Politics and government

This new study covers the civil and military lessons of the war in Afghanistan as of 2015, the trends at the time of transition, and the risks inherent in the current approach to supporting Afghanistan.

The tensions between the Koreas-and the potential involvement of China, Japan, Russia, and the United States in a Korean conflict-create a nearly open-ended spectrum of possible conflicts.

This new edited volume analyzes the Middle East's political, strategic, and economic realities in 2015, looking at both old and new challenges, how political actors are evolving, and how policymakers can think strategically about the region.

Project Atom is a forward-looking, "e;blue-sky"e; review of U.

Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia's recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.

This report is the first regional study in the CSIS Federated Defense series.

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor.

Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study.

In a surprising number of espionage cases sex has played a significant role-often only in the background-possibly as a reason why a particular individual has lived beyond his means and is in desperate need of cash.

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative.

'Glorious' Guardian'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATORIn his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors.

A brilliant, glittering intelligence Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deservesWritten during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations.

In this profoundly polarized era, the nation has been transfixed on the politics of Washington and its seemingly impenetrable gridlock.

The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections.

High courts around the world hold a revered place in the legal hierarchy.

A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.

Although the friendship between George Washington and James Madison was eclipsed in the early 1790s by the alliances of Madison with Jefferson and Washington with Hamilton, their collaboration remains central to the constitutional revolution that launched the American experiment in republican government.

Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A.

In this lively analysis, Daniel Wirls examines the Senate in relation to our other institutions of government and the constitutional system as a whole, exposing the role of the "e;world's greatest deliberative body"e; in undermining effective government and maintaining white supremacy in America.

Was aviation pioneer and popular American hero Charles A.

Already tired of the left-wing media spin on the 2008 elections?

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

Already tired of the left-wing media spin on the 2008 elections?

Covering everything from abortion to gun control to immigration, this book explains policies and positions of today's Democratic and Republican parties, giving readers a complete understanding of modern-day American politics and the 2016 presidential race.

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection.

This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society.

Covering everything from abortion to gun control to immigration, this book explains policies and positions of today's Democratic and Republican parties, giving readers a complete understanding of modern-day American politics and the 2016 presidential race.

In recent years, workers earnings have hardly grown, violence and crime have plagued the inner cities, homelessness and public begging have become commonplace, and family life has greatly deteriorated.

This book contains a collection of Stephen Hess's best essays on the presidency.

In April 1994, black and white South Africans voted for the first time for a nonracial government.

Military analyst Michael O'Hanlon shows how outside forces could successfully intervene to stop an ongoing cycle of warfare in a country whose government has collapsed or come under severe internal challenge.

In this book, Stephen Hess examines why certain Senators are considered more "e;"e;newsworthy"e;"e; than others.

This book enables readers to learn about upstanders, partisans, and survivors from first-hand perspectives that reveal the many forms of resistance-some bold and defiant, some subtle-to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Natural resource and environmental conflicts have long been issues confronting human societies.

Now in its fourth edition and completely updated, this is the most comprehensive book on constitutional amendments and proposed amendments available.

This book is the most comprehensive review of all the major proposals to rewrite, revise, or even replace the U.

This book provides a concise and comprehensive description of all of the borders of every country in the contemporary world, including physical boundaries, their historical evolution, and border-related conflicts with other countries.

This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.

For over four years, Washington responded to war in Bosnia by handing the problem to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action.

Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlighten fellow citizens reflected not only a love of learning but also a love of freedom.

For only the second time in close to a quarter century, the U.

With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organized health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.

Effective government requires that institutions be strong enough to control the efforts of organized, entrenched special interests in favor of the broader interests shared but poorly articulated by most members of society.

An estimated 25 million people worldwide are internally displaced a significantly larger population than the 18 million refugees.

Each year, millions of American families struggle with the expense of higher education.

Eager to make government work better, cost less, and be more accountable, reformers are embracing a common prescription: consolidate and downsize government agencies to eliminate duplication and overlap.

Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age.

As a result of the 1994 midterm election, the Republicans took control of both houses of Congress and divided government returned to Washington.

The news media, especially television, have become a fixture on Capitol Hill in the past twenty years.