Today, even as it asserts itself globally, America lacks a grand strategy to replace the Cold War's 'containment of communism'. In this book, Gary Hart, until recently co-chair of the US Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, outlines a new principled approach, bas…
What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical …
In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the preside…
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength of or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what…
Outlines the changes in British and German European policies which have been characteristic of a process of normalization in both countries. This book examines possible areas for co-operation between Britain and Germany on major European issues and the potential significance tha…
Forfatteren retter en skarp kritik mod det amerikanske militærkompleks, idet hun argumenterer for, at USA siden Vietnamkrigen gradvist er blevet vænnet til at være konstant i krig uden at det kan mærkes på hjemmefronten. Hendes gennemgående argument er, at militæret har vokset s…
Cuban Missile Crisis: the essential reference guide
Et detaljeret værk om alle Premierministerens opgaver i Thatchers tid i Downing Street. Omfattende og velegnet som opslagsværk.
Alexander Hamilton rose from humble beginnings to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This book is the first detailed narrative study of his role in foreign policy to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton'…
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world
En samling essays tidligere distribueret af New York Times Syndicate om at udfordre magtapparatet og få vist konsekvenserne af USA's politik og militære aktioner globalt. At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's l…
En samling essays tidligere distribueret af New York Times Syndicate om at udfordre magtapparatet og få vist konsekvenserne af USA's politik og militære aktioner globalt
US foreign policy since 1945
by Dobson, Alan P., Marsh, Steve
fromMaking of the contemporary world
An introduction to postwar US foreign policy. The authors explore the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment.
Robert K. Massies værk om optakten til 1. Verdenskrig hvori der beskrives de personlige og de nationale rivaliseringer, der førte til det tyvende århundreders første våbenkapløb. Forfatteren fører os sideløbende rundt i Europas tidligere historie, hvor der drages paralleller til…