How do leaders perceive threat levels in world politics, and what effects do those perceptions have on policy choices? Mark L. Haas focuses on how ideology shapes perception. He does not delineate the content of particular ideologies, but rather the degree of difference among them. Degree of ideological difference is, he believes, the crucial factor as leaders decide which nati...(展开全部)

A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which dem ocracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian. To Mearsheimer,...(展开全部)

A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which dem ocracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian. To Mearsheimer,...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)

伯纳德·贝林 哈佛大学亚当斯大学（AdamsUniversity）讲座教授兼早期美国史詹姆斯·邓肯·菲利普（James Duncan Philips）讲座教授，是诸多美国历史著作的作者，包括《托马斯·哈钦森的苦难历程》（The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson，Harvard，1974），该书获得了历史著作中的国家图书奖，以及《渡海西行的人》（Voyagers to the West，1986），该书跟《美国革命的思想意识渊源》一样，获得了普利策历史图书奖。

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. Hailed at its first appearance as “the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation,” it was enlarged in a second edition to include the nationwide debate on the ratification of the Cons...(展开全部)

伯纳德·贝林 哈佛大学亚当斯大学（AdamsUniversity）讲座教授兼早期美国史詹姆斯·邓肯·菲利普（James Duncan Philips）讲座教授，是诸多美国历史著作的作者，包括《托马斯·哈钦森的苦难历程》（The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson，Harvard，1974），该书获得了历史著作中的国家图书奖，以及《渡海西行的人》（Voyagers to the West，1986），该书跟《美国革命的思想意识渊源》一样，获得了普利策历史图书奖。

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with ...(展开全部)

The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the question likely to dominate international relations in the twenty-first century: Can China rise peacefully? To John J. Mearsheimer, great power politics are tragic because the anarchy of the international system requires states to seek dominance at one another’s expense, dooming ...(展开全部)