Self-Determination

As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions....

Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg presents Wilson - the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President....

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has influenced economic thinkers for generations. Smith was a firm believer that the economic progress of any nation was tied to free trade and the division of labor....

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....

News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage....

True prosperity - thriving economically - is possible for all humanity, but common myths prevent us from achieving it. The primary barrier to prosperity is not in language, culture, religion, race, natural resources, or geography....

In this powerful narrative, author John Kelly chronicles the turbulent wartime relationship between Britain, America, and the Soviet Union with a unique focus on unknown and unexplored aspects of the story....

Former Minister in charge of External Affairs Kunwar Natwar Singh's autobiography is an honest, searing account of the veteran's life as a bureaucrat, politician, and cabinet minister....

Trenchant and passionate, The Deaths of Others forces listeners to consider the tragic consequences of American military action not just for Americans, but especially for those we fight....

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire....

From America’s leading scholar of democracy,a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order - and the very value of liberty....

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"....

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it - political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth - are unraveling....

Both erudite and accessibly written, Turbulent Empires provides an insightful and sweeping analysis of world political and economic history that is an ideal introduction to postwar political science, history, and development studies....

The motives, rationales, and impulses that give rise to war - the quest for survival, enrichment, solidarity, and glory - are now better satisfied through peaceful means, war is an increasingly anachronistic practice, more likely to impoverish and harm us humans than protect us....

A bracing assessment of US foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades, anchored by a major new Pentagon-commissioned essay - from the renowned geopolitical analyst and best-selling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy....

Politics are being transformed by religion, namely in China - within the next 30 years, one-third of this potential superpower could be Christian....

In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that many have been waiting for - a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage....

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon candidly reflects on his career and discusses such topics as the USSR., Mikhail Gorbachev, secrecy, Watergate, and more....