This book focuses on military aspects of the war and attempts to provide insight by means of an analysis of Vietminh military doctrine, tactics, and organization as revealed during the 1945-1954 war in Indochina. It reveals the core of Communist revolutionary warfare.
This book examines the background, objectives, and organizational arrangements of the U.S.-U.S.S.R Agreement on Cooperation in the Fields of Science and Technology, summarizing and comparing the activities, participants, funding, and publications of the different working groups.
This book gives an overview of all of Asian history from the eastern borders of Europe to the Pacific and from the birth of civilization to the present. It provides a broad framework and flexible method for thinking about the history of the people of Asia.
This book presents comparative analyses that offer a theoretical synthesis of the dynamics of democratization processes on both sides of the Atlantic. It focuses on the specific processes of transition and consolidation occurring in Mediterranean Europe and the Southern Cone.
This book is an outcome of the international conference held in July 1985 at Berlin. It discusses the issues related to the legitimacy of the political regime. The book also discusses crises of legitimacy in democracy focusing on the current crisis of the welfare state.
This book argues that the current relationship between the president and the Congress has adversely affected the capacity of the U.S. political system to produce... Læs mere
This book focuses on local perspectives on Central African land ethics and Africa's diverse and vibrant oral traditions. It presents the discovery of Central African perceptions and ways of using the forest and what they have to teach us about living sustainably on the earth.
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of comparative public administration based on the author's three decades of teaching and research in this realm. It offers the reader a view of where the field has been, where it is, and what options are possible for the future.
This book examines how U.S. citizen groups have been drawn to the issue to develop more comprehensive explanations of American connections to the production and distribution of wealth and poverty in southern Africa and to expand options for transnational citizen activism.
Competitiveness in International Food Markets draws together papers that define and evaluate the concepts that underlie firm, sector, and national competitiveness in international food markets for all types of food products.
This book addresses concerns in arms control, including prospects of an expanding military presence in space, problems in maintaining the nuclear... Læs mere
This book focuses on key twentieth-century political ideologies: liberalism; conservatism; social democracy and democratic socialism; Marxism and communism; anarchism; nationalism; fascism; feminism; and ecologism. It discusses the approaches to and trends in ideology.