Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in

How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violenc

Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.

Explores how the American government's relationship with the country of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, between 1965 and 1980 affected the interracial dynamics in

Whatever one may think about the rights and wrongs of colonial rule, it is hard to deny that during the first half of the this century those African countries,