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China's weaponization of trade
Victor d. cha , Ellen kim , Andy limThis groundbreaking book explores the weaponization of economic interdependence and its implications for the international order through a wealth of new and original data on China’s economic statecraft.
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America in the arctic
Mary thompson-jonesAmerica in the Arctic offers a timely and compelling case for why the United States must deepen its commitment to a region threatened by climate change and geopolitical rivalry.
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Great power diplomacy
A. wess mitchellA captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competitionFrom the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of a...
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Pax economica
Marc-william palenThe forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-Willi...
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China's relations with africa
Joshua eisenman , David h. shinnThis book examines the full scope of contemporary political and security relations between China and Africa. Drawing on two decades of systematic data and hundreds of surveys and in-person interviews, David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman shed new light on the state of China-Africa relations today a...
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Engaging china
Anne thurstonThis book brings together leading China specialists to offer a retrospective on relations between the United States and China over the last half-century and consider what might be next. The contributors include academics, leaders of China-related nongovernmental organizations, and former diplomat...
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Pakistan at the crossroads
Christophe jaffrelotTop international scholars assess Pakistan’s politics and economics and the challenges faced by its civil and military regimes. Contributors examine the state’s handling of internal threats, tensions among political parties, law-enforcement reform, the rise of border conflicts, financial entangl...
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Days of opportunity
Robert b. rakoveRobert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the 1979 Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences.
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Chinese encounters with america
Deborah davis , Terry lautzChinese Encounters with America tells the stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China’s trajectory.
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Global population
Alison bashfordConcern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned th...
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The scandal of reason
Albena azmanovaTracing the evolution of two major traditions in political philosophy—critical theory and philosophical liberalism—and the way they confront the judgment paradox, Albena Azmanova critiques prevailing models of deliberative democracy and their preference for ideal theory over political applicability
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Long problems
Thomas halePolitical strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will la...
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The solidarity economy
Tehila sassonThe untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the n...
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U.s. foreign policy and the other
Michael patrick cullinane , David ryanInvestigates American identity and its effect on foreign relations. Systematic review of US foreign policy and their principal conceptions of the ‘Other’ that have animated US culture and discourse. Examines foreign relations over three centuries Excavates US cultural and diploma...
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Cold war civil rights
Mary l. dudziakA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold WarIn 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing less than two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was over...
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The last embassy
Tonio andradeFrom the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth centuryGeorge Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily d...
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Global governance under fire
Allison carnegie , Richard clarkHow international organizations can combat populist opposition—and the implications for institutional resilience, legitimacy, and accountabilityPopulist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers aga...
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Postcolonial global justice
Shuk ying chanA new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative foreign investment, and global institutions do...
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Contemporary iran
Farhang moradyThis accessible introductory text explains the political, economic and religious developments since the formation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and provides an analysis of the domestic politics of Iran. It identifies the ways in which the country, often imagined as ‘isolated’, is actually integ...
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Us foreign policy
Richard johnsonPaying close attention to its domestic roots, this textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era. Accessibly written and including helpful illustrative material, a glossary and guide to further reading, it is organised around ...
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Polarization and international politics
Rachel myrickHow extreme polarization undermines the advantages that democracies have when formulating foreign policyPolarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics,...
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Ai, automation, and war
Anthony kingWhy AI will not replace human strategic judgement in warIs AI about to automate war? Will autonomous drone swarms and killer robots controlled by AI dominate the battlespace and determine the winner? In AI, Automation, and War, Anthony King debunks this science fiction–tinged narrative of AI’s mi...
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Geopolitical challenges to the global influence of western society
Frederic lemieux , Marios panagiotis efthymiopoulos , Josef demergisGeopolitical Challenges to the Global Influence of Western Society examines complex shifts, exploring how emerging forces, from geopolitical realignments to technological innovations and demographic changes, are redefining global power structures.
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Iran's grand strategy
Vali nasrFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalA gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolutionIran pre...
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Outsourcing empire
Andrew phillips , J. c. sharmanHow chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Emp...
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An unwritten future
Jonathan kirshnerAn argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism...
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Taken hostage
David farberOn November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using ...
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Rational theory of international politics
Charles l. glaserWithin the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces the great powers to seek security at one another's expense, dooming even peaceful nations to an unrelenting struggle for power and dominance. Rat...
