Political Science:

Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $26.00

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world
 
The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era... Read more >

Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.99

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world
 
The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era... Read more >

Cool War
The Future of Global Competition
Written by Noah Feldman
Read by Noah Feldman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $17.50

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world
 
The Cold War seemingly ended in a decisive victory for the West. But now, Noah Feldman argues, we are entering an era... Read more >

When the World Calls
The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years
Written by Stanley Meisler

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $19.00

When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers... Read more >

Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb
Edited by Janice Gross Stein

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $14.99

Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks.

Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape... Read more >

Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb
Edited by Janice Gross Stein

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $27.95

Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks.

Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape... Read more >

Elusive Peace
How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts
Written by Douglas E. Noll

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $25.00

Everyone wants world peace. Churches pray for it. Entertainers sing for peace. It is every good person’s birthday wish. But how will we ever get there? The headlines don’t provide much hope. Peace talks fail; negotiations over climate change end inconclusively; Iran is developing nuclear weapons; Afghanistan is an expensive mess... Read more >

Elusive Peace
How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts
Written by Douglas E. Noll

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 1, 2011
Price: $11.99

Everyone wants world peace. Churches pray for it. Entertainers sing for peace. It is every good person’s birthday wish. But how will we ever get there? The headlines don’t provide much hope. Peace talks fail; negotiations over climate change end inconclusively; Iran is developing nuclear weapons; Afghanistan is an expensive mess... Read more >

To End a War

Written by Richard Holbrooke

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $14.99

When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
        As passionate as he... Read more >

How to Run the World
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Written by Parag Khanna

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $26.00

Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag... Read more >

How to Run the World
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Written by Parag Khanna

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $12.99

Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag... Read more >

How to Run the World
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
Written by Parag Khanna
Read by Jim Meskimen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $17.50

Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West, rich versus poor, democracy versus authoritarianism, free markets versus state capitalism. Written by the most esteemed and innovative adventurer-scholar of his generation, Parag... Read more >

The Battle for Saudi Arabia
Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power
Written by As'Ad Abukhalil

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95

In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.
In this unsparing probe into the... Read more >

The Battle of Venezuela

Written by Michael McCaughan

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $12.95

In August 2004, the Venezuelan public came out in record numbers to deliver an overwhelming vote of confidence. After many attempts to unseat him, Hugo Chåvez, the former military man who took the country first by coup and then by ballot, again emerged as the people’s choice. It was, in his... Read more >

Colombia and the United States
War, Unrest and Destabilization
Written by Mario A. Murillo

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95

Every year the United States spends millions of dollars to help the war-ravaged country of Colombia. But help it with what? In Colombia and the U.S. Mario Murillo explores the misdirected and devastating impact that U.S. military "aid" continues to have on the war torn-people of Colombia. Beginning with a brief... Read more >

Islands of Resistance
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Written by Mario Murillo

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95

While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the... Read more >

Israel/Palestina
Como Acabar con la Guerra de 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart
Translated by Catalina Martinez

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95

En Israel/Palestina, Reinhart traza el desarollo del Muro de Seguridad y la doctrina israelí de "Retirada Unilateral," que se inició en respuesta a la ampliación de la población Palestina, la cual pronto será la mayoría. Examinando la diplomacia reciente, incluyendo aquellos acuerdos auspiciados por los EEUU (Camp David, Oslo, y Taba)... Read more >

Israel/Palestine
How to End the War of 1948
Written by Tanya Reinhart

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $15.95

In Israel/Palestine, Reinhart traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel’s new doctrine of "disengagement," launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. Examining the official record of recent diplomacy, including United States–brokered accords and talks at Camp David, Oslo, and Taba, Reinhart explores the fundamental power imbalances between the... Read more >

North Korea/South Korea
U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis
Written by John Feffer

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the... Read more >

Power Trip
U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11
Preface by Barbara Ehrenreich
Edited by John Feffer

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95

A concise dissection of the new U.S. unilateralism, Power Trip is the first book-length critique of this fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to consolidate and extend U.S. global control. Charting the new terrain of foreign policy after September 11 and demonstrating how the Bush administration is building on the policies... Read more >

The Inheritance
The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
Written by David E. Sanger

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $16.00

Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian’s sweep and an insider’s eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers an urgent intelligence briefing on... Read more >

The Devil We Know
Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
Written by Robert Baer

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $15.00

Over the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, Iran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. Indeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, Iran’s grip... Read more >

The Cold War
A Military History
Written by Stephen E. Ambrose
Edited by Robert Cowley

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $13.99

Even fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, it is still hard to grasp that we no longer live under its immense specter. For nearly half a century, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, all world events hung in the balance of a simmering... Read more >

Nixon and Mao
The Week That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $17.00

With the publication of her landmark bestseller Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan was praised as “a superb writer who can bring history to life” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now she brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today–the relationship between the United States and China–and one of the most... Read more >

Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke

Format: eBook, 624 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.99

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize

Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history, was... Read more >