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Russia is back at the top of the news: and this book couldn’t be more timely.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of \u003ci\u003eNothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Clear, thought-provoking, disturbing. Anyone who wants to understand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the resurgence of Russian nationalism should read Peter Conradi’s impeccably researched and impressive book.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Victor Sebestyen, author of \u003ci\u003e1946: The Making of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The West has always struggled to comprehend the byzantine workings of Russia, not just during the Cold War but even more so in the post-communist era. This important book presents a crucial analysis of the rise of Putin and our continuing inability to read him. 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Regrettably, more than five years [since the annexation of Crimea], the United States seems no closer to developing either a strategy or a policy to manage its relationship with Russia. Mark Smith's provocative book won't solve that problem alone, but it does offer some valuable guidance in thinking about solutions. -- Paul Saunders * Russia Matters *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732506980695,"sku":"9780141986500","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141986500.jpg?v=1719997184"},{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-japanese-politics-oxford-handbooks-9780190050993","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics Oxford","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe study of Japanese politics is a vibrant field that has changed substantially over time. This work provides an in-depth exploration of current research. Moreover, it addresses theoretical questions and empirical issues that will guide research on Japan for years to come and thus serves as a key resource for scholars, students, and practitioners.Through more than 40 chapters by leading specialists, the Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics examines major aspects of both domestic politics and international relations. In addition to providing a broad overview of contemporary Japanese politics, the chapters are united by a shared question: what is the nature and quality of Japanese democracy? Contributors consider this matter alongside their individual subjects, which together comprehensively address the central research topics of the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Japanese Politics: An Introduction  Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen  Part I: Domestic Political Actors and Institutions 2. 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The Effect of Changing Political Contexts on Public Opinion in Japan, 1945-2020 Yukio Maeda 15. Gender and Politics in Japan Gill Steel and Sherry Martin 16. Civil Society in Japan Akihiro Ogawa 17. Populism in Japan Robert A. Fahey, Airo Hino, and Robert J. Pekkanen  Part IV: Political Economy and Social Policy 18. METI's Miraculous Comeback and the Uncertain Future of Japanese Industrial Policy Gregory W. Noble 19. Energy Policy in Japan: Revisiting Radical Incrementalism Llewelyn Hughes 20. Social Welfare Policy in Japan Margarita Estévez-Abe 21. The Farm Lobby and Agricultural Policy in Japan Patricia L. MacLachlan and Kay Shimizu 22. The Bank of Japan: Central Bank Independence and the Politicization of Monetary Policy Gene Park 23. Social Inequality in Japan David Chiavacci 24. Immigration and Democracy in Japan Michael Strausz  Part V: International Relations Frameworks 25. Japan's Grand Strategy for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific Narushige Michishita 26. Japan and International Organizations Phillip Y. Lipscy and Nobuhiko Tamaki 27. International Status and Japan David Leheny  Part VI: International Political Economy 28. Japanese Trade Policy Christina L. Davis 29. Finance and Japan Saori N. Katada and Yoichi Nemoto 30. Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: Growth, Trends, and Policy Efforts Mark Manger 31. Japan and the Environment Kim Reimann 32. Japan and Economic Regionalism in Asia Hidetaka Yoshimatsu 33. Linkages between Security and Economics in Japan Keisuke Iida  Part VII: International Security 34. Remilitarization in Japan Christopher W. Hughes 35. Global and Regional Security Multilateralism in Japan's Foreign Policy Paul Midford 36. Japan and Nuclear Nonproliferation Michael Mochizuki 37. Japanese Naval Power  Alessio Patalano 38. Neoclassical Realism in Japan's Space Security Saadia M. Pekkanen 39. Cybersecurity in Japan Benjamin Bartlett  Part VIII: Foreign Relations 40. Japan-US Relations: The Most Important Bilateral Relationship in the World Ellis S. Krauss 41. Japan-China Relations: Politics of Great Powers and Great Power Politics Ming Wan 42. The Japan-South Korea Rift:","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732528410967,"sku":"9780190050993","price":183.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190050993.jpg?v=1719997285"},{"product_id":"the-third-revolution-9780190056551","title":"The Third Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter three decades of \"reform and opening up,\" China is closing its doors, clamping down on Western influence in the economy, media, and civil society. At the same time, President Xi Jinping has emerged as a champion of globalization, projecting Chinese power abroad and seeking to reshape the global order. Herein lies The Third Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Revolution is an excellent example of high-quality academic research on China * Tian He, Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eOne of Iolitico's \"Ten Names That Matter on China Policy\"\u003cbr\u003eHow should observers, especially those in Washington, assess Xi's China? In The Third Revolution, Elizabeth Economy offers a nuanced, persuasive answer: while China's heft in world affairs is growing rapidly, so too are the contradictions inherent in the attempt of an authoritarian country to shape what remains a predominantly liberal world order. * Global Asia *\u003cbr\u003eEconomy . . . offers an engaging look at how areas such as internet regulation, reform of state-owned enterprises, and foreign policy are evolving under Xi's leadership. * Reuters Breakingviews *\u003cbr\u003eTo understand and navigate China in the coming years, this is the book to read. At the heart of doing business in this opaque and contradictory country is understanding Xi Jinping, a masterful and complex politician. Elizabeth Economy's exceptionally clear account gives you the tools to do just that. * Fred P. Hochberg, Former Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States *\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Revolution is enormously valuable for anyone seeking to understand the ways in which China is changing (and not changing) under Xi's leadership, and how the U.S. should best approach its relationship with China. Essential. * Robert E. Rubin, Former Secretary of the Treasury *\u003cbr\u003eThe one book that tells you all you need to know about how China has changed under Xi Jinping. A clear-eyed, richly researched, and engaging account by one of America's most knowledgeable China experts. * Susan L. Shirk, University of California, San Diego *\u003cbr\u003eTimely and sobering analysis of the profound * and disturbingpolitical change that has occurred since the rise of Xi Jinping. This is by far the most insightful and illuminating study of China's new political landscape, and should be required reading for those concerned with China's future under strongman rule.Minxin Pei, Author, China's Crony Capitalism *\u003cbr\u003eLeading China expert Elizabeth Economy provides a clear-eyed net assessment of China under Xi Jinping: its global ambitions, domestic limitations, and the paradox of its external hubris and internal insecurities. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, The Third Revolution should become staple reading for all who want to understand China today and where it is headed in the future. The findings are both illuminating and disturbing.\" * David Shambaugh, George Washington University and author of China Goes Global *\u003cbr\u003eAmericans are slowly realizing that they live in a bipolar world with China, a nation that is incontrovertibly rising despite the destabilizing effects of serial self-reinvention. The advent of the latest progenitor of rejuvenation, Xi Jinping, has raised a host of vexing questions, but Economy's wonderfully lucid and well-researched book fills in many of the blanks regarding Xi's strengths and weaknesses. * Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations *\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time in modern history, we have a communist country poised to be the biggest and most important driver of the global free market. That's astonishing. And we still don't know what makes China's political leadership and Xi Jinping in particular tick. If that freaks you out (and it should), Liz Economy's book is the place to start. * Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group *\u003cbr\u003eThe timing of The Third Revolution is impeccable. Economy convincingly demonstrates how Beijing has used its heft to influence technological and political standards.\" - The Financial Times\u003cbr\u003eA work of cool-headed analysis.\" - Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e14\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Heart of Darkness  Chapter 3: Chinanet  Chapter 4: The Not-So-New Normal  Chapter 5: Innovation Nation  Chapter 6: War on Pollution  Chapter 7: The Lion Awakens  Chapter 8: The Road Forward","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732529328471,"sku":"9780190056551","price":16.