Secrets and the Disappeared: A Tale of Brazil - Couverture souple

Krasno, Jean E. Cullander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 103586455X ISBN 13 : 9781035864553

Editeur : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

1990: doctoral student Maggie Grayson travels to Brazil, still emerging from a repressive military dictatorship, to conduct research on its political transformation to democracy. Soon after arriving, she encounters a Brazilian journalist and becomes embroiled in uncovering the military's secret nuclear weapons program, learning of people who have been 'disappeared' by the regime. Meanwhile, a nine-year old boy has been kidnapped by a street gang controlled by a macumba priest...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Jean Krasno is a tenured member of the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York (CCNY) where she held the position of Director of the MA Program in International Relations for five years. She is also a lecturer at Columbia University in the Political Science Department and was a Senior Fellow and lecturer at Yale University from 1995 to 2016.

Her publications include: “Brazil” in Chase, Hill, and Kennedy, The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World (1998), St. Martin's Press. She co-authored with Elisabeth Szeli Banning the Bomb: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2021); The United Nations: Policy and Practice, (2023) Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 103586455X
• ISBN 13: 9781035864553
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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