The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity

The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity 

By: Vojtech Masni 

Rarely has the present receded into the past more quickly than in the years that followed the end of the Cold War. Normally, people sense a continuity; even after great wars that break it do they feel an urge to come to grips with their recent experience by relating it to their new condition. No such urge has grown out of the sudden and unexpected denouement of the East-West conflict, breeding instead the bizarre notion that history itself may have ended.1 Although a proliferation of crises soon exposed the fallacy of such a notion, the forty-year rivalry has continued to fade from memory. That a contest of such intensity and magnitude could safely be relegated to oblivion ‘would seem too good to be true; even if it were so, the reasons why would all the more cry for an explanation. [download]

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Space Exploration for Dummies

Space Exploration for Dummies 

By: Chyntia Phillips, Ph.D

Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up at the skies and wondered what was up there. Amazingly, with all these centuries of sky-watching, it’s only been in the last 50 years that humans have actually achieved the ability to visit those points of light in the sky. We’ve sent robotic spacecraft to take pictures, and we’ve also sent astronauts to experience seeing the Earth from the heavens. Humans have walked on the Moon, and future plans call for people to return to the Moon and continue on to Mars and beyond. Space exploration is one of humanity’s grandest adventures, filled with stories of amazing discoveries and narrow escapes. It’s the result of incredible feats of technological innovation and has laid the groundwork for major advances here on Earth. [download]

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The State as Utopia

The State as Utopia

By: Jurgen Georg Backhaus

When we started this project, the question was: is there a difference in the way seafaring and landlocked states visualise the commonwealth? The hypothesis was that Continental cultures develop utopias that are different from maritime cultures. This is clearly not true. In this sense, this volume follows the refutation of the Schumpeter Hypothesis. The question is discussed, if the hypothesis is refuted, why is it still relevant and useful? The answer provided in the book is that the Schumpeter Hypothesis remains important as it charts out an entire research program. The Hypothesis serves as a benchmarking instrument in defining the boundaries between public and private sectors in OECD countries and beyond. The Hypothesis may turn out to define the grammar of discourse for constitutional economic policy in the European and the OECD community. [download]

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U.S.Leadership, History and Bilateral Relations in Northeast Asia

U.S.Leadership, History and Bilateral Relations in Northeast Asia 

By: Gilbert Rozman 

In 1950, history seemed all but forgotten as the specter of communism hung ominously overNortheast Asia. The Chinese Communist Party had just fought its way to power in a revolution aimed at sweeping aside history, especially Confucianism, which was seen as leavingChinabackward and ill prepared to rise up and modernize. The Korean War had turned Koreans away from memories of the past that united them to a fateful choice about their future as part either of the wave of communism or of the U.S.-led “free world” bloc. InJapan, preparations were under way for the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which focused on putting aside the legacy ofJapan’s colonialism and wars in order to rebuild as part of the U.S.-led bloc. Large numbers of Chinese, Japanese, and South Koreans were inclined to condemn their past for the sorrows and weakness it had brought; few defended it. [download]  

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Sociology for Dummies

Sociology for Dummies 

By: Jay Gabler, Ph.D. 

Welcome to sociology! I’ve written this book to introduce you to one of the biggest and most fascinating disciplines in all of science. Yes, you read that right: Sociology is a science. Sociologists don’t use beakers and test tubes, but like natural scientists, they do seek to learn about the world by creating theories and testing them with systematic observations. What makes sociology both so interesting and so challenging is its subject: the social world. Society is huge, and hugely complex: there are answers to sociological questions, but there usually aren’t any easy answers. In addition to the challenge of answering sociological questions, there’s the challenge of asking them that is, of thinking about society as a subject of objective, scientific study. [download]

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