Overview :Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city... Read More
Overview :The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in the wake of its collapse, the politics of ethnicity within its ... Read More
Overview :What went wrong in Russia? A group of leading young scholars answer this question through a theoretically informed, in-depth analysis of the... Read More
Overview :We know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it. But can we predict the military's reaction to an uprising?... Read More
Overview :Why have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectivenes... Read More
Overview :The political scientists Zoltan Barany and Ivan Volgyes bring together a distinguished group of contributors to examine the legacies of comm... Read More
Overview :One of the fundamental assumptions regarding the modern state is that it must have the capacity to defend itself from external enemies. Yet,... Read More
Overview :This book is the first attempt by a social scientist to explain the age-old predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethni... Read More
Overview :The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing... Read More
Overview :Armies of Arabia is the first comprehensive analysis of the Gulf monarchies' armed forces, including their political, social, and economic c... Read More