Ce livre passionnant et brillamment mené, écrit par un professeur de relations internationales américain habitué des médias, dont c'est le premier ouvrage traduit en français, nous conte, à travers l'histoire d'un des fleurons de l'hôtellerie mondiale (le Pera Palace) et d'un train (l'Orient Express...
Avec la même veine narrative que Minuit au Pera Palace et le même talent pour embrasser la grande histoire à partir de destins singuliers, Charles King retrace l'histoire chaotique et fascinante d'Odessa, port russe conçu par l'impératrice Catherine II comme la perle de la mer Noire entre Orient et ...
The lands surrounding the Black Sea share a colourful past. Though in recent decades they have experienced ethnic conflict, economic collapse, and interstate rivalry, their common heritage and common interests go deep. Now, as a region at the meeting point of the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Middl...
...
...
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology...
The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly ind...
The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly ind...
. ...
The introductory chapter of this book presents the concepts of the bene?ts inherent in the study of comparative approach for an effective counterterrorism response on the local law enforcement level and overviews the inception of the project. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-?rst...