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190056551.jpg?v=1719997289"},{"product_id":"the-rise-of-digital-repression-9780190057497","title":"The Rise of Digital Repression","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently developed a formidable array of technological capabilities to constrain and repress their citizens. In The Rise of Digital Repression, Steven Feldstein documents how the emergence of advanced digital tools bring new dimensions to political repression. Presenting new field research from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, he investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of these digital tactics. Feldstein further highlights how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, political leadership, state capacity, and technological development. The international community, he argues, is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of repression\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeldstein's book makes a noteworthy methodological contribution to the literature by introducing digital repression, digital repression capacity, and the AI and big-data global surveillance indexes…. It offers a strong foundation for future research through its analytical approach to case studies and methodological contributions to a fast-growing field. * Reyhan Topal, The Information Society *\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of Digital Repression invites us to look beyond digital politics in North America and Europe. Technology in authoritarian hands creates smothering repression in the Philippines, Ethiopia, Thailand, or anywhere one finds governments fear of their own citizens. Advances in artificial intelligence, especially when developed by techno-authoritarian regimes, deepens the concern. Yet, in the end, Feldman guides us through more hopeful alternatives. This is essential reading for those who are concerned about the struggle between freedom and repression. * Steven Livingston, Professor \u0026amp; Founding Director Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003eSteve Feldstein delivers a book that will be viewed as indispensable to anyone concerned with the intersection of technology and the state, and particularly, the evolving impact on people's quest for freedom the world over. In original case studies, he details how the current rising tide of authoritarianism has been enabled by digital repression. This tide could recede; equally compelling are the strategies he outlines for democratic governments, for civil society activists, and for those in the private sector looking to stem the tide. * Sarah E. Mendelson, Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN's Economic and Social Council *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a must-read on the myriad ways that state repression has adapted to the digital age. Through data-driven analysis and original case studies, Steven Feldstein provides a comprehensive guide to online censorship, disinformation, and surveillance. This is an excellent primer for those looking to understand how to push back against digital authoritarianism. * Adrian Shahbaz, Director for Technology and Democracy, Freedom House *\u003cbr\u003eDigital technologies were once seen as a harbinger of liberalization and democratization. Thanks to 'big data,' A.I., machine learning, facial recognition, and other mass surveillance systems, they have now become an autocrat's best friend and a big business opportunity. With precision and clarity, Steven Feldstein documents the disturbing spread of the political economy of digital repression and offers pathways to help resist it. The Rise of Digital Repression is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on information controls. * Ron Deibert, Director, the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the University of Toronto *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Motivations and Incentives for Digital Repression Chapter 3: Global Patterns of Digital Repression Chapter 4: Thailand's Strategy of Control Chapter 5: Social Manipulation and Disinformation in the Philippines Chapter 6: Transformation and Setbacks in Ethiopia Chapter 7: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Are Transforming Repression Chapter 8: Responding to Digital Repression Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Notes Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732529361239,"sku":"9780190057497","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"china-and-the-world-9780190062323","title":"China and the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the future global order will surely be the impact of China. No country and no society can escape China''s reach-indeed many seek its embrace. China brings benefits to many-but it''s also a problematic interlocutor for others. In China and the World, one of the world''s leading China specialists David Shambaugh has assembled fifteen leading international authorities on China to create the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly assessment of China''s foreign relations and roles in international affairs. The volume covers China''s contemporary position in all regions of the world, with all major powers, and across multiple arenas of China''s international interactions. It also explores the sources of China''s grand strategy, how the past shapes the present, and the impact of domestic factors that shape China''s external behavior. China and the World is a uniquely focused and well-organized volume that provides many insights into China''s calculations and behavior, and identifies a number of challenges China will face in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChina and the World is an impressive volume on a vital subject at a critical time. For the coming generation of (American) students, China will be the single most important international topic in their textbooks; relations with this dynamic behemoth will profoundly affect their lives as well as the world. * Winston Lord, Former US Ambassador to China. *\u003cbr\u003eAn outstanding scholar of China in his own right, David Shambaugh has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to obtain original contributions to coherently organized volumes on Chinese foreign policy and US-China relations. China and the World is another triumph. It will become a standard textbook on the subject but can also be read with interest by anyone seeking a comprehensive and balanced introduction to a rising power with increasing influence yet enigmatic goals. * Harry Harding, University of Virginia. *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is closing a gap in the literature on China and a must read for anyone trying to understand China's growing global role. The authors offer a comprehensive view on all major aspects of China's rise. Impressive reading! * Eberhard Sandschneider, Professor for Chinese Politics, Free University of Berlin. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication  Preface \u0026amp; Acknowledgements I. INTRODUCTION 1. China's Long March to Global PowerII. HISTORICAL SOURCES 2. Legacies of the Past3. China's National Experiences and the Evolution of PRC Grand StrategyIII. DOMESTIC SOURCES 4. Nationalism, Social Influences, and Chinese Foreign Policy5. China's Foreign Policy Making Process: Players and InstitutionsIV. DOMAINS OF CHINA'S GLOBAL INTERACTIONS 6. China's Global Economic Interactions 7. China's Global Cultural Interactions8. China's Global Governance Interactions9. China's Global Military-Security InteractionsV. CHINA'S BILATERAL \u0026amp; REGIONAL RELATIONSHIPS10. China's Relations with the United States11. China's Relations with Russia12. China's Relations with Europe13. China's Relations with Asia: Continuity Amid Change14. China's Relations with the Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East15. Regional Multilateralism with Chinese CharacteristicsVI. PATTERNS \u0026amp; PROSPECTS 16. China \u0026amp; the World: Future Challenges","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530016599,"sku":"9780190062323","price":26.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190062323.jpg?v=1719997293"},{"product_id":"overreach-9780190068516","title":"Overreach","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, China''s rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed.For three decades after Mao''s death in 1976, China''s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat to their power, and that of the Chinese Communist Party, came not from abroad but from withina conclusion cemented by the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. To facilitate the country''s inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China''s peaceful intentions.Then, as Susan Shirk shows in this illuminating, disturbing, and utterly persuasive new book, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, threatening Taiwan as well as its neighbors in the South China Sea, tightening its grip on Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence not just economical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete with 64 pages of notes and a 15-page Index, her new book (which includes a fine analysis of the hot-button issues of Hong Kong and Taiwan) is an accessible and detailed account of where we have been with China, and how we got to this difficult state of affairs. * Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, Sun News Austin *\u003cbr\u003eSusan Shirk's superb new book addresses the singular question echoing in the corridors of political and commercial power: why is China asserting itself in ways that upset global order? Drawing on decades of experience, Shirk answers it with insights drawn from myriad sources. Overreach is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand where China is going--and what America must do in response. * Kurt Campbell, White House Coordinator for the IndoPacific *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating, behind-the-scenes investigation of China's internal politics that makes the unconventional but ultimately persuasive argument that the personalities, politics, and processes that have powered China's rise for decades are simultaneously subverting it. With Overreach, Shirk proves yet again why she is one of the most interesting thinkers and important voices on China of our time. * Elizabeth Economy, author of The World According to China *\u003cbr\u003eIn this timely and important book, Susan Shirk dissects the nature of China's emerging threat, driven by growing aggressiveness in foreign policy and Xi Jinping's tightening domestic grip. Overreach, she warns in jargon-free prose, has triggered an equally self-defeating overreaction from America, and without a dramatic change in policy could lead to war. * Jerry Brown, former governor of California *\u003cbr\u003eSusan Shirk has both long experience and a deep understanding of China. Overreach offers an illuminating and sobering appraisal of where things stand today. It masterfully explains why China has taken its current worrisome course and offers invaluable advice as to how the United States should respond. An authoritative look at China in this critical movement in history. * Stephen J. Hadley, former National Security Advisor for President George W. Bush *\u003cbr\u003eSusan Shirk's masterful dissection of China's political leadership reveals a Party-state in near-constant struggle against perceived threats, creating a vicious policy cycle for the country and its partners. As Shirk's brilliant analysis shows, this dynamic upends global stability and China's vaunted peaceful rise. * Charlene Barshefsky, former United States Trade Representative *\u003cbr\u003eThe book includes excellent access to sources and endnotes that support Shirk's analysis. