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Jeffrey A Engel
Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of Programming, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Texas A&M University.
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The Velvet Delusion
Jeffrey A Engel Series: The World in Words 2009-11-27With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non-violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies. But the optimists have proved to be misguided, as the world’s powers, great and small, drew their own, often conflicting, lessons from the past.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 8199
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Evil Personified
Jeffrey A Engel Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2009-10-28
Equating war with individual evil has become ubiquitous – if not universal – in contemporary international politics. But, while such rhetoric makes wars easier to justify, easier to wage, and easier to support, it also makes them harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14673
