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Robert Spencer explores what Islam actually teaches and the potentially ominous implications of these teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Islam and an Islam "hijacked" by terrorist groups, Spencer probes the Quran, Islamic traditions, and other sacred documents as well as the history and present-day situation of the Muslim realm, to find out why the world's...
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During the years from 1789 to 1801, the republican political institutions forged by the American Constitution were put to the test. A new nation - born in revolution, divided over the nature of republicanism, undermined by deep-seated sectional allegiances, and mired in foreign policy entanglements - faced the challenge of creating a stable, enduring national authority and union. In this engagingly written book, James Roger Sharp offers a penetrating...
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"Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East Studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a culture of victimisation; it views the local populations of the Middle East - Arabs in particular - as the hapless victims of alien encroachment, and blames the region's endemic malaise on Western political and cultural imperialism."
"Professor Efraim Karsh contends that the influence of the Great...
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In this study of the statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality--his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships--political adversaries like the Penns, John Adams, and Arthur Lee--and great disappointments--the most significant being his son, William, who sided with the British. Utilizing an abundance...
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Based on his knowledge of ethnically divided societies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, Horowitz contends that the spread of ethnic conflict is inversely related to the proliferation of democracy in developing societies. He examines the concept and foundations of ethnicity, and the causes of ethnic conflict such as envy among different groups, and efforts at secession from a national whole. He also answers such questions as: Why are ethnic affiliations...
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Twice in a decade, Iraq marched to war. In 1980 it invaded Iran and started an eight-year-long slaughter; and in 1990 it seized Kuwait, pitting itself against America and an international coalition. These actions propelled a little-known country into the very center of world affairs. What forces and factors set Iraq on this course? Iraq's Road to War shows how President Saddam Husayn's decision making and Iraq's domestic politics, economics, and foreign...
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In this book Esposito places the challenge of critical perspective. Exploring the vitality of this religion as a global force and the history of its relations with the West, Esposito demonstrates the diversity of the Islamic resurgence-and the mistakes out analysts make in assuming a hostile, monolithic Islam.
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"Today the Republic of Yugoslavia comprises Serbia and Montenegro, just two of its six former republics. The current estimated population of over 11 million is less than half that of the former Yugoslavia. What led to the demise of this once progressive nation? The general consensus is that no single event is responsible; rather, the end grew out of a history of conflict and a tangled web of causes. Now a timely new reference work provides concrete...
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Liberty and Order is an ambitious anthology of primary source writings: letters, circulars, debate transcriptions, House proceedings, and newspaper articles that document the years during which America's founding generation divided over the sort of country the United States was to become. The founders' arguments over the proper construction of the new Constitution, the political economy, the appropriate level of popular participation in a republican...
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Multiculturalism - along with its synonym "diversity"--Has radically different meanings for two large segments of the American people. The conflict between these groups is now the source of bitter and widespread controversy and confrontation. It has become the issue in the last decade of the twentieth century. Dictatorship of Virtue is a passionate, provocative, and rigorously documented examination of multiculturalism - its noble roots and the abuses...
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The modern Irish question is defined by many as a case of a great and supposedly liberal nation supposedly mistreating a smaller one. This text embodies a new approach to this issue, analysing key issues from religious discrimination and famine, to the passions of both nationalism and unionism.
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