Though it defies consensus, between 1900 & 2006 campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as violent struggles.

This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces--domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet ...

Cohen charts the course of cultural, intellectual, economic, and political developments in East Asia--particularly China and Japan--from the beginning of recorded time to the present day and examines such events as the rise and fall of key ...

"Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."--Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

'An original and incisive study on the nature of hegemony, this book traces the history of the relations between the United States and Cuba from 1898 to 1961, emphasizing the tension between U.S. efforts to 'Americanize' and modernize the ...

In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of America's most disastrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes the stale orthodoxies of the left and the right and puts the Vietnam War in its proper context -- as part of the global ...

Hoffman describes the changing face of terrorism, probing new adversaries, new motivations and new methods that recently surfaced with an in-depth look "Inside Terrorism" of today.

This book shows how theory and history can be combined to improve the former and illuminate the latter. It is a superb example of qualitative social science analysis.

In the final journey of the book, he visits Northern Ireland, where twenty-five years of strife have exposed the fault lines and fissures of a British national identity at the breaking point.

In one of the most remote covert campaigns of the cold war, the CIA harnessed, nurtured, and encouraged the Khampa tribesmen of Tibet in their defiance against Chinese subjugation. This is the first time the story has been told.