Recent Books:
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Every Vote: The Most Contentious Elections in American History. (With Robert
Dudley). Release: September 2008 What
would have happened if Aaron Burr, rather than Jefferson, had become president?
What if Nixon had defeated Kennedy in 1960? What if Al Gore had become
president in 2001 instead of George W. Bush? Using six cases, political
scientists Robert Dudley and Eric Shiraev argue that engaging in this
counterfactual exercise provides an excellent opportunity to revisit history,
learn from its lessons, and relate to contemporary elections. Publisher:
Potomac Books.
This text introduces the field of cross-cultural psychology, discusses basic methodology for cross-cultural research, and explores the fields of sensation and perception, consciousness, intelligence, human development, emotion, motivation, social perception and interaction, and psychological disorders from a cross-cultural perspective.
The Soviet Union: Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society (with V. Shlapentokh and E. Carroll) Release: October 2008
This book is a humble attempt to make a small contribution to social sciences and history. This is a brief study of how people perceived, explained, and interpreted information available to them about the social and political developments in a country that no longer exists. We chose the Soviet Union as an example to demonstrate to our readers how different observers at different times looked at the same society, the same political institutions, and the same facts, and yet perceived everything they saw so differently. Which of these perceptions were accurate, correct?
America: Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation?London/New York: Ashgate
Co-edited with Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods, 2005.
Reviews:
International Studies Review (2006) 8, 306–308
European Journal of Communication