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![]() Free Download Hani Faris, "The Failure of the Two-State Solution: The Prospects of One State in the Israel-Palestine Conflict " English | ISBN: 1780760949 | 2013 | 400 pages | PDF | 11 MB Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But as this conflict continues unabated, and violence and instability deepen, it seems that the ideal of two states co-existing alongside each other and the ever-elusive goal of peace slips further from reach. The Failure of the Two-State Solution examines the impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, exploring the reasons behind the breakdown of attempts to establish a meaningful Palestinian state. 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As the first publication to explore 'Europeanness' in cinema, this book refocuses and updates historically significant areas of study in relation to this term. Leading scholars in European cinema - including Thomas Elsaesser, Tim Bergfelder, Anne Jackel, Lucy Mazdon and Ginette Vincendeau - acknowledge the transnational character of European filmmaking whilst also exploring the oppositions between European and Hollywood filmmaking, considering the value of the 'European' label in the circulation of films within and beyond the continent. ![]() Free Download Robert G. Picard, "The Euro Crisis in the Media: Journalistic Coverage of Economic Crisis and European Institutions " English | ISBN: 1784530603 | 2015 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB The Euro Crisis produced the most significant challenge to European integration in 60 years testing the structures and powers of the European Union and the Eurozone and threatening the common currency. 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