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  Thou, My Fellow Officer

  Foreword by Dr. Paolo Tripodi, Major General Eric Bonnemaison and Preface by Lieutenant General David Huntoon, December 2012

  In this book, one of the most battle-tested French generals of his generation offers a candid insider's view of military leadership in modern warfare.

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  Trade Profiles 2012

  December 2012

  Trade Profiles provides a country-by-country breakdown of trade flows and trade policy measures for WTO members and countries seeking to join the WTO.

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  International Trade Statistics 2012

  December 2012

  International Trade Statistics is the WTO’s annual compilation of global trade statistics. This report provides comprehensive statistics on trade in merchandise and commercial services, with an assessment of world trade flows by country, region, and main product groups or service categories.

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  World Tariff Profiles 2012

  December 2012

  World Tariff Profiles provides invaluable information on market access. The listing of the tariffs imposed by each WTO member on its imports is complemented with an analysis of the market access conditions it faces in its major export markets. The publication provides a comprehensive picture of tariffs.

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  Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools

  Christine Campbell , Betheny Gross and Paul T. Hill, December 2012

  This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the “portfolio strategy” for providing urban education—its rationale, implementation, and results.

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  Arming without Aiming: India's Military Modernization, Revised with a New Preface

  Stephen P. Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta, December 2012

  India’s growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. What should we expect to see in the future, and what will be the likely ramifications? In Arming without Aiming, Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta answer those crucial questions.

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  Aspiration and Ambivalence

  Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan

  Vanda Felbab-Brown, November 2012

  This timely and authoritative book analyzes U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed policy recommendations for dealing with the precarious situation leading up to the 2014 transition to Afghan control, and beyond.

• Shifting Capital

  The Rise of Financial Centres in Greater China

  Helena Huang , Alberta Molajoni, Paola Subacchi and Richard Varghese , November 2012

  This report highlights the rise of China’s financial power on the world stage, focusing on the emergence of the four financial centres in the Greater China region (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei).

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  Free and Open Source Software and Technology for Sustainable Development

  Govindan Parayil, Sulayman K. Sowe and Atsushi Sunami, eds., November 2012

  The main aim of Free and Open Source Software and Technology for Sustainable Development is to raise awareness, increase the deployment, and capture the socioeconomic, technical, and educational impact of information and communications technologies in general, and free and open source software in particular, for sustainable development.

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  OECD Territorial Reviews: The Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area, United States 2012

  OECD , November 2012

  OECD Territorial Reviews of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area, the first of its kind conducted by the OECD in the United States, assesses the area’s capacity to contribute effectively to regional and national economic performance and quality of life.

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  The Lingering Conflict

  Israel, The Arabs, and the Middle East 1948–2012 (Revised)

  Itamar Rabinovich, November 2012

  In The Lingering Conflict Itamar Rabinovich, a former chief negotiator for Israel, provides unique and authoritative insight into the prospects for genuine peace in the Middle East. His presentation includes a detailed insider account of the peace processes of 1992–96 and a frank dissection of the more dispiriting record since then.

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  Norms of Protection

  Responsibility to Protect, Protection of Civilians and Their Interaction

  Angus Francis, Vesselin Popovski and Charles Sampford, eds., November 2012

  Norms of Protection engages in a profound comparative analysis of two important norms of protection—Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Protection of Civilians (POC)—both deeply rooted in the empathy that human beings have for the suffering of innocent people.

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  Rocky Times: New Perspectives on Financial Stability

  Yasuyuki Fuchita, Richard J. Herring and Robert E. Litan, eds., November 2012

  In Rocky Times, editors Yasuyuki Fuchita, Richard Herring, and Robert E. Litan bring together experts from academia and the banking system to analyze the difficult issues concerning troubled large financial institutions in an environment of economic uncertainty and growing public anger.

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  In the Name of Justice

  Striving for the Rule of Law in China

  Weifang He (Author), John L. Thornton (Foreword) and Cheng Li, November 2012

  In the Name of Justice presents a critical assessment of the state of Chinese legal reform by He Weifang, the country's leading liberal law scholar. In addition to a selection of the author's academic writings, the volume also includes many of Professor He's public speeches, media interviews, and open letters, which provide more insight into his dual roles as thinker and practitioner in the Chinese legal world.

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  Megatrends in Global Interaction

  October 2012

  Megatrends in Global Interaction explores and discusses correlations between global trends or megatrends: global governance, demographic change and migration, energy and natural resources, global security, biodiversity, and economic globalization.

• Perspectives on Global Development 2013: New Strategies for Development

  OECD , October 2012

  The 2013 edition of Perspectives on Global Development discusses the challenges and opportunities that the new global scenario and shifting wealth are opening in developing countries.

• Education Today 2013: The OECD Perspective

  OECD , October 2012

  Education Today 2013 examines early childhood education, schooling, transitions beyond initial education, higher education, adult learning, outcomes and returns, equity, and innovation.

• World Report on Child Labour 2012

  ILO, October 2012

  This new flagship report, the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, brings together research on child labor and social protection, identifying policies that are designed to achieve multiple social goals.

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  The Governor's Solution

  How Alaska’s Oil Dividend Could Work in Iraq and Other Oil-Rich Countries

  Todd Moss, ed., October 2012

  The Governor’s Solution features a firsthand account by the late Governor Jay Hammond that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund Divdend.

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  Change Ahead

  Sustainable Governance in BRICS

  October 2012

  Change Ahead  provides an extensive set of Sustainable Governance Indicators to help systematically record and compare the political performance and governance capacities of the BRICS nations.

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  Agents of Change: Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation

  Sanderijn Cels , Jorrit de Jong and Frans Nauta, October 2012

  In Agents of Change, three cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs present case studies of social innovation that have led to significant social change. Drawing on original empirical research in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands, they examine how ordinary people accomplished extraordinary results.

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  What So Proudly We Hailed

  Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812

  Pietro S. Nivola and Peter J. Kastor, eds., October 2012

  On the bicentennial of the War of 1812, What So Proudly We Hailed looks at this formative yet misunderstood period in American history through the lens of 21st century America.

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  The Opportunity

  Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

  Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon, October 2012

  Many people believe that nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. As Pifer and O’Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, it is in fact of major relevance to some of today's key and urgent security challenges.

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  Voices for Children: Rhetoric and Public Policy

  William T. Gormley Jr. , October 2012

  Voices for Children offers a fresh perspective on raging debates over child health, child poverty, child welfare, and education programs at the federal and state levels. It finds some hopeful examples that could transform how we think about children’s issues and the kinds of public policies we adopt.

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  Star Spangled Security

  Applying Lessons Learned Over Six Decades Safeguarding America

  Dr. Harold Brown and (with) Joyce Winslow, October 2012

  In Star Spangled Security, former U.S. secretary of defense Harold Brown, one of the most respected wise men of American foreign policy, gives an insider’s view of U.S. national security strategy during the Carter administration, relates lessons learned, and bridges them to current challenges facing America.