With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and riva…
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on …
From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China's economic and political reach is redefining Africa's traditional ties with the international community. This text investigates the emergi…
Contemporary Austrian politics
The Americanization
by Pelinka, Anton, Bischof, Günter
fromContemporary Austrian studies
Forfatteren fremsætter provokatorisk teorien om "offensive realisme", ikke alene til forklaring på, hvorfor visionerne om en harmonisk verden forbliver utopisk, men også til belysning af de forskellige strategier, stormagterne bruger til at fremme deres egne interesser.