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: How China Lost the West    1. The Origins of Overreach    2. Deng's Ghost    3. Inside the Black Box    4. The Rise and Fall of Collective Leadership    5. Loss of Restraint    6. Stability Maintenance    7. Strongman Rule    8. Going to Extremes    9. State pf Paranoia    10. Downward Spiral    Conclusion: Overreach and Overreaction","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530573655,"sku":"9780190068516","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190068516.jpg?v=1719997297"},{"product_id":"brazil-9780190068981","title":"Brazil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith clear and comprehensible explanations of the zigzag trajectory of Brazil's recent politics, this edition brings the story right up to the present, presenting information on mid-2021 pandemic conditions, and exposes the historical foundations of contemporary crises ... The book is an altogether fitting practical tribute to the work of the late Professor Skidmore. * A. B. Cochran, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eOutstanding update and revision. The new material on post-2000 typical of Skidmore's deft style * following a basic economic and political narrative, while at the same time revealing important information about society and culture. No other book comes even close to Green and Skidmore's coverage of the 20th century.    -James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin *\u003cbr\u003eBrazil is scholarly without being stuffy, and covers the broad sweep of Brazilian history.    - Mary Ann Mahoney, Central Connecticut State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Exhibits and Images Preface Introduction Why Read a History of Brazil?   Chapter 1 The Making of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1694  The First Occupants of the Land Everyday Life, War, and Rituals Portuguese Overseas Expansion Early Consolidation of the Portuguese Monarchy Setting up a Global Trading Network The Portuguese Encounter Land to the West First European Impressions Portuguese Land Claims Brazilwood and Indigenous Slavery Go-betweens Imperial Reorganization French Claims The Sugar Industry Enslaved Africans Resistance to Slavery Unification of Spain and Portugal Dutch Occupation of the Northeast Emergence of the Myth of the Bandeirante Imperial Control Gold  Chapter 2 A New Colonial Order, 1695-1821 Manumission of slaves Religious Orders Conflicts in the Mining Region Tensions in the Northeast Pombaline Reforms Indigenous Resistance The Influence of Enlightenment Ideas The Mineira Conspiracy Tailors' Revolt in Salvador The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil Creating a New Portuguese America Indigenous Resistance Pernambuco Revolution, 1817 A Portuguese Revolt and its Impact on Brazil  Chapter 3 Independent Brazil and the Consolidation of a Nation, 1822-1850   Brazilian Hierarchies A Constitution The Emperor's Tribulations The Regency Regional Revolts Recentralization Pedro II as Emperor The Rise of Coffee Land Ownership Growing Challenges to Slavery Chapter 4 Late Imperial Brazil, 1851-1889  Gradually Ending Slavery The Emperor and His Pedestal The Paraguayan War The Effects of the War  The Viscount of Mauá The Great Drought and the Amazon Rubber Boom New Roles for Middle-class Women Positivism, Republicanism, and the Military Question The Move toward Abolition Immigration The End of the Empire  Chapter 5 Republican Brazil, 1889-1929  Modernizing Brazil\" Whitening Brazil The Reality behind the Façade Indigenous Brazil Coffee Price Fluctuations and Emerging Industry The Roots of Industrialization Worker Organization and Employers' Strategy Evaporation of the Oligarchical Consensus A Message from Below Economic Strains The Shock of World War I The Economy after the War Brazil's Uneven Development Rebellion in the Army The Modern Woman and an Emerging Feminist Movement Modernism, Brazilian Style Rise of Anti-Liberal Thought The Disintegration of the Old Politics The Revolution of 1930  Chapter 6 Getúlio Vargas in Power, 1930-45 Swing toward Centralization Electoral rights Ideological Polarization Getúlio Vargas as Dictator The Vargas Style Corporatist Inroads A New Search for National Identity Juggling the International Options World War II and the Rise of U.S. Influence Brazil and the War Effort Collapse of the Dictatorship at Home  Chapter 7 Experiments in Democracy, 1946-64 The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period Vargas Returns From Oligarch to Populist Vargas's Legislative Program Runs into Trouble Vargas's Demise Suicide Population Growth, Regional Disequilibria, and Migration A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected Political Strategy The Economic Development Program A New Capital Dealing with the World Economy The Brief Presidency of Jânio Quadros The Succession of João Goulart Populists versus the Military Brazilian Culture  The National Union of Students The Economic Crisis Escalates  Chapter 8 Rule of the Military, 1964-1985 The Generals in Power Growing Repression, Growing Opposition Strengthening the Military Regime  Indigenous Policy under Military Rule Growing Opposition Crackdown The Economic Miracle Hyper-Nationalism The Arrival of the Guerrillas Cultural Resistance Mass Media during the Dictatorship The Use of Torture Exile An Economic Turn for the Worse The Winners and Losers The Road to Redemocratization Manipulating the Electoral System and Continued Repression New Social Movements The Working Class Takes Center Stage The Last General   Chapter 9 The Return to Democracy, 1985-1994 An Unintended Succession Sarney and the New Democracy The Cruzado Plan The Debt Crisis and the Economy Lost Investment and a Brain Drain Widening Gaps between Rich and Poor Education and Medical Care Roads and Communications Public Health: A Success Story Changes Affecting Women Race Relations The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy The Left The Right The Center The Armed Forces Presidential Elections New Policies The End Another Vice President in Command Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real The Presidential Election of 1994  Chapter 10 Consolidating Democracy, 1994-2006 The Cardoso Government's First Term More Economic Problems A Second Term in Office Social Justice Delayed On-going Challenges The Presidential Race  Lula's Governmental Team The PT in Power Exports Take Center Stage  Poverty Alleviation and Education Enhancement The PT Tastes Scandal The Last Year of Lula's First Term Prisons Riots 2006 Elections  Chapter 11 A Nation Polarized, 2006-present Lula Reaches New Heights Recognition Abroad  Continuity at Home Presidenta in Power The 2013 Protests Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) A Fourth PT Term A Conservative Tidal Wave The Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff Temer government Lula Ensnared The 2018 Election The Past Returns  Suggestions for Further Reading       Film, History, Culture, and Society Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732530606423,"sku":"9780190068981","price":59.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"interior-frontiers-9780190076382","title":"Interior Frontiers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes those frontiers, or the lines that define the contours of belonging and not belonging, are porous--often fixed and firm. For those on the wrong side of the fabulated division between inside and out, entry requirements can be opaque, neither verbal nor visible. Illegibilities are secured in code. The sites of inequity are disparate, the sensibilities that produce and sustain those inequities are as well. Borrowing Ralph Ellison''s phrase, Stoler exposes unexpected sites and scenes that register the lower frequencies of denigration. Seemingly benign sites are laid bare as toxic, as in her essay eviscerating the warped criteria assigned to taste and who can have it, and in her study of the seared lives that longing, envy, and humiliation insc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnn Stoler's Interior Frontiers brilliantly points out the importance of the cultural, affective, and aesthetic undercurrents that both advance and limit the unfinished process of decolonization that has stretched from the last century into this one. Crafting the idea of \"colonial aphasia,\" Stoler unveils how apparently innocuous but sometimes even prized acts create shadow indices of worth with material political ramifications. In a time where the evidently unjust—even the obviously violent—is whitewashed into acceptability, Stoler shines a necessary spotlight on the softer, blurrier, and perhaps even more pernicious forms of erasure that undergird the divisions that govern our lives and values today. Interior Frontiers is a veritable tour de force. * Bernard E. Harcourt, Bernard E. Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia Law School *\u003cbr\u003eWith these essays, Ann Stoler (re)establishes herself as the foremost theorist of affect. From the snobberies of the dinner table to the under-interrogated \"instincts\" rationalizing global carcerality, she dissects the complex, ineffable sensibilities and \"gut\" intuitions that inform hierarchies of taste, place, vulgarity, disgust, fear, temporal order, revenge, social death, and physical vulnerability. Greatly expanding the insights of Bourdieu's magnum opus, Distinction, Stoler presents an important fracturing of the binarism upon which so many political exclusions, colonial practices, and racialized regimes depend. In examining those quietly mobilizing edges, Stoler delivers a searing indictment of our greatest contemporary paradox, the democratization of human inequality. * Patricia J. Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University *\u003cbr\u003eWhat do we need in a moment of catastrophe: environmental, sanitary, cultural, democratic, pedagogic? Not pain relievers, but rage. But not only rage, also infinite subtlety and sensitivity. But not only sensitivity, also erudition, memory, inflexible conceptual rigor. All this, and more, we find in Stoler's collection of essays, which weaves together the sinews, elusive inequalities, and creative refusals of imperial democracy. I call this a book of necessity. * Étienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility *","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732531360087,"sku":"9780190076382","price":32.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190076382.jpg?v=1719997298"},{"product_id":"strategy-9780190229238","title":"Strategy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the paperback version of what is one of the most thorough histories of strategic thinking * Military History *\u003cbr\u003eI include this to show that it is possible to find a genuinely new insight on finance by reading beyond the obvious. * Professional Investor *\u003cbr\u003eStunning reviews in hardback * The Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Freedman teaches War Studies at King's College, and was the official historian of the Falklands War. His book is the type of work you dive into, reread, underline, and ponder. And I did just that, making copious notes while being watched by the guy sitting next to me. He leaned over and pointed at the book. \"Excellent choice, sir. Couldnt pick a better book.\" * Ancient Rome Refocused, Rob Cain *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a masterly and definitive account of strategy. * David Lorimer, Network Review *\u003cbr\u003eRich in detail and deeply contextualising, this book is not only the longest but also the most diverse work in recent years on the evolution of strategy ... This book belongs with the classics in the field of strategic studies ... it provides a huge fund of information about the concept of strategy. It is first and foremost its historical depth that requires Freedman's work to be included in every library of status. * Marcel Berni, Reviews in History *\u003cbr\u003e[Freedman's] books manage to delight the experts yet are still comprehensible to the general reader, a rare skill in this genre. On this occasion, he has produced what is arguably the best book ever written on strategy. * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eMagisterial... wide-ranging erudition and densely packed argument. * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book of startling scope, erudition and, more than anything, wisdom. * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive, vigorous survey of strategy and its evolution...A lucid text that raises questions while answering others * of great value to planners, whether of an advertising campaign or a military one.Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eSir Lawrence Freedman's 750-page magnum opus, Strategy: A History, is encyclopedic, although not alphabetical, a pleasure to dip into here and there...There are grand strategies set forth in several of the greater works covered by Freedman, but Strategy: A History holds the reader to the strategic level, a subset of grand strategy. * New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003eStrategy: A History is easily the most ambitious book that I have read in many years... With a book of this scope anybody can find something to disagree with but nobody can come away from this book without feeling enriched and intellectually challenged. It will live on as a classic. * Mark Stout, War on the Rocks *\u003cbr\u003eStrategy: A History, is an ambitious and sprawling book by a British military historian who has written widely, and very well, about nuclear and cold war strategy, the Falklands War, and contemporary military affairs, among other subjects... With admirable candor, Freedman tells us that he received the contract for this book in (gulp!) 1994, and that he made a 'number of false starts' with the manuscript. Considering the daunting scope of the subject, this is entirely understandable. Considering the wisdom and analytical brilliance he brings to bear on that subject, it's been well worth the wait. * The Daily Beast *\u003cbr\u003eTour de force... Unusually thoughtful and clearly written, Freedman's dense tome is a serious academic study in political theory, but it has crossover potential and will attract readers interested in military planning, strategic systems, and the nature of power. * Publishers Weekly starred review *\u003cbr\u003eA vast exploration of strategy... full of surprises, and marked by unsurpassed erudition. It also is witty and reminds us that he in the world who knows most about strategy may be the one who is the most unimpressed with it. * National Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn erudite, encyclopedic study that will surely become a standard reference in the discipline. * strategy + business *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating review of the tools available to all of us to create agile, informed and interesting decisions. * Sheridan Jobbins, the World Economic Forum blog *\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Freedman shows here why he is justly renowned as one of the world's leading thinkers about strategy, which he defines as the central art of getting more out of a situation than the starting balance of power would suggest.\" * Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University and author of The Future of Power *\u003cbr\u003eA marvelous grand tour of the meaning, implications, and consequences of strategic thinking through the ages and in multiple contexts. Freedman is a master of the subject and unsurpassed in his ability to unravel the twists and turns of strategic complexities and paradoxes. * Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful book * a comprehensive yet deeply considered summation of the very nature of strategy by the premier social scientist of the subject. Strategy: A History is lucid and dispassionate, sometimes rueful, often ironic, always informative.Philip Bobbitt, author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History *\u003cbr\u003eThis substantial, comprehensive, hermeneutic work examines the various dimensions and history of \"strategy,\" which Freedman defines as \"the art of creating power\"...this very ambitious exploration provides readers with a useful introduction to the field of strategic studies. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e[Freedman's] books manage to delight the experts yet are still comprehensible to the general reader, a rare skill in this genre. On this occasion, he has produced what is arguably the best book ever written on strategy. * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eMagisterial... wide-ranging erudition and densely packed argument. * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book of startling scope, erudition and, more than anything, wisdom. * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive, vigorous survey of strategy and its evolution...A lucid text that raises questions while answering others * of great value to planners, whether of an advertising campaign or a military one.Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eOne the most significant works in the fields of international relations, strategic studies, and history to appear in recent years. * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eSir Lawrence Freedman's 750-page magnum opus, Strategy: A History, is encyclopedic, although not alphabetical, a pleasure to dip into here and there...There are grand strategies set forth in several of the greater works covered by Freedman, but Strategy: A History holds the reader to the strategic level, a subset of grand strategy. * New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003eStrategy: A History is easily the most ambitious book that I have read in many years... With a book of this scope anybody can find something to disagree with but nobody can come away from this book without feeling enriched and intellectually challenged. It will live on as a classic. * Mark Stout, War on the Rocks *\u003cbr\u003eStrategy: A History, is an ambitious and sprawling book by a British military historian who has written widely, and very well, about nuclear and cold war strategy, the Falklands War, and contemporary military affairs, among other subjects... With admirable candor, Freedman tells us that he received the contract for this book in (gulp!) 1994, and that he made a 'number of false starts' with the manuscript. Considering the daunting scope of the subject, this is entirely understandable. Considering the wisdom and analytical brilliance he brings to bear on that subject, it's been well worth the wait. * The Daily Beast *\u003cbr\u003eTour de force... Unusually thoughtful and clearly written, Freedman's dense tome is a serious academic study in political theory, but it has crossover potential and will attract readers interested in military planning, strategic systems, and the nature of power. * Publishers Weekly starred review *\u003cbr\u003eA vast exploration of strategy... full of surprises, and marked by unsurpassed erudition. It also is witty and reminds us that he in the world who knows most about strategy may be the one who is the most unimpressed with it. * National Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn erudite, encyclopedic study that will surely become a standard reference in the discipline. * strategy + business *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating review of the tools available to all of us to create agile, informed and interesting decisions. * Sheridan Jobbins, the World Economic Forum blog *\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Freedman shows here why he is justly renowned as one of the world's leading thinkers about strategy, which he defines as the central art of getting more out of a situation than the starting balance of power would suggest.\" * Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Harvard University and author of The Future of Power *\u003cbr\u003eA marvelous grand tour of the meaning, implications, and consequences of strategic thinking through the ages and in multiple contexts. Freedman is a master of the subject and unsurpassed in his ability to unravel the twists and turns of strategic complexities and paradoxes. * Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful book * a comprehensive yet deeply considered summation of the very nature of strategy by the premier social scientist of the subject. Strategy: A History is lucid and dispassionate, sometimes rueful, often ironic, always informative.Philip Bobbitt, author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History *\u003cbr\u003eThis substantial, comprehensive, hermeneutic work examines the various dimensions and history of \"strategy,\" which Freedman defines as \"the art of creating power\"...this very ambitious exploration provides readers with a useful introduction to the field of strategic studies. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEDICATION ; PREFACE ; Part I ORIGINS ; 1 ORIGINS 1: EVOLUTION ; 2 ORIGINS 2: THE BIBLE ; 3 ORIGINS 3: THE GREEKS ; 4 SUN TZU AND MACHIAVELLI ; 5 SATAN'S STRATEGY ; Part II STRATEGIES OF FORCE ; 6 THE NEW SCIENCE OF STRATEGY ; 7 CLAUSEWITZ ; 8 THE FALSE SCIENCE ; 9 ANNIHILATION OR EXHAUSTION ; 10 BRAIN AND BRAWN ; 11 THE INDIRECT APPROACH ; 12 NUCLEAR GAMES ; 13 THE RATIONALITY OF IRRATIONALITY ; 14 GUERRILLA WARFARE ; 15 OBSERVATION AND ORIENTATION ; 16 THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS ; 17 THE MYTH OF THE MASTER STRATEGIST ; PART III STRATEGY FROM BELOW ; 18 MARX AND A STRATEGY FOR THE WORKING CLASS ; 19 HERZEN AND BAKUNIN ; 20 REVISIONISTS AND VANGUARDS ; 21 BUREAUCRATS, DEMOCRATS, and ELITES ; 22 FORMULAS, MYTHS, AND PROPAGANDA ; 23 THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE ; 24 EXISTENTIAL STRATEGY ; 25 BLACK POWER AND WHITE ANGER ; 26 FRAMES, PARADIGMS, DISCOURSES, AND NARRATIVES ; 27 RACE, RELIGION, AND ELECTIONS ; PART IV STRATEGY FROM ABOVE ; 28 THE RISE OF THE MANAGEMENT CLASS ; 29 THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS ; 30 MANAGEMENT STRATEGY ; 31 BUSINESS AS WAR ; 32 THE RISE OF ECONOMICS ; 33 RED QUEENS AND BLUE OCEANS ; 34 THE SOCIOLOGICAL CHALLENGE ; 35 DELIBERATE OR EMERGENT ; PART V theories of strategy ; 36 THE LIMITS OF RATIONAL CHOICE ; 37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE ; 38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS ; 37 BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE ; 38 STORIES AND SCRIPTS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732534112599,"sku":"9780190229238","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190229238.jpg?v=1719997315"},{"product_id":"killer-high-9780190463014","title":"Killer High","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Killer High, Peter Andreas tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six psychoactive drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Armed conflict has become progressively more \"drugged\" with the global spread of these mind-altering substances. From ancient brews and battles to meth and modern warfare, drugs and war have grown up together and become addicted to each other. By looking back not justyears and decades but centuries, Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKiller High, well-written and extensively researched, shows how the drugs-war relationship has served state interests and ambitions. * Katharine Neill-Harris, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003eSince time immemorial, soldiers have consumed mind-altering substances; Andreas (International Studies\/Brown Univ.; Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, 2013, etc.) delivers an impressive, often unsettling history of six. * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction: How Drugs Made War and War Made Drugs 1: Drunk on the Front 2: Where there's Smoke there's War 3: Caffeinated Conflict 4: Opium, Empire, and Geopolitics 5: Speed Warfare 6: Cocaine Wars Conclusion: The Drugged Battlefields of the 21st Century  Notes Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732537258327,"sku":"9780190463014","price":29.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190463014.jpg?v=1719997332"},{"product_id":"afghanistan-9780190496647","title":"Afghanistan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world''s major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, repressive version of Islamic law. Infamously, the sheltered Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9\/11 Towers ushered in the Global War on Terror, drew tens of thousands of American troops to the country, where they remain today.In Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know, leading scholar Barnett R. Rubin provides an overview of this complicated nation. After providing a concise history of Afghanistan, he explores the various peoples and cultures of the country and its relations with neighbors like Pakistan and Iran. He also provides an authoritative overview of the conflicts that have plagued t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt speaks to everyone. It provides new lessons on Afghanistan as well as the stakeholders engaged in the post-war state-building. * Hafizullah Nadiri, South Asia Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Abbreviations Afghanistan Map Chapter 1: Afghanistan Seen by Others Chapter 2: The Land and the People Chapter 3: State and Politics Chapter 4: Communist Coup, Islamic Resistance Chapter 5: Civil War: Islamic State to Islamic Emirate Chapter 6: 9\/11, International Intervention, and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Chapter 7: Reconstruction and Development Chapter 8: Narcotics and Counter-Narcotics Chapter 9: More War, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency Chapter 10: Peace or More War? Co-Author Biographies Bibliography Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732537979223,"sku":"9780190496647","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190496647.jpg?v=1719997332"},{"product_id":"road-warriors-9780190646516","title":"Road Warriors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoad Warriors is a history of the modern foreign-fighter jihadist movement, detailing the lives and struggles of foreigners who left their homes to wage jihad in another country. This book shows how governments have tried to fight the group and assesses what worked and what needs to be done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea high-quality, monograph that includes a solid number of sources and references. * Georgi Asatryan, Insight Turkey *\u003cbr\u003e...fascinating... Byman tells the stories of some well-known and a few not so well-known foreign fighters to show how the system evolved over the decades, through several cycles of mobilization. * Jytte Klausen, Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eByman sits at the top of everybody's shortlist of preeminent scholar\/teachers on terrorism and counterterrorism. He has produced a book that will prove every bit as valuable to senior policymakers and practitioners as it will be to generations of scholars and students. Road Warriors is carefully researched and documented and yet it still reads like a first-rate novel as it traces the intellectual and physical journey traveled by this latest generation of jihadist fighters. * Nicholas J. Rasmussen, Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center *\u003cbr\u003eForeign fighters from Osama bin Laden to the ISIS 'Beatles' are force multipliers who have contributed to making jihadist conflicts more ideological and more violent. In this major work of synthesis, Byman elucidates a myriad of sources to create the best account we have of the foreign fighter phenomenon over the past half century. * Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists *\u003cbr\u003eByman's unique study of the phenomenon of foreign fighters is the prism through which he provides a thorough and fascinating story of the origins and evolution of both al Qaeda and the most important jihadist battlefields over the course of the last thirty-plus years. * Mitchell D. Silber, Former Director of Intelligence Analysis, New York Police Department *\u003cbr\u003eIn nearly every conflict in which I've been involved, foreign fighters have played a significant and dangerous role. These disparate groups and individuals have grown to be a permanent fixture of modern extremist movements, and are tied irrevocably to unresolved sources of radicalization, the power of jihadi narratives, the emergence of social media, and the ease of international travel. Byman has captured all of this in one book, which I wish had been available to other commanders and me a generation ago as America first began to grapple with the horrific reality of global terrorism. He has done us all a great service, and I commend this excellent book in the strongest possible terms. * John R. Allen, former Special Presidential Envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; General, US Marine Corps (Ret.), and President, The Brookings Institution *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Why Do Foreign Fighters Matter?  II. The Prophet: Abdullah Azzam and the Anti-Soviet Jihad in Afghanistan III. Barbaros: The Red Beard IV. The Trainer: Ali Mohammad and Afghanistan in the 1990s V. Chechnya and the Sword of Islam VI. Hubris and Nemesis: The Chechen Foreign Fighters Overreach VII. The Slaughterer: Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi and Ascendant Iraqi Jihad (2003-2006)  VIII. The Dreamer: Abu Ayyub al-Masri and the Self-Destruction of the Iraqi Jihad IX. The Gadfly: Omar Hammami X. John the Beatle and the Syrian Civil War XI. The Facilitator: Amer Azizi and the Rise of Jihadist Terrorism in Europe XII. America Squares Off against the Legion XIII. How to Stop Foreign Fighters Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732541419863,"sku":"9780190646516","price":21.