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  • The Battle of the Ayatollahs in Iran

    The United States, Foreign Policy, and Political Rivalry since 1979

    by Alex Vatanka ...
    Understanding the foreign policy agenda and behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a critical challenge for the world. But where do the principal Iranian regime actors come from in terms of political background, experiences and interests? Which types of ambitions or policy conflicts have dominated and shaped foreign policy debates since 1979?This book explains the internal policy process in ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Iran and Pakistan

    Security, Diplomacy and American Influence

    by Alex Vatanka ...
    The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of around 300 million, have been historically intertwined in various cultural, religious and political ways. Iran was the first country to recognise the emerging independent state of Pakistan in 1947 and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty ... Read more

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  • Why Israel Can't Wait

    The Coming War Between Israel and Iran

    The new Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly declared that a primary foreign policy objective is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability.Israel is a "one-bomb state," such that one atomic weapon, even a relatively low-yield bomb of the type the United States dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki in World War II, would destroy the modern Jewish ... Read more

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  • Treacherous Alliance

    The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

    by Trita Parsi ...
    This award-winning study traces the shifting relations between Israel, Iran, and the U.S. since 1948—including secret alliances and treacherous acts.Vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran and Israel are a disturbingly common feature of the news cycle. But the real roots of their enmity mystify Washington policymakers, leaving no promising pathways to stability. In Treacherous Alliance, U ... Read more

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  • After the Arab Spring

    How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts

    From the author of the book that uniquely predicted the Egyptian revolution, a new message about the Middle East: everything we're told about the Arab Spring is wrong.When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the West assumed that democracy and pluralism would triumph. Greatly praised author and foreign correspondent John R. Bradley draws on his extensive firsthand knowledge of the ... Read more

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  • Saddam

    His Rise & Fall

    by Con Coughlin ...
    Insightful, penetrating, and shocking, the defining biography of Iraq's deposed tyrantDrawing on an unparalleled network of sources, contacts, and firsthand testimonies, Con Coughlin takes us to the center of Saddam Hussein's complex, bewildering regime -- and beyond. Fully updated and revised, Saddam: His Rise and Fall meticulously describes how Hussein took power and immediately set about ... Read more

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  • bin Laden

    The Man Who Declared War on America

    "Fascinating account. I strongly recommend it." —Jeane J. KirkpatrickWorld-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky explores the transformation of Osama bin Laden from a once promising engineering student into the cold-blooded leader of the radical Islamic terrorist group, al Qaeda. With meticulous detail, Bodansky chronicles the events leading up to the international operation of hunting bin ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Devil's Game

    How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

    Series series American Empire Project
    "The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam."—Salon.comThe first comprehensive account of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism.Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Mess They Made

    The Middle East After Iraq

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    As Iraq descends ever closer to civil war, no one doubts that George W. Bush's Iraq strategy has been an abysmal failure—just as Gwynne Dyer argued it would be in both Ignorant Armies and Future: Tense. The question now is what will happen not just in Iraq but in the whole Middle East region once American troops are withdrawn. In The Mess They Made, Dyer predicts that the Middle East will go ... Read more

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  • The Brotherhood

    America's Next Great Enemy

    The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the alleged crimes and betrayals of NYPD Detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops who stand charged with the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their crimes behind their badges while they worked for the mob. These crimes included murder, kidnapping, torture, and the betrayal of an entire generation of New York ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Inside Iran

    The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Medea Benjamin is the author of the insightful and successful Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection.This book is perhaps the first non-academic look at the history of US and Iranian relations––giving a complex issue an accessible entry point for a general audience. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD