Using case studies from member states, this collection of essays highlights the continuing weakness of the regions and demonstrates that the predicted rise of regional power has failed to materialise.

'The Taste of Ashes' spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe's west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Bucharest to Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east. The result is a shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism - no longer Marx's 'spectre to come' but...

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The authors use previously unseen posters to provide a comparative study of poster design in Western democratic and post-Communist contexts.

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first w...

Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of Balkan violence and vengeance from inside the cities, refugee camps, and homes of citizens under siege. This is a portrait of the war through the experiences of the people who suffered it.

An analysis of America's political actions before, during and after the Cold War, this work uses secret National Security Council planning documents and takes post-war Europe and Central America as paradigms to examine America's aggressive colonialist policy.

The story of how countries are shocked - by wars, terror attacks, coup d'etats, economic crisis and natural disasters. And of how countries are then shocked again - by those who exploit that shock to push through economic reforms that, rather than help a country rebuild itself, serve only to furt...

This series focuses on the countries that shape and influence our modern world. Each book examines physical features, daily life, industry, media, leisure, and much more.

John Simpson offers a lively look at the challenges & changes the world has gone through in his life & long career. He looks at the world's troubles & takes the perhaps surprising view that it's actually not nor will be the end of the world.