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.

Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Klare shows that the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once.

"In the Bush era, Iran and North Korea were branded 'rogue' states for flouting international norms, and the administration's goal was to change their regimes. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call them nuclear 'outliers' and has proposed new means to bring them into 'the community of nations.' [This book] ... explores this significant policy adjustment and raises questions about its feasibility and possible consequences."--Back cover....

The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...

"The definitive account of America's historic nuclear deal with Iran. This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations. The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with Iran, and it prevented the possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Trita Parsi, a Middle East foreign...

Presents an adventure that takes listeners from Mexico to Marseille to Prague as a war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his team of Volunteers pursues a mysterious mastermind known only as The Starling. An aborted raid targeting a major arms dealer. A hostage standoff at a bank that may not be what it seems. A plot to spring a former African dictator from prison. What is the threat that connects them all? And just who is the mysterious mastermind,...