Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
Jun 6, 2019The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it.
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Capital Choices: Sectoral Politics and the Variation of Sovereign Wealth
Jul 8, 2019Capital Choices analyzes the creation of different SWFs from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the...
View ArticleValuing U.S. National Parks and Programs
Aug 6, 2019Valuing National Parks and Programs provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic...
View ArticlePromoting Democracy: The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times
Aug 20, 2019Democracy promotion is a central pillar of the foreign policy of many states, but the results are often disappointing. In Promoting Democracy, Manal A. Jamal examines why these efforts...
View ArticleThe Education of an Idealist
Sep 10, 2019Former US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power’s new book The Education of an Idealist (Sept. 2019) traces her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential...
View ArticleThe Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought
Sep 17, 2019A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change.The Arab Spring precipitated...
View ArticleCivil Action and the Dynamics of Violence
Sep 25, 2019A new book edited by Erica Chenoweth, Deborah Avant, Marie Berry, Rachel Epstein, Cullen Hendrix, Oliver Kaplan, and Timothy Sisk, Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence, looks at recent...
View ArticleTough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For
Oct 8, 2019In Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Susan E. Rice—National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations—reveals her surprising...
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Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-Induced Financial Distress
Nov 24, 2019This chapter treats disaster response policies directed at the economic recovery of private households. First, we examine problems of disaster-induced financial distress from a legal and...
View ArticleDo Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
Jan 2, 2020In his new book, Do Morals Matter, Joseph S. Nye provides a penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in American foreign policy after 1945 by examining each presidency from Truman to Trump.
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Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate
Mar 5, 2020The opening of the British archives has seen historians uncover the secrets of the UK's nuclear weapons programme since the 1990s. While a growing number have sought to expose these former...
View ArticleA State of Mind: Faith and the CIA
May 28, 2020A State of Mind: Faith and the CIA is a memoir. It is also a journey of faith. The meaning of the West Point honor code - "duty, honor, country" is tested by real world experiences in...
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China's Nuclear Force Modernization
Jun 10, 2020Since 2015 China has shown it is quickly modernising its nuclear force through adding more and “better” intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and multiple independently targetable...
View ArticleAmerica in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Aug 4, 2020Ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker, America in the World tells the vibrant story of American diplomacy.
View ArticleBeyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century
Aug 11, 2020Drawing on two decades of government efforts to “secure the homeland,” experts offer crucial strategic lessons and detailed recommendations for homeland security.
View ArticleJFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956
Sep 8, 2020Fredrik Logevall, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive,...
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Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States
Sep 17, 2020In Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States, Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen argue that lynching emerges when neither the state nor its challengers have...
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Iran: Leading With Diplomacy
Sep 22, 2020In this edited volume, noted experts on the region lay out a better long-term strategy for protecting U.S. interests in the Middle East. The authors articulate a vision that is both...
View ArticleThe Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year
Dec 21, 2020The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining A Revolutionary Year (London, UK: Bloomsbury and I.B. Tauris 2020) serves as a conversation between scholars specializing in different aspects of the...
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Damage Control: The Breach of the Budapest Memorandum and the Nuclear...
Mar 1, 2021The Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), signed in 1994 by Ukraine, and the three NPT...
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