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Political Science

How Long Will Israel Survive The Threat From Within

Carlstrom Gregg

ISBN: HB: 9781849048040, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus in Israeli society: politics was split between left and right, but its peo...

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Black Wind, White Snow The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism

Clover Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300226454, ISBN: HB: 9780300120707, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism", a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in t...

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Africa

Horn of Africa State Formation and Decay

Clapham Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048286, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contempo...

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Criminology

Hidden Power The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime

Cockayne James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046350, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What should we make of the outsized role organised crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the conv...

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Africa

Political Science

Guinea-Bissau Micro-State to "Narco-State"

Chabal Patrick, Green Toby

ISBN: PB: 9781849045216, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked to its emergence as West Africa's first "narco-state". Yet what does this mean for the country and the nature of the state in postcoloni...

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Political Science

Selling the Future The Perils of Predicting Global Politics

Colonomos Ariel

ISBN: HB: 9781849045537, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In an age of uncertainty, those who can anticipate revolution, the outbreak of wars, or which states might default are much in demand. The marketplace of ideas about the future is huge, and includes "wonks", scholars and pundit...

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America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Political Science

Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...

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Political Science

Legislating in the Dark Information and Power in the House of Representatives

Curry James M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226281711, ISBN: HB: 9780226281681, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 figures, 17 tables

The 2009 financial stimulus bill ran to more than 1,100 pages, yet it wasn't even given to Congress in its final form until thirteen hours before debate was set to begin, and it was passed twenty-eight hours later. How are representatives expected to...

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Wildcat Currency How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy

Castronova Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300212495, ISBN: HB: 9780300186130, Yale University Press, August 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federa...

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