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A HISTORY OF THE MUSLIM WORLD
₨ 11,045A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Mu?ammad to the birth of the modern era
This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.
After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.
ISBN: 9780691236575
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE DAWN OF MODERNITY
Author: MICHAEL COOK -
THE NEW MAKERS OF MODERN STRATEGY
₨ 12,595The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current strategy themes while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge strategy makers in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history’s most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.
ISBN: 9780691204383
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE DIGITAL AGE
Author: HAL BRANDS -
SPIES, LIES, AND ALGORITHMS
₨ 5,745Spying has never been more ubiquitous, or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are more congressional experts on powdered milk than espionage. This crisis in intelligence education is distorting public opinion, fueling conspiracy theories, and hurting intelligence policy. In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology
ISBN: 9780691223070
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE
Author: AMY B. ZEGART -
RETHINKING EUROPE’S FUTUREWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
₨ 5,960
ISBN: 069111367X
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Author: DAVID P. CALLEO -
FINITE STRUCTURE WITH FEW TYPESANNALS OF MATHEMATICS STUDIES
₨ 12,560
ISBN: 0691113327
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS STUDIES
Author: GREGORY CHERLIN -
THE GEOGRAPHY OF ETHNIC VIOLENCE
₨ 11,790
ISBN: 0691113548
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: MONICA DUFFY TOFT -
THE MYTH OF NATIONSTHE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF EUROPE
₨ 5,645
ISBN: 0691114811
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF EUROPE
Author: PATRICK J. GEARY -
THE ROMAN PREDICAMENTHOW THE RULES OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER CREATE THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE
₨ 7,845Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation’s Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history.
The book addresses what James terms “the Roman dilemma”?the paradoxical notion that while global society depends on a system of rules for building peace and prosperity, this system inevitably leads to domestic clashes, international rivalry, and even wars. As it did in ancient Rome, James argues a rule-based world order eventually subverts and destroys itself, creating the need for imperial action. The result is a continuous fluctuation between pacification and the breakdown of domestic order.
James summons this argument, first put forth more than two centuries ago in Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” and Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” to put current events into perspective. The world now finds itself staggering between a set of internationally negotiated trading rules and exchange rate regimes, and the enforcement practiced by a sometimes-imperial America. These two forces?liberal international order and empire?will one day feed on each other to create a shakeup in global relations, James predicts. To reinforce his point, he invokes the familiar “bon mot” once applied to the British Empire: “”When Britain could not rule the waves, it waived the rules.”
Despite the pessimistic prognostications of Smith and Gibbon, who saw no way out of this dilemma, James ends his book on a less depressing note. He includes a chapter on one possible way in which the world could resolve the Roman Predicament–by opting for a global system based on values as opposed to rules.
ISBN: 0691122210
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: HOW THE RULES OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER CREATE THE POLITICS OF EMPIRE
Author: HAROLD JAMES -
CUNNING
₨ 6,270
ISBN: 9780691136349
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Author: DON HERZOG -
SELF-ORGANIZATION IN COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS
₨ 14,145
ISBN: 0691070407
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: MONOGRAPHS IN POPULATION BIOLOGY – 42
Author: RICARD V. SOLE -
REACHING FOR POWER
₨ 5,330
ISBN: 0691134789
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE SHI’A IN THE MODERN ARAB WORLD
Author: YITZHAK NAKASH -
BLIND ORACLES
₨ 9,415In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The book looks at the how the country’s foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Ken- Nan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard’s Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow.
Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy — Kissinger, for example — clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affect policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives’ influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking.
ISBN: 0691123497
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: INTELLECTUALS AND WAR FROM KENNAN TO KISSINGER
Author: BRUCE KUKLICK -
UNANSWERED THREATS
₨ 9,415Why have states throughout history regularly underestimated dangers to their survival? Why have some states been able to mobilize their material resources effectively to balance against threats, while others have not been able to do so? The phenomenon of “under balancing” is a common but woefully under examined behavior in international politics. Under balancing occurs when states fail to recognize dangerous threats, choose not to react to them, or respond in paltry and imprudent ways. It is a response that directly contradicts the core prediction of structural realism’s balance-of-power theory–that states motivated to survive as autonomous entities are coherent actors that, when confronted by dangerous threats, act to restore the disrupted balance by creating alliances or increasing their military capabilities, or, in some cases, a combination of both.
Consistent with the new wave of neoclassical realist research, Unanswered Threats offers a theory of under balancing based on four domestic-level variables–elite consensus, elite cohesion, social cohesion, and regime/government vulnerability–that channel, mediate, and redirect policy responses to external pressures and incentives. The theory yields five causal schemes for under balancing behavior, which are tested against the cases of interwar Britain and France, France from 1877 to 1913, and the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870) that pitted tiny Paraguay against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Randall Schweller concludes that those most likely to under balance are incoherent, fragmented states whose elites are constrained by political considerations.
ISBN: 0691124256
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE BALANCE OF POWER
Author: RANDALL L. SCHW -
WHY?
₨ 7,845Why? is a book about the explanations we give and how we give them—a fascinating look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. Written in an easy-to-read style by distinguished social historian Charles Tilly, the book explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations with others through the reasons they give.
