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The war in Vietnam achieved almost none of the goals the American decision-makers formulated, and it cost more than 56,000 American lives. Yet, until recently, Americans have preferred to ignore the causes and consequences of this disaster by treating the war as an aberration in United States foreign policy, an unfortunate but unique mistake.

What are the "lessons" of Vietnam? Many previous discussions have focused on narrow or misleading questions, rehashing military decisions, for example, or offering blow-by-blow accounts of Washington infighting, or castigating foreign-policy...

»Ryiria bietet alles, was man sich nur wünschen kann. Die Protagonisten gehören zu den besten, denen ich in der Fantasyliteratur begegnet bin. Erzählerisch top. Ein absolut überzeugender Plot. Dieser Band ist der befriedigendste Abschluss einer Reihe, den ich je gelesen habe.« Barnes & Nobles Fantasyblog

Als Gabriel Winters Tochter Genevieve kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit mit einem Grafen auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet und für tot gehalten wird, sinnt der reiche Whiskey-Baron auf Rache. Da er während des berüchtigten Jahres der Angst in Colnora gelebt hat, heuert er den...

Since the end of the Cold War many new countries have been created, and several new wars have broken out, resulting in new forms of politics and government for which Cold War paradigms are inadequate. Using extensive exhibits, this book provides a comparative framework for understanding governance in today's world. The author selects 100 countries as worthy of greater investigation, highlighting 50 of them as prone to ethnic-based problems and 33 as beset by violent domestic conflict, and provides a comparative political analysis of their governing structures.

The 100 countries covered...

This book provides a comparative analysis of 30 American interventions into Third World countries. An historical approach is used to place the featured cases into a more general history of American Diplomacy. The author uses his assessments to prove that U.S. foreign policy has been driven by the goal of being the ultimate power in the global capitalist economic system. The author makes his work unique by giving a critical view of America's place in the world during an anticipated time of war and raised patriotism. He provides a scholarly look at U.S. diplomacy leading up to the era of the...

• Examines 34 cases of overseas US militaristic meddling, drawn from eleven presidencies and five geographic regions
  
• Provides not only understanding of the overseas interventions, but also a framework with which to interpret anticipated future American adventures
  
• Describes two recent...