This is a readable and incisive analysis of American foreign policy and international politics since the end of the Cold War.

It is organized around two key themes, the role of culture in international politics and the changing nature of American power. Richard Crockatt addresses such key issues as:

• the relationship between US power and the post-Cold War international system
• US relations with Europe and Islam
• the intensity of anti-American feeling after September 11th
• the rebirth of American nationalism
• the war in Iraq and its aftermath.

After 9/11 is a much-needed balanced account of the most significant political questions of the twenty-first century

This book is an analysis of the wider background to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, which examines the reasons for such violent hatred of the United States and the gulf between American perceptions of its own society and those of other nations. The book explores the historical roots of anti-Americanism in Britain and Europe and focuses in detail on the growth of militant anti-American ideologies and movements in the Islamic and Middle Eastern world. It provides a balanced and much-needed account of American foreign policy, anti-Americanism, post-Cold War politics and Islamic fundamentalism and will be essential reading for anyone trying to understand the background to the war on terror.

This book is an analysis of the wider background to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, which examines the reasons for such violent hatred of the United States and the gulf between American perceptions of its own society and those of other nations. The book explores the historical roots of anti-Americanism in Britain and Europe and focuses in detail on the growth of militant anti-American ideologies and movements in the Islamic and Middle Eastern world. It provides a balanced and much-needed account of American foreign policy, anti-Americanism, post-Cold War politics and Islamic fundamentalism and will be essential reading for anyone trying to understand the background to the war on terror.

This is a readable and incisive analysis of American foreign policy and international politics since the end of the Cold War.

It is organized around two key themes, the role of culture in international politics and the changing nature of American power. Richard Crockatt addresses such key issues as:

• the relationship between US power and the post-Cold War international system
• US relations with Europe and Islam
• the intensity of anti-American feeling after September 11th
• the rebirth of American nationalism
• the war in Iraq and its aftermath.

After 9/11 is a much-needed balanced account of the most significant political questions of the twenty-first century

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century.

For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.

This chapbook presents not only a variety of moods and colours in Heine's poems about the North Sea but also a loose narrative which takes us from the shore, to scenes aboard ship, and the return to harbour, ending with a pastoral scene in which the sea has been truly left behind. Written in free verse rather than the rhymed quatrains Heine usually used, these poems explore the intersections between myth and everyday life in vivid scenes which mirror the fluid motions and moods of the sea.

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the fifty years' war and the relationship that has dominated world politics in the second half of the present century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.

Albert Einstein, world-renowned as a physicist, was also publicly committed to radical political views. Despite the vast literature on Einstein, Einstein and Twentieth- Century Politics is the first comprehensive study of his politics, covering his opinions and campaigns on pacifism, Zionism, control of nuclear weapons, world government, freedom, and racial equality. Most studies look at Einstein in isolation but here he is viewed alongside a 'liberal international' of global intellectuals, including Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, and John Dewey. Frequently called upon to join campaigns on great issues of war, peace, and social values, they all knew or corresponded with Einstein. This volume examines how Einstein and comparable intellectuals sought to exert a 'salutary influence', as Einstein put it in a letter to Freud. Close attention is given to the unique qualities Einstein brought to his interventions in political debate. His influence derived in the first instance from his celebrity status as the scientist of genius whose theory of relativity was both incomprehensible to most and seemingly relevant to many aspects of aspects of culture and the cosmos. Einstein's complex and enigmatic personality, which combined intense devotion to privacy and a capacity to perform on the public stage, also contributed to the Einstein myth. Studying Einstein's politics, it is argued here, takes us not only into the mind of Einstein but to the heart of the great public issues of the twentieth century.