International relations

This book presents an insider's view of the federal government's dual mission to stop the flow of illegal drugs across our borders and to prevent streams of drug money from financing drug cartels, insurgents, and terrorists.

The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world.

In this book, Jacques J.

For Ukraine, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance.

Herbert Hoover and World Peace summarizes Hoover's career-long efforts to preserve peace in the world and to help America avoid unnecessary wars, from his opposition to our entry into World War I to his proposed - and rejected - Cold War strategy, which would have avoided the Vietnam War.

Public-Private Partnerships aims to discover the conditions under which public private partnerships may provide a viable alternative to the provision of public services and infrastructures by the state, while achieving efficient, sustainable, peaceful, and equitable development in four transition countries: China, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

Naval Power in Action focuses attention to the United States' current competition with China, laying out a case for acting in three areas: strengthen the homeland to economic coercion, modernize and reorganize institutions to successfully compete, and winning the positional fight with China over markets and military posture.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger.

As democracy has become the preferred system of government in the hemisphere in the past thirty years or so, its promotion and defense have also become the cornerstone and raison d'etre of the Organization of American States (OAS)-the central and principal inter-governmental institution in the Western Hemisphere.

It was an incredible destiny for a man who repeatedly announced that he was "e;without ambition.

Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror.

A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relationsThe United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution.

The authors of this book are uniquely qualified to analyze the contemporary security landscape and promote necessary and pressing change.

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists compares two historic men of power and influence, Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini, to analyze the commonality of practices and mannerisms between the two.

To penetrate the United States and Britain's markets with illicit drugs, Jamaican traffickers employed diverse and novel transportation methods and techniques in the post-1990 era that were more sophisticated than the trafficking of the 1980's.

The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882.

The way we live, work, and die-alone and with other Americans-have so many hidden layers that we might as well say that there are two Americas: one we think we know and the other virtually unknown to us.

This memoir attempts to capture the humor and sheer incongruity of working across cultures in an international career spanning diplomacy and education.

Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979.

In The Anatomy of Deception, Abele reconstructs the public dialogue that led to the United States collectively making the decision to invade and occupy the sovereign nation of Iraq.

Using the Moyen Bani Programme as an example, External Assistance or External Interference gives an analysis of a grassroots conflict which, not foreseen at project design, lasted six years in Mali.

This book attempts to use numerous volumes of mostly unpublished diaries for examining issues of Taiwanese identity.

Were there any missed chances to build a more peaceful world than the present one after the Cold War?

Corruption in Nigeria addresses the effects of corruption in Nigeria and provides a concise overview for a lasting solution.

Conflict in the Horn of Africa examines how the Kenya-Somalia border problem has deep roots in pre-colonial and colonial times mirroring the phenomenon of shifting territorial and human frontiers and treaties which Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia made before and after World Wars I and II.

Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist?

In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China.

'Global War on Terrorism' or Global War over Terra Africana?

This book examines "e;eternal colonialism,"e; a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state.

Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War.

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I.

Media and Technology in Emerging African Democracies is a standard text that will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT).

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees.

Twenty-First Century World Powers and Changing Alignments provides an in-depth analysis of global political relations that exist between the most powerful countries of the world such as United States, Russia, England, China and others.

Peaceful War is an epic analysis of the unfolding drama between the clashing forces of the Chinese dream and American destiny.

As debate continues about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its root causes simmer, Palestinian refugees have become increasingly invisible.

In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies.

To succeed in achieving its national security objectives the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power.

Between 2003 and 2010, under President Lula, Celso Amorim was at the forefront of an important period in the history of Brazil's international relations-one in which the country practiced a newly assertive foreign policy, extending its diplomatic reach to the global stage.

This comprehensive and clearly written textbook offers a long-awaited introduction to the trade policy of the European Union, the world's largest trading entity.

The history of Britain's complex relationship with Europe, untangled"The best short introduction to both the political realignment that produced the 2016 Referendum result and the immense fallout since.

How a president who prided himself on his decisiveness vacillated between policy approaches in the Middle East.

Children's human rights are regularly violated around the world.

For half a century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in conflict.

China has become an undisputed global phenomenon, yet twenty-five years ago, its remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen.

China's rapid military and economic growth has fuelled a steady stream of analysis and debate about the PRC's motivations and objectives regarding the United States.

Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status.