The story that emerges is one of endurance and heroism in face of atrocious brutality on the part of the colonialists. But it reveals that it was also one of painful compromises imposed by the conditions of the struggle and the subordination of internal democracy within the liberation movement to the single goal of military and diplomatic victory. The study will be of keen interest to everyone…
American Soldier is filled with revelation. Franks describes the covert diplomacy that helped him secure international cooperation for the war, and reveals the role of foreign leaders-and a critical double agent code- named "April Fool"-in the most successful military deception since D-Day in 1944. He speaks frankly of intelligence shortcomings that endangered our troops, and of the credible WM…
A unique and very welcome addition to the literature on ethnic and civil wars. The book combines comprehensive, global coverage with a problem-solving focus and sophis ticated scholarly insights. Timely regional surveys are matched with timeless essays on fundamental issues of conflict prevention and management"-Professor Jack Snyder. Director. Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Illusions of triumph challenges the conventional view that the gulf war was a crushing victory for international cooperations over a brutal dictator.
In this volume Mr. Fowler, selecting from the six-volume edition of Toynbee's A Study of History, brings together a large number of passages which bear on the problem of war, which was already afflict- ing mankind at the earliest stage to which civilization can be traced. Although Toynbee, in discussing its history and present significance, has no facile remedies to propose, he believes experie…
This study is supplementary to an earlier study of the juridical status of the City of Jerusalem which was published in November 1979. Although it is not feasible to make a clear separation of the legal issues concerning Jerusalem, on the one hand, and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on the other, as they are essentially inter-related, the City and the territories with which this study is conc…
In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead …
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disinte…
Assassinations, abductions, racketeering, black markets, corruption, religious persecution, mass executions, and war have been the daily lot of the Iranian people since they overthrew the Shah. But according to this former Iranian leader - forced to flee because he opposed the despotism of the mullahs the revolution's original goal really was a democratic system in which "Islam would only play …
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.