This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory from poverty to a sustainable high rate of economic growth

In this book, readers of the English language can now get full access in one volume, which is dedicated to the democratization movement in Korea. Spanning more than three decades from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, the democratization movement was responsible for overthrowing the country's authoritarian regime and establishing parliamentary democracy in 1987

It is secret that the events that occurred in the ottoman empire in the years preceding the First world war as well as during the dark period around 1915 were a planned attempt to eliminate the Armenians

The National Debt Redemption Movement was the first countrywide civic movement in Korean history: it lock off spontaneously in 1907 to protect national sovereignty by paying back the state's huge debt that had been forcibly imposed by Japan on its Korean protectorate

The photobook captures the breadth and scope of the heart and spirit of the Unites States

The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with the behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings, themselves and shows how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity, and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood—if we use the time wisely

This book traces Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1806 and Prussia's effort to recover from defeat to show how in one particular historical episode operational analyses together with institutional and political decisions eventually turned defeat to victory

Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war

In The Soviet-Afghan War the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's disappointing performance in that war in an effort to better understand what happened and why and what lessons should be taken from it. Lester Grau and Michael Gress's expert English translation of the general staff's study offers the very first publication in any language of this important and illuminating work

The logic of failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making, which can improve the skills of managers, politicians