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Dans le secret des présidents

Autor: Vincent Nouzille

Número de Páginas: 488

Voici François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac et Nicolas Sarkozy, tels que vous ne les avez jamais vus : ce qu’ils ont vraiment dit dans le secret de l’Elysée, comment ils ont réagi aux événements internationaux et ce qu’ils ont tramé en coulisses avec leurs homologues américains. Ayant mené l’enquête pendant plusieurs années de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique, Vincent Nouzille a eu accès à des milliers de documents inédits, provenant de la Maison-Blanche, de la CIA et, pour la première fois, de l’Élysée. Grâce à ces archives exceptionnelles, complétées par des témoignages d’acteurs de premier plan, il dévoile les dialogues au sommet, les affrontements et les accords confidentiels des présidents. Ce livre apporte des révélations en série sur les grands épisodes qui ont marqué ces trois dernières décennies : de l’arrivée de la gauche au pouvoir en mai 1981 à celle de Nicolas Sarkozy en 2007, de la chute du Mur de Berlin aux attentats du 11 septembre 2001, des négociations pour libérer les otages au Liban aux guerres d’Irak, de la fin de Saddam Hussein à l’assassinat de Rafic Hariri, des opérations secrètes contre Kadhafi aux...

Jihad and Genocide

Autor: Richard L Rubenstein

Número de Páginas: 264

A study of Islamic fundamentalism, its violent and deadly history, and the questions it raises today. This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the past hundred years, from the Armenian genocide through current threats to Israel. Rubenstein’s unflinching study of the potential for fundamentalist jihad to initiate targeted violence raises pressing questions in a time when questions of religious co-existence, particularly in the Middle East, are discussed urgently each day. Praise for Jihad and Genocide “Provocative, important reading for all interested in Arab-Israeli peace and religious coexistence worldwide. Highly recommended.” —Choice Reviews “Rubenstein’s analysis stands the test of time. Thus, attention must be paid to Rubenstein's new work, Jihad and Genocide, which offers a searing analysis of Islamic thought and bleak predictions of its impact. Even those of us who do not share his pessimism, his sense of the inevitability of the path to genocide and war, or his predilection for the political right, must...

Ethics and International Relations

Autor: Richard Ned Lebow

Número de Páginas: 215

Lebow shows how and why foreign policies consistent with ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail.

Spies

Autor: Calder Walton

Número de Páginas: 688

Foreign Policy Best Book of 2023 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The “riveting” (The Economist), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing “unprecedented” about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends. The Cold War started long before 1945. But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own shadow war, using disinformation, vast intelligence networks, and new technologies against the Soviet Union. Spies is a “deeply researched and artfully crafted” (Fiona Hill, deputy assistant to the US President) story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honor, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of...

Invisible Crises

Autor: George Gerbner

Número de Páginas: 304

According to the contributors to this volume, the communications media deliberately blank out critical conditions and developments whose imagery would pose unacceptable challenges to the dominant structures of culture-power. Such "invisible crises" include the suppression of information about the dehumanization and stigmatization of groups of people; the drift toward ecological suicide; the neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; the way in which television corrupts the electoral process; and the promotion of practices which drug, poison and kill. The book asks why the media are, in the view of contributors, withholding vital information from the public, and focuses on the increasing concentration of culture-power that, it is argued, keeps these truths from public view.

Politics Is a Joke!

Autor: S. Robert Lichter

Número de Páginas: 270

Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it. Using exclusive data collected by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, the authors conduct a detailed and exhaustive analysis of political jokes on late night TV shows dating back to 1992 in order to pinpoint the main targets and themes of late-night comedy. Politics Is a Joke! uses a wide range of examples, from jokes about politicians' physical appearance and sex scandals to jokes about Congress and even the news media, to assess and understand the impact of political humor on political institutions, politicians and their policies and behavior. Engagingly written with analysis of jokes from comedians like Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Politics is a Joke! is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the crucial role late night comedy plays in our political universe -...

Reconsidering American Power

Autor: John D. Kelly , Kurt Jacobsen , Marston H. Morgan

Número de Páginas: 663

Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American state sponsorship, is it easier to reimagine the human and the modern than to properly measure the pervasive American influence? Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana and the influence of Pax Americana on the social sciences. With the thematic image for this enterprise as the ‘fiery hunt’ for Ahab’s whale, the contributors pursue realities behind the theories, and reconsider the real origins and motives of their fields with an eye on what will deter or repurpose the ‘fiery hunts’ to come, by offering a critical insider’s view.

Democracy in Latin America

Autor: Peter H. Smith , Cameron J. Sells

Número de Páginas: 416

Examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this new edition provides a widespread view of political transformation throughout the entire region.