Search Results: International Relations from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/NEW, Bright & Collectible. Stated First Edition. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Internat'l Economics/Politics. Study of foreign political power in American Government even as we now focus on Russian intervention via the internet. Exposition of Japan's influence on American policies via lobbyists. In depth study of Japanese influence in American political & economic life in specific, and, a case study of role of lobbyists by various parties, be they domestic or foreign, socio-economic or political. Now a classic study when lobbyists reigned supreme.

San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Jerry Mander, Co-Chairman of the International Forum on Globilization. Collected papers analyzing the economic, social, political, and ecological consequences of unbridled economic globalization which is increasingly dominated by large corporations at the expense of separate truly democratic and independently sustainable political entities.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's/Dell, 1967. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW showing faint margin discoloration. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs, and upper text wrinkling to last pages from humidity. Fiction. International espionage. 1964 work of Len Deighton (1929 - ) of an un-named British secret service agent. The Billion Dollar Brain is the 4th of four novels in the series, beginning w/The IPCRESS File, which were adapted to film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. This novel entangles England, Finland and Latvia --- and, the "Brain", a super-computer owned by a Texan billionaire.

New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace creasing to lower back edge. Financier George Soros faults the Bush administration's foreign policy and War on Terror, being short on legality and arrogant in use of military might, and therefore a sure road to disaster.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1968. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Thus. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; intact w/closed tears to spine & surface losses to spine & lower back. 1968 Edition; published w/o ISBN number. Pre-20th century Chinese intellectual & institutional history. Examination of the philosophical foundations and execution of the China's sinocentric tributary system governing its foreign relations. Sinologist draw from China's formal histories & literature as well as documentation from tributary states such as Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. 416 pgs, 14 chapters: 1, A Preliminary Frame Work (John K. Fairbank); 2, Historical Notes on the Chinese World Order (Lien-sheng Yang); 3, Early Ming Relations with Southeast Asia: A Background Essay (Wang Gungwu); 4, The Ch'ing Trubute System (Mark Mancall); 5, Sino-Korean Tributary Relations in the Ch'ing Period (Hae-jong… Read More

New York, NY: Arno Press/New York Times Co, 1981. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/NF. DJ/None. 1977 dissertation of Osamu Ishii (1936 -). Outstanding study of relationships between industrial powers --- world trade in the decade of shrinking purchasing power of the Great Depression and ensuing rise of economic nationalism. In 1931 Japan expanded its economic policy. As Japanese industrial products, chiefly cotton textiles, moved into markets previsously monopolized by Great Britain and the US disequilibrium set in. 511 pgs. 10 chapters ub 4 parts: Part I, The Japanese Initiative (1930-1933): 1, Japanese Trade Expansion; 2, Lancashire, Osaka & the Chinese Market. Part II, The British Response (1932-1934): 3, The Indian Market; 4, The Failure of Cartel Negotiations; 5, From Economic Internationalism to Economic Nationalism. Part III, The American Response (1933-1936): 6, The Defense of the US Market;… Read More

Frankfurt, Germany: Verlag fur Wehrwesen Bernhard & Graefe, 1956. Hardcover. New/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW; German language text. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/nips, chips & small losses to edges. Work known under its English title: "The Soviet Secret Services". Analysis of Soviet espionage practices in Germany during World War II. Author Otto Heilbrunn (1906-1969) studied the Communist world's insurgency tactics in depth; educated in Germany, he was U.S. Assistant Counsel at the Nuremburg War Crimes, and later, in service to the British War Office, at the Manstein trial. This detailed study of the Soviet Secret Service addresses problems of national security in the nuclear age, and importantly, gives due attention to much ignored disaffection in the developing world as well as the power of psychological warfare as instruments of war. A milestone.

