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  • How to Survive a Hostile World

    Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism

    par Patrick Porter ...
    The oldest ideas are the best. This book is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing head-on the most robust critiques of the tradition. Drawing from a wide literature, Porter restages three prominent criticisms of realism: that it is ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Beyond Hostile Islands

    The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing

    par Daniel McKay ...
    Collections series World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
    WINNER, JAVIER COY BIENNIAL RESEARCH AWARD, BEST MONOGRAPHOffers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction.The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The False Promise of Liberal Order

    Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump

    par Patrick Porter ...
    In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its values.The False Promise of Liberal Order exposes the flaws in this nostalgic vision. The world shaped by America came about as a ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blunder

    Britain's War in Iraq

    par Patrick Porter ...
    Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003? Existing accounts stress dodgy dossiers, intelligence failures, and the flaws of individual leaders. Deploying the large number of primary documents now available, this book puts ideas at the centre of the story. As the book argues, Britain's war in Iraq was caused by bad ideas that were dogmatically held and widely accepted. Three ideas in particular ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Global Village Myth

    Distance, War, and the Limits of Power

    par Patrick Porter ...
    According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threats like terrorism or cyberwar. As a result, they practice responses driven by fear: theories of falling dominoes, hysteria in place of sober debate, and an embrace of preemptive war to tame a chaotic ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD

  • A Rush of Blood

    par Porter, Patrick H.B. ...
    In her final hours, an ancient lady unravels the story of her long journey; her loving father dead, the six year old and her sisters are left in the care of their fragile, embittered mother, scattered by the cold wind through the Tudor world of faithless husbands and country squires to the height of the treacherous Star Chamber, leaving the beloved family home and fortune to Henry VIII, and their ... En savoir plus

    $9.59 CAD

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  • The Lessons of Tragedy

    Statecraft and World Order

    par Hal Brands, Charles Edel ...
    A "brilliant" examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation's—and the world's—security at risk ( The Wall Street Journal).The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur ... En savoir plus

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  • The Choice

    Global Domination or Global Leadership

    par Zbigniew Brzezinski ...
    The overwhelming reality of our time is this: In the opening years of the 21st century, the United States finds itself not only the most powerful nation on earth but the most powerful nation that has ever existed. Given the contradictory roles America plays in the world, we are fated to be the catalyst for either a new global community or for global chaos. If we don't lead, Zbigniew Brzezinski ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    par Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Victorious and Vulnerable

    Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperiled

    par Azar Gat ...
    Collections series Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
    In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was more doubtful than has been assumed. The world's liberal democracies, with the United States at the ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

    par Peter Turchin ...
    **“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsFrom the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Evil Men

    par James Dawes ...
    A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on—how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped. James Dawes’s unflinchingly honest account, drawing on firsthand interviews, is not just about the things Japanese war criminals did, but about what it means to befriend them. ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD