"Bart Jones knows Venezuela intimately and was an eyewitness to President Hugo Ch?vez?s rise to power. In Hugo! he tells the story of Ch?vez?s impoverished childhood, his military career and the decade of clandestine political activity that ended in a failed attempt to seize pow…
The Horn of Africa - principally Somalia, Sudan and Ethiopia - is the stage on which Africa's tragedy is being played out in its most stark and violent form. In this comprehensive history of the region, Peter Woodward argues that while the principal conflicts have arisen from do…
Nowhere is the crumbling of state structures more self-evident than in Somalia, the Sudan and Ethiopia. Drawing on a wide range of little-known material, this book presents an overview of structural disintegration in the Horn of Africa from the dual perspectives of domestic and …
"This book is an interdisciplinary examination of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The volume is the first systematic, interdisciplinary discussion of the Colombian peace process, which ended one of the l…