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After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War
Author(s)After Leaning to One Side traces the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance between 1949 and 1973, emphasizing tension over the Korean and Vietnam wars.
So Much Aid, So Little Development: Stories from Pakistan
Author(s)Pakistan has received more than $20 billion in external development assistance but has made little evident improvement in its social indicators. So Much Aid, So Little Development offers a fresh explanation for this outcome.
Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
Author(s)In Policing Democracy , Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration.
The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China
Author(s)The Oil Prince's Legacy traces Rockefeller philanthropy in China from the nineteenth century to today. Family diaries, letters, interviews in China, and institutional archival records are used to tell a compelling story about successive Rockefeller generations and U.S.–China cultural relations.
The Eagle and the Elephant: Strategic Aspects of US-India Economic Engagement
Author(s)The Eagle and the Elephant shows how economic engagement directly affects how the United States cooperates with India on strategic issues.
The Cold War in East Asia: 1945–1991
The Cold War in East Asia studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Korea—interacted with one another and forged the conditions that were distinct from the Cold War in Europe.
Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law
Gender and Islam in Africa examines ways in which women in Africa are interpreting traditional Islamic concepts in order to empower themselves and their societies.
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond
Author(s)Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty examines the first twenty years of the organization, policies, and impact of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, arguably one of the most important and successful policy instruments of the United States during the Cold War.
Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide
As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast—changing urban contexts.
Washington's U Street: A Biography
Author(s)http://www.wilsoncenter.org/dialogue-program/washingtons-u-street-biography
The audio version can be found here.
This book traces the history of the U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.C., from its Civil War–era origins to its recent gentrification.