New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, 2000. Advance Uncorrected Proof . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. UNCORRECTED PROOF/SOFTCOVER. Brand New copy w/trace edge wear to upper/lower front edges. A theory of imperialism. Analysis of European expansionism from 15th to 20th centuries. Volume traces how peoples, themselves only occupying some 1.5% of earth's surface, came to dominate so much of the world, and their dominance persist so long. David Abernethy, professor of Political Science at Stanford Univ, isolates economic gain, religious fervour, and governmental structures as major variables interacting with subjugated cultures, who, at times, invited European powers in. The author finds wars and conflicts between the powers contributed substantially to imperial decline. Masterful, thought provoking work that sheds light on today's post-colonial world still coping with lost self-identity while bound by many a cultural, religious, and governmental institutions legacies of imperial… Read More

New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1972. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/NEW & Bright. 1972 First Edition, First Thus. Blue linen boards w/gilt embossed spine/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/spot fading to spine & light nips, chips & faint creasings to edges. Photo-collage endpapers. Author Joseph P. Lash (1909 - 1987) was secretary & confidant to Eleanor Roosevelt, gives us an intimate portrait of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt. 368 pgs; 15 chapters followed by 2 appendices. Volume centers on the 17 years Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) lived beyond FDR's death in 1945. Her active participation in the United Nations & strong stance on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were achievements which led President Harry Truman to honor her as the First Lady of the World. An extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1987. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback/Journal. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge wear to softcover. International relations. Monograph. Textbook. Consular services and national & international laws, particularly regarding Mexico and Mexican citizens. Prepared by Mexican career diplomat Ramon Xilotl Ramirez. Introduction to and analysis of rules and regulations, conventions and declarations determining complex relationships between diplomatic and consular laws and those governing independent nations. Case studies include judgements applied to undocumented Mexican nationals in U.S.the United States' courts.

Mexico, D.F., Mexico: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1982. Primera Edicion . Paperback/Journal. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Num 15, Cuarta Epoca, Archivo Historico Diplomatico Mexicano. International law. 7 essays by of Mexican diplomat and scholar Antonio Gomez Robledo (1908 - 1994), recognized for scholarly writings on philosophy, justice and international law. 290 pgs. Contents: 1, El Problema de la Conquista en Alonso de la Vercruz; 2, Andres Bello, Internacionalista; 3, Le Equidad y Sus Funciones; 4, La Clausula rebus sic stantibus; 5, El Abuso del Derecho en Derecho International; 6, La Legitima Defensa en la Era Nuclear; and 7, La Autodeterminacion de los Pueblos.

Hamburg: Verlag Weltarchiv, 1970. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Text//NEW & Bright. Red linen library boards/NF. Export and Economic Growth in postwar development in the Federal Republic of Germany. Sponsored by Hamburg's HWWA - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung. The 3 major Teilen are: I, Die Steigerung der inlandswirksamen Gesamtnachfrage; II, Die Erhöhung des volkwirtschaftslichen Produuktionspotentials; and III, Das Export als Stimulans für das Wirtschaftswachtum. 274 pages, with 55 charts and much reference materials.

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Gilt embossed bi-color boards. DJ/New.; under mylar. Map of Cambodia & South Vietnam to endpapers. International intrigue. A departure from the adventures of officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police, Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) takes us to the Pacific Rim. The year is 1975 when the USA is engaged n the Vietnam war, and the Khmer Rouge is terrifying Cambodia. Moon Mathias is suddenly propelled into the world of the East in search for a niece (whom hitherto had not known to exist) in the Phillipines. She is the daughter of his brother who has just died in Cambodia . The venture takes him down backstreets of Manila to thoughs of Saigon on the eve of its fall to the Vietcong & US retreat. He becomes further entbroiled in a lost shipment of opium within the chaos. Johnson era & the reign of the Domino Theory.

Lexington, MA: D C Heath & Co, 1973. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/aint creasings to lower front/back corners. Anthology. Analysis of American foreign policy during 1937 - 1945 (breakout of the Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II) under President Roosevelt. Essays presented in 3 parts address The Contemporary View and The Historical Debate. The 3 parts are: Part I, Crisis Diplomancy, 1937 - 1941; II, Wartime Diplomacy, 1941 - 1945; and, III, The Roosevelt Foreign Policy --- An Overview.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's/Dell, 1966. New Edition, First Printing of 1966 . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs, faint creasing to upper front corner, and lean to spine. Book shop (Portugal) sticker to front cover verso, and inked mark to rEP. Fiction. International espionage. 1964 work of Len Deighton (1929 - ) of an un-named British secret service agent. Funeral in Berlin is the 3rd of four novels in the series, beginning w/The IPCRESS File, which were adapted to film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. This novel is set in the time when the Berlin Wall was sound and strong. Word has it that Colonel Stok, the head of the Soviet Union's Berlin section and responsible for preventing escapes over the Wall, wants to defect to the West. Genuine?

