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Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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Islam

Political Science

Hezbollah The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God

Levitt Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781849043335, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Hezbollah – Lebanon's 'Party of God' – is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon's largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisa...

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Asia

Political Science

Chinese Question in Central Asia Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese Factor

Laruelle Marlene, Peyrouse Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9781849041799, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organiza...

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Political Science

Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under the Assads

Scheller Bente

ISBN: PB: 9781849042864, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-ser...

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Political Science

Parties Versus the People How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans

Edwards Mickey

ISBN: PB: 9780300198218, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that – so far – has proved intractable. After every election voters discover yet again that political "leaders" aren't leading. Instead they are simply qua...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Political Science

Power in Concert The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance

Mitzen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226060118, ISBN: HB: 9780226060088, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With "Power in Concert", Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the f...

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Political Science

Birth of Territory

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226202570, ISBN: HB: 9780226202563, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why

Hart Roderick P., Childers Jay P., Lind Colene J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.

It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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