Zero Hour (Tom Clancy's Power Plays, Book 7) by Jerome Preisler

By Jerome Preisler

2011 Retail ePub
An 8-book sequence "created by" Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, yet written by means of Jerome Preisler. the 1st 3 have been additionally made right into a Microsoft home windows video game.

Competition is heating up among the robust telecommunications corporation Uplink foreign and new technological vast Ambright Industries. to maintain Uplink on most sensible, proprietor Roger Gordian isn't really above a bit "friendly snooping," in particular whilst one in every of Ambright's company revenues brokers disappears below mysterious situations. at the floor, Ambright makes a speciality of developing ideal synthetic sapphires utilized in complicated laser improvement. yet, a bit digging through Uplink operatives finds a huge flaw: a Pakistani terrorist is utilizing Ambright's laser know-how to extra his personal political time table -- and it's just a topic of time sooner than he launches the last word attack...on U.S. soil.

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The vast majority of these HIPCs are in sub-Saharan Africa, and nine other sub-Saharan African countries will qualify for debt cancellation within the next 18 months. However, debts to private banks remain. While it could be argued that the violence is ‘genocidal’, it is more difficult to prove intentionality. The only point upon which Darfur experts Prunier and de Waal can agree is that international military intervention in Darfur would, most probably, not make the killings cease. See Flint and de Waal (2005) and Prunier (2005).

Globalization’s further destabilization of the coincidence of military security and the state has made alternative concepts of security both increasingly necessary and compelling. Global movements of peoples, goods and capital have radically reconfigured national and international Jacqueline Berman 37 markets and eroded the state’s ability to ‘control’ its borders. The nation state can no longer claim the place of singular guarantor of stability, of supply and demand or of any principle once part of statist discourse through military might and state security alone.

National security, in its exclusive focus on the military, they argue, both excluded and elided the ‘really existing’ meanings of security for ordinary people. Individuals need to feel secure in their quotidian activities if they are to enjoy anything close to a feeling of security. Access to clean food and water, a clean environment, to adequate shelter, to living-wage employment opportunities, the ability to enjoy civil and human rights, to be free of domestic and civil violence – these attributes of daily life constitute the ‘real’ meaning of security.

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