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The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper
RRP: €17.84€11.66History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic... -
Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East by David Friedman
RRP: €23.80€15.87The Trump administration's peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it off.Doing the same thing over and over and expecting... -
Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943 by Douglas Austin
RRP: €15.46€10.09During the first four years of the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island, only sixty miles from Italian and German airfields in... -
A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs
RRP: €13.08€10.06The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward... -
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby 9780691227962
RRP: €41.65€32.38A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a... -
Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling
RRP: €19.03€15.08"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."-Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review "A grim but... -
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski
RRP: €17.84€11.66By 1991, following the disintegration first of the Soviet bloc and then of the Soviet Union itself, the United States was left standing tall as the only global super-power. The 21st century seemed destined to be yet another American century. But that... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: €17.84€13.03'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The... -
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order by Colin Kahl
RRP: €28.55€18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250275745Author Colin KahlFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 167mm... -
Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China by John Delury 9781501765971
RRP: €35.69€25.39Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity-and futility-of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In... -
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg 9780674293885
RRP: €22.55€17.89Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against the Nazis."-Wall Street Journal"Neiberg is one of the... -
Chaos Reconsidered: The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics by Robert Jervis 9780231205993
RRP: €35.70€27.16The shock of Donald Trump's election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order-the system of institutions and norms established after World War II-was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist,... -
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
RRP: €15.46€13.64A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform... -
Captain Shakespear: Desert exploration, Arabian intrigue and the rise of Ibn Sa'ud by Alan Dillon 9781911487333
RRP: €29.75€24.63Two years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officers had already roamed the Arabian Peninsula's unforgiving Nejdi desert, to rally tribal support for the British war... -
The Hundred-Year Marathon by Michael Pillsbury 9781250081346
RRP: €14.27€13.33The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, who has served in... -
Oman, Culture and Diplomacy by Jeremy Jones
RRP: €34.50€31.40From colonial narratives and Cold War calculations to Iranian-US relations and the Middle East peace process, Oman has played an essential role in global diplomacy and international relations. For Oman, the idea of diplomacy refers not only to the... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison
RRP: €33.32€25.42A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown by Afif Safieh 9780863564222
RRP: €20.22€14.38Afif Safieh served as Palestinian General Delegate in London, Washington and Moscow from 1990 to 2008. During this time, he met and interacted with the leading figures of our times: from Yasser Arafat to Tony Blair; to Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush,... -
Why Spy?: On the Art of Intelligence by Brian Stewart
RRP: €23.79€20.75Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few books currently available to those involved either as professionals or students in this area have been written... -
Cyprus: An Ancient People, a Troubled History, and One Last Chance for Peace by Lawrence Stevenson
RRP: €26.17€17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555637Author Lawrence StevensonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.Weight(grams) 454g -
German Unification 1989-90: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII by Patrick Salmon 9780415691505
RRP: €64.25€56.25This volume is comprised of a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90.The peaceful unification of Germany in 1989-90... -
Macron Unveiled: The Prototype for a New Generation of World Leaders by Alain Lefebvre 9781592111459
RRP: €32.07€23.10The world is changing fast and politics are changing with them. Throughout history, times of change are marked by great leaders changing the world for the better. Our world today is in crisis. There is a need for a new generation of politicians to change... -
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye 9780190935962
RRP: €26.17€18.58Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of... -
Putin: Game master? by Jacques Baud 9782315010417
RRP: €24.98€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782315010417Author Jacques BaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Max Milo EditionsPublisher Max Milo EditionsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy by Suisheng (Sam) Zhao
RRP: €33.31€28.16China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched,... -
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska 9780691202457
RRP: €22.60€17.60A groundbreaking history that shows how peace between Egypt and Israel ensured lasting Palestinian statelessnessThe 1978 Camp David Accords and the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty are widely viewed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle... -
Not Quite A Diplomat: A Memoir by Robin Renwick 9781785904592
RRP: €23.80€16.85Described as Mrs Thatcher's favourite diplomat, Robin Renwick was at the centre of events in the negotiations to end the Rhodesian War. As Ambassador in South Africa, he played a bridging role between the government and the ANC, having become a trusted... -
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America by Michael McFaul
RRP: €17.84€13.51'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer
RRP: €41.65€32.38A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucracy or the sultan's court. In... -
The Third Revolution: Xi Jingping and the New Chinese State by Elizabeth C. Economy
RRP: €27.95€20.75In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the... -
Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump by Michael R Gordon 9780374279899
RRP: €35.70€23.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374279899Author Michael R GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B Zoellick
RRP: €34.50€22.85Recounting 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... -
African Foreign Policies: Selecting Signifiers to Explain Agency by Paul-Henri Bischoff 9781032400266
RRP: €47.59€39.00This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.In the past, African... -
How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics by Robert Jervis
RRP: €33.32€25.42Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and... -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: €13.08€9.25In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet was detained, intriguing questions went unanswered about... -
Geographies of Food: An Introduction by Moya Kneafsey
RRP: €38.07€36.57What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food,... -
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World by Barry Gewen
RRP: €17.84€15.51The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and... -
Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR by Bruce Riedel
RRP: €23.79€21.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737155Author Bruce RiedelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm)... -
The essential UN by United Nations: Department of Public Information 9789211013726
RRP: €23.74€19.52Everything you always wanted to know about the United Nations - in one book! This primer to the United Nations is designed for all global citizens. It covers the history of the UN, what it does and how it does it. As the world's only truly global... -
Diplomatic Incidents: Memoirs of an (Un)diplomatic Wife by Cherry Denman
RRP: €11.89€8.09Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name...