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The 1970s
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 29.95The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates... more...
Advise & Dissent
Chicago Review Press 1989; US$ 14.95The life story of the founder of ADC, from his parents' farm in South Dakota to the halls of the Senate, where he refused to compromise his principles. more...
After the Cold War
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 53.00The end of the Cold War provides challenges and opportunities for American foreign policy leadership that arguably have been equalled in modern times only by the period in which the Cold War began. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the partners of the Atlantic alliance have achieved a profound diplomatic... more...
After the War
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95This volume assesses the impact of U.S. presidential decisionmaking style and administrative structure on nation-building, from the postWorld War II era through the Cold War, postCold War era, and current war on terrorism. more...
Against the Tide
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 7.99In this smart, candid, and surprising political memoir, Lincoln Chafee offers a behind-the-scenes look at the first six years of the Bush Administration from the vantage point of one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate. When Senator Chafee (R-RI) went to Washington, he encountered a Republican Party drifting so far to the... more...
Altered States
Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 23.95Red states versus blue states. Metro versus retro. North or South, East or West. Pundits, politicians, and social scientists love to carve out categories in an attempt to make sense of political and social divisions that run through the American landscape. As the home of nearly 300 million people spread over approximately 3.7 million square miles of... more...
Ambassador Ortiz
University of New Mexico Press 2005; US$ 19.95Ambassador Ortiz's memoir of over four decades in the U.S. foreign service, including behind-the-scenes encounters with international leaders. more...
America Between the Wars
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 18.99On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity?until they ended abruptly with a stunning catastrophe on September 11, 2001. In America Between The Wars , Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier blend... more...
America at War Since 1945
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 33.95Focusing primarily on politics and foreign policy, America at War analyzes America's involvement in three wars since the end of World War II: Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. The main questions asked are: How did the U.S. become involved in these wars? How were the wars conducted? And how did the U.S. get out of these wars?||In Korea and Vietnam,... more...
America's Failing Empire
Wiley 2008; US$ 62.95This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last fifteen years of foreign policy in relation to the last forty years, since the end of the Cold War. Provides an overview and understanding of the recent history of U.S. foreign relations from the viewpoint of one of the most respected authorities in the field Includes... more...









