Drug Trafficking in Mexico and the United States examines drug trafficking from an interdisciplinary and progressive perspective. Gabriel Ferreyra analyzes its origins, apogee, cultural globalization, and destructive effects in Mexico.
This book examines Nigeria's struggles with corruption, poverty, inequality, crime, and insurgency to show how poor leadership in the post-independence era has failed to use the country's enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens' lives.
Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy
Dark Quadrant traces the systematic corruption of businesspeople and politicians from 1945 to 1974 and draws links to our current political crisis. Documenting the collaboration of Presidents Truman, Johnson, and Nixon with powerful mobsters. President Trump represents, in many ways, a twisted culmination of the forces described in this book.
Hugh Watson draws on experience of Federal politics to weave a gripping political thriller, against the backdrop of rural NSW. The residents of Gwydir and an intuitive detective, Susan Swift, must deal with a troubling series of murders. Barry Kingscliff, a power broker from the city, appears to be at the centre of it all.
This book argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist sense, corrupting the cultural "dwelling place" through public relations strategies, policies on race and immigration, and a general disregard for ecological concerns.
Examines the ""strategic environment"" in which inspectors general work and interact with a variety of stakeholders, inside and outside the government. This book is based on in-depth case studies, a survey of inspectors general, and a review of public documents related to the work of inspectors general.
How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?" inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly ......
How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
A deconstruction of the neoliberal placations about global capitalism, exposing the inequalities of global poverty "We're making headway on global poverty," trills Bill Gates. "Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues," reports the World Bank. "How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?" inquires The Economist. Seth Donnelly answers: ......
During his nearly twenty years at the centre of Russian political power, Vladimir Putin has transformed the vast country in many ways, not all of them for the better. The near-chaos of the early post-Soviet years has been replaced by an increasingly rigid authoritarianism. This volume examines how Putin's autocracy has undercut Russia's economy ......