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Uses of the Other
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 67.50The field of international relations has recently witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in the theme of identity and its formation, construction, and deconstruction. In Uses of the Other, Iver B. Neumann demonstrates how thinking about identity in terms of the self and other may prove highly useful in the study of world politics. more...
Ending the Cold War
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 37.00Although in hindsight the end of the Cold War seems almost inevitable, almost no one saw it coming and there is little consensus over why it ended. A popular interpretation is that the Soviet Union was unable to compete in terms of power, especially in the area of high technology. Another interpretation gives primacy to the new ideas Gorbachev brought... more...
End of the Cold War
University of Minnesota Press 1986; US$ 33.00The End of the Cold War was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Against the backdrop of unprecedented change in the world political and social order, Bogdan Denitch charts... more...
The Return of History and the End of Dreams
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.00Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains ?unipolar,? but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and... more...
God Bless You, Joe Stalin
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 32.95Stalin has been accused of many things; add to the list his role as the father of modern-day economics. The author traces the evolution of the concept of the Almighty Dollar against the backdrop of the Cold War, demonstrates how individual decisions made more...
Political Ethics and The United Nations
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Based on a wealth of sources, files and interviews, and including previously unpublished material, this book explores the foundations of the political ethics of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, examining how they influenced his actions in several key crisis situations. Hammarskjöld?s political innovations, such... more...
Deviant Conduct in World Politics
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 148.00A long list of countries - labelled outcasts, pariahs and rogues - have failed to meet international standards of good conduct. In the Cold War years Rhodesia, Israel, Chile, Taiwan and South Africa, among others, featured among the ranks of the disreputable. In modern world politics, the serious sinners not only include states: terrorists, rebels,... more...
Social Theory after the Holocaust
Liverpool University Press 2000; US$ 70.00This collection of essays explores the character and quality of the Holocausts impact and the abiding legacy it has left for social theory. The premise which informs the contributions is that, ten years after its publication, Zygmunt Baumans claim that social theory has either failed to address the Holocaust or protected itself from its... more...
Regional Guide to International Conflict and Management from 1945 to 2003
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2004; US$ 135.70Regional Guide to International Conflict Management from 1945 to 2003 provides global, regional, and specific information on the over 350 international conflicts that have occurred since World War II. At the heart of the book are comprehensive regional sections, each of which includes:. * An essay providing regional context and highlighting the interrelation... more...
Themes in Modern European History since 1945
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 39.95Broad in geographical scope, this collection explores the most important transformations and upheavals of post-1945 Europe in the light of recent scholarship. A wide array of authors from the UK, the USA and across Europe contribute twelve chapters consider key political, cultural and economic changes of an era that needs reevalutaion and reconsideration... more...









