• Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

    The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.In the decades before the Cold War ended the United States, like virtually every other country throughout history, used its military power to defend against threats to important American international interests o... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0190469471
    • ASIN: 0190469471
    • ISBN: 0190469471
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

    In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr sets the background for his analysis by tracing the major inventions and innovations that have transformed society since ancient Greece and Rome. What emerges from this survey is often surprising: the c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0195074777
    • ASIN: 0195074777
    • ISBN: 0195074777
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • Destroying Yemen

    Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first in-depth historical account of the transnational origins of this war, placing it in the illuminating context of Yemen’s relationship with major powers since the Cold War. Bringing new sources and a deep understanding to bear on Yemen’s profound, unwitting implication in international affairs, thi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0520296141
    • ASIN: 0520296141
    • ISBN: 0520296141
    • Brand: University of California Press
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

  • Legal, Regulatory and Governance Issues in Islamic Finance

    Legal, Regulatory and Governance Issues in Islamic

    • UPC: 20934992

  • Islamic Finance : Law, Economics, and Practice

    This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic

    • UPC: 10806460

  • Awareness of Islamic banking products and services among non-Muslim students in selected northern universities of Malaysia - eBook

    Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 98%, , course: Islamic Finance and Banking, language: English, abstract: Islamic financial industry has shown a positive growth that attracts many investors

    • UPC: 704124739

  • Beyond Debt : Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

    Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change--yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes

    • UPC: 859583534

  • The Politics of Islamic Finance

    Political scientists, economists, and historians explore the slow but steady accumulation of Islamic capital. Case studies include Sudan, Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey, Tunisia, and

    • UPC: 25949499

  • Beyond Debt : Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

    Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change--yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes

    • UPC: 611385463

  • Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice (Hardcover)

    This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance

    • UPC: 32731190

  • Theodicy in Islamic Thought : The Dispute Over Al-Ghazali's Best of All Possible Worlds

    9780691612447

    • UPC: 40402964

  • Governing Failure : Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance

    Traces an important shift in international development policy as global institutions have become preoccupied with policy failure. This title is also available as Open

    • UPC: 732454837

  • Mutual Life, Limited : Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason

    Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of finance, are making money anew. It documents ongoing efforts to

    • UPC: 27202872

  • Islamic Finance graduates to boost the industry

    Durham Islamic Finance Summer School

    Four Things You Need to Know about Islamic Finance