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“mark beissinger”

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  • The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

    by Lubomyr Hajda, Mark Beissinger ...
    The editors express their gratitude to the John M. Olin Foundation for its financial assistance and to the Harvard University Russian Research Center for the facilities and staff support that made this project possible. We wish to thank those who contributed their invaluable scholarly advice, including Vernon Aspaturian, Abram Bergson, Steven Blank, Walker Connor, Robert Conquest, Murray Feshbach, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mark Beissinger, Stephen Kotkin ...
    This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism's demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities. Eleven essays by a distinguished group ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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  • The Jewish State

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  • Looking at Iran

    by James Zogby ...
    When American policy makers discuss Iran, the focus is on Israel, as if that were the only issue to consider. In reality, the Islamic Republic of Iran is not only a concern for Americans and Israelis. It is also a growing concern for people across the Arab and Muslim Worlds.In "Looking at Iran: the Rise and Fall of Iran in Public Opinion", James Zogby examines how in just six years Iran has ... Read more

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  • Getting Georgia Right

    by Svante Cornell ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Georgia is unquestionably the most open polity of the South Caucasus, and its political development will be a bell-wether for the prospects of democratic development across Eurasia. This research paper analyses the achievements and shortcomings of the Rose Revolution era as well as the prospects for the country under the leadership of the Georgian Dream Coalition. Furthermore, it discusses the ... Read more

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  • Economic Jihad

    Putting the Kibosh on Antiquated Social Axioms Defining Us

    by Jo M. Sekimonyo ...
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  • Occupying Syria under the French Mandate

    Insurgency, Space and State Formation

    by Daniel Neep ...
    Series Book 38 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    What role does military force play during a colonial occupation? The answer seems obvious: coercion crushes local resistance, quashes political dissent and consolidates the dominance of the occupying power. However, as this discerning and theoretically rigorous study suggests, violence can have much more ambiguous consequences. Set in Syria during the French Mandate from 1920 to 1946, the book ... Read more

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  • Power and Control of the Chinese Communist Party

    An introduction to China's cadre management

    by Julia Marinaccio ...
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  • Shaper Nations

    Strategies for a Changing World

    Edited by William I. Hitchcock, Jeffrey W. Legro, Melvyn P. Leffler ...
    Shaper Nations provides illuminating perspectives on the national strategies of eight emerging and established countries that are shaping global politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The volume’s authors offer a unique viewpoint: they live and work primarily in the country about which they write, bringing an insider’s feel for national debates and politics.The conventional wisdom ... Read more

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