Designed to offer an empirical counterpart to Cultural Theory by Michael Thompson, Richard J. Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky, this work applies the theoretical concepts of that publication to key areas in methodology, public policy, and history.
Meticulously researched and textured with fascinating details, these essays "show" as well as "tell" where Russia has been in the past fifteen years and where it is going.
This book explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent.