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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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A companion to the author's Success Factors of Young African American Males (1998), this study examines the historical, sociological, and psychological adversity that African American women have had to transcend.

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The 1954 settlement of the territorial dispute over Trieste is remarkable when viewed in the perspective of twenty years, and especially so for the light it sheds on the principles of successful negotiation. This book offers the recollections and evaluations of the five experienced, skillful men who conducted the negotiations between Italy and Yugo

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Suffering and Smiling presents a glimpse inside everyday North Korea. Educator and hunger activist, Byung-Ho Chung, illustrates his interactions with the citizenry both inside the border and as refugees in South Korea.

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Examines the impact and development that the sugar industry had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962.

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The world relies on American leadership, and America has international interests - they must continue their role as an indispensable nation and remain actively involved abroad. This title outlines the three choices facing the new America: Be independent; Moneyball: America; and Be indispensable.

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Supplanting Empires: Power Transitions Across Human History undertakes to systematically probe whether power transitions across human history are as disruptive and violent as conventional thinking would lead us to believe. The findings point to a generally smooth changeover from one empire or hegemon to the next.

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Offers a new theory of citizenship applicable beyond the nation-state. It brings political and moral philosophy together with current debates in citizenship, European integration, and international relations. -- .

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This book explores some of the most glaring misunderstandings about the U.S. Supreme Court-and makes a strong case for why our Supreme Court Justices should not be entrusted with decisions that affect every American citizen.

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Analyses surprise attacks during the mid-twentieth century to illustrate the authors thesis: surprise attacks occur, not because intelligence services fail to warn, but because of the disbelief of political leaders. Richad K. Betts investigation of the historical, psychological, political, diplomatic, and military aspects of his subject heightens understanding of why surprise attacks succeed.

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Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of Londons Big Bang reforms as the Conservatives contemplate Big Bang 2.0 in the 2020s.

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Survival: The Economic Underpinnings of American National Security introduces principles of national security thinking relevant to public policy, then illustrates application of these principles in a number of policy areas including fiscal policy, healthcare, education, immigration, welfare and poverty abatement, energy, and the environment.

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Surviving the Millennium traces the rise of the U.S.-Soviet antagonism from its roots in the U.S.-tsarist Russian relationship and critically reexamines U.S. containment strategy during the Cold War.

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This book examines the intersection of ecotourism development, foreign direct investment, globalization, and neoliberalism in Central America. After consideration of the Costa Rican example, the book assesses the probability of economic growth based on ecotourism development in Nicaragua, Panama, and Belize.

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Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.