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This book, first published in 1969, surveys Soviet policies and Middle Eastern responses during the turbulent 1960s. It deals with changing moods of Turkey and Iran, the Arab-Israeli conflict in the context of big power rivalry in the Middle East, the Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean, and the new Soviet interest in Gulf oil. The author also reviews the changing orientations of Middle Eastern communism in the new age of polycentrism.

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The most extensive sourcebook and documentary history on the issue of human rights. Human rights. Philosophers have tried to define them. Men and women have sacrificed their lives for them. Wars have been fought over them. Leaders and constitutions have promised them to people. Today they have emerged as an issue that can serve to bring the world together-or tear it apart. This completely revised and updated anthology includes recent events, c...

A study of how fanaticism and paranoia could be manifested in indiscriminate terrorism in years to come. Written by an expert in international security. One of the key issues of twenty-first century politics.

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Putinism contains much more than historical analysis. Looking to the future, Walter Laqueur explains how the tendency to view Russia as a Cold War relic is dangerous and premature. Russia can and will continue to challenge the West and it is in our best interest to figure out exactly who it is we are facing-and what they want-before it is too late.

A remarkable story of the German industrialist who first warned the West of Nazi plans for the mass murder of Jews.

Assassinations, bombings, hijackings, diplomatic kidnappings -- terrorism is the most publicized form of political violence. The history of terrorism goes back a very long time, but the very fact that there is such a history has frequently been ignored, even suppressed. This may be because terrorism has not appeared with equal intensity at all times. When terrorism reappeared in the late twentieth century after a period of relative calm, there...

Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.

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Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1980.

Never before has intelligence played such a critical role in life and death policy decisions. Whether it is a question of monitoring compliance by hostile nations with arms control efforts, assessing foreign intervention in civil wars, or determining fundamentalist involvement in terrorist organizations, vital decisions depend on the quality of the intelligence at the disposal of policymakers. In this pathbreaking volume, originally released i...

This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survi...

Originally published in 1993, Worlds Ago is not only about the politics of the times, but also about the world into which Walter Laqueur was born and raised and the world that shaped him: pre-war Germany in 1921, where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi party

Young Germany explores the revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. It is a readable history of the Free Youth Movement, one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background.

. In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents . Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless. According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks What happens when a falling birthrate collides with uncontrolled immigration? The Last Days of Europe explores how a massive influx from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East h...

Walter Laqueur offers both a comprehensive history of Antisemitism and an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious Antisemitism-stretching back to the middle ages-to a racial Antisemitism that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author then uses this historical account as bac...

Europas Bevölkerung schrumpft und vergreist rapide. Zugleich verändert die verstärkte Zuwanderung, zumal aus dem islamischen Raum, das Gesicht des Kontinents. Walter Laqueur befaßt sich in seinem hellsichtigen Essay mit den politischen, sozialen und kulturellen Folgen dieser dramatischen Entwicklung und fragt nach der Zukunft des Kontinents.Die vorliegende Ausgabe wurde um zwei Interviews (Spiegel und WELTWOCHE) und ein aktuelles Vorwort ergän...