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.

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...

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.

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

Over the past 15 years, the Americans have overthrown nine freely elected governments, including those of Afghanistan, Haiti, Serbia, and Iraq, sacrificing thousands of lives in these countries in the process. Is it possible to drag the Iraqis from the twelfth century into the twenty-first, or are these just political illusions? Is ‘mature American democracy’ needed in post-Saddam Iraq? Will...

The author, a leading author and member of the Institute of the Far East (RAN). In his book, he explores how Russia can influence world affairs and defend its national interests while operating with the principles and rules of the international community. His previous book examined security regimes in the Asia Pacific region in the post-Cold War era.

The author take a new look at the dynamics of the historical development of Russia. In particular, the book examines the cycle of crises in Russia at the beginning and end of the 20th Century.

The book explores the religious and legal concepts, pathways, steps, forms and methods of implementing the ideology of religious and political extremism in the North Caucasus.

The authors present an attempt to understand the current process of nation-building in the South Caucasus. The authors maintain that the countries are re-writing their history vis-a-vis Russia, in order to serve their own political needs. The authors concentrate their analysis on Azerbaijan.

The first volume in the collected works of Mikhail Gorbachev, architect of perestroika.