The author examines the recent US led war in Iraq and how this fits the pattern of US led military interventions in Afghanistan, Haiti, Serbia and more.

The book, a collection of articles written by Russian and Western authors, examines the challenges facing Russia today.

A new series of titles specializing on Iranian affairs. A Russian translation of a title originally published in Tehran. Includes chapters on government bodies and structure, civil rights, political freedoms and Iranian foreign policy.

The authors examine the problems of socio-economic development of the Caucasus (esp. Central) in the context of globalization. They develop points for making comparative analyses for the countries in region, their connections between each other and other international and political entities.

Myths about the Middle East began to emerge not in the 1950s, and they have not stopped spreading until now. It seems that the turbulent events in this region are constantly accompanied by new and new distortions of facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, offers the reader a guide to understanding the intricacies of the conflict.

This book constitutes the first dictionary in the fields of East Slavic folklore studies and ethnolinguistics to catalog proper names appearing in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian riddles. The material, collected and systematized by the author, significantly expands our understanding of the East Slavic worldview, as well as the typology of riddles and related genres. The first part of the...