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Political Science

Media Studies

Identify and Sort How Digital Power Changed World Politics

Ansorge Josef Teboho

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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Political Science

Poetry

Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World

Alshaer Atef

ISBN: HB: 9781849043199, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226345673, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic wor...

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Middle East

Political Science

Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...

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Middle East

Political Science

Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...

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Political Science

Initiative to Stop the Violence Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

Al-Islamiyah Al-Gama'Ah, Jackson Sherman A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196771, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt's al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anw...

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Political Science

Negotiating Relief The Dialectics of Humanitarian Space

Acuto Michele

ISBN: PB: 9781849042666, ISBN: HB: 9781849042383, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on a dangerous dichotomy between 'aid givers' and 'relief takers' that largely misr...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq's Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

al-Ali Zaid

ISBN: HB: 9780300187267, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Since the withdrawal of US occupying forces, international attention has shifted away from Iraq – but life for Iraqis has become no easier. Deadly bombings are still all too common, sectarian violence has soared and all-pervading corruption means tha...

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Political Science

Timing and Turnout How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups

Anzia Sarah F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226086811, ISBN: HB: 9780226086781, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 13 line drawings, 28 tables

Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elec...

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Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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