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Gypsy "Menace" Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781849042208, Hurst Publishers, June 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Across Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community...
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£20,00
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Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226031361, ISBN: HB: 9780226031354, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 tables, 2 halftones, 5 line illus.
Border fixity – the proscription of foreign conquest and the annexation of homeland territory – has, since World War II, become a powerful norm in world politics. This development has been said to increase stability and peace in international relatio...
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£30,00
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£84,00
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Global Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781849041812, ISBN: HB: 9781849041829, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Global Palestine" offers a unique perspective on one of the world's most enduring political controversies by exploring a deceptively simple question: what does Palestine mean for the globe? The book begins from three overlappi...
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£17,99
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£35,00
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Gentle Monster Brussels or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780857420237, Seagull Books, November 2011
64 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm
The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. The Brussels bureaucracy that sets many of the EU's policies feels remote to its citizens, yet the inf...
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£7,00
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Grand Strategies Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
ISBN: PB: 9780300171334, Yale University Press, May 2011
384 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 5 black&white illus.
"The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm", writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. "It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out". A distingu...
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£15,99
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Globalization and the Circumpolar North
ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm
The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....
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£19,00
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Giving Offence
ISBN: HB: 9781906497019, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.2 cm
Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years – and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer – visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the genera...
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£15,00
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Guerrilla Movements in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones
Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...
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£22,50
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£75,00
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Global Vigilantes
ISBN: PB: 9781850658382, Hurst Publishers, December 2007
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Vigilantes and organised vigilantism are a growing phenomenon, as this book amply demonstrates. From Northern Ireland to West Africa, from Bombay or Moscow, vigilante movements and ideologies have widespread appeal. Whether as...
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£35,00
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Global Foreigners An Anthology of Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781905422425, ISBN: HB: 9781905422418, Seagull Books, December 2006
320 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 12 halftones
In Waxing West, Daniella, newly arrived in the US from Romania, is haunted by the ghosts of the deposed dictator Ceausescu and his wife Elena until she experiences 9/11. Thida San in Eyes of the Heart, cannot rid herself of the horrific memory of her...
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£19,00
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£79,00
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