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Stalin New Biography of a Dictator

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Favorov Nora Seligman

ISBN: PB: 9780300219784, Yale University Press, May 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Milli...

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Political Science

Europe isn't Working

Elliott Larry, Atkinson Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300221923, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the a...

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Future of Illusion Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

Kahn Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226379371, ISBN: HB: 9780226083872, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological under...

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New Turkey' and its Discontents

Waldman Simon A., Caliskan Emre

ISBN: PB: 9781849045667, ISBN: HB: 9781849045650, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded hugely, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanw...

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Africa

Political Science

Guinea-Bissau Micro-State to "Narco-State"

Chabal Patrick, Green Toby

ISBN: PB: 9781849045216, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked to its emergence as West Africa's first "narco-state". Yet what does this mean for the country and the nature of the state in postcoloni...

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Philosophy

Naive Readings Reveilles Political and Philosophic

Lerner Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780226353296, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they h...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life Reflections on Rousseau's "Reveries" in Two Books

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226074030, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

"On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study...

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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Political Science

Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Political Science

Selling the Future The Perils of Predicting Global Politics

Colonomos Ariel

ISBN: HB: 9781849045537, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In an age of uncertainty, those who can anticipate revolution, the outbreak of wars, or which states might default are much in demand. The marketplace of ideas about the future is huge, and includes "wonks", scholars and pundit...

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