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  • Imperialist Realism

    by Daniel Bessner ...
    Imperialist Realism explores how Americans have come to accept their global empire not because they believe in its righteousness but because they believe no alternative to U.S. hegemony is possible.Imperialist Realism is a collection of essays elucidating the titular concept, which centers on a single question: What does it feel like to live in a moment in which it is easier to imagine the end of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Rethinking U.S. World Power

    Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Since the late-1990s, diplomatic historians have emphasized the importance of international and transnational processes, flows, and events to the history of the United States in the world. Rethinking U.S. World Power provides an alternative to these scholarly frameworks by assembling a diverse group of historians to explore the impact of the United States and its domestic history on U.S. foreign ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Cold War Liberalism

    Power in a Time of Emergency

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes ...
    Series series Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
    In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and liberal thought across the North Atlantic world. The essays in this volume examine the history of this important ideology from a variety of perspectives. Whereas most prior works that analyze Cold War liberalism have focused on small groupings of canonical intellectuals, this book ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Decisionist Imagination

    Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Nicolas Guilhot ...
    In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought. The Decisionist Imagination explores how “decisionism” emerged from its origins in prewar political theory to become an object of intense social scientific inquiry in the new intellectual and institutional landscapes of the postwar era. By bringing together ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Democracy in Exile

    Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

    by Daniel Bessner ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    In Democracy in Exile**, Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy.**Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert-driven approach to foreign policymaking that American elites institutionalized during and after ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations

    by Ramon Pacheco Pardo ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The New Deal

    A Global History

    by Kiran Klaus Patel ...
    Series series America in the World
    "The first book to globalize the history of the New Deal, this is an amazing tour de force with fresh insights on virtually every page." —Akira Iriye, Harvard UniversityCo-Winner of the World History Association Jerry Bentley Book PrizeThe New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global ... Read more

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  • Silent Revolution

    How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance

    by Barry Rubin ...
    A respected historian and political scientist charts the unchecked rise to power of radical leftism.Over the past fifty years, a silent revolution has allowed the radical left to seize power to an extent unthinkable only a decade ago. Stranger still, no one has noticed.Throughout the twentieth century, leftists worked tirelessly toward their goal of a proletarian revolution. But they continually ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Richard H. Immerman, Petra Goedde ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in twentieth-century history, yet one which should be evaluated within the broader context of global political, economic, social, and cultural ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cold War in the Third World

    Edited by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, this collection examines the influence of ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

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