Ergebnis für "Mission" in Politik & Regierungen

New York Times Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 * A New York Times Editors' Choice * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." —The Guardian A masterpiece of reporting...

Was wäre, wenn die gleiche Innovationskraft, die vor 50 Jahren die Menschheit auf den Mond brachte - die große Ziele setzt und ebensolche Risiken eingeht - auch auf die Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart angewendet würde? Wir müssen weg vom Schubladendenken, nach dem der Staat das Geld gibt und die Privatwirtschaft kreativ ist, sagt die Starökonomin Mariana Mazzucato. Stattdessen müssen wir sicherstellen, dass Unternehmen, Gesellschaft und Regierung ein gemeinsames Ziel ins Auge fassen - mit geteiltem Risiko und geteilter Belohnung!

Die Welt kennt nur die Bilder aus dem Lagezentrum des Weißen Hauses: Präsident Barack Obama und sein Stab beobachten am Monitor den Zugriff...

Der Podcast „Mission Money“ von FOCUS MONEY liefert seinen Hörern werktäglich zum Feierabend die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus Wirtschaft, Börse und Finanzen – und ordnet kompakt ein, was das Tagesgeschehen für ihr Geld und ihre Anlagestrategie bedeutet. Das Team um Host Peter Bloed bietet von Montag bis Freitag zudem spannende Investment-Ideen, Hintergrundanalysen und konkrete Tipps für die private Geldanlage. Immer samstags erscheinen bei Mission Money ausführliche Interviews mit renommierten Wirtschafts- und Finanzexpertinnen und -experten. Von FOCUS MONEY

In Mossad, authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's 60-year history.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. “AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are...

En mars 2011, en pleine vague des Printemps arabes, des enfants d'un village du sud de la Syrie inscrivent un graffiti sur le mur de leur école. Leur arrestation par les services du gouvernement syrien et les sévices qu'ils subissent vont être le déclencheur de la révolution syrienne, initialement pacifique. À partir de l'été 2011, cette révolution prend les traits d'une insurrection armée. En avril 2012, Kofi Annan parvient à négocier un accord de cessez-le-feu, qui se traduit par le déploiement dans l'urgence d'une mission de 300 observateurs des Nations-unies.

From master storyteller and bestselling author Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, the true stories of Special Forces missions. 'McNab's first major non-autobiographical work of non-fiction ... The operation...

On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States. Detachment A had been established in Berlin early in the Cold War to harass and delay any Soviet military advance west. This Special unit trained relentlessly for every aspect of unconventional warfare, and was later assigned a second mission of counterterrorism. Veteran and historian James Stejskal details Det A's unique and integral role in Operation Eagle Claw.

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War’s most daring operations and the first for Britain’s legendary Special Operations Executive. Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied Ethiopia and began waging a guerilla war against the 250,000-strong Italian army. One of these men, Ken Burke, was Duncan McNab's uncle.

They said it never happened. That’s exactly how the CIA wanted it. In Covert CIA Missions, George T. Masterson delivers a raw, insider’s look at the CIA’s most secretive operations—from Reagan-era black ops and Cold War espionage to psychological warfare, MK-Ultra, and mind control experiments on civilians. This audiobook takes you behind the redacted lines of America’s most dangerous intelligence machine. If you’re ready to hear what they never wanted you to know, press play.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an...

From 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Mission to Mao is a social history of the OSS officers in the field that reveals the weakness of United States intelligence diplomacy in the 1940s.

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world.

Conçu sur le même style de récit que « Taupes », « Missions de l’ombre» nous entraîne dans les coulisses de quelques opérations de contre-terrorisme et contre-espionnage tant au Canada qu’à l’étranger. C’est aussi une plongée dans le quotidien peu banal de policiers et agents aux nerfs d’acier confrontés à de puissantes organisations étatiques ou criminelles qu’ils doivent infiltrer ou déjouer.

In Mission-Driven Leadership, Mark Bertolini, the long-time chairman and CEO of Aetna, the Fortune 500 health insurance company, reveals that genuine leadership is not about dollars and market share but about improving lives and communities. Mark Bertolini didn't get to the corner office through...

Remember when socialism was a dirty word? Now students at America's elite universities are parroting socialist talking points and "sure thing" Hillary Clinton is struggling to win the Democratic nomination against a 74-year-old avowed socialist who promises to make the nation more like Europe. What's happened? Do Americans need a reminder about the dangers of socialist ideology and practices?

As sidekicks to their parents' and churches' ambitions, missionary kids (MKs) face questions many white Christians eventually ask: about God's calling, sacrifice, faith, privilege, racism, abuse, and what belonging means. In The Missionary Kids, Holly Berkley Fletcher reveals how MKs have intimate access to the movement's logic, longings, and ideals.

In a country where health care is increasingly driven by profit, Margin over Mission exposes the dire consequences of corporate ownership in hospitals. James Kelly, an ICU nurse with over two decades of experience, narrates a gripping account of his final year at Lovelace Women's Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico—a year marred by preventable deaths, administrative changes, and the heartbreaking loss of a once-mission-driven institution to the clutches of Wall Street.

Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than 400 agents into France, 39 of whom were women. But while some are widely known - Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan - others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all 39 female agents.