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A Very Short IntroductionThe award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers here a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. The author takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of seven problems that confronted Lincoln, setting these problems and Lincoln's responses against the larger world of trans-Atlantic liberal...

Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After CommunismEurope Undivided explores how the leverage of an enlarging EU has facilitated a        convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in        Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put        democratizing states on different...

The Emerging GiantIndia has gone from an economy that grew less than 1.5 percent per annum until the        1980 to more than 6 percent today. In the process, it has cut the proportion of poor        below the poverty line by half. This book offers the first comprehensive account of        the policy initiatives leading to this transformation. It...

The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years, but has been repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon extensive primary research, this is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the system....