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"As isolationism and realism become the dominant values of a previously interconnected world, the logic that motivated international relations and global trade must be reevaluated. Zeihan uses a mixture of geographical knowledge, political history, and sharp analysis to predict the shape of the next twenty years on the world stage"--
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Without warning volume 1
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2009.
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When an inexplicable miles-high energy wave wipes out ninety-nine percent of the U.S. population, the survivors struggle to meet the unimaginable challenges.
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Crown
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In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. That same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the White House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but had placed implants in American electrical and nuclear plants that could give them the power to switch off vast swaths of the country. American...
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2011.
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A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
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Without warning volume 03
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"When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to make momentous decisions in Seattle and a madman fomenting rebellion in Texas, three women are fighting their own battles--for survival, justice, and revenge. Special agent Caitlin Monroe moves stealthily...
7) World order
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Kissinger offers his analysis of the twenty-first century's ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
9) Red cell
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2012.
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Reassigned to a CIA think tank in Langley after an assignment gone awry, rookie case officer Kyra Stryker is partnered with a straitlaced analyst with whom she investigates an imminent invasion of Taiwan by China that could trigger a global conflict.
10) Fire ice
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Along the eastern seaboard lie pockets of methane hydrate, a notoriously unstable compound known as "fire ice." What if somebody should set them off, say, outside a major city? Think of the explosions. Think of the earth tremors.
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Scorpion thrillers volume 2
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"The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo caf-̌-his assailant a faceless killer known only as 'the Palestinian.' It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion"--Publisher's...
12) Cold shot
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2014.
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It's a typical day for senior analyst Jonathan Burke at the Red Cell, the CIA's out-of-the-box think tank, until a file crosses his desk with pictures of a dead man in a life raft whose body is badly beaten and covered in suspicious burn marks. These disturbing pictures will lead Burke and his protégé Kyra Styker on an unlikely mission thousands of miles away from the safety of their desks in Langley, Virginia, to Venezuela, where an Iranian freighter...
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Addressing four major areas of concern--the shift of global power from West to East; the causes and consequences of America's declining global appeal; what would happen if America suffered long-term decline; and how America can reorient its geopolitical goals to prevent it--foreign policy powerhouse Brzezinski provides a comprehensive long-term strategic plan for America.
14) The right hand
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There has always been a need in the spy game for covert missions so black no one in the American government, and almost no one in intelligence itself, knows of their existence. The left hand can't know what the right hand is doing. Austin Clay is that right hand, executing missions that would be disavowed by his own government if he's ever compromised. Clay is sent to track down a missing American operative, a man who was captured outside of Moscow,...
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Pacific Rim volume 03
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When British geologists discover the world's largest oil reserves under the desolate, icy tundra of Antarctica, Britain and Chile form a top-secret alliance for control of petroleum resources that will rival the economic power of OPEC.
But when their discovery is uncovered by an Argentinean intelligence officer, a surprise-attack against a secret British outpost in Antarctica triggers a war. Britain and Chile are in a military standoff against Venezuela...
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"A Foreign Service officer makes a startling discovery when she is assigned by her uncle, a U.S. ambassador, to infiltrate an underground democracy movement in Kyrgyzstan while on a mission to negotiate with the country's president on a massive airbase lease"--
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2021.
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English
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Sokatch is the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews. Well-versed on the Israeli conflict, he attempts to explain why Israel-- and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-- inspires such extreme feelings. He provides an easy-to-read yet penetrating and original look at the history and basic contours of one of the most complicated conflicts in the world.
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Pacific Rim novels volume 2
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After a gruesome discovery escalates America's involvement in a naval war in the South China Sea, U.S. President Douglas Surber must choose to take a stand against evil or save the life of his daughter, who is stationed aboard a U.S. submarine tender.
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Foreign Policy Association
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2020
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English
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Eight nonpartisan articles on U.S. foreign policy. Used as the basis for the Great Decisions discussion program, and can also be read on their own. Topics include Supply Chains, Persian Gulf Security, World Health Organization, Globalization, Korea, the Arctic, Brexit, and China in Africa.
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