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  • Good Judgment in Foreign Policy

    Theory and Application

    by Barbara Farnham, Richard N. Haas, David A. Welch, Andrew Bennett, Alexander L. George, Bruce W. Jentleson, Stephen J. Wayne ...
    At the heart of political leadership lies choice. And at the heart of choice lies judgment. A leader's psychology and experience intersect with political realities to produce consequences that can make or break a leader-or a country. Nowhere is judgment more important than in the making of foreign policy. Good judgments can avoid wars, or win them. Poor judgments can start wars or lose them. This ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis

    A Study of Political Decision-Making

    by Barbara Reardon Farnham ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. Between 1936 and 1938, ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

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  • Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

    by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ...
    Series series The Richard Ullman Lectures
    This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Knowing the Adversary

    Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations

    by Keren Yarhi-Milo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    States are more likely to engage in risky and destabilizing actions such as military buildups and preemptive strikes if they believe their adversaries pose a tangible threat. Yet despite the crucial importance of this issue, we don't know enough about how states and their leaders draw inferences about their adversaries' long-term intentions. Knowing the Adversary draws on a wealth of historical ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • How Statesmen Think

    The Psychology of International Politics

    by Robert Jervis ...
    Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    "A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. PosenA decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Do Morals Matter?

    Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Leading Minds

    An Anatomy Of Leadership

    by Howard Gardner ...
    Drawing on his groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, developer of the theory of Multiple Intelligences, offers fascinating revelations about the mind of the leader and his or her followers. He identifies six constant features of leadership as well as paradoxes that must be resolved for leadership to be effective using portraits of leaders from J. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Quiet Man

    The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush

    by John Sununu ...
    George H. W. Bush's former Chief of Staff offers a long overdue appreciation of the man and his universally underrated and misunderstood presidency."I'm a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don't." —George H. W. BushThough 41st president George Herbert Walker Bush is remembered for orchestrating one of the largest and most successful military campaigns in history—the Gulf War—John H. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

    A World Without World War I

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! presents an intellectually invigorating set of hypotheticals about the twentieth century--had we been smart enough to avoid World War I.The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. More than one hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • My Philanthropy

    by George Soros ...
    George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. Over the past 30 years, he has provided more than 7 billion to his network of foundations, known collectively as the Open Society Institute, for projects around the world and in the United States.In this e-book, Soros writes in detail for the first time about his vision for philanthropy. "I have always been leery of philanthropy," he ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Strategies of Containment

    A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

    by John Lewis Gaddis ...
    When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD