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In the face of war with Russia, Ukraine has built a sovereign digital economy, or a national 'State in a Smartphone,' by leveraging digital technologies, cryptocurrencies, and digitized artwork, to rebuild their financial system and fund their government and military. This book sheds light on how Ukraine has built this 'State in a Smartphone,' a brand-new paradigm, and how other nations around the world could do the same, especially when faced with extreme adversity. This book demonstrates Ukraine's incredible resilience through Crypto Hipster podcast interviews. with founders, artists and ...

Diversifying Diplomacy tells the story of Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black woman who beat the odds and challenged the status quo. Inspired by the strong women in her life, she followed in the footsteps of the few women who had gone before her in her effort to make the Foreign Service reflect the diverse faces of the United States. The youngest child of parents who left the segregated Old South to raise their family in Massachusetts, Elam-Thomas distinguished herself with a diplomatic career at a time when few colleagues looked like her.

This book will trace the post-colonial Palestinian aspiration since the beginning of the 20th century and will provide the arguments for the immediate need for the realization of the state of Palestine NOW.

What should the future of British foreign policy look like? For too long, successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain’s military capabilities. As we approach the middle years of the twenty-first century, a new set of urgent and daunting challenges lie ahead, including climate change, technological development, the rise of AI, and a growing threat from China. The need for us to reconcile ourselves with our position in the world has never been more acute.

For decades, the world was told that history had ended. That open markets, global institutions, and shared values would replace rivalry, power politics, and national self-interest. That cooperation would triumph over competition. That stability was inevitable. It didn’t happen. Instead, the global order is fragmenting. Alliances are straining. Institutions are losing authority. Nations are rearming, reshoring industry, hardening borders, and recalculating loyalty through cold-eyed cost-benefit analysis. Flexible Realism is a clear, unsettling examination of this transformation. In this ...

Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In The Gulf, Michael F. Cairo reveals how, despite many similarities, father and son pursued very different international strategies. He explores how the personality, beliefs, and leadership style of each man influenced contemporary US foreign policy.

In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. 

Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost - the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013, 30 men and women from 18 countries - the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise - decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic.

Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East distills eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic into a clarion call for change. Here Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons: American consumerism, technology, and investment.

Canada Defies Annexation: The Fight to Remain Free explores Canada’s long and determined resistance to US annexation efforts. From historical attempts to modern political maneuvers, this book uncovers the key moments, leaders, and decisions that shaped Canada’s sovereignty.

With a compelling mix of history, politics, and real-world analysis, this book challenges the notion of Canada ever becoming the 51st state. If you’re interested in Canadian independence, US-Canada relations, or geopolitical strategy, this book is a must-listen.

A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to make it a special relationship, a little more diplomacy may be required… When it came to Charles and Mary Bagot, the gossips of Regency England had more than their fill. The marriage, initially the toast of high...

From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden—that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of.

A Dream for Peace is the most surprising ambassador's memoir. It is the American version of this very rich and captivating life story paved with many bumps, twists, and turns, multiple lives in one life. In the middle of the diplomatic imbroglios, the author unfolds the chronicle of a fascinating love story. A devout Muslim and interfaith leader, he walks with you through Mecca, the Vatican and Jerusalem. A compelling story for any listener.

The Friendship That Shaped Jewish History is the story of one Jewish man, Eddie Jacobson, who influenced his lifelong friend, Harry S. Truman, who had become President of the United States, to recognize David Ben-Gurion’s provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. It is not widely known, but if it were not for Jacobson’s connection to Truman, the opposition might have been able to block the Jewish country’s rebirth. Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins encapsulates the history of these two men, and how each accepted their responsibilities in the roles for which ...

A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to make it a special relationship, a little more diplomacy may be required… When it came to Charles and Mary Bagot, the gossips of Regency England had more than their fill. The marriage, initially the toast of high...

2024年11月、米国大統領選挙が行われる。その選挙活動はすでに始まっているが、失策続きの民主党は、どのような動きをするのか。現大統領ジョー・バイデンはいまどのような窮地にいるのか。ハンター・バイデンの運命は。民主党ＶＳ共和党の勢力分布はどう変動するのか。

World War III: Humanity Sacrificed is a chilling yet deeply analytical exploration of how the modern world collapsed into global conflict — and why it was inevitable. Written by Murat Aibassov, an engineer who predicted the war more than a decade before it began, this audiobook exposes the hidden architecture of global systems, the cyclic nature of civilizational collapse, and the elite mechanisms that shape history behind the scenes.

The Arctic is no longer a frozen edge of the map. It is becoming the center of global power. As polar ice retreats, the world’s northern frontier is opening faster than policymakers, markets, and militaries expected. New shipping lanes are emerging. Vast reserves of energy, minerals, and rare earth elements are becoming accessible. Geography, long ignored, is returning as a decisive force in international strategy. At the center of this transformation lies Greenland and the Arctic region as a whole, where the interests of the United States and Russia increasingly overlap. The Arctic ...

「本書は外交官としての私の遺言だ」前駐豪大使　覚悟の手記　日本を駄目にした政治家と官僚は誰だ？前駐オーストラリア大使が40年間の外交官人生を懸けた覚悟の手記！

For the better part of the past century there are two families who have captured the public's imagination, the British royals and the closest thing the U.S. has to royalty, the Kennedy clan. Much ink has been spilled on these two cultural and political institutions over the years, but no one has examined these two dynasties side by side. Journalist and royals expert Caroline Hallemann aims to do just that when the question of what role these dynasties play and whether we still need them looms large.