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  • Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes

    by Ronald C. Kramer ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCarbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes the looming threats posed by climate change from a criminological perspective. It advances the field of green criminology through a examination of the criminal nature of catastrophic environmental harms resulting from the release of greenhouse gases. The book describes and explains what corporations in the fossil fuel ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Apocalyptic Crimes

    Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished

    by Ronald C. Kramer ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Crime and Society
    In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight—the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic countdown to annihilation. Now, a generation later, the world is more vulnerable than ever to the nuclear ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Cold War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon ... Read more

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  • Do Morals Matter?

    Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US ... Read more

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  • The Sword and the Dollar

    Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race

    by Michael Parenti ...
    To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? Why doesn't the U.S. act as a force for peace throughout the world? In this probing, provocative analysis, Michael Parenti reveals ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington's New Cold War

    A Socialist Perspective

    by Vijay Prashad, John Bellamy Foster, John Ross, Deborah Veneziale ...
    As the American people delude themselves once more into thinking of the United States as a liberating force for peace in the world, Waging a New Cold War invites us, instead, to think for ourselves. Behind the scenes the plans to wage war have been laid—either by proxy, as in Ukraine, or directly, against the U.S.’s old twentieth-century foes. Waging a New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective makes a ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Seventh Decade

    The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

    by Jonathan Schell ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policiesWhen the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back on ... Read more

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  • What Is at Stake Now

    My Appeal for Peace and Freedom

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    Translated by Jessica Spengler ...
    Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institutions and endangering hard-won liberties. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp relief the ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Reactions

    How Nuclear-Armed States Behave

    by Mark S. Bell ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Nuclear Reactionsanalyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries.Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that ... Read more

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  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ...
    Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States ... Read more

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  • The Long War

    A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II

    Edited by Andrew Bacevich ...
    Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long War" has left its imprint on virtually every aspect of American life; by considering it as a whole, The ... Read more

    $40.49 USD