The nation's surface transportation system has deteriorated to such a degree that our safety, economic competitiveness and quality of life are at r...

Formed 50 years ago, in 1961, the Peace Corps sends American volunteers to serve at the grassroots level in villages and towns across the globe to ...

Cold War history research of the recent years suggests that the East-West détente process of the 1970s was a more significant element than previous...

In social sciences the notion of civil society has gained much attention. The growing and diversifying of a civil sector is evident in Western stat...

This book provides information on the background and current status of the regimes intended to limit the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biologica...

Jakarta based Andreas Harsono is one of the most knowledgeable, experienced, high-profile and courageous of reporters and commentators on contempor...

In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular music production emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hu...

This book brings together research materials concerning current policy issues and backgrounds of countries the US government has branded rogue coun...

This timely book offers a multifaceted analysis of EU-Russian relations, drawing on the investigation of competing models of international society....

This volume explores the key issues facing Russia as she lurches from one major crisis to another.

Historically, the United States and Russia have had an enigmatic relationship, and the decade since the end of the Cold War has not completely clea...

Transition from one millennium to another is not just a calendar date, but rather a complex historical process of qualitative changes in the develo...

This is the first book-length bibliographic profile that addresses the literature about the Russian and Chinese place in the world, the past, prese...

Even before the Ukrainian crisis, neither Russia nor the EU were content with their relationship. Despite economic interdependence, strategic partn...

This work discusses the new conjunctions that have emerged between foreign policy events and politicized expressions of Russian nationalism since 2...

Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's chosen successor and long-time protege, was elected President of the Russian Federation on March 2, 2008 with about 70% of...

In a globalized world, the international economic crisis that started in 2008 has led to structural changes in the international system and in the ...

Israel has won its wars, or at the very least, stopped its destruction by the opposing Arab armies. However, in another war, the war of words (ie: ...

More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German ...

Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since 1991. In December 2006, the Ethiopian military intervened in Somalia to support Somalia's...

This book is an extensive study of the Sri Lankan peace process. It throws light on the political situation in Sri Lanka and the tension generated ...

Rolando Dromundo presents a political and historical analysis of the state-building processes in Ukraine, Moldova, and the unrecognized Republic of...

Increasing US–China tensions, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, disruptions to supply chains and maritime trade, right-wing extremism, gangs and the dr...

This book emphasizes the comparative study of theoretical as well as hypothetical issues of structural realism of international relations theory vi...