A great deal has happened in the USSR, much of it a direct result of Mikhail Gorbachev's selection as general secretary in March 1985. New political terms have been introduced, and Sovietologists have been hard at work trying to give meaning to what has been taking place within Soviet society.
The Rockefeller dynasty has been a scape-goat for America's ills throughout the twentieth century. It has also been revered as the source of the widest-ranging system of philanthropy the world has ever known. Above all, it has symbolized the almighty power of the ethic of hard work.
Here is a country that is about one-fourth the area of Europe, one-third the size of the United States of America, yet what is known about it is out of all proportion to what is unknown. We are beginning to know more, comparatively speaking, about the Arctic and Antarctic regions than we do about most of Arabia.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is a new field of study in international relations. Found in 1985, the organization itself is just a decade old, quite a short period of time in the context of the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. An association of seven countries of the region, viz, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it cuts acr…
This volume comprises three essays on the city of Malacca and its society, during the first decades of Portuguese rule, when the social structures inherited from the Sultanate days were yet to undergo major changes.
Saudi Arabia: A case study in development is a completely revised and updated edition that includes new sections namely, Focus on Achieving the Three Five Year Plan, Strategy Five Fourth Ventilation Plan - National Industry - Efforts and Evaluation, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Policies and Projects, Higher education, Oil Pricing, New Ministry Organizational Chart.
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
The Last Mughal is much more than the biography of one man. It is the story of a city, Delhi, teeming with conmen and holy men, hawkers and prostitutes. It is also a lament for the lost world of the Mughals, a genuinely multicultural synthesis of Indian and Islamic traditions, from music to miniature painting. Above all, it is a terrific retelling of the event that ended Zafar's reign the India…
This is a study of the transformation of the political system of the people of cyprus from a 'colonial administration' first into an 'International State' based on the principles of 'functional federalism and immutable equilibrium between the right and interest of the Greek and Turkish comminities, and protection to be provided by Great Britain, Greece, and Turkey either collectively or indivi…
These letters begin with Nehru's postcards and messages to his baby daughter and with her first effort at the age of six. They are plentiful, because Nehru was often away from home, not only on political business but also in prison. During this time Indira was growing up, experiencing different kinds of schools, in India and then in Europe, and finally the university life in Oxford. She told he…