2013 China Military and Security Report: People's Liberation Army (PLA), Space, Cyber Attacks on American Military, Technology, People's Republic of China Force Modernization, Taiwan    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 172400 words. Language: English. Published on May 8, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
This important DOD report from May 2013 provides extensive details on the status of the Chinese military. In addition to the new 2013 report, this unique ebook compilation includes seven other DOD annual reports for the years 2006 through 2012.

Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation-20 Years of a Successful Regional Cooperation    by Engin Sabanci
Price: $9.99 USD. 57770 words. Language: English. Published on May 2, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
Countries in the Black Sea Basin established BSEC seeking a region-wide solution to their common problems with a sense of political and economic belonging to the Black Sea. Member states joined the cooperation without considering settling their problems and demands in a satisfying manner. They were quite pleased with the idea to balance their interests instead of settling their security concerns.

The International Political Economy of Risk: Rationalism, Calculation, and Power    by Robert Deuchars
Price: $12.00 USD. 121860 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
The discipline of international political economy faces a number of critical challenges at present, as it seeks to incorporate a number of relatively new issues, one of these being "risk". This captivating and enlightening study redresses the neglect of "risk" in this field by focusing on objectivist rationalism.

World Politics: Rationalism and Beyond    by Ralph Pettman
Price: $12.00 USD. 69610 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
This book provides an overview of the entire discipline of world affairs in a way that makes immediate sense. It is also a critique of the limits that rationalism sets on how we know world affairs, showing how we might transcend these limits by augmenting rationalist research with non-rationalist techniques.

State and Class: A Sociology of International Affairs    by Ralph Pettman
Price: $12.00 USD. 113090 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
International affairs are most commonly explained in terms of the flow of diplomatic traffic and the wealth-springs of foreign policy. This study complements the conventional debates with one cast in terms of an emerging world society.

Reason, Culture, Religion: The Metaphysics of World Politics    by Ralph Pettman
Price: $12.00 USD. 85980 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the ‘new’ international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the ‘old’.

Moral Claims in World Affairs    by Ralph Pettman
Price: $12.00 USD. 82870 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular.

Human Behaviour and World Politics: A Transdisciplinary Introduction    by Ralph Pettman
Price: $12.00 USD. 126390 words. Language: English. Published by Society for Philosophy & Culture  on February 27, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
The work traces the history of the study of world politics, and the consequent attempt to build a science of world affairs.

Governance and Security as a Unitary Concept    by Tom Rippon
Price: $9.99 USD. 116550 words. Language: English. Published by AgioPublishing on February 26, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
World leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. "Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept" is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries, from 20 contributing authors on 6 continents, to examine governance and security together rather than as complementary yet separate entities.

Hating America - A History    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 104030 words. Language: English. Published on February 17, 2013. Essay » Political.
When writing a book, an author often has the sensation of being surrounded by that topic. In the case of anti-Americanism that experience was particularly strong. As the 21st century began it seemed as if the amount of criticism the United States was receiving around the world was matched only by the quantity of passionate debate about why this was happening.