The authors explain outcomes ranging from national budgetary priorities through nuclear-power regulations and military-security commitments. They show that the political leadership in both countries is in control of policy, but that political institutions explain why the bureaucracies of the two countries receive different missions and operating procedures. This volume is a powerful contributio…
This book seeks to help explain why a country which after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, had the chance to create a concert of all the world's major states- including Muslim ones- against Islamist revolutionary terrorism chose in. stead to pursue policies which divided the West, further alienated the Muslim world and exposed America itself to greatly increased danger. The most imp…
From renowned investigative author Matthew Smith comes the first exposé to offer a plausible theory based on direct witness testimony. Here, at long last, the truth is revealed about what-and who-was really behind the assassinations that felled first a president, then a senator, and the tragedy that demolished the aspirations of the last Kennedy to try for the White House. Packed with startlin…
Unusual political intensity marked the years between the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 and the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974. As that period began, Americans of substance and stature expressed grave concern about the state of the nation at home and the prestige of the nation abroad. Their anxieties underlay the theme of Kennedy's 1960 campaign his promise to get the country …
Dick DeVos, shows how the values that make America great -the values that shape who we are, how we live, and how we threat others- can be incorporated into our daily lives. DeVos drwas on his experiences as the lead of one of America's most succesful businesses to explore twenty-four basic values from honesty and compassion to initiative and leadership. A book that offers the guidance we need t…
With a rallying cry for women to enter politics in greater numbers, Women in Power offers a groundbreaking look at how daughters become leaders. The insights here will inspire women to take power not only in politics but in every area of their personal and professional lives.
in the 1990s, the United States faces a rapidly unfolding security environment in the Asia-Pacific area. Its principal features are familiar : the economic dynamism of market economies ; the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union , symbolized by Gorbachev's visit to japan.
This book contains stories about religions in America such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam. This book was published to appreciate the religious differences that exist in America.
In this fascinating book, Madeleine Albright weaves together history, personal experiences, and brilliant analysis in exploring how religion can be a force for liberty and tolerance rather than oppression and terror
This book is mostly about the economics of inequality. In various essays in this volume, Stiglitz describing the nexus between politics and economics: the vicious circle by which more economic inequality gets translated into political inequality, especially in America's political system, which gives such unbridled power to money.