Overview :Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the ... Read More
Overview :President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Robert I. Rotberg, showcases how t... Read More
Overview :This book was originally published in 1988. Although they pursue divergent lines of analysis, these essays by historians and art historians ... Read More
Overview :The essays in this 1985 volume direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history. Throughout human histor... Read More
Overview :In the wake of the Taliban nightmare, Afghanistan must tackle serious problems before it can emerge as a confident, independent nation. Secu... Read More
Overview :The ecstatic election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, his American-supported restoration to office in 1994, and the peaceful el... Read More
Overview :In this volume a diverse group of leading historians analyzes the future needs of their craft and suggests the many ways in which scholars o... Read More
Overview :This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives. It ... Read More
Overview :Never before have world order and global security been threatened by so many destabilizing factors--from the collapse of macroeconomic stabi... Read More
Overview :Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may h... Read More
Overview :Societies work best where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively for common goals, and thus share a civic culture. The acc... Read More
Overview :Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, a... Read More
Overview :The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa ... Read More
Overview :For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here Robert Rotberg details the flowering of the g... Read More
Overview :An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian con... Read More
Overview :Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprive... Read More
Overview :With so much attention paid to America's war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has all but forgotten the spread of terrorism in o... Read More