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Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
Fatal Misconception is the first global history of a movement that sought to remake humanity- seemingly with the best of intentions-but succeeded in causing untold suffering. Wealthy foundations, foreign aid agencies, and the United Nations made “family planning” a means to plan other people's families. Beginning with eugenics, the temptation to breed better people culminated in the sterilization camps of India and the horrors of China's one-child policy. This history, based on research in over fifty archives in seven countries, serves as a warning against what may be the even more dangerous experiments of the future, including coercive pro-natalism and genetic “enhancement.”
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence
A Diplomatic Revolution describes how rebels can harness their cause to global trends to isolate and defeat an empire. It happened a half century ago, at the height of the Cold War, when Algerian nationalists mobilized Muslim immigrants in France and across Europe, staged urban terror to attract the international media, and finally won over the U.N. without ever liberating national territory. Rewriting the rules of international relations, they inspired revolutionaries worldwide, including the ANC and the PLO. It is also a textbook case of how a counter-insurgency campaign can win all the battles and still lose the war.
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