Examines recent changes in Soviet foreign policy and suggests possible U.S. responses that might lead to a permanent detente between these two super powers

Product Description: Feffer provides an incisive historical background to the current political and economic conflicts that are dramatically reshaping daily life in Eastern Europe and offers critical and guardedly hopeful speculation about the future of the region...read more

Product Description: Feffer provides an incisive historical background to the current political and economic conflicts that are dramatically reshaping daily life in Eastern Europe and offers critical and guardedly hopeful speculation about the future of the region...read more

Product Description: Feffer provides an incisive historical background to the current political and economic conflicts that are dramatically reshaping daily life in Eastern Europe and offers critical and guardedly hopeful speculation about the future of the region...read more

Discusses the economy, foreign policy, national defense, taxes, the environment, health care, and democratic reform

Discusses the economy, foreign policy, national defense, taxes, the environment, health care, and democratic reform

Product Description: The end of the Cold War has witnessed the re-emergence of nationalism as a major force in Europe. The collapse of Yugoslavia, the newly won independence of the Baltic states, the unification of Germany, the wars in Bosnia and Georgia, and the strength of xenophobic politics in France all attest to the salience of nationalism...read more

Product Description: This volume attempts to reveal what ordinary people around the world are doing in life-affirming response to economic globalization. From small farmers in Honduras, to urban poor in Bosnia, to Cambodian woodcutters, these essays show modest attempts by those who do not benefit from globalization, to create alternatives that may yield sustainable improvements in people's lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume attempts to reveal what ordinary people around the world are doing in life-affirming response to economic globalization. From small farmers in Honduras, to urban poor in Bosnia, to Cambodian woodcutters, these essays show modest attempts by those who do not benefit from globalization, to create alternatives that may yield sustainable improvements in people's lives...read more

Product Description: A concise dissection of the new U.S. unilateralism, Power Trip is the first book-length critique of this fundamental shift in U.S. foreign policy to consolidate and extend U.S. global control. Charting the new terrain of foreign policy after September 11 and demonstrating how the Bush administration is building on the policies of its successors, here are Barbara Ehrenreich, William Hartung, Ahmed Rashid, Michael Ratner, Noy Thrupkaew, Coletta Youngers, Mark Weisbrot, and their contemporaries on the Bush administration and its flawed ambition to control the world...read more

Product Description: The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea...read more

Product Description: US relations with North and South Korea have been characterized by profound asymmetries of power and perception which in recent years have led to increased tensions among the three countries. An uneasy truce concerning North Korea's nuclear ambitions ended in 2002 bringing the US closer to a war footing...read more

Product Description: In his official response to the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush invoked the Crusades, tapping into a centuries-long history of fear and aggression. The West's longstanding perception of Islam as a threat has taken on new and more complex implications in the twenty-first century, as years of migration and resulting demographic shifts have brought the "enemy" within Western borders...read more