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A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924.
"The topic of state-building has acquired a new actuality in recent years, following the collapse of the USSR and the 'Soviet bloc' and in view of the complex, often violent, territorial and ethnic conflicts which have ensued. Many of the current dilemmas and tragedies of the re…
During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991 most communist leaders from Soviet central Asia backed the plotters. Within weeks of the coup's collapse, those same leaders--now transformed into ardent nationalists - proclaimed the independence of their nations, adopted new flags …
The contours of violence: environment, economy, and polity in African warfare; 2. Arms in Africa's antiquity: patterns and systems of warfare, to the early second millennium CE; 3. The military foundations of state and society, to c.1600; 4. Destruction and construction, c.1600-…
Shivaji was a 17th-century hero in western India. His legend expresses deeply held convictions about what Hinduism is, and its relation to Islam. James Laine traces the Shivaji legend and examines its meaning with regard to Islamic/Hindu relations from the 17th century to the pr…
"Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, a…
Publisher description: A history of North Korea from 1945 to 1960. To understand how North Korea has survived as the world₂s last Stalinist regime despite international isolation--and at enormous human costs to its people--one must look at how its political system was created. T…
Publisher description: A history of North Korea from 1945 to 1960. To understand how North Korea has survived as the world₂s last Stalinist regime despite international isolation--and at enormous human costs to its people--one must look at how its political system was created. T…
<">How did the Ayatollah Khomeini create his Islamic state? What were the ideas which drove him and his movement? What organization and methods helped bring him to power? This book analyses the ideaological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Surpri…
"Creating an Islamic State is the first analysis of the ideological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Vanessa Martin finds that much of the inspiration behind Khomeini's political thinking was drawn, from western sources. His vision of the supreme…
Pan-Arab unionism ignited passions and dominated politics in the Middle East throughout the 1950s and 1960s and has continued to reassert itself periodically. In this elegantly written study, Malik Mufti investigates the persistence and the failure of pan-Arab initiatives, exami…