Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy. Seib's text an…
This book discusses the developments in modern historiography and historical culture in India. It explores contemporary discourses and debates in the public sphere, focusing on the politicization of history and also the historicization of politics
When studying the origins of the First World War, scholars have relied heavily on the series of key diplomatic documents published by the governments of both the defeated and the victorious powers in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this volume shows that these publications, rather…
"To most Americans, Hollywood activism consists of self-obsessed movie stars making transparently liberal films in a desperate bid for Academy Award glory. There's some truth in that stereotype. But celebrity activism also exerts a subtle power over the American political proces…
In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. Career U.S. Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance provides the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination,…
Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes? And how can we explain the marked persistence of spending levels after divergence? Using historical institutionalism and a mix …
Introduction / Hanna S. Kassab and Jonathan D. Rosen -- Part I. The major challenges that the Obama administration faces in the region -- The Obama administration's policy challenges in the western hemisphere / Ted Galen Carpenter -- Part II. Obama's foreign policy in the Caribb…
