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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the midst of a bruising debate about its role in the world. Not since the interwar era have Americans been so divided over the scope and nature of their engagement abroad. President Donald Trump's America First approach to foreign policy certainly amplified the controversy. His isolationist, unilateralist, protectionist, and anti-immigrant proclivities marked a sharp break with the brand of internationalism that the country...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a stable international order of liberal peace. But the days...
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam War was the greatest disaster in the history of American foreign policy. The conflict shook the nation to its foundations, exacerbating already deep cleavages in American society, and left the country baffled and ambivalent about its role in the world. Year of the Hawk is a military and political history of the war in Vietnam during 1965--the pivotal first year of the American conflict, when the United States decided to intervene directly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy--explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the 'forever wars' in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it. In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. Twenty-five years later, those hopes have been dashed. Relations with Russia and China have soured,...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Israel, Arab states, and the United States have been conducting and experiencing various kinds of containment in recent years, as part of confronting their external and/or internal enemies.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises that bring the United States and China to the brink of war.
Author
Series
Hot war volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The...
Author
Series
Hot war volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet. The third and final installment in the series that began with Bombs Away and continued with Fallout"--
1952. American cities lie in ruins. President Harry Truman, in office since 1945, presides over a makeshift government in Philadelphia. In the wake of Hitler's reign, Germany and America have become allies, and Stalin's vise hold on power...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling account of the world's longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century's worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? Putin's World examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the...
60) Blackmail
Author
Series
Trident deception volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the Western Pacific Ocean is severely damaged by a surprise salvo of cruise missiles. While the Russian government officially apologizes, claiming it was the result of fire control accident during a training exercise, it was instead a calculated provocation. With the U.S. Pacific fleet already severely under strength, the Russian President decides that the US response is a clear indication of their weakness, militarily...
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