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Citing her own accurate predictions of the collapse of the Communist empire, the post-Yugoslavia wars and 9/11, the author warns that we must anticipate the changes in the world before they are upon us, and that we must employ predictions to strengthen nations and principles.

Tells the story of specialized journalists who, because of their expertise, their experience, or their willingness, regularly write about environmental issues. This book provides a view of American journalism in the first decade of the new century, when newspapers and television were the major source of news in America.

Offers a framework for cross-disciplinary research in race and intellectual consensus and conflict. Thsi title considers questions such as: How does the literature on antiracism improve our understanding of conflict resolution? How and why should the literature on anti-racism expand research in international relations?

Offering a tribute to Joseph A Schumpeter, a great figure in the history and development of economics, this work brings together his brilliantly crafted lectures delivered more than a century ago. It shows the limitations and weaknesses of nineteenth-century economics and how the field could be and was improved.

In the US and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic depression, fascism, the Spanish Civil War, the consolidation of Stalinism, and the Second World War. This title examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history.

Articulates positions shared by military figures and political heroes. This work covers America at war and Bolshevism in Russia, ranging in place from the Middle East to Latin America and stops along the way to Byzantium. It examines military reform, great powers grown small, and drugs, crime and corruption as part of common culture of the West.

Presents a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, this book first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. It also examines the role of nature, nurture, and free choice.

Written by a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation, this work examines the political economy of these vital institutions.

For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the "bad old days". This work shows that the commonly accepted picture of the 1950s is flawed. It shows that the conventional view of the 1950s stands in opposition to the reality of the decade.

For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. Determined to stop population growth, the "population controllers" as the author calls them have abused women, targeted racial and religious minorities, and encouraged dictatorial actions if not dictatorship.

The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. This work brings together leading scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias. It also shows that the debate on the legacy of communism and a rethinking of modern history is just beginning.

Aims to contribute to the understanding of the historic role of capitalism. After reviewing the gestation of the system, this book explains the emergence of capitalism in the eighteenth century, taking it into the nineteenth and its link to the industrial revolution.

Aimed at literary scholars, intellectual historians, cultural studies specialists, and sociologists, this book attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a defense of humanist criticism. It shows that in moving beyond their area of competence, the neo-Darwinists commit an ideology, not a science.

Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific consequences of Cambodian communist revolution and Indonesian anti-communist counterinsurgency. It also chronicles the two cases of indigenous resistance to genocide and extermination.

A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field.

This work treats the region of Inner Asia as a single unit, providing both an account of the region's past and an analysis of its present and its prospects in a thematic, rather than a strictly country-by-country manner.

These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism.

An anthology of 16 readings dealing with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of World War II and its consequences for the contemporary world. The readings consist of complete articles or integral chapters so that each author's argument can be read in its original form.