Книга посвящена современным внутри- и внешнеполитическим проблемам Афганистана, находящегося в состоянии войны более 20 лет. Показаны деформация экономики страны, почти полная остановка промышленности, переориентация сельскохозяйственного производства на наркосодержащие культуры, а торговли на контрабандные импортно-экспортные операции. Анализируется роль межэтнического фактора и исламского...

В монографии рассматриваются проблемы развития взаимосвязей между персами и арабами, генезис и современное состояние ирано-иракских отношений. Автор прослеживает процесс зарождения исламской цивилизации, характер арабских завоевательных походов, исторические судьбы мусульманских народов в Средние века, ход Новой и Новейшей истории Ирана и Ирака. Анализируются истоки противоречий, которые...

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

Compiled by a leading Russian specialist on the Caucasus, this dictionary was not previously published - the author was a victim of Stalin's regime and died in 1941. The dictionary includes a description of the Tabasaran language and examples of Tabasaran texts compiled by the author.

The author explores the geopolitical, economic, diplomatic and religious reasons behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

The book examines the social processes underway in Chechnya in the middle of the 1990s. The author examines the tactics used by Russian forces, the role of Islamic fundamentalism.

Before the advent of US military and political power in the Persian/Arabian Gulf region, this role was filled by England. In fact, many of these states were either under British protectorate status after WW I or were created by the British.

Roland Jacquard is President of the Paris-based International Observatory on Terrorism. A Strategic Expert and Consultant on Terrorism to the United Nations Security Council, Jacquard regularly testifies before the United Nations Security Council. He is quoted widely in the international press, particularly in France, Germany, and the UK.

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 author seeks to understand and describe the interplay between traditional and traditional Ingush culture. He examines the ethnic neighbors of the Ingush, the origins of Ingush culture and its development from the 18th to the 20th century.