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...