Before the Age of Prejudice: A Muslim Woman’s National Security Work with Three American Presidents
This book offers a fascinating insider’s perspective from one who happens to be a Muslim woman on U.S. foreign policy […]
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Before the Age of Prejudice: A Muslim Woman’s National Security Work with Three American Presidents
A nation must think before it acts.
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Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and […]
How Sweden’s Anti-Semitism Problem Challenges Its Core Values
Swedish News Channel Coverage of Synagogue Attack For a Swedish Jew, it’s a strange time to be home to see […]
Sexual Violence: It’s Everybody’s Problem
Whether you get your news online, on the radio, on television, or in print, there is no way to escape the recent spate of revelations of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, and sexual assault that have taken place in every industry and at every echelon. Powerful politician, billionaire media mogul, tenured professor, it makes no difference; the Harvey Weinstein scandal (rather than the countless sexual disgraces associated with our Commander-in-Chief) provided the watershed moment that now has our country engaged, at least for the time being, in this important, albeit uncomfortable, conversation.
Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
International smuggling has exploded, deepening and accelerating the collaboration of transnational organized crime and terrorist groups. Attacks like the Charlie […]
Jamaican Shipwreck: Will Merkel Go Down with the Ship?
For more than a month, representatives of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have been engaged in preliminary discussions about creating a coalition government with two other smaller parties—the pro-business liberal (in the European sense) Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the environmentalist Greens. Following a long German habit of identifying political parties and their coalitions by traditional colors, the linking of Christian Democrats (Black), Liberals (Yellow), and Greens has been referred to as a “Jamaica” Coalition, reflecting the colors of the Caribbean nation’s flag.
There Is Still Room for Compromise in Catalonia
The Catalan independence crisis feels intractable. Ministers who defied the Spanish Constitutional Court to organize an independence referendum on October 1 have been jailed. The government in Madrid has dissolved the regional administration after the administration claimed the referendum as a mandate to break away. Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president, has fled to Belgium.
Combined Operations A Global History of Amphibious and Airborne Warfare
This compelling book provides the first global history of the evolution of combined operations since Antiquity. Beginning with amphibious warfare […]
The World May Be Disappointed the Day After the German Election
After last year’s victories for Brexit and Donald Trump, liberals looked to Angela Merkel in Germany for hope. The conservative chancellor was suddenly—and unwillingly—promoted to “leader of the free world.” She is unlikely to live up to expectations. Merkel has no grand vision. She only phased out nuclear energy and allowed a free vote on gay marriage when public opinion demanded it. Her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s borders to more than a million refugees stands out because it was so uncharacteristic of her.
Calvinism: A History
This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history—from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to […]