The book covers the Near and Middle East, South and Central Asia.

The author examines the history of Russian/Soviet trade and economic cooperation with Turkey. The book covers both the Tsarist period of the last 19th century, trade with the new Turkish Republic and the USSR and from 1991-2001.

The author examines the causes behind the economic crises of Russia in the 1990s - which he terms the great post-Soviet depression.

Will Hutton calls for Britain and Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way. Under President Bush America has been forthright in its isolationism - until the attack on the World Trade Center - but whatever happens next, it is undoubtedly true that Bush will pursue a policy of America first. Hutton argues for a countervailing balance - economically and socially - to the American model....

Dinamika i mekhanizmy etnopoliticheskikh protsessov v postsovetskoi Rossii

This volume is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Russian Federation.

The author was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 1976-1982. His book is about the collapse of the USSR and highlights leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.

Original title: Of Paradise and power. America and Europe in the New World Order. It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world—Of Paradise and Power announces a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Europe. Robert Kagan begins this illuminating essay by laying out the general...

The author offers his analysis of the Chechen crisis and false stereotypes of Russian democracy.