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1) Spycatcher
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts."
-Lee Child
"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
-Noah Boyd, New York Times bestselling author of Agent X and The Bricklayer
"A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher...
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Suspenseful, compelling, and utterly believable, The Bank of Fear is unparalleled spy fiction in the best tradition of Graham Greene and John le Carre-a twisting tale of the ruthless greed and money laundering behind today's headlines. Behind the doors of a London investment firm lies a grisly five billion dollar secret that directly involves the Ruler of Iraq. When British financial investigator Sam Hoffman and Iraqi computer analyst Lina Alway decide...
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"¡El pueblo vietnamita no será vencido!" Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh, fundador del Viet Minh y presidente de la República Democrática de Vietnam, se convirtió en una figura odiada por los Estados Unidos durante la Guerra de Vietnam tras haber derrotado a los colonialistas japoneses y franceses. El activista antiglobalización Walden Bello muestra por qué todavía los antiimperialistas de todo el mundo deben leer a Ho Chi Minh.
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From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to "break the cross and spill the wine," this book brings to life the Catholic Church's role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney provides a comprehensive guide to the remarkable path the Vatican has navigated to the present day, and a first-person...
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The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...
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A passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict.
Shortly after militant Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an e-mail to twenty friends, telling how the threatened U.S. reprisals against Afghanistan looked to him as an Afghan American. The message spread, and in a few days it had reached, and affected, millions of people-Afghans and Americans, soldiers and pacifists, conservative...
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called it a perfect little gem, the best Cold War thriller I've read in years," and the praise kept coming with critics hailing Littell as "the American Le Carré" (New York Times) and raving that his books were "as good as thriller writing gets" (The Washington Post). For his fourteenth novel, Robert Littell creates an engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly candid saga, bringing...
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The chapter headings are listed below to present the book structure clearly, which mirrors its thesis, namely that a world war is still possible brought about by a theoretically likely crisis whereupon a dictator will arise with a consequent world war, which may terminate the world, though we can avoid this future. 2 The World War 3 Problem 3 The Crisis Route 4 Systemic Crisis Causer: Communistish Russia is Metastable 5 Nationalistic Crisis Causer:...
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Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human rights policies and practices, and transforming the terms of public debate. Yet too often, the strategies these advocates have employed are not broadly shared or known. Campaigning for Justice addresses this gap to explain the "how" of the human rights movement. Written from a practitioner's perspective, this...
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Although India and China have very different experiences of colonialism, they respond to that history in a similar way-by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today. Wronged by Empire breaks new ground by blending this historical phenomenon, colonialism, with mixed methods-including archival research, newspaper data mining, and a new statistical method...
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Angela E. Stent is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her previous books include From Embargo to Ostpolitik and Areas of Challenge for Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980s.
The relationship between Russia and Germany has been pivotal in some of the most fateful events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the emergence of a new Europe from the ashes of communism. This is the first book to examine the recent...
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"Winner of the 2008 Best Book Award, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association" David A. Welch holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Justice and the Genesis of War, winner of the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies.
Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically...
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The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.
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Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill draws on his extensive experiences in earlier epidemics, natural disasters, and armed conflicts to offer lessons, wisdom, guidance and support to frontline workers. While he wrote the essays as weekly reflections in the early months of the pandemic for the thousands of...
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What America looks like to the rest of the world
Americans rarely used to think about the outside world. As the mightiest nation in history, the United States could do as it pleased. Now Americans have learned the hard way that what outsiders think matters. When terror struck last September 11, author Mark Hertsgaard was completing a trip around the world, gathering perceptions about America from people in fifteen countries. Whether sophisticated...
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To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? Why doesn't the U.S. act as a force for peace throughout the world? In this probing, provocative analysis, Michael Parenti reveals the hidden agenda of American foreign policy decisions....
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In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America's national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions of Washington's executive departments, agencies, and advisory bodies responsible for shaping U.S. foreign policy and national security.
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David A. Lake is Research Director for International Relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Entangling Relations (Princeton). Robert Powell is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written widely on the application of game theory to issues in strategic studies and international...
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Las guerras han motivado y forjado ciertos cambios sistémicos del orden internacional al punto de establecer reglas de juego para el combate y llevar a la creación de los Estados modernos. En ese sentido, el autor plantea que el terrorismo puede fungir también como motor de cambio en la arquitectura internacional. En últimas, el terrorismo es un fenómeno que, debido a su volatilidad, asimetría y naturaleza mutable no tiende a desaparecer, al...
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El presente libro constituye el primer producto conjunto entre el Centro de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales -CERI, de la Universidad del Desarrollo -UDD de Santiago de Chile, y el Centro de Estudios sobre Globalización e Integración -CEGLI, del Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración -CESA de Bogotá. Se trata del quinto tomo de la colección sobre globalización e integración publicada por la Editorial CESA, en la cual se exploran...
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