Self-Determination

Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military....

There is no surer way to make history come alive than to contemplate those moments when the world's future...

In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly 60 years later the rebuke rings true again....

In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia....

In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs....

Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....

50 Battles That Changed the World looks at clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history....

For six months, the world's major leaders met in Paris to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One....

In this essential new book, Vali Nasr argues that the Obama administration had a chance to improve its relations with the Middle East....

An intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...

In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities....

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path....

Europe has been declining under the weight of its antiquated institutions, economic fatigue, moral anemia, and cultural surrender....

History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy....

Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself....

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, there were many who proclaimed that a new Elizabethan Age had begun....

From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism, a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe....

Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Ford went from the House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president....