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by Stephen M. Walt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so, and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the future. In doing so, he...
Revolution with a Human Face
Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia’s "gentle revolution," James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens who endeavored—from the outbreak of revolution in 1989 to the demise of the Czechoslovak federation in 1992—to establish a new, democratic political...
To Live upon Hope
Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope, Rachel...
Networks of Rebellion
Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Insurgent cohesion is central to explaining patterns of violence, the effectiveness of counterinsurgency, and civil war outcomes. Cohesive insurgent groups produce more effective war-fighting forces and are more credible negotiators; organizational cohesion shapes both the duration of wars and their...
by Michael A. Malpass
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution....
by Alexander B. Downes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of acute concern for anyone interested in military strategy, international security, or human rights, Alexander...
Creating Christian Granada
Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492–1600
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January...
Veiled Empire
Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. In Uzbekistan it focused above all on a massive effort to eliminate the heavy horsehair-and-cotton...
Tolstoy On War
Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays...
Zones of Rebellion
Kurdish Insurgents and the Turkish State
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
How do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in...
by Robert J. Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The United States today is the most powerful nation in the world, perhaps even stronger than Rome was during its heyday. It is likely to remain the world's preeminent power for at least several decades to come. What behavior is appropriate for such a powerful state?
To answer this question,...
Killing Neighbors
Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In the horrific events of the mid-1990s in Rwanda, tens of thousands of Hutu killed their Tutsi friends, neighbors, even family members. That ghastly violence has overshadowed a fact almost as noteworthy: that hundreds of thousands of Hutu killed no one. In a transformative revisiting of the motives...
Everyday Piety
Islam and Economy in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these...
In the Shadow of FDR
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From review of previous editions:
"In the Shadow of FDR shrewdly sets forth the special cruelty of the dilemma Roosevelt's successors have all faced: 'If he did not walk in FDR's footsteps, he ran a risk of having it said that he was not a Roosevelt but a Hoover. Yet to the extent that he did...