BOOKS

The Roots of Haitian Despotism
Robert Fatton Jr.

Though founded in the wake of a revolution that embodied its slave population's quest for freedom and equality, Haiti has endured a history marked by an unending pattern of repressive    More >

The Roots of Somali Political Culture
M.J. Fox

The fragmentation of the former Somali Democratic Republic into three distinctive entities, together with the events that have ensued since then, make for a complex political puzzle that    More >

The Royal Game and Other Stories
Stefan Zweig translated from the German by Jill Sutcliffe and with an introduction by Jeffrey B. Berlin

Stefan Zweig gained early fame as a poet, translator, and biographer. When he added fiction to his repertoire, he won even more critical acclaim. After his death, however, his work fell    More >

The Russian Syndrome:  One Thousand Years of Political Murder
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by Caroline B. Higgitt and with a forword by Adam B. Ulam

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The Russians Aren't Coming: New Soviet Policy in Latin America
Wayne S. Smith, editor

Pointing to the dramatic changes in the former Soviet Union and its foreign policies over the past few years, the authors demonstrate that, even before the consequent collapse of communism    More >

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire
Richard Sakwa

The number of casualties in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is rapidly approaching 1.5 million, with no resolution in sight … a staggering reality. Seeking to make what sense is    More >

The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s
David Cortright and George A. Lopez

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been a frequent instrument of United Nations authority, imposed by the Security Council against    More >

The Sandinistas and Nicaragua Since 1979
David Close, Salvador Martí i Puig, and Shelley A. McConnell, editors

How has the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) affected Nicaragua and its politics since the Sandinista revolution of 1979? Addressing this question, the authors offer a    More >

The Search For Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank
Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Olson, editors

Focusing on debates within the World Bank about the value of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development, the contributors to this    More >

The Second Nuclear Age
Colin 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    More >

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