International Relations
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The Triumph of ImprovisationIn The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers,...
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Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic AgeWe are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging from a nuclear Iran to the global zero movement are generating sharp debate. The historical origins of our...
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Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970sIn Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other...
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An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign PolicyJimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR,...
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Just PoliticsMany foreign policy analysts assume that elite policymakers in liberal democracies consistently ignore humanitarian norms when these norms interfere with commercial and strategic interests. Today's endorsement by Western governments of repressive regimes in countries from Kazakhstan to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the name...
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Sorry States: Apologies in International PoliticsGovernments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful...
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Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold RushMost people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly...
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Cooperating Rivals: The Riparian Politics of the Jordan River BasinThis book examines the politics of water scarcity in the Middle East's Jordan River Basin (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority) between 1920 and 2006. Jeffrey K. Sosland demonstrates that while water scarcity might generate political tension, it does not by itself...
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The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century EuropeFocusing on the history of the "problem of Trieste" and the Italo-Yugoslav border, Glenda Sluga provides a framework for writing the history of places from a perspective sensitive to the politics of identity--whether national, ethnic, or gender. For most of this century, Trieste, a...
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Peace & War: A Theory of International RelationsPeace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations. Aron's starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. Ever...
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The Secret War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union, China and Anglo-American Intelligence in the Afghan WarThe Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine-year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only...
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Is the American Century Over?For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new...
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Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government"Originally published in French as Gerer les indesirables, Flammarion SA, 2008"--T.p. verso.Author: Michel AgierPublisher: Polity PressPublished: 01/25/2011Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.14w x 0.84dISBN: 9780745649023Review Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2011About the AuthorMichel Agier is an anthropologist and director of studies at the Institut de...
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After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among CivilizationsAfter Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the...
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The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion Since 9/11Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, philosophic and literary traditions has provoked thinking, questioning and inquiry. But today the appeal to evil is being used as a...
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Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory TodaySovereignty, Rights and Justice surveys the relationship between international relations theory and political theory, showing the way in which these two discourses, once considered separate, are now intertwined. In the first part of the book an historical overview of the international political theory on...
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My Life In The PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian StruggleThis is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO was to achieve a just peace in the Arab-Israeli...
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Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of IranThe book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates Persian Mirrors to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, Sciolino has had more experience covering...
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Endgame: Solving the Iraq CrisisWHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ? Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences...
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Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin LadenOn September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that...
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