 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $7.91 Massive inequality and the desperate poverty faced by three billion people make it hard to address a lot of global problems--why does poverty persist?
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 | Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (Suny Series in International Environmental Policy and Theory) (Suny Series, International Environmental Policy & Theory)
Buy new: $31.95 / Used from: $5.36 Pioneering overview of glopbal environment change, conflict and security
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 | Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel H. Deudney
Buy used from: $6.00 Great theoretical work on global security, with much insight into addressing the challenge of nuclear weapons
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 | Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)
Buy new: $16.90 / Used from: $2.89 Useful primer on the threat of climate change
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 | Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children (Contemporary Social Issues) by Kathryn Farr
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.76 Here is a large sector of the economy--and a great affront to human morality-- that needs to be shut down
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 | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.32 Important study of microbial threats
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 | Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman
Buy new: $13.97 / Used from: $8.50 Classic study of the threat of terrorism
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 | The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy used from: $8.89 Excellent overview of global trends threatening humankind
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 | The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.01 Influential work on the failure to develop or deliver problem-solving innovations to the places where they are needed
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 | Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Buy new: $28.62 / Used from: $12.00 Key study of resource scarcity and violent conflict
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 | Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change by United Nations
Buy new: $76.97 / Used from: $29.98 What we have to do to mitigate climate change--and why--excellent study
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 | Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis by United Nations
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $43.64 The science of climate change, accessible and compelling
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 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Important study of the threat of global climate change
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 | The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $0.01 The migration of nuclear weapons from rich states to poor ones to...
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 | Refugees in a Global Era by Philip Marfleet
Buy new: $31.47 / Used from: $24.27 Refugees in the 21st century--unbelievable
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 | Landmines And Human Security: International Politics And War's Hidden Legacy (Suny Series in Global Politics)
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $14.09 Key work on addressing the threat of antipersonnel landmines
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 | Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moises Naim
Buy new: $10.32 / Used from: $6.23 Nice overview of global crime
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 | Violent Environments
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $10.49 Important study placing scarcity-conflict arguments in richer historical contexts
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 | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.29 What happened to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which came into force as international law in 1951?
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 | Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) by David M. Rosen
Buy new: $16.92 / Used from: $13.75 Child soldiers--indefensible from any moral vantage
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 | Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy
Buy new: $86.95 / Used from: $35.00 Links among middle powers, NGOs and security in addressing small arms, child soldiers and other issues
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 | The Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide (Beginners Guide (Oneworld)) by Matthew Schroeder
Buy new: $10.46 / Used from: $0.88 Small arms trade--lethal, dirty, hard to manage
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 | Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.90 The psychology of contemporary terrorists
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 | The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern
Buy new: $51.51 / Used from: $27.07 One of several attempts to estimate the costs of mitigating and adapating to global climate change
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 | Transnational Threats: Smuggling and Trafficking in Arms, Drugs, and Human Life (Praeger Security International)
Buy new: $44.75 / Used from: $24.14 Open borders, ruined lives
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