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  How Corruption and...

  Oksana Huss

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  Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic partners and exclusion of opponents. Presidents use anti-corruption policies to legitimize and institutionalize political domination. Corrupt practices and anti-corruption policies become two sides of the same coin and are exercised to maintain an uneven political playing field.
  
  This study combines empirical analysis and social constructivism for an investigation into the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005), Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010), and Viktor Yanukovych (2010–2014). Explorative expert interviews, press surveys, content analysis of presidential speeches, as well as critical assessment of anti-corruption legislation are used for comparison and process tracing of the utilization of corruption under three Ukrainian presidents.

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  The Flag and the Cross - White...

  Philip S. Gorski, Samuel L....

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  Most Americans were shocked by the violence they witnessed at the nation's Capital on January 6th, 2021. And many were bewildered by the images displayed by the insurrectionists: a wooden cross and wooden gallows; "Jesus saves" and "Don't Tread on Me;" Christian flags and Confederate Flags; even a prayer in Jesus's name after storming the Senate chamber. Where some saw a confusing jumble, Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry saw a familiar ideology: white Christian nationalism. 
   
   
   
  Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it's headed and why it threatens democracy. Tracing the development of this ideology over the course of three centuries—and especially its influence over the last three decades—they show how, throughout American history, white Christian nationalism has animated the oppression, exclusion, and even extermination of minority groups while securing privilege for white Protestants. It enables white Christian Americans to demand "sacrifice" from others in the name of religion and nation, while defending their "rights" in the names of "liberty" and "property." 
   
  The future of American democracy will depend on whether a broad spectrum of Americans can unite in a popular front to combat the threat to liberal democracy posed by white Christian nationalism.

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  Takeover - How a Conservative...

  Noah Feldman, Lidia Jean Kott

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  Six of the nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court are current or former members of The Federalist Society—a private, conservative legal organization which has grown to dominate modern American jurisprudence. 
  Takeover tells the story of how The Federalist Society started as a student club and  grew to become the most influential legal organization in US history. Over the last three decades, they managed to shape judicial policy and secure numerous seats for its members on courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. Now at the height of its prominence, the organization faces new challenges and internal divisions threaten to splinter the group as its members debate the core founding principles of the Federalist Society. Author and narrator Noah Feldman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, host of the Deep Background podcast, and author of several books including The Arab Winter and The Three Lives of James Madison, provides special insight and access into this organization. He takes listeners into the offices and chambers of the people who know the Federalist Society best and illuminates how the group came to power, the challenges it faces, and its future which should matter to everyone.

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  Donald Trump Impeached - The...

  Federal Bureau of Investigation,...

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  On December 18, 2019, the House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump along party lines. President Trump was charge for abusing the power of the presidency by withholding military aid as a means of pressuring the newly elected president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to perform two favors: to pursue investigations of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and to investigate a conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election. The House of Representatives conducted an investigation and entire procedure which involved hearings and pleading of evidences. This book provides all key reports, transcripts and evidences presented against the president as well as in his favor. A number of documents presented make this book a necessary read for anyone interested in America's biggest political scandal of 21st century.
  Documents & Transcripts Related to Impeachment Attempt
  Dismissal of James Comey 
  James Comey FBI Farewell Letter 
  Representative Al Green Calls for Trump Impeachment 
  Jason Chaffetz Letter to FBI Over Comey Memo
  Legal Grounds for Appointing a Special Counsel 
  The Jurisdiction and the Power of a Special Counsel 
  Appointment of Special Counsel to Investigate Russian Interference With the 2016 Presidential Election and Related Matters 
  Comey Statement for the Record Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 
  Executive Order - Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities 
  Russian Cyber Activity – The Grizzly Steppe Report 
  Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections
  Joint Statement on Committee Inquiry into Russian Intelligence Activities
  National Security Agency Report
  Letter From William Barr to Leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees Notifying Them About Conclusion of the Investigation
  The Mueller Report

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  Omar Al-Bashir and Africa's...

  Paul Moorcraft

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  President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics, as well as a love-to-hate figure for the US in the 'war on terror'.For military history readers, Al-Bashir is a field marshal who has fought possibly the world's longest conflict. Modern Sudan has been embroiled in war since 1955.No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence. Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir's Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored in.The author draws on in-depth one-on-one interviews with Bashir himself and his family and close political, military and intelligence colleagues.

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  Al-Qaeda & Islamic State:...

  Institute Strategic Studies,...

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  Dr. Kamolnick's book is a meticulously documented investigation and comparison of the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and in the final chapter, specific implications, and recommendations for current U.S. Government policy and strategy.
  Contents: 
  Belief-System, Creed, Worldview, Doctrine
  The Al-Qaeda Organization 
  Sunni Islamic Orthodoxy
  Sunni-Salafism/"Fundamentalism"
  The Muwahhidun/Wahhabism/Salafi-Wahhabism 
  Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi-Wahhabi
  The "Base of the Jihad"; Al-Qaeda
  From Qa'idat Al-Jihad to Bin Ladenism
  From Bin Ladenism Back to Qa'idat Al-Jihad
  Post-Arab Spring Qa'idat Al-Jihad
  "What is Qa'idat Al-Jihad?" In a Nutshell:
  Fazul Abdullah and Adam Gadahn
  III. Islamic State Organization 
  "Zarqawism" vs. AQO: Abu Musab
  Al-Zarqawi's Worldview and Doctrine: 1989-June 7, 2006
  From Non-Religious Violent Street Tough to Ultra-Sectarian Salafi-Wahhabi Jihadist Prison
  Tough: 1980-1999
  Al-Zarqawi's Private Jihasist Armies of the Levant: 1999-2004
  The History, Doctrines, and Worldview of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi's "Caliphate":
  From ISI to the Caliphate: Brief Organizational History
  Self-Proclaimed Emir Al-Muminin Abu Bakr Al-Hussaini Al-Qurayshi Al-Baghdadi:
  The Caliphate Now!
  The "Final Solution" to the "Shia Problem"
  Terrorist Modus Operandi
  Terrorist Quadrangle Analysis
  The Al-Qaeda Organization 
  The "Classical" Base First Bin Ladenist
  Lone Mujahid"
  "Far Enemy" Strategy
  Islamic State 
  Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for U.S. Government
  Key Findings
  Belief-Systems, Worldviews, Doctrines, Creeds
  Strategies and Terrorist Modus Operandi
  Implications for U.S. Government
  Policy and Strategies
  Implications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat AQ and its Affiliates
  Implications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat the IS

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