Diplomacy

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...

Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and...

"A history, an analysis, and a set of prescriptions for the greatest geopolitical challenge of our time: the threat to the democratic world posed by China and Russia." —Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc. "A monumental account of contemporary geopolitics"—Francis Fukuyama, author of...

America has a long history of diplomacy–ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, and James Baker–now is your chance to see the impact these Americans have had on the world. Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign...

From the #1 bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys, a startling new look at the events that set the stage for WWII. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the...

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup—the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “beautifully written and superbly researched dual biography” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham “paints a powerful portrait of the enormous friendship between World War II allies [Franklin] Roosevelt and...

An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement “A fine reassessment of Allied politics and...

In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Economist The Christian Science Monitor Bloomberg Businessweek The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating...

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key...

John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government....

Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency. Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several...

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....

A #1 international bestseller from a NATO expert, this deeply researched and chillingly plausible scenario imagines what might happen should Putin defeat Ukraine and not stop there. March 2028. Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon “[A]...

A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the "America first" mind-set and the possibilities for a new way forward....

“A masterful diplomatic memoir” (The Washington Post) from CIA director and career ambassador William J. Burns, from his service under five presidents to his personal encounters with Vladimir Putin and other world leaders—an impassioned argument for the enduring value of diplomacy in...

In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push...

Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what’s at stake for Israel and the world.

“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting—and momentous—eight years of his life. When Franklin embarked, the colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or...

March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities is now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply? What will the alliance decide? Will they risk nuclear war?

El Sha fue expulsado de Irán por la mayoría chiita persa en un violento levantamiento en 1979, basado en ideologías fundamentalistas extremas como el antisemitismo, el antiamericanismo, los árabes, los europeos y el antiislámico. En ese levantamiento, el Estado fue tomado por cientos de miles de líderes religiosos y mulás, y el ayatolá Jomeini se convirtió en el líder supremo de la nación, donde los seguidores del chiismo lo consideraban un profeta viviente. El líder supremo emite fatwas, o interpretaciones del Corán, que los seguidores del chiismo consideran la palabra de Dios...

The Shah was expelled from Iran by the Persian Shiite majority in a violent uprising in 1979 based on antisemitism, anti-Americanism, anti-Arab, anti-European, and anti-Islamic extreme fundamentalist ideologies in which the state was overtaken by the hundreds of thousands of religious leaders, Mullahs, and the Ayatollah Khomeini became the supreme leader of the nation in which he was considered a living prophet by the followers of Shiism. The supreme leader issues fatwas, or interpretations of the Quran, that are seen as the word of God or Allah by followers of Shiism. Shiism has its ...

We bomb cities, burn children, bury truth, and call it defence. War kills millions and teaches nothing. We say never again, then do it again — with better weapons and bigger lies. This book asks a dangerous question: What if war isn’t just tragic... but fundamentally insane? War Is Insane dives into the machinery of modern conflict — from groupthink and propaganda to wounded pride and political cowardice. It strips away the myths and exposes the ugly logic beneath them. Combining psychological insight, historical analysis, and sharp satire, it challenges everything you thought you ...

The Polyglot Paper series is designed to provide extensive reading opportunities in interesting subjects for those learning foreign languages. This edition, designed for those learning English, addresses the interesting US-Mexico relationship. The United States–Mexico relationship is not merely bilateral—it is a civilizational frontier relationship shaped by empire, law, language, race, and security logics that have evolved from colonial contact zones to a hybrid economic-security ecosystem defined by trade integration, migration flows, and narcotics conflict.

Future World: One Global Government, One Currency, Global Defence Forces and Uniform Taxes — The Author’s Vision presents a bold and thought-provoking exploration of how humanity might evolve toward greater unity in response to rapid technological advancement and growing global challenges. As artificial intelligence, space technology, digital economies, and medical breakthroughs reshape civilization, traditional systems of governance and cooperation are increasingly tested by conflicts, inequality, climate change, and economic instability. In this visionary work, M K Devidasan examines ...

The US-China autonomous vehicle divide is the investment opportunity of a generation—and almost no one is pricing it correctly. America has built the most admired self-driving technology on Earth. Waymo delivers 450,000 driverless rides per week across six cities. Tesla’s market capitalization exceeds $1.5 trillion. Investors have poured over $100 billion into the autonomous dream. The Cathedral of Code is magnificent. Meanwhile, China has quietly built something different: not an autonomous driving ecosystem but an embodied-intelligence platform — five interconnected nodes spanning ...

In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup—the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in Asia, mostly...

Another geopolitical subseries edition on Curação for the Polyglot Papers, a series designed to help people learn advanced terminology in several languages by reading interesting stories and exposing them to elaborative extensive reading. This book delves into the Curação and US Relationship on the current geopolitical stage.

Synopsis This updated edition examines Hoover's career in detail, and looks at his role in the development of the Cold War against Communism. With considerable detail and an excellent selection of photographs, Kiel traces Hoover's anti-communism to his earliest experiences, during WW I. Well- documented and thought provoking, this study looks at the connections between Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, the assassination of President John Kennedy, and the escalation of the Vietnam War. In Kiel's updated New Conclusion (2025), the author adds new photographs of a number of witnesses to JFK's ...