“…Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Decades of War, Decades of Transition -- 1. Balkan States and Imperial Borderlands before the Balkan Wars -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overview -- The rights of all people -- The justness of freedom -- The institutions of democracy -- Freedom's moral goods : wealth and prosperity -- Freedom's moral goods : no famine ever -- Freedom's moral goods : minimizing political violence -- On freedom's moral goods : eliminating democide -- On freedom's moral goods : eliminating war…”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"foreigners" in military service before 1815 -- Attractive conflicts: the changing ideological landscape -- A search for meaning: deciphering motivations -- Thoughts of home: a typology of volunteer-state relations -- Controlling the flow: governmental responses, legislation, and support networks -- Winning wars? assessing military significance -- The dark side: troublemakers, soldiers of misfortune, and terrorists -- Links in a chain: memory and myth…”

“…Life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945…”