Authors:Walter Reich,  Walter Laqueur,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Pre
Keywords: states, mind, theologies, ideologies, terrorism, psychologies, origins
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-09-18
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0943875897
ISBN-13: 9780943875897

Terrorists and terrorism have become a major force internationally. Hostage-taking and other acts of violence for political ends are common all over the globe. This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the phenomenon of terrorism. This book examines and explains the nature and sources of terrorists’ beliefs, actions, goals, worldviews, and states of mind. Origins of Terrorism addresses, with scholarly responsibility as well as necessary urgency, one of the most vexing intellectual and political challenges of our time. The contributors to this book bring deep learning and experience in

Author: Daniel Orlovsky
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: studies, special, center, woodrow, soviet, wilson
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1995-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0943875692
ISBN-13: 9780943875699

Daniel Orlovsky brings together a group of leading scholars attempt a systematic assessment of the state of studies of the former Soviet Union after its collapse. The authors re-examine the transition from communism and review the study of post-Soviet society, national identity and nationalism, politics and political institutions, economics, foreign policy, and culture. They offer constructive criticisms of the field and set out research questions for an uncertain future.

Author: Leslie David Simon
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: digital, world, agenda, public, com, netpolicy
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-10-31
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1930365039
ISBN-13: 9781930365032

"This is a very ambitious book, more an encyclopedia of the Internet than anything else. It is filled with valuable information not collected in any one place before and very up to date. The style is clear and accessible; the organization is logical. It is generally well documented." -- Lewis M. Branscomb, Principal Investigator, Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Harvard UniversityIn NetPolicy.Com, Leslie David Simon offers a panoramic view of the Internet’s cyclonic effects on national and global institutions, ranging from government and finance to health care, education and i

Author: Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: russia, ukraine, woodrow, wilson, press, center, southern, sects, lost, reformation, peasants, millennialism, radical
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-07-02
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0801879159
ISBN-13: 9780801879159

Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia’s Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, studies the origins and evolution of the theology and practices of these radicals and their contribution to an alternative culture in the region. Arising from a confluence of immigrant Anabaptists from central Europe and native Russian religious dissident movements, the new sects shared characteristics with both their antecedents

Author: Robert S. Litwak
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: cold, war, containment, policy, states, foreign, rogue
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-02-14
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0943875978
ISBN-13: 9780943875972

"This is a first-rate study that brings scholarly analysis to bear on a very important problem in U.S. foreign policy. Litwak’s incisive critique of the use of the ’rogue’ label for political ’mobilization’ purposes is right on the mark." --Alexander George, Stanford University "Litwak’s examination of U.S. policy toward ’rogue states’ raises the right questions regarding a truly complex and yet very timely subject. It skillfully avoids some of the simplifications that have dominated the public discourse on this vital subject." --Zbigni

Author: David Shambaugh
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: china, contemporary, studies, american
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 1997-04
List price: $107.95
ISBN-10: 1563242664
ISBN-13: 9781563242663

Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.

Author: David Rusk
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Keywords: wilson, center, press, woodrow, update, suburbs, census, cities
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2003-05-29
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1930365144
ISBN-13: 9781930365148

Cities without Suburbs, first published in 1993, has become an influential analysis of America’s cities among city planners, scholars, and citizens alike. In it, David Rusk, the former mayor of Albuquerque, argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from its suburbs in order to attack its urban problems. Rusk’s analysis, extending back to 1950, covers 522 central cities in 320 metro areas of the United States. He finds that cities trapped within old boundaries have suffered severe racial segregation and the emergence of an urban underclass. But cities