Grounded

Robert M Farley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• The United States needs airpower, but does it need an air force? In Grounded, Robert M. Farley persuasively argues that America should end the indepen... Lees meer

Truman, Congress, and Korea

Larry Blomstedt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Three days after North Korean premier Kim Il Sung launched a massive military invasion of South Korea on June 24, 1950, President Harry S. Truman resp... Lees meer

A Diplomatic Meeting

James Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Drawing on a host of recently declassified documents from the Reagan-Thatcher years, A Diplomatic Meeting: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Art of Summitry p... Lees meer

Thomas C. Mann

Thomas Tunstall Allcock

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Lyndon Johnson was often blamed for abandoning Kennedy's vision of development and progress in Latin America in favor of his own domestic concerns: an... Lees meer

Reagan and the World

Jack Matlock

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars ... Lees meer

America's Israel

Kenneth Kolander

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• One of the defining features of United States foreign policy since World War II has been the nation's special relationship with Israel. This informal ... Lees meer

Obama at War

Ryan C Hendrickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• During President Barack Obama's first term in office, the United States expanded its military presence in Afghanistan and increased drone missile stri... Lees meer

America's Israel

Kenneth Kolander

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• One of the defining features of United States foreign policy since World War II has been the nation's special relationship with Israel. This informal ... Lees meer

The Gulf

Michael F Cairo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and ... Lees meer

The Cold War at Home and Abroad

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the A... Lees meer

Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow

Richard A Moss

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Most Americans consider détente--the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union--to be among the Nixon administration's most... Lees meer

Foreign Policy at the Periphery

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determini... Lees meer

The American South and the Vietnam War

Joseph A Fry

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in ... Lees meer

Unwilling to Quit

David L Prentice

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Prentice reframes Nixon's choices, emphasizes Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's outsized yet subtle role in the decision-making process, and conside... Lees meer

American Justice in Taiwan

Stephen G Craft

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• On May 23, 1957, US Army Sergeant Robert Reynolds was acquitted of murdering Chinese officer Liu Ziran in Taiwan. Reynolds did not deny shooting Liu b... Lees meer

The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg

Lawrence S Kaplan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised... Lees meer

Diplomatic Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance sin... Lees meer

The Myth of Triumphalism

Beth A Fischer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Did President Reagan's hawkish policies destroy the Soviet Union and enable the United States to win the Cold War? Many Americans believe this to be t... Lees meer

Enemies to Allies

Brian C Etheridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• An impressive examination of how Americans manufactured, contested, and coopted conflicting narratives about the Third Reich and Cold War Germany as p... Lees meer

Eisenhower and Cambodia

William J Rust

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the nation's proximity to China and the global ide... Lees meer

So Much to Lose

William J Rust

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Before U.S. combat units were deployed to Vietnam, presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy strove to defeat a communist-led insurgency in Laos. This impover... Lees meer

Peacemakers

James W Pardew

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to t... Lees meer

Soccer Diplomacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• Although the game of soccer is known by many names around the world-football, fútbol, Fußball, voetbal-the sport is a universal language. Throughout t... Lees meer

Aid Under Fire

Jessica Elkind

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new dip... Lees meer