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Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
Helen berents , Catherine bolten , Siobhan mcevoy-levyA critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails.
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Ten lessons in modern chinese history
Zheng yangwenA timely and solid portrait of modern China
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Russian-american relations in the post-cold war world
James w. petersonThis book offers a step-by-step analysis of key stages in the development of the Russian-American relationship since the late Cold War. Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as ...
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The meek and the militant
Paul n. siegelAn invaluable critical analysis of how religion shapes politics, encouraging both submission and, at times, revolution.
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Winter soldier: iraq and afghanistan
Aaron glantz , Anthony swofford ,Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan describe, in their own words, the crimes of war they witnessed.
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The struggle for palestine
Lance selfaLeading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Paul D'Amato, Phil Gasper, Toufic Haddad, Tikva Honig-Parnass, Rania Masri, Tanya Reinhart, Edward Said, and Ahmed Shawki.
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China’s peaceful rise
Christopher herrick , Zheya gai , Surain subramaniamAdopting a constructivist approach, this book argues that China's prospects for achieving 'great power' status peacefully depend more on perceptions of the country's development than on concrete measures of power or economic benefits. Incorporating historical perceptions, survey data and general ...
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War without end
Michael schwartzMichael Schwartz gets behind the headlines, revealing the real dynamics of the Iraq debacle and its legacy.
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Beyond the green zone
Dahr jamail , Amy goodmanThe critically acclaimed account of life in Iraq under US occupation with a new afterword.
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Treachery and diplomacy
Sobukwe odingaTreachery and Diplomacy shines a light on US-Africa security partnerships, revealing their simmering internal tensions, hidden racial politics, and consequences for peace and democracy.
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Delinking and global reparations
Ndongo samba sylla , Kai koddenbrockA collective effort making the case for delinking and global reparations – amid ongoing and overlapping global crises affecting the Global South.
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Adversary and ally
Harrison akinsConnecting international politics with domestic security, Harrison Akins shows how India and Pakistan’s engagement with China has shaped the two governments’ policies toward their strategic frontiers over the past seventy years.
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Jimmy carter and china
Sheng pengThis book is an international history of the Carter administration’s intricate relations with the two competing Chinese regimes, emphasizing the geopolitical significance and lasting implications of this crucial moment.
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The ai matrix
Daniel mügge , Regine paul , Vali stanArtificial intelligence counts as today’s great transformational force reshaping our societies and economies. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive politics have moulded AI from its inception, which serves to reinforce hierarchies between industr...
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Countering the far right in europe and beyond
Mario faust-scalisi , Susan arndtBringing together activist, scholarly, artist and journalist expertise about the Far Right to enable intervention.
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The disorderly society
Bobo loIn a broad and erudite narrative, Bobo Lo argues that the future of global governance is not in a return to dominant US leadership and great power competition but in a more inclusive and flexible order, driven by a common purpose in meeting universal challenges.
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Ukraine’s nato accession discourse
Iryna zhyrun , Andreas heinemann-grüderUkraine long faced obstacles to NATO integration due to internal divisions and conflict. Iryna Zhyrun analyzes how shifts in national identity among political elites shaped foreign policy. Her study links Ukraine’s NATO debate (1990s–2010s) to changing identity through discourse analysis.
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Contested home
Katherine kunzThrough ethnographic research with asylum-seekers at a church-based refugee program in Basel, Switzerland, Katherine Kunz explores the role of government, church, volunteers, and refugees in defining belonging.
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Moscow’s mercenaries
Christopher m. faulkner , Raphael parens , Colin p. clarkeThis book traces the Wagner Group’s violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.
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Has globalization gone far enough?
Scott c. bradford , Robert z. lawrenceScott C. Bradford and Robert Z. Lawrence use the underlying data from purchasing power parity surveys to estimate the potential benefits from fully integrating goods markets among major OECD countries. These data are particularly useful because they are comprehensive, and every effort has been ma...
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Nafta and the environnment
Gary clyde hufbauer , Daniel c. esty , Diana orejas , Luis rubio , Jeffrey j. schottAir and water pollution blighted northern Mexican cities long before the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a glimmer on the political horizon. Not surprisingly, when NAFTA became a political reality, environmentalists argued that commercial competition would weaken environmental sta...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
Andreas umland , Andrey makarychev , George soroka , Julie fedor , Tomasz stępniewskiIssue 5.1 deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.
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