Product Description: Now in its 148th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www...read more

Product Description: This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel -- Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, and former UN speechwriter -- reminds us that life and liberty must still be fought for, and urges us to reclaim those essential rights we have permitted our governments to erode since the end of World War II...read more

Product Description: During the 1990s the drive of liberal peace efforts in the form of humanitarian intervention transformed the ways in which traditional development assistance operated in war and post-war situations. From Somalia and Rwanda to Bosnia and Sri Lanka, conflict, security and development became more intertwined as more integrated programmes and interventions were advocated by the international community...read more

Product Description: Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century looks at the struggle between the processes of globalization and the forces of geopolitics over the last 150 years. The twentieth century witnessed conflicts between geopolitical states who wanted to close off and control land, resources, and population—like Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union—and globalizing ones who wished to open up the world to the free flow of ideas, goods and services—like Britain and America...read more

At it core, the language of antiipolitics consists of the criticism and the attack to the establishment and the ruling elites because they are incompetent, manipulative and serving only their self-interests. This discursive register has become so diffused in the span of few decades that it can be regarded now as a recurrent feature of Western democracy. This book analyzes the case of some leaders, quite different in terms of character, personal history, cultural references, ideology and national context, who have in common the use of language of antipolitics in power. Charles de Gaulle, Ronald Reagan and Silvio Berlusconi belong to that small minority of populist leaders who managed to build sufficient popular consensus to hold the highest executive offices

Product Description: America's Global Role, a collection of essays and reviews on national security, geopolitics and war, combines a broad historical and geopolitical overview of U.S. national security policy with commentary on historical events and biographical sketches of historical figures...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays and reviews on national security, geopolitics and war combines a broad historical and geopolitical overview of U.S. national security policy with commentary on historical events and biographical sketches of historical figures.

Product Description: This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last century and beyond...read more

A study that serves as the basis for the upcoming PBS series seeks to establish a connection between industrial and technological progress and violence in the modern era, arguing that the twentieth century has been the most violent period in history in spite of unprecedented achievements. By the author of Colossus. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: The world is a mess. It's constantly at war, things cost too much, and the average person struggles to survive against powers they can barely see, let alone control. It appears so at odds with common sense, in fact, that it begs a fundamental question: Who runs the world? This book looks at the conspiracies in everyday life, both hidden and not-so-hidden...read more

A controversial reevaluation of Al Qaeda contends that the September 11 terrorist attacks were directly related to the organization's modern, western-style ideologies, arguing that Al Qaeda's utopian zeal to remake the world in its own image descends from an Enlightenment creed similar to that which informed the Soviet experiment and neo-liberal beliefs about a global free market. Reprint.

Product Description: Confused about the news? Slip out of the room when friends talk current events? Now you can keep up with ease and learn to talk like a diplomat.Among the things you’ll soon be able to slip into everyday conversation:What is the difference between Kurdistan and Kazakhstan?Why did North Korea’s leader kidnap his favorite actress?Why is Osama bin Laden so mad?Which countries still have slaves?Why is Kashmir “the most dangerous place in the world?”What country has the most Muslims?Why are they fighting in Chechnya?What little box prompted Hutus to kill Tutsis?Who is Prince Turki and how did his hunting trip change history?How are cows fueling the fighting between India's Muslims and Hindus?Which country drew maps that have resulted in the most intractable wars?What is controversial UN Resolution 242?What makes Qatar stand out?What country does Sumatran coffee come from?What country’s fakes forced the US to redesign the $100 bill?Who is the FARC and why have they been fighting for decades?An entertaining guide to political science, current events, foreign affairs, and history, What Every American Should Know about the Rest of the World gives you the vocabulary and background you need to decipher the modern world in a simple-to-understand format...read more

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