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La mayoría de los estadounidenses y europeos han oído hablar de los semiconductores, ya que nuestros gobiernos han invertido miles de millones de dólares en la industria durante los últimos cinco años por razones de seguridad nacional. Los problemas con las cadenas de suministro y las posibles perturbaciones en la seguridad de las naciones quedaron al descubierto durante la pandemia de COVID-19, y todos parecieron descubrir milagrosamente que casi todas las cadenas de suministro creadas bajo la globalización que hemos visto después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial pasan, de alguna manera...

Diversifying Diplomacy tells the story of Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas, a young black woman who beat the odds and challenged the status quo. Inspired by the strong women in her life, she followed in the footsteps of the few women who had gone before her in her effort to make the Foreign Service reflect the diverse faces of the United States. The youngest child of parents who left the segregated Old South to raise their family in Massachusetts, Elam-Thomas distinguished herself with a diplomatic career at a time when few colleagues looked like her.

Power doesn’t announce itself. It moves quietly—through back-channel deals, coded statements, and decisions shaped long before they reach the headlines. Realpolitik: A Beginner’s Guide pulls back the curtain on the most influential force in global politics: the strategic mindset that determines how nations behave when ideals falter and interests take center stage. This book takes you inside the calculus of world leaders, showing you how they read opponents, weigh risks, and choose the moves that shape global outcomes. It reveals why some countries rise, others fall, and why the most ...

WARNING: Reading this book may change how you use social media forever. Step inside the nerve centers of the digital Cold War. As the clock ticks down to the September 2025 'divest-or-die' deadline, BANPROOF: The M-2 Files takes you on a pulse-pounding journey through the battlefields of ByteDance, Washington D.C., and Silicon Valley. This gripping techno-thriller unveils the secretive Project M-2, where Beijing draws its hard line on algorithm control and global powers race to shape the future of social media. Get ready for a front-row seat to the unprecedented migration of 170 million ...

The Ukraine War has been ongoing for more than three years, and despite valiant efforts by world leaders to start peace talks, it has continued to escalate, as it is now looking like a conflict that will never end. In acts of desperation, the Russian Federation has pulled in troops from North Korea and is now training military personnel from China in conjunction with threatening the entire world multiple times with using nuclear weapons and sending drones toward Western Europe targeting areas populated by civilians. Russia is desperate, and they are trying to pull the world into WW3, in ...

On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The Crime of Aggression is Noah Weisbord's riveting insider's account of the high-stakes legal fight to enact this historic legislation and hold politicians accountable for the wars they start. Weisbord, a key drafter of the law for the International Criminal Court, takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most consequential legal dramas in modern international diplomacy.

From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between...

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy toward the bloody Balkans War. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and his own notes, David Scheffer, who later became America's first Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, weaves the true story of how policy options were debated in the Sit Room among the highest national security officials.  

Sangue d’Europa (Blood of Europe) was a headline used by the daily newspaper Il Manifesto during the bombing of Serbia this year. The same headline here is based on the same considerations made at the time by the editors of Il Manifesto, namely that the terrible events that are bloodying the Balkans are the dramatic legacy of the diplomatic shortcomings of the nascent Europe. This is not just the story of that war, but also a reportage across Serbia and Kosovo - in 60 photographs. ...to remember a war that we have now forgotten, at a time when someone turned our peninsula into a large ...

General Richard B. Myers has unique insight into how the American national-security system works. In Eyes on the Horizon, he recounts his military career and outlines a bold blueprint for a strategic overhaul of our security system, including the military, so that the nation is adequately protected and prepared to fight in this era of what he calls the "Grand Insurgency".

Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful. Today the question we face is not whether we fancy living in an Asia in which power is shared between the United States and China. It is how we feel about living in an Asia in which America no longer plays any significant strategic role. In this controversial and gripping essay, Hugh White looks at what has happened to the US globally.

Since 2001, the US Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: Hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building.  

The Education of an Idealist traces Power’s extraordinary journey, from Irish immigrant to human rights activist to United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Power began her career as a war correspondent and as a vocal critic of US foreign policy, and then put her ideals into practice while working with Obama in the Senate, on the campaign trail, and throughout his presidency. Power’s perspective on government is unique, as she takes us from the streets of war-torn Bosnia to the Situation Room and out into the world of high-stakes diplomacy.

NOT JUST ANOTHER HOSTAGE RESCUE... U.S. Navy helicopter pilot Johnny Jack McGirt has always been a wildcard, but his superiors and fellow officers are stunned when he turns down Rear Admiral’s stars to announce his retirement from active duty. After a career built around bold exploits in the cockpit and covert operations with U.S. intelligence agencies, he’s become far too accustomed to following his gut and making his own rules. The thought of sitting behind a desk holds no attraction for him, no matter what rank the position carries. So he’s more than ready when his long-time friend...

Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright's Aftershocks offers a riveting and comprehensive account of one of the strangest and most consequential years on record. Drawing on interviews with officials from around the world and extensive research, the authors tell the story of how nationalism and major power rivalries constrained the response to the worst pandemic in a century. They demonstrate the myriad ways in which the crisis exposed the limits of the old international order and how the reverberations from COVID-19 will be felt for years to come.

In September 2015, Joe Hockey's promising political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal leadership. After felling the Abbott/Hockey government, Turnbull informed Hockey that he would no longer be treasurer...

With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of international challenges - climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries.

In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met separately, crafted their own agendas, and captured global headlines with a message that was both straightforward and revolutionary: Enduring peace depended on recognition of the fundamental humanity and equality of all people.

First published in the early days of the Iraq War, Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about the American quest for empire that still carries weight today. Scrutinizing the Bush administration's words and actions, Mailer unleashes his trademark moral rigor: "Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered.... To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad."

This is the true story of an unknown American politician who played a critical role in ending centuries of conflict in Northern Ireland. Without the president's permission, and breaking every conventional rule about how to deal with terrorists, former congressman Bruce Morrison helped end a conflict that most observers thought would continue indefinitely.