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Political Science

Epp Derek A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529721, ISBN: HB: 9780226529691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 10 tables

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Red Scare seized the American public. While President Eisenhower cautioned restraint, his hand was forced, and NASA's budget had increased five thousand percent over its pre-Sputnik levels by the time Presi...

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Africa

Political Science

Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Lee Ching Kwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226340838, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 tables

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...

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Performing Arts

Political Science

Season in the Congo

Cesaire Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...

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Middle East

Political Science

Salman's Legacy The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia

Al-Rasheed Madawi

ISBN: HB: 9781849049658, Hurst Publishers, February 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges. The dilemmas he has faced are new and significant, from leadership shuffles and falling oil prices to regional and interna...

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Political Science

General

Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

Chatty Dawn

ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...

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Political Science

Military

See it/Shoot it The Secret History of the CIA's Lethal Drone Program

Fuller Christopher J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218541, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: th...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up

Renahan Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...

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Political Science

Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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General

Political Science

Social Currents in North Africa Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring

Abi-Mershed Osama

ISBN: PB: 9781849048279, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Social Currents in North Africa" is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. The contributors analyse the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioral and ideological norms,...

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Political Science

Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited

Zuckert Michael P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226490670, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Tocqueville's thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interac...

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