Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

For sale in CIS only! The advent of information technology ushered in new forms of political power. Machines play crucial roles in how states see, understand, and act, and scrutiny of these processes lies at the heart of "Identify and Sort". It fram...

This volume illuminates changes in Israeli society over the past generation. Goldscheider identifies three key social changes that have led to the transformation of Israeli society in the twenty-first century: the massive immigration of Jews from the...

Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anw...

Termed "the indispensable source on the United Nations" by Joseph S. Nye of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect), recent Security...

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time – climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns and people – the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nati...

For sale in CIS only! "The Indian Ocean" was the first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China Sea. Inspired by the insights of Fernand Braudel, and by Michael Mollat, who saw it as 'a zone of encounters and contacts ......

For sale in CIS only! For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy – about which little is known, as one might expect. These hitherto undisclosed episodes in Israel's diplomatic history are revealed f...

For sale in CIS only! First published in 1998, "Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination" achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to...

For sale in CIS only! In 1920, a massive uprising took place against British occupation of Mesopotamia. This initiated a struggle for democracy that pitted nationalist leaders against the British, their local political allies and a newly-installed m...