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Modern Germany: Politics, Society and Culture by 9780415150347
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29This book examines aspects of contemporary political, economic, social and cultural life in the new Germany. It underlines the significance of the federal system in Germany. The book describes the... -
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan Francesca Di Marco (USA) 9781138351509
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature,... -
The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology by Vernon K. Robbins
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This study establishes a concept of culture and then combines it with Geertz' anthropological concept of thick description. Subsequently, the relation of texts to society and culture is discussed. In... -
Socialist Economies and the Transition to the Market: A Guide by Ian Jeffries
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $119.54This provides a detailed account of each of the socialist countries and an analysis of the various problems they have met in the long transition to market economies, each of which is very different... -
Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future by Glen Harold Stassen
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01"Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future" is a collection of short, lively essays written by prominent leaders and supporters of Peace Action and its two important predecessors the National Committee... -
The Ussr In 1991: A Record Of Events by Vera Tolz
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $55.52This last volume in the annual series chronicles the developments that led up to the abortive August coup, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the establishment of the Commonwealth of... -
Kennan and the Cold War: An Unauthorized Biography by David Felix
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12With his policy of containment, US diplomat George F. Kennan (1904-2005) devised a way to resist the Soviet Union's attempt to conquer the world for Communism. That way was to go to the brink of war... -
The farmer Threat: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Reform In Postsoviet Russia by Donald Van Atta
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This volume examines the agrarian crisis, primarily in Russia but also in other states of former USSR, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, surveying the context of agrarian reforms in... -
Russia in Transition by David Lane 9780582275669
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $71.07An accessible book covering the momentous changes that have occurred, and are still occurring, since the fall of the USSR in 1989. Contributions from an impressive collection of authors are drawn... -
Communism and its Collapse Stephen White (University of Glasgow, UK) 9780415171809
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Ranging from the Russian revolution of 1917 to the collapse of Eastern Europe in the 1980s this study examines Communist rule. By focusing primarily on the USSR and Eastern Europe Stephen White... -
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World by David J. Whittaker 9780415360913
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Examining a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, David J. Whittaker's book provides a balanced introduction to this very controversial subject.Fuelled by... -
Managing Defence in a Democracy Laura R. Cleary 9780415408875
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92Although each state is unique it is possible to identify certain common problems and issues with respect to defence governance and management. Governance and Management of Defence is a unique... -
Russia Between East and West: Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshhold of the Twenty-First Century by Gabriel Gorodetsky
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03Gabriel Gorodetsky unravels President Putin's efforts to re-establish Russia's position as a major power, attempting to reconcile Russia's traditional national interests with the newly emerging... -
Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies by Terrell Carver
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Uses linguistic and semiotic analytical techniques to interrogate the use of language in the construction of political discourses. An impressively broad range of methodologies is used, each to... -
Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe by Karl Cordell
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81A broad-ranging study that explores the complex relationship between ethnicity and democratization, focusing on specific case studies including France, Spain, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia,... -
International Mediation Bias and Peacemaking: Taking Sides in Civil Wars by Isak Svensson
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This book examines the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars.Based on analysis of both global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes, including India and Norway in Sri... -
A Theory Of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality In Contemporary Democracies Herman R. Van Gunsteren 9780813368634
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Does vital citizenship require moral consensus? Or is it the ability to organize their differences that allows people to live together as citizens in a republic? Whereas liberal, republican, and... -
The CIS Handbook by Patrick Heenan
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $102.01The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as... -
The Soviet Union And The Gulf In The 1980s by Carol R Saivetz
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $103.45This study focuses on the impact of Soviet policy toward the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, discussing Soviet interpretations of the Iranian revolution and evaluations of the potent impact of the... -
Moscow And The Third World Under Gorbachev by W. Raymond Duncan
