you aspire to witness the economic revitalization of Africa through a single unified currency? Are you curious about the practicalities behind an African fiscal union and how it can foster continental unity? Do you want to know the tangible steps and strategies needed to overcome political and social fragmentation? If so, you’re not alone. Countless African policymakers, students, Pan-Africanists, and visionaries share a common dream of economic unity. ...

Debunking the Myth of Meritocracy Through Systemic Privilege, Exploitation, and Public Subsidies They call it the American Dream. We call it a rigged game. Ever wonder how billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos amass unimaginable wealth while paying less taxes than teachers or nurses? This explosive exposé cracks open the myth of the “self-made” billionaire to reveal the truth: a system engineered to funnel power and profit to the ultra-rich. - Tax Code Scams: Unrealized gains, offshore havens, and “buy-borrow-die” schemes let billionaires pay as little as 1% in taxes—while ...

Ein achtloser Hashtag stürzt die ganze Welt ins Chaos: Die Armen erheben sich gegen die Reichen, der Zorn derer, die nichts haben, lodert hell und hoch. Nur Tage später kommt es überall zu Unruhen, Demonstrationen und Anschlägen. Straßenschlachten und Polizeigewalt bestimmen das tägliche Leben - alles dokumentiert unter dem Hashtag #KillTheRich. Und das ist erst der Anfang! Es gibt nur zwei Personen, die den globalen Bürgerkrieg noch verhindern können: die mutige niederländische Diplomatin Conrada van Pauli und der alternde indische Starjournalist Bimal Kapoor.