Product Description: In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world...read more

Product Description: In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world...read more

Product Description: In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world...read more

Product Description: We inhabit an increasingly interconnected world. Yet too often policymakers and advisers view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on short-term impacts. All of us—policymakers, local and global communities, and individual citizens—must begin to consider how the major trends that shape our world are likely to develop and how they will intersect and influence one another...read more

Product Description: America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess...read more

Product Description: A three-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and director of the Johns Hopkins American Foreign Policy program make recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits and unbalanced energy consumption...read more

Product Description: America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations...read more

Traces the political traditions that gave rise to modern democracy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explores the reasons for its surge in the twentieth century, and discusses the relationship between democracy and war.

How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern. Mandelbaum explains how this role came about despite the fact that neither the United States nor any other country sought to establish it. He describes the contributions that American power makes to global security and prosperity, the shortcomings of American foreign policy, and how other countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's global role. And he assesses the prospects for the continuation of this role, which depends most importantly on whether the American public is willing to pay for it. Written with Mandelbaum's characteristic blend of clarity, wit, and profound understanding of America and the world, The Case for Goliath offers a fresh and surprising approach to an issue that obsesses citizens and policymakers the world over, as well as a major statement on the foreign policy issues confronting the American people today.

Describes how the origins and development of the three major professional team sports in the United States have reflected human psychological needs and social and economic changes in the United States.

Takes a look ahead at the state of the world in the twenty-first century, arguing that peace among the superpowers, democracy, and free markets have no serious rivals as dominant ideas in the international arena.

Product Description: Here, Mandelbaum outlines the new power realities in the world today, and the challenges facing the West. Although the 11 September attacks were both terrible and traumatic, they did not reverse the main global trends of the 21st century, trends that are remarkably favourable to the nations of the West...read more

Product Description: This text places the movements of borders, not peoples, at the heart of social and racial conflict in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. It argues that the political upheavals of the 1900s have left in their wake many national minorities and focuses on four in particular: the Hungarian diaspora in Germany; the Russian diaspora in Eastern Europe; the Serb diaspora following the breakup of Yugoslavia; and the Albanian plight in Kosovo and Macedonia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Russia that emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union is an entirely new country, conducting an entirely new foreign policy. This book surveys Russia's relations with the world since 1992, and assesses the future prospect for the foreign policy of Europe's largest country...read more

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Product Description: The Dawn of Peace in Europe describes Europe's new common security order, assesses the alternatives to it, and analyzes the conditions necessary for its continuation.

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Product Description: With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, its fifteen constituent republics suddenly found themselves sovereign states. Among the new countries are the five republics of Central AsiaKazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistanthat comprise the region south of the great Russian heartland...read more

Product Description: The collapse of communism in Europe and the former Soviet Union has produced one of the most daunting tasks of the twentieth century: the construction of market economies out of the wreckage of central planning. While there is a lively debate among economists on this transformation, little has reached a non-specialist audience...read more

Product Description: A useful book that asks the right questions about some of the central issues of the Soviet Union in 1991 and provides an excellent basis for the discussion of American policy on the topic.