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The Russia Trap
“A must read for anyone who cares about our nation’s security in these cyber-serious, hair-trigger times.” – Susan Eisenhower Every …
Ravens on a Wire
Vietnam’s dark legacy, as faced on the West Germany border With the torment of Vietnam finally ended, the U.S. Army …
On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century
On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump …
Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East
The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon’s tour de force, …
Rebooting Global International Society: Change, Contestation and Resilience (Governance, Security and Development)
This book asks if it is time to “reboot” the fundamental institutions of global international society. The volume revisits Hedley …
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Case for Nationalism in a Warming World
The climate emergency is intensifying, while international responses continue to falter. In Climate Change and the Nation State, Anatol Lieven outlines …
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in …
After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is, at least theoretically, to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically …
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly …
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in power …
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an …
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its …
War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Since Kenya’s invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant …
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization …
Rethinking U.S. World Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations
Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history …
For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy
How did the global Cold War influence American politics at home? For Might and Right traces the story of how Cold War …
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions
How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the …
Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. …
Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Empire’s Workshop is the classic analysis of Latin America’s role as proving ground for imperial US strategies and tactics, now in …