Product Description: Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the creator of the Nobel prizes, was a genius. The son of a self-taught Swedish master-builder, he had established 20 factories in Europe and the United States by the age of 40. Before his death in 1896, Nobel decided that most of his estate should be invested in securities and placed in a fund, the earnings to be "distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefits on mankind...read more

Product Description: This book delivers an engaging narrative of all the important events and developments in international relations since 1945 and equips you with the knowledge and skills with which to approach contemporary issues in international politics...read more

Product Description: In International Relations Since the End of the Cold War many of the world's leading historians and historically oriented political scientists deal with the Cold War legacy and many of the new issues that have emerged since the end of the Cold War...read more

Product Description: The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States. The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the challenges from, first, the Soviet Union and, then, Japan, and the European Union...read more

Product Description: In this book some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up to date presentations of the topic available today. The Iraq War represented a most serious challenge to American-European relations...read more

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in 20 years to examine the dynamics of the American-European relationship since 1945. Lundestad examines how the relationship between the United States and Europe is becoming increasingly strained, and offers a topical view of the future of this relationship.

Fully revised and updated, the Fifth Edition of Geir Lundestad's successful textbook on the history of international politics since 1945 will serve as an ideal introduction for all students seeking an accessible guide to world events in the post-war era up to the present day. This new edition covers all the major international developments up to 2004, including a full assessment of 9/11, the 'war on terror' and the conflict in Iraq.

Product Description: Together with 29 former Peace Prize laureates, a group of international scholars gathered in Oslo on 6th December 2001, for the three-day Nobel Centennial Symposium on "The Conflicts of the 20th Century and the Solutions for the 21st Century"...read more

Product Description: Distinguished historians and political scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, make up the contributors to No End to Alliance. The book focuses on some of the most crucial issues in transatlantic relations in the past, present and future, with emphasis on America's relations with West Germany, Britain, France and Scandinavia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text focuses on some crucial issues in transatlantic relations in the past, present, and future, with emphasis on America's relations with West Germany, Britain, France, and Scandinavia. Emphasis is on the strength and duration of the Atlantic alliance.

Product Description: New conflicts emerged in international politics after the end of WWII, as tensions built between East and West, and relations between North and South were characterized first by decolonization and then by economic inequality. This updated third edition of one of the leading works on the political history of the post-war era offers a clearly written overview of the subject for students and general readers alike...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text is a comprehensive survey of the American policy towards European integration from 1945 to the present day. Geir Lundestad argues that, unlike other great powers, the United States strongly supported the integration of the most important area under its influence: Western Europe. This integration was, however, to take place within an American-dominated Atlantic framework. In the words of the author this was a policy of "empire" by integration. Lundestad takes a clear, chronological approach to the subject, from the beginnings of European integration after World War II, the challenge to American policy on European integration by President Charles de Gaulle, and the modified support for European integration in the Nixon-Kissinger years through to the present revived support for European integration under the Clinton administration. The text should be a useful textbook for courses including International Relations, US Modern History, and European Integration.

Product Description: The collapse of the Soviet Union has produced many dramatic effects, some positive--the end of the Cold War, disarmament, self-determination for Central Europe--and others quite negative--ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and general instability in the region...read more

Product Description: In December 1991 the Nobel prizes celebrated their 90th anniversary. For this occasion, the Norwegian Nobel Committee--which awards the Nobel Peace Prize--brought together a very distinguished group of Nobel peace laureates and academic scholars...read more

Product Description: This book offers a thorough, balanced, and insightful account of how Soviet-American antagonism developed, evolved, and still affects contemporary international relations. The author gives equal attention to divisions between the "developed" and "non-developed" worlds, a conflict that, at first, only sporadically intersected Soviet-American relations, and whose linkage to them is not always clear today...read more

Product Description: This book contains four comparative studies of U.S. foreign policy after World War II. The first deals with the way in which American historians have analyzed the origins of the Cold War and argues that moralism, presentism, exceptionalism, and provincialism have been allowed too large a role in such analyses...read more