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190646516.jpg?v=1719997348"},{"product_id":"antisystem-politics-9780190699765","title":"AntiSystem Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the electoral successes of anti-system forces in the rich democracies. It explains the rise of anti-system politicians and parties in terms of two separate but closely related developments: the rise of economic inequality and insecurity over the last four decades, and the failure of technocratic elites to address them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Hopkin offers a well-researched book which identifies connections between the anti-system politics in the United States, Britain, Greece, Spain and Italy. He finds there is a clear divide in how Northern and Southern Europe express their forms of anti-system politics. But he demonstrates how they both have common threads which tie them into a common zeitgeist which has affected the Western political tradition. This is quite an accomplishment. * Jonathan Hopkin, Democracy Paradox *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction The New World Order: The End of Social Democracy and the Rise of the Liberal Cartel The Failure of the Liberal Cartel: The Political Consequences of the Financial Crisis of 2008  Varieties of Anti-System Politics The Implications of Anti-System Politics: Nationalism, Socialism, Participation","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732543189335,"sku":"9780190699765","price":21.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190699765.jpg?v=1719997356"},{"product_id":"only-the-dead-the-persistence-of-war-in-the-modern-age-9780190849535","title":"Only the Dead The Persistence of War in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBraumoeller's analysis of the data is thoughtful and convincing...Today, with the conditions for a regional war in the Middle East riper than they have been for years, the liberal international order under strain, and the deterioration of U.S.-Chinese relations, Only the Dead makes for sobering reading. * Nikita Lalwani, Yale Law School and Sam Winter-Levy, Princeton University, Foreign Policy *\u003cbr\u003eOverall, the arguments in this book are strong, and the discussion of data issues is subtle throughout. Its arguments seem fundamentally correct to me. * Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  1 Introduction  2 Empirical Reasons for Skepticism  3 Theoretical Reasons for Skepticism  4 A Conventional View of War  5 Measuring War 6 A Few Handy Tools  7 Trends in Warfare, 1815-present","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732543877463,"sku":"9780190849535","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190849535.jpg?v=1719997358"},{"product_id":"governing-global-health-9780190865986","title":"Governing Global Health","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres. One of the more important recent trends in global health governance, though, has been the rise of public-private partnerships (PPPs) where private non-governmental organizations, for-profit enterprises, and various other social entrepreneurs work hand-in-hand with governments to combat specific maladies. A primary driver for this development is the widespread belief that by joining together, PPPs will attack health problems and fund shared efforts more effectively than other systems. As Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar show in Governing Global Health, these partnerships are not only importan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not only a timely and original book, but also a model of concise scholarship. After a quarter of a century working in the arena of global health, it wasn't until I read this book that I understood fully either the major institutions with which we so often work or the challenges before us now. Furthermore, Clinton and Sridhar have managed a minor miracle: they've made dry matters of governance interesting and even entertaining. This engaging study deserves a broad audience. Since the survival of tens of millions hang in the balance, as does the well-being of most on this planet, the stakes are greater than we know.\" - Paul Farmer MD, Partners In Health and Harvard Medical School\u003cbr\u003eWho runs the world and why? Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar ask this audacious question in this powerful and uncompromising book. They unmask the big four global health institutions of our era for the first time. Governing Global Health is a monumental achievement. Anyone seriously interested in the health of the world simply has to read it.\" - Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor and Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown Law School\u003cbr\u003eThe landscape of 'global health' is so fragmented, with so many agencies and private players in the picture, that it can be impossible to figure out who is in charge of everything from outbreaks to battling the tobacco industry. The adage, 'follow the money' too often leads to dead ends and bewildering arrays of public health players. Clinton and Sridhar have done a wonderful job of pulling the elusive pieces into focus, creating a must-read guide for students and practitioners of global health.\" - Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, and author of The Coming Plague\u003cbr\u003eClinton and Sridhar provide a unique insight in global health governance in a very rigorous and well documented analysis. A must for anybody working in global health, global governance and international affairs.\" - Peter Piot, Director \u0026amp; Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene \u0026amp; Tropical Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefaceAbbreviations1. Governing Global Health2. Big Questions and Case Studies3. Shifts in Governance4. Who Funds Global Health?5. T wenty-First-Century Governance6. Disruption and Reform7. 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The book successfully shifts our focus from great power politics to illustrate how relatively small countries can play important roles in world affairs. The focus on Iraq also helps explain wider transformations in international politics, and further emphasizes the central role of the Middle East over the last three decades. * Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003eHelfont has written the essential book about Iraqi influence operations abroad during the leadership tenure of Saddam Hussein. While most existing studies have focused on Iraq's domestic political scene, Helfont gives us a window into Iraqi activities abroad, including the conditions under which the regime succeeded or failed in achieving its foreign policy objectives. * Lisa Blaydes, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University *\u003cbr\u003eSaddam Hussein's regime placed a high priority on undermining support for international sanctions on Iraq after 1991. Drawing on the vast archive of internal Ba'thist documents captured after the 2003 invasion, Samuel Helfont shows in gripping detail how the Iraqi regime sought to exploit global outrage over the humanitarian crisis. His account digs deep to document how Iraq attempted to manipulate well-intentioned civil society activists, journalists, politicians, and UN officials in a global campaign of information warfare and political manipulation. * Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Helfont, a brilliant Arabist with extensive experience on the ground, does indeed offer 'profound and unprecedented insights into Iraq's foreign policy.' His authoritative account reveals how the shrewd  maneuvers of Saddam Hussein's global Ba'thist network vexed the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations' efforts to forge a 'new world order' following the 1991 Gulf War. A chilling read. * Walter A. McDougall, Professor of History and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003eThis book deserves a wide readership among scholars of US foreign policy, global politics, and the Middle East. It is a landmark book not only of Iraq scholarship but global history...it is also a model of clear and concise historical writing. * Joseph D. Stieb, H-Diplo *\u003cbr\u003eRecommended. Undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a persuasive study for readers who are interested in understanding changes happening in the character of the UAE, specifically after the formal accession of Mohammed bin Zayed as head of the UAE in 2022. * China International Strategy Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter One: Precursors  Chapter Two: The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order  Chapter Three: Triumph and Despair After the Gulf War  Chapter Four: Building Networks in the West, 1991-1992  Chapter Five: Toward Influencing Policy in the non-Western World, 1991-1992   Chapter Six: Courting Clinton  Chapter Seven: A Turning Point for the New World Order  Chapter Eight: Breaking Isolation  Chapter Nine: Normalization, 9\/11, and the Road to War  Conclusion and Afterword: Saddam's Iraq and 21st Century Disorder  Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644507991,"sku":"9780197530153","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197530153.jpg?v=1719997779"},{"product_id":"the-long-game-9780197527917","title":"The Long Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiven the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China''s ultimate goals. As China emerges as a superpower that rivals the United States, American policymakers grappling with this century''s greatest geopolitical challenge are looking for answers to a series of critical questions. Does China have expansive ambitions? Does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If so, what is it and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and global hegemon. He traces the basic evolution of Chinese strategy, showing how it evolved in response to changes in US policy and its position in the world order. After charting these shifts over time, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response to this challenge: one that undermines China''s ambitions without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan. Ironically, the approach mirrors China''s own current strategy of subtly weakening Chinese leverage in the region and elsewhere while expanding US leverage over China.A bold assessment of what the Chinese government''s true foreign policy objectives are, The Long Game offers valuable insight to the most important rivalry in world politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighly Recommended * M. G. Roskin, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe most important book on China in years * John Pomfret, Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the \"Best Books of 2021 * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Doshi has] meticulously laid bare the Party's methodical advance toward global supremacy. China watchers craving a broad understanding of the Party's geopolitical thought and actions won't be disappointed. * David Wilezol, Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eAs the US and China slip towards a new cold war, Doshi argues that Beijing is pursuing a long-term plan to displace the US as the world's most powerful nation. The verdict may sound sensationalist, but it is carefully argued and backed by deep research and primary sources. * Gideon Rachman, Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e[Doshi] makes his own case powerfully, with reference to an impressive array of highly authoritative Chinese texts * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eOf all the books to appear on this subject in 2021, this will be the one most closely read....Unlike many other Western writers on Chinese strategy, Doshi draws on a deep knowledge of the CCP's voluminous internal and public deliberations. * Niall Ferguson, The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eWhat does China tell itself about itself? This isn't a rhetorical question. Rush Doshi's The Long Game is a high wattage black light that helps us explore and make sense of China's strategic ambitions to understand their grand strategy * General CQ Brown, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force *\u003cbr\u003eRush Doshi's landmark new book fills in key gaps in the United States' understanding of China's strategy and what it means for U.S. policy. * The Council on Foreign Relations *\u003cbr\u003e[A] valuable book...