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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Emerging markets are attractive investments for many reason, including their enormous growth potential and their diversification benefits. The problem is, money doesn't discriminate between democratic and anti-democratic leaders: Markets routinely reward authoritarians like Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Recep Erdogan, and Hugo Chavez. Indeed, foreign money has played a major role in helping some of today's most anti-democratic leaders build, maintain,...
Author
Publisher
Hurst & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalize the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and transnational kleptocracy. Maximilian Hess's startling book lifts the lid on Russia's...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When seeking to understand why nations come into conflict, political scientists tend to focus either on threats to national security (realism) and or on moral duty, ideology, and domestic pressures (liberalism). Liberalism has been the major lens for international relations scholars analyzing the United States, due to the country's strong democratic foundations. In this expansive new book, Dale Copeland argues that the realist cast can shed fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression"--
"In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished economic historian Martin Daunton pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the global economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built. During the Great Depression, trade and currency...
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