| Description |
319 pages ; 21 cm. |
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Open Media series |
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Open Media book.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Remaking the future / John Stickney -- Threats, talks and a hoped-for accord with North Korea -- Tortilla wars -- We own the world -- Gaza and the future of a Palestinian-Israeli peace -- Containing Iran -- Hypocrisies and hopes in Annapolis -- The Somalia syndrome -- "Good News" from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan -- In the campaign, the unspeakable war -- Would a Democrat change U.S. Middle East policy? -- Delaying doomsday : this century's challenges -- Middle East road trip -- Iraq oil : a deal with the devil -- Nuclear threats : all options are on the table -- Georgia and the Neo-con cold warriors -- The campaign and the financial crisis -- Challenges for Barack Obama : Part 1, the election and the economy -- Challenges for Barack Obama : Part 2, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Nightmare in Gaza -- Barack Obama and Israel-Palestine -- Latin America, defiant -- Down with the Durand LIne! -- A tradition of torture -- Obama on Israel-Palestine -- A season of travesties -- Making war to bring peace -- Militarizing Latin America -- War, Peace and Obama's Nobel -- The legacy of 1989 in two hemispheres -- Presidential "peacekeeping" in Latin America -- The corporate takeover of U.S. democracy -- The unelected "architects of policy" -- A "regrettable event in East Jerusalem -- Rust belt rage -- The real threat aboard the Freedom Flotilla -- Storm clouds over Iran -- The war in Afghanistan : echoes of Vietnam -- China and the new world order, Part 1 -- China and the new world order, Part 2 -- The U.S. elections : outrage, misguided -- The charade of Israeli-Palestinian talks -- Breaking the Israel-Palestine deadlock -- The Arab word is on fire -- The Cairo-Madison connection -- Libya and the world of oil -- The international assault on labor -- The revenge killing of Osama Bin Laden -- In Israel, a tsunami warning -- America in decline -- After 9/11, was war the only option? -- The threat of warships on an "island of world peace" -- Occupy the future. |
| Summary |
Collects more than fifty essays on major political events from the early twenty-first century. |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
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Unipolarity (International relations)
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Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Unipolarity (International relations) (OCoLC)fst01763230
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
2001-2017
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| ISBN |
9780872865372 |
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0872865371 |
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