В книге английского журналиста Томаса де Ваала рассказывается о причинах и ходе армяно-азербайджанского конфликта в Нагорном Карабахе. Десятки тысяч людей погибли, более миллиона покинули свои дома, экономике Азербайджана и Армении был нанесен колоссальный ущерб. В основу повествования легли документы, личные наблюдения и многочисленные интервью, взятые автором у армян и азербайджанцев – как у известных политиков, так и у обычных людей, вольных и невольных участников кровавого противоборства.

Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations beween the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency, then goes on to provide the fullest explanation yet for why the two peoples merged and the Normans became English. Drawing on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging from charters and legal documents to saints' lives and romances, it provides a complex exploration of ethnic relations on the levels of personal interaction, cultural assimilation, and the construction of identity. As a result, the work provides an important case study in pre-modern ethnic relations that combines both old and new approaches, and sheds new light on some of the most important developments in English history.

Pakistan and the United States have been locked in a deadly embrace for decades. Successive American presidents from both parties have pursued narrow short-term interests in the South Asian nation, and many of the resulting policies proved counterproductive in the long term, contributing to political instability and a radicalized public. This background has helped set the stage for the global jihad confronting much of the world today. In "Deadly Embrace," Bruce Riedel explores the forces behind these developments, explaining how and why the history of Pakistan-U.S. relations has unfolded as it has. He explains what the United States can do now to repair the damage and how it can avoid making similar mistakes in dealing with extremist forces in Pakistan and beyond. Riedel is one of America's foremost authorities on U.S. security, South Asia, and terrorism, and he helped to craft President Obama's 2009 speech referring to the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands as the "most dangerous region of the world." He follows up "The Search for al Qaeda," his influential 2008 analysis of the terror network's ideology and leadership, with a sober, authoritative, and sometimes alarming look at the history, importance, and current role of Pakistan, epicenter of the global jihad movement, beginning with the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations since the partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947. The relationship between Pakistan and America is a fascinating yet muddled story, meandering through periods of friendship and enmity, symbiosis and distrust: it's no wonder that people in both nations are confused. "Deadly Embrace" explains how the United States, on several occasions, actually helped the foes of democracy in Pakistan and aided in the development of the very enemies it is now fighting in the region. The book seeks to unravel this paradox, revealing and interpreting the tortuous path of relations between two very different nations, which remain, in many ways, stuck with each other.

Монография посвящена изучению современных этнических и религиозных конфликтов в ряде важнейших регионов мира (Европа, Канада, Центральная Азия, Ближний Восток, Северная Африка, Индия). В ней анализируются четыре типа разных конфликтов: спонтанные конфликты, погромы, отличающиеся быстротечностью, слабой организованностью и повышенной эмоциональностью участников; латентные конфликты в рамках политического процесса; открытые вооруженные конфликты; религиозные конфликты, которые обычно описываются как «столкновение цивилизаций». В книге освещаются история конфликта, причины и поводы, приведшие к нему, особенности противоборствующих сторон, преследуемые ими цели и интересы, соотношение рациональных и иррациональных мотиваций конфликта, роль этнической солидарности и эмоций, связанных с участием в «общем деле», эскалация конфликта, характер насильственных действий, их объяснения, даваемые обеими сторонами, участие в конфликта третьих сторон (мировых держав и сообществ, а также роль диаспор), выход из конфликта (особенности миротворческого переговороного процесса). Уделяется внимание коллективной травме, влияющий на социальную память и играющей большую роль в идеологии конфликтности, а также накладывающей отпечаток на взаимоотношения бывших противников после окончания конфликта. Для историков, этнологов, социологов, политологов, а также преподавателей высших учебных заведений гуманитарного профиля.

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world and delegitimized empire after empire. Nationalists created nation-states wherever the power configuration favored them, often at the end of prolonged wars of secession. The elites of many of these new states were institutionally too weak for nation-building and favored their own ethnic communities. Ethnic rebels challenged such exclusionary power structures in violation of the principles of self-rule, and neighboring governments sometimes intervened into these struggles over the state. 'Waves of War' demonstrates why nation-state formation and ethnic politics are crucial to understand the civil and international wars of the past 200 years.