21st century history: from c 2000 - books

Vladimir Putin's presidency of Russia, 2000-2008, sought to overcome Boris Yeltsin's chaotic legacy by rebuilding...  Read More >>

"From a celebrated political analyst comes this collection of astute articles penned as longtime ""New Yorker""...  Read More >>

After the end of communism and the breakups of the studiously anational polities of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia...  Read More >>

Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and cut it off from Christian and Jewish believers. Dore Gold...  Read More >>

John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans...  Read More >>

The violent events in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 gained the name ‘Tulip Revolution’. This book brings together domestic...  Read More >>

The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the...  Read More >>

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics...  Read More >>

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd famously said that China issues are part of 21st century Australia's 'very...  Read More >>

Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike...  Read More >>

Following the brutal wars which raged in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Bosnia and Herzegovina was awkwardly...  Read More >>

A compendium that draws on a wide variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the 2009 year's insightful...  Read More >>

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru comes an unforgettable journey into Iraq's parallel...  Read More >>

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On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper ""Jyllands-Posten"" published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad....  Read More >>

No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary issues in Egypt. This book presents a series of analyses of politics, culture and society,...  Read More >>

A topical commentary on the state of politics, gender and race from a high profile and well-respected feminist theorist...  Read More >>

Tracing the social and political presence of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, this...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary issues in Egypt. This book presents a series of analyses of politics, culture and society,...  Read More >>

An autobiography of Bertie Ahern. It gives an account of his political life and the personal story that accompanies...  Read More >>

He's the 44th President of the United States, the first African-American to hold the office and a devoted husband...  Read More >>

The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politicsDavid...  Read More >>

An edition that extends the narrative from 1990 to the first decade of the 21st century, beginning with the collapse...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Richard English argues that we have as yet failed to understand terrorism...  Read More >>