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The Gulf Wars and the United States
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 105.00Schwab's work is five-part analysis of US policy and strategy in the Persian Gulf from 1990-2003. He begins the work by analyzing the prominence of the Persian Gulf in US global strategic thinking during the last decade of the Cold War. By that time, gulf oil had secured a paramount place in the minds of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Part two... more...
Nach Irak und Afghanistan
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 18.33Hauptbeschreibung Dyer beleuchtet die Motive aller Schlüsselfiguren in der Region, seien es die westlichen Militärs, Sunniten und Schiiten im Irak, politische Kräfte im Libanon und Syrien bis hin zu Israelis und Palästinensern. Dabei räumt er auf mit Vorurteilen und Mythen und benennt die wahren Herausforderungen einer stabilen Zukunft: das Flüchtlingsdrama... more...
In the Gray Area
Naval Institute Press 2011; US$ 34.95In the Gray Area builds on Seth Folsom?s earlier award-winning memoir, The Highway War, which described his 2003 command of one of the first Marine light armored reconnaissance battalion companies to march on Baghdad. In February 2008, he was deployed to Iraq again as the leader of a U.S. Marine advisor team embedded with an Iraqi army infantry... more...
Socialism Is Great!
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant minature illuminating the sweeping historical... more...
Contemporary Hong Kong Politics
Hong Kong University Press 2007; US$ 56.00Contemporary Hong Kong Politics analyzes Hong Kong's core political institutions, mediating institutions and actors, key policy areas, and relationships with Mainland China and the international community.The politics of the HKSAR have often been turbulent in the decade since the 1997 handover. This book presents a comprehensive and systematic... more...
Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive
Hong Kong University Press 2010; US$ 38.00This book is a critical study of the system used to elect Hong Kong's most powerful political leader. Following a historical, empirical and legal examination of the system, the book provides constructive ideas on how the existing system can be developed into one based on universal suffrage and consistent with other constitutional principles and... more...
HONG KONG x 24 x 365
Hong Kong University Press 2007; US$ 45.00This book offers a critical analysis of contemporary post-handover Hong Kong, through words and through a selection of colour images taken over a twelve months period. more...
Traveller's Tales of the Old China Coast
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 19.60Collected for the first time in a single volume are these true and often comic stories of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao. more...
Political Development in Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press 2007; US$ 65.00This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two decades, to analyze the slow development of democracy and governance crisis of Hong Kong after 1997. more...
Pilgrimages
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 22.00Pilgrimages is a timely account of the author's childhood in the 1950s and 60s in two colonial outposts. It also provides critical analysis of the autobiographical genre. more...









