Self-Determination

Martin Sieff offers a jaw-dropping survey of the history and politics of a region that people know surprisingly little about....

A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order....

Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy....

Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression....

Covering wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, and a retreat from international engagement with the UN, WHO, Pembroke sketches the history of America's retreat from universal principles....

An Independent Empire tells the stories of the people who defined the history of America's international relationships. Throughout the book are entertaining vignettes of intellectuals, spies, diplomats, and statesmen whose actions shaped the first 50 years of the United States....

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul....

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence, in times of war as well as peace....

At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln....

One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written an illuminating, genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill that focuses solely on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire....

Sichan Siv knew he would soon be a target of the Khmer Rouge - ending up, perhaps, as one of the millions of anonymous human skeletons buried in his nation's Killing Fields....

Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

Economic interdependence makes today's world a much more complex place than when balance of power theory was initially developed. Restraining Great Powers places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective....

There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future...

Breaking Away differs from countless other books on secession and decentralization in that it considers examples, benefits of secession, and radical decentralization in a much broader historical, geographical, and theoretical context....

Amid ambivalence and uncertainty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Shultz, George H. W. Bush, and a host of other actors engaged with adversaries....

In the months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the onslaught of the Nazi army and air force....

Prize-winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871....