Peripheral Visions

The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral

In this challenging new study, Ted Hopf repudiates the core assumptions of deterrence theory, one of the most central aspects of U.S. foreign policy over the past half century. Especially during the cold war years, a major goal of U.S. foreign policy has been to show enough strength that any

An insightful overview of an important era in cinema.

This latest collection of horror from Britain's Paul Kane has been eagerly anticipated by his fans, and coincides with the release of his novel "The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead" in Oct/Nov 2008. Mr Kane's work has been praised by everyone from Peter Straub to Clive Barker to Gary Braunbeck, and this

Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. Covering topics from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, the essays in this collection illuminate