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"Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The first volume proposes that the British North American colonists' preexisting desire for expansion, security, and prosperity is both the essence of American foreign relations and the root cause for the creation of the United States. The second volume...
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We may be at an historic turning point. We live in a dangerous world, it is true - but it is also a world filled with opportunity. Democracy is spreading in Latin America and perhaps in Asia and Africa. The political polarization of the world has receded. Once again, the human race may be on the verge of a quantum jump, and the U.S. has an historic opportunity to lead the world into a new, even more advanced, global civilization. That is why the crafting...
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"'The most important secular event in the history of the human race.' This was the ringing judgment of William Seward, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, and it echoed the sentiments of most Americans of the nineteenth century. Indeed, many Americans over two and half centuries have agreed, for the event spoken of is the birth and development of the United States of America. What truth is there in such hyperbole? The title of this book is taken...
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Iran is poised to re-emerge as the powerhouse of the Middle East in the 21st century. Already taking on massive export and energy diversification projects and working to acquire a nuclear weapons arsenal, Iran is likely to attain the stature of regional power in the coming years, thanks in no small measure to the vacuum created by the chaos in Iraq, which for many years served as a counterweight to Iran in the region. Gonzalez illuminates the path...
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"The Weimar Republic (German: Weimarer Republik [vama epubli?k]) is the name given by historians to the federal republic and parliamentary representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. It was named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918. In 1919, a national assembly was convened...
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbors and to distant countries alike. This book is the first to examine the significance of China's recent reliance on soft power - diplomacy, trade incentives, cultural and educational...
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"In a work that will become required reading for students of Cuban foreign policy. Michael Erisman analyzes the broad scope of revolutionary Cuba's foreign relations. The book emphasizes two key aspects of the subject: Cuba's adjustment since the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc, and the ongoing confrontation between Cuba and the United States."--Jacket.
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Sachar traces Britain's efforts to maintain a strategic foothold in the Holy Land well after the termination of its governmental authority in Palestine; the Soviet Union's initial diplomatic and military support of the Zionists as its potential "clients" in the Middle East, and its later, even more vigorous embrace of Israel's Arab enemies; France's short-lived military alliance with "gallant little Israel"; and the unlikely emergence of Germany as...
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