1,126円 The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimäki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally...

1,500円 Découvrez une édition de référence de L'art de la guerre de Sun Tzu, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Sun Tzu dit : La guerre est d'une importance vitale pour l'État. C'est le domaine de la vie et de la mort : la conservation ou la perte de l'empire en dépendent ...

1,408円 With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation ...

3,100円 Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-w...

164円 Sun Tzu’s Art of War is perhaps the best known and highly regarded treatise on strategy ever written. Although its wisdom is over two thousand years old, its principles are timeless for today’s boardroom battlefields. Thirteen sections present incisive stratagem from assessing the foe to proper t...

4,951円 Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets ...

7,464円 The twenty-first century is likely to witness Asia’s two largest civilizations, China and India, join the United States in an elite club of global superpowers. By some economic indicators, the two Asian giants are already the second and third largest economies in the world, and they are developin...

1,243円 From the best-selling author of The Map of Love, here is a bracing firsthand account of the Egyptian revolutionーtold with the narrative instincts of a novelist, the gritty insights of an activist, and the long perspective of a native Cairene. Since January 25, 2011, when thousands of Egyptians g...

0円 O Embaixador Ronaldo Sardenberg se vale da experiência acumulada ao longo de sua vitoriosa carreira diplomática para oferecer um verdadeiro guia daquilo que todo estudante de relações internacionais deve saber sobre a ONU (e os professores também...). Sardenberg sintetiza com propriedade a heranç...

933円 From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed...

0円 Europe’s right-wing and national populist parties are on the upswing, even despite some recent electoral setbacks. They have entered parliaments across Europe and some parties are even participating in national governments. What is remarkable is that right-wing and national populist parties have ...

9,662円 The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796–1820 CE) has long occupied an awkward position in studies of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911 CE). Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post–Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been g...