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Making Peace Work : The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction

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This book provides an insight into some of the main issues that arise in post-conflict economic and social reconstruction, and offers examples of what works, and what does not. It will be of interest to all working on economic and social reconstruction in post-conflict countries, as well as...

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Higgs, Robert - 2006

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War Stories : Fighting, Competing, Imagining, Leading

Hafrey, Leigh - 2015

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Tungsten in Peace and War, 1918–1946.

Limbaugh, Ronald H - 2010

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Price-Smith, Andrew T. - 2015

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The History of Oil and International Affairs -- 2 The Illiberal Political Economy of Oil -- 3 Oil, American Diplomacy, and Weak Institutions -- 4 Oil and International Security -- 5 Oil and US Grand Strategy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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Getting to War : Predicting International Conflict with Mass Media Indicators

Hunt, W - 2010

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Wehrle, Edmund F - 2010

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