You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This book aims to explore how the Central Asian Republics have managed their relations with small and major powers during the 25 years following the collapse of the USSR. The authors identify and discuss the questions like: what are the Central Asian states' interests and how they are pursuing them? What are the CAR states' relationships with these powers, and what is changing? Are the great powers outsourcing policing or security responsibilities to the CAR?
India’s Economic Corridor Initiatives highlights key aspects of current discourses on India’s initiative of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and Chabahar, and their geo-economic significance. INSTC was founded by India, Russia, and Iran, and the Chabahar port in Iran provides a major prospective conduit for India's interchange and commerce with West Central Asia while maintaining a strategic distance from Pakistan's entry route. This book analyses the drastic changes in the equation of international relations in general, and more particularly between India and Eurasian countries. Contributors from Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Armenia and Europe provide a wide spect...
None
None
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Set in Frankfurt, Germany, Cambridge, England and Quebec, Canada, this memoir races the most unusual life of Eric Koch from 1919 until 1941, when he as able to leave the internment camp to which he had been confined. Caught up in a period of enormous change and ominous transformation, Koch paints a vivid picture of an assimilated-Jewish family that was unprepared for the events following January 1933.
None
Koch uses a multi-format narrative technique so highly praised in the German reviews, including stories, excerpts from imagined invented diaries, letters and even a synopsis of a never-produced operetta about the failed Hitler putsch of 1923. The triangle involves three main characters: Hanni Geisel, amateur musician and hostess, Erwin Herzberg, journalist and film historian and Hanni's husband, Hermann, a pacifist lawyer who, in his spare time, gathered data on the miscarriages of justice committed by judges. It turns out that Hanni had an affair with Erwin Herzberg.
An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of colonialism. Set in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) from its founding to Nadir Shah's devastating invasion of 1739, this book instead shows how the trends and events in the second half of the seventeenth century inadvertently set the stage for the emergence of the people as actors in a regime which saw them only a...