The Last War Of The Superpowers

Author : Otinel C, Iancu
Publisher : Josue Gerardo Roquet Rivera
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Last War of the Superpowers by Otinel C, Iancu Pdf

“The Last War of the Superpowers” book takes a unique approach toward the main players and events of the drama of this world, known to many as the Great Controversy between God and Satan. The book begins by presenting the origin and the incipient phase of this conflict. The rest of its chapters focus on the events leading up to the final climax of this universal war. Using the Scriptures, especially the books of Daniel and Revelation, this book directs the attention of the reader toward not only past events but also toward events which are unfolding before his own eyes. It enables him to see in what prophetic time he lives and what he can expect to see happening as he moves ahead into the final stage of this world’s story.

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136299438

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Afghanistan by Mark Galeotti Pdf

The Soviet Union's last war was played out against the backdrop of dramatic change within the USSR. This is the first book to study the impact of the war on Russian politics and society. Based on extensive use of Soviet official and unofficial sources, as well as work with Afghan veterans, it illustrates the way the war fed into a wide range of other processes, from the rise of grassroots political activism to the retreat from globalism in foreign policy.

Author : Bob Davis,Lingling Wei
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062953063

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Superpower Showdown by Bob Davis,Lingling Wei Pdf

This is the inside story of the US–China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, D.C., the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else. The trade battle between China and the U.S. didn’t start with Trump and won’t end with him, argue Bob Davis and Lingling Wei. The two countries have a long and fraught political and economic history which has become more contentious over the past three years—an escalation that has negatively impacted both countries' economies and the world at large—and holds the potential for even more uncertainty and disruption. How did this stand-off happen? How much are U.S. presidents and officials who haven't effectively confronted or negotiated with China to blame? What role have Chinese leaders, and U.S. business leaders who for decades acted as Beijing’s lobbyists in Washington, played in driving tensions between the two countries? Superpower Showdown is the story of a romance gone bad. Uniquely positioned to tell the story, Davis and Wei have conducted hundreds of interviews with government and business officials in both nations over the seven years they have worked together writing for the Wall Street Journal. Analyzing U.S.–China relations, they explain how we have reached this tipping point, and look at where we could be headed. Vivid and provocative, Superpower Showdown will help readers understand the context of the trade war and prepare them for what may come next.

Author : Svetlana Savranskaya,Thomas S. Blanton
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633861714

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The Last Superpower Summits by Svetlana Savranskaya,Thomas S. Blanton Pdf

This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.

Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198859543

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The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon Pdf

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1560255129

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Superpower Syndrome by Robert Jay Lifton Pdf

No one is better equipped than psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton-a leading scholar of thought control and mass violence- to make sense of the extreme moment. From Hiroshima survivors to Nazi doctors, from Vietnam veterans to the cult that sarin-gassed the Tokyo subways, he has explained to us global apocalyptic urges, the ravages of psychic numbness, and the psychology of the survivor. Now, as al- Qaeda's desire to purify the earth of "evil" meets the unilateral urge to dominate the globe's sole superpower, Lifton believes we have arrived at a remarkably perilous moment. The United States-from its leaders to much of its people-feels itself painfully vulnerable and thinks of itself as a survivor nation. The combination of such feelings roiling through the land over the last year and an administration with unprecedented military power bent on dominating and purifying the earth adds up to an intensely dangerous atmosphere-in fact, a "syndrome." Unfortunately, there is no therapy available for empires-or rather, the only therapy available is self-prescribed. But while Lifton can't be therapist to the earth's last superpower, he can bring together a half century of wisdom and apply it to Superpower Syndrome.

Author : Lorenz M. Lüthi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418331

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Cold Wars by Lorenz M. Lüthi Pdf

A new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of the smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Author : Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393285567

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The Pragmatic Superpower: Winning the Cold War in the Middle East by Ray Takeyh,Steven Simon Pdf

A bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War. The Arab Spring, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Iraq war, and the Syrian civil war—these contemporary conflicts have deep roots in the Middle East’s postwar emergence from colonialism. In The Pragmatic Superpower, foreign policy experts Ray Takeyh and Steven Simon reframe the legacy of U.S. involvement in the Arab world from 1945 to 1991 and shed new light on the makings of the contemporary Middle East. Cutting against conventional wisdom, the authors argue that, when an inexperienced Washington entered the turbulent world of Middle Eastern politics, it succeeded through hardheaded pragmatism—and secured its place as a global superpower. Eyes ever on its global conflict with the Soviet Union, America shrewdly navigated the rise of Arab nationalism, the founding of Israel, and seminal conflicts including the Suez War and the Iranian revolution. Takeyh and Simon reveal that America’s objectives in the region were often uncomplicated but hardly modest. Washington deployed adroit diplomacy to prevent Soviet infiltration of the region, preserve access to its considerable petroleum resources, and resolve the conflict between a Jewish homeland and the Arab states that opposed it. The Pragmatic Superpower provides fascinating insight into Washington’s maneuvers in a contest for global power and offers a unique reassessment of America’s cold war policies in a critical region of the world. Amid the chaotic conditions of the twenty-first century, Takeyh and Simon argue that there is an urgent need to look back to a period when the United States got it right. Only then will we better understand the challenges we face today.

Author : Douglas A. Borer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136316579

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Superpowers Defeated by Douglas A. Borer Pdf

During the Cold War, military conflicts in Vietnam and Afghanistan validated the importanct of war in global power dynamics. But military intervention proved not to be politically sustainable for the USA and the USSR. This study investigates the parallels and differences in the two conflicts.

Author : William Thornton Rickert Fox,Yale University. Institute of International Studies
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : UOM:39015054077444

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The Super-powers by William Thornton Rickert Fox,Yale University. Institute of International Studies Pdf

Author : Russia (Federation). Generalʹnyĭ shtab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054253391

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The Soviet-Afghan War by Russia (Federation). Generalʹnyĭ shtab Pdf

Offers a candid view of a war that played a significant role in the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union. Presents analysis absolutely vital to Western policymakers, as well as to political, diplomatic, and military historians and anyone interested in Russian and Soviet history. Provides insights regarding current and future Russian struggles in ethnic conflicts both at and within their borders, struggles that could potentially destroy the Russian Federation.

Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141983837

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The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy Pdf

Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History

Author : Adam Tarock
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1560725931

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The Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War by Adam Tarock Pdf

The final index entry of "zero-sum game" aptly encapsulates much about the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War (or Gulf War I as the author terms it) and its spinoff of the 1991 Gulf War II, particularly from the perspective of the US. Torock (whose background is unspecified except for the Melbourne signoff on the preface) views Saddam Hussein as a Frankenstein monster created by, and later turning against, the superpowers in a familiar pattern of their contest of political intervention in the Third World. Includes 16 pages of references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Roger E. Kanet,Edward A. Kolodziej
Publisher : Springer
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349116058

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Cold War as Cooperation by Roger E. Kanet,Edward A. Kolodziej Pdf

A study of superpower co-operation since World War II, this book examines the regulation of USA/USSR rivalry, and outlines the power of regional states to constrain and manipulate them for their own interests.

Author : Nigel J. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134093694

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The Cold War in the Middle East by Nigel J. Ashton Pdf

This edited volume re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. These were pivotal years in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the effects still very much in evidence today. In addition to addressing established debates, the bo