This book offers a comparative political analysis of North and South Korea from the end of Japanese colonial rule in 1945 up to 1972, focusing on how two antagonistic regimes—backed by the Soviet Union and the United States sought to consolidate power and direct national development. Kim argues that political leadership, institutional design, and externally driven pressures shaped divergent t…
It describes the last phase of nomadism as a viable system of social organization; the effects on Central Asian economies of the shift of the main lines of international trade from the Great Silk Route to the oceanic routes; the various schools of art; the last great age of classical Persian literature and the growth of Turkic literatures; and, finally, in the religious sphere, the Shi'ite triu…
Collected speeches by Indian political leaders and few international leaders on bilateral relations and national security issues of India post 1984