Like it or not, most Americans take it for granted that deception is entrenched in the highest levels of government. Up until now most of the arguments about lying have been moral. But in this groundbreak- ing and closely reasoned book, bestselling political commentator Eric Alterman lays bare the disastrous practical consequences of presidential duplicity since World War II.
The foreign policy expert offers an assessment of recent American foreign policy, arguing for a more sophisticated posture in the world that positions America as a supporter of reform and justice in the world.
The contents of this book: 1. Indian Presidency: The Constiturnt Intent 2. Indian Presidency Under the Constitution of India 3. Indian Presidency: The Judicial Approach 4. Working of the Contitution: The Crisis Unfolded
This collection of papers is only a subset of a much larger body of papers, the result of a collaboration among about 50 scholars from the Asia Pacific region, which have been commissioned under the so-called "Quadrilateral Project." That project was jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Tokyo, the Centre for Strategic an…
Another illusion-shattering piece from the man "The New York Times" called "arguably the most important intellectual alive". In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. By 1990, these figures had reversed. Haiti, a starving island, is exporting food to the US - about 35 times …
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a s…
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a…
Looks at the foreign policy of the Bush administration and how it differs from America's historic approach to global issues, analyzing its repercussions both at home and abroad.
In Diplomacy Lessons, Kiesling reminds readers that U.S. power does not rest on military might alone and that anger at America has real consequences for U.S. national interests. The security and prosperity of the American people depend on efficient cooperation with foreigners on a range of issues, not only terrorism and nuclear nonproliferation but also trade policy, environmental protection, a…
In the colonial period, the imposition of alien culture has produced a situation in which there developed a symbiosis in which aspects of the traditional culture and the imposed foreign culture through the medium of language, christianity and western education were merged to produce a new culture. But there are also cases in which the traditional culture displayed so much resilience that the at…