International Relations
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Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is NotGermany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan remains haunted in Asia. The most common explanation for this difference is that Germany knows better how to apologize; Japan is viewed as "impenitent." Walter...
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The Globalization of World Politics 9th EditionAuthor: BaylisPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/15/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780192898142
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State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa BakufuAuthor: Ronald P. TobyPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 12/01/1991Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.53w x 0.95dISBN: 9780804719520
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in RwandaFor the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect....
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War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and StatecraftA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between....
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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our TimesThe Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for...
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Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East AsiaFor the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have...
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Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle EastA longtime American foreign policy insider's penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country's involvement in the Middle East--and its bitter end The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon's tour de force, offering...
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle EastOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science MonitorNPRThe Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Tribune A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyThe Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I...
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Danger on Our DoorstepAn unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly...
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The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyFrom the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy--explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be...
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Diplomacy By DeceptionThis is a true and accurate account of treasonous conduct by the British and American governments: An account of how their citizens are deceived by policies provoking actions that are totally detrimental to the well-being of their citizens. Thoroughly researched, the book provides a...
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Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in CyberspaceA bold re-conceptualization of the fundamentals driving behavior and dynamics in cyberspace. Most cyber operations and campaigns fall short of activities that states would regard as armed conflict. In Cyber Persistence Theory, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Emily O. Goldman, and Richard J. Harknett argue that...
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic WorldLenin once said, There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political,...
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The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal"A masterful diplomatic memoir" (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leaders--an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in an increasingly...
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SalvadorTerror is the given of the place. The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion brings the country to life (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror--its mechanisms, rationales,...
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Negotiating the New START TreatyWinner of the Douglas Dillon Award for a Book of Distinction on the Practice of American DiplomacyRose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty-and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation-delivers in this book an invaluable insider's account...
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Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold WarWhen Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of...
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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American AllianceWinner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government--a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo-American alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the...
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global DisorderFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE END OF THE WORLD IS JUST THE BEGINNING An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years. Near the end of the...
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