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  • Danger Zone

    The Coming Conflict with China

    by Michael Beckley, Hal Brands ...
    A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry.It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Eurasian Century

    Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Hal Brands ...
    **One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia, and Iran.**We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • The Lessons of Tragedy

    Statecraft and World Order

    by Hal Brands, Charles Edel ...
    A "brilliant" examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation's—and the world's—security at risk ( The Wall Street Journal).The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    by John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Walter Russell Mead, Toshi Yoshihara, Matthew Kroenig, Hew Strachan, John H. Maurer, Michael Cotey Morgan, James Lacey, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Michael V. Leggiere, Charles Edel, Kori Schake, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Sarah C. M. Paine, Priya Satia, Margaret MacMillan, Williamson Murray, Robert Kagan, Tami Biddle, Brendan Simms, Francis Gavin, Daniel Marston, Guy Laron, Tanvi Madan, Sergey Radchenko, Thomas G. Mahnken, Christopher J. Griffin, Dmitry Adamsky, Carter Malkasian, Ahmed S. Hashim, Elizabeth Economy, Seth G. Jones, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, John Lewis Gaddis, Eric Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Mark Moyar, Antulio Echevarria ...
    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Twilight Struggle

    What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today

    by Hal Brands ...
    A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold War"If you want to know how America can win today's rivalries with Russia and China, read this book about how it triumphed in another twilight struggle: the Cold War."— Stephen J. Hadley, national security adviser to President George W. BushThe United States is entering an era of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala

    A Case Study in the Erosion of the State

    by Hal Brands ...
    In numerous Latin American countries, organized crime and violence are corroding governance and imperiling democratic legitimacy. This phenomenon is most severe in Guatemala, which is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state.An unholy trinity of criminal elements—international drug traffickers, domestically based organized crime syndicates, and youth gangs—have ... Read more

    $2.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Good Is Grand Strategy?

    Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

    by Hal Brands ...
    This is a solid piece of scholarship that should be of great value in modern American history classes, foreign policy surveys, and course work in international relations.— Brooks Flippen â•H-Net ReviewsGrand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring—and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lessons from the New Cold War

    America Confronts the China Challenge

    Edited by Hal Brands ...
    How the US-China rivalry is reshaping global power, democracy, and the international order.A new cold war is unfolding—one that will define the future of the international order. In Lessons from the New Cold War, editor Hal Brands assembles an all-star cast of the most influential thinkers in foreign policy, defense strategy, technology, and economics to grapple with the defining geopolitical ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • War in Ukraine

    Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World

    Edited by Hal Brands ...
    The war in Ukraine has altered the course of global history. These authors explore how.When Vladimir Putin's forces sought to conquer Ukraine in February 2022, they did more than threaten the survival of a vulnerable democracy. The invasion unleashed a crisis that has changed the course of world affairs. This conflict has reshaped alliances, deepened global cleavages, and caused economic ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump

    by Hal Brands ...
    Looking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States today. American foreign policy is in a state of upheaval. The rise of Donald Trump and his "America First" platform have created more uncertainty about America's role in the world than at any time in recent decades. From the South China Sea, to the Middle East, to the Baltics and Eastern Europe, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Latin America’s Cold War

    by Hal Brands ...
    For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called “long peace” afforded the world’s superpowers by their nuclear standoff. In this book, the first to take an international perspective on the postwar decades in the region, Hal Brands sets out to explain what exactly happened in Latin America during the Cold War, and why it was so traumatic.Tracing the tumultuous course ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Making the Unipolar Moment

    U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order

    by Hal Brands ...
    In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; ... Read more

    $22.79 USD