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A joint undertaking of the 24 UN agencies comprising UN-Water, and in partnership with governments and other entities concerned with freshwater issues, this volume, covering as it does all regions and most countries of the world, provides an up-to-date global overview of the state and uses of freshwater, critical water-related problems, and societies coping mechanisms. Drawing on an extensive database, expert analysis, case studies, and hundreds of...

"Terrorism, which by definition targets civilians, is unacceptable, but a violent response to violence usually causes more violence. This book outlines some of the best thinking about nonviolent methods of resisting terrorism in the growing fields of international aid and nonviolent interposition."--Jacket.

Arms control was an issue of perennial concern during the second half of the 20th century and continues to command attention today. How did the many arms control treaties come to be, what have they accomplished, and, perhaps most important, where do we go from here? Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues examines the history of the major arms control treaties since the early 1960s. It offers readers a broad understanding of the ways in which...

Walden Bello traces the evolution of the violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices, that highlighted a flaw in the modern system of world trade. This book speaks out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.

This book seeks to explain what 'science' and 'politics' are in the context of environmental policymaking & how the interplay of science & politics influences international environmental policy.

'Earthly Politics' argues that in the coming decades global governance will have to accommodate differences even as it obliterates distance, and will have to respect many aspects of the local while developing institutions that transcend localism.

The Dallas Symphony Association is proud to publish this special edition of "The Anatomy of Peace" in memory of its author Emery Reves. The book's basic tenant is that the only condition required for peaceful human relations is the creation of a World Federation governed by one set of international laws. The "one law" concept is predicated on the interdependence of humankind and is built on a concern for the common good. Mr. Reves contends that separateness...