Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War, Paperback - Steven Levitsky

Reducere. Competitive authoritarian regimes in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse proliferated ...

Russia, once seen as America's greatest adversary, is now viewed by the United States as a potential partner. This book traces the evolution of Ame...

Reducere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican go...

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders playe...

The Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the Second World war, and analyses its eight major phases from th...

Reducere. Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritar...

Reducere. A team of leading scholars examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 to the Soviet collapse in 1991. The authors ...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

Reducere. The Clever Teens' Guide to the Cold War: The perfect guide for background reading or revision. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the...

Charting the rise and fall of almost fifty years of global confrontation, this book highlights the impact of the Cold War on the culture of the tim...

Vickers present previously unpublished essays that offer new perspectives on the underlying nature of pan-Albanianism, its aspirations and the post...

Presents analysis of ten documentary films about nuclear issues made since the end of the Cold War. Argues that public fascination with radioactive...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

DescriptionThis is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country th...

A fresh, new study on the overlooked history of the backbone of the Cold War US Navy, the go-anywhere, do-anything frigate. Though they were never ...

Morgan and his contributors develop the concept of the Information Regime as a way to understand the use, abuse, and control of information in East...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Reducere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in American global hegemony in world affairs. In the post-Cold War period, both Democrat and Republican go...

Reducere. Revisiting an influential Cold War-era art competitionIn 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of "The Unknow...

Clear Revise illustrated revision and practice for Edexcel GCSE History. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of GCSE History revision...

A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Peter E. DaviesNumber of pages: 96Collection: Combat AircraftPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

Reducere. From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactic...

How does a democracy die?What can we do to save our own?What lessons does history teach us?In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A treatment of cinema's long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It p...

Reducere. From Table of Contents: Overview of Romanian Emigration to America during Communism and Postcommunism. Changing Perspectives and Contemporary Re-Ad...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...