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  • On Architecture

    by Vitruvius ...
    Translated by Richard Schofield ...
    In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa

    State, Oil and Agriculture

    Edited by George Joffé, Richard Schofield ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since 1908 which has had profound geopolitical implications as well.The territory was also the arena for the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States

    Edited by Richard Schofield ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: History of the Middle East
    This book, first published in 1994, provides a comprehensive treatment of a crucial set of geopolitical issues from a region where political developments are observed with great care and some trepidation by the rest of the world. Based on expert analysis by leading researchers, the book is the first English-language to deal collectively with the origins and contemporary status of land and maritime ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Transcaucasian Boundaries

    by John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg ...
    Transcaucasian boundaries" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Grand Chessboard

    American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

    by Zbigniew Brzezinski ...
    From one of America’s leading geopolitical thinkers, the classic treatise on America's strategic mission in the modern world“The Grand Chessboard makes permanent contributions to the national debate over American foreign policy and power.”―Los Angeles TimesIn this seminal work, celebrated political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a provocative, revolutionary geostrategy for American ... Read more

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  • Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Andrew S. Natsios ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios provides a timely introduction to the country at this pivotal moment in its ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    by Thomas J. Barfield ...
    Series Book 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Read more

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  • Black Garden

    Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War

    by Thomas de Waal ...
    Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end of the Soviet Union, and plunge a region of great strategic importance into a decade of turmoil. This important volume is both a careful reconstruction of the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Understanding Eritrea

    Inside Africa's Most Repressive State

    by Martin Plaut ...
    The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean. Still they flee, to avoid permanent military service and a future ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Caucasus

    An Introduction

    by Thomas de Waal ...
    In this fascinating book, noted journalist Thomas de Waal--author of the highly acclaimed Black Garden--makes the case that while the Caucasus is often treated as a sub-plot in the history of Russia, or as a mere gateway to Asia, the five-day war in Georgia, which flared into a major international crisis in 2008, proves that this is still a combustible region, whose inner dynamics and history ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Getting Somalia Wrong?

    Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State

    by Mary Harper ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new 'southern front' in the war on terror. At least that is how it is inevitably portrayed by politicians and in the media.Mary Harper presents the first comprehensive account of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A History of the War in the Balkans

    by R. Craig Nation ...
    The Balkans is often described as a grim backwater, a "no man's land of world politics" in the words of a post-World War II study "foredoomed to conflict springing from heterogeneity." The stereotype is false, but it has been distressingly influential in shaping perceptions of the Balkan conflict and its origin. By encouraging pessimism about prospects for recovery, it may also make it more ... Read more

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