The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy is created, used, and contested in international relations. The Council's authority depends ...(展开全部)

The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy is created, used, and contested in international relations. The Council's authority depends ...(展开全部)

Running the World is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the "most powerful committee in the history of the world"-the men and women closest to the president of the United States who make America's decisions affecting war and peace, who are the architects of everything from covert operations to market bailouts to combating terrorism. This is the National Security Council...(展开全部)

戴维•罗特科普夫，卡内基国际和平基金会访问学者，加滕•罗特科普夫国际咨询公司（总部驻华盛顿特区与纽约）总裁。他以评论员的身份出现在各大广播节目、有线电视节目及无线电台节目中，为全球许多份重要报刊撰写了100多篇有关国际安全和国际经济的社论。他曾担任信桥公司的主席兼执行总裁及基辛格联合咨询公司的总经理，并在克林顿政府时期出任负责国际贸易的商务部副部长帮办。

Running the World is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the "most powerful committee in the history of the world"-the men and women closest to the president of the United States who make America's decisions affecting war and peace, who are the architects of everything from covert operations to market bailouts to combating terrorism. This is the National Security Council...(展开全部)

戴维•罗特科普夫，卡内基国际和平基金会访问学者，加滕•罗特科普夫国际咨询公司（总部驻华盛顿特区与纽约）总裁。他以评论员的身份出现在各大广播节目、有线电视节目及无线电台节目中，为全球许多份重要报刊撰写了100多篇有关国际安全和国际经济的社论。他曾担任信桥公司的主席兼执行总裁及基辛格联合咨询公司的总经理，并在克林顿政府时期出任负责国际贸易的商务部副部长帮办。

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our economic well-being, yet unlike democratically elected leaders, ...(展开全部)

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. They pull the regulatory and financial levers of our economic well-being, yet unlike democratically elected leaders, ...(展开全部)

The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new chall...(展开全部)

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or desti...(展开全部)