"Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes...

This volume explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime. It explains how the Six (the Nine after 1972)...

A historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization. This exploitation has not gone unchallenged, however....