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.

Revolt in the Desert is Lawrence of Arabia's classic military memoir, an account of the experiences of one remarkable British officer's war from his own perspective, a war of lightning raids, of blown up railway tracks and trains, ambushes and open battles of Arabs against the Ottoman Turks. Here are the Imperial Camel Corps, armoured car squadrons, daring RAF pilots and their aircraft, Ghurkha...

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

A review and analysis of Russia's relations with the new countries of Central Asia.

Das bekannteste und folgenreichste Gefecht in der Geschichte der Bundeswehr fand am Karfreitag, dem 2. April 2010, bei Kunduz statt. Deutsche Soldaten gerieten in einen Hinterhalt und kämpften mehr als acht Stunden gegen eine Überzahl von Taliban. Drei Soldaten fielen, fünf wurden verwundet, sechs afghanische Soldaten kamen durch »friendly fire« der Deutschen ums Leben. Zwei Tage später...