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Presents a world atlas that iIllustrates key indicators affecting international politics, economics, and society using maps and graphics.
A guide to the geographic and regional factors relating to world politics uses maps to illustrate modern economic networks and worldwide patterns of government and society
From the author of The Penguin State of the World Atlas, an essential tool for understanding the modern Middle East The Middle East is in a constant state of change, and understanding it has never been more important. In this essential guide to the region and its politics, Dan Smith unravels the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. With the acute and fair-minded analysis readers have come to expect from him, Smith highlights key issues and maps their global implications to explain why the Middle East has become, and will remain, the focal point of foreign policy. There can be no one-line summary of the Middle East, but in The Penguin State of the Middle East Atlas, Smith gives readers the primer they need to understand the ongoing conflicts in the region.
Combining colorful maps, graphs, and text, this revised volume provides an updated view of the state of the world. It incorporates previously unavailable data on the changing political and economic scenario. The maps cover topics such as population, natural resources, military power, government, business, labor, society, and environment. By including maps with titles such as "Shares in the Apocalypse" (nuclear weapons), "Exploration" (wages and salaries), "Crumbs from the Cake" (social security), and "Scourges of the State" (political forces and the death penalty), the volume demonstrates its political view points. Other topics include: the emerging role of China, and new information on gold trading, food, and women's rights. The volume has also been translated into 13 languages. ISBN 0-671-64554-4: $22.95; ISBN 0-671-64555-2 (pbk.): $12.05 (For use only in the library).
Drawing on the latest global data and research, a collection of maps and charts provides key information on the status of women around the world.
Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India highlights the environmental challenges that India faces, largely due to high population and limited natural resources, and discusses the gap between the intent of environmental policies and the actualization of those policies. Contributors posit that the protection of the environment poses a fundamental challenge to the nation’s desire to industrialize and develop more quickly, arguing that the conservation of biodiversity, protection of wetlands, prevention of environmental pollution, and promotion of ecological balance are all crucial in enabling sustainable development. This book poses the question of how large a role the judiciary system should play in the protection of the environment as a vital body that passes policies to promote conservation and sustainable development.
Maps and charts provide information on the status of women around the world
Updated to incorporate developments up to the twenty-first century, this illustrated atlas depicts the causes and consequences of modern conflict, essential political and historical background, and trends in peace, from Afghanistan and Northern Ireland to Kosovo and the Middle East, while covering such topics as international terrorism, arms trafficking, NATO, and the United Nations. Original.
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic global analysis of 21st century state-initiated internal and external applications of brute force. Based on extensive case evidence, Robert Mandel assesses the short-term and long-term, the local and global, the military, political, economic, and social, and the state and human security impacts of brute force. He explicitly isolates the conditions under which brute force works best and worst by highlighting force initiator and force target attributes linked to brute force success and common but low-impact force legitimacy concerns. Mandel comes to two major overarching conclusions. First, that the modern global application of brute force shows a pattern of futility—but one that is more a function of states' misapplication of brute force than of the inherent deficiencies of this instrument itself. Second, that the realm for successful application of state-initiated brute force is shrinking: for while state-initiated brute force can serve as a transitional short-run local military solution, he says, it cannot by itself provide a long-run global strategic solution or serve as a cure for human security problems. Taking the evidence and his conclusions together, Mandel provides policy advice for managing brute force use in the modern world.
A study of food consumption around the world looks at the ways in which the food chain is influenced by natural disasters, changing lifestyles, historical events, and the poltical economy.
The most up-to-date global perspective on how women are living today across continents and cultures In this completely revised and updated fifth edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides comprehensive and accessible analysis of up-to-the-minute global data on the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, the culture of beauty, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, lesbian rights, women in government, and more. The result is an invaluable resource on the status of women around the world today.
This book constitutes the first major study showing (1) when transnational organized crime is likely to use corruption and violence tactics, (2) when transnational criminal activities most affect individual and state security, and (3) when the negative consequences of these tactics and activities can be most successfully combated.