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"Honorable Mention for the 2010 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)" Grigore Pop-Eleches is assistant professor of politics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
The wave of neoliberal economic reforms in the developing world since the 1980s has been regarded as the result of both severe economic crises and policy pressures...
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The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War.
Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half...
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An accessible, comprehensive handbook to achieving change in any environment, featuring time-tested methods and practical tips from real activists.
As President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, which since 1982 has been recognizing people who "stick their necks out for the common good," John Graham has seen what hundreds of average citizens around the world have done to bring about constructive change. He's drawn on their experiences, his own as a...
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Sanctions have become the go-to foreign policy tool for the United States. Coercive economic measures such as trade tariffs, financial penalties, and export controls affect large numbers of companies and states across the globe. Some of these penalties target nonstate actors, such as Colombian drug cartels and Islamist terror groups, others apply to entire countries, including North Korea, Iran, and Russia. U.S. policy makers see sanctions as a low-cost...
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The iconoclastic Black Republican strategist calls out leaders who fan the flames of racial rhetoric and sabotage a post-racial America
The euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's historic election had commentators naïvely trumpeting the beginning of a "post-racial America." In Blackwards, Ron Christie shows that not only is the opposite true, but black leadership today is effectively working against this goal by advancing an extremist agenda of separatism...
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Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the War in Vietnam, and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change - music, literature, art, religion, and science - and...
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As a retired lawmaker who advocated for health care reform, I witnessed the vast inequities in medical care and coverage, that I and my mother received. The realization that my coverage was far more comprehensive inspired me to write this book. I aim to highlight these inequities that impact many seniors who, sadly, lack the support networks that my family was able to provide for our mother. I hope this book shows how to cultivate a healthy lifestyle...
16408) Conversations in Tehran
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In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) returned to Iran after a two-year absence--on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the Reform movement. They had come to interview several of the men and women who had propelled Mohammad Khatami to the presidency in 1997, with a mission to rebuild a civil society in...
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"Common Sense & The American Crisis" presents a collection of Thomas Paine's most influential pamphlets that ignited the flames of the American Revolution. This book brings together Paine's passionate and persuasive arguments that rallied the colonists towards independence. His clear and compelling prose laid out the case for breaking free from British rule and establishing a new nation founded on democratic principles. Essential reading for understanding...
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Des paradis fiscaux au jazz de Port-au-Prince, de la pertinence des cégeps au souci de vérité en littérature, Nouveau Projet 10 balaye de nombreux sujets. Le dossier central (plus de 50 pages) porte quant à lui sur Montréal. Dans le cadre du 375e anniversaire de sa fondation, nous avons eu envie de réfléchir à son passé, son présent, son avenir. Nous avons demandé à une vingtaine d'écrivains, de chercheurs, de dramaturges, d'historiens,...
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While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettina makes sense of the region's diverse, complex political experiences of the Cold War era. Cross-fertilized by Latin American and Anglophone historiography, his account shifts from an overemphasis on U.S. interventions toward a comprehensive Latin American perspective....
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President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination. In the minds of media pundits and commentators, he personifies Russia itself - a country riven with contradictions, enthralling and yet always a threat to world peace.
But recent propaganda images that define public debate around growing tensions with Russia are not new or arbitrary. Russia and the Media asks, what is the role of Western journalism in...
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In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners...
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From the beginning, the new America become an inspiration and attraction for all emigrants from the Old World. To become a millionaire was everyone's dream-the American dream. A new concept of the American millionaire has developed, where everyone can become a millionaire in the USA in a traditional way "from rags to riches" i.e., through thrift, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, hard work, frugality, self-sacrifice, dignity, and honor. Millionaires...
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The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern situation appeared untenable. Placing their statesmanship and writings in relief helps to illuminate prudence in its full dimensions: inflected with caution...
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The flaws in the American electoral process have become more apparent over many years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, but several major structural weaknesses exacerbated doubts in the 2016 campaign, worsening party divisions and further corroding public trust in the electoral process. It is impossible to fix a problem without understanding its nature. To gather independent evidence about...
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This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed that the collectivized workplace would be the cornerstone...
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The True Story Behind the Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, from O.J. Simpson's Closest Confidante.
It's the greatest crime story ever to play out on national television-the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, the 35-year-old wife of famed pro football star O.J. Simpson, and Ron Goldman, a 25-year-old restaurant worker and friend of Nicole, who were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant outside Nicole's home in Brentwood, California,...
16419) Ronald Reagan: 100 Years
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Ronald Reagan: 100 Years is the official centennial publication from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. Featuring archival photographs of the Reagan family along with insightful text, this book is the ultimate commemorative edition to mark the one hundredth anniversary of President Reagan's birth. It offers an intimate, insider's glimpse of the life and legacy of America's most beloved leader.
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Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will governments continue to rely on natural resource extraction? In an accessible and penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber examines the most important...
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