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Endgame for ETA Elusive Peace in the Basque Country
ISBN: PB: 9781849043465, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
402 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied e...
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£35,00
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Politics and Power in the Maghreb Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring
ISBN: PB: 9781849043922, ISBN: HB: 9781849042000, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why...
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£17,99
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Systemic Risk The Myth of Rational Finance and the Crisis of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9783593399881, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
282 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 23 colour plates, 2 halftones
Five years have passed since the outbreak of one of the worst financial crises the world has ever witnessed. Yet, despite the exceedingly diverse range of publications that have sought to explain the causes and the logic of the crisis, central questi...
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£41,50
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Democracy against Development Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
ISBN: PB: 9780226063478, ISBN: HB: 9780226063164, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 8 tables
Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and...
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£24,00
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£73,00
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Politics of the Food Supply U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780300181869, Yale University Press, March 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they h...
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£26,00
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In the Shadow of Just Wars Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action
ISBN: PB: 9781850657378, ISBN: HB: 9781850657361, Hurst Publishers, March 2004
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian organizations were offered US government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'. In Kosavo, Timor, Sierra Leon...
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£19,99
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£45,00
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