Kennedy in Berlin examines one of the most spectacular politicalevents of the twentieth century. It tells the story of theenthusiastically celebrated visit that US president John F. Kennedypaid to Berlin, the 'frontline city of the Cold War,' in June 1963.The president's tour resonated around the world, not least onaccount of Kennedy's famous declaration – 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'Andreas W. Daum sets Kennedy's visit against the background of thespecial relationship that had developed between the United Statesand West Berlin in the wake of World War II, and Kennedy in Berlinis an innovative contribution to the study of transatlanticrelations, the Cold War, and the conduct of diplomacy in the age ofmass media. Using a broad range of sources, this book sheds newlight on the interplay between politics and culture in the modernera.
Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea longtantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders,blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn't get to it. Then theSoviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the regionerupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world's leadingnations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billionbarrels of proven oil reserves at stake, and a tense geopoliticalstruggle began. The main players were Moscow and Washington-theformer seeking to retain control of its satellite states, and thelatter intent on dislodging Russia to the benefit of theWest. The Oil and the Glory is the gripping account of this latestphase in the epochal struggle for control of the earth's "blackgold." Steve LeVine, who was based in the region for The WallStreet Journal, The New York Times, and Newsweek, weaves anastonishing tale of high-stakes political gamesmanship, greed, andscandal, set in one of the most opaque corners of the world. InLeVine's tel
A WATERSHED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FRIENDSHIPIN AMERICAN HISTORY In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein andNancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of twoextraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is athrilling and unprecedented account of early America. The third and fourth presidents have long been considered properand noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowingJames Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatorybook, both leaders are seen as men of their times, ruthless andhardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics wherethey struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. In most histories, the elder figure, Jefferson, looms larger. YetMadison is privileged in this book’s title because, as Burstein andIsenberg reveal, he was the senior partner at key moments in theformation of the two-party system. It was Madison who did the mostto initiate George W
About national and international power in the "modern" or PostRenaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen andfallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "newmonarchies" in W. Europe.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figurein world politics. At once civil servant, the world's diplomat,lackey of the UN Security Council, and commander-in-chief of up toa hundred thousand peacekeepers, he or she depends on states forboth the legitimacy and resources that enable the United Nations tofunction. The tension between these roles - of being secretary orgeneral - has challenged every incumbent. This book brings togetherthe insights of senior UN staff, diplomats and scholars to examinethe normative and political factors that shape this unique officewith particular emphasis on how it has evolved in response tochanging circumstances such as globalization and the onset of the'war on terror'. The difficulties experienced by eachSecretary-General reflect the profound ambivalence of statestowards entrusting their security, interests or resources to anintergovernmental body.
?《大动量：什么控制了我们的世界》的内容从金融次贷危机到伊拉克战争，从宗教信仰差异带来的行为到流行文化的潮流裹挟，从媒体网络的科技飞跃到全球环保运动所遭遇的支持与抵制，作者的视线遍及当今世界发展的各个关键领域，深刻剖析了随着“速度”（组织效率和传播速度）和“质量”（组织和投入的规模、影响力）的高度发展，大动量是如何对人类施加着支配性的、却又难以被察觉的巨大影响。?《大动量：什么控制了我们的世界》包含作者马克罗德对丰富案例的大量独到分析，文笔生动、鞭辟入里，并冷静地提醒世人小心大动量可能为世界带来的毁灭性打击，诚恳地建议我们如何在生活中保持冷静和独立的头脑，以幸存和完胜于这个易被各种危险动量所笼罩的“疯狂”世界。
Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments andevidence about the influence of political parties in the U.S.Congress. Steven S. Smith argues that theory must reflect policy,electoral, and collective party goals. These goals call forflexible party organizations and leadership strategies. They demandthat majority party leaders control the flow of legislation;package legislation and time action to build winning majorities andattract public support; work closely with a president of theirparty; and influence the vote choices for legislators. Smithobserves that the circumstantial evidence of party influence isstrong, multiple collective goals remain active ingredients afterparties are created, party size is an important factor in partystrategy, both negative and positive forms of influence areimportant to congressional parties, and the needle-in-the-haystacksearch for direct influence continues to prove frustrating.
