A declaration of energy independence how freedom from foreign oil can improve national security, our economy, and the environment by Hakes, Jay E

Mapping agency comparing regionalisms in Africa by Lorenz-Carl, Ulrike

WARSHIP BUILDERS: AN INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL SHIPBUILDING, 1922-1945 / by Heinrich, Thomas R., 1963-

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The monetary policy of the Federal Reserve a history by Hetzel, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The pragmatic evolution of the monetary standard -- Learning and policy ambiguity -- From gold to Fiat money -- From World War II to the Accord -- Martin and Lean-against-the-Wind -- Inflation is a nonmonetary phenomenon -- The start of the Great Inflation -- Arthur Burns and Richard Nixon -- Bretton Woods -- Policy in the Ford administration -- Carter, Burns, and Miller -- The political economy of inflation -- The Volcker Disinflation -- Monetary policy after the Disinflation -- Greenspan's move to price stability -- International bailouts and moral hazard -- Monetary policy becomes expansionary -- Departing from the Standard Procedures -- Boom and bust: 1997 to 2001 -- Backing off from price stability -- The Volcker-Greenspan regime -- The Fed: inflation fighter or inflation creator? …”

Russian foreign policy sources and implications /

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Fighting chance global trends and shocks in the national security environment

US defense politics the origins of security policy by Sapolsky, Harvey M., Gholz, Eugene 1971-, almadge, Caitlin

Gulf women

Table of Contents: “…Women in Eastern Arabia : myth and representation / Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi (Professor of History, King Saud University, Riyadh) -- Tribalism, tribal feuds and the social status of women / Allen Fromherz (Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University) -- Women and politics in late Jahili and early Islamic Arabia : reading behind patriarchal history / Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Professor of Arabic, Georgetown University) -- Love discourse in Hijazi society under the Umayyads : a study in class and gender / Amira El-Zein (Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic/ Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Qatar) -- Nomadic histories : reflections on bedouin women's poetry from the Gulf region / Moneera al-Ghadeer (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Qatar University) -- Women and the economy : pre-oil Gulf states / Hoda El Saadi (Associate Professor of History, Cairo University) -- A labor of love : making space for midwives in Gulf history / Hibba Abugideiri (Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University) -- Women's religious activities in the Arabian peninsula : a historical outlook / Omaima Abou-Bakr (Professor of Literature, Cairo University) -- Women and education in the Gulf : between the modern and the traditional / Ramadan al-Khouli (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Cairo University) -- Women of the Gulf during the first half of the twenthieth century : a comparative study of American missionary archives and local memory / Fatma al-Sayegh (Professor of History, University of the Emirates) -- Some considerations on the family in the Arabian peninsula in the late Ottoman and early post-Ottoman period / Soraya Altorki (Professor of Anthropology, American University in Cairo) -- The family in Gulf history / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol (Professor of Islamic History, Law and Society, Georgetown University) -- Gender rights and Islamic legal tradition : an exploration / Ziba Mir-Hosseini (freelance academic at New York University and London) -- Gulf women and the codification of Muslim family law / Lynn Welchman (Professor, School of African and Oriental Studies, London).…”

Seeing like an international organisation

The Taliban revival violence and extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier by Abbas, Hassan 1969-