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Political Science

Negotiating Relief The Dialectics of Humanitarian Space

Acuto Michele

ISBN: PB: 9781849042666, ISBN: HB: 9781849042383, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on a dangerous dichotomy between 'aid givers' and 'relief takers' that largely misr...

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Political Science

Indian Ocean Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies

Sheriff Abdul, Ho Enseng

ISBN: PB: 9781849044264, ISBN: HB: 9781849044271, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Indian Ocean" was the first venue of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and South China Sea. Inspired by the insights of Fernand Braudel, and by Michael Mollat, who saw it as 'a zone of encounters and contacts ......

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil

Fontes Paulo, de Hollanda Bernardo Buarque

ISBN: PB: 9781849044172, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...

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Political Science

Good Project Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason

Krause Monika

ISBN: PB: 9780226131368, ISBN: HB: 9780226131221, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 2 tables

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsu...

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Criminology

Arresting Citizenship The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control

Lerman Amy E., Weaver Vesla M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137834, ISBN: HB: 9780226137667, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 figures, 5 tables

The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. Many more were never convicted, but are nonetheless subject to surveillance by the state. Never before h...

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Military

Political Science

Endgame for ETA Elusive Peace in the Basque Country

Whitfield Teresa

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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Political Science

Failing to Protect The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights

Freedman Rosa

ISBN: PB: 9781849044097, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, littl...

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Political Science

Politics and Power in the Maghreb Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring

Willis Michael

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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Law

Political Science

Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

Magliocca Gerard N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205824, ISBN: HB: 9780300153149, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach t...

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Political Science

Democracy in Retreat The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

Kurlantzick Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300205800, Yale University Press, April 2014
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic – especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansi...

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