International Relations

No Indian spymaster has, until now, written a memoir. A.S. Dulat is the first to do so, and in A Life in the Shadows he does it with considerable elan....

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Political History of the World by Jonathan Holslag, read by Roy McMillan. In 3,000 years of history, China has spent at least 11 centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 percent of its lifetime....

Authored by the most influential Indian president yet, this audiobook delves into the obstacles that are preventing India from rising up to the challenge of development....

Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage....

Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....

The Complete Strategy Collection, a compilation of ancient and historical philosophies, will increase your knowledge of strategy, conflict, and adversity throughout the ages, giving you valuable insight into the past while opening a window to the future....

A bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world economy.

In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America....

In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11....

Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is risking catastrophe....

A brilliant rebuttal to thinkers who suggest that globalism will trump geography, this indispensable work shows how timeless truths and natural facts can help prevent this century's looming cataclysms....

In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein tells the extraordinary story of global commerce....

In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive study of Israel's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present.

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....

India's relations with the People's Republic of China have captured the popular imagination ever since the 1950s but have rarely merited a detailed understanding of the issues. Individual episodes tend to arouse lively debate....

A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history."....

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad....

In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking....

The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? Find out....

The grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, journalist Hooman Majd is uniquely qualified to explain contemporary Iran....

Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....

Humankind has never before faced challenges of the scale and complexity of today. We need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental tools most of us rely on to ‘do the right thing’ just don’t work when it comes to reasoning about such huge collective problems. From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China's Xi Jinping is preparing to conquer Taiwan in the coming years and the dire stakes for America and the whole world if he is not deterred.

Politisch und wirtschaftlich ist die demokratische Welt so schwach wie seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr. Das Konzept "Wandel durch Handel" ist gescheitert. Vielmehr hat es Diktaturen gestärkt und Demokratien untergraben. Freie und offene Gesellschaften sind existenziell gefährdet. Der russische Einmarsch in der Ukraine, der brutale Angriff auf Israel, der wieder salonfähig gewordene Antisemitismus und die wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit von China müssen ein Weckruf für offene Gesellschaften sein. Es braucht jetzt grundlegende Veränderungen.

「知らない」ではすまされない、世界が注視する“この国”を正しく知るための入門書イスラエル。こんなテーマがほかにあるだろうか?人口1000万に満たない小さな国が世界のトップニュースになるのはなぜか?

Discover the prodigious global influence of il bel paese in this star-studded retelling of Italy's past-from a foremost author of historic Italy. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced book.

With unparalleled access, and having interviewed hundreds of people – from Amazon executives to competitors to small businesses who rely on its marketplace to survive – Dana Mattioli exposes how Amazon was driven by a competitive edge to dominate every industry it entered, bulldozed all who stood in its way, reshaped the retail landscape, transformed how Wall Street evaluates companies, and altered the very nature of the global economy.

Es geht um viel: Um unsere Zukunft in Deutschland und Europa. Um die Welt, wie wir sie unseren Kindern wünschen. Und um einen Global Player, den kaum jemand kennt, der uns jedoch alle betrifft – Chinas Mittelstand. 60 Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung und 70 Prozent der technologischen Innovationen Chinas werden von mittelständischen Unternehmen geleistet. Doch wer sind die neuen Hidden Champions und Weltmarktführer von morgen, welche Ziele verfolgen sie global und was hat das mit unserer Zukunft zu tun?

A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.

In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. For example, the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians after 1948 undermined its claim that it was a true democracy, and the argument that Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel for decades is simply untrue. Because of widespread acceptance of these myths in both the US and Israel, the consequences have been devastating to all of the involved parties.

Wer den Frieden will, muss den Frieden vorbereiten. Alle reden vom Krieg, vom Frieden reden zu wenige: Die weißen Tauben sind müde. Heribert Prantl begründet, warum wir eine neue Friedensbewegung, eine neue Entspannungspolitik und keinen dritten Weltkrieg brauchen – es wäre der letzte. Und er denkt darüber nach, wie die Zähmung der Gewalt, wie Entfeindung gelingen kann, wie wir Frieden lernen.

早くも５刷！「世界の仕組みが分かる」と大評判！激変する世界情勢！「日本の常識」は世界で通じない！誰も教えてくれなかった冷酷な現実！

ハマスとイスラエルの衝突で世界は混乱、いまだ和平の糸口は見えない。パレスチナとイスラエルはなぜ憎しみあい、殺しあうのか?

Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk — the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What makes an age a revolutionary one? And how do they end? In this major new work, Fareed Zakaria masterfully investigates eras that have shattered and shaped humanity.

In this groundbreaking account, Elisabeth Braw explores the collapse of globalization and the profound challenges it will bring to the West. Drawing on interviews with prominent executives and policymakers from around the world, Braw poses the difficult questions all businesses and economies will face-and traces the intricate story of globalization from the exuberant 90s to the embattled present.

Este libro recoge los discursos que Jorge Mario Bergoglio dio en ocasión de los tres Encuentros Mundiales de los Movimientos Populares. Uno de ellos en la grabación original del Papa Francisco.