Political Psychology of Appeasement

Walter Laqueur was director of the Wiener Library and the Institute of Contemporary History in London, UK. He was founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary History, and other publications. Laqueur taught at Harvard, USA the University of Chicago, USA Johns Hopkins, and Tel Aviv University, Israel. His last academic position was university professor at Georgetown, USA.

• Europe; Finlandizationn; The Fall of Europe? “Eurocommunism” and Its Friends; Russia Beyond Brezhnev; Essays in Futurism; Six Scenarios for 1980; The Next Ten Years; Terrorism; Karl Heinzen and the Origins of Modern Terrorism; The Futility of Terrorism; Second Thoughts on Terrorism; World Affairs and U.S. Foreign Policy; The Psychology of Appeasement; The World and President Carter; America and the World: The Next Four Years, Confronting the Problems; The Issue of Human Rights; Third World Fantasies; Fascism —The Second Coming; Peace in the Middle East; Peace With Egypt?; Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?; Is Peace Still Possible in the Middle East?: The View from Tel Aviv; Judaica; The World of Mr. Begin; Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem—The Controversy Revisited

The author himself is a phenomenon of our times: prodigiously prolific, he is at home in several countries, institutions and disciplines... Stimulating, clever, versatile." -Fritz Stern, Foreign Affairs "Lively collection of reprinted essays ... which reflect the contemporary preoccupations of the author."-Michael Leifer, Political Studies