Product Description: This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective...read more

Product Description: The changing faces of federalism is an extraordinary book that provides a rigorous and original view of what will be the future of the European Union. It describes and discusses the tradition and the institutions of federalism in the Eastern, Central and Western European countries and deals thoroughly with many innovative issues about federalism such as multi-level-governance, network government, devolution, subsidiarity, asymmetry and functionalism...read more

Product Description: In this long-awaited sequel to his acclaimed Russia's Road to the Cold War (1979), Vojtech Mastny offers a thorough history of the early years of the Cold War, drawing upon his extensive research in newly opened Soviet archives. Just as the earlier volume offered the definitive portrait of Joseph Stalin's foreign policy during World War II, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity affords readers an equally superb account of Stalin's foreign policy during his last years...read more

Product Description: As a rising regional power in the critical borderland between Europe and Asia, Turkey has been more challenged than its neighbors by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the break-up of Yugoslavia. A secular Muslim nation with a history of involvement in European affairs and some with Western international structures, Turkey is positioned to play an influential role in areas with which it shares both ethnic and religious affinities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With its geographic proximity to east-central Europe and its shared historical traditions and cultural affinities, Italy has been strategically placed to assume a special role as a key liaison between east-central Europe and the European Union...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the causes and consequences of the emerging relationship between security and human rights. It is divided into two parts that deal with the relationship of security and human rights to states and to societies. What is the theoretical linkage between security and human rights? How has this linkage evolved within the context of East-West relations? What was the role of the Helsinki process in shaping this evolution? How do these issues affect the difficult transition from dictatorship to pluralism in countries facing the challenge of ethnic, economic, and social dislocation? The contributors to this volume seek to deepen our understanding of the forces that brought about the collapse of communism in Europe, and they explore the broader implications of the changes for the emerging post-Cold War international order...read more

Product Description: Selected research and analysis from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

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Product Description: Has the existence of nuclear weapons transformed the traditional relationship between power and its use in international affairs? If it has, are we then in a period of transition to a new system based on entirely different principles? How would such a transition affect the lives of individuals? A number of writers address these questions in Power and Policy in Transition...read more

Product Description: Studies the events and policies which led the Soviet Union into the Cold War detailing the way in which Stalin conceived and executed the decisions resulting in the partitioning of Europe

Studies the events and policies which led the Soviet Union into the Cold War detailing the way in which Stalin conceived and executed the decisions resulting in the partitioning of Europe