International Relations
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Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and ConflictedFrom the expert who understands both sides of one of the world's most complex, controversial topics, a modern-day Guide for the Perplexed-a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?...
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The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to VietnamThe Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London...
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The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and FutureThe U.S. Japan alliance has faced new challenges: domestic opposition to U.S. bases in Okinawa; Chinese criticism of a stronger U.S.-Japan security relationship; and growing international frustration with Japan's economic policies. The alliance remains crucial to both nations' interests, but the management of bilateral...
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Pharr: Media & Pol in Japan PaperJapan is one of the most media-saturated societies in the world. The circulations of its "big five" national newspapers dwarf those of any major American newspaper. Its public service broadcasting agency, NHK, is second only to the BBC in size. And it has a...
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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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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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China's Vision of VictorySomeday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist...
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The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab UprisingsA definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The...
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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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