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Asian Diplomacy: The Foreign Ministries of China, India, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand
Author(s)Based on over 160 interviews, Asian Diplomacy evaluates the ministries of foreign affairs in five major Asian countries. For each country, Kishan S. Rana first sketches the historical and political background of its diplomatic service.
Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967
Cold War International History Project Series
Author(s) Using newly available archival sources, Two Suns in the Heavens examines the dramatic deterioration of relations between the USSR and China in the 1960s, whereby once powerful allies became estranged, competitive, and increasingly hostile neighbors.
One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs
Author(s)How do ethnicity and notions of a traditional homeland interact in shaping a community's values and images? As Alexander C. Diener shows in One Homeland or Two?, the answer, even in a diaspora, is far from a simple harking back to the "old country."
Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity
Author(s)Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities.
Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe: Gender, Microbusiness, and Globalization
Author(s)Mary Johnson Osirim investigates the business and personal experiences of women entrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to understand their successes, challenges, and contributions to development during the 1990s.
Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941
Author(s)Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s.
Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil
Author(s)Brazil has conducted some of the world's most stunning experiments in participatory democracy, most notably the creation of city budgets through local citizens' meetings. Leonardo Avritzer introduces a fresh analytical approach to reveal the social and institutional conditions that make civic participation most effective, expanding the empirical base for assessing these institutions.
Chinese Utopianism: A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought with Japan and Russia, 1898-1997
Author(s)Chinese Utopianism offers a new explanation of extreme radicalism in Chinese reform movements from the late nineteenth century through the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao era.
Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia
Migration, a force throughout the world, has special meanings in the former Soviet lands. Soviet successor countries, each with strong ethnic associations, have pushed some racial groups out and pulled others back home. Forcible relocations of the Stalin era were reversed, and areas previously closed for security reasons were opened to newcomers. These countries represent a fascinating mix of the motivations and achievements of migration in Russia and Central Asia. Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia examines patterns of migration and sheds new light on government interests, migrant motivations, historical precedents, and community identities.
Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace
Some of today's premier experts on Woodrow Wilson contribute to this new collection of essays about the former statesman, portraying him as a complex, even paradoxical president.