Product Description: An overview of international relations that highlights conflict and cooperation among and within states REVEL™ for Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History provides a concise, insightful introduction to world politics in an era of complex interdependence...read more

Updated in its 9th edition, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation is a concise and penetrating introduction to world politics in an era of complex interdependence. This text employs lessons from theory and history to examine conflict and cooperating among global actors and thus to provide readers with a durable analytical framework. From twentieth and twenty-first century wars to global finance and global governance, Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation, expands substantially on a classic work and continues to deliver a thought-provoking survey of international relations today.

Product Description: For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy...read more

Product Description: The Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/It Matters Who Is President―Then and NowAt the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating involvement in Iraq...read more

Product Description: 'The Real Thirteen Days' fills the gap between the longer, more detailed texts on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the popular histories. The authors make use of newly available sources from US and Russian archives to present Soviet and Cuban perspectives in the crisis, which in the past have been unavailable or downplayed...read more

An account of the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union describes Castro's view of the American threat and dramatic exchanges between Castro and such conference participants as Anatoly I. Gribkov and Robert McNamara. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: You're tempted to accept a promising job offer in another city, but moving would entail considerable sacrifice on the part of your family. What should you do? Your elderly mother can no longer take care of herself but she doesn't get along with your husband and dreads the prospect of moving into a nursing home...read more

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Product Description: In this major study of the causes of war, David Welch argues that, contrary to the received wisdom in academic and policy circles, states are often motivated by sincere concern for the perceived demands of justice, not merely by self interest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Edited by Bruce J. Allyn, James G. Blight and David A. WelchIn this historic meeting, key participants from the U.S., Soviet Union and Cuba gathered around a conference table in Moscow to look back at the events and lessons of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis...read more

Product Description: In January 1989, many of the principal actors in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis met with scholars for two days in Moscow to examine the events and lessons of the crisis. "CSIA Occasional Paper No. 9" is the complete annotated transcript of this conference, which was the first time that principal Soviet and American actors in the crisis were joined by their Cuban counterparts in developing the historical record...read more

Describes the events leading to the missile crisis, analyzes American actions, and shares the opposing viewpoints of American and Russian experts