• 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
    Author: STEN RYNNING

     2,295
  • CAPTIVE AUDIENCE


    ISBN: 9780300205701
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: THE TELECOM INDUSTRY AND MONOPOLY POWER IN THE NEW GILDED AGE

    Author: SUSAN CRAWFORD

     6,922
  • 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

     1,695
  • THE TALIBAN REVIVAL


    ISBN: 9780300216165
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: VIOLENCE AND EXTREMISM ON THE PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN FRONTIER
    Author: HASSAN ABBAS

     1,495
  • 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
    Subtitle:

    Author: BRIAN FAGAN

     3,995
  • 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 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 ABBAS

     6,695
  • THE 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 MULDER

     6,345
  • JUNE 1941: HITLER AND STALIN


    ISBN: 9780300123647
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle:
    Author: JOHN C WRIGHT

     4,718
  • THE MODERN WEST


    ISBN: 0300114486
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES 1890 – 1950
    Author: EMILY BALLEW NEFF

     14,140
  • BUILDING RENAISSANCE VENICE


    ISBN: 0300112920
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle:
    Author: RICHARD J. GOY

     22,019
  • MODERNISM IN AMERICAN SILVER


    ISBN: 030010927X
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: 20TH CENTURY SILVER
    Author: JEWEL STERN

     14,140
  • THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ISLAM 1250-1800


    ISBN: 818582228X
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle:
    Author: SHEILA S. BLAIR

     3,000
  • RAVAGED


    ISBN: 9780300204476
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: ART AND CULTURE IN TIMES OF CONFLICT
    Author: JO TOLLEBEEK

     25,164
  • WHEN THE MONEY RUNS OUT


    ISBN: 9780300205237
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: THE END OF WESTERN AFFLUENCE
    Author: STEPHEN D. KING

     6,292
  • THE INVENTION OF NEWS


    ISBN: 9780300179088
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: HOW THE WORLD CAME TO KNOW ABOUT ITSELF
    Author: ANDREW PETTEGREE

     11,010
  • INVESTMENT IN BLOOD


    ISBN: 9780300205268
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: THE REAL COST OF BRITAIN’S AFGHAN WAR
    Author: FRANK LEDWIDGE

     5,972
  • CONTESTING DEMOCRACY


    ISBN: 9780300194128
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: POLITICAL IDEAS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE
    Author: JAN-WERNER MULLER

     9,436
  • NATION OF DEVILS


    ISBN: 9780300193190
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND THE PROBLEM OF OBEDIENCE
    Author: STEIN RINGEN

     11,010
  • THE GATEWAY ARCH


    ISBN: 9780300169492
    Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY
    Subtitle: A BIOGRAPHY
    Author: TRACY CAMPBELL

     8,179
  • CHRISTIANS, 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
    Subtitle:
    Author: MONA SIDDIQUI

     8,809