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  • The Ties That Divide

    Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Conflict

    by Stephen Saideman ...
    Ethnic conflicts have created crises within NATO and between NATO and Russia, produced massive flows of refugees, destabilized neighboring countries, and increased the risk of nuclear war between Pakistan and India. Interventions have cost the United States, the United Nations, and other actors billions of dollars.While scholars and policymakers have devoted considerable attention to this issue, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Adapting in the Dust

    Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan

    by Stephen M. Saideman ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers but also of its politicians, public servants, and policy makers. In Adapting in the Dust, Stephen M. ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • For Kin or Country

    Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War

    by R. William Ayres, Stephen Saideman ...
    The collapse of an empire can result in the division of families and the redrawing of geographical boundaries. New leaders promise the return of people and territories that may have been lost in the past, often advocating aggressive foreign policies that can result in costly and devastating wars. The final years of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, the end of European colonization in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • From Kinshasa to Kandahar

    Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective

    by Stephanie M. Bangarth, Duane Bratt, Darren Brunk, Hevina S. Dashwood, Jean Daudelin, Tom Keating, Stephen Saideman, Julian Schofield, Kevin Spooner, Andrew Thompson, David Webster ...
    Series Book 7 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series
    Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, and Afghanistan ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Overseen or Overlooked?

    Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability

    by David P. Auerswald, Philippe Lagassé, Stephen M. Saideman ...
    "War is too important to be left to the generals," declared French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau over a century ago. But which civilians, exactly, play the most important roles in controlling the armed forces? When civilian control is studied, the focus is typically on those in the upper echelons of the executive branch: presidents, prime ministers, or defense secretaries. Yet, because ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • The China Fantasy

    Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China

    by James Mann ...
    **The book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans"[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Europe: In or Out?

    Everything You Need to Know

    by David Charter ...
    What will happen if Britain leaves the EU, and how will it affect you? Europe: vital for Britain's economy and global standing or a bureaucratic monster hell-bent on destroying our national sovereignty? And why is no one talking about what leaving Europe would actually mean? Addressing the real issues surrounding a potential exit from the EU - including jobs, travel, immigration, investment, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Does America Need a Foreign Policy?

    Toward a New Diplomacy for the 21st Century

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    In this timely, thoughtful, and important book, America's most famous diplomat explains why we urgently need a new and coherent foreign policy and what our foreign policy goals should be in this new millennium.In seven accessible chapters, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? provides a crystalline assessment of how the United States' ascendancy as the world's dominant presence in the twentieth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Return of History and the End of Dreams

    by Robert Kagan ...
    Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between western liberalism and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Borderline Chaos

    How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong

    by Tony Keller ...
    Winner of the 2025-26 Donner Prize for Canada's Best Public Policy BookIs immigration a problem or an opportunity? Do we need walls or doors? The answer to both questions is yes.For decades, Canada was an outlier. The country took in more immigrants than other developed countries, with little public opposition. Whatever Canada was doing, it seemed to be working. Immigration was popular with voters ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The European Union

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Alasdair Blair ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The world's greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic heavyweight with a GDP even larger than the US. But how much do we really know about the nature and aims of the EU, the benefits and costs membership brings, and its impact on peoples' everyday lives? And, in an increasingly multipolar world, can it ever emerge as a global superpower, or do widespread concerns about ... Read more

    $5.99 USD