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Two Weeks In November is the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies – a high- ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer – who team up to help unseat one of the world's longest serving dictators, Robert Mugabe.
What begins as an improbable adventure destined for failure, marked by a mixture of bravery, strategic cunning and bumbling naiveté, soon turns into the most sophisticated political-military operation in African history. By virtue of their being together, the unlikely team of misfit rivals is suddenly in position to spin what might have been seen as an illegal coup into a mass popular uprising that the world – and millions of Zimbabweans – will enthusiastically support.
Impeccably researched, deftly written, and told in the style of a political thriller, Two Weeks In November is Ocean’s 11 meets Game of Thrones: a real-world life or death chess match for the future of a country where the political endgame is never a forgone conclusion.
The United Nations Convention against Corruption includes 71
articles, and takes a notably comprehensive approach to the problem
of corruption, as it addresses prevention, criminalization,
international cooperation, and asset recovery. Since it came into
force more than a decade ago, the Convention has attracted nearly
universal participation by states. As a global and comprehensive
convention, which establishes new rules in several areas of
anti-corruption law and helps shape domestic laws and policies
around the world, this treaty calls for scholarly study. This
volume helps to fill a gap in existing academic literature by
providing an invaluable reference work on the Convention. It
provides systematic coverage of the treaty, with each chapter
discussing the relevant travaux preparatoires, the text of the
final article, comparisons with other anti-corruption treaties, and
available information about domestic implementing legislation and
enforcement. This commentary is designed to serve as a reference
work for academics, lawyers, and policy-makers working in the
anti-corruption field, and in the fields of transnational criminal
law and domestic criminal law. Contributors include anti-corruption
experts, scholars, and legal practitioners from around the globe.
From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national
security reporter Greg Miller, the truth about Vladimir Putin's
covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win
the presidency, its possible connections to the Trump campaign,
Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation of the president and those
close to him, and the mystery of Trump's steadfast allegiance to
Putin. It has been called the political crime of the century: a
foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly
interfering with the American presidential election to help elect
the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning
Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates
the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary
Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast
allegiance to Vladimir Putin, and Robert Mueller's ensuing
investigation of the president and those close to him. Based on
interviews with hundreds of people in Trump's inner circle, current
and former government officials, individuals with close ties to the
White House, members of the law enforcement and intelligence
communities, foreign officials, and confidential documents, The
Apprentice offers striking new information about: the hacking of
the Democrats by Russian intelligence; Russian hijacking of
Facebook and Twitter; National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's
hidden communications with the Russians; the attempt by Jared
Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, to create a secret back channel to
Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities; Trump's disclosure to
Russian officials of highly classified information about Israeli
intelligence operations; Trump's battles with the CIA and the FBI
and fierce clashes within the West Wing; Trump's efforts to enlist
the director of national intelligence and the director of the
National Security Agency to push back against the FBI's
investigation of his campaign; the mysterious Trump Tower meeting;
the firing of FBI Director James Comey; the appointment of Mueller
and the investigation that has followed; the tumultuous skirmishing
within Trump's legal camp; and Trump's jaw-dropping behavior in
Helsinki. Deeply reported and masterfully told, The Apprentice is
essential reading for anyone trying to understand Vladimir Putin's
secret operation, its catastrophic impact, and the nature of
betrayal.
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