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Shrouded in anonymity, protected by executive privilege, but with no legal or constitutional authority of their own, the 5,900 people in 125 offices collectively known as the ""White House staff"" assist the chief executive by shaping, focusing, and amplifying presidential policy.

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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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Now in its third edition, The World Almanac of Islamism is the first comprehensive reference work to detail the current activities of radical Islamist movements worldwide. The contributions, written by subject expert, provide up-to-date assessments on the contemporary Islamist threat in all countries and regions where it exists.

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

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This book examines the origins, policies, operations, and impact of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the other members of the World Bank group: the International Finance Corporation, the International Development Association,and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

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Many states suffer from internal violence and terrorism that is national rather than international, and cannot benefit from the solidarity inherent in the campaign against international terrorism. This study sets out to develop a paradigm for the systematic assessment of international responses to situations of internal violence-cum-terrorism.

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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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The World of Protracted Conflicts analyzes interstate protracted conflict, a widespread phenomenon in the global system and regional subsystems during the past century. It describesthe content of a protracted conflict, explainsthe cause-effect linkages in this multi-dimensional phenomenon, and explores models to forecast protracted conflict.

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The World of Protracted Conflicts analyzes interstate protracted conflict, a widespread phenomenon in the global system and regional subsystems during the past century. It describes the content of a protracted conflict, explains the cause-effect linkages in this multi-dimensional phenomenon, and explores models to forecast protracted conflict.

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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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This study comprehensively and systematically explores how Theodore Roosevelt understood, massed, and wielded power to pursue his vision for an America that was the worlds most prosperous, just, and influential nation.

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