Foreign Influence

On the brink of war, the fates of both Artime and Quill are at stake in book six of the New York Times bestselling Unwanteds series, which Kirkus R...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book draws upon the latest research to identify, explain, and illustrate the standards used by the Roman armies of the Late Empire....

Reducere. In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influ...

A powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? ...

'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times 'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian The Chinese Communi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mao Tse TungCommentaries by: Sharif GeorgeThis is the first in the series of Political History Texts, texts that have had m...

It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations th...

The relationship between the respective extents of Britain and America's foreign influence from 1783 to 1972 is investigated in terms of the global...

Reducere. DescriptionLaieikawai is a Hawaiian romance that recounts the wooing of a native chiefess of high rank and her final deification among the gods. Th...

Reducere. Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassinatio...

Reducere. Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much inf...

Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolor, drawing, and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. This clas...

Luxembourg is one of Europe's smallest states, yet it is rich in history and boasts a glorious past of emperors, knights, castles and faith. In mod...

Reducere. Navy SEAL turned covert operative Scot Harvath is called to action once again in this pulse-pounding political thriller from #1 New York Times and ...

Reducere. In After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency, Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith provide a comprehensive roadmap for reform of the presidency in the pos...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent Americ...

In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Re...

Reducere. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are...

* Kundnani dissects the conflicting pressures at play in Germany today and how these influence its politics, economic strategy and foreign policy

Reducere. DescriptionTurkey, which has always held an important position in global affairs, has become even more prominent on the international stage as an e...

Reducere. The Israel lobby exerts incredible power and influence over America. Some identify only one organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Commit...

Reducere. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that ...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A gripping, behind-the-scenes portrait of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler "Revelato...

When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's in 1945. President Eisenhow...

Reducere. Now with new text from McMaster addressing the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol and recommending how citizens across the free world can wor...

Reducere. "Perhaps the readers may find something here which may wake a latent genius and direct the studies of a willing mind."How accurate Isaac Watts was ...

China's geo-economic vision is transforming the Eurasian continent. Acclaimed foreign policy experts recount their travels across Central Asia, bea...

Reducere. Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Jap...

In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a No...

Reducere. Chris came to California to forget about the war. What he found was a pregnant woman and her nine-year-old son abandoned on a place called Poverty ...

Reducere. "Riveting and comprehensive...a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject."--The New York Times Book Review Windfall is the boldest profile of...

A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the intern...

The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera...

Reducere. Following up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, William Dever here reconstructs the practice of ...

DescriptionA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding B...

Reducere. A FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE BOOK TO READLess than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and p...

Reducere. Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the H...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President Donald Trump visited Beijing, he showed a video of his granddaughter Arabella Kushner speaking Mandarin to the Chinese le...

An extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution--a "Doctor Zhivago of Iran"*--that follows an orphan girl coming of age at a time ...

DescriptionSince 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be o...

Reducere. An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

DescriptionThe Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States, claiming among its members a hi...

Reducere. Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this ...

Claiming Belonging dives deep into the lives of Muslim American advocacy groups in the post-9/11 era, asking how they form and function within thei...

Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the polit...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...

This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detai...

Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war....

Reducere. This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ...

Reducere. Written in the 4th century before Christ by Kautilya, also known as Chanakya, The Arthashastra is one of the earliest works of political realism to...

After Obama examines how and why US influence has contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal...

Reducere. A better way to think about foreign influence and the nation's futureWhen he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was...

Contributor(s): Author: Hal BrandsLooking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States todayAmer...

Reducere. This book is about an idea--namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine--which in turn morphed into a pol...

Reducere. Portrays a major leader in the twentieth-century development of western agriculture "Always a better way" was WD Farr's motto. As a Colorado ranche...

DescriptionA leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for...

Reducere. From the Cold War to the ``War on Terror, `` JFK-9/11 exposes the hidden powers at work in the Empire's foreign policy. It highlights the role of u...

Reducere. DescriptionSituating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the...

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global p...

Reducere. Published in collaboration with WikiLeaks: What Cablegate tells us about US foreign policy When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010 by relea...

Reducere. 'The Black Door' explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith's Secret...

The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...

Reducere. Based on over forty years' consideration of Vietnam's history, the author aims (a) to put the Vietnam War within the context of Vietnam's overall h...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Transparent Cabal, Stephen J. Sniegoski, Ph.D., provides the key to understanding "neoconservatism, " its meaning, and its influe...

Reducere. The commander, or chief of staff, of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is a prominent public figure in Israel. His decisions, advice, and persona exe...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last c...

Reducere. Mexican Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from the many rich traditions of Mexican cuisine and in...

Reducere. Price of Power examines Henry Kissinger's influence on the development of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Richard ...