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• Blackstone's EU Treaties and Legislation 2008-2009 (Blackstone's Statute Book)

  
  
   

• What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-first Century

  Chris Patten

  
  
   

• Understanding International Relations

  Chris Brown, Kirsten Ainley

  
  
   

• The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

  Tariq Ali

  
  
   

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan

  
  
   

• The War within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 (Bush at War Part 4)

  Bob Woodward

  
  
   

• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11

  Lawrence Wright

  
  
   

• The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order

  Samuel P. Huntington

  
  The thesis of the provocative and potentially important Clash of Civilizations is that the increasing threat of violence arising from renewed conflicts between countries and cultures that base their traditions on religious faith and dogma. This argument moves past the notion of ethnicity to examine the growing influence of a handful of major cultures--Western, Eastern Orthodox, Latin American, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu and African--in current struggles across the globe. Samuel P Huntington, a political scientist at Harvard University and foreign policy aide to President Clinton, argues that policymakers should be mindful of this development when they interfere in other nations' affairs. --Christine Buttery
  
   

• The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations

  Patricia Owens

  
  
   

• European Union Law

  Alina Kaczorowska

  
  
   

• International Business Environment: Global and Local Marketplaces in a Changing World

  Janet Morrison

  
  
   

• Global Political Economy

  
  
   

• International Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

  Paul Wilkinson

  
  
   

• International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals

  Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman

  
  
   

• International Relations Since 1945: A Global History

  John W. Young, John Kent

  
  
   

• Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies

  
  
   

• Diplomacy

  Henry A. Kissinger

  
  
   

• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of The American Empire

  Niall Ferguson

  
  "The United States today is an empire--but a peculiar kind of empire", writes Niall Ferguson in Colossus: the Price of America's Empire. Despite overwhelming military, economic and cultural dominance, the US has had a difficult time imposing its will on other nations, mostly because the country is uncomfortable with imperialism and thus unable to use this power most effectively and decisively. The origin of this attitude and its persistence is a principal theme of this thought-provoking book, including how domestic politics affects foreign policy, whether it is politicians worried about the next election or citizens who "like Social Security more than national security".

  Ferguson, author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, has no objection to an American empire, as long as it is a liberal one actively underwriting the free exchange of goods, labour and capital. Further, he writes that "empire is more necessary in the 21st century than ever before" as a means to "contain epidemics, depose tyrants end local wars and eradicate terrorist organisations". The sooner America embraces this role and acts on it confidently, the better.

  Ferguson contrasts this persistent anti-imperialistic urge with the attitude held by the British Empire and suggests that America has much to learn from that model if it is to achieve its stated foreign policy objectives of spreading social freedom, democracy, development and the free market to the world. He suggests that the US must be willing to send money, civilians and troops for a sustained period of time to troubled spots if there is to be real change, as in Japan and Germany after World War II--an idea that many American citizens and leaders now find repulsive. Rather than devoting limited resources and striving to get complex jobs done in a rush, Americans must be willing to integrate themselves into a foreign culture until a full Americanisation has occurred, he writes.

  Overall, this is a trenchant examination of a uniquely American dilemma and its implications for the rest of the world. --Shawn Carkonen, Amazon.com

  
   

• The Post-American World

  Fareed Zakaria

  
  
   

• Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System

  Raj Patel