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.50This book explores the scope of Moscow's "new thinking" in its Third World context-highlighted by the USSR's surprising withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. It reviews the foreign policy record... -
Iranian Foreign Policy Since 2001: Alone in the World Thomas Juneau 9780815361145
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44Examining Iranian foreign policy, with a focus on the years since 2001, this book analyses the defining feature of Iran's international and regional posture, its strategic loneliness, and the... -
Restive Partners: Washington And Bonn Diverge by W. R. Smyser 9780367285845
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $103.45West Germany is now one of the world's most powerful and prosperous states. The author emphasizes that Germany has become a new Germany, with different capabilities and needs than the Germany of... -
Organization, Performance, And System Choice: East European Agricultural Development by Michael L Boyd 9780367282004
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $103.45When one has worked on a series of projects as long as I have on those that make up this book, one incurs a tremendous debt that can never be appropriately acknowledged. Nevertheless, I would be... -
Democratization in Eastern Europe by Geoffrey Pridham 9780415110648
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.71This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative... -
The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe: The Poverty of Utopia Vladimir Tismaneanu 9781032458625
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the 'dead hand' of institutional Marxism has been eroded by... -
The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940: Ideas, Debates and Alternatives by Vincent Barnett
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The pre-revolutionary Russian economy was backward and stagnant. Whatever the criticisms of the economy post-revolution, the turnaround in terms of growth and output was staggering. This book looks... -
The Global 1980s: People, Power and Profit by Jonathan Davis
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78The Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval across the world during the long 1980s (1979-1991) with the end of the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and... -
1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the New International System in the Age of Globalization by Jacques Rupnik
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and... -
Revolution In Eastcentral Europe: The Rise And Fall Of Communism And The Cold War by David S Mason
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49The year 1989 marked a turning point in world history, a watershed year of unprecedented drama and political significance. No matter how one looks at those events-as the fall of communism, the... -
Transformational Diplomacy after the Cold War: Britain's Know How Fund in Post-Communist Europe, 1989-2003 by Keith Hamilton 9781138377257
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.The Know How... -
Democracy versus Modernization: A Dilemma for Russia and for the World by Vladislav Inozemtsev 9781138205611
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78This book seeks to "re-think democracy." Over the past years, there has been a tendency in the global policy community and, even more widely, in the world's media, to focus on democracy as the "gold... -
The Decline Of The World Communist Movement: Moscow, Beijing, And Communist Parties In The West by Heinz Timmermann 9780367306656
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45International Communism today is split on a number of ideological and political issues and is incapable of the kind of unified action implied by the term "movement.aEURO So argues Heinz Timmermann in... -
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System David Kotz 9780415143172
RRP: $87.71Booksplease Price: $80.81Controversially this book argues that the ruling party-state elite in the USSR itself moved to dismantle the old system. Topics discussed include: * the beginnings of economic decline in 1975 *... -
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World by Mark N. Katz 9780521392655
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $74.57What did Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika mean for future Soviet support of Marxist revolution in the third world? In this book, four experts on Soviet relations with the third world take a... -
Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature by Lesley D. Clement
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75This volume visits death in children's literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children's Literature,... -
A Democracy Of Despots by Donald Murray
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09This book describes the creation of the legislature and its role in the momentous upheaval which brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. It examines the role of parliamentary institutions in... -
East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union: The Post-Socialist States by Michael Bradshaw
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $83.93A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach... -
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) David J. Galbreath (University of Aberdeen, UK) 9780415407649
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01During the Cold War, the two global superpowers were able to come together to resolve many issues of transparency and common challenges, leading to a change in European and global security. The OSCE... -
China Briefing, 1992 by William A Joseph 9780367153755
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $37.35This book explores the external and internal forces shaping the country, by tracing political, economic, military, social, and cultural trends in the People's Republic of China. It helps to further... -
The Soviet Union in World Politics: Coexistence, Revolution and Cold War, 1945-1991 by Geoffrey Roberts 9780415144353
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09The Soviet Union in World Politics provides an introductory history of Soviet foreign policy and international relations from 1945 to the end of the Cold War and the break up of the USSR. The book...