The authors examine the rise of Islam and history of the Middle East, examing the socio-political factors that helped enable the spread of its influence.

Russia's Decline and Uncertain Recovery. Thomas E. Graham is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1994-1997, he served as Head of the Political/Internal Unit and then Acting Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In this book he examines the reasons for the collapse of the USSR and the erosion of government power in Russia in the 1990s. He...

How do Russians feel about private property? Private business? The book, based in empirical research conducted 2004-2005, seeks to provide insight and answers.

Detailed reports from the Nurnberg war crimes trials after World War Two.

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

Before the advent of US military and political power in the Persian/Arabian Gulf region, this role was filled by England. In fact, many of these states were either under British protectorate status after WW I or were created by the British.

Dictionary covers all the aspects of American history, culture, politics, administrative and religious life from the times of the first Pilgrims and through 1994. Russian edition, originally published by Blackwell Publishers.