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Criminals, Militias, and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq

Dr. Phil Williams.

Dr. Williams looks in detail at major criminal activities, including the theft, diversion, and smuggling of oil, the kidnapping of both Iraqis and foreigners, extortion, car theft, and the theft and smuggling of antiquities. He also considers the critical role played by corruption in facilitating and strengthening organized crime and shows how [...]

The Revolution in Military Affairs and the Bush Doctrine

Simon Dalby

Geopolitics is about the political organization of space, and about how this is conceived, represented, and used in political discussion. The term refers to power at the largest of scales and simultaneously to the geographical arrangements of that power. It is linked directly to European modes of conceiving the world as a whole [...]