[Doshi] quotes extensively from the often obscure writings and speeches of Chinese leaders and thinkers. * Andrew Nathan, Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, bracing and empirically rich...It may well turn out to be the one single book that distills both the Chinese approach to the world and the broad contours of Sino-American competition. * The Indian Express *\u003cbr\u003eRush Doshi's account of China's global strategy in The Long Game is a welcome draft of cold air. * Claremont Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e60 pages of painstaking footnotes, many of them quoting internal statements by Communist Party leaders and intellectuals, make it rather compelling. * Pete Sweeney, Reuters *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the Top Political Books of 2021 * The Hill *\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Game brings what's been largely missing from debate on US-China relations: historically informed insight into the nature of China's Leninist system and strategy. * Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society and former Prime Minister of Australia *\u003cbr\u003eThe Long Game is essential in understanding China's approach to the evolving US-China relationship and global order. Unique in scope and unmatched in substance, Rush Doshi's masterfully researched work describes clearly the economic, political, and military contours of China's strategic approach. The observations, analysis, and recommendations of this superb work must be foundational to any China playbook-business, political, or military. * Admiral Gary Roughead, U.S. Navy (Retired) *\u003cbr\u003eUsing primary sources and crisp analysis, Rush Doshi decodes Beijing's grand strategy of the last three decades. In the process, he exposes the threadbare assumptions that caused countless American policymakers, intelligence analysts, and scholars to misjudge the intentions and capacities of China's rulers. Wishful thinkers, isolationists, and accommodationists will marshal no credible counterarguments to the central findings of this superb book. * Matt Pottinger, Former Deputy National Security Advisor *\u003cbr\u003eWhat does China want?' Rush Doshi makes such a cogent case, based on a wealth of Chinese textual and behavioral evidence, that China's consistent strategy has been to displace the United States that he persuades me to re-examine my view that China's aims are open-ended and malleable. His compelling book should become an instant classic in the China field and required reading for everyone trying to figure out America's own best strategy toward China. * Susan Shirk, Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center, University of California-San Diego *\u003cbr\u003eA must-read for anyone wrestling with the China Challenge. Doshi's careful analysis of Chinese language documents make a powerful case that China is pursuing a coherent grand strategy to overturn the US-led international order. * Graham Allison, Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School *\u003cbr\u003eDoshi has brilliantly limned a new framework for understanding both the global ambition and the strategic challenges posed by Xi Jinping and his 'wolf warrior diplomacy.' If you're looking for the one book that best illuminates the historical logic of his unrepentant 'China Dream,' The Long Game isit. * Orville Schell, Director, Center on US-China Policy, the Asia Society *\u003cbr\u003eBased on a careful reading of a vast array of Chinese sources, Rush Doshi presents a novel and compelling account of the evolution of Beijing's grand strategy. Doshi argues persuasively that shifts in China's behavior are driven by the Communist Party's collective assessment of trends in the global balance of power rather than by the personalities or preferences of individual leaders. The implications are not reassuring: China's increasingly open and aggressive attempts to displace the US and transform the international system began before Xi Jinping took power and will likely persist after he is gone. This important and insightful book should be required reading for scholars and policymakers alike. * Aaron L. Friedberg, Professor or Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003eThe debate over whether China has a strategy to displace American leadership in Asia is over. Now comes the first authoritative account of what that strategy is. Using a vast array of original sources, Rush Doshi does unprecedented forensic work on the origins of Chinese grand strategy and itsprospects for success. * Michael J. Green, author of By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia-Pacific since 1783 *\u003cbr\u003eIf you doubt that China has been pursuing a long-term, comprehensive strategy to achieve global primacy, read Rush Doshi's book. In this brilliant, definitive work, Doshi details the vaulting ambition of Beijing's agenda. Everyone interested in the future of American power and world order should read it now-or weep later. * Hal Brands, Johns Hopkins University and American Enterprise Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 - \"A Coherent Body of Thought and Action\": Defining Grand Strategy Chapter 2 - \"The Party Leads Everything\": Grand Strategy and the Communist Party Chapter 3 - \"New Cold Wars Have Begun\": The Traumatic Trifecta and the US Threat Chapter 4 - \"Hiding Capabilities and Biding Time\": Blunting as China's First Displacement Strategy Chapter 5 - \"A Change in the Balance of Power\": The Financial Crisis and US Decline Chapter 6 - \"Actively Accomplish Something\": Building as China's Second Strategy of Displacement Chapter 7 - \"A Suit that No Longer Fits\": The Global Order and China's Ambitions Chapter 8 - \"Towards the World's Center Stage\": Global Expansion as China's  Third Displacement Strategy Chapter 9 - \"An Asymmetric Response\": Dealing with Chinese Strategies of Displacement","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644540759,"sku":"9780197527917","price":22.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197527917.jpg?v=1719997779"},{"product_id":"the-frontlines-of-peace-an-insiders-guide-to-changing-the-world-9780197530351","title":"The Frontlines of Peace An Insiders Guide to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communitiesThe word peacebuilding evokes a story we''ve all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started--sometimes worse. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, care? In The Frontlines of Peace, Severine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and peacebuilder, examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. With examples drawn from across the globe, she reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances. Contrary to what most politicians preach, building peace doesn''t require billions in aid or massive international interventions. Real, lasting peace requires giving power to local citizens.The Frontlines of Peace tells the stories of the ordinary yet extraordinary individuals and organizations that are confronting violence in their communities effectively. One thing is clear: successful examples of peacebuilding around the world, in countries at war or at peace, have involved innovative grassroots initiatives led by local people, at times supported by foreigners, often employing methods shunned by the international elite. By narrating success stories of this kind, Autesserre shows the radical changes we must take in our approach if we hope to build lasting peace around us--whether we live in Congo, the United States, or elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving worked as an international aid worker in 12 different conflict zones, Autesserre, through her memoir and reporting, lays down a compelling account advocating for the need for grassroots initiatives for peacebuilding. The book comes as another addition to the authors extensive work addressing the failure of international interventions in building sustainable peace. * India Quarterly  *\u003cbr\u003e[Autesserre] offers a crucial contribution to the growing body of literature which seeks to challenge the common assumptions, narratives, methodologies and strategies that have dominated the aid and peacemaking industry thus far. ... [The book] provides a great introductory insight into the world of peacebuilding, both theoretically, in terms of both mainstream and critical strategies and discourses, and practically, in terms of working with (or rather to ameliorate) international peacebuilding organizations. * The International Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eAutesserre's contrast of Peace, Inc., with local, creative initiatives that can build peace (in the United States as well as around the globe) offers a clear picture of two very different approaches, and it provides a compelling argument for why ordinary people can have outsized effects on violence. * African Conflict \u0026amp; Peacebuilding Review *\u003cbr\u003eAutesserre's book provides some fascinating insights into how localised peace approaches can work, and some of the paths that have not worked. The book represents an excellent introduction for students, as well as an important step forward in providing