A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "Golden Age" of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema.• Giv
This compelling book serves as a comprehensive resource for readers interested in contemporary security issues in Africa. It details the impact of complex challenges in Africa and explains why address
What happens when corporate culture takes over counterculture? This book explores the contradictions present within the cannabis industry from a business and policy perspective.• Treats the new and gr
A comprehensive summary of sport-related concussion for parents, coaches, and athletes that considers the physics and biology behind the injury, identifies what can be done to reduce the risk of its o
An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the rise
Providing the first full investigation of second U.S. president John Adams' attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic study illuminates the inner and outer worlds
Fiction has tremendous power to portray historical truth—and to communicate history to audiences who may not otherwise attend to the subject. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to s
Fiction has tremendous power to portray historical truth—and to communicate history to audiences who otherwise may not have paid attention to the subject. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of D
This is the ultimate source for anyone who wants a comprehensive view of how the sharing economy began and how it may fundamentally change capitalism across the globe.• Takes a global and multidiscipl
What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding of
An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves—and acting primarily as—"law enforcemen
A useful research resource and handy reference, this book discusses the many important ethical and legal issues that arise in the delivery of health care to prisoners at correctional facilities. It re
Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains at an unprecedented high level. This book provides the first comprehensive survey of these reforms and explains
This book advances the debate about paying "student" athletes in big-time college sports by directly addressing the red-hot role of race in college sports. It concludes by suggesting a remed
Arms control was a critical issue in the second half of the 20th century and continues to be significant today. Chevrier (public policy, Rutgers U.) traces the history of the major arms control treati
Establishing the link between Saudi political ideology and the proliferation of Wahhabi missions around the world, this fascinating tour de force includes a rigorous intellectual history of Muslim ra
Offering a sobering historical lesson, this book details the history of a nation that has been a sought after pawn in great power politics for nearly two hundred years, and remains so today as a nati
The opium/heroin trade has been and continues to be a destabilizing factor in Afghanistan and a grave regional and international security concern. Does a symbiotic relationship exist between drug cri
This book describes how the United States can integrate religious considerations into its foreign policy, moving towards a new leadership paradigm that effectively counters the challenge of Islamist
An essential guide offers a comprehensive collection of edited and annotated arms-control documents, dating from the late-19th century to the present day.
This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attack
Public, press, and academic interest in the military justice system has increased over the past generation. This is a result of several high-profile trials (the Sergeant Major of the Army and Kelly Fl
In this book, Albert Weeks, a longtime scholar of military affairs and the Cold War, weaves together the tradition of just war and current events in an effort to show how the time-honored concepts of
The subjects covered in this collection will appeal to a range of scholars, specialists, and general readers. The contributions of the Japanese scholars will not go unnoticed either for they draw on m
A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Ataturk presents an Ottoman and Turkish perspective on the rise of the Ottoman military as an effective institution. The book, which revises and corr
This book examines how U.S. domestic institutions stand up to global threats and whether intelligence sharing across military and civilian law enforcement barriers is legal.
A provocative new look at an important security topic examines terrorist threats and attacks on shipping and ports--and provides strategies for safety.
This book provides an in-depth examination of the serious security implications that Iran's nuclear program has on a region that is already plagued by insecurity and conflict.
Working from a unique viewpoint, this volume demonstrates how the European Union's fear of its neighbors reflects Europe's identity crisis--and challenges its survival.
Civil-military relations in the era of the War of 1812 must be seen as a broad theme, not just the particular relationships between officers, military organizations, and civil government and civilians
Two international policy analysts scrutinize the increasingly important operative and support roles women play in various terrorist organizations around the world.
Terrorists and insurgents compete against national governments for the power to shape perceptions and gain influence among key audiences, in order to achieve their strategic objectives.
The U.S. lease of Guantanamo Bay from Cuba is a territorial Frankenstein's monster that is running amok outside the respective legal systems of its parties and outside the bounds of international law
With the end of the Cold War, the euphoria of the Gulf War of the 1990s and the avowal of a "New World Order," peace-operations were declared as the recipe for a better world through international in
This work adequately maps out 17 provisions to a new nuclear treaty that, when effectively put into place, would hope to ban nuclear and chem-bio weapons worldwide.
This book examines a topic of crucial national security and economic interest: surplus money that wealthy nations (especially Persian Gulf states and China) have to invest in (or pull out of!) the Un
