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    Destined for War. Can...

    Destined for War. Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

    Forse Engelstalige hardcover, met stofomslag. Mooi exemplaar als nieuw. Like New. Met notes en index achterin.

    CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500 years, these conditions have occurred sixteen times. War broke out in twelve of them. Today, as an unstoppable China approaches an immovable America and both Xi Jinping and Donald Trump promise to make their countries "great again," the seventeenth case looks grim. Unless China is willing to scale back its ambitions or Washington can accept becoming number two in the Pacific, a trade conflict, cyberattack, or accident at sea could soon escalate into all-out war.

    In Destined for War, the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides's Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century. Through uncanny historical parallels and war scenarios, he shows how close we are to the unthinkable. Yet, stressing that war is not inevitable, Allison also reveals how clashing powers have kept the peace in the past -- and what painful steps the United States and China must take to avoid disaster today.

    Graham Allison;

    € 29,50

    The Russia Hand. A...

    The Russia Hand. A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy [SIGNED COPY]

    GESIGNEERD exemplaar. Voorin op het schutblad zit een ingeplakt kaartje met daarop de handtekening van de auteur Talbott. Forse Engelstalige hardcover, met stofomslag. Mooi exemplaar in zeer goede staat. Very Good condition. Geen naam voorin. Met index achterin.

    During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a stable democratic state is quite another. The challenge of helping to steer post-Soviet Russia-with its thousands of nuclear weapons and seething ethnic tensions-between the Scylla of a communist restoration and the Charybdis of anarchy fell to the former governor of a poor, landlocked Southern state who had won national election by focusing on domestic issues. No one could have predicted that by the end of Bill Clinton’s second term he would meet with his Kremlin counterparts more often than had all of his predecessors from Harry Truman to George Bush combined, or that his presidency and his legacy would be so determined by his need to be his own Russia hand. With Bill Clinton at every step was Strobe Talbott, the deputy secretary of state whose expertise was the former Soviet Union. Talbott was Clinton’s old friend, one of his most trusted advisers, a frequent envoy on the most sensitive of diplomatic missions and, as this book shows, a sharp-eyed observer. The Russia Hand is without question among the most candid, intimate and illuminating foreign-policy memoirs ever written in the long history of such books. It offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of policymaking and diplomacy alike. With the scope of nearly a decade, it reveals the hidden play of personalities and the closed-door meetings that shaped the most crucial events of our time, from NATO expansion, missile defense and the Balkan wars to coping with Russia’s near-meltdown in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. The book is dominated by two gifted, charismatic and flawed men, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, who quickly formed one of the most intense and consequential bonds in the annals of statecraft. It also sheds new light on Vladimir Putin, as well as the altered landscape after September 11, 2001. The Russia Hand is the first great memoir about war and peace in the post-cold war world.

    Strobe Talbott;

    € 20,00

    The Body and the...

    The Body and the Blood. The Holy Land's Christians at the Turn of a New Millennium. A Reporter's Journey

    Forse Engelstalige hardcover, met stofomslag. Mooi exemplaar, zo goed als nieuw. Like New.

    This journalistic pilgrimage seeks out the forgotten people of the Holy Land-its Christians-and shows how their dwindling numbers offer a sober lesson in understanding the modern Middle East. . Retracing the path of Jesus' life at the turn of a new millennium, award-winning journalist Charles M. Sennott finds a region riven by political revolt, religious conflict, apocalyptic prophecies and the quest for Jerusalem-just as it was 2,000 years ago. The Body and the Blood is Sennott's journalistic pilgrimage through the Holy Land from Nazareth and Bethlehem to Egypt and Lebanon and finally Jerusalem itself, during a gripping a year that was also a critical turning point in the future of the region. Sennott's journey weaves through the local Christian communities of the Middle East, a population which is disappearing dramatically in the land where the faith began. Where a century ago Christians represented as much as 20 percent of the population of what is today Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, now they comprise less than 2 percent of the total population. Historians and demographers fear that within two more generations, native Christianity could virtually disappear in the Holy Land. Timely and moving, firmly grounded in the troubled history of the region, The Body and the Blood dares to ask questions of the spirit as well as of politics. Two thousand years after Jesus' birth, is there a place for his followers in the land he called home? Has the West fatally misunderstood, even abandoned, the Christians of the Middle East? And most provocatively, could Christianity help answer the riddle of peace in the region? Sennott's elegiac, controversial book is sure to spark national, and international, discussion

    Charles M. Sennott;

    € 15,00

    Mefisto for ever, vrij...

    Mefisto for ever, vrij naar Klaus Mann

    Hardcover, mooi exemplaar, als nieuw, geen naam voorin, schoon en fris.

    Als de nazi's aan de macht komen, besluit steracteur Kurt Köpler om niet te emigreren. Ook na de oorlog is hij een ster, in dienst van een nieuw bestel. Uit integere passie voor het acteren of als volmaakt lege opportunist? De roman Mephisto. Roman einer Karriere (1936) van Klaus Mann baseerde zich op het leven van Gustav Grüngens - Manns voormalige zwager en cabaretkompaan, tevens een succesvol toneelspeler in het Duitsland van de jaren dertig. Een van Grüngens glansrollen was Mephisto, de duivel in Goethes Faust.

    Als de nazi's aan de macht komen, staat de steracteur voor de verscheurende keuze: emigreren of niet? In tegenstelling tot de familie Mann blijft hij. Hij wordt al snel de directeur van het grootste staatstheater en zelfs een graag geziene gast in de hoogste kringen van het Derde Rijk. Acteren is immers zijn passie, en de kunst is hem heilig, boven alles... Maar ten koste waarvan?

    Mephisto bleef in het naoorlogse Duitsland werken een verboden boek, tot het van de vergetelheid werd gered door de toneelbewerking van Ariane Mnouchkine (Théâtre du Soleil) en de Oscarwinnende film van István Szabo (starring Klaus Maria Brandauer). De bewerking die Lanoye met regisseur Guy Cassiers (Toneelhuis) nu maakt gaat verder. Zij trekken het verhaal van steracteur door tot na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Want ook na de instorting van het Derde Rijk werd de protagonist weer een ster, in dienst van een nieuw bestel. Uit integere passie voor het acteren? Of als volmaakt lege opportunist?
    Zodoende wordt Mefisto for ever geen documentaire karakterschets meer over één enkele acteur, maar een universele theaterparabel over kunst en politiek, macht en acteren, regie en propaganda.

    Tom Lanoye;

    € 7,50
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