"To better understand the nature of the sectarian warfare in Lebanon, the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies and the Central Intelligence Agency co-sponsored a workshop on the Lebanese situation, ...

This novel is set in eighteenth-century Italy and focuses on the rise and conflicts of Odo Valsecca, who deals with virtually every social class of the period.

This monograph approaches three issues in contemporary Egypt: failures of governance and political development, the continued strength of Islamism, and counterterrorism.