Tilly examines a number of different types of reason giving. For example, he shows how an air traffic controller would explain the near miss of two aircraft in several different ways, depending upon the intended audience: for an acquaintance at a cocktail party, he might shrug it off by saying “This happens all the time.” or offer a chatty, colloquial rendition of what transpired; for a colleague at work, he would venture a longer, more technical explanation; and for a formal report for his division head he would provide an exhaustive, detailed account.
ISBN: 069112521X
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE GIVE REASONS…AND WHY
Author: CHARLES TILLY -
A CORPORATE SOLUTION TO GLOBLE POVERTY
₨ 8,785World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a Joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
In A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, George Lodge and Craig Wilson assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they contend, MNCs can do so profitably and thus sustainably. But they lack legitimacy, and risk can be high, and so a collective approach is better than one in which an individual company proceeds alone. Thus a UN-sponsored WDC, owned and managed by a dozen or so MNCs with NGD support, will make a marked difference.
At a time when big business has been demonized for destroying the environment, enjoying one-sided benefits from globalization, and deceiving investors, the book argues that MNCs have much to gain from becoming more effective in reducing global poverty. This is not a call for philanthropy. Lodge and Wilson believe that corporate support for the World Development Corporation will benefit not only the world’s poor but also company shareholders as a result of improved MNC legitimacy and stronger markets and profitability.”
ISBN: 0691122296
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: HOW MULTINATIONALS CAN HELP THE POOR AND INVIGORATE THEIR OWN LEGITIMACY
Author: GEORGE LODGE & -
REVIVING THE INVISIBLE HAND
₨ 9,115Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the view that states attempts to ameliorate the impact of markets threaten global economic progress and stability. And in an unusual move, he not only defends globalization economically, but also answers the cultural and moral objections of antiglobalizers.
Taking a broad cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, Lal argues that there are two groups opposed to globalization.
Cultural nationalists who oppose not capitalism but westernization, and “new dirigistes” who oppose not westernization but capitalism. In response, La! Contends that capitalism doesn’t have to lead to Westernization, as the examples of Japan, China, and India show and that “new dirigiste” complaint have more to do with the demoralization of their societies than with the capitalist instruments of prosperity.
La! Bases his case on a historical account of the rise of capitalism and globalization in the first two liberal international economic orders: the nineteenth- century British, and the post—World War II American.
Arguing that the “new dirigisme” is the thin edge of a wedge that could return the world to excessive economic intervention by states and international organizations, Lal does not shrink from controversial stands such as advocating the abolishment of these organizations and defending the existence of child labor in the Third World.
ISBN: 0691125910
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE CASE FOR CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Author: DEEPAK LAL -
MAKING WAR AND BUILDING PEACE
₨ 7,845Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn’t. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources.
UN missions can be effective by supporting new actors committed to the peace, building governing institutions, and monitoring and policing implementation of peace settlements. But the UN is not good at intervening in ongoing wars. If the conflict is controlled by spoilers or if the parties are not ready to make peace, the UN cannot play an effective enforcement role. It can, however, offer its technical expertise in multidimensional peacekeeping operations that follow enforcement missions undertaken by states or regional organizations such as NATO. Finding that UN missions are most effective in the first few years after the end of war, and that economic development is the best way to decrease the risk of new fighting in the long run, the authors also argue that the UN’s role in launching development projects after civil war should be expanded.
ISBN: 069112275X
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: UNITED NATIONS PEACE OPERATIONS
Author: MICHAEL W. DOYL -
A FREE NATION DEEP IN DEBT
₨ 6,270FOR THE GREATER PART of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen-creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.
ISBN: 0691126321
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: THE FINANCIAL ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY
Author: JAMES MACDONALD -
THE NEXT GREAT GLOBALIZATION
₨ 8,785Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in The Next Great Globalization, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich. Mishkin argues that an effectively managed financial globalization promises benefits on the scale of the hugely successful trade and information globalizations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This financial revolution can lift developing nations out of squalor and increase the wealth and stability of emerging and industrialized nations alike. By presenting an unprecedented picture of the potential benefits of financial globalization, and by showing in clear and hard-headed terms how these gains can be realized, Mishkin provides a hopeful vision of the next phase of globalization.
Mishkin draws on historical examples to caution that mismanagement of financial globalization, often aided and abetted by rich elites, can wreak havoc in developing countries, but he uses these examples to demonstrate hoi better policies can help poor nations to open up their economies to the benefits of global investment. According to Mishkin, the international community must provide incentives for developing countries to establish effective property rights, banking regulations, accounting practices, and corporate governance—the institutions necessary to attract and manage global investment. And the West must be a partner in integrating the financial systems of rich and poor countries—to the benefit of both.
The Next Great Globalization makes the case that finance will be a driving force in the twenty-first-century economy, and ‘demonstrates how this force can and should be shaped to the benefit of all, especially the disadvantaged nations most in need of growth and prosperity.
ISBN: 0691121540
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: HOW DISADVANTAGED NATIONS CAN HARNESS THEIR FINANCIAL SYSTEMS TO GET RICH
Author: FREDERIC S. MIS -
A THEORY OF FOREIGN POLICY
₨ 11,005This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign po1icy The theory stands in contrast to most approaches—which assume that states want to maximize security—by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance. States, in other words, try both to change aspects of the international status quo that they don’t like and maintain those aspects they do like. A state’s ability to do so is largely a function of its relative capability, and since .national capability is finite, a state must make tradeoffs between policies designed to achieve change or maintenance.
ISBN: 0691123594
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: GLENN PALMER