Geopolitics

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government policies and...

'Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Students, foreign affairs "experts" and officials should...

The first ever guide to oligarchs as a global and historical phenomenon. Today, more than twenty oligarchs serve as heads of state or government in countries such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon, and El Salvador. Many have a net worth in...

Loch Johnson explores the subject of covert action, often referred to as a "Third Option" between America's use of diplomacy and warfare-a shadowy approach to international affairs based on the controversial use of secret propaganda, political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645836110Author Peter G MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Polarity PressPublisher Polarity PressWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Lenin lived a controversial life and has had a deeply controversial reputation in the centenary since his death (21 January 1924) His rise from a conventional, educated, provincial, and middle-class background to become not only the leader, even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740704Author Andrew YeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527941Author David CipletFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College LondonOver the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762877Author Kyle FerranaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 254g

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central...

China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy...

An expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago created a world that is addicted to mass migration. The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it...

A spy story like no other. Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence our elections, effect government policies and shape the fortunes of companies. More deviously, they are also peering into our personal lives as...

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that...

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more...

Over the past decade, there have been a series of internet-linked attacks on American interests, including North Korea's retaliatory hack of Sony Pictures, China's large-scale industrial espionage, Russia's 2016 propaganda campaign, and quite a lot more...

Although often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronouncements and publications as well as via radio broadcasts, television, and film, the United States and the...

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses...

On Shedding an Obsolete Past provides a much-needed and comprehensive critique of recent US national security policies in both the Trump and Biden administrations. These policy decisions have produced a series of costly disappointments and outright...

For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed the Industrial Revolution. The result was the 'Hundred Years of Humiliation', and a long struggle for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947937109Author Tyler TichelaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Aviva PublishingPublisher Aviva PublishingWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war...

Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological...

Why and how will the fourth industrial revolution impact great power politics? Here, Glenn Diesen utilizes a neoclassical, global approach to great power politics to assess how far the development of AI, national and localized technological ecosystems...

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year 'A thoroughly readable primer' Guardian 'Biden has overcome unimaginable...

The European Union is a political order of peculiar stamp and continental scope, its polity of 446 million the third largest on the planet, though with famously little purchase on the conduct of its representatives. Sixty years after the founding treaty,...

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this groundbreaking study Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the shah's relationship with the United States by...

In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist's Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century. This new biography tracks Durrell's...

This book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished naval officers and their contributions to the development of the Aegis Weapons System. The main argument is that there was no...

Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the...

It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a "superpower marathon" that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a...

China's rise as a global superpower has completely reshaped the landscape of international politics. As the country's authoritarian regime becomes increasingly assertive on the world stage, the United States grows ever more hostile to its Asian rival...

The U.S. media has been tainted with Russian disinformation, but the more significant threat is how the Right has embraced the Russian model of the news media as a vehicle for propaganda. This could not have happened without Donald Trump, who has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738947Author Sten RynningFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393499233Author Musa Khan JalalzaiFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583677810Author Intan SuwandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical...