Search Results: International Relations from Books of the World

Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1984. Unbound Photocopy. Very Good. 51 pages.

Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent Press, September 2011. Hardcover. First Edition / no additional printings listed. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 332 pages.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, June 1982. Trade Paperback. First Edition; Third Paperback Printing, 1987. Very Good+. Inventory/price marks on half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Spine square and tight. Cover clean and crisp. Foxing to closed edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 165 pages.

New York: Harper Collins, April 2007. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tailed lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxii + 549 pages.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. New. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xiv + 204 pages. Contents: Introduction : a new kind of threat -- Saudi Arabia : oil fields ablaze -- Pakistan : loose nukes -- Mexico : a flood of refugees -- China : collapse of a great power -- Conclusions : the coming storm.

Boulder & London: Westview Press, November 1984. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Interior unmarked other than original bookseller's price stamp. Spine square and tight. Rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 354 pages.

New York: Macmillan, May 1982. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. First printing review copy laid-in with publisher's press release. Appears unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxx + 466 pages.
Examines how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations manipulated the 1960-1963 Congo crises and countered Soviet influence on Lumumba, Tshombe, and Mobotu. The centerpiece of this almost day-to-day account of the 1960s Congo crisis is the U.S. effort to get rid of firebrand Patrice Lumumba, by "Fair Means or Foul"--as came to light in the hearings of the 1975 Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and was published in the Committee report. The "Congo cables" are some 2500 other, recently declassified documents--mostly State Department cables--which Kalb utilizes to fill out the story. What is interesting is her observation that the Congolese effort to dispose of Lumumba may have been stepped up… Read More

Lanham, MD: University Press of America and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, August 1986. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Foxing to cover and edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 78 pages.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, January 1998. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), second printing. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Light rubbing and edgewear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 216 pages. A novel of Cold War geopolitics and romance involves a young foreign service officer stationed in Congo who must grapple with inept Western bureaucrats and feuding tribes.

Cambridge: MIT Press, March 1966. Hardcover. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Jacket price clipped and with light shelfwear including small tears at all corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 252 pages.

Cambridge: Polity, February 2011. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xiii + 241 pages. Contemporary Diplomacy offers a comprehensive introduction to the changing actors, venues, processes and functions of diplomacy in the 21st Century. Aimed at students and practitioners alike, this textbook explores the critical theoretical tools that can be employed to understand diplomacy and its evolution since the end of the Cold War. It also shows how the study of diplomacy can contribute to the analysis of 21st Century conflict and international relations more broadly.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. xviii + 242 pages.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1955. Hardcover. 5th Edition. Good / No jacket as issued. Prior owner's name to FFEP. Underlining in pencil throughout, otherwise Near Fine. Spine straight and tight. Cover clean. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxx + 969 + xxxix pages. Illustrations.

Washington, DC: Foreign Service Institute. U.S. Department of State, n.d. [circa 1990]. Near Fine. Unmarked. Securely bound by two clean staples. Light wear to covers. No tears. Not from a library. 21 pages.

New York: Scribner, October 2007. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition / full number line. Good+ book in a Good+ jacket. Text has a few black ink emphasis marks from a prior reader. Spine straight and tight. Quarter-inch tear at spine tail. Rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 366. An irreverent former British ambassador in Uzbekistan discusses his witness to regional brutality under the regime of dictator and western ally Islom Karimov, describing the political dogma he encountered from London's Foreign Office and their senior partners in Washington. First published in London as Murder in Samarkand.

New York: Dunellen Company. 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Price notations on endpages. Text unmarked. Spine square and tight. Stains to closed edges. Jacket clipped with edgewear, chipping at spine ends, and considerable rubbing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 172 pages.Contents: 1. Decisions by Calculation or by Feeling?; 2. Obligation,Education, and Dissent; 3. The Tyranny of Principles; Guidelines for the Polity; 4. Loyalty and Dissent; 5. Perspectives on Self-Determination, Intervention, and Force; 6. Perspectives on Bargaining with Communists and Arms Races; 7. The American Role in the World; 8. Freedom in History and in Politics

New York: Grove Press, November 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Foxing to edges. Mild shelfwear. Not from a library. 397 pages. A collection of essays on El Salvador discusses the rise of militant labor, terrorism, and human rights issues; and the prospects for peace.

October 1978. New Dell Edition. Second printing, September 1979. Very Good. Interior unmarked but lightly tanned. Spine straight and tight with a light crease. Edgewear. Dog-ear crease to lower rear corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 285 pages. Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake. First published in 1962, when America was still reeling… Read More

New York: Field Foundation, 1984. Staple-Bound Pamphlet with mauve card cover. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, otherwise as new. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Firmly bound by two clean staples. Covers clean. Not from a library. 48 pages.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Trade Paperback. 1982. Second printing. Very Good. Foxing to edges. Fading to covers and spine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xvi + 236 pages.