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  • The Rivalry Peril

    How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy

    by Van Jackson, Michael Brenes ...
    How the U.S. policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possibleFor close to a decade, the U.S. government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will “eat our lunch,” in the words of Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China’s military power ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cold War Liberalism

    Power in a Time of Emergency

    Edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes ...
    Series series Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
    In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and liberal thought across the North Atlantic world. The essays in this volume examine the history of this important ideology from a variety of perspectives. Whereas most prior works that analyze Cold War liberalism have focused on small groupings of canonical intellectuals, this book ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • For Might and Right

    Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy

    by Michael Brenes ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    How did the global Cold War influence American politics at home? For Might and Right traces the story of how Cold War defense spending remade participatory politics, producing a powerful and dynamic political coalition that reached across party lines. This “Cold War coalition” favored massive defense spending over social welfare programs, bringing together a diverse array of actors from across the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    The Rivalry Peril

    How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy

    by Van Jackson, Michael Brenes ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    How the US policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possibleFor close to a decade, the US government has been preoccupied with the threat of China, fearing that the country will "eat our lunch," in the words of Joe Biden. The United States has crafted its foreign and domestic policy to help constrain China's military power and ... Read more

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    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    **From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century“An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times**China and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Erasing History

    How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future

    by Jason Stanley ...
    From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.In the United States, democracy is under attack by an ... Read more

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  • The Populist Explosion

    How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

    by John B. Judis ...
    What’s happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?There is, and it’s called populism.What is populism? And why have populist parties and candidates suddenly sprung up and even gained power in the United States and Western Europe? The emergence of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, France's Marine LePen, Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and the Alternative for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark New York Times bestseller and one of the most influential works of political thought of the modern era.First published in 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man made a provocative argument: that liberal democracy might represent the culmination of humanity’s long political evolution. In the decades since, that idea has been challenged, debated, and reconsidered as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

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  • The Triangle of Power

    Rebalancing the New World Order

    by Alexander Stubb ...
    The liberal world order that emerged after the Second World War – and expanded triumphantly following the Cold War – is unravelling. Multilateral cooperation is giving way to multipolar rivalry and conflict. Global norms are eroding. What comes next will define the rest of the century; the search is on for a new global framework – a rebalancing of power.In The Triangle of Power, Finnish President ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described ... Read more

    $8.99 USD