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Language
English
Description
The author of the acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "The Next 100 Years" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required by the decade's leaders.
2) World order
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kissinger offers his analysis of the twenty-first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
430 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The distinguished political analyst John Judis has brought out a book with Columbia Global Reports during each of the last three national political seasons: The Populist Explosion in 2016, The Nationalist Revival in 2018, and The Socialist Awakening in 2020. Together, these books chart the rise during the second decade of the twenty-first century of a new and unexpected political mood produced by widespread dissatisfaction with the results of the...
Author
Publisher
Economist Books, an imprint of Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world today rests on increasingly unstable fault lines. From the conflict in Ukraine or fresh upheavals in the Middle East to the threats posed to humanity by a global pandemic, climate change, and natural disasters, the world's danger zones once again draw their battle lines across our hyper-connected, yet fragmented globe. In this revised and updated fourth edition, join veteran Economist journalist John Andrews as he analyzes the old enmities...
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Walls are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more. Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past ten years, and they are redefining our political landscape. ; There are many reasons why we erect walls, because we are divided in many ways: wealth, race, religion, politics. In Europe the ruptures of the past decade threaten not only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution will require the West to find a new way forward if its...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. As we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington's insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the "West" and its "special relationships," its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, the shape of the "Obama Doctrine" is finally coming into full view. It has been consistently cautious since Obama was inaugurated in 2009, but recent events in the Middle East, Eastern Europe,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part history and part manifesto, The Price of Prosperity exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face, and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength--and the foundation for a national renewal. To understand how great powers unravel, Buchholz identifies five potent and paradoxical forces that undermine nations after they achieve economic success. These include falling birthrates,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 611 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.
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