One ofthe most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed asnever before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from theunique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forcescommander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to thetheater who has only recently returned from combatthere. Southern Afghanistan was slipping away.That was clear to then-Captain Rusty Bradley as he began his thirdtour of duty there in 2006. The Taliban and their allies wereinfiltrating everywhere, poised to reclaim Kandahar Province, theirstrategically vital onetime capital. To stop them, the NATOcoalition launched Operation Medusa, the largest offensive in itshistory. The battlefield was the Panjwayi Valley, a densely packedwarren of walled compounds that doubled neatly as enemy bunkers,lush orchards, and towering marijuana stands, all laced withtreacherous irrigation ditches. A mass exodus of civilians heraldedthe carnage to come. Dispatched as a diversionary force insuppo
摆在读者面前的《战术基础理论》丛书，包括以下四种图书：《战术史纲要》、《战术的哲学基础》、《合同战斗发展史》、《中国战术史》。这部丛书反映了中国改革开放以来，中国军事学术界对战术学基础理论的探研成果。战术学是军事科学中基础、重要的分支学科之一，它研究的对象是战斗的本质及其规律。战术用通俗的话说是交战双方直接的战斗方法，具有非常明显的实践性与操作性。而这四种书分别从史的角度与哲学的角度对战术学进行了深入研究，拓展了这一分支学科的研究广度与深度，从而大大提升了这一分支学科的理论含量与学科化程度，是有
In business and in life, these principles, among others, directly affect who we are and the way in which we conduct ourselves publicly and privately. Simply, they are both guidelines for and predictors of success, as they were for the man who was arguably the greatest American leader of the twentieth century--Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Nothing to Fear, the bestselling author of Elizabeth I,CEO and Patton on Leadership, Alan Axelrod, examines the unparalleled leadership qualities of FDR, a man who would come to exemplify the kind of decency,bravery, and relentless courage it took to lift America out of the Great Depression and steer it through the darkest days of World War II, even as he battled a debilitating illness on the public stage. The leadership of FDR transformed the most perilous years of the twentieth century into what many Americans regarded as their finest hour. Axelrod distills Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and career into fourteen themes containing a wealth of practical lessons for
《国防科技著作精品译丛?无人机系列?无人机协同决策与控制:面临的挑战与实践应用》采用从具体问题中抽取出具有挑战性问题的方式来提出无人机协同决策与控制问题，使得其解决方法在更广范围内能够得到运用。为了对新的研究人员或已经从事该领域研究的人员有所帮助，《国防科技著作精品译丛?无人机系列?无人机协同决策与控制:面临的挑战与实践应用》对这个问题提供了一个全面的描述并陈述其中一些难点。一些采用多种方法解决的方案将呈现给读者，为后续进一步的研究打下基础。
The world looks far different today than it did before theglobal financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutalimpacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societieseverywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increasedprotectionism. That's understandable, but it's also dangerous,maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0. Leftunchecked, heightened protectionism could prevent peoples aroundthe world from achieving the true gains afforded by cross-borderopenness. Ghemawat paints a disturbing picture of what could happen--tohousehold income, availability of goods and services, and otherquality-of-life metrics--should globalization continue to reversedirection. He then describes how a wide range of players' privatebusinesses, policy makers, citizens, the press' could help openflows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways thatmaximize economic benefits for all. World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we thinkwe are, and how pe
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摆在读者面前的《战术基础理论》丛书，包括以下四种图书：《战术史纲要》、《战术的哲学基础》、《合同战斗发展史》、《中国战术史》。这部丛书反映了中国改革开放以来，中国军事学术界对战术学基础理论的探研成果。战术学是军事科学中基础、重要的分支学科之一，它研究的对象是战斗的本质及其规律。战术用通俗的话说是交战双方直接的战斗方法，具有非常明显的实践性与操作性。而这四种书分别从史的角度与哲学的角度对战术学进行了深入研究，拓展了这一分支学科的研究广度与深度，从而大大提升了这一分支学科的理论含量与学科化程度，是有
The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ testscores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean thateach generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it suggesthow each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn isfinally ready to give his own views. He asks what intelligencereally is and gives a surprising and illuminating answer. Thisexpanded paperback edition includes three important new essays. Thefirst contrasts the art of writing cognitive history with thescience of measuring intelligence and reports data. The secondoutlines how we might get a complete theory of intelligence, andthe third details Flynn's reservations about Gardner's theory ofmultiple intelligences. A fascinating book that bridges the gulfseparating our minds from those of our ancestors a century ago, andmakes an important contribution to our understanding of humanintelligence.
Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the mostinfluential philosophers of the twentieth century, among thephilosophers who study his work we find considerable disagreementover what might seem to be basic issues: why is Heideggerimportant? What did his work do? This volume is an explicitresponse to these differences, and is unique in bringing togetherrepresentatives of many different approaches to Heidegger'sphilosophy. Topics covered include Heidegger's place in the'history of being', Heidegger and ethics, Heidegger and theology,and Heidegger and Nazi concepts of race. More generally, thecontributors also address their respective visions of the nature ofphilosophy and the presuppositions which guide their understandingof Heidegger.
