"Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily...

"This book derives from a concern with the contemporary African situation. It delves into the past only because otherwise it would be impossible to understand how the present came into being and what the trends are for the near future. In the search for an understanding of what is now called underdevelopment in Africa, the limits of enquiry have had to be fixed as far apart as the fifteenth century, on the one hand and the end of the colonial period,...

"In Three Billion New Capitalists, the acclaimed international trade expert Clyde Prestowitz explains why this belief is a mirage. He describes the powerful trends whose convergence is rapidly shifting wealth and power to Asia - and why geopolitical clout will follow economic strength. These trends include America's increasingly unsustainable trade deficits and the equally unsustainable buildup of massive dollar reserves in places like Japan and China;...

"Emerging markets are attractive investments for many reason, including their enormous growth potential and their diversification benefits. The problem is, money doesn't discriminate between democratic and anti-democratic leaders: Markets routinely reward authoritarians like Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Recep Erdogan, and Hugo Chavez. Indeed, foreign money has played a major role in helping some of today's most anti-democratic leaders build, maintain,...

"Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend for their power and wealth on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl show that curbing the activities of these enablers as they act on behalf of their kleptocratic clients is of vital importance to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability"--

"Even his staunchest opponents grudgingly admit that, so far, President Trump's policies have been good for business. Can he really turn the economy around? Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Barack Obama. But he didn't adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas--tax cuts,...

"In Why Globalization Works for America, the author explains why globalization is here to stay, why America is the winner in the game of globalization, and why all the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the Humpty Dumpty of yesterday's nonglobalized world back together again"--

The story of one citizen's fight to preserve a US stake in the future of clean energy and the elements essential to high tech industries and national defense.
American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the U.S. government, once proprietary materials, components and technologies are increasingly commercialized outside the U.S. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in China's...

"The word 'neoliberal' is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies thought to valorize the use of illegitimate power abroad or prize free market principles over people. Yet, as Gerstle argues in this major new history, these negative uses fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview exerted such persuasive hold on both the left and right for three decades. First articulated under Reagan, facilitated...

"The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was...