In Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world’s first socialist state went terribly wrong and why? it was
In Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world’s first socialist state went terribly wrong an
Baran (of the Hudson Institute) inquires into the direction of Turkish identity under the Islamic-oriented party, the AKP. She describes the rise of the AKP and its successful campaign to lead the Tur
Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration, offers his opinions about the shortcomings of border security and predictions for
Hughes (international communications, Brigham Young U.) calls for reviving the type of public diplomacy represented by the now defunct United States Information Agency in order to engage with mainstre
Drawing on more than fifteen years of work on Social Security policy, first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White House, Chuck Blahous argues that our national Social Security debate is more po
The authors provide both broad overviews and specific case studies as they examine The various forms of coercion and the channels through which coerced labor was distributed under Stalinism's hey
The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby—each with mor
In this first up-do-date, single volume history of the Czechs, Agnew provides an introduction to the major themes and contours of Czech history for the general reader?from prehistory and the first Sla
Drawing from government reports, think tank studies, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and books, this insightful overview offers a range of contrasting viewpoints and policy perspectives on
When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, many speculated about the value of Russia's historical experience with market-oriented reform. Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime tells how, in 1906, on the ev
A pariah during the Cold War, Radio Liberty was ultimately accepted as a legitimate participant on the Russian media scene by the authorities themselves. How did it happen that Radio Liberty—once the
Sowell (a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford U.) collects some 150 examples of his nationally syndicated column in which he offers his culturally conservative and economically l'aissez
In August 2005, Israel closed its Gaza settlements and withdrew some 8,000 Jews who had lived there. In Israel's Unilateralism award-winning journalist Robert Zelnick examines Israel's disengagement f
Concerned over the transatlantic rift highlighted by the European response to the US plan to attack Iraq, Bark (a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution) locates the origins of the rift in various es
The secret world of the Soviet Union revealedThe opening of the once-secret Soviet state and party archives in the early 1990s proved to be an event of exceptional significance. When Western scholars
Chaired by Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz, the "Communicating with the Islamic World" seminar was held in February of 2005 in order to review developments in the Islamic world (including
Collection of essays examines the legacy of the historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in light of today's nuclear arms control efforts.
Williams (economics, George Mason U.) collects some 160 of his weekly newspaper columns from the past few years. He addresses a variety of economic and political issues from a hard-right perspective (
Essays examine the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and move toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
