The boundary between Canada and the United States is famously described as the world's longest undefended border. It was not always so. In The Struggle for the Border, renowned journalist and popular historian Bruce Hutchison tells the little-known story of how that border was established-a story of frontier war, Fenian raids, the burning of Washington, and diplomatic intrigues.
This book will prove an essential resource for students and scholars of political science, international affairs and history. It is useful to journalists, government officials, diplomats and all those with a keen interest in con- temporary Southern African politics and events in that region.
This account of US foreign policy reveals the story of the covert activity in Indonesia undertaken by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the late 1950s
For more than three decades, the multifaceted alliance between the United States and Japan has contributed significantly to the security of Japan and the maintenance of peace and security in the Far East.
Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington in 1962. He was only forty-three, the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Amazingly he remained in Washington through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main back channel for the White House and the Kremlin to exchange ideas, negotiate in secret, and set up summit mee…
Keith Payne begins by asking, "Did we really learn how to deter predictably and reliably during the Cold War?" He answers cautiously in the negative, pointing out that we know only that our policies toward the Soviet Union did not fail. What we can be more certain of, in Payne's view, is that such policies will almost assuredly fail in the Second Nuclear Age―a period in which direct nuclear t…
A related adjustment in American policy toward China has been the extent to which the United States has re-initiated a high-level dialogue with the PRC President Bush, perhaps because he did not want to be seen as being too soft on China in the wake of the Tiananmen incident, suspended a high-level dialogue with Beijing. Under President Clinton, to some extent perhaps because the Administration…
Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confiden…
A counterterrorism spy describes his leadership of the campaign that routed al Qaeda and the Taliban in the weeks after the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the ways in which the Afghanistan campaign changed American warfare
Dinas intelijen terbesar di dunia ini melakukan blunder paling parah dalam sejarah panjang spionase berbohong tentang eksistensi senjata nuklir Irak, yang menjadi basis pengambilan keputusan politik paling keliru dalam sejarah kepresidenan AS, yakni menyerbu Irak sekaligus menumbangkan Presiden Saddam Hussein. Setelah pendudukan di Irak, terbongkar lagi skandal-skandal yang mencoreng wajah AS s…