2011 Al Qaeda and Affiliates: Historical Perspective, Global Presence, and Implications for U.S. Policy — Congressional Research Service Report [EPUB ebook] 

Following the end of the Second World War, the creation of regional organizations in Europe provided niche functions to help ensure regional stability through security and transition. Yet, as the Col …

This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratised political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country»s desire to ‘rejoin Europe’. Its excellent panel of hig …

This book analyses Ukraine’s relations with each of its neighbours in its first decade of independence. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine’s broad objective of reorie …

In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. But the Kuchma presidency was clouded by dark rumors of corruption and even political murder, and, by 2004, th …

‘Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future’ is a collection of short, lively essays written by prominent leaders and supporters of Peace Action and its two important predecessors the National Committee …

In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that first brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national id …

This book examines the perception of European Union’s identity by the main actors in international relations. Analysing issues related to public discourse in third countries as demonstrated by, among …

Originally published in 1998, in this book, a number of stereotypes, symbols and signs of Russia, such as the double-headed eagle, the star, bread-and-salt, troika, the Orthodox cross, etc., are pres …

This book takes a strategic approach and provides a comprehensive review of books and papers about human resource management (HRM) and labor relations management in China, especially since China’s ac …

This work surveys processes of party development in the context of the ten years of democratic change in post-communist eastern Europe. It examines the capacity of the former ruling parties to attrac …