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Obama and the Paradigm Shift
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 45.29Hauptbeschreibung This book asks if Barack Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States represented a paradigmatic shift in the political and cultural tides. It works to move beyond a renewed acknowledgement of the extraordinary symbolic value of a black man having become president in a country still rife with racial problems. Specifically,... more...
Der Verfassungsbruch.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 17.26Hauptbeschreibung Fast unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit zahlen Parlamentsfraktionen seit Jahren verfassungswidrige Zulagen in Millionenhöhe an eine Vielzahl von Abgeordneten in Bund und Ländern. Erlaubt sind Zusatzgehälter nach ständiger Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nur für Parlamentspräsidenten, Vizepräsidenten und Fraktionsvorsitzende.... more...
Misunderestimated
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99A riveting portrait of President Bush as he broadens the war on terror overseas?and plunges into high-stakes political battles at home "They misunderestimated me," George W. Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American public, and underestimated... more...
America's Secret War
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2004; US$ 16.95Dubbed by Barron?s as ?The Shadow CIA,? George Friedman?s global intelligence company, Stratfor, has provided analysis to Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, and even the U.S. government. Now Friedman delivers the geopolitical story that the mainstream media has been unable to uncover ? the startling truth behind America?s foreign policy and war... more...
Peace & freedom
Cato Institute 2002; US$ 9.00This collection of essays constitutes a representative sample of Carpenter's writings on U.S. foreign policy during his 17 years at the Cato Institute. Naturally beginning with discussions of the ramifications of September 11, the essays are organized into sections on the Balkans, NATO, relations with East Asia allies, relations with China, relations... more...
Vice
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 24.95Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He has thrived alongside a president who from day one had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney?s quiet, steady rise to prominence over a span of three decades occurred largely behind the scenes. Now veteran reporters... more...
The Folly of Empire
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 21.99A century ago, the Theodore Roosevelt administration believed building an American empire was the only way the U.S. could ensure its role in the world, but came to see the occupation of the Philippines as America's "heel of Achilles." Woodrow Wilson, shocked by the failure of American intervention in Mexico and by the outbreak of World War I, came... more...
The Illusion of Control
Brookings Institution Press 2003; US$ 19.95In the last decade of the 20th century threats and applications of force often took centre stage. This text maintains that the use of force as an instrument of foreign policy is likely to grow, and that this prospect warrants concern and open debate. more...
America Unbound
Brookings Institution Press 2003; US$ 24.95George W. Bush is leading a revolution in American foreign policy. He believes that the unilateral exercise of American power is the best way to promote America's national interests. This book argues that The Bush revolution in foreign policy carries with it high risks and possibly high costs. more...
Destined for Destiny
Scribner 2006; US$ 13.99In Destined for Destiny , George W. Bush offers readers an intimate, plainspoken, and often readable look at the character-shaping achievements that led to his inevitable rise to the office of President of the United States. Written from the heart, not from the brain, this definitive autobiography takes readers on a journey through the 43rd President's... more...









