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  • Barack Obama, The Aloha Zen President

    How a Son of the 50th State May Revitalize America Based on 12 Multicultural Principles

    by Michael Haas ...
    With a foreword written by former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, this book portrays President Barack Obama as a true child of Hawai'i and explains why he believes that America can achieve even more greatness by learning from the multicultural customs of the 50th state.Obama's aspiration to transform the United States using Hawai'i as his model has been a conspicuous theme in his books and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • How Cambodia Survived the Killing Fields

    From International Pawn to the Contemporary Quest for Stability

    by Michael Haas ...
    Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present.Since gaining its independence in 1953, Cambodia has been treated as a pawn by more powerful countries. China, Vietnam, the United Nations, and especially the United States have played a role in shaping Cambodia's history, from propping up the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Gustav Mahler, Julius Korngold and the Neue Freie Presse

    by Michael Haas ...
    Series series Rethinking Austrian and German Music
    Julius Korngold, critic at the highly influential newspaper Neue Freie Presse, was close to and supportive of Gustav Mahler and, for the first time, essays on the man and his music are made available in English. Those on his time at Vienna’s Imperial Opera are extensive and well informed.Both Korngold and Mahler shared a common Moravian Jewish background, born in 1860 and both students of Anton ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Universality of Operational Codes

    How Cultures, Political Systems, International Relations, and the World Really Work

    by Michael Haas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book asserts that every individual and government operates according to an “operational code”—a set of guiding principles that shape decisions and actions, often invisible yet profoundly influential. Operational codes, rooted in culture, diplomacy, and politics can foster cooperation or ignite conflict when they collide. From the origins of the concept in Cold War foreign policy analysis to ... Read more

    $357.99 CAD

  • Music of Exile

    The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler

    by Michael Haas ...
    What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience?In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Polarized American Democracy

    From Mass Society to Coups and Civil War

    by Michael Haas ...
    Civil war in the United States is now a mainstream topic due to apparent signs of ongoing planning. This book reveals why in several ways. First, four major ideological drivers of possible conflict are identified. Next, ten arenas of ongoing nonviolent civil war are traced as increasingly for micro-level violence. Then several dozen alternative scenarios are traced to explain how civil war could ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Lockdowns, Masks, and Vaccines

    The Trump Administration and the Coronavirus

    by Michael Haas ...
    The disastrous handling of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the United States calls out for an explanation of who is to blame for a disease that could have been contained but instead became an epidemic. Donald Trump, who plays so many roles in life, was unable to fathom how to deal with the problem, but others in his administration made serious mistakes as well. Readers will discover the scope of the ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Shaking Things Up

    How Donald Trump Changed the Government in Washington

    by Michael Haas ...
    Donald Trump, as president, sought to undermine fundamental norms and principles of American government, institutionalizing bigotry, and therefore damaged American society. Details are provided on how he carried out a racist and sexist agenda, endangered the lives of LGBQTs, terrorized immigrants, allowed exploitation of the environment, endangered public health and the lives of seniors, and tried ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • The Ten Pillars of American Democracy

    Has the United States Become a Pseudo-Democracy?

    by Michael Haas ...
    Democracy rests on ten pillars. However, they have fallen in the United States because both major political parties have strayed from the concept of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. One party wants to recreate life in the past, while the other party appeals to the economic self-interest of specific groups. The coup on January 6, 2021, has prompted a fundamental analysis ... Read more

    $118.69 CAD

  • Professionalization of Foreign Policy

    Transformation of Operational Code Analysis

    by Michael Haas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book identifies why presidents, prime ministers, and other leaders of countries often make blunders in foreign policy. Blunders have been recognized within the study of foreign policy, but no central methodology or theory has developed to provide a way to avoid future disasters. Options are often presented to leaders of countries by advisers who do not always assess which policies will best ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • International Human Rights

    A Comprehensive Introduction

    by Michael Haas ...
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights -- international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to world prominence, what is being done about violations of human rights, and what might be done to further promote the cause of international human rights so that everyone may one day have their rights respected regardless of who ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • International Relations Theory

    Competing Empirical Paradigms

    by Michael Haas ...
    While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies, this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate. The book begins with a history of the International Studies Association, which was founded to develop empirically-based knowledge and was opposed to ideological “isms” as biased guides to policy.The ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD