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  • - A New Paradigm for Development?
     
    367

    'Governance' has become a key word in the lexicon of international relations over. It is used, loosely, and invariably in a liberal idiom, by scholars, activists, civil society organizations, politicians and the voluntary sector. This book offers a diverse global critique of 'governance' as deployed in several key areas.

  • - Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today
    av Athanassios G. Platias & Konstantinos Koliopoulos
    261 - 314

    Details the concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations.

  • - Unwritten Chapters
    av Azzam Tamimi
    307

    Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006, overturning many assumptions regionally and globally. Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, it is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organization. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • - The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-14
    av Feroz Ahmad
    307

    Offers a study of the 'Young Turks', a group of Turkish army officers who sought to reform the Ottoman Empire and led a constitutional revolution against Sultan Ahmed Hamid II in 1908. This book discusses the counter-revolution of 1909 and the emergence of the 'Group of Saviour officers' who formed a cabinet determined to destroy the Young Turks.

  • - The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious LIfe
    av Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
    461

    The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. This book reconstructs the development of the Sufi tradition, guided by insights from original Sufi sources, intended to explain the emergence of the Sufi brotherhoods' form of Islamic communalism and its perennial appeal.

  • - A User's Guide
     
    287

    While governments are obliged to protect society and bring terrorists to justice, their effectiveness in tackling terrorism without undermining the support of the population for law and order or jeopardising basic liberties is paramount. This book points out, governments in many countries, from Putin's Russia and Fujimori's Peru to Italy in 1970s.

  • - Foreign Policy from Yeltsin to Putin
    av James Headley
    627

    Russian leaders have always considered the Balkans to be an area of special Russian interests. This work analyses Russia's policy from the death of communist Yugoslavia through the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia, to the 'war on terror' and disputes over the status of Kosovo in the mid-2000s.

  • - The Abdication of International Responsibility
    av Therese Delpech
    361

    Retraces the history of Iran's nuclear project from the 1970s. This work examines the period when the programme was resumed, during Iran's war with Iraq (1985-90), and also sets out the various possible solutions in terms of their feasibility, practically and politically such as: dismantling by force, supervised third party reprocessing, and more.

  • - How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence
    av Omar Nasiri
    301

    Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? This book presents the true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

  • - South Asians in Britain
    av S. Sayyid
    351

    A critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a gap in the literature. This book combines innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The contributors provide insights and information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic and cultural dimensions.

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    611

    A manual in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. It carries multiple Chinese perspectives and also contributions from Western commmentators who offer their own insights on the shrine and its place in post war Japanese diplomacy, ideology and history.

  • - The Question of the Islamic Republic
    av Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
    307

    Offers insights in explaining the foreign relations and domestic politics of post-revolutionary Iran. The author guides readers from the nuclear issue, to the perpetual stand-off with the United States, from the future of Iranian democracy to Iranian-Arab relations, and from American neo-conservatism to Islamic utopian-romanticism.

  • av Ricardo M. Soares De Oliveira
    351

    Investigates the paradox at the heart of modern Gulf of Guinea politics. This study aims to bring out the extent to which oil has forged the interaction of the region with the world economy and how the ongoing expansion of the oil sector will deepen this pivotal role.

  • - Culture, History and Society
    av Ioan Lewis
    307

    Details the history and culture of the Somali people. This book offers insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized nature.

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    671

    Providing the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, this book states that the Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-1939 was not one of isolated islands of belief and practice. It suggests that rather, there was far more interaction between Muslim communities than had hitherto been imagined.

  • - Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy?
     
    541

    The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq's eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. This title presents an overview of regionalism as a political force in contemporary Iraq.

  • - Russia's Troubled Frontier
    av Vicken Cheterian
    347

    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. This book asks why nationalism emerged as a dominant political current, and why, of the many nationalist movements that emerged, some led to violence while others did not.

  • - The Search for a New Ummah
    av Olivier Roy
    411

    Investigates the emergence of a militant deterritorialized Islam that has fewer links to any particular country and/or culture. This book argues that mainstream Islamist movements in the Muslim world have become Islamo-nationalist, recasting their political action within a national framework (e.g. the Hamas of Palestine, the Hezbullah of Lebanon).

  • - The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
    av Stephen Ellis
    297

    This book traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in the 1990s and looks at its roots in the way governments have been established in West Africa during the 20th century.

  • - The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present
    av Sina Aksin
    297

    Features treatment of the period before, during and after the First World War, encompassing the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Ataturk. The final three chapters of this work conclude with the question of EU accession.

  • - From the Early Republic to Guantanamo
    av Stephanie Carvin
    577

    Prisoners of war (POWs) have featured in virtually every conflict that the US has engaged in since its revolutionary beginnings. This book chronicles the fortunes of American POWs held by enemy states and compares that with how America treated the POWs that it captured in the wars and anti-colonial insurgencies of the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • - Secularism, Islamism, and "Pax Americana"
    av Carsten Wieland
    307

    Here the author argues that the West must not ignore Syria's robust tradition of secularism, and cautions