Eminent scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's New York Times bestselling blueprint for American foreign policy strategy in the twenty-first century The world today faces a crisis of power, caused by the dramatic shift in its center of gravity from the West to the East, by the dynamic political awakening of people worldwide, and by the deterioration of America's performance both domestically and internationally. As a result, America's position as a world...

A celebrated foreign policy expert and key Trump impeachment witness, drawing on her own personal journey out of poverty, shares what she has learned and shows why expanding opportunity is the only long-term hope for our democracy.

Paced like a thriller, with comparable doses of international intrigue and conflict, Chris Fenton's brazenly candid business memoir Feeding the Dragon takes readers deep behind the scenes of Hollywood's shaky foothold in China. Dealing at the highest levels with Chinese government officials and major American brands like Disney, Marvel, and the NBA, the former Olive Garden waiter-turned-entertainment-industry-power-broker disarmed and defied authorities...

In America as Empire, Jim Garrison urges us to face up to the complexities and responsibilities inherent in the indisputable fact that America is now the world's single preeminent power. "America", Garrison writes, "has become what it was founded not to be: established as a haven for those fleeing the abuse of power, it has attained and now wields near absolute power. It has become an empire." Garrison traces the roots of the American empire to the...

Relaciones de conocimiento centro-periferia: hegemonía, contribuciones locales e hibridación , Migración internacional de colombianas en la Ciudad de México: transnacionalismo y globalización ; La Unión Europea como actor global del soft al hard power: ¿una potencia civil?; El papel de los actores internos en los procesos de integración: el caso de la CAN ; Secutirización en tiempos de globalización: elementos para el análisis en el área...

"Etel Solingen - Winner of the 2018 William and Katherine Estes Award, National Academy of Sciences" Etel Solingen is Distinguished Professor and Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 William and Katherine Estes Award. Etel Solingen provides a comprehensive explanation of foreign policy based on how states throughout...

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides...

Transition to Peace, Burundi 1993-2008, is an original and in-depth examination of the involvement of the international community in Burundi's transition from the ravages of the civil war from 1993 to the achievement of peace in 2008. Having lived and worked in Burundi during those years of conflict, and subsequent doctoral research, Dr. Penklis offers a unique insight into the complex and dynamic implementation of the peacemaking and peacebuilding...

Explaining how the U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East could have long-term consequences as other forces come forward to fill the gap, Russell A. Berman details how the retreat began and how the reduction of the U.S. commitment has, in turn, set off a wave of repercussions. He analyzes what motivates such a retreat, how much it is a choice of the Obama administration, and how much it is rooted in U.S. cultural leanings that could outlast the administration....