In January 2015, Muslim terrorists massacred cartoonists and writers at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, proclaiming to be avenging Islam’s prophet. The rampage, which included the murders of hostages at a kosher market, prompted global leaders and throngs of citizens to rally in support of free expression. But was the support genuine?In this Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy explains how leading Islamists have so ...
Who really rules Iran today? Are the men in official positions merely puppets activated by hidden hands? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic at first glance? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? These are some of the questions that Amir Taheri addresses in this riveting and timely book.An anatomy of one of the most secretive regimes in the contemporary world, The Persian Night traces the historical, relig ...
This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist ...
While Americans focus on terrorism, a more insidious Islamist threat to our way of life lurks. It is the agenda of sharia, Islam’s authoritarian legal and political system. The global Islamist movement aims, in the words of the international Muslim Brotherhood, to destroy the West by sabotaging it from within. Its principal strategy is not mass-murder but the exploitation of Western freedoms and the insinuation of ...
Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly since 1967, and spending all of 2005 and 2006 there, Guy Sorman saw it all, and in this jaw-dropping book, he documents the horrifying stories of China through the 21st century. He shows how the Par ...
Risk Rules is a comprehensive updating of the authors' critically praised The Kimchi Matters (Agate B2, 2005). The authors, a group of present and former University of Chicago political risk experts, return discussion of globalization and international relations to first principles. Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths–that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level, and that they're ...
Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги Збигнева Бжезинского «Великая шахматная доска. Главенство Америки и ее геостратегические императивы». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. [i]О книге[/i] В тот день, когда ограниченный контингент советских войск перешел границу Афганистана, Збигнев Бжезинский, советник по национальной безопасности США, написал президенту Картеру: «У нас сейчас есть возможность дать СССР свою вьетнамскую войну ...
Этот текст – сокращенная версия книги Генри Киссинджера «О Китае». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры. О Китае Генри Киссинджер, бывший советник по национальной безопасности США, судит по нескольким поколениям китайских лидеров, с которыми он был лично знаком. Именно он – тот человек, который в 1971 году открыл новую страницу в истории двух государств после двадцати лет отчуждения и вражды. Автор рассуждает о ритмах и закономернос ...
This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomacy as a sub-category of public diplomacy and empirical research of selected examples of the use of sport within public diplomacy. The empirical part of the book refers to three approaches to sports diplomacy and concerns the utilization of sport by states in order to shape relations with other states, ...