"This chapter provides an overview of Xi Jinping's ideological framework for defining the future of China. It examines the primary documents of Xi's internal political and theoretical discourse within the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to decipher the underlying ideological dialect of intra-part communication. Xi's China now openly challenges the political values underpinning the pre-existing international order and offers. The chapter...

"The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of individuals on history? The first half of the twentieth century offered political leaders enormous scope for changing the world. This book consists of essays about eight who, for better and for worse, did just that. Woodrow Wilson had a vision for a cooperative world order that failed after the First World War but gained in influence after the Second. Vladimir...

In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect....

"For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for dominance. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today...

"This book covers the theories of international relations, pressing current issues, as well as the structures and main players in world politics through the medium of superheroes and supervillains"--

"In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy that - alone among the developed nations - is rapidly approaching energy independence. Combined, these factors are doing...

Follow Jack as he is thrust into dangerous field assignments in different countries across the globe. From uncovering patterns in terrorist communications and networks in the Middle East to tracking suspicious cargo in South America tied to far-reaching conspiracies, to crisscrossing Europe to prevent the cascade of destabilizing conflicts and global catastrophe, Jack will stop at nothing to protect the country he loves and her allies. The stakes...