For sale in CIS only! From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Victory" in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blai...

For sale in CIS only! "History's Spoiled Children" is the story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a modern European state. In some respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could be likened to those encounter...

For sale in CIS only! Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus in Israeli society: politics was split between left and right, but its peo...

For sale in CIS only! Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organisation and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Ide...

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

For sale in CIS only! "Why Europe Intervenes in Africa" analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who h...

For sale in CIS only! "Cyber war is coming", announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cybe...

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah (JuD), since the early 1990s. Linking the group's narratives to the process of Islamisation...

For sale in CIS only! Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rusi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberatio...