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Empires, nation-states, and democracies
How the geopolitical behavior of states is closely related to the nature of their political systemsToday’s world is characterized by an unstable coexistence of empires, nation-states, and democracies. In this book, Gerard Roland examines these three fundamentally different institutional systems a...
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The first pariah state
The often-forgotten global story of how the Confederacy lost its bid for sovereign nationhoodIn 1861, proslavery secessionists severed ties with the United States, launched the Confederacy, and readied their new government to join the international community as a sovereign nation. In The First Pa...
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Dream the size of freedom
A look at how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970sDream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagem...
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Adversary and ally
Connecting 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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Chinese law in imperial eyes
Focusing on the power dynamics of Sino-Western relations during the century before the First Opium War, Li Chen highlights the centrality of law to modern imperial ideology and politics and brings new insight to the origins of comparative Chinese law in the West and foreign extraterritoriality in...
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Foundations of the american century
Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar trac...
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When the romance ended
The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history—a violent coup d'etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A steadily increasing series of explorations, ...
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Beyond the water’s edge
Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.
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Gendering global conflict
Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens ofgender, she examines the meaning, causes, practices, and experiences of war, building a more inclusive approach to the analysis of violent conflict between stat...
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Power and plenty
International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and Plenty fills this gap, providing the first full ...
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Geoliberal europe and the test of war
Richard Youngs examines the policy challenges and choices now facing Europe in the wake of Russia's war with Ukaraine.
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Before colonization
This book provides a groundbreaking comparative analysis of non-Western states and state systems in the nineteenth century, using an original data set on independent states during this period.
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The rise of state capital
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as diverse as China, Russia and Norway, and the rise of the state in the global economy.
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The arab uprisings explained
The Arab Uprisings Explained offers a fresh rethinking of established theories and presents a new framework through which scholars and general readers can better grasp the fast-developing events remaking the region
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China's relations with africa
This 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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Geopolitics and energy diplomacy in the caspian region
Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the Caspian region and how its oil and gas resources could serve as an alternative to conventional suppliers.
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The adoption plan
The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story.
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Famine in north korea
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-incl...
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Engaging china
This 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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Gendering world politics
Expanding on the issues she originally explored in her classic work, Gender in International Relations, J. Ann Tickner focuses her distinctively feminist approach on new issues of the international relations agenda since the end of the Cold War, such as ethnic conflict and other new security issu...
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The art of sanctions
The Art of Sanctions offers a practical framework for planning and applying sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on Iran and Iraq, Richard Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain an...
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What lies across the water
Winner of the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction East Coast Literary AwardWhat Lies Across the Water recounts the events leading up to the arrest of the Cuban Five, five Cuban anti-terrorism agents wrongfully arrested and convicted of “conspiracy to commit” espionage against the United States. In...
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Eqbal ahmad
Eqbal Ahmad was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam and the geopolitics of the Cold War. A long-time friend and intellectual collaborator of Ahmad, Stuart Schaar connects Ahmad's experiences to the major currents of...
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The capitalist unconscious
The unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a ne...
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Dialogues in arab politics
For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships between Arab identity, the meaning of Arabism, and desired regional order in the Middle East from 1920 to t...
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Decade of transition
Historians have long held that the Kennedy administration forged the American alliance with Israel as a way of courting political support from American Jews. In contrast, the Eisenhower administration is believed to have considered Israel a political and strategic liability. In Decade of Transiti...
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Pakistan at the crossroads
Top 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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A new foreign policy
Jeffrey D. Sachs presents timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth and shift from war making to peacemaking. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the concrete steps the United States must take to build a multipolar world that is pros...
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Boundless winds of empire
Sixiang Wang demonstrates how Chosŏn political actors strategically deployed cultural practices, values, and narratives to carve out a place for Korea within the Ming imperial order.
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Chinese encounters with america
Chinese 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
Concern 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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An encouragement of learning
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872–1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate the core tenets of his philosophical outloo...
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The scandal of reason
Tracing 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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Psychology of a superpower
What has standing alone atop the international hierarchy done to the United States? Psychology of a Superpower examines how unipolarity affects the way U.S. leaders conceive of their role. Combining security, strategy, and psychology, Christopher J. Fettweis investigates how the idea of being num...
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U.s. foreign policy and the other
Investigates 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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China's hegemony
Many have viewed the tribute system as China's tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia's past was not as Sinocentric ...
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Our history is the future
One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020 Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019 Shortlist, Brooklyn Pu...
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The liberty way
This book examines how Liberty University, church planting networks, and grassroots mobilization shaped U.S. policy toward Israel. It explores the role of Evangelical activism in influencing Congress and the White House, highlighting the intersection of theology, political strategy, and pro-Israe...
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The international human rights movement
A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its foundersDuring the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war aga...
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The emperor and the elephant
A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a gift by the ʿAbbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rash...
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The king’s road
An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. ...
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Empire of salons
A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan’s court. In Empire of Salons, Helen Pfeifer points ins...
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The invention of international order
The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing th...
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The age of reconstruction
A sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the AmericasThe Age of Reconstruction looks beyond post–Civil War America to tell the story of how Union victory and Lincoln’s assassination set off...
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Postcolonial global justice
A 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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Us foreign policy
Paying 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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Ai, automation, and war
Why 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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Safe havens for hate
Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremistsContent moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism and extremism. Yet despite mass content take...
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