"Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."--Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

Cohen charts the course of cultural, intellectual, economic, and political developments in East Asia--particularly China and Japan--from the beginning of recorded time to the present day and examines such events as the rise and fall of key ...

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

'An original and incisive study on the nature of hegemony, this book traces the history of the relations between the United States and Cuba from 1898 to 1961, emphasizing the tension between U.S. efforts to 'Americanize' and modernize the ...

"Traces the history of the United States, India, and Pakistan as British colonies and their interaction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in regard to relations between India and Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, the ...

Part journalism, part history, this is an examination of how two former Soviet republics were brought into the conflict that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Hoffman describes the changing face of terrorism, probing new adversaries, new motivations and new methods that recently surfaced with an in-depth look "Inside Terrorism" of today.

New in paperback comes the national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

In the final journey of the book, he visits Northern Ireland, where twenty-five years of strife have exposed the fault lines and fissures of a British national identity at the breaking point.

In one of the most remote covert campaigns of the cold war, the CIA harnessed, nurtured, and encouraged the Khampa tribesmen of Tibet in their defiance against Chinese subjugation. This is the first time the story has been told.