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The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the BombYoel Cohen In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's highly secret nuclear arms research center at Dimona, disclosed highly classified details about Israel's nuclear arms program to the London Sunday Times. As a result, Vanunu was kidnapped from London and taken back to Israel where, after a closed- door trial, he was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment for espionage and More > | |
Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical MatrixManuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter Cleaves, Gary Gereffi, and Jonathan Hartlyn The myriad changes affecting contemporary Latin America in the context of a globalizing world are so far reaching, argue the authors of Latin America in the Twenty-First Century, that understanding them requires both new conceptual tools and multidisciplinary analysis. In response to this need, they explore developments in the region in terms of four central processes: the construction of More > | |
International Relations: From the Cold War to the Globalized WorldAndreas Wenger and Doron Zimmermann Tracing the evolution of international relations since the onset of the Cold War, the authors of this innovative textbook draw on recently available archival resources to vividly narrate world affairs from 1945 to the present.
Events are addressed chronologically, with attention to both their motivations and their significance. The focus is on issues of security in the very broadest sense, More > | |
Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace AgreementsStephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, editors Why do some peace agreements successfully end civil wars, while others fail? What strategies are most effective in ensuring that warring parties comply with their treaty commitments? Of the various tasks involved in implementing peace agreements, which are the most important? These and related questions—life and death issues for millions of people today—are the subject of Ending Civil More > | |
Hitler Attacks Pearl Harbor: Why the United States Declared War on GermanyRichard F. Hill In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. politicians, policymakers, and citizens focused their desire for retribution not on the obvious target, Japan, but on Hitler's Germany. Richard Hill challenges a major point of conventional wisdom on U.S.-Axis relations to explain why the U.S. held Hitler responsible for the Japanese action—and why Hitler's December 11 declaration More > | |
From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security ChallengesMwesiga Baregu and Christopher Landsberg, editors From the ongoing war in Angola, to sporadic instability in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, to the conflict in Congo, to issues of land reform and the ravages of AIDS, southern Africa faces varied and complex threats to its peace and security. The authors of From Cape to Congo assess the region's major security challenges, as well as the roles of local, regional, and external actors in managing them. More > | |
Understanding Police Use of ForceHoward Rahtz Rahtz provides an even-handed and comprehensive discussion of the use of force in law enforcement. More > | |
Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and SocietyEleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney, editors This original work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region.
Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures. For some women, for example, globalization has meant increased access to education and employment; for More > | |
Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to AbdullahCurtis R. Ryan Jordan in Transition offers a cogent and compelling analysis of the country's domestic and international politics.
Ryan argues that there have been four dramatic transitions in Jordan's recent past: ambitious economic restructuring, efforts toward political liberalization, realignments in foreign relations (culminating in the 1994 peace agreement with Israel), and the succession of King More > | |
Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization, and ConflictSteve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, editors The radical alteration of the political landscape in Venezuela following the electoral triumph of the controversial Hugo Chávez calls for a fresh look at the country's institutions and policies. In response, and challenging much of the scholarly literature on Venezuelan democracy, this book offers a revisionist view of Venezuela's recent political history and a fresh appraisal of More > |