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  • International Studies

    Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions

    by Scott Straus, Barry Driscoll ...
    In the Third Edition of***International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, and Tensions***, award-winning scholars Scott Straus and Barry Driscoll take an intellectually stimulating and empirical approach to global studies, with a clear framework that helps students think about how key factors—forces, interactions, and tensions—contribute to world events and global problems. The book grounds ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The Order of Genocide

    Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

    by Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Award for Excellence in Government and Political Science (AAP)The Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international community. Yet a number of key questions about this tragedy remain unanswered: How did the violence spread from community to community and so rapidly engulf the nation? Why did ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020

    Edited by Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus ...
    Series series The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War ... Read more

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  • Making and Unmaking Nations

    War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa

    by Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018Winner of the Joseph Lepgold PrizeWinner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA)Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA)In Making and Unmaking Nations**, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

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    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

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  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

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    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Strong Leader

    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

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    From one of the world's preeminent political historians, a magisterial study of political leadership around the world from the advent of parliamentary democracy to the age of Obama.All too frequently, leadership is reduced to a simple dichotomy: the strong versus the weak. Yet, there are myriad ways to exercise effective political leadership -- as well as different ways to fail. We blame our ... Read more

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  • Introduction to International Political Economy

    by David N. Balaam, Bradford Dillman ...
    In a revolutionary revision of this best-selling text, David Balaam and Bradford Dillman show how the postwar world order is at once under threat and yet resilient. This classic text surveys the theories, institutions, and relationships that characterize IPE and highlights them in the context of a diverse range of regional and transnational issues. Introduction to International Political Economy ... Read more

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  • Essential Work, Disposable Workers

    Migration, Capitalism and Class

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  • The Fear and the Freedom

    How the Second World War Changed Us

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    The international bestselling author of Savage Continent examines how the world has been transformed by World War II.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII ... Read more

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