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Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World Casey Michel 9781837731879
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.79Foreign Policy, Most Anticipated Books of 2024A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States' foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy.For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11... -
The Foreign Policy of the European Union: Assessing Europe's Role in the World by Federiga Bindi
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738114Author Federiga BindiFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The Cold War, c1945-1991 Melanie Vance 9781471876318
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Seapower in the Post-modern World by Basil Germond 9780228020882
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.99In an era of increasing geopolitical tensions, disruptive technologies, and the rise of authoritarianism, the question of who masters the seas is more than ever central to the future of the international order. But while naval operations, maritime... -
China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.57'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to... -
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant by Ta-Nehisi Coates
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison'Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [He] is responsible for some of... -
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West Luke Harding 9781783352067
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.80**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump,... -
Next Geopolitics: The Future of World Affairs (Technology) Volume Two by Abishur Prakash 9780995833920
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995833920Author Abishur PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Abishur PrakashPublisher Abishur PrakashWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist, and former Greece finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis,... -
Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can... -
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War by Roham Alvandi 9780199375691
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £60.21Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this book Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the shah's relationship with the United States by examining the... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.81**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World Arthur Herman 9781841152769
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have... -
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age by Tom Fletcher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27Previously published as Naked Diplomacy. Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a... -
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre 9780393866865
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.24A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives-and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China,... -
Sinking into the Honey Trap: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Barbara Doron 9781637237168
RRP: £17.39Booksplease Price: £15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637237168Author Barbara DoronFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Hybrid Warfare: Security and Asymmetric Conflict in International Relations by Mikael Weissmann 9781350429093
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.25This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hybrid Warfare refers to a military strategy that blends conventional warfare, so-called 'irregular warfare' and... -
The New Cold War: The US, Russia and China - From Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings about a 'new Cold War' proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new study, the Cold War has been ongoing since the turn of the century. Racing to solidify its position in the... -
Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow by Professor Klaus Dodds
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27How are borders built in the modern world? What does Brexit mean for Ireland's border? And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon?In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geopolitical conflict of... -
Harpoon Missile vs Surface Ships: US Navy, Libya and Iran 1986–88 by Lon Nordeen 9781472859204
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.56An illustrated study of premier US anti-ship missile, the AGM/RGM-84 Harpoon, and its 1986 and '88 uses against Libyan and Iranian naval vessels. In this study, defence technology expert Lon Nordeen details the role played by the Harpoon missile in... -
Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together by Alison Goldsworthy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Why do people become divided?What steps can we all take to reduce hostility and bring about understanding?Poles Apart has the answers.In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so... -
The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli 9781911709565
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.01‘Riveting and explosive. This is the business story of our time.’Christopher Leonard, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money---From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first... -
The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance by Iyad El-Baghdadi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of... -
Xi Jinping: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A History'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to... -
Exponential: How to Thrive in an Age of Accelerating Technology by Azeem Azhar
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Engaging' Financial Times | 'Essential' Reid Hoffman___As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up - and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left... -
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Colonialism, Conquest, and the Crop That Revived Slavery in Africa by Jori Lewis
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeA stunning work of popular history-the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery"A complex story crossing time and oceans" (National... -
The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy by Nigel Inkster 9781787389632
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.99For 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... -
Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline Andrew Barry (University College London, UK) 9781118529126
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.32In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and... -
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.33In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's... -
The Future History of the Arctic: How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North and Why it Matters to the World by Charles Emmerson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: climate change, energy security and the struggle for the world's resources, the return of... -
America's New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse by Thomas P.M. Barnett 9781637744291
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.09The 21st century unleashed unprecedented changes across the globe - to its climate, to the demographic makeup of its nations, and to the very nature of allegiance in the digital age. With its global influence waning, America must reevaluate its approach... -
Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East by Christopher Phillips 9780300263428
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.39The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead... -
Lee Kuan Yew by Graham Allison
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539500Author Graham AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34**WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the... -
Geostrategy in Practice: How to Manage Political Risk in a Shifting World Order by Oliver Jones 9781633310735
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633310735Author Courtney Rickert McCaffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Disruption BooksPublisher Disruption BooksWeight(grams)... -
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order by Glenn Diesen 9781949762952
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762952Author Glenn DiesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm *... -
The Sorrows of Mexico Lydia Cacho 9780857056221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.70With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows... -
Bharat Matters by S. Jaishankar 9789357027601
Booksplease Price: £24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357027601Author S. JaishankarFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdWeight(grams)... -
Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020 by Jerome Slater
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.21The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself but...