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  • Iraq
    Geoff Simons
    Newly reissued and updated to engage with Iraq’s current, central role in world affairs, Geoff Simons’ seminal book presents a broad history of Iraq, from the earliest times to the emergence of modern Iraq in the twentieth century, the power struggles that led to the rise of Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq war, the 1990-91 Gulf war, and the continuing depiction of Iraq as a ’rogu...
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    54,64 €

  • The Scourging of Iraq
    Geoff Simons
    The Scourging of Iraq describes the impact of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent economic sanctions on the Iraqi people. Evidence is presented to show that food and medicine are being denied to the civilian population, and that this involves a gross violation of the 1977 Protocol 1 addition to the 1949 Geneva Convention, which includes the words: ’Starvation of civilians as a met...
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    60,20 €

  • Cuba
    Geoff Simons
    This book provides a detailed history of Cuba from before the arrival of Columbus to 1995. Topics covered include: the Spanish colonisation, the role of Christianity, slavery, the US interventions, the Mafia connection, the Castro revolution, and Cuba’s struggle to survive in the so-called ’Special Period’ following the collapse of the Socialist bloc. Particular attention is gi...
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    65,88 €

  • Korea
    Geoff Simons
    A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea’s controversial nuclear development programme. This issue is profiled in the context of the post-Soviet world, and against such crucial modern events as the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the US partition, the resulting...
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    72,44 €

  • UN Malaise
    Geoff Simons
    As the United Nations moves into its second half-century the international organization is beset by problems. It is increasingly suborned or ignored by the USA, pursuing its own global objectives. The UN is inadequately resourced and faces many other barriers erected by Washington and other powerful states. UN personnel are frequently accused of mismanagement, corruption and ev...
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    66,11 €

  • Iraq
    Geoff Simons
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    47,22 €