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This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. Case studes examine recent US presidents' use of public persuasion to perform their leadership functions, including the sermonic nature of 20th-century presidential discourse and the rhetoric of George Bush and Bill Clinton.

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Mary Hampton argues that a set of ideas that influenced American policymakers in the postwar era help explain the unique evolution of the Western Alliance and Germany's rapid unification in 1990.

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This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear m

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Focusing on French controversies about wokisme, this book reflects on France's ongoing transformation into a multicultural society and the divisions this change has caused.

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One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life -- collected for the first time.

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Examines what would happen if the United States no longer held a position of global leadership.

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Both a historical analysis and a call to arms, this is the comprehensive policy guide to understanding and engaging in the geopolitics of Eurasia.

The 20th century was dominated by three visions of Eurasian geopolitics: "The World Island," "Containment," and "Prometheism."

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In essays ranging from the profound to the playful, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author examines the political, social, cultural, and historic threads that form the tapestry of life in contemporary America.

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The author explores where nationalism comes from and where it is taking us. He explains how nationalism was distorted into Nazism and Communism - and how a resurgence of nationalism defeated both.

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This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which they are subjected both inside and outside the detention centres of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It offers new insights into the future of the CCPs domestic governance strategies and troubling international behaviour.

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The first volume of this biography left Pitt at a peak in both home and foreign affairs. Darker years, however, were to follow. This, the second volume of three, sees Britain and France at war and political and economic unrest at home threatening Pitt's greatest pride - the financial system.

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Encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts. This book shows how, out of many interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society.

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An historical account of the Washington diplomatic scene of the late 1990s. The author provides a series of candid conversations with women ambassadors from around the globe about their lives, their work, and their struggle for the advancement of women in their countries.

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"Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson--had so many opinions and intellectual interests, beli"

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This book addresses these problems by providing a general guide to important journal articles about politics.

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Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional view of how and why democracies collapse by demonstrating that democratic collapse is often a direct result of the inherent logic of democracy itself.