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  • How States Think

    The Rationality of Foreign Policy

    by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato ...
    A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?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. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • The Great Delusion

    Liberal Dreams and International Realities

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemony—the policy America has pursued since the Cold War ended—is doomed to failNamed a Financial Times Best Book of 2018“Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.”—Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Return of Marco Polo’s WorldIt is widely believed in the West that the United States should spread liberal democra... ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Why Leaders Lie

    The Truth About Lying in International Politics

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive, a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007 New York Times bestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, aroused a firestorm with its unflinching look at the making of America's Middle East policy. Now he takes a look at another controversial ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    How States Think

    The Rationality of Foreign Policy

    by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato ...
    Narrated by Mack Sanderson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 2 min

    A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?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. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Conventional Deterrence

    by John J. Mearsheimer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He focuses first on Allied and German decision making in the years 1939–1940, analyzing why the Allies did ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • American Diplomacy

    by George F. Kennan ...
    These lectures on American diplomacy in the first half of the twentieth century are "a classic foreign policy text" ( Washington Post Book World).For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an ... Read more

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    The Rise and Fall of the EAST

    How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

    by Yasheng Huang, PhD ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Lam ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 44 min

    Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for ... Read more

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    Vassal State

    How America Runs Britain

    by Angus Hanton ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    British politicians love to vaunt the benefits of the UK's supposed 'special relationship' with the US. But are we really America's economic partner - or its colony?Vassal State lays bare the extent to which US corporations own and control Britain's economy: how American business chiefs decide what we're paid, what we buy, and how we buy it. US companies have carved up Britain between them, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    Upstart

    How China Became a Great Power

    by Oriana Skylar Mastro ...
    Narrated by Robin McAlpine ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 26 min

    A powerful new explanation of China's rise that draws from the business world to show that China is not simply copying established great powers, but exploiting geopolitical opportunities around the world that those other powers had ignored.Thirty years ago, the idea that China could challenge the United States economically, globally, and militarily seemed unfathomable. Yet today, China is ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Continent Erupts

    Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955

    by Ronald H. Spector ...
    **A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II—and determined the fate of the continent.**The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Hell of Good Intentions

    America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy

    by Stephen M. Walt ...
    A provocative analysis of recent American foreign policy and why it has been plagued by disasters like the "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan.Instead of a long hoped-for era of peace and prosperity, relations with Russia and China have soured, the European Union is wobbling, nationalism and populism are on the rise, and the United States is stuck in costly and pointless wars that have ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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