Free Download China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009423789 | 246 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Emerging from an award-winning article in International Security, China's Gambit examines when, why, and how China attempts to coerce states over perceived threats to its national security. Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes and issues related to Taiwan and Tibet, yet China is curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion. This book offers a new and generalizable cost-balancing theory to explain states' coercion decisions. It demonstrates that China does not coerce frequently and uses military coercion less when it becomes stronger, resorting primarily to non-militarized tools. Leveraging rich empirical evidence, including primary Chinese documents and interviews with Chinese and foreign officials, this book explains how contemporary rising powers translate their power into influence and offers a new framework for explaining states' coercion decisions in an era of economic interdependence, particularly how contemporary global economic interdependence affects rising powers' foreign security policies.

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Free Download Laura Kalman, "FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 0197539297 | 2022 | 440 pages | EPUB, PDF | 59 MB + 60 MB
A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates.

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Free Download Rogue & Gambit 001 (2023) (Digital) (Zone-Empire)
English | CBR | 30 MB

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FDR's Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRYLR4VJ | 2023 | 15 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 449 MB
Author: Laura Kalman
Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher
In the past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that crashed and burned in the 1930s: court packing. Today's court packing advocates have run into a wall of opposition, with most citing the 1930s episode as one FDR's greatest failures. In early 1937, Roosevelt-fresh off a landslide victory-stunned the country when he proposed a plan to expand the size of the court by up to six justices. Today, that scheme is generally seen as an instance where FDR failed to read Congress and the public properly.

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The Laran Gambit (Audiobook)
English | November 08, 2022 | ASIN: B0BLJ3Z743 | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 48m | 429 MB
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah J. Ross | Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan
Terran child psychologist Bryn Haslund has her hands full, treating the traumatized young victims of the interplanetary Star Alliance. She's tried to stay out of politics, leaving that to her charismatic statesman father, Ernst. Despite her best efforts to remain neutral, she gets caught in the crackdown of a protest-turned-riot. Then Ernst delivers a robotic speech in support of the Alliance's tyrannical leader and goes missing.

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Danish, Evans, & King's Gambit Collection: How to Win in Chess Openings by Tim Sawyer
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BLGZH7TP | 480 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb
This chess book is a collection of these three books:Danish GambitEvans GambitKing's GambitEach gambit has 50 important games. They are typical of the style and approach of masters past and present. White wins all the games - usually in under 30 moves.

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Language: English | Size: 1.84 GB | Duration: 2h 16m

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Matthew Sadler, "Queen's Gambit Declined"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 1857442563 | 180 pages | PDF | 17.6 MB
In this book Grandmaster Sadler explains the ideas behind the Queen's Gambit Declined, one of Black's most dependable replies to the queens pawn. He discusses all of the major variations in popular practice, explaining the key plans and ideas and highlighting important recent developments.

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Graham Burgess, "The Slav (Queen's Gambit)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1915328837 | 232 pages | PDF | 4.2 MB
A 'Remastered' Edition of a Standard Opening Text

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Danish Gambit: How to Win in Chess Openings by Tim Sawyer
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B726Q9F1 | 165 pages | EPUB | 4.20 Mb
If you're looking for an exciting and challenging opening, the Danish Gambit may be just the thing for you! The Danish Gambit begins with 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3. White plans rapid piece development in exchange for a pawn or two. This book gives you 50 wins that illustrate typical tactics and strategies for the White pieces.

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