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Africa

Political Science

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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Political Science

America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Criminology

Political Science

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions

Clarke Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781849048774, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, t...

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Political Science

Biography & Memoires

Daim Zainuddin Malaysia's Revolutionary and Troubleshooter

Backman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9786167339955, Prestel Publishing, River Books, September 2018
244 pp., 23x15.9 cm

Daim Zainuddin is one of Asia's cleverest politicians and policy makers, as well as one of its most controversial. Twice, rescuing the Malaysian economy from near collapse, he has also been instrumental in restructuring the Malaysian economy - in par...

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Political Science

Enchanted America How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

Oliver J. Eric, Wood Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226578507, ISBN: HB: 9780226578477, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 line drawings, 2 tables

America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens re...

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Middle East

Political Science

Defeat is an Orphan How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

MacDonald Myra

ISBN: PB: 9781787380288, ISBN: HB: 9781849046411, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size a...

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Political Science

Islam

Political Islam in Tunisia The History of Ennahda

Wolf Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781787380332, ISBN: HB: 9781849048262, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Political Islam in Tunisia" uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Al-Nahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-2011 and the overthrow of Ben Ali'...

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Political Science

Biography & Memoires

Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping

Bougon Francois

ISBN: PB: 9781849049849, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's "Little Red Book" with the "Analects" of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology o...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Menasseh ben Israel Rabbi of Amsterdam

Nadler Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300224108, Yale University Press, August 2018
312 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Becoming Political Spinoza's Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment

Skeaff Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226555478, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, "Becoming Politi...

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