The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Orenstein Mitchell A.)(Pevná vazba)

The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War (Orenstein Mitchell A.)(Pevná vazba)

Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West (Belton Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

The hacking of the 2016 US elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent years, Vladimir Putin's Russia has waged a concerted campaign to expand its influence and undermine western institutions. But how and why did all this come about and who has orchestrated

The New Russia (Gorbachev Mikhail)(Pevná vazba)

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia's elder

Skripal Files - Putin, Poison and the New Spy War (Urban Mark)(Paperback / softback)

From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account of the events that led to the Skripal

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West (Ibrahim Raymond)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--the sword and scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's

Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland (Schlgel Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against

Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images (Anderson Steve F.)(Pevná vazba)

An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture, centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and images.If the twentieth century was tyrannized by images, then the twenty-first is ruled by data. In Technologies of Vision, Steve Anderson argues that visual culture and the

The Transnational and the Local in the Politics of Islam: The Case of West Sumatra, Indonesia (Salim Delmus Puneri)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the relationship between transnational and local Islam as expressed in public discourse and policy-making, as represented in the local press. It does so against the background of local governments in majority Muslim regions across Indonesia promoting and passing regulations that

Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 (Nenye Vesa)(Paperback)

The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defenses would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only

Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Cutterham Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles

Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between (Pulford Ed)(Pevná vazba)

Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria, anthropologist and linguist Ed Pulford

The new politics of Russia: Interpreting change (Monaghan Andrew)(Paperback)

Reflecting on the evolution of Russia studies since the end of the Cold War, this study offers a robust critique of the mainstream view of Russia and offers a more dynamic and complex model for

Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin (Rodgers James)(Pevná vazba)

The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First

Between Families and Frankenstein: The Politics of Egg Donation in the United States (Heidt-Forsythe Erin)(Pevná vazba)

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Kalb Marvin)(Pevná vazba)

'A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist

Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race (Carlson Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America todayThe United States is steeped in debates about guns. As discussions rage on, one issue has been overlooked--Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred

Dtente: The Chance to End the Cold War (Crowder Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship

Britain's Desert War in Egypt & Libya 1940-1942: 'the End of the Beginning' (Braddock David)(Pevná vazba)

The desert war in Libya and Egypt between 1940 and 1942 has deservedly attracted the attention of many historians. Fought in an unforgiving yet strategically important landscape, the fortunes of the implacable opponents swung wildly. While best remembered for the duel between Montgomery's Eighth

Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War (Wood Tony)(Pevná vazba)

How the West's obsession with Vladimir Putin prevents it from understanding Russia It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the world, and dominates Western media coverage. In

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis in the Foundation of Modern Political Thought (Hale Kimberly Hurd)(Pevná vazba)

The relationship between technology, philosophy, and politics is both contentious and vital to our understanding of human nature and the ways human beings interact with one another in society; Francis Bacon outlined the wild potential and great danger of this relationship. Francis Bacon's New

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 - Antony Beevor

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance

New Cold War - Putin's Threat to Russia and the West (Lucas Edward)(Paperback / softback)

Aesthetics of Everyday Life: East and West (Carter Curtis L.)(Pevná vazba)

As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a growing diversification among existing methodologies for pursuing aesthetics, alongside the shift from art-based aesthetics. The cultural diversity

The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia (Carr Barnes)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the 'midnight war' to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It remains the most audacious spy plot in American history--a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and mount a coup