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The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century
Published in Hardcover by PublicAffairs (03 September, 2002)
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
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A Less Myopic, More Optimistic View of Recent History
Modern media often creates a myopic sense of history. We become so focused on what has happened in the last few years, that we miss the big pictures. Mike Mandelbaum looks at the last hundred or so years to remind us that the core values most Americans treasure -- Peace, Liberty and Free Markets -- are not in retreat, but have been increasingly adopted by the rest of the world. Mandelbaum also reminds us that historical trends do not move in straight lines -- that even as the world moved inexorably in these directions during the 20th Century, we still experienced wars, brutal dictators, and popular proponents of centralized economic planning. It gives one a much greater sense of optimism that the negative reporting from our daily media will one day look as silly as those who "reported" in the sixties that Communism had proved itself a viable alternative to Western Capitalism.

Darwin, Tielhard, Mandelbaum
This is an account of evolution as it occurs in the affairs of nations. An evolution of markets, democracy, arms control, and finally peace. It takes everything you know about history and rearranges it in its logical order. This book will set you free.

Outstanding, thought-provoking book
If you, like me, have become a follower of the thoughts of Thomas Friedman, you'll love this book, too. Its clear, entertaining detail of "liberal" history---and in this context, even Newt Gingrich was a liberal---and the triumph of the ideas of Woodrow Wilson is a great read. I credit Friedmen with awakening interest in foreign policy analysis, but I credit people like Mandelbaum, Friedman and Walter Russell Mead for providing foreign policy analysis that is passionate and engaging, rather than what I expected, which was dry and over-informative.

My only criticism of the book was the first third was a little repetitive. He kept repeating the part about the triumph of Wilson's ideas, but I started to say, "Hey, I GET IT already."

Anyway, that shouldn't scare anyone off. If you are interested in this type of reading, I would highly recommend reading this one.


The Dawn of Peace in Europe: A Twentieth Century Fund Book
Published in Hardcover by Priority Pr Pubns (1996)
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
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A Good, if knee-jerk, analysis of European policy
Mandelbaum's "The Dawn of Peace in Europe" is a well-researched and articulate piece detailing the future of NATO and of American involvement in Europe. Though short, it is detailed in its analysis and provides the reader with a clear understanding of his position. In it, Mandelbaum attempts to analyse the role of NATO, and critique the directions that other have prescribed for the alliance. Mandelbaum feels that the best course of activity for the alliance is to stay as it is, and redirect its energies into "reassuring" the perpetuation of the common security order that exists in Europe. He feels that NATO is poorly equipped to pursue out-of-area missions, such as the one in Bosnia, and that expansion of NATO is a mistake because it installs victor's justice on Russia, and this justice will be remembered by the Russian people as an insult. It appears as though this analysis regarding the impact NATO expansion will have on Russia is somewhat of a knee-jerk reactions. Opinion has shown consistently that the Russian people do not care if NATo expands and do not feel that it is necessarily a threat to their security. Furthermore, many analysts including Andrei Kortunov have written their opinions on this issue and have shown that only in the most extreme case would there be a nationalist backlash against NATO expansion. Mandelbaum still views Russia as the enemy of NATO, as it was through the Cold War, and thus his view of the alliance may be somewhat dated. Despite this however, he provides the reader with a clear approach to the future of European security. Mandelbaum articulates the idea of a common security order existing in Europe now that ensures the peace without the high costs of balance of power politics and without the unrealistic tenets of world government. Whether or not a security order continues to exist, according to Mandelbaum will depend on whether or not Russia will stay peaceful and if the United States will stay in European defence mechanisms. If things reamain as is, Europe will be the bastion of peace in an all too unpeaceful world. I recommend this book for all analysts interested in European security.


America's Defense
Published in Paperback by Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. (1989)
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
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Ann Mandelbaum
Published in Hardcover by Edition Stemmle (1994)
Authors: Rudolf Schmitz, Heinz Liesbrock, Duane Michaels, Thomas Sokolowski, and Thomas W. Sokolowski
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Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan
Published in Paperback by Council on Foreign Relations Press (1994)
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
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A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett
Published in Paperback by St. Martin's Press (1990)
Author: Ken Mandelbaum
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The Fate of Nations : The Search for National Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (1988)
Author: Michael Mandelbaum
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The Global Rivals
Published in Paperback by Vintage Books (1989)
Authors: Seweryn Bialer and Michael Mandelbaum
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Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy
Published in Paperback by Westview Press (1988)
Authors: Seweryn Bialer and Michael Mandelbaum
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Israel and the Occupied Territories: A Personal Report on the Uprising
Published in Paperback by Council on Foreign Relations Press (1988)
Authors: Michael Andelbaum and Michael Mandelbaum
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