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Drawing on a wide network of contacts in governments, intelligence agencies and military organizations around the world,...
Drawing on a wide network of contacts in governments, intelligence agencies and military organizations around the world, this book will open readers' eyes to a world of covert operations that - praise it or fear it - is the nature of the US administration. Author: George Friedman ISBN:9780349118925
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Combining the grand sweep of history and the fine grain detail of insider account based on over one hundred exclusive in...
Combining the grand sweep of history and the fine grain detail of insider account based on over one hundred exclusive interviews, Alter Egos delves behind the speeches and ceremonies to chart the relationship which has fundamentally shaped the foreign policy of the US and the world. While Obama may often be restrained, inward looking and aware of the dangers of over commitment, Hillary Clinton typical hard-edged, pragmatic and unabashedly old fashioned. Whether tackling specify problems in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, and Russia, or developing broader approaches in Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa, their differences have shaped how America has engaged globally, and this account6 provides a fascinating Author: Mark Landier ISBN: 9780753556887
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This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von...
This amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive book synthesizes the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz with the historical legacies of statesmen, warriors, seducers, and con men throughout the ages. Author: Robert Greene ISBN:9781861972781
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In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his...
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a perspective from far above the globe, it examines the great tectonic plates of history and the motivations of nations, explaining the attitudes that states and empires have taken to the rest of the world from the formation of Europe to our own times. Kissinger identifies four great 'world orders' in history - the European, Islamic, Chinese and American. Since the end of Charlemagne's empire, and especially since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Europeans have striven for balance in international affairs, first in their own continent and then globally. Islamic states have looked to their destined expansion over regions populated by unbelievers, a position exemplified today by Iran under the ayatollahs. For over 2000 years the Chinese have seen 'all under Heaven' as being tributary to the Chinese Emperor. America views itself as a 'city on a hill', a beacon to the world, whose values have universal validity. How have these attitudes evolved and how have they shaped the histories of their nations, regions, and the rest of the world? What has happened when they have come into contact with each other? How have they balanced legitimacy and power at different times? What is the condition of each in our contemporary world, and how are they shaping relations between states now? To answer these questions Henry Kissinger draws upon a lifetime's historical study and unmatched experience as a world statesman. His account is shot through with observations about how historical change takes place, how some leaders shape their times and others fail to do so, and how far states can stray from the ideas which define them. World Order is a masterpiece of narrative, analysis and portraits of great historical actors that only Henry Kissinger could have written. Author: Henry Kissinger ISBN:9780141979007
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