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Lathrop analyzes the use of political consultants and campaign tactics and shows their impact on the development of public policy.

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This book analyses the role of ideology and identity in the North Caucasus insurgency, exploring how rebel leaders balanced local, national, and global factors in their efforts to justify and promote armed struggle against the Russian state.

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During the period 1924-1949, amid civil war with the KMT, war with the Japanese, internal leadership disputes, and other chaotic conditions, rapid shifts occurred in the political culture of China. Patricia Griffin contends that an understanding of how the Chinese Communists created a legal system at this time is essential to a grasp of more recent

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The Citizen Action Encyclopedia provides basic information on the activities and significance of the people, organizations, and events that comprise the history of American citizen activism in the 20th century.

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Examining US policy in Angola during the 1980s, this text shows how the Reagan administration and US media inflated the importance of Jonas Savimbi and helped inflame the civil war in Angola. The author explains how the Bush administration and the media have continued to support Savimbi.

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A study of the Nicaraguan Resistance Movement, the Contras, by one of its former political officers. It follows the internal dynamics of that group from the exposure of Oliver North to the signing of the ceasefire at Sapoa, with special attention to the influence of the US political process.

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A study of the Nicaraguan Resistance Movement, the Contras, by one of its former political officers. It follows the internal dynamics of that group from the exposure of Oliver North to the signing of the ceasefire at Sapoa, with special attention to the influence of the US political process.

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This author has spent over a decade working closely with military and political figures throughout Latin America. In this text, he identifies the motives of coup plotters and the way they build a coalition necessary to overthrow a government, as well as analysing how coups succeed and fail.

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This comparative study of terrorism and counter-measures and their effect upon democratic practices and traditions is published under the auspices of the University of New Brunswick Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada.

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The debate on the English Revolution is a guide to the literature in its field and appears here in a revised third edition. New chapters are included on twentieth-century historians' treatments of social complexities, politics, politician culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution's unstoppable reverberations.

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A personal memoir by a relief worker and conflict specialist who has worked on the ground in a host of war-torn countries. It argues that civil wars are often dismissed by westerners as tribal, ethnic, or regional disputes, when in reality such violence is fundamentally part of the human condition.

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This book examines president Clinton, a pre-9/11 pioneer, in managing and exploiting terrorisms domestic political risks and opportunities. Clintons lessons provide invaluable guidance for leaders seeking to navigate todays ever-more lethal, diverse, and ambiguous terrorism landscape.

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This comprehensive account examines the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)-the most significant Muslim militant group in China-including its origins, objectives, ideology, leadership, and tactics.

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This is the first book to provide a clear overview and innovative analysis of the multiple ways the European Union affects industrial relations. -- .

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This book presents a discourse analysis of the European Union's counter-terrorism policy and explores the societal effects of the 'fight against terrorism' -- .

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This book presents a discourse analysis of the European Union's counter-terrorism policy and explores the societal effects of the 'fight against terrorism' -- .

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Defining what terrorism is, this title shows why a precise definition has eluded, and proposes one that takes into account the complexities of this unconventional and politically charged brand of violence. It also explores the root causes and conditions of terrorism, and examines the ideologies that inspire and fuel it throughout the world.

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The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness. They saw, perhaps correctly, that the Western experience, with the French Revolution as its symbol, was foreign to Russian destiny.

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The essays in this collection, drawn from a Hofstra University bicentennial conference on the French Revolution, seek to come to terms, often from conflicting points of view, with the complex relationship between events and their representations.

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This thought-provoking work analyzes the major debates surrounding counterinsurgency campaigns and uncovers the internal security problems derailing effective strategies for restoring stability.