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"On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, setting in motion changes that have been felt around the globe. Collision is the story of this war's origins. It begins in 2008, when Barack Obama came to power in the United States and Dmitry Medvedev came to power in Russia, a period of optimism and new beginnings. It then traces a steady parting of the ways between the United States and Russia, from the return of a newly...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, America declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have...
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Norton
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
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Based on his experiences as counsel to Roosevelt's Lend Lease administration, adviser to Jean Monnet in the rebuilding of postwar France, Undersecretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations 1968, Ball offers reflections on the major personalities and events of the postwar era.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts-and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents-Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden-that other diplomats...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries-Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia-based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
10) Russia & Ukraine
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Reference shelf volume 96, no. 1
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Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Bombardier Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"My Brother's Keeper tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region. Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the world--and especially the Middle East--differently. The US president wanted to end what he saw as America's perpetual war against the Muslim and Arab worlds, use diplomacy to bring about a Palestinian state coexisting peacefully with...
12) Reinbou: a novel
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Astra House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Reinbou explores the consequences of political and societal upheaval, corruption, and violence in modern Dominican society through the eyes of a child in Santo Domingo after the Civil War of 1965"--
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy's presidency--the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office--by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of Poverty"--
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Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Without the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization. Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire and the civilization and culture it created. Western society has other...
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CRS report volume R46860
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2021-
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English
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CRS report volume R44552
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
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Special report volume 526
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United States Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Insight volume IN12292
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
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House document volume 118-131
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English