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Anglo Nostalgia The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West
ISBN: HB: 9781787381414, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
234 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump promises to "make America great again", Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", and a majority of Russians still mourn the Sov...
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£25,00
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Leaders People Who Shaped the Last Century
ISBN: HB: 9781921024740, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 29x15 cm
The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievem...
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£14,99
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Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Doves Among Hawks Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements
ISBN: HB: 9781787380240, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiralling violence. Now, and esp...
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£50,00
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Dictators Without Borders Power and Money in Central Asia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243192, Yale University Press, January 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white ilus., 11 figures
Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is...
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£10,99
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Creating Political Presence The New Politics of Democratic Representation
ISBN: PB: 9780226588537, ISBN: HB: 9780226588360, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table
For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents' interests? How can representativ...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9781849048774, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, t...
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£35,00
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Season in the Congo
ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...
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£12,99
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£13,50
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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...
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£20,00
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Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849048422, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The contradictory trends of the "post-Arab Spring" landscape form both the backdrop to, and the focus of, this volume on the changing security dynamics of the Persian Gulf, defined as the six GCC states plus Iraq and Iran. The...
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£25,00
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