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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bernhard blumenau”
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  • The United Nations and Terrorism

    Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s

    by Bernhard Blumenau ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence and lead them. It is also an account of several hostage and hijacking crises as well as a look at German domestic terrorism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • An International History of Terrorism

    Western and Non-Western Experiences

    Edited by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Bernhard Blumenau ...
    Series series Political Violence
    The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years.In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has gone through, and the transformations it has experienced. The same applies to the solutions that ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on the End of the Cold War

    Unexpected Transformations?

    Edited by Bernhard Blumenau, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Barbara Zanchetta ...
    Series series Cold War History
    This collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the historiography of the end of the Cold War.Research on the causes and consequences of the end of the Cold War is constantly growing. Initially, it was dominated by fairly simplistic, and often politically motivated, debates revolving around the role played by major "winners" and "losers". This volume addresses a number of diverse ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Transatlantic Century

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    by Mary Nolan ...
    Series Book 46 - New Approaches to European History
    This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, ... Read more

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  • Out of Ashes

    A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

    by Konrad H. Jarausch, Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promiseA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise.Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued ... Read more

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  • 1989

    The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition

    by Mary Elise Sarotte, Mary Elise Sarotte ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    How the political events of 1989 shaped Europe after the Cold War1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Weimar Germany

    by Anthony McElligott ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of Germany
    The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d'états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile ... Read more

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  • Big Business and Hitler

    by Jacques R. Pauwels ...
    For big business in Germany and around the world, Hitler and his National Socialist party were good news. Business was bad in the 1930s, and for multinational corporations Germany was a bright spot in a world suffering from the Great Depression. As Jacques R. Pauwels explains in this book, corporations were delighted with the profits that came from re-arming Germany, and then supplying both sides ... Read more

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  • Situating Putin

    Why He’s Not Going Away and How That Matters

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    This is a rather old-fashioned book of essays. Its sole objective is to describe the character of Putin's political order as accurately as possible, and to spell out why and how Putinism is worrisome. The main essay, while providing a summary account of how Putin came to power and consolidated his position as Russia's virtual dictator, evaluates Putinism in terms of the main models or metaphors ... Read more

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  • Germany's Russia problem

    The struggle for balance in Europe

    by John Lough, Andrew Monaghan ...
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    The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe’s most important link with the largest country on the continent. But despite Germany’s unparalleled knowledge and historical experience, its policymakers struggle to accept that Moscow’s efforts to rebalance Europe at the cost of the cohesion of the EU and NATO are an attack on Germany’s core interests. This book explains the scale of the ... Read more

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  • The Other Alliance

    Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties

    by Martin Klimke ...
    Series series America in the World
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