A trio of books proposes intriguing reasons for economic growth--national pride, surplus labor and investment security--but none parses the novelty of the virtual state.
Discounting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem in the name of evenhandedness is no way to achieve a just settlement.
Quantifying the Great War doesn't really get one very far.
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W
Senator Moynihan has expanded his appendix to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy report into an elegant, quotable, scholarly, and timely book.
As this important volume demonstrates, the overriding requirement of the era was not guts but wisdom. On that score, the Kennedys and their lieutenants flunked.
Chace's Acheson is encompassing, graceful and prodigiously researched and annotated.
Urban's is not a happy memoir. The subtitle, My War Within the Cold War, sums up his theme. The new policy involved years of often bitter struggle with both grotesque reactionaries and Western appeasers.
Modernizing the Provincial City does not tell us anything we did not already know about how the French became and are becoming what they have been and are.
In this new book, Cairncross is a little breathless about the electronic communications that will conjure new worlds into existence. Nevertheless, because her text is well informed and her prose lucid, and because the technological developments ar