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Political Science

Guardians of the Arab State When Militaries Intervene in Politics, from Iraq to Mauritania

Gaub Florence

ISBN: HB: 9781849046480, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Guardians of the Arab State" explains clearly and concisely how and why military organisations become involved in politics across the Middle East and North Africa, identifying four key factors: a high degree of organisational...

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Middle East

Political Science

Gateways to the World Port Cities in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849045636, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world's fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. "Gateways to the World" presents an in-depth, systematic, and multi-disciplinary appr...

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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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Asia

Political Science

Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Convergence

Mills Greg, Kilcullen David, Davis Dickie, Spencer David

ISBN: HB: 9781849046282, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! No country has managed as rapid and positive a turnaround in governance and security conditions this century as Colombia. In 1999, FARC and ELN rebels were literally at the gates of Bogota, and Colombia was a country synonymous...

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Political Science

Going to War in Iraq When Citizens and the Press Matter

Feldman Stanley, Huddy Leonie, Marcus George E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226304236, ISBN: HB: 9780226304069, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 figures, 12 tables

How was the Bush administration able to convince both Congress and the American public to support the plan to go to war against Iraq in spite of poorly supported claims about the danger Saddam Hussein posed? Conventional wisdom holds that, because ne...

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Political Science

Global Common Good Intercultural Perspectives on a Just and Ecological Transformation

Reder Michael, Risse Verena, Hirschbrunn Katharina, Stoll Georg

ISBN: PB: 9783593503189, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Global challenges such as poverty, climate change, and economic crises are all problems that the global community must face collectively. But in order to do so successfully, we need to engage in a continued intercultural dialogue on alternative appro...

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Political Science

Global Village Myth Distance, War, and the Limits of Power

Porter Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781849045445, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Does technology kill distance? Does the "globalisation" of the world make the US and its allies vulnerable to violence, terrorism or cyber-assault? "Globalism" – the belief that changes in information, transport and communicati...

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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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Political Science

Great American City Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Sampson Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055688, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 1 table, 6 halftones, 46 line illus.

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories pla...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Good Italy, Bad Italy Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

Emmott Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300197167, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Once Italy was Europe's own emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is a major threat to the future of the Euro, and of the European Union as a whole, as a political sy...

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