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...

2007 is the year of two jubilees: February and October, the two Russian revolutions, one of which has been canonized and the other anathemized by intellectuals. Together they have been called a failure of a great opportunity to attain freedom. Thinking in terms of lost opportunities is a weak point of Russian intellectuals. It has also been said that on the day Alexander II was to sign a new...

The authors of this book examine the historic period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which saw the Communist regimes of Central and SE Europe being overthrown.

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.