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Foreign Aid Toward the MillenniumSteven W. Hook, editor Like world politics itself, the foreign-assistance regime of the late 1990s is characterized by fundamental change and widespread uncertainty. This book confronts these changes and considers, cross-nationally, how donor and recipient states are adapting their aid relationships to the transformed geopolitical environment.
Combining the expertise of both area specialists and those focusing on More > | |
Foreign Economic Relations of the European Community: The Impact of Spain and PortugalAlfred Tovias Providing a wealth of primary source data on the European Community after the accession of Spain and Portugal, Alfred Tovias assesses the changes—demographic, economic, and cultural—that have occurred thus far as a result of the third enlargement and posits that a further result will be the development of new EC foreign policies.
Tovias traces the evolving character of the EC and, More > | |
Foreign Investment and Domestic Development: Multinationals and the StateJenny Rebecca Kehl How is it that billions of dollars flow through the developing world without altering its reality of poverty and scarcity? Jenny Kehl explores the crucial relationship between foreign direct investment and domestic development, focusing on the wide variation in the capacity of governments to negotiate FDI to the advantage of their citizens.
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Foreign Policies of the CIS States: A Comprehensive ReferenceDenis Degterev and Konstantin Kurylev, editors How do the former Soviet republics that now constitute the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) interact with each other and with other regional and world powers? What are the conceptual foundations, mechanisms, and main directions of each member state's foreign policy? What role do economic and political factors play?
Answering these questions and more in this systematic, comprehensive More > | ![]() |
Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond North AmericaKlaus Brummer and Valerie M. Hudson, editors North American scholars typically do not hesitate to make pronouncements about foreign policy processes and outcomes in other countries. And despite ample evidence to the contrary, the perception that foreign policy analysis is still largely a North American scholarly enterprise persists. Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond North America challenges this perception, providing a rich overview of work by More > | ![]() |
Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the AmericasGordon Mace and Jean-Philippe Thérien, editors This comparative analysis of foreign policy behavior in the Americas focuses on the emerging trend toward regionalism.
Following a discussion of the phenomenon of regionalism in general, chapters on the countries of North America, the Caribbean, and South America address three questions fundamental to the relationship between national foreign policy and hemispheric cooperation and integration: More > | |
Forging the Anvil: Combat Units in the US, British, and German Infantries of World War IIG. Stephen Lauer It has long been accepted wisdom that Germany's infantrymen possessed superior tactical ability relative to their Anglo-American adversaries in World War II. Now, drawing on newly available information, Stephen Lauer unpacks that assumption, exploring the conscription, classification, and training methods of the US, British, and German infantries from 1919 through 1945.
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Fountain and Tomb [a novel]Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Soad Sobhi, Essam Fattouh, and James Kenneson "I enjoy playing in the small square between the archway and the takiya [monastery] where the Sufis live. Like all the other children, I admire the mulberry trees in the takiya garden, the only bit of green in the whole neighborhood. Our tender hearts yearn for their dark berries. But it stands like a fortress, this takiya, circled by its garden wall. Its stern gate is broken and always, like More > | ![]() |
Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of SyriaJames A. Reilly How did the lands that are today Syria survive the vicissitudes of centuries of Ottoman, Egyptian, and French rule, only to stand in ruins today, shattered by a brutal civil war? To provide answers, James Reilly traces five centuries of Syrian history, from the Ottoman period to the present.
Reilly brings to life the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic, and political factors that have More > | ![]() |
Frantz Fanoncompiled by Leo Zeilig This book is part of a unique series that presents the reader with the original writings and relevant source texts of liberation heroes of Africa, together with a coherent contextual framework and analysis of their legacy. More > | ![]() |