Bücher der Reihe Woodrow Wilson Center Press

The fiscal crisis facing the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this book, an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941, attempting to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime.

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the historical process and the conflict on Northern Ireland and Ireland. This book will be useful to the international scholarly community and by the interested general reader.

Although he is best remembered as a man of war, the primary focus of Churchill's long career was his attempt to keep and restore peace throughout the world. In this book, scholars from the United States, Great Britain, and South Africa examine this other facet of his statesmanship.

This collection of essays addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state - the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy-making. The approach is comparative, focusing on developments in Britain and the United States.

This collection of essays is the first to examine the impact of the French Revolution. The legacy of the French Revolution extends far beyond the borders of France or even Europe-the ramifications of the Revolution of 1789 are truly global and continue to have an impact today.

Though most governments in Southeast Asia are considered authoritarian, elections have been a feature for many decades. This volume examines the countries that have conducted multi-party elections, identifying common and distinguishing political features.

An episodic history of the revolutionary effect of television news reporting on politics, current events and the print media in the United States over the past four decades.

This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analysing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority.

With contributions from both Russia and the West, this new book aims to demythologise a field hitherto dominated by suspicion and fear, that of Russian foreign policy. The book claims that the tsar was directly responsible for the formulation of most foreign policy and reveals the complex of motives behind his decisions.

The fiscal crisis facing the American federal government represents the end of a fiscal regime that began with the financing of World War II. In this book, an inter-disciplinary group of scholars explores the history of US taxation and public finance since 1941, attempting to understand the political, social and economic forces that have shaped the current regime.

This volume unites the work theologians, historians, literary critics, and philosophers to explore the interaction between Enlightenment ideals and American religion. The essays focus on the Enlightenment's effect on the major religious traditions and explore religion in the thinking of such representative figures as Edwards, Emerson, Lincoln, and Eliot.

Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period.

Between the Blocs, published in 1990, examines the phenomenon of Europe's neutral analysis of the phenomenon of Europe's natural and non-aligned states. It features many of the pre-eminent scholars and political figures who have crafted the shape and meaning of the modern policy of neutrality and nonalignment in contemporary Europe.

Leading specialists on South Asia assess the progress and problems of India and Pakistan, their foreign and defense policies, and their relations with the United States.

Traditionally, the study of the Middle East has focused on Islam and on the regime, without accounting for the contrary forces of scepticism, liberty, and creativity. This volume examines how Middle Eastern peoples in the past two centuries lived and flourished outside the structures of established religion and the state.

Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.

Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions.