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Faith, Unity, Discipline The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849045179, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an...
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£40,00
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Six Authors in Search of Justice Engaging With Political Transitions
ISBN: HB: 9781849046329, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering transitional justice as conventionally defined, this work explores broader conce...
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£20,00
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Bosnia's Paralysed Peace
ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...
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£16,99
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£45,00
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Tamils and the Nation India and Sri Lanka Compared
ISBN: PB: 9781849044783, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world po...
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£22,00
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Bullets and Bulletins Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
ISBN: PB: 9781849045643, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Bullets and Bulletins" takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the reverberations of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with...
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£25,00
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Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849043458, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. "Tribes and States in a Ch...
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£45,00
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Caretaking Democratization The Military and Political Change in Myanmar
ISBN: HB: 9781849046589, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economi...
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£35,00
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Circassian A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent
ISBN: HB: 9781849045780, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Esref Kuscubas? remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic...
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£25,00
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Identify and Sort How Digital Power Changed World Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781849044066, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The advent of information technology ushered in new forms of political power. Machines play crucial roles in how states see, understand, and act, and scrutiny of these processes lies at the heart of "Identify and Sort". It fram...
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£30,00
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Visions of Development Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75
ISBN: PB: 9781849045711, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Visions of Development" examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its...
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£25,00
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