Analyzes the dramatic transformations that are reshaping how the international community addresses biological weapons and infectious diseases. This book examines the renewed threat from biological weapons, and explores the new world of biological weapons governance.
This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them.
Translation and expansion of: Togliatti e Stalin; published in Italian in 1997 and updated in 2007.
How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings.
Why did the Soviet Union spark war in 1967 between Israel and the Arab states by falsely informing Syria and Egypt that Israel was massing troops on the Syrian border? Based on archival sources, this work argues that Moscow had absolutely no intention of starting a war.
Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion.