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Emerging Democracies eBook Series

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  • Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability

    Duration, Financial Control, and Institutions

    by Victor C Shih ...
    Series series Emerging Democracies
    Over two billion people still live under authoritarian rule. Moreover, authoritarian regimes around the world command enormous financial and economic resources, rivaling those controlled by advanced democracies. Yet authoritarian regimes as a whole are facing their greatest challenges in the recent two decades due to rebellions and economic stress. Extended periods of hardship have the potential ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • A World in Disarray

    American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

    by Richard Haass ...
    **“A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAn examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States unable to shape the world in its image, from the president of the Council on Foreign Relations**Things fall ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Return of History and the End of Dreams

    by Robert Kagan ...
    Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between western liberalism and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Post-Western World

    How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order

    by Oliver Stuenkel ...
    With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century? Will the so-called BRICS prove to be a disruptive force in global affairs? Are we headed ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia

    Lessons not learned

    Edited by Richard Auty, Indra de Soysa ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural resource endowment. The book examines the synergies between energy-rich and energy-poor states and highlights the practical consequences of both well-managed and poorly-managed ... Read more

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  • The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945–2011

    by Michael Mann ...
    Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • International Mediation

    by Paul F. Diehl, J. Michael Greig ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Conflicts in the international system, both among and within states, bring death, destruction, and human misery. Understanding how third parties use mediation to encourage settlements and establish a durable peace among belligerents is vital for managing these conflicts. Among many features, this book empirically examines the history of post-World War II mediation efforts to:Chart the historical ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Understanding the Global Community

    Edited by Suzette R. Grillot, Zach P. Messitte, Ph.D ...
    Since the end of the Cold War,interaction among communities across the globe has increased exponentially. Globalization has changed how we live, how we communicate, what we eat, and how we travel around the world. What do such social, political, and economic changes mean in a twenty-first-century context?Understanding the Global Community explores these and other key questions, offering a concise ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

    Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

    Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics

    by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History ...
    In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Power and Willpower in the American Future

    Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline

    by Robert J. Lieber ...
    To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and serious. Yet if we take a longer view, much of the discourse about decline appears exaggerated, hyperbolic and ahistorical. Why? First, because of the deep underlying strengths of the United States. These include not only size, population, demography and resources, but ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Perspectives on International Relations

    Power, Institutions, and Ideas

    by Henry R. Nau ...
    "Nau clarifies that which is complicated, thereby allowing students to make better sense of their world and to become better global citizens."—Stewart Dippel, University of the OzarksHenry R. Nau’s best-selling book, Perspectives on International Relations, is admired for its even-handed presentation of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical theory and for integrating these perspectives ... Read more

    $100.79 USD