The first authoritative history of hedge funds; from their rebel beginnings to their role in defining the future of finance.

The glittering economic success of the New Asia has a dark side of drug trafficking, illegal migration, labor abuses, and pollution. These so-called "transnational problems" are grabbing headlines an…

The evolution of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, and later Russia, is traced through the tumultuous and uncertain period following the end of the cold war. It examines how American policymakers—particularly in the executive branch—coped with the opportunities and challenges presented by the new Russia.

Read an excerpt of The Ideas That Conquered the World. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between countries, democr…

Read an excerpt of The New Russian Foreign Policy. Nothing is more important for the security of Europe and the peace of the world than the foreign policy of the new Russia, which remains the worl…