Despite talk of the 'triumph of democracy', much of the world is still ruled by political or military dictatorships. Paul Brooker provides a comprehensive assessment of the nature of authoritarian regimes, their changing character in the 21st Century world and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance.

Product Description: This book focuses on insurgent stateless warfare in its guerrilla and terrorist modes and in its nationalist, maoist and postmaoist phases of modernisation. Insurgency is compared with states warfare and with criminality and then insurgents motive, means and opportunity are analysed from social-science, military and environmental perspectives...read more

Product Description: Leadership in Democracy develops and applies an innovative leadership theory of democracy and political evolution, based upon Schumpeter's famous theories of democracy and economic entrepreneurship. The new theory is applied to the US and British democracies in an assessment of how much entrepreneurial-style, pioneering leadership occurred from the 1960s to the 1990s in the electoral, governmental, legislative, administrative and policy-advocacy sectors of democracies...read more

'Geography Matters' is a Key Stage 3 course providing an exact match to the requirement of the revised National Curriculum, and to the units of the Key Stage 3 Scheme of Work. Pupil books for year eight are parallel in their content coverage but are set at different levels, Foundation and Higher.

This work is aimed at those studying for the Avery Hill Geography syllabus (OCR/WJEC Syllabus B), but is also suitable for other GCSE Geography courses. It uses up-to-date case studies to introduce students to problem solving in geography and to prepare for the exam.

Product Description: Despite the much-vaunted "triumph of democracy," much of the world's population continues to live under political or military dictatorships. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the modern non-democratic regimes that, in the form of fascist, communist, and military dictatorships, have dominated much of the 20th century and still play a major role in world affairs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as democratic movements swept across the globe, certain dictatorial regimes held fast against this historic tide. As much of Eastern Europe emerged after decades of communist rule, dictators in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran maintain a firm grasp on their power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work analyses the vulnerability of America's land-based missile force to a pre-emptive Soviet strike as an issue in US strategic and political debate. It examines why the issue rose to prominence in the way it did in the 1970s and then fell away as a concern in the 1980s without being solved in the way it had been presented...read more

Product Description: Mussolini in Italy. Hitler in Germany. Franco in Spain. These men, and their style of government, both individually and collectively, have had a profound and lasting effect on global politics in this century. Equipped with an official ideology and a charismatic leader, dictatorship contested democracy throughout the twentieth century, first in the form of fascist, and later communist and military, regimes...read more

Product Description: The Faces of Fraternalism is the first comparative sociological study of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. Brooker focuses on the very similar and highly unusual social policies of these three regimes. He uses the term "fraternalism" to describe their unique social policy of attempting to instill in a modern society the primeval type of social solidarity found in clans and tribes, and known to sociologists as "mechanical solidarity...read more