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Philosophy
Political Science
Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis
Allhoff Fritz
ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...
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Political Science
Good Fences, Bad Neighbors Border Fixity and International Conflict
Atzili Boaz
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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Political Science
America
Why Parties? A Second Look
Aldrich John H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...
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Political Science
Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy
Abramowitz Alan I.
ISBN: PB: 9780300168297, ISBN: HB: 9780300141627, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm, 41 black&white illus.
In this timely book, renowned political scientist Alan Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those w...
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Political Science
Young Turks The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-14
Ahmad Feroz
ISBN: PB: 9781850659105, Hurst Publishers, April 2010
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book, first published in 1973, was regarded on publication as the definitive study of the 'Young Turks', or Committee of Union and Progress, the name given to a group of Turkish army officers who sought to reform the Ottom...
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Political Science
Middle East
Dubai Gilded Cage
Ali Syed
ISBN: PB: 9780300152173, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration,...
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Islam
Political Science
Crisis of Islamic Civilization
Allawi Ali A.
ISBN: PB: 9780300164060, Yale University Press, February 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its...
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Biography & Memoires
Political Science
King Hussein of Jordan A Political Life
Ashton Nigel
ISBN: PB: 9780300163957, Yale University Press, February 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.
King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne in 1953, at the age of seventeen. He inherited a country that was riven with instability; the entire Middle East was in disarray following the 1948 war and the creation of Israel, and across the region tradi...
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Political Science
Europe
Idea of Communism
Ali Tariq
ISBN: HB: 9781906497262, Seagull Books, October 2009
96 pp., 18.8x11.4 cm
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failure...
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Asia
Political Science
China Returns to Africa A Superpower and a Continent Embrace
Alden Chris, Large Daniel, de Oliveira Ricardo Soares
ISBN: PB: 9781850658863, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The geopolitical landscape of contemporary China-Africa relations has provoked wide media interest. After being conspicuously overlooked during the G8's purported 'Year of Africa', the topic generated wider debate in the build-...
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