Summary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POSJentleson, Bruce W.
Summary: "Great leaders made the twentieth century safer and more peaceful. In The Peacemakers, a kind of global edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Bruce Jentleson shows how key figures in the previous century rewrote the zero-sum and transactional scripts they were handed and successfully prevented conflict, advanced human rights, and promoted global sustainability. Covering a broad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 JENMorris, Jan
Contents: The 1950s -- Mount Everest, 1953 -- A benign republic: USA -- Kingdom of troubles: the Middle East -- South African White and Black -- Confusions in paradise: the Caribbean -- Europe: after the war was over -- Orientalisms: The Far East -- The 1960s -- The Eichmann Trial -- The Cold War -- South American frissons -- Oxford, 1965 -- Australia -- A New Africa -- Manhattan, 1969 -- The 1970s --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.825 MORRice, Earle.
Summary: Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 327.73047 RICMeyer, Michael
Summary: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0009 MEYMicklethwait, John
Summary: "From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It's become a cliche. And most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.1 MICFriedman, George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 FRIMishra, Pankaj
Summary: "One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MISFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the Cold War (1945-1991) in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909.825 FIRBarnett, Thomas P. M.
Contents: Preface: The shape of things to come -- The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney -- A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy -- The American trajectory: of great men and great powers -- The economic realignment: racing to the bottom of the pyramid -- The diplomatic realignment: rebranding the team of rivals -- The security realignment: rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 BARKrastev, Ivan
Summary: Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 KRASteves, Rick
Summary: Presents advice on traveling to different countries of the world as a way of increasing our understanding of different cultures and political systems, and appreciating the interconnectedness within the global community. In his third edition, the author considers the new political reality of Brexit, Refugees, Erdoğan, and Trump, as well as populism, nativism, terrorism, and climate change and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 STEGray, John
Summary: "An incisive examination of the emergence of a new kind of nation-state power by a renowned public intellectual and the author of Feline Philosophy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321 GRAGray, John
Summary: The illusion of progress -- War, terrorism, and Iraq -- Politics without illusions. Progress, the moth-eaten musical brocade -- Biotechnology and the post-human future -- Homo rapiens and mass extinction : an era of solitude? -- Sex, atheism and piano legs -- Faith in the matrix -- When the machine stops -- Science as a vehicle for myth -- A report to the academy -- 9/11 : history resumes --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granta Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 GRAGorbachev, M. S. (Mikhail Sergeevich)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 GORLuce, Edward
Summary: In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy--of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a terrifying symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance towards society's economic losers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LUCSteyn, Mark.
Summary: In his first major book, concervative columnist Steyn takes on the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The future, Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. The Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4827 STEAnnan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta)
Summary: With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations: from shuttle-diplomacy during crises such as Kosovo, Lebanon and Israel-Palestine to the wrenching battles over the Iraq War to the creation of the landmark Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANNAN, KOFI A. ANNJunger, Sebastian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.829 JUNHuntington, Samuel P.
Summary: Analyzes the shift in the balance of power in the world brought about by the rise of East Asia and the increase of populations in Muslim countries and discusses the need for the West to foster international cooperation and a tolerance for non-Western civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.829 HUNRice, Condoleezza
Summary: "From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 321.8 RICSummary: "Immediately following World War II, former allies the United States and the Soviet Union began an open yet restricted rivalry that became known as the Cold War and played out around the world until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Many conflicts, such as the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Arab-Israeli wars, acted as proxy wars for the U.S.-Soviet competition....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 COLWestad, Odd Arne
Summary: "We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WESPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010