Diplomacy

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...

Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon “[A]...

Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition....

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Economist The Christian Science Monitor Bloomberg Businessweek The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating...

In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup—the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly...

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." —Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc. "A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"—Francis Fukuyama, author of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key...

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."

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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government....

From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower “A front-row view of the spy games, assassinations, political...

Dr. John Izzo and his colleagues interviewed over 200 people over the age of 60 (up to 106 years of age) who were identified by others as having lived happy lives and as having found purpose and contentment....

In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement “A fine reassessment of Allied politics and...

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....

In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and...

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power....

The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With...

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting—and momentous—eight years of his life. When Franklin embarked, the colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or...

Two iconic dynasties—the Kennedys and the Windsors—whose glamour and ambition defined an era. ** For fans of FX’s new Ryan Murphy limited series Love Story. ** For nearly a century, two families an ocean apart have captured the world’s collective imagination: the British Windsors and the...

"Leighton Pugh narrates this work as if it were an unsolved mystery...In a voice of nuanced emotion, Pugh creates muted characters to paint a vivid picture of what the author was up against as he tried to save his country." — AudioFile Magazine A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller transformed...

March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war?

In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup—the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly...

The risk of military conflict between China and the West is not a remote contingency to be planned for in classified war games alone. It is a live question that shapes investment decisions, alliance commitments, force posture choices, and diplomatic calculations across the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Understanding the pathways through which competition might escalate to conflict is essential for designing the policies and military capabilities needed to deter that outcome. The most immediate danger is probably not deliberate war initiated by either side in the cold calculation that conflict ...

The Shah was expelled from Iran by the Persian Shiite majority in a violent uprising in 1979 based on antisemitism, anti-Americanism, anti-Arab, anti-European, and anti-Islamic extreme fundamentalist ideologies in which the state was overtaken by the hundreds of thousands of religious leaders, Mullahs, and the Ayatollah Khomeini became the supreme leader of the nation in which he was considered a living prophet by the followers of Shiism. The supreme leader issues fatwas, or interpretations of the Quran, that are seen as the word of God or Allah by followers of Shiism. Shiism has its ...

El Sha fue expulsado de Irán por la mayoría chiita persa en un violento levantamiento en 1979, basado en ideologías fundamentalistas extremas como el antisemitismo, el antiamericanismo, los árabes, los europeos y el antiislámico. En ese levantamiento, el Estado fue tomado por cientos de miles de líderes religiosos y mulás, y el ayatolá Jomeini se convirtió en el líder supremo de la nación, donde los seguidores del chiismo lo consideraban un profeta viviente. El líder supremo emite fatwas, o interpretaciones del Corán, que los seguidores del chiismo consideran la palabra de Dios...

In the decade following the end of the Cold War, Western democracies stood victorious, brimming with optimism and grand designs. Today, the 1990s look less like a great triumph for liberal democracy and Western modernity than a decade in which post-Cold War excitement and anticipation obscured a...

The Polyglot Paper series is designed to provide extensive reading opportunities in interesting subjects for those learning foreign languages. This edition, designed for those learning English, addresses the interesting US-Mexico relationship. The United States–Mexico relationship is not merely bilateral—it is a civilizational frontier relationship shaped by empire, law, language, race, and security logics that have evolved from colonial contact zones to a hybrid economic-security ecosystem defined by trade integration, migration flows, and narcotics conflict.

A lot has changed in the last six months, and the only sure thing about the future is that more change or volatility, as traders say, will enter markets globally. We are always living in interesting times, and the real key to surviving shifts in government and geopolitical changes is to be aware that the world is in flux and that things will shift. With that said, the changes that we face have patterns and become predictable, i.e., gold bugs will always hide in caves protecting their shiny rocks like mythical dragons, legacy media will deliver breaking news within a framework that fits ...

En estas páginas, la migración se revela como herida y como espejo social. La migración venezolana que describe Marilú Carranza nace de la tiranía y de la erosión sistemática de derechos, pero también de la búsqueda obstinada de libertad. A través de evidencia, fuentes y mirada humana, la autora explica por qué esta migración no es “una elección” sino una salida forzada para sobrevivir, y cómo la diáspora venezolana transforma a quienes parten y a los países que reciben. El libro examina las olas de salida, la crisis económica y política, y el impacto en trabajo, salud...

Future World: One Global Government, One Currency, Global Defence Forces and Uniform Taxes — The Author’s Vision presents a bold and thought-provoking exploration of how humanity might evolve toward greater unity in response to rapid technological advancement and growing global challenges. As artificial intelligence, space technology, digital economies, and medical breakthroughs reshape civilization, traditional systems of governance and cooperation are increasingly tested by conflicts, inequality, climate change, and economic instability. In this visionary work, M K Devidasan examines ...