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“stephen jurika”

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  • The Armed Forces In Contemporary Asian Societies

    by Edward A Olsen, Stephen Jurika ...
    First published in 1986. This book integrates current knowledge about the military, political, economic, and cultural roles of the armed forces in sixteen Asian countries, examining the interplay of these factors and their bearing on each society's civil-military relations. The authors explore the history, current status, and potential future course of each country. Analyzing all key Asian armed ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • A Contest for Supremacy

    China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    “Sober and well-informed. . . . A careful and compelling examination of the U.S.-Chinese relationship from a number of angles.”—Financial TimesThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power remains hotly contested. Political scientist Aaron L. Friedberg argues that our nation's leaders are failing to act expeditiously enough to counter ... Read more

    $17.79 USD

  • The Return of Marco Polo's World

    War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon turns for a tour d’horizon.”—The Wall Street JournalIn the late thirteenth century, Marco Polo began a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Blowback

    The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

    by Chalmers Johnson ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    "A brilliant and iconoclastic assault on American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War" from the bestselling author of The Sorrows of Empire ( Los Angeles Times ).The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American policies. In this sure-to-be-controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our ov... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Easternization

    Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond

    by Gideon Rachman ...
    ****NAMED NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017""**From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East.**Easternization is the defining trend of our age — the growing wealth of Asian nations is transforming the international balance of ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Geopolitics

    The Geography of International Relations

    by Saul Bernard Cohen ...
    Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological, economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes unleashed since the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings, and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • China’s Search for Security

    by Andrew Scobell, Andrew J. Nathan ...
    Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes. Understanding China's foreign policy means fully appreciating these geostrategic challenges, which persist even as the country gains increasing influence over its neighbors. Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell analyze ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Contest of the Century

    The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win

    by Geoff A. Dyer ...
    From the former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief, a balanced and far-seeing analysis of the emerging competition between China and the United States that will dominate twenty-first-century world affairs—an inside account of Beijing’s quest for influence and an explanation of how America can come out on top.The structure of global politics is shifting rapidly. After decades of rising, China has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The US vs China

    Asia's new Cold War?

    by Jude Woodward, Radhika Desai, Alan Freeman ...
    This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in Asia to counteract any challenge. Examining and challenging the dominant causal explanations for and professed intentions of this shift in US policy ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon

    Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

    by Shannon D. Beebe, Mary H. Kaldor ...
    The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious fundamentalism have flared dangerously, from Russia to Spain. The use of force is unlikely to help. What works when counter-insurgency ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Becoming Asia

    Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II

    by Alice Lyman Miller, Richard Wich ...
    At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable one, but the product of two key themes that have dominated Asia's international relations since 1945: the ... Read more

    $26.29 USD