Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are
inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth …

Development, Democracy and Welfare States Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Development, Democracy,
and Welfare States Page 4 Page 5 Development, Democracy and Welfare States LATIN …

Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern
history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American …

The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to
tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual …

THIS BOOK has a twofold purpose. The first is to recount the history of the various American
efforts to foster democracy abroad and to evaluate the results of these attempts in terms of …

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the
Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the …

I should like to begin this essay with a fable. Once upon a time, there was a great war that
involved the slaughter of millions upon millions of people. When, after years of fighting, one …

Security relations between states vary along a continuum from anarchic alliances to
hierarchic empires. This continuum, in turn, is defined by the parties' rights of residual …

Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and
revenge. Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars …

This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics
and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British'decline'. It also offers a broader …