International & World Politics
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Michael Dobbs

The cheers of the crowds massed outside 10 Downing Street and along Whitehall were ringing in his ears, but Winston Churchill found it difficult to share the popular elation. The ...
( Category: World War II September 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Rory Stewart

A REMARKABLE OCCUPATION Amir Abdur Rahman, who ruled Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901, was, according to former World Bank anthropologist Ashraf Ghani, one of the most successful state-builders of the ...
( Category: Specific Topics September 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Gwen Watkins

Chapter 11 Changes IT HAD BECOME OBVIOUS very quickly that the huts did not provide enough working space for the growing numbers of BP workers, so in 1942 two two-storey ...
( Category: European September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Kershaw, Alex

FOURTEEN THE COUP: JULY 20, 1944 KLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, a tall and handsome thirty-seven-year-old German colonel, stood alone in a bathroom inside Adolf Hitler’s Prussian headquarters—the so-called Wolf’s Lair. It ...
( Category: European September 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Ronnie Greene [Greene, Ronnie]

FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, it was time to act. They began on the outside, approaching Detective Jeffrey Lehrmann, who worked closely with Kaufman in crafting the initial reports. The Feds ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism September 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Daniel Yergin [Yergin, Daniel]

Gulbenkian Again The CFP litigation was still pending. But France had many other things on its political agenda with the United States that it wanted to pursue; and by May ...
( Category: Middle Eastern September 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Brown, Seyom

The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran in ransom payment for the release of American hostages in Lebanon, that the United States undercut ...
( Category: Diplomacy September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Victoria Bruce [Bruce, Victoria]

14 Capture and Extradition For a few days in October 2003, after Botero’s footage of the three American hostages appeared in the United States on CBS’s 60 Minutes II, the ...
( Category: Colombia September 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:David Fromkin [Fromkin, David]

THE PATTERN OF POLITICS that MacArthur observed in Europe as he traveled to observe army maneuvers there in 1931 and again in 1932 was not unlike that in Japan—and was ...
( Category: International & World Politics August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ilan Berman [Berman, Ilan]

IRAN’S OBJECTIVES What, exactly, does Iran want in the Americas? Over the past decade and a half, Iran’s engagement with Central and South America has taken the form of a ...
( Category: Middle Eastern August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-21 | Author:Eaqub, Shamubeel, Eaqub, Selena

If we are to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis, the public must be united in its understanding of the issues, the outcomes being sought, and the policies that will be ...
( Category: Australian & Oceanian August 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Dilip Hiro

Proxy Wars on Track While the overtly conducted war games and diplomacy ended satisfactorily, the proxy war by India and Pakistan through RAW and the ISI intensified in 1987. In ...
( Category: Asian August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Valérie Trierweiler [Clemence Sebag]

Late May 2014 A dismal 3 per cent of voters say they would vote for François Hollande if he were to run again in 2017. He has become a laughing ...
( Category: European August 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nicholas Lardy

Figure 3.4 Retained corporate earnings as a share of corporate investment, 1992–2011 Note: Retained earnings are the disposable income of nonfinancial corporations reported in the flow of funds. Sources: National ...
( Category: Asian August 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-09 | Author:Graham Allison;Robert D. Blackwill;Ali Wyne

Where do you produce your entrepreneurs from? Out of a top hat? ... There is a dearth of entrepreneurial talent in Singapore.... We have to start experimenting. The easy things-just ...
( Category: Asia August 14,2015 )