Syria is disintegrating. Egypt is in the grip of a military coup. North Korea has threatened nuclear war. US drones are killing terrorists (or are they villagers?). Boston and London have been traumatised by acts of terror. The euro crisis stubbornly persists. Whole towns have been levelled by tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, floods or bushfires. All in the space of a year. Have you ever wanted a clear explanation of these events? To know the history, the current situation and what the future may look like? Rashad Seedeen ...
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Syria is disintegrating. Egypt is in the grip of a military coup. North Korea has threatened nuclear war. US drones are killing terrorists (or are they villagers?). Boston and London have been traumatised by acts of terror. The euro crisis stubbornly persists. Whole towns have been levelled by tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, floods or bushfires. All in the space of a year. Have you ever wanted a clear explanation of these events? To know the history, the current situation and what the future may look like? Rashad Seedeen has written a collection of highly structured essays that provide an engaging and thorough account of world events and issues. Using his explanatory skills as a teacher and devotion to thorough research as a graduate student, Seedeen navigates the reader through the complex and sometimes puzzling world of Syrian oppositional politics, North Korean nuclear rhetoric, the motivations of terrorists, financial crises, the gun lobby in the US and much more. As international relations scholar Joseph Camilleri writes in the foreword, "the reader will often be challenged and at times surprised but seldom disappointed."
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