International & World Politics

Product Description A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-firs...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its securit...

This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploit...

In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inev...

The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy have often been traced to its concern over acute economic vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart t...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

Drawing on his diplomatic experience and expertise, George F. Kennan offers an informed, plain-spoken appraisal of United States foreign policy. His evalua...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

Having created his alter-ego, the Hungry Cyclist and with thousands of pedal-powered miles before him, Tom Kevill-Davies pushed off from New York City on on...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Once A Sleeping Giant, China Today Is The World's Fastest Growing Economy -- The Leading Manufacturer Of Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, And Digital Cameras ...

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the wo...

Akira Iriye And Warren Cohen, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government In...

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and makin...

Looks at the open door policy, describes the trials of the Chinese immigrant, and analyzes foreign relations between the U.S. and China prior to World War I...

This Newly Revised Volume Drawn From Professor Hane's Classic Text, Japan: A Historical Survey, Presents A Rich Account Of Early Japanese History For Studen...

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an envi...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

William H. Overholt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Library Journal Best BooksCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gove...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

In November 1937, Ishii Itaro, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Asiatic Affairs, reflected bitterly on the decline of the ministry's influ...

Introduction: Choice And Consequence / James William Morley -- Pt. 1. Political And Military: The Bureaucracy As A Political Force, 1920-45 / Robert M. Spau...

Why does the United States go to war? America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the...

America's Founding Genius Is Diversity Of Thought. Which Is Why Social Justice Activists Won't Win By Labeling Those Who Disagree With Them. At A Time When ...

perkins, A Former Chief Economist At A Boston Strategic-consulting Firm, Confesses He Was An Economic Hit Man For 10 Years, Helping U.s. Intelligence Agen...

From One Of The World's Most Celebrated Moral Philosophers Comes A Thorough Examination Of The Current Political Crisis And Recommendations For How To Mend ...

During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers—mostly children—as they fled for their lives. The same place offers re...

A U.s. Military Interrogator Describes His Work In Iraq And His Innovative Approach That Replaces Torture With Empathy, A Procedure That He Used To Gain The...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it? Everybody thinks that it’s the syst...

Who Is Vladimir Putin? In Mr. Putin, Russia Experts Fiona Hill And Clifford Gaddy Argue That Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, Is In Fact A Man Of Many An...

Since its first publication, J. H. Elliott's classic chronicle has become established as the most comprehensive, balanced, and accessible account of the dr...

An eyewitness account by an acclaimed New Yorker reporter Wedged between India and Afghanistan, Pakistan is the second-largest nation in the Islamic world...

the Definitive Book On China's Uneasy Transformation Into An Economic And Political Superpower By Two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Reporters. An ...

Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. ...

First Authorized Bio Of Bill Davis, One Of Ontario's — And Canada's — Most Important Premiers Author Steve Paikin Is A Major Canadian Media Figure With ...

a los Angeles Times And economist Best Book Of The Yearwith A New Prefacethe Grandson Of An Eminent Ayatollah And The Son Of An Iranian Diplomat, Journali...

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism...

From The Publisher: The City Of Dubai, One Of The Seven United Arab Emirates, Is Everything The Arab World Isn't: A Freewheeling Capitalist Oasis Where The ...

An Immersive, Sweeping Account Of The Rise And Fall Of Iran's Glamorous Pahlavi Dynasty, Written With The Cooperation Of The Late Shah's Widow, Empress Fara...

The Canadian Environment in Political Context is an introduction to environmental politics designed to explain and explore how environmental policy is made ...

Remember When Everything Was Looking Up? When The Government Was Running At A Surplus, Pollution Was Disappearing, Peace Was Breaking Out In The Middle East...

The World Is Designed To Provide Readers Of Any Age And Experience With The Essential Background Needed To Answer Important Critical Questions About The Wor...