The Chinese Communist Party is profoundly influential both inside and outside China’s borders. But few know of its early history, and until recently, the most prominent narrative of its origins came from the Party itself. The recent release of two collections of documents reveals a more nuanced story than the official narrative.
Tracing the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt through Donald Trump, Joseph Nye offers an analytical toolkit for how the American public can assess the morality of past, present, and future presidential foreign policy decisions.
The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. Odd Arne Westad demonstrates how these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world.
Lee Kuan Yew founded modern Singapore and served its prime minister from 1959 to 1990. Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill draw on in-depth interviews with Lee to distill his approach to global strategy for today’s society.