A former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islam Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington.
A former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islam Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington.
In this biography of the successor to the swashbuckling hero d'Artagnan of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Chrisawn (history, Tallahassee Community College) chronicles the military and amorous exploits of Jean Lannes. Born the same year (1769) as Napoleon, his future commander-in-c…
In this biography of the successor to the swashbuckling hero d'Artagnan of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Chrisawn (history, Tallahassee Community College) chronicles the military and amorous exploits of Jean Lannes. Born the same year (1769) as Napoleon, his future commander-in-c…
O presente livro pretende evidenciar até que ponto o pensamento e a acção do Embaixador José Thomaz Calvet de Magalhães, pioneiro da chamada diplomacia económica e um dos protagonistas da nossa adesão à Europa, foram importantes nesse processo. Visa-se, ainda, demonstrar que a p…
"From army days, to working with lawmakers for the State Department, to international diplomacy, to his time as counselor to presidents, David Abshire was a fixture in the effort to make America a superpower with a higher purpose"--
"From army days, to working with lawmakers for the State Department, to international diplomacy, to his time as counselor to presidents, David Abshire was a fixture in the effort to make America a superpower with a higher purpose"--
A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him.; "A revelatory, behind-the-sce…
A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him. "A revelatory, behind-the-sce…
REVOLUTION -- The First Reset -- Democrats of the World, Unite! -- Yeltsin's Incomplete Revolution -- Putin's Thermidor -- RESET -- Change We Believe In -- Launching Obama's Reset -- Universal Values -- The First (and Last) Moscow Summit -- The New START Treaty -- Denying Iran t…
From the Stanford Kremlinologist who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, and has since been sanctioned by Vladimir Putin, comes a revelatory account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present, told through his experience working for President Barack Oba…
"A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect…
"A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect…