{"title":"Atossa Araxia Abrahamian","description":"\u003cp\u003eAtossa Araxia Abrahamian explores the complexities of global politics and citizenship with a sharp, insightful eye. Her works, including \u003cem\u003eThe Cosmopolites\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the forces that shape identity and belonging in an interconnected world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining meticulous research with compelling narrative, Abrahamian illuminates the hidden structures behind borders and power. Readers can expect thoughtful examinations of cosmopolitanism, migration, and the political currents that challenge traditional notions of nationality.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-cosmopolites-by-atossa-araxia-abrahamian-9780990976363","title":"The Cosmopolites","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favour of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and consultants that specialise in expatriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut, as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first-century citizenship is bigger than millionaires buying their second or third passport. When she learned that mysterious middlemen had persuaded the Comoro Islands to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue, she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere, she found that officials in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates had bulk-ordered passports for their bidoon, or stateless population, transforming these men, women, and children without countries into Comorian citizens practically overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her timely and eye-opening first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Cosmopolites\u003c\/em\u003e, Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting \"cosmopolites,\" or citizens of the world, who show us how transactional and unpredictable national citizenship in the twenty-first century can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850016936172,"sku":"9780990976363","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5e05ed21d3b5a6903be88e5d5ffbc7c9.jpg?v=1759107973"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-globe-by-atossa-araxia-abrahamian-9781529058376","title":"The Hidden Globe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book did nothing less than make me re-see the world . . . Original, and very clever\u003c\/em\u003e - Sathnam Sanghera, author of \u003cem\u003eEmpireland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside its neatly delineated borders, however, a parallel universe has been engineered into existence, consisting of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, increasingly for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAtossa Abrahamian traces the rise of the hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed the commodity they had - bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Following its evolution around the world, she reveals how prize-winning economists, eccentric theorists, visionary statesmen, and consultants masterminded its export in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centres where immigrants languish in limbo, and charter cities controlled by foreign governments and multinational corporations - and even into outer space, where tiny Luxembourg aspires to mining rights on asteroids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy mapping the hidden geography that decides who wins and who loses in this new global order - and how it might be otherwise - \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Globe\u003c\/em\u003e fascinates, enrages, and inspires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVivid, revelatory\u003c\/em\u003e - The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtossa Abrahamian boldly renews our sense of reality and brilliantly illuminates our political impasse\u003c\/em\u003e - Pankaj Mishra, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Anger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350558195948,"sku":"9781529058376","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/247db10e2167e9ef8fbf3af77c5aaa4d.jpg?v=1772538250"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-globe-by-atossa-araxia-abrahamian-9781529058345","title":"The Hidden Globe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. 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