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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American ExceptionalismThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism...
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The United Nations: A Very Short IntroductionAfter seven decades of existence has the UN become obsolete? Is it ripe for retirement? As Jussi Hanhimäki proves in the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, the answer is no. In the second decade of the twenty-first century the UN remains an...
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The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear AgeIn The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in...
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L.E.T.S. Lead: Leadership, Energy, and Teamwork=SuccessNo matter your leadership experience, Robert Anderson, Jr. offers you a way to recognize moments that will catapult your life and career. This book is not a formula but instead a proven framework for developing your personal approach to leadership. Anderson is known for...
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Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America's Most Dangerous EnemiesPresident Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden. If you...
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We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert FreedomIn 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of identity politics. When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters claimed that...
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The House of RepresentativesThe House of Representatives makes laws for the people they represent. But what do you know about the Lower House? Explore how representatives make ideas into bills and eventually laws, what it takes to join the House, and how this key part of the...
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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom EverywhereA gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many...
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Nuclear WeaponsA primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture. Although the world's attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war...
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Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election "[Gellman] offers as detailed an exploration of the 1960 presidential race as can be found."--Robert W. Merry, Wall Street Journal "A brilliant work . . . the research...
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The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of FearAn eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans. For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy...
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary ParisThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
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2000 MulesAt last, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza exposes the powerful evidence of voting fraud that you were told didn't exist. Also, a major motion picture documentary. THE FIX WAS IN The 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud orchestrated by the Democratic Party. That's not...
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Revolutionary HillbillyRevolutionary Hillbilly is a history book, an organizer's notebook, and an autobiography. These are stories of unity against poverty and racism. Hy Thurman is a hillbilly and a revolutionary organizer. As a co-founder of the Young Patriots Organization, Thurman helped organize poor white communities...
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See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to JihadKnowing your enemies matters. Legendary military strategist Sun Tzu famously said "if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."When the Department of Homeland Security was founded in 2003, its stated purpose was "preventing terrorist attacks...
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Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and JusticeWomen war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about...
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Un Mundo Que Cambia: Patriotismo Frente A Agenda GlobalistaEl 26 de diciembre 1991, tuvo lugar un hecho de extraordinaria importancia en la Historia universal. Se trat de la disoluci n de la Uni n Sovi tica, un acontecimiento de enormes repercusiones que pocos hab an previsto. A decir verdad, s lo el...
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Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of EcologyA study of the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging...
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Walled States, Waning SovereigntyWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global connectedness and given the general imperviousness of late modern powers -- from...
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Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell WarSince the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers--above all, the United States--in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention...
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