Diplomacy

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today....

Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil.

Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location but about the world in general....

An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski—President Carter’s national security advisor and one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers—from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.

Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition....

A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East....

For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they agreed to Washington’s terms.

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the 21st century....

A “revelatory” (The Guardian) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the critically acclaimed author of Appeasement.

Historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers....

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....

American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty while abroad, the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers....

John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government....

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....

From the best-selling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I....

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power....

In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West....

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration....

A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb....

Van Jackson and Michael Brenes examines how the US policy of competition with China is detrimental to democracy, peace, and prosperity—and how a saner approach is possible.

In this “tour de force” (National Review), the leader of the National Conservatism movement argues that nationalism is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today

Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency....

John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran to senator to Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events of our recent history....

A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine—and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The United States may still be the world's strongest country, but it now faces real challenges at both a global and regional level. The unipolar world which was dominated by America after the Cold War is gone. Unlike the Soviet Union, China is both a military and economic competitor and it is actively challenging the norms and institutions that the US used to shape an international order during and after the Cold War.

WARNING: Reading this book may change how you use social media forever. Step inside the nerve centers of the digital Cold War. As the clock ticks down to the September 2025 'divest-or-die' deadline, BANPROOF: The M-2 Files takes you on a pulse-pounding journey through the battlefields of ByteDance, Washington D.C., and Silicon Valley. This gripping techno-thriller unveils the secretive Project M-2, where Beijing draws its hard line on algorithm control and global powers race to shape the future of social media. Get ready for a front-row seat to the unprecedented migration of 170 million ...

Due to their diplomatic experiences on Embassy Row, the government sends Rush and Ahmed as Ambassadors to the brand new Emirati Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel. The uniquely qualified duo give it their all.

Most Americans and Europeans have heard about semiconductors as our governments have been investing billions of dollars into the industry over the past five years out of a need for national security. Problems with supply chains and potential disruption to the safety of nations were exposed during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and everyone seemed to miraculously discover that nearly all of the supply chains created under the globalization that we have seen post WWII somehow directly or indirectly go through China. This isn't such a bad thing if one is interested in getting high-quality goods at ...

La mayoría de los estadounidenses y europeos han oído hablar de los semiconductores, ya que nuestros gobiernos han invertido miles de millones de dólares en la industria durante los últimos cinco años por razones de seguridad nacional. Los problemas con las cadenas de suministro y las posibles perturbaciones en la seguridad de las naciones quedaron al descubierto durante la pandemia de COVID-19, y todos parecieron descubrir milagrosamente que casi todas las cadenas de suministro creadas bajo la globalización que hemos visto después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial pasan, de alguna manera...