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Centers of Excellence helps higher education institutions understand the value of Centers of Excellence and the methods required to initiate one. This book also informs students how these centers can provide assistance to their future employment as well as explains how higher ...

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Central America provocatively challenges the myths of Central American democracy, development, and change--concepts traditionally maligned and oversimplified, but here presented analytically through a unique series of first-hand accounts.

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"A first-of-its-kind study on Central American literature that illuminates classics and highlights new pathways by exploring texts and writers that go beyond or against the confines of the nation-state"--

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This essential text explores the other half of Europe, the newer and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage

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John Dornberg explores the drama of the disintegration of Communist Eastern Europe and the painful emergence of new regimes.

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It is increasingly important to understand the complexity of central and southeastern Europe following the enlargement of NATO into Central Europe, the ongoing problems of the Balkans, and the subsequent focus of global attention on the entire region.

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This theoretical study focuses on the normative powers of the EU, China, and India in the context of their security governance strategies in Central Asia.

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This theoretical study focuses on the normative powers of the EU, China, and India in the context of their security governance strategies in Central Asia.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian system has resulted in instability and conflict among its many ethnic groups.

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This collection provides a broad analysis of social, political, economic, and security issues in contemporary Central Asia. In particular, the contributors highlight the differences and similarities among the regions states in how they have consolidated statehood since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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When the Soviet Union officially ended in December 1991 and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States, the five Central Asian republicsKazakstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistanalso became independent.

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An informative guide to the recently emerged states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, providing coverage of a broad range of political, economic, and cultural issues.

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This book invites readers on a journey through time, to explore the multifaceted history of Central Asia. Through transcontinental passages such as the Silk Road, the book provides links among the major civilizations of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, which in turn influences the characteristics of the region and beyond.

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With fifty percent new material, the second edition of Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture explores the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments that influenced the Golden Age of inner Eurasia during the medieval era.

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This book documents the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments influencing the Golden Ages of Inner Eurasia in the medieval era.

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The global financial crisis is largely behind us, but the challenges it poses to the future stability of the world's economic system affects everyone from American families to Main Street businesses to Wall Street financial powerhouses. This book deals with this topic.

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This book examines the most visible central banks, the move to monetary union in Europe, the IMF's new role, the rise of managed market economies, and the elevated importance of central banks.