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The author proposes a world society "in which humanity will at last take moral and social responsibility for the survival and prospering of all human beings everywhere."--Jacket
The author proposes a world society "in which humanity will at last take moral and social responsibility for the survival and prospering of all human beings everywhere."--Jacket.
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed hiswisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible fortr…
"What Monbiot offers in The Age of Consent is a truly global perspective, a sense of history, a defence of democracy, and an understanding of power and how it might be captured from those unfit to retain it. The ingenious solutions he suggests for some of the planet's most press…
Hedley Bull, a respected figure in the field of international relations, believed that sovereign states form among themselves a society, and that this society must be understood on its own terms. This text brings together Bull's most important work.
A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to mo…
"In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen. This liberal international order has been one of the most successful in history in providing security and prosperity to m…
Recounts the events of the Bretton Woods accords, presents portraits of the two men at the center of the drama, and reveals Harry White's admiration for Soviet economic planning and communications with intelligence officers.
When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in…