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NATO
For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim has been the achievement of world peace but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia’s war on Ukraine and on Europe’s security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?
In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.
At a time of strategic competition and geopolitical upheaval, Rynning offers us a clear-sighted account of the alliance’s intriguing history and asks what its ambitions might be for the future.
ISBN: 9780300270112
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINE, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL ALLIANCE
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CAPTIVE AUDIENCE
ISBN: 9780300205701
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: THE TELECOM INDUSTRY AND MONOPOLY POWER IN THE NEW GILDED AGE
Author: SUSAN CRAWFORD -
THE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN
The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have had effective control of Afghanistan—a scenario few Western commentators anticipated. But after a twenty-year-long bitter war against the Republic of Afghanistan, reestablishing control is a complex procedure. What is the Taliban’s strategy now that they’ve returned to power?
In this groundbreaking new account, Hassan Abbas examines the resurgent Taliban as ruptures between moderates and the hardliners in power continue to widen. The group is now facing debilitating threats—from humanitarian crises to the Islamic State in Khorasan—but also engaging on the world stage, particularly with China and central Asian states. Making considered use of sources and contacts in the region, and offering profiles of major Taliban leaders, Return of the Taliban is the essential account of the movement as it develops and consolidates its grasp on Afghanistan.
ISBN: 9780300267885
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: AFGHANISTAN AFTER THE AMERICANS LEFT
Author: HASSAN ABBAS -
THE TALIBAN REVIVAL
A LITTLE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
A “learned and lively” (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure?with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe?for readers of all ages
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history?more than three million years!
This Little History tells the riveting stories of some of the great archaeologists and their amazing discoveries around the globe: ancient Egyptian tombs, Mayan ruins, the first colonial settlements at Jamestown, mysterious Stonehenge, the incredibly preserved Pompeii, and many, many more. In forty brief, exciting chapters, the book recounts archaeology?s development from its eighteenth-century origins to its twenty-first-century technological advances. Shining light on the most intriguing events in the history of the field, this absolutely up-to-date book illuminates archaeology?s controversies, discoveries, heroes and scoundrels, global sites, and newest methods for curious readers of every age.
ISBN: 9780300224641 AUTHOR: BRIAN FAGAN
ISBN: 9780300224641
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
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Author: BRIAN FAGANTHE RETURN OF THE TALIBAN
The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan-a scenario few Western commentators anticipated. But after a twenty-year-long bitter war against the Republic of Afghanistan, reestablishing control is a complex procedure. What is the Taliban’s strategy now that they’ve returned to power?In this groundbreaking new account, Hassan Abbas examines the resurgent Taliban as ruptures between moderates and the hardliners in power continue to widen. The group is now facing debilitating threats-from humanitarian crises to the Islamic State in Khorasan-but also engaging on the world stage, particularly with China and central Asian states. Making considered use of sources and contacts in the region, and offering profiles of major Taliban leaders, Return of the Taliban is the essential account of the movement as it develops and consolidates its grasp on Afghanistan.
ISBN: 9780300267884
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: AFGHANISTAN AFTER THE AMERICANS LEFT
Author: HASSAN ABBASTHE ECONOMIC WEAPON
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022
‘Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today.’?Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal
‘The lessons are sobering.’?The Economist
Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.
Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.
ISBN: 9780300270488
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: THE RISE OF SANCTIONS AS A TOOL OF MODERN WAR
Author: NICHOLAS MULDERJUNE 1941: HITLER AND STALIN
ISBN: 9780300123647
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
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Author: JOHN C WRIGHTTHE MODERN WEST
ISBN: 0300114486
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES 1890 – 1950
Author: EMILY BALLEW NEFFBUILDING RENAISSANCE VENICE
ISBN: 0300112920
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
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Author: RICHARD J. GOYMODERNISM IN AMERICAN SILVER
ISBN: 030010927X
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: 20TH CENTURY SILVER
Author: JEWEL STERNTHE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ISLAM 1250-1800
ISBN: 818582228X
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
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Author: SHEILA S. BLAIRRAVAGED
ISBN: 9780300204476
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: ART AND CULTURE IN TIMES OF CONFLICT
Author: JO TOLLEBEEKWHEN THE MONEY RUNS OUT
ISBN: 9780300205237
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: THE END OF WESTERN AFFLUENCE
Author: STEPHEN D. KINGTHE INVENTION OF NEWS
ISBN: 9780300179088
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: HOW THE WORLD CAME TO KNOW ABOUT ITSELF
Author: ANDREW PETTEGREEINVESTMENT IN BLOOD
ISBN: 9780300205268
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: THE REAL COST OF BRITAIN’S AFGHAN WAR
Author: FRANK LEDWIDGECONTESTING DEMOCRACY
ISBN: 9780300194128
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: POLITICAL IDEAS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE
Author: JAN-WERNER MULLERNATION OF DEVILS
ISBN: 9780300193190
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND THE PROBLEM OF OBEDIENCE
Author: STEIN RINGENTHE GATEWAY ARCH
ISBN: 9780300169492
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
Subtitle: A BIOGRAPHY
Author: TRACY CAMPBELLCHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JESUS
A groundbreaking examination of the way Muslim thinkers have approached and responded to Jesus through the centuries
Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian-Muslim relations. Christian and Muslim scholars have used Jesus and Christological themes for polemical and dialogical conversations from the earliest days to modern times. The author concludes with her own reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in her Muslim faith. Through a careful analysis of selected works by major Christian and Muslim theologians during the formative, medieval, and modern periods of both religions, Siddiqui focuses on themes including revelation, prophecy, salvation, redemption, sin, eschatology, law, and love. How did some doctrines become the defining characteristics of one faith and not the other? What is the nature of the theological chasm between Christianity and Islam? With a nuanced and carefully considered analysis of critical doctrines the author provides a refreshingly honest counterpoint to contemporary polemical arguments and makes a compelling contribution to reasoned interfaith conversation.
ISBN: 9780300205275
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
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Author: MONA SIDDIQUI