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  • Annual Report on International Politics and Security 2012 (English Edition)

    Edited by Li Shenming, Zhang Yuyan, Li Shaojun ...
    Series series China International Analysis and Evaluation Reports
    A Chinese perspective on the shifting landscape of international politics and security. This annual report offers expert analysis on the key trends shaping global affairs in 2012, with a particular focus on China's role.Delve into critical discussions on international security, including armed conflicts, military strategies, and emerging security challenges. Explore China's relationships with ... Read more

    $98.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detection of Karst Voids at Deep Pile Foundation

    by Liu Liu, Zhenming Shi, Ming Peng, Shaojun Li, Fengjuan Tao ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Karst voids at pile locations can have a significant negative impact on the bearing capacity and overall safety of cast-in-place pile foundations. This book introduces a state-of-the-art detection system, comprising of specialized equipment, algorithms, and software, designed to identify karst voids during deep cast-in-place pile foundation construction. The system includes a unique multifrequency ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    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

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Spirit of Democracy

    The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World

    by Larry Diamond ...
    "A neatly structured survey examines the prospects for universal democracy. . . . A refreshingly evenhanded overview of democracy's global prospects." — Kirkus Reviews"Meticulous [and] gleaned from his experience . . . Diamond is at his best when he recounts how ordinary people affect the democratic process." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

    The New Geopolitics of Energy

    by Michael T. Klare ...
    From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of powerRecently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress amidst hysterical warnings of a Communist threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • World Politics since 1989

    by Jonathan Holslag ...
    1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way?Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from the Cold War to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He tells a story of faltering momentum and squandered ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The China Challenge

    Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

    by Thomas J. Christensen ...
    “A standout . . . a balanced, informative, and highly intelligent guide to dealing with China.”—Fareed ZakariaMany see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country’s rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • India’s Foreign Policy

    Coping with the Changing World

    by Muchkund Dubey ...
    India’s Foreign Policy: Principles, Challenges and Strategies traces the values and principles that have shaped India’s foreign policy and its evolution starting from the Non-Aligned Movement, up to the end of the Cold War; decline of multilateralism and the nation state; and the challenges of globalization.This updated edition includes a new chapter on Pakistan. It examines the complexities in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Navigating a New World

    Canada's Global Future

    by Lloyd Axworthy ...
    In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront ... Read more

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  • The Beijing Consensus

    Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time

    by Stefan Halper ...
    Beijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to the West stems from its transformative brand of capitalism and an entirely different conception of the international community. In The Beijing Consensus, a leading expert in international relations presents a coherent integration of the many sides of U.S.-China relations. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Energy Politics

    by Brenda Shaffer ...
    It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly decry the use of energy as a "weapon" rather than accept it as a standard and legitimate tool of diplomacy.In Energy ... Read more

    $28.49 USD