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"The Number One Mission" explores the Nigerian High Commission in the United Kingdom from the perspective of history and diplomacy.

Mr. Churchill in the White House presents a new perspective on the politician, war leader, and author through his intimate involvement with one Democratic and one Republican president during his two terms as prime minister.

In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts...

Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who’d been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil? Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set out to rebuild their decimated homeland. Help came first through Great Britain’s pledge to restore Palestine to the Jews. Britain, however, nearly reneged on that promise just as the Jews faced the Nazi Holocaust.

War is not an aberration of civilization. It is civilization's shadow—cast in every direction, at every hour, by the very light that humanity imagines will guide it to peace.

Part memoir, part diplomatic and political treatise, and part love letter to a society he grew up in as a bicultural and bilingual American, Dr. Walker provides the tools needed to fully understand and appreciate what Japan represents to the United States and to the world today.

What true statecraft consists of, and how to know a statesman when we see one In the modern world we yearn for great leaders but resist them when they come along. In this much-needed essay, Steven B. Smith tells us that a statesman is something far different from a demagogue or a technocrat; he...

Our planet is a living, breathing masterpiece, a world of oceans that shimmer beneath the sun, forests that whisper in the wind, and creatures that share this fragile home with us. Yet today, this masterpiece is under threat. The Earth that once gave us abundance now calls for our protection. Save Our Planet Earth is a call to action, a reminder that every person, no matter how small their voice may seem, has the power to make a difference.

The world has always been a lunatic asylum. The only difference is that previous generations of lunatics have been tidied into history textbooks, where their madness looks orderly and even inevitable. Ours has not yet had that privilege. A superpower claims sovereignty over an allied neighbor's territory. A sitting president is kidnapped from his own country. Civilian populations on every side of every conflict are ground between millstones they did not build and cannot stop.

Bloomsbury presents Shadows Over Kabul by Hamdullah Mohib and Tam Hussein, read by Kishore Walker. At the time of the Taliban offensive, Hamdullah Mohib was the Afghan National Security Advisor, the closest man to the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani. It was Mohib who took the decision to leave...

In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), explains 'the narrative' and how a country's ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence...

1993. In this rollicking take on modern diplomacy, a Norwegian social scientist and his diplomat wife are determined to try a new tactic to break the long-standing deadlock of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A secret back channel in Norway leads to unexpected breakthroughs as negotiators find common ground. When the political becomes personal, relationships are forged that offer a chance to alter the course of history.

This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors. NAMED A BEST NEW POLITICAL AUDIOBOOK BY VARIETY IN 2021 Two of America's leading national security experts offer a definitive account of the global impact of COVID-19 and the political shock waves it will have on the United States and...

Former President Carter introduces this gripping first-person narrative that provides significant details about six headline stories not previously revealed. Captivating experiences from my unique childhood, attending boarding school at the age of seven, escaping the 1964 Congo rebellion as a refugee, and being inducted into the Masai tribe in Kenya, jump start the book. Human-interest vignettes punctuate fascinating accounts of developing the Predator drone, conducting the 2003 scud hunt in Iraq, and accompanying Senator Obama to Africa in 2006.

An in-depth examination of how the United States can build more effective partner militaries Military assistance has a bad reputation. Large-scale attempts to build partner militaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam cost the United States billions of dollars and ended ignominiously, with the...

Written with never-before-seen documents from Paul Keating’s archive and drawing on long conversations and interviews with him over many years, this book explores the ambitions for Australia and its place in the world that guided Keating: arguably the last Prime Minister with a compelling...

Australia has forgotten what keeps it safe. So argues Michael Wesley in this sharp and compelling essay about our place in the world. Southeast Asia is the key to our national security and prosperity. If China dominates the region, as it plans to, Australia will be very vulnerable. So why are we following an American strategy that isolates and alienates us from our neighbours? Wesley argues that the focus on AUKUS and sticking with Trump is a dangerous distraction. Whereas the United States has little at stake in Southeast Asia, Australia has everything to lose.

Klare Haltung in der internationalen Krise: Deutschlands neue Rolle in der Weltpolitik Die USA sorgen für unsere Sicherheit, China für unsere Exporteinnahmen und Russland für unsere Energie – so lautete lange Jahre die unausgesprochene Annahme aller deutschen Außenpolitik. Diese Gleichung geht im Zeitalter der Unsicherheit nicht mehr auf: Deutschland muss im Konzert der internationalen Mächte endlich seiner Verantwortung gerecht werden und selbstbewusst als Vertretung der westlichen Werte in der neuen Weltordnung auftreten.

A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to make it a special relationship, a little more diplomacy may be required… When it came to Charles and Mary Bagot, the gossips of Regency England had more than their fill. The marriage, initially the toast of high...

Not Just Another Cold War considers how the emerging superpower rivalry between the US and China compares to the Cold War, and what that means for the future of global politics. By contrasting the current US-China rivalry with a well-understood conflict, the authors provide insights into the characteristics and trajectory of the twenty-first century's defining conflict.