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & World, 1967. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/light wear to softcover. Primary historical resource to French governmental practices & concepts. Authored by Canadian-born political scientist Gwendolen Margaret Carter's (1906 - 1991) whose early work centered on European governments, and German-born scholar John H. Herz (1908 - 2005) who specialized in international relations & law. This 1967 volume comprises reprints from the 5th Edition of Major Foreign Powers. 138 pgs w/charts & maps in 9 chapters: 1. The French People & Their Politics; 2, The French Political Heritage; 3, French Parties & Elections; 4, The French Parliment; 5, The French Executive; 6, The French Administration; 7, French Law & Courts; 8, French Society in Change; and 9, France & the World, followed by Conclusion.

San Francisco, CA: 101 Productions, 1973. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Karen Lynch (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright w/check mark to pg. 58. Light brown linen boards/NF w/trace creasing to lower front corner tip. DJ/None. Rich collection of traditional receipes for "in-between meal" dainty delights assembled from as far back as 3000 yrs ago from ancient Japan, China, Athenians, early Rome, Portugal, Italy, Syria, Turkey, Russia, and numerous other cultures. 286 pgs w/line drawings in 9 chapters: 1, Basics: Sauces, Stocks, Garnitures & Hints; 2, Breads, Spreads, Sandwiches & Canapes; 3, Appetizers: Cold, Hot & Dips; 4, Molds, Pates, Terrines & Galatines; 5, Soups & Stoppers 6, Patties, Phyllo, Quiches & Tarts; 7, Chafing Dish Cookery; 8, Fireside, Firepot, Fondue & Barbecue; and 9, Buffets, Chinese Buffet & Buffet Desserts, followed by Glossary.

London, UK: Routledge, 1994. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF. Textbook. International marketing of both goods and services. Assessment of marketing environment(s) and strategic options, followed by guidance of tactical implementament. Text in 12 chapters, 3 parts. The chapters are: 1, Introduction to International Marketing; 2, The Int'l Trading Environment; 3, Market Considerations in the Int'l Environment; 4, Int'l Marketing Research & Opportunity Analysis; 5, Int'l Marketing Planning & Organisation; 6, Int'l Marketing Strategies; 7, Market Entry Strategies; 8, Int'l Product Management; 9, The Management of Int'l Marketing Communications; 10, The Management of Int;l Distribution & Logistics; 11, Pricing for Int'l Markets; and, 12, Implications for Int'l Marketing Strategies.

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None (As Issued?). BRAND NEW Copy; promotional "Professional Copy". Introduction to international investment. 12 chapters: 1, The Economics of the Internat'l Environment; 2, The Case for Internat'l Diversification; 3, Foreign Exchange; 4, Equity: Markets & Instruments; 5, Equity: Concepts & Techniques; 6, Bonds: Markets & Instruments; 7, Bond: Concepts & Techniques; 8, Futures; 9, Options; 10, Currency Risk Management; 11, Gold & Gold-Linked Investments; and, 12, Strategy, Organization, & Control.s

London, UK: Rowman & Allanheld, 1984. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED; no loan pocket attached. Text/BRAND NEW; w/2 folded corners. Orange-red linen boards/NF w/library sticker remanent to lower spine. DJ/None. Examination of the history of international efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons technology. From initiation in 1953, characterized by much collaboration, discernible decline in political consensus sets in in 1973. 5 chapters: 1, Nuclear Technology & Regime Politics; 2, Regime Formation, Institutionalization, & Evolution; 3, Safeguards & Security; 4, The IAEA Technical Assistance Program; and, 5, The Evolution of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime. Strong copy less dust jacket.