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Political Science

Combating Jihadism American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism

Mendelsohn Barak

ISBN: PB: 9780226520124, ISBN: HB: 9780226520117, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
304 pp., 23x15 cm

Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadi ideology is distinctive in its ambition to abandon the principle of state sovereignty, overthrow the modern state system, and replace it with an extremely radical interpretation of an Islamic world...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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Political Science

Cutting the Fuse The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It

Pape Robert A., Feldman James K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645650, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 34 line illus.

Almost every week, suicide bombers attack. We know the danger – suicide attacks kill more people than all other forms of terrorism – and in response we have sacrificed the lives of soldiers and civilians, trillions of dollars, and America's reputatio...

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Political Science

Colonial Signs of International Relations

Muppidi Himadeep

ISBN: PB: 9781849040150, Hurst Publishers, March 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Himadeep Muppidi's book traces the subtle influence of colonial forms of knowledge on modern schools of international relations and follows the translation and transformation of this knowledge within post colonial settings. Con...

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Asia

Political Science

China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?

Meyer Claude

ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Complicated Man The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Knew Him

Takiff Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300177688, Yale University Press, November 2011
528 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life fr...

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Political Science

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

Niebuhr Reinhold

ISBN: PB: 9780226584003, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 20.5x13 cm

"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy....

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Political Science

Cultures of Border Control Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Zaiotti Ruben

ISBN: PB: 9780226977874, ISBN: HB: 9780226977867, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 9 tables, 2 line illus.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Set...

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Political Science

Contesting Development Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia

Barron Patrick, Diprose Rachael, Woolcock Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300126310, Yale University Press, March 2011
352 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Analyzes a highly successful participatory development programme in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.

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Political Science

What Was Communism?

Catastrophe in Indonesia

Lane Max

ISBN: HB: 9781906497675, Seagull Books, February 2011
102 pp., 25x15 cm

In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging Indonesia towards socialism, when a mutiny coordinate...

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