united states

Contains fourteen critical essays that offer varying opinions about the United States' budget deficit.

A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on issues concerning the United States' involvement in Afghanistan, including the effects of a withdrawal, the participation of NATO, and prospects of overcoming the Taliban.

Presents accounts, from both the United States and the Soviet Union, of meetings held between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, chronicling their communications regarding foreign policy during the Cold War, and includes the full record of the first Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.

A collection of articles debating issues related to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the future of the region, and America's foreign policy there.

Explores relations between Mexico and the United States through a collection of nine loosely related fiction stories about people who are in some way connected to Leonardo Barroso, a powerful Mexican oligarch whose villa sits near the border of the two countries.

A history of Panama's relations with the United States, discussing how the construction of the Panama Canal caused years of strife between the two nations and steps taken to improve relations.

Discusses the history of race relations in the United States from 1920 until 1940, and features the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of 1920, the 1921 Tulsa riot, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and other events.

A comprehensive understanding of race relations in the United States between 1940 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Collects twenty-four articles in which various viewpoints about issues pertaining to the Middle East are presented, covering topics such as the promotion of democracy, peace between Israel and Palestine, the threat of a nuclear Iran, and the efforts of Middle Eastern countries to counter terrorism.