White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Vitalis Robert)(Pevná vazba)

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Vitalis Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations (Vitalis Robert)(Paperback)

Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the American academy. Evolutionary theory, social

The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s (Zanchetta Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

Barbara Zanchetta analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of d tente during the Nixon administration to the policy's crisis and fall during the final years of the Carter presidency. This study traces lines of continuity among the Nixon, Ford, and Carter

Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method, and International Relations (Harman Sophie)(Paperback)

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent need to rethink research and teaching methods. What happens when these concepts converge and such thinking is

America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Vitalis Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Examination of U.S.-Saudi relations, the development of the oil frontier, and the enduring legacy of racial segregation at the Aramco

Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought (Lantigua David M.)(Pevná vazba)

Before international relations in the West, there were Christian-infidel relations. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order decenters the dominant story of international relations beginning with Westphalia in 1648 by looking a century earlier to the Spanish imperial debate at Valladolid

Black & White: The Birth of Modern Boxing (Dobbs Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing is the definitive history of the early years of transatlantic pugilism. It reveals the poisonous racism disfiguring the sport and the black boxers fighting an uphill struggle for equality. It lays bare ugly attempts by authorities to stifle or ban a sport

Humour, Subjectivity and World Politics: Everyday Articulations of Identity at the Limits of Order (Wedderburn Alister)(Pevná vazba)

Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Tang Chenxi)(Pevná vazba)

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no

Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda (Hamilton John Maxwell)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public PolicyManipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the

Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (Nye Joseph S.)(Paperback)

This book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but that the nature of our power has

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order (Kahl Colin)(Pevná vazba)

Two of America's leading national security experts offer the most definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the US and the world order in the 21st Century. 'Informed by history, reporting, and a truly global perspective, this is an

Technologies of International Relations: Continuity and Change (Kaltofen Carolin)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the role of technology in the core voices for International Relations theory and how this has shaped the contemporary thinking of 'IR' across some of the discipline's major texts. Through an interview format between different generations of IR scholars, the conversations of the

March of the Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics (Carr Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way'- by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and

The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775-83 (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The American Revolution reshaped the political map of the world, and led to the birth of the United States of America. Yet these outcomes could have scarcely been predicted when the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. American rebel forces were at first largely a poorly trained,

Representation, recognition and respect in world politics: The case of Iran-US relations (Duncombe Constance)(Pevná vazba)

This book addresses a critical issue in global politics: how recognition and misrecognition fuel conflict or initiate reconciliation. Using a detailed empirical investigation of the fraught bilateral relations between the US and Iran, the book demonstrates how representations of one state by

Crumb's World (Crumb Robert)(Pevná vazba)

R. Crumb's obsessions--from sex to the Bible, music, politics, and the vicissitudes and obscenities of daily life--are chronicled in this comprehensive book of work by the illustrious American comic artist. Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in San Francisco during the

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Caro Robert A.)(Pevná vazba)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's hundred greatest

Broadway Goes to War: American Theater During World War II (McLaughlin Robert L.)(Pevná vazba)

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topics for the duration of the war, including neutrality and isolationism, racism and genocide, and heroism and battle fatigue. Productions such as Watch on

Intersectional Decoloniality: Reimagining International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Scauso Marcos S.)(Pevná vazba)

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

Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Bein Amit)(Pevná vazba)

To better understand the lasting legacy of international relations in the post-Ottoman Middle East, we must first re-examine Turkey's engagement with the region during the interwar period. Long assumed to be a period of deliberate disengagement and ruptured ties between Turkey and its neighbours,

Production Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History (Cox Robert)(Paperback)

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)