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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond
Author(s)Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty examines the first twenty years of the organization, policies, and impact of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, arguably one of the most important and successful policy instruments of the United States during the Cold War.
Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide
As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast—changing urban contexts.
Washington's U Street: A Biography
Author(s)http://www.wilsoncenter.org/dialogue-program/washingtons-u-street-biography
The audio version can be found here.
This book traces the history of the U Street neighborhood in Washington, D.C., from its Civil War–era origins to its recent gentrification.
A Distant Front in the Cold War: The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956–1964
Author(s)A Distant Front in the Cold War reveals West Africa as a significant site of Cold War conflict in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although the region avoided the extreme tensions of the standoff in Eastern Europe or in the Cuban missile crisis, it nevertheless offers a vivid example of political, economic,and propagandistic rivalry between the US and the USSR.
Realism, Tolerance, and Liberalism in the Czech National Awakening: Legacies of the Bohemian Reformation
Author(s)In this meticulous intellectual history, Zdenek V. David traces the roots of the eighteenth-century Czech National Awakening, not to the Counter Reformation but to the Utraquist church (often called "Hussite"), which arose in pre-Protestant Bohemia.
Europe's Destiny: The Old Lady and the Bull
Author(s)In this engaging, clever, and provocative account, Attila Marján offers a disquieting analysis of the complex challenges Europe faces in the global marketplace.
Neoconservatives in U.S. Foreign Policy under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush: Voices behind the Throne
Author(s)Jesús Velasco examines the origins and history of the neoconservative political movement so closely identified with the George W. Bush administration's policies of regime change and democratization.
The Fog of Law: Pragmatism, Security, and International Law
Author(s)Focusing on questions of state security, The Fog of Law considers the nature of obligation in international law. In so doing, it challenges the prevailing theories of obligation based on natural law or positive law approaches.
Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960–1985
Author(s)In Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, Sergei I. Zhuk assesses the impact of Westernization on the city's youth, examining the degree to which the consumption of Western music, movies, and literature ultimately challenged the ideological control maintained by state officials.
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898–1914
Author(s)All the Tsar's Men examines how institutional reforms designed to prepare the Imperial Russian Army for the modern battlefield failed to prevent devastating defeats in both the 1905 Russo—Japanese War and World War I.