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The Second Nuclear AgeColin S. Gray Colin Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics.
Taking issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control, and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Gray argues that the risk posed by WMD is ever more serious. Policy that ignores the present nuclear age, he cautions, is policy that More > | |
Promoting Reproductive Health: Investing in Health for DevelopmentShepard Forman and Romita Ghosh, editors The aim of the research underpinning this volume was threefold: to determine how countries understand and are acting on the Programme of Action endorsed by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994; how efforts to implement that program can be assessed; and what is needed to move forward. The resulting case studies help also to answer broader questions More > | |
The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920-1939Robert M. Citino In 1939, the German army shocked and terrorized the world with Blitzkrieg, its form of mobilized warfare. How the Germans rebuilt their army after defeat in World War I—circumventing the prohibitions of the treaty at Versailles—is one of the major questions in military history.
Citino shows that German officers of the army of the Weimar Republic (the Reichswehr), men like General Hans More > | |
Nicaragua: The Chamorro YearsDavid Close In 1990, Nicaraguans voted out the revolutionary Sandinista regime and replaced it with the conservative government of President Violeta Chamorro. Chamorro's term of office was marked by constitutional, economic, partisan, and social conflict, as her administration attempted to replace the revolutionary system with representative government and market economics.
Close examines these conflicts More > | |
Arabian Love Poems, new editionNizar Kabbani, translated by Bassam K. Frangieh and Clementina R.Brown Nizar Kabbani’s poetry has been described as "more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together" (Lebanese Daily Star). Reflecting on his death in 1998, Sulhi Al-Wadi wrote (in Tishreen), "Qabbani is like water, bread, and the sun in every Arab heart and house. In his poetry the harmony of the heart, and in his blood the melody of love". Arabian Love Poems is the first More > | |
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian StoriesGhassan Kanafani, translated by Hilary Kilpatrick This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher, and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani includes the stunning novella Men in the Sun (1962), the basis of the film The Deceived. Also in the volume are "The Land of Sad Oranges" (1958), "'If You Were a Horse . . .'" (1961), "A Hand in the Grave" (1962), "The Falcon" (1961), More > | |
U.S. Politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, Conservative ShiftRonald W. Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess This thoughtful, highly original book investigates the influence of globalization on ideology and politics in the United States.
Cox and Skidmore-Hess argue that U.S. policy increasingly has been motivated less by anxiety about the independence and stability of the domestic economy and more by worry about factors that might limit the participation of U.S. corporations in international markets. More > | |
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Writer and Political ActivistCraig McLuckie and Aubrey McPhail, editors The shocking execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa at the hands of the Nigerian government in 1995 stirred new interest in the many facets of his life—as novelist and short story writer, radio and television personality, publisher and entrepreneur, political and environmental activist. This interdisciplinary collection critically assesses Saro-Wiwa’s exceptional life and work from a range of More > | |
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd EditionLarry Diamond, Jonathan Hartlyn, Juan J. Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, editors Extensively revised since the first edition was published in 1989, this analytically balanced and empirically rich volume thoroughly examines the historical, cultural, social, economic, political, and international factors that affect both the prospects for and the nature of political democracy in Latin America.
The book reflects improvements in democratic trends in some countries, but also the More > | |
The New African Poetry: An AnthologyTanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah, editors This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles, and ideologies. These contemporary voices have been shaped in the realities of postcolonial Africa from the mid-1970s to the present. In contrast to the preceding generation—forged in the years of nationalist movements and More > |