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Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law

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Place is inextricably linked to history by way of culture, language, philosophy, faith and the development of worldviews. The richness and depth of experience of the Asia-Pacific region has been...
Careers in International Affairs: Eighth Edition

Careers in International Affairs: Eighth Edition

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"Careers in International Affairs", now in its eighth edition, is the ultimate job hunting guide for anyone hoping to work in the U.S. government, international organizations, business, or nonprofits. This...
American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law:

American Foreign Policy Ideology and the International Rule of Law:

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American engagement with international law has long been framed by commitment to the 'international rule of law', which persists even across divergent political and historical eras. Yet, despite appeals to...
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American

When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American

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Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award "Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against...
Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

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"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this...
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power

The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power

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A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and...
The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order

The Contest for the Indian Ocean: And the Making of a New World Order

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A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for...
East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the

East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the

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Long before the arrival of Western emissaries and powers, East Asian peoples and states were deeply involved in world affairs. In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia...
Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs

Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs

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Mega-lead for Summer reading Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of...
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans

Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans

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Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but...
What We Say Goes: Conversations on Us Power in a Changing World

What We Say Goes: Conversations on Us Power in a Changing World

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'An indispensable review of the hottest issues in international affairs today, with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival.' The Boston Globe The world's foremost critic of US foreign policy,...
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

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While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been...
Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian

Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian

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Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms...
Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean

Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean

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How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to...
Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the

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It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the...
Separate Ways: Britain and Europe

Separate Ways: Britain and Europe

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Peter Shore's career as a Labour politician coincided with the emergence of the European movement. As a Cabinet Minister under Wilson and Callaghan, he was involved in many major decisions...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

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A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion

The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion

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A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's frontlines - some to save democracy, some to save...
Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S.Foreign Policy

Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S.Foreign Policy

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An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

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An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia...
The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age

The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age

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In 2017, the State Department lost 60% of its career ambassadors. Hiring has been cut and the budget slashed. The idealistic women and men who chose to enter government service...
Tents and Pyramids: Games and Ideology in Arab Culture from Backgammon

Tents and Pyramids: Games and Ideology in Arab Culture from Backgammon

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This study deals with an unusual and absorbing topic: how the Arabs see and deal with reality and the implications this has for the nature of power in the Arab...
Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s

Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s

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An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea's transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

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A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the

First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the

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The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains...
Walking to Jerusalem: Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground

Walking to Jerusalem: Blisters, hope and other facts on the ground

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2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As...
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

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'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...
US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis

US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis

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Why did a handful of Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979? Why did most members of the US government initially believe that the incident would...
The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History

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An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with the rest of the...
Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege

Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege

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This book investigates the reportage of the 2004 Beslan hostage-taking published by three very different Russian-language websites: RIA-Novosti, Kavkazcenter, and Caucasian Knot, tracking the ways in which these three sites...
Globalization: A Critical Introduction

Globalization: A Critical Introduction

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The increasing globalization of economic, social, political and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Jan Aart Scholte's provides a concise but broad ranging introduction to its...
Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of

Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of

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Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...
Secrecy and Power: Life of J.Edgar Hoover

Secrecy and Power: Life of J.Edgar Hoover

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Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War

Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War

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From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan

Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan

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The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then...
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You

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You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you. Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays

The Call of the Tribe: Essays

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In The Call of the Tribe , Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.The Nobel...
America, Oil & the Islamic Mind: The Real Crisis is the Gulf between

America, Oil & the Islamic Mind: The Real Crisis is the Gulf between

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The book titled America, Oil & the Islamic Mind: The Real Crisis is the Gulf between by the author Michael Youssef. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine

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'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS 'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT 'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE 'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAIL The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from...
Anglo-Australian Attitudes

Anglo-Australian Attitudes

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Exactly a hundred years after the six Australian colonies voted to become a Federation, the country is struggling with the idea of a republic and a new Constitution, and at...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and

The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and

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'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and

The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and

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'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do

Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do

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'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict

The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict

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We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

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Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight...
The New Realities

The New Realities

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While this book is not futuristic it does attempt to define the concerns, the issues and the controversies that will be realities in years to come. The author contends that...
Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis- and Europe - Can Be Fixed

Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis- and Europe - Can Be Fixed

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The euro was supposed to create an unbreakable bond between the nations and people of Europe. But when the debt crisis struck, the flaws of the half-built currency has brought...