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What Good Is Grand Strategy?
Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and so elusive—to those who make American statecraft. He explores what grand strategy is, why it is so...
American Pendulum
Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign policy. No grand strategy, however, is going to be completely novel. New administrations never start with a blank slate, so it is always possible to see similarities between an administration and its...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
A New History of the Peloponnesian War is an ebook-only omnibus edition that includes all four volumes of Donald Kagan's acclaimed account of the war between Athens and Sparta (431–404 B.C.): The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, The Archidamian War, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition,...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict, Kagan...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question:...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal...
by Donald Kagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the...
In Uncertain Times
American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
In Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic developments on the world stage. Few expected the Berlin Wall to come down in November 1989; no one anticipated the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September 2001. American foreign policy had to adjust...
Leaders at War
How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
One of the most contentious issues in contemporary foreign policy—especially in the United States—is the use of military force to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Some military interventions explicitly try to transform the domestic institutions of the states they target; others...
A Delicate Relationship
The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship....
The Empty Seashell
Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people...
Tyranny of the Weak
North Korea and the World, 1950–1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the first time the motivations, processes, and effects of North Korea's foreign relations during the...
The Massacres at Mt. Halla
Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
In The Massacres at Mt. Halla, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947. The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged...
Rochdale Village
Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens, New York. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood....