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Explore the gripping accounts of soldiers and civilians amidst the raging geopolitical storm between North and South Korea, backed by superpowers China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Nations. Discover the legacy and relevance of this war that continues to shape today's world. From stunning military strategies to heart-wrenching humanitarian crises, this book unveils the untold stories and lessons learned from one of history's...
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After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid."Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S. and international archives, Shane Maddock offers the first full-length study of nuclear apartheid, casting a spotlight on an ideological...
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The definitive book on President Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the U.S. foreign policy expert and acclaimed author of Treacherous Alliance.
In Losing an Enemy, Middle East policy expert Trita Parsi examines President Obama's strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly...
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Zbigniew Brzezinski's multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. His strategic vision continues to influence our world today.
To assess the ramifications of Brzezinski's engagement in world politics and policymaking, Charles Gati has enlisted many of the top foreign policy...
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Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the world were still under imperial control. Building States investigates how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s-and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in...
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At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international system that has, for more than fifty-years, controlled the spread of these catastrophic weapons. The Hegemon's Tool Kit details how that regime works and how, disastrously, it might falter.
In the early nuclear age, experts anticipated that all technologically-capable states would build these powerful devices....
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"Winner of the FPA Distinguished Scholar Award, Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association" "Winner of the Best Book Award, Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association" Keren Yarhi-Milo is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton)....
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In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. Brazinsky contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled...
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Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary...
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Dive into the little-known yet impactful conflict that shaped the course of history in "The Aroostook War (1838-1839)." Uncover the compelling story of this forgotten war that ignited tensions between the United States and British North American colonies. Explore the intricate web of diplomatic negotiations, border disputes, and regional identities that played a pivotal role in this conflict.
Journey through the lush Aroostook Valley, where the...
311) From Pariah to Priority: How LGBTI Rights Became a Pillar of American and Swedish Foreign Policy
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Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.
From Pariah to Priority gives a unique, insider perspective that explains the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies. From original data, case study analysis, and interviews with high-level officials within the State Department and across US foreign policy...
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The must read summary of Michael Scheuer's book: "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror".
This complete summary of "Imperial Hubris" by Michael Scheuer outlines his argument that the events of 9/11 were the culmination of a decade of bad political decisions. He exposes the truth about the war on terror: America is losing. He states that unless US leaders adjust their policies, things will only get worse.
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A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising American superpower-with global insights for today.
An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years after World War II, when the British Empire-the greatest in history-was too wounded to maintain a global presence. In fact, Derek Leebaert argues in Grand Improvisation,...
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Daniel Finke is assistant professor of political science at the University of Heidelberg. Thomas König is professor of political science and director of the Research Centre for the Political Economy of Reforms at the University of Mannheim. Sven-Oliver Proksch is a research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. George Tsebelis is the Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
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Ce livre traite de la sécurité en Europe au début du vingt-et-unième siècle, mettant l'accent sur les évolutions après l'adoption et la mise en œuvre du Traité de Lisbonne. L'Europe fait face à de nombreux défis sur le plan de la sécurité. Deux constats ressortent des différentes analyses que l'on retrouve dans ce livre. — Premièrement, il faut noter l'hétérogénéité de la menace, ainsi que la diversité des réponses, c'est-à-dire...
316) On War and Democracy
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Christopher Kutz is the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age.
On War and Democracy provides a richly nuanced examination of the moral justifications democracies often invoke to wage war. In this compelling and provocative book, Christopher Kutz argues...
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"Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity.
A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as...
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How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended? In Confronting Captivity, Arieh J. Kochavi offers a behind-the-scenes look at the living conditions in Nazi camps and traces the actions the British and American governments took--and didn't take--to ensure the safety of their captured...
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The must-read summary of Jimmy Carter's book: "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid".
This complete summary of "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" by Jimmy Carter, former US president, outlines his assessment of the steps to be taken for Israel to make peace with its neighbours and particularly how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist peacefully with Palestinian nationhood.
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Historians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium industry. But in Poppies, Politics, and Power, James Tharin Bradford rebalances the discourse, showing that it is not the past forty years of lawlessness that makes the opium industry what it is, but the sheer breadth of the twentieth-century Afghanistan experience. Rather than byproducts of a failed contemporary system, argues Bradford, drugs, especially opium,...
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