London, 1983, 705 pages The Kingdom is rhe story of a country - a country of astonishing contrasts: where computer print-outs open with the words ‘In the name of God’, where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markers of the world, and where murderers and adulterers are executed in the street. By its own reckoning this country is just entering the...
London: Old Street Publishing, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-302729-9. The China we once knew no longer exists. The China that was with us for forty years—the China of “reform and opening up”—is making way for something new. It’s time for us to start paying attention. Something is happening in China that the world has never seen before. A new country and a new regime are being...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 529 p. — ISBN 978-0-691-20218-1; ISBN 978-0-691-20221-1. Sean R. Roberts is the Director of the International Development Studies program at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. This book is the product of this long-term research and employs a wide range of Uyghur language sources, including interviews...
London; NY: Zed Books, 2004. — 222 p. In this volume Congolese and Western social scientists cover most aspects of urban life in Kinshasa – how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous ‘bargaining’ system ordinary Kinois have developed, and how they access food, water, health care and education. The NGOization of service...
NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. — 214 p. List of Acronyms Introduction: Identity and International Relations in the ‘‘Heart of Darkness’’ Inventing the Congo: Henry Morton Stanley, Leopold II, and the ‘‘Red Rubber’’ Scandal Congo as Chaos, Lumumba as Diable: Independence and the 1960 Crisis From Congo to Zaïre: Mobutu’s Production of an ‘‘Authentic’’ National Identity Cancer,...
London: NY. Zed Books Ltd., 2007. — 243 p. Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times. In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what...
Washington D.C., The World Bank, 2007. — 156 p. Angola: Oil, Broad-based Growth, and Equity is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank’s work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. Once one of...
London-NY, Zed Books, 2011. 320 p.
No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state with hyperinflation, collapsing life...
2nd edition. — NY: Basic Books, 2001. — 376 p.
Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of outside powers.
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2004. — 426 p. In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung (the Great Leader) and his son and heir Kim Jong Il (then Dear Leader and now head of state). For seven years he lived in Pyongyang enjoying privileged access to the ruling classes and enjoying...
Melville House, 2010. — 208 p. Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths...
NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet...
NY: Public Affairs, 2011. — 592 p.
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term...
Публицистическая книга, на англ. яз. — NY: Encounter Books, 2010. — 474 p.
Критический взгляд иранского политэмигранта на эволюцию исламского режима. Автор подробно рассматривает институты Исламской Республики, основные социальные силы, перспективы урегулирования отношений с Западом.
The World’s Number-One Power.
The Haven of Jihad.
The Focus of the Universe.
The Triple...
Некоммерческий перевод издания Robert Lacey. Inside the Kingdom. NY-London, Penguin Group, 2009. 290 pages. Единственный перевод на русский язык яркой книги известного британского журналиста, биографа принцессы Монакской и королевы Елизаветы II, признанного эксперта по Саудовской Аравии. Эта страна, по определению автора, остается "одной из самых агрессивных загадок планеты",...
London, 1971. — 349 p. This book is a warning. It is a terrifying portrait of an "ideal" society that has destroyed democracy in the name of "progress." Roland Huntford demonstrates by fact after shocking fact how an apparently democratic, prosperous, peaceful Utopia is totally controlled by a bureaucracy which actively discourages all signs of individuality. Эта книга -...