War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine by Olga Baysha (Routledge Focus on Communication Studies)Requirements: .PDF reader, 1 mbOverview: This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the […]
Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace by Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Author), N. Jayaram Requirements: .ePUB reader, 5.4 MBOverview: Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of “Thucydides’ Trap,” as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China’s growing power a […]
From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia by Michael McFaulRequirements: .MP3 reader, 577.4 MBOverview: In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today’s […]
B-36 ‘Peacemaker’ Units of the Cold War (Combat Aircraft) by Peter E. DaviesRequirements: .ePUB reader, 15.2 MBOverview: A fully illustrated study into the extraordinary Convair B-36 during the Cold War. Conceived during 1941 in case Germany occupied Britain, when US bombers would then have insufficient range to retaliate, the B-36 was to be primarily a […]
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan Requirements: .MP3 reader, 907MBOverview: From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history-and of the visionary American […]