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  • Central Europe Revisited

    Why Europe’s Future Will Be Decided in the Region

    by Emil Brix, Erhard Busek ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    More than 30 years after their momentous book "Projekt Mitteleuropa", which had been written before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek revisit the political space between Germany, Russia and the Mediterranean.The volume explores the role of Central Europe in the 21st century, the importance of the European Union, the significance of a transforming Central Europe for European ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Out of Control

    Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century

    by Zbigniew Brzezinski ...
    Brzezinski provides a stark and realistic look at the world's economy and moral crisis in a brilliant analysis of today's geopolitical order.If America is to reassert its moral legitimacy, Brzezinski argues, it must address its basic dilemmas, including deepening poverty, inadequate health care and education, a greedy wealthy class opposed to progressive taxation, and the mass media's promotion of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Russia Against the Rest

    The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • States and Social Revolutions

    A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China

    by Theda Skocpol ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis

    by Bohdan S. Kordan, Mitchell C.G. Dowie ...
    Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign policy priority. Although the move is often described as a radical departure, Bohdan Kordan and Mitchell Dowie contend that it was consistent ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Why Nations Fight

    Past and Future Motives for War

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and revenge. Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • History of Eastern Europe

    Crisis and Change

    by Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries ...
    This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region.Subjects covered include:Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern timesthe legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • October 1917 Revolution

    A Century Later

    by Samir Amin ...
    Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those peoples oppressed by imperialism with the path to socialism. These revolutions are great precisely ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945

    Edited by Nicholas Doumanis ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and rising health standards, the era was dominated by political violence and chronic instability. Its symbols were Verdun, Guernica, and Auschwitz. By the end of this dark period, tens of millions of ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

    Edited by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Nationalism and War

    by John Hutchinson ...
    This interdisciplinary book is the first systematic study of the relationship between nationalism and war and, as such, makes an original contribution to theories of nationalism and state formation. It offers a dynamic and interactive framework by which to understand the role of warfare in its changing manifestations in the rise of nation-states, the formation of national communities, definitions ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Extreme Politics

    Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

    by Charles King ...
    Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD