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Overview: war and history -- The first military empire: the Assyrians -- The great strategy of the Byzantine Empire -- The Arabs -- The nomads of the Eurasian steppes -- The Seljuks, Mameluks, and the Crusades -- The Mongol Dmpire -- Tamerlane -- The Ottomans -- Safavid Iran -- The Ming and Chinese politico-military traditions -- The Manchu and the end of the nomads -- The Mughals and Islam in India -- Russia and the end of the Tatars -- The ascent of Europe -- The time of revolutions -- Guerilla warfare -- From total war to asymmetrical conflict -- Conclusion

Introduction: Israel and the world powers / Colin Shindler -- Israel and Britain : tipping the scales of balance / Neill Lochery -- Israel and France : relations from 1948 to today / François Lafon -- Israel and the United States : an alliance like none other / David Andrew Weinberg -- Israel and India : Israel's new friend / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- Israel and China : mutual demystification in Chinese-Israeli relations / Yitzhak Shichor -- Israel and Russia : Jerusalem and its relations with Moscow and Putin / Robert O. Freedman -- Israel and the European Union : between rhetoric and reality / Raffaella A. Del Sarto -- Israel and Brazil : an emerging power and its quest for influence in the Middle East / Samuel Feldberg -- Israel and South Africa : the rise and fall of a secret relationship / Sasha Polakow-Suransky -- Israel and Japan : from erratic contact to recognition to boycott to normalization / Jonathan Goldstein -- Israel, Turkey and Greece : dramatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean / Amikam Nachmani -- Israel and Germany : from former foes to distant friends / Michael Wolffsohn -- Israel and Australia : a medium power 'punching above its weight' / Suzanne D. Rutland

"In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his book introduces and applies appropriate concepts of equilibrium and evolutionary dynamics, showing how key issues can be modelled as games and considering the ways in which evolution sometimes supports, and sometimes does not support, rational choice. He discusses topics including how bargaining with neighbours promotes sharing of resources, the diversity of behavior in ultimatum bargaining in small societies, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and an investigation into signalling games and the spontaneous emergence of meaningful communication. His book will be of great interest to readers in philosophy of science, social science, evolutionary biology, game and decision theory, and political theory"--

This book offers a new interpretation of the great divergence and great convergence stories. It shows how Western countries grew rich and why parts of the developing world did or didn't catch up with the West during 1500-1950, with a focus China and Russia.

Im November jährt sich der Fall der Berliner Mauer zum 25. Mal. Aus diesem Anlass erscheinen Flix' Comics mit Kindheitserinnerungen aus der Zeit vor der Wende in einer überarbeiteten Auflage, die bisher unveröffentlichte Episoden enthält (vgl. ID-A 45/09). So vereint der Band mittlerweile 30 verschiedene, ganz individuelle Kurzberichte, meist humorvoll vor ernstem Hintergrund. Passt nicht nur in diesem Herbst in jeden Bibliotheksbestand, auch zusätzlich zur Vorauflage