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America

American Diplomacy Fiftieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition

Kennan George F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226431482, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
224 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm

For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of a...

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Political Science

Against the Odds Politicians, Institutions and the Struggle Against Poverty

Melo Marcus Andre, Ng'ethe Njuguna, Manor James

ISBN: PB: 9781849041195, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Against the Odds" is a Machiavellian study of the machinations of three senior politicians in quite different developing countries who adroitly played the tough political game in ways that reduced poverty. The three – former...

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Political Science

Middle East

Across the Line of Control Inside Pakistan-Administered Kashmir

Puri Luv

ISBN: HB: 9781849041737, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Kashmir issue has been a subject of international attention ever since the subcontinent was partitioned in1947. The clash between India and Pakistan over the coveted territory led to the emergence of Indian-administered and...

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Asia

Political Science

Anti-Marcos Struggle Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

Thompson Mark R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184150, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because...

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Political Science

Middle East

Arab Revolution Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising

Filiu Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9781849041591, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons are already being learnt from this grass-root process,...

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Political Science

Ahead of Change How Crowd Psychology and Cybernetics Transform the Way We Govern

Malik Constantin

ISBN: PB: 9783593392042, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
173 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Wars, revolutions, and financial disasters do not have to happen. There are ways to transform governmental policies so as to avoid such catastrophes. What is needed – argues management expert Constantin Malik – is to anticipate change and to prepare...

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Political Science

After the Rubicon Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War

Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453569, ISBN: HB: 9780226453552, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 16 tables, 2 halftones

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Atlas of World Hunger

Bassett Thomas J., Winter-Nelson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226039077, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 35 tables, 47 halftones, 3 line drawings, 103 colour illus.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy

Mahdi Muhsin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501871, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi – widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought – distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy....

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Architect of Global Jihad The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri

Lia Brynjar

ISBN: PB: 9781850659914, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
510 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the...

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