greater clarity around localized peace for both academics and peacebuilders. * The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding *\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone who really cares about improving the work of this flawed but still all too necessary field, Autesserres book makes for essential and uncomfortable reading. * Gordon Peake, Devpolicy Blog *\u003cbr\u003eAutesserre is the rare breed of academic who writes with passion, clarity, and a storyteller's eye for detail... she brings to the table nuance, rigor, passion, and firsthand knowledge, having previously cut her teeth as a peacebuilder herself... her contribution to this discussion, given the enormity of the stakes, is a much needed one. The UN is in dire need of critics like Autesserre—thoughtful observers to assess its shortcomings and hold it accountable. This is a bone worth picking. * Lionel Beehner, Political Science Quarterly  *\u003cbr\u003eSéverine Autesserre has persistently made noteworthy and invaluable contributions to the literature on peacebuilding and conflict management, and The Frontlines of Peace is no exception to this trend... Séverine Autesserre has provided her readers with a roadmap for changing the world of peacebuilding; such change, however, will take time, as well as willingness and collaboration from both insiders and outsiders engaging in conflict management withinconflict zones. * Sven Botha, South African Journal of International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e...the book is worth mining for serious scholars of peacekeeping. * Paul F. Diehl, International Peacekeeping *\u003cbr\u003eSeverine Autesserre's The Frontlines of Peace is a story above anything else. It is a story that encompasses other mini-stories from different areas in the world that have suffered different kinds of conflict and violence... While providing well-thought but yet simply structured answers... Autesserres book also contains her witty and sharp sense of humor... What makes this page-turner even more worth reading is the fact that Severine Autesserre not only criticizes what doesn't work, but she also gives readers and practitioners great examples of what works. * Shadi Rouhshahbaz, Peacemaker 360 *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating book. * Colette Braeckman, Le Soir *\u003cbr\u003eSeverine Autesserre tells the story of ordinary women and men who manage to reduce violence in their communities every day, whether in the Congo, Colombia, or the United States. It's a captivating and inspiring story that invites readers to act. I hope it will encourage you to get more involved in the fight against violence and impunity, and to build peace at home and for our common humanity. * Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate *\u003cbr\u003ePeace is possible but difficult. No one is omniscient about what turns swords into ploughshares, and it's essential that we always question our assumptions, learn from experience, and listen to experts who know both the big ideas and the facts on the ground. The Frontlines of Peace offers new insights into one of humanity's most noble endeavors. * Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now *\u003cbr\u003eSeverine Autesserre combines a scholar's rigor and an activist's passion. With authority gained from hard experience, she shows how true peace must be built from the ground up and the inside out. A world in flames should heed her message. * Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003ePeacebuilding rests on the courage and wisdom of those people closest to conflict, and we must invest in them in ways that dignify their work and commitment. Severine Autesserre's book makes clear how to do this. The Frontlines of Peace is a must-read. * John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame *\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable book, Severine Autesserre draws on decades of experience in conflict zones and offices of international organizations to show how meaningful peace depends on local peacebuilding initiatives. Building on her inspiring and sometimes heart-breaking encounters with local activists about their work to address violence, redress suffering, and manage emergent conflict, it offers compelling recommendations for how to effectively support the necessary work of activists on the ground. * Elisabeth Jean Wood, Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003eNot just another book about international politics. It will change the way you see the world around you. * Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate *\u003cbr\u003eA seamless blend of autobiography, research reports from zones of peace, and Auteserre's scholarly discussion of how peacebuilding actually works in places that have suffered from violent conflict, The Frontlines of Peace will reward specialists, students, and general readers. * Ronald Edsforth, Peace \u0026amp; Change *\u003cbr\u003e[A] fascinating and insightful book. * Dr Anurug Chakma, Australian Outlook *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Preface - War, Hope, and Peace PART I - PEACE POSSIBLE Chapter 1 - Island of Peace Chapter 2 - Role Models PART II - PEACE, INC.  Chapter 3 - Insiders and Outsiders Chapter 4 - Designed Intervention PART III - THE NEW PEACE MANIFESTO Chapter 5 - Peace by Piece Chapter 6 - Recasting Roles Chapter 7 - The Home Front Appendix - Sources Acknowledgements","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732644671831,"sku":"9780197530351","price":21.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197530351.jpg?v=1719997782"},{"product_id":"sanctions-9780197530320","title":"Sanctions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another.It''s hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA. And it''s not just major powers: Japan and South Korea have sanctioned each other over WWII and colonial legacies; Saudi Arabia against Qatar because of differences over Iran; and France, Germany, and Norway against Brazil over the Amazon forest and climate change. In Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know, Bruce Jentleson--one of America''s leading scholars on the subject--answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used so much? What are their va\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'm often told how vital and effective sanctions are. Then I trip across confident assertions that sanctions seldom accomplish what they're supposed to. 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The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA. And it''s not just major powers: Japan and South Korea have sanctioned each other over WWII and colonial legacies; Saudi Arabia against Qatar because of differences over Iran; and France, Germany, and Norway against Brazil over the Amazon forest and climate change. In Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know, Bruce Jentleson--one of America''s leading scholars on the subject--answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used so much? What are their varieties? What are the key factors affecting their success? Why have they become the tool of first resort for states engaged in international conflict? Jentleson demonstrates that examining sanctions is key to understanding international relations and explains how and why they will likely continue to bear on global politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'm often told how vital and effective sanctions are. Then I trip across confident assertions that sanctions seldom accomplish what they're supposed to. 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His book sets the standard for all future works that will examine the causes and nature of yet another unhappy American military adventure on the mainland of Asia. * Dov S. Zakheim, Senior Advisor at CSIS and a Vice Chairman of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, PRISM *\u003cbr\u003eThis substantial text is well written and supported by almost 100 pages of notes and references. Offering a rather complete overview of the US failure, this is a must read for anyone interested in the mistakes made in Afghanistan. * G. M. Farr, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe book allows Afghans to tell their own story, and their voices are present throughout. 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It takes us away from the often empirically limited and dated discussions of the ethics of humanitarian interventions to consider other measures that can be launched in response to rights violations. * James Pattison, Ethics and International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eMost global political theory focuses on the most coercive forms of international pressure: on military force, or on monetary coercion. Much of what global agents do, though, involves considerably more subtle and nuanced tools. Lucia Rafanelli's Promoting Justice Across Borders offers a novel and plausible account of how to understand the moral framework with which these tools might be understood. It is clearly written, lucidly argued, and exemplary in its attention to empirical detail. This is an exceptionally good book on an exceptionally important topic. It deserves to be read by everyone interested in understanding, and building, a just global society. * Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance, University of Washington *\u003cbr\u003eLucia Rafanelli offers a groundbreaking account of transnational politics that theoretically unpacks the state, the international system, and the range of foreign influence practices. Rafanelli centers boycotts, divestment campaigns, and other neglected forms of transnational activism to offer a nuanced model of intervention. This book opens exciting new paths forward. * Inés Valdez, Author of Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Beyond the State, Beyond War: Re-Conceptualizing Reform Intervention Chapter 2: Toleration as Engagement Chapter 3: Degrees of Legitimacy Chapter 4: Collective Self-Determination without Isolation Chapter 5: Chaos and Consequences: Promoting Justice in a Non-Ideal World Chapter 6: Conclusion References","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732651979095,"sku":"9780197568842","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197568842.jpg?v=1719997805"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/international-relations.oembed?page=11","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}