The Art of Staying Neutral geeft boeiende inzichten in de problemen en uitdagingen van neutraliteit in een tijdperk van 'totale oorlog'. Het boek zet uiteen hoe Nederland zijn neutrale status tijde...
Russia is a battered giant, struggling to rebuild its power and identity in an era of globalization. Several of the essays in this diverse and original collection point to the difficulty of guarant...
Here is the true story of “The Great War with Russia” — the heroism of the ordinary soldiers, including eyewitness accounts of the men who fought and survived the terrible winter of 1854-55. ...
In 1853, the Crimean War began as an intensely romantic affair, with officers and soldiers alike taking to the fray with phrases like “death or glory” on their tongues and in their hearts. Noth...
Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy....
In this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what he believes is a commonsensical notion: a state's domestic identity has...
Volume two of the set provides an introduction to the history of the Soviet armed forces from 1917 to 1991.The sixteen chapters show how the Bolsheviks survived the end of the First World War, the ...
This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to convent...
Russian military capacity remains a major consideration for global security even in the post-Soviet era. This book assesses today's Russian military and analyzes its possible future direction. The ...
"As featured in the Sunday Times" BMW promised a bright new future for Rover. In turn, Rover was to keep BMW as the independent car dynasty it wanted to remain. But it all went wrong. Badly wrong....
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexa...
The conflict in Chechnya, going through its low- and high-intensity phases, has been doggedly accompanying Russias development. In the last decade, the Chechen war was widely covered, both in Russi...
`An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... a useful appeal for vigilance' --Sunday Times.
In de zestiende eeuw vertoonden Rusland enerzijds en het verenigde kieskoninkrijk Polen-Litouwen anderzijds een groot en wezenlijk onderscheid. Het gaat hierbij niet alleen om verschillen van staat...
During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America's vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia's fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian re...
In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the overwhelming majority of policymakers in the United States opposed the eastward expansion of NATO, on the grounds that such expansion would only pois...
Dallin (emeritus, history and political science, Stanford) and Firsov, a former Comintern specialist at the Central Party Archive in Moscow, have edited this collection of letters recently found in...
How do once bitter enemies move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level? In one of the first attempts to apply practice theory to the study of International Relations, Vincent Pouliot bui...
How can we best understand Russia's relationship with Europe today? Is Russia a European country? What binds us together and divides us? And is there a viable basis for cooperation? Is Russia a fri...
'An excellent and important work' LITERARY REVIEW 'As a scholar, author and journalist of long standing, Stuermer has ranged widely. The broader perspective, historical and geographical, that he ...
The attacks of 9/11 brought the United States the sympathy of nations around the world. But America's aggressive response to those attacks has alienated many allies and has increased tensions with ...
Duitse vertaling van 'The Threat'
Gorodetsky's diplomatic history of the period immediately preceding WWII effectively refutes the argument, made most popular by Viktor Suvorov's Icebreaker, that Stalin authorized the Nazi-Soviet n...
Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.
In Rusland tegen Napoleon geeft Dominic Lieven een totaal nieuwe visie op de strijd van Napoleon tegen Rusland. Gebaseerd op recent beschikbaar gekomen Russische documenten schrijft Lieven vanuit R...
Published for the first time in paperback, this book offers a fascinating look at the first SALT talks by the former Chief American Negotiator. This account of the historic meeting of the superpowe...
The former national security adviser in the Carter administration offers a practical long-range guide to policy and action in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry, which, he writes, "has been transformed into a...
According to Leonhard, who teaches at Yale, there is growing discontent among Soviet citizens with the regime's neglect of consumer needs, its restrictions on travel, its expenditure of vast sums o...
TASS = Telegrafnoie Agentstvo Sovietskogo Soiuza, the international news agency of the USSR. Is it only a news gathering agency? Does it engage in espionage? In propaganda?
Publicatie van de Prof. Mr. B.M. Teldersstichting, wetenschappelijk bureau van de VVD.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) became a worldwide political focal point. The war, marked the rise of Japan as a world power, paved the way for the Russian Revolut...
At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm....
A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascin...
Examines the interplay between Russian foreign policy and a complex global environment, contasting the Kremlin's view of a declining West and a resurgent Russia with the world Moscow actually faces...
The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reac...
Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia’s “information war,” one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin’s propaganda o...
The phrase Cold War was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stabl...
Int this book Richard Sawka provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a...