International Relations
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Never Quit the FightDrawing on his global experiences from Africa to Iraq, author Ralph Peters attacks today's crucial issues of our time head-on, with the clear eye and blunt voice that has won him a devoted following: Is Iraq worth it? What's the truth behind the politics?...
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A Politics of Understanding: The International Thought of Raymond AronFrequently hailed as one of the greatest defenders of democratic liberalism in postwar Europe, French philosopher, sociologist, and political commentator Raymond Aron (1905--1983) left behind a staggering amount of published work on a remarkably wide range of topics both scholarly and popular. In A...
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle EastWinner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has...
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Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle EastBegun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of EnergyFrom the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of power Recently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress...
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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable CatastropheAllison's comprehensive but accessible treatment of this vital subject is a major contribution to public understanding. -The New York Times Book Review Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. But the deadliest...
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the RepublicFrom the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's lone superpower, then as...
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Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the InterventionThe U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of dollars flowed into the country. But what was gained for Afghanistan--or for the international...
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The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military AlliancesThe Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security. Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing ChinaBetween the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single foreign policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized frontier policies hitherto pursued on the...
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Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn'tThis books shows that mass protests erupted in the Gulf states in the wake of the Arab Spring and explains how Gulf regimes survived by dividing protesters along sectarian lines.Author: Toby MatthiesenPublisher: Stanford BriefsPublished: 07/03/2013Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960a 1965Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United...
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Time in the Shadows: Confinement in CounterinsurgenciesTime in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents-foremost the United States and Israel-reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve.Author:...
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U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy MistakesMistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made...
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Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or ChallengeThis book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them-or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships...
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Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War IIAt the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no...
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Allies Yet Rivals: International Politics in 18th Century EuropeAlliances are characterized by an inherent struggle for power between the allies themselves to deal with a common external enemy. Yet diplomatic history clearly shows that, at the best of times, this cooperative dimension is only one of the many aspects in play: alongside...
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Inside Nuclear South AsiaNuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and...
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Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament MovementConfronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campaign--the largest social movement...
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Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities: The Social Construction of Realism and LiberalismAuthor: David L. RousseauPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 08/08/2006Pages: 296Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 10.32h x 7.24w x 0.88dISBN: 9780804754156Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 198About the AuthorDavid L. Rousseau teaches in the Department of Political Science at SUNY Albany. He is author...
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