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abstract or summary Audiobooks. Autobiographies. bibliography biography Nonfiction. videorecordingSullivan, John Joseph
Summary: For weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night by an employee at Embassy Moscow with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the cold of that February night: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company
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Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.83 RHOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHOFukuyama, Francis
Summary: "A provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for our democracy and international affairs of state"--Dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 FUKChomsky, Noam
Summary: "The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 CHOSummary: This reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. This edition includes: Revised and updated biographical profiles of all current leaders ; Extensive updates to national economic overviews ; Accurate historical introductions ; Comprehensive coverage of major international organizations and think tanks ; Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2024
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 320.5 STASummary: Now in its 156th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 STASummary: \ The Great Decisions briefing book features impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. Written by carefully selected experts, each article offers policy options for U.S. officials as well as questions and tools for discussion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association, Inc.
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Contents: The death of utopia -- Enlightenment and terror in the twentieth century -- Utopia enters the mainstream -- The Americanization of the apocalypse -- Armed missionaries -- Post-apocalypse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.07 GRARiemen, Rob
Summary: An international bestseller, To Fight Against This Age consists of two beautifully written, cogent, and urgent essays about the rise of fascism and the ways in which we can combat it. In “The Eternal Return of Fascism,” Rob Riemen explores the theoretical weakness of fascism, which depends on a politics of resentment, the incitement of anger and fear, xenophobia, the need for scapegoats, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 RIEBacevich, Andrew J.
Summary: "A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 BACChomsky, Noam.
Summary: "Because We Say So presents more than thirty short, forceful commentaries written between 2011 and 2015 covering the most urgent matters in U.S. politics during global crisis. With uncompromising clarity, Chomsky takes on a range of hot-button issues from climate change, nuclear politics, and spying/cyberwar, to the Middle East and the future of democracy. Brilliant, accessible, timely,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 CHOKissinger, Henry
Summary: "In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 KISRachman, Gideon
Summary: "The author of Easternization, an award-winning journalist, offers an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the globe, charting the most urgent political story of our era. We are in a new era: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 RACDoyle, Michael
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1 DOYOrd, Toby
Summary: From one of the world's leading moral voices, this urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 300 OrdSummary: The Great Decisions briefing book features impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. Written by carefully selected experts, each article offers policy options for U.S. officials as well as questions and tools for discussion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association, Inc. 2024
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30 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GRE1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GRE
Eichenwald, Kurt
Summary: Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 EICForeign Policy Association
Summary: On February 24th, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the largest attack on European soil since the Second World War. The invasion of Ukraine stands a significant test to the Global Order. Dive into the complexities of one of the most significant geopolitical conflicts of our time with Ukraine: Changing World Order? This compelling collection of essays offers a thought-provoking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 UKRSinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.04 SINKissinger, Henry
Summary: Kissinger offers his analysis of the twenty-first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. -- Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327 KISApplebaum, Anne
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 APPSummary: The Great Decisions briefing book features impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. Written by carefully selected experts, each article offers policy options for U.S. officials as well as questions and tools for discussion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Foreign Policy Association, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GREKissinger, Henry
Summary: Kissinger offers his analysis of the twenty-first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014