International Relations
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The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack ObamaA Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012In this follow-up to their national bestseller Cobra II, Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely reported but least understood war in American history. This stunning account...
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The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked WorldFrom a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century In 1961, Thomas Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest of the Cold...
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Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its WayOn the eve of the tenth anniversary of the intervention in Afghanistan, a major assessment of strategy in this most unstable of nations In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more...
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Geopolitics and the Quest for DominanceHistory and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle, Jeremy Black argues that just as the perception of power is central...
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Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too LateThere is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster....
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After the Last Sky: Palestinian LivesA searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.Author: Edward SaidPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 07/14/1999Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.76h x 7.38w x...
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Power & InterdependenceA landmark work of international relations theory, Power and Interdependence first published in 1977 and posited a radically comprehensive explanation of the mechanics driving world affairs--"power politics" on one hand and "complex interdependence" on the other hand. This widely influential book reexamined the military...
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Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat HitlerThe Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation,...
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International Relations and the European Union[International Relations and the European Union] takes a unique approach by incorporating the study of the EU's world role into the wider field of international relations. As the most comprehensive introduction to the EU's international relations written by leading experts in the field, it...
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The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold WarIn the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so...
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Contentious PoliticsRevolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of...
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Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume...
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Age of Iron: On Conservative NationalismThe rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the presidency advocating a hardline nationalist approach. Yet critics frequently misunderstand the Trump administration's foreign policy, along with American...
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Dark Forces: The Truth about What Happened in BenghaziThe New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Warriors investigates the tragedy of Benghazi to answer the questions: what really happened--and why?We know the Obama administration's story, of a demonstration caused by an Internet movie that went out of control. But what actually did...
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Patriot of PersiaThe Economist's Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man...
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Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic GrowthWhat is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious cycles of cumulative causation, Simmons and Culkin suggest...
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The Emergence of Brazil to the Global Stage: Ascending and Falling in the International Order of CompetitionHow do discourses about Brazil's emergence as a global actor at the beginning of the twenty-first century reinforce particular temporal and spatial formations that enable the perpetuation of international hierarchies?This volume argues that while the phenomenon of 'emergence' was celebrated as the conquest of...
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Moral Obligations and Sovereignty in International Relations: A Genealogy of HumanitarianismHow has contemporary humanitarianism become the dominant framework for how states construct their moral obligations to non-citizens? To answer this question, this book examines the history of humanitarianism in international relations by tracing the relationship between transnational moral obligation and sovereignty from the 16th...
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India's Strategy in the South China SeaThe tensions in the South China Sea pose considerable challenges to the rules-based liberal international maritime order. The situation demonstrates the interplay between maritime nationalism and geostrategic rivalry; fuelling militarisation and endangering freedom of navigation, over-flight and exploitation of natural resources. China's dedicated terraclaims,...
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Constituent Power and the Legitimacy of International Organizations: The Constitution of SupranationalismThis book develops a constitutional theory of international organization to explain the legitimation of supranational organizations.Supranational organizations play a key role in contemporary global governance, but recent events like Brexit and the threat by South Africa to withdraw from the International Criminal Court suggest...
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