12,757円 Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place, Paschalis Kitromilides contends. En...

2,177円 In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accord...

4,643円 When a popular revolt forced long-ruling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign on February 11, 2011, US President Barack Obama hailed the victory of peaceful demonstrators in the heart of the Arab World. But Washington was late to endorse democracy - for decades the United States favored Egy...

800円 Para el pensamiento liberal, la libertad individual está garantizada, no sólo por los mecanismos constitucionales del Estado de derecho, sino también porque al Estado se le reconocen funciones limitadas en el mantenimiento del orden público interno e internacional. La democracia antigua era direc...

529円 The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 signalled the end of not just communism but also of capitalism. The removal of its dialectical Cold War enemy allowed capitalism to release the brakes and bring about an enormous transfer of wealth from the ordinary people to the privileged elite. It is estimat...

13,664円 This key new book gathers together the latest research results from renowned Chinese scholars who have comprehensively examined the formation of Chinas middle class. The coverage takes in key background issues, socioeconomic status and sociopolitical functions, the definition, values, social atti...

708円 Few of the smaller nations today, particularly in south-east Asia, have succeeded in remaining unaligned with one or other of the great powers. Burma is the one that has. This book traces the course of Burma’s foreign policy towards China since World War II. It shows how, though at times relation...

2,177円 In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents ...

933円 An insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the riseーa "masterful job of describing Asia's anguish and ambition" (The Washington Post Book World)ーfrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope The 1997 economic crisss in Asia heaped devastati...

4,245円 Europe’s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro’s inventi...

164円 “The Fall of the Tyrants” is comprised of the narratives and eyewitness accounts from the Arab Spring of 2011/13. On the political seismograph, the world registered a civil uprising of extraordinary magnitude, a tremor that spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Libya and Syria.Never before in the history...

10,943円 This book tells the story of Taiwan’s economic revolutionーhow Taiwan transformed itself from a planned economy into a market economy between 1949 and 1965. The authors posit that it was the Kuomintang Government's endorsement of property rights reform and institutional change that enabled Taiwan...