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“donald e abelson”

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  • History Has Made Us Friends

    Reassessing the Special Relationship between Canada and the United States

    Edited by Donald E. Abelson, Stephen Brooks ...
    Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history spanning more than 250 years. Alan Rock, former Canadian ambassador to the United States, has said that this special relationship represents “a bond that is beyond practical. It borders on mystical.” The rise ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Understanding American Politics, Third Edition

    by Stephen Brooks, Donald E. Abelson, Melissa Haussman ...
    Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States. Placing the study of American politics within a broader context of other western democracies, this textbook reinforces the idea that in order to understand the American system, students need to begin by understanding their own democracy. This balanced, comparative ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Capitol Idea

    Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Capitol Idea

    Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    Abelson focuses on a host of high profile think tanks - including the Brookings Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and the Project for the New American Century - and on the public and private channels they rely on to influence important and controversial foreign policies, including the development and possible deployment of a National Missile Defense and George Bush's controversial war on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Do Think Tanks Matter? Third Edition

    Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an impact continues to be ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Think Tanks, Foreign Policy and Geo-Politics

    Pathways to Influence

    Edited by Stephen Brooks, Xin Hua, Donald E. Abelson ...
    Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfiguration of global power, explosion of social media, shifts away from traditional print and oral-based ways of imparting knowledge, and the dramatic increase in the volume of information and ideas clamoring for the attention of policy-makers are changing the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Do Think Tanks Matter?, Second Edition

    Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes

    by Donald E. Abelson ...
    It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the basic question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an effect is consistently ignored. Think tank directors often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation and many journalists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Think Tanks in America

    by Thomas Medvetz ...
    A revealing look at the rise of these influential institutions, and the effect they've had on the United States.Think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they ... Read more

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  • The International Arms Trade

    by Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to cause a deadly and current threat - one responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.This succinct and accessible new ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Tangled Titans

    The United States and China

    Edited by David Shambaugh ...
    Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many nations. In this definitive book, leading experts provide an in-depth exploration of the historical, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Fifth Estate

    Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance

    by James G. McGann ...
    What role do think tanks play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States?In The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance, James G. McGann illustrates how policymakers have come to value the independent analysis and advice provided by think tanks and why it has become one of the defining characteristics of the American political system. Drawing on case ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Business

    by Thomas G. Weiss ...
    With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'.In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating ... Read more

    $22.00 USD