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Rules of the Game Detention, Deportation, Disappearance
ISBN: PB: 9781850659686, Hurst Publishers, February 2010
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the aftermath of the suicide bombings on London's transport infrastructure in July 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that 'the rules of the game have changed'. He referred to how his government planned to respond...
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£14,99
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Armed Militias of South Asia Fundamentalists. Maoists and Separatists
ISBN: PB: 9781850659778, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conf...
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£30,00
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Thucydides on Strategy Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today
ISBN: PB: 9781849040112, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
212 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its...
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£18,99
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Military Orientalism Eastern War Through Western Eyes
ISBN: PB: 9781850659594, ISBN: HB: 9781850659600, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of 'Oriental' warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting o...
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£16,99
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£50,00
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Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country
ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...
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£17,99
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From Genocide to Continental War The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781850656654, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide...
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£25,00
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Scientific Way of Warfare Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9781850659457, Hurst Publishers, February 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Bousquet's book considers the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the battlefield. It spans the entire modern era, from...
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£17,99
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War and Peace in the Caucasus Russia's Troubled Frontiers
ISBN: PB: 9781850659877, Hurst Publishers, February 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many years as a reporter and analyst c...
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£20,00
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Darfur Sultanate A History of Contested Identities
ISBN: HB: 9781850658535, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This text presents an analytical narrative of Darfur, from the beginnings of its recorded history to the present. Three themes dominate: Darfur's complex history and its equally complex ethnic and ecological issues. The various...
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£40,00
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Killing Civilians Method, Madness and Morality in War
ISBN: PB: 9781850659143, ISBN: HB: 9781850658818, Hurst Publishers, May 2008
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed....
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£25,00
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