Foreign Influence

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

When George C Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he asked George F Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure...

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 ...

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 ...

Language Education and Emotions presents innovative, empirical research into the influence of emotions and affective factors in language education,...

Originally published in 1995 and drawing on both archives and oral testimony, this book analyses British strategic discourse and its influence on B...

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

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

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. 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...

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

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. 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. 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...

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

With new assertiveness and prominence, China under President Xi Jinping is rightly considered an emerging and aggressive superpower backed by growi...

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...

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

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 ...

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of t...

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

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

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 ...

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...

Reducere. When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical manda...

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the socia...

A collection of historical articles by 14 distinguished scholars describing the positive effects Imperial Russia had upon world history during the ...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

This book investigates the influence of test taker characteristics on performance in tests of English as a foreign language by exploring the relati...

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

Media Power, Media Politics examines the role and influence of the media in every sphere of American politics. Organized thematically, the book ana...

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

Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creati...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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. 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...

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 ...

Reducere. Over the past decade, the international political system has come to be characterized as a Great Power Competition in which multiple would-be hegem...

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

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...

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

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

DescriptionFrom Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a new way to think about how popular stories he...

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

This insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century...

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

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

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

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...

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...

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

DescriptionInternational Environmental Law offers a concise, conceptually clear, and legally rigorous introduction to contemporary international en...

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...

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

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

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...

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