International relations

Image, Perception, and the Making of U.

The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war.

Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

In this important new book, Douglas Little explores the political and cultural turmoil that led U.

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses.

China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country.

This book presents what numerous reviewers have called the best existing argument for the abolition of war, demonstrating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war.

Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr.

When the members of the first baseball players' union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism became less of a "e;curiosity shop"e; phenomenon and moved into the mainstream.

In 1923, William Lewis Judy purchased Dog World magazine for just over $1,000.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text.

Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten.

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961.

This book highlights how resource constraints and client agency impact China's patronage policy in their pursuit of regional geopolitical power.

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics.

This is the first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R.

Initially stationed at the U.

The debate surrounding "e;fake news"e; versus "e;real"e; news is nothing new.

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer.

This handbook provides a methodical, comprehensive, and unifying overview of the vibrant yet disparate scholarship on populism and foreign policy.

Stories from the Civil War through WWIIIn The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations.

The First Counterspyis the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web.

This book represents the first ever comprehensive study of the EU's foreign and security policy in Bosnia.

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension.

Developed nations strive to create the impression that their hearts and pockets bleed for the developing world.

Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent.

Paranoid visions explores the history of the spy and conspiracy genres on British television, from 1960s Cold War series through 1980s conspiracy dramas to contemporary 'war on terror' thrillers.

This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations.

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance.

In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "e;realism,"e; a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War.

Memory and the future of Europe examines the role of collective memory in the origins and development of the European Union.

Cosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order.

People everywhere are more dependent than ever on foreign migrants, products, and ideas-and more xenophobic.

Since the end of the Cold War, the protection of human life has been a key priority of the international community.

This edited collection surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.

Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "e;hard targets.

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s.

This unique study breaks new ground in engaging the study of Northern Ireland politics directly with broader debates about European integration and European governance.

This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020.

Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era.

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats.

Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I.

The early decades of the Cold War presented seemingly boundless opportunity for the construction of "e;laboratories"e; of American society abroad: microcosms where experts could scale down problems of geopolitics to manageable size, and where locals could be systematically directed toward American visions of capitalist modernity.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.