Carnegie Endowment For Int L Peace imprint: 30 books
Getting India Back on Track
An Action Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.
Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides...
Managing Global Issues
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts,...
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad
In Search of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading U.S. expert on democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy assistance but also of U.S. grand strategy overall."-SAIS Review Promoting the rule of law has become a major part...
Post-Imperium
A Eurasian Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The war in Georgia. Tensions with Ukraine and other nearby countries. Moscow's bid to consolidate its "zone of privileged interests" among the Commonwealth of Independent States. These volatile situations all raise questions about the nature of and prospects for Russia's relations with its...
Savage Century
Back to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
At the dawn of the twentieth century, observers heralded a new era of social progress, seemingly limitless technological advances, and world peace. But within only a few years, the world was perched on the brink of war, revolution, and human misery on an unprecedented scale. Is it possible that today,...
Pakistan
Between Mosque and Military
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with...
by Lilia Shevtsova
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This revised edition includes and examination of the recent presidential and parliamentary elections and their effects on Putin's leadership and Russia. Praise for the previous edition: "Out of her blunt, often acerbic, account come shrewd insights into Putin's transformation from an implausible,...
by Richard Youngs
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Western democracy is being questioned around the world. At the same time, Western aid groups are quick to say that they are not trying to impose a particular style of democracy on others and that they are open to supporting local, alternative forms of democracy. This book examines what it is about...
The Iranian Nuclear Crisis
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news of Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment and plutonium production facilities emerge. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, previously the head...
Confronting the Weakest Link
Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world. A large and ever-growing number of U.S., European, and multilateral assistance programs seek...
Juggernaut
How Emerging Powers Are Reshaping Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Against the long sweep of economic history, the current moment is special. Living standards advanced so rapidly and across so many countries over the last decade that it is difficult to think of parallels-even the deepest recession since the Great Depression did not halt progress.
In Juggernaut,...
Kazakhstan
Unfulfilled Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
At the outset of independence 18 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon bring economic prosperity. It appeared that democracy was beginning to take hold in this newly independent state....
The Third Force
The Rise of Transnational Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commission on Dams, transnational networks of civil society groups are seizing an ever-greater voice in how governments run countries and how corporations do business. This volume brings together a multinational group...
The Uncertain Legacy of Crisis
European Foreign Policy Faces the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The European Union is mired in the worst crisis it has seen for many decades. And the crisis does not stop at Europe's edge. It threatens to undercut the EU's ambitions to develop a coherent and active foreign policy, but it is also forcing European states to reevaluate their approach to security...