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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
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Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounds the warning bell that communist-ruled China poses the biggest threat to the United States that we have seen in our lifetime. The United States is currently engaged in a competition with the Chinese government unlike any other that we have witnessed before. This is a competition between the American system-which is governed by freedom and the rule of law-and a totalitarian dictatorship that is controlled...
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English
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IS GLOBALIZATION AN UNINTENDED RECIPE FOR WAR?
Taking this question as its starting point, James Macdonald's When Globalization Fails offers a rich, original account of war, peace, and trade in the twentieth-century, and a cautionary tale for the twenty-first.
In the late nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of international commerce would usher in prosperity and peace. An era of economic interdependence, they believed, would render...
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English
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For decades, KT McFarland has been one of the country's most prominent conservative foreign policy experts. She was part of the Trump Revolution from the beginning. As Trump's first Deputy National Security Advisor, she had a seat at the table for everything: Trump's unconventional campaign and upset victory; his throw-out-the-rule-book Trump Tower Transition; the chaotic first months in the West Wing; the unusual events surrounding General Flynn's...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals (CIA operatives), reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is
10) The pirate king: the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the golden age of piracy
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Taking readers on a thrilling high-seas adventure through the Golden Age of Piracy, this untold story of Henry Avery of Devon, crowned the pirate king for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history, brilliantly reveals his exploits, his survival and his secret double life.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy....
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend for their power and wealth on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl show that curbing the activities of these enablers as they act on behalf of their kleptocratic clients is of vital importance to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability--
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