Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (Reid-Henry Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Empire of Democracy - The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 (Reid-Henry Simon)(Paperback / softback)

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Huntington Samuel P.)(Paperback)

Kniha The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order:The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world. A benchmark for informed speculation on those always fascinating questions: Just where are we in history? What hidden

Cold War - For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath (Isaacs Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of crises and conflict on a global scale: from

International Relations - From the Cold War to the Globalized World (Wenger Andreas)(Paperback / softback)

Tracing the evolution of international relations since the onset of the Cold War, this volume draws on archival resources to narrate world affairs from 1945 to the present. Events are addressed chronologically, with attention to both their motivations and their

From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Mishra Pankaj)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim

Clash Of Civilizations - And The Remaking Of World Order (Huntington Samuel P.)(Paperback / softback)

The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11

The Cold War (Lightbody Bradley)(Paperback)

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyzes its eight major phases, including: * the emergence of the Cold War* Coexistence and Detente* Glasnost in the late 1980s.Combining factual overview and background

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (Saikia Yasmin)(Paperback)

Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an

Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China (Shen Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's

Tightrope (Mawer Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant Cold War spy story from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Glass

Twelve Days - Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters (Sebestyen Victor)(Paperback / softback)

The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard

Skripal Files - Putin, Poison and the New Spy War (Urban Mark)(Paperback / softback)

From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account of the events that led to the Skripal

Deluge - The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 (Tooze Adam)(Paperback / softback)

On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this book offers an explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world. It tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Mishra Pankaj)(Paperback)

A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia

Spy and the Traitor - The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (MacIntyre Ben)(Paperback / softback)

The War on the West - Douglas Murray

In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?It's become perfectly acceptable to celebrate the contributions of

The Cambridge History of the Cold War (Leffler Melvyn P.)(Paperback)

Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars explain how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of

Under the Eagle (Eagles of the Empire 1) (Scarrow Simon)(Paperback / softback)

USAFE in the 1980s (Symonds Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

On the frontline of the Cold War, during a decade that saw East-West tensions--and budgets--rise considerably, the United States Air Forces in Europe reached the peak of their power during the 1980s. Not only did USAFE expand, but it introduced a generation of advanced new types, developed to

Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Amadae S. M.)(Paperback)

In Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy, S. M. Amadae tells the remarkable story of how rational choice theory rose from obscurity to become the intellectual bulwark of capitalist democracy. Amadae roots Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy in the turbulent post-World War II era, showing how rational

The new politics of Russia: Interpreting change (Monaghan Andrew)(Paperback)

Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for

The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Holden Reid Brian)(Pevná vazba)

William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total war. In

The New Map : Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations - Daniel Yergin

A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading

Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (Bricmont Jean)(Paperback)

Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers-above all, the United States-in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more