Most Americans consider themselves middle class. This raises the question, what does it mean to be middle class? Income levels alone do not define ...

Over the last two years, many U.S. policymakers, Members of Congress, and their European counterparts have struggled with how best to respond to th...

In 1998 the Middle East Conflict celebrated its 50th anniversary and now, eight years later, no final general settlement is in sight. Despite peace...

Middle East Imbroglio Status & Prospects

This book includes the entire spectrum of contemporary politics and economics of the Middle East. The coverage is intended to deal with the Middle ...

Middle East in Turmoil, Volume 1

The Middle East remains a veritable powder key after decades of peace processes, wars, accords, discords, agreements, disagreements, suicide bombin...

Chapter One reviews the interplay between the phenomenon of migration and corresponding response from health care establishments, and analyses the ...

Global migration possesses a very diverse and dynamic nature. To gain a critical understanding of global migration, scholarly research and ideas ne...

Over the last three decades, migration management in the newly independent states which emerged from the ruins of the USSR in 1991 has become a too...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) continues to pursue a long-term, comprehensive military modernisation program designed to improve its armed fo...

In the present volume an attempt is made to trace the growth of the general principles of medieval fortification, with special reference to castles...

Approximately 13 years ago, in December 1988, the first military base closure commission recommended the closing and realignment of 145 US domestic...

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 included a provision "to assess the panoply of benefits and programs available governme...

Chapter 1 assesses (1) the status of the Army's near- and long-term modernisation efforts; and (2) the extent to which the Army has applied. Chapte...

Though few question the importance of America's war on terror, President George W Bush's decision to try suspected terrorists before a military tri...

This book presents information on minority commercial radio and television ownership in the United States. It reviews the history of such ownership...

The establishment of international human rights has resulted in a radical change in the relation between minority groups and states. Modern democra...

The United States has been developing and deploying ballistic missile defenses (BMD) to defend against enemy missiles continuously since the late 1...

The recollections of the head of Truman's Point 4 Program in Iran (1952-1955) which became a focal point of the Mosaddegh government. Many importan...

This is a fascinating and absorbing account of the Chechen war, told less from perspective of the media and their political analysis than from the ...

These seventy-eight essays characterise the richness and diversity of conservative scholarship. MODERN AGE was founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk, wit...

These seventy-eight essays characterise the richness and diversity of conservative scholarship. MODERN AGE was founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk, wit...

The second edition of David Wootton's Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche offers a new unit on modern constitutionalis...

This book has examined some of the pressing issues and challenges related to modernity, modernisation, and globalisation of the 21st century. The a...

On January 4th, 2011, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 became law. The acronym refers to the Government Performance and Results Act. When GPRA 19...

This book is a new approach to understanding monetary unions. This collaboration of scientists from different countries – with leading professor an...

Money laundering is a global problem. It involves hundreds of billions of dollars, and it is proof that crime pays. According to the United Nations...

"The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns in the Game" and "Empire of the City", which present the thesis that the wars a...

This book provides an overview and discussion of the sparsely populated young democracy of mongolia, which is located in a remote part of Asia, san...

Hallowell makes a significant argument in favour of the importance of moral values in the orderly functioning of modern democracies. Hallowell begi...

This volume presents a representative sampling of James M Buchanan's philosophical views as he deals with fundamental problems of moral science and...

This volume presents a representative sampling of James M Buchanan's philosophical views as he deals with fundamental problems of moral science and...

What does Moroccan culture mean to a group of Moroccan academics at this decisive conjuncture and turning point of the 21st Century characterised b...

Located in the North Western fringes of Africa, Morocco stretches from North to South on approximately 3000 kilometres of Atlantic coasts. It is a ...

Successive U.S. Administrations have viewed Morocco as an important regional ally, a partner in counterterrorism, and a free trade counterpart. Mor...

At a crucial crossroads between Africa and Europe, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and the "Arab World" and the West, Morocco has long had a sp...

Multifunctional agriculture first received wide attention in 1998, when Japan, South Korea, and the European Union used the term to describe the mu...

This new and timely book addresses a series of questions regarding one of the most important political developments in contemporary China: the stat...

On the evening of 26 November 2008, a number of well-trained militants came ashore from the Arabian Sea on small boats and attacked numerous high-p...

Musharraf Regime & the Governance Crisis - A Case Study of the Government of Pakistan

This book examines the policies aimed at promoting integration, combating terrorism, and countering violent extremism in five European countries wi...

My Brother Theodore Roosevelt is not a biography, it is not a political history of the times, although the author was most careful in her effort to...

"Ester Boserup's writings have had major impact over the last quarter century on the evolution of thought in anthropology, demography, economics, a...

"On Thursday 7 July 2005, four bombs were detonated in London killing 52 people (including the bombers) and injuring a further 700. It was the firs...

"My Thoughts" provides a unique window into the mind of one of the undisputed pioneers of modern thought, the author of "The Spirit of the Laws". F...