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  • Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy

    Cooperation in a Polarized Age

    by Jordan Tama ...
    In an era of ever-increasing polarization in the US Congress, American foreign policy remains marked by frequent bipartisanship. In Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy, Jordan Tama shows that, even as polarization in American politics reaches new heights, Democrats and Republicans in Washington continue to cooperate on important international issues. Looking closely at congressional voting ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Terrorism and National Security Reform

    How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises

    by Jordan Tama ...
    Terrorism and National Security Reform demonstrates that blue-ribbon commissions can be powerful vehicles for policy change, overturning the conventional wisdom that views them only as devices for passing the buck. Jordan Tama explains how the unique political credibility of commissions can enable them to forge bipartisan consensus on tough policy challenges. He also shows that commissions are ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Polarization and US Foreign Policy

    When Politics Crosses the Water’s Edge

    Edited by Gordon M. Friedrichs, Jordan Tama ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Polarization in the United States has been on the rise for several decades. In this context, few observers expect politics today to stop “at the water’s edge,” as the old cliché goes. But key questions about the relationship between polarization and US foreign policy remain to be fully answered. To what extent are American ideas about foreign policy now polarized along partisan lines? How is ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Congress and Civil-Military Relations

    by Colton C. Campbell, David P. Auerswald, Mitchel Sollenberger, Katherine Scott, Jordan Tama, John Griswold, Alexis L. Ross, Charles Cushman, Charles Stevenson0, Louis Fisher1, Frank Mora2, Michelle Munroe3 ...
    While the president is the commander in chief, the US Congress plays a critical and underappreciated role in civil-military relations—the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian leadership that commands it. This unique book edited by Colton C. Campbell and David P. Auerswald will help readers better understand the role of Congress in military affairs and national and international ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Critical History

    by Lance Selfa ...
    An assessment of the state of the Democratic Party in the new millennium, the betrayal of progressive ideals, and how real change can happen.The 2006 elections put the Democrats in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change were deeply disappointed. Likewise, the striking victory of Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 created a wave of optimism, but the promise would ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presidency of Barack Obama

    A First Historical Assessment

    Edited by Julian E. Zelizer ...
    An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's legacy and the health of the Democratic Party ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Revival 2.0: How the Obama White House Is Making Its Political Comeback

    by Richard Wolffe ...
    Revival 2.0 tells the dramatic inside story of how President Obama and his team have regained their footing and learned to fight for their political survival.Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe (author of Renegade and Revival) follows President Barack Obama and his inner circle (including Valerie Jarrett, David Plouffe, Hillary Clinton, David Axelrod, and Robert Gibbs), from the Democratic ... Read more

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  • The Great Destroyer

    Barack Obama's War on the Republic

    by David Limbaugh ...
    When it comes to our prosperity, our freedom tradition, and our constitutional government, President Barack Obama has been the great destroyer—knocking down the free-market economy and principles of limited government that have made America the envy of the world. As New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh documents in chilling detail in his new book, The Great Destroyer, the Obama ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Game As Old As Empire

    The Secret Word of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

    by Steven Hiatt ...
    A collection of essays from investigative journalists and economic hit men detail examples of how economic corruption is enacted around the globe.John Perkins' controversial and bestselling exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man revealed for the first time the secret world of economic hit men (EHMs). But Perkins' Confessions contained only a small piece of this sinister puzzle. The full story ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Corporate Warriors

    The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

    by P. W. Singer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD