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Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave of Russian ImmigrantsDennis Shasha and Marion Shron, with a foreword by Steven Gold The twentieth century has witnessed three great waves of Russian immigration to the United States. The first wave followed the Russian Revolution of 1917. Joseph Stalin's tyrannical rule was the cause of the second wave during the late 1940s and early 1950s. And then the third wave came, beginning with the age of glastnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s, and continuing to this day.
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International Security: An Analytical SurveyMichael Sheehan Michael Sheehan provides a masterly survey of the varied positions that scholars have adopted in interpreting "security"—one of the most contested terms in international relations—and proposes a synthesis that both widens and deepens our understanding of the concept.
Sheehan first outlines the classical realist approach of Morgenthau and Carr and the ideas of their More > | ![]() |
Female Circumcision in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and ChangeBettina Shell-Duncan and Ylva Hernlund, editors Though the issue of female genital cutting, or "circumcision," has become a nexus for debates on cultural relativism, human rights, patriarchal oppression, racism, and Western imperialism, the literature has been separated by diverse fields of study. In contrast, this volume brings together contributors from anthropology, public health, political science, demography, history, and More > | ![]() |
Soviet-Iraqi Relations, 1968-1988: In the Shadow of the Iraqi-Iran ConflictHaim Shemesh From the beginning of the Ba'th regime in 1968 to the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, Iraq was an important ally of the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Haim Shemesh explores the evolution of this Soviet-Iraqi relationship—one that Moscow often exploited—concentrating on the impact of the 1969-1975 and 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq conflicts on the fluctuations in Soviet-Iraqi ties and More > | |
China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign PolicyChih-yu Shih Looking at China's foreign policy, this book focuses on the Confucian-based need of Chinese leaders to present themselves as the supreme moral rectifiers of the world order.
Shih outlines the diplomatic principles cherished by the Chinese—socialism, antihegemonism, peaceful coexistence, statism, and isolationism—and explores how each has been applied in the past forty years. He More > | |
State and Society in China's Political Economy: The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist ReformChih-yu Shih As China's reforms take root, the differences between the traditional value of harmony and the socialist norm of class struggle are becoming increasingly obscured. Chinese citizens are, in fact, theoretically allowed—even encouraged—to be socialist and profit-driven at the same time.
Chih-yu Shih looks at this precarious dyad, demonstrating what reform has done to the More > | |
Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of ChangeShiraishi Takashi Shiraishi Takashi reflects on the diplomatic challenges facing the countries of Asia in today's geopolitical order, exploring historical context, long-term trends, and current strategies.
The tectonic shifts in the global order are having a particularly dramatic impact in Asia, with its combined economy now larger than that of either North America or Europe. As he explores the nature of More > | ![]() |
Mexico's New Politics: The PAN and Democratic ChangeDavid A. Shirk Mexico's presidential elections in July 2000 brought victory to National Action Party (PAN) candidate Vicente Fox—and also the hope of democratic change after decades of single-party rule. Tracing the key themes and dynamics of a century of political development in Mexico, David Shirk explores the evolution of the party that ultimately became the vehicle for Fox's success.
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Between Hashemites and Zionists: The Struggle for Palestine, 1908-1988Martin Sicker In his probing, startling fresh analysis of the Hashemite-Zionist struggle for Palestine—the area of the earlier British mandate that is today occupied by the states of Israel and Jordan—Martin Sicker cuts through the polemic that has clouded fundamental aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sicker reveals the essential background of the problem over the past seventy-odd years in its More > | ![]() |
Kashmir: New Voices, New ApproachesWaheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Bushra Asif, and Cyrus Samii, editors Uniquely representing all sides in the conflict over Kashmir, this innovative new book provides a forum for discussion not only of existing proposals for ending the conflict, but also of possible new paths toward settlement.
Contributors from India, Pakistan, and Kashmir explore the national and subnational dimensions of the ongoing hostilities, the role of the international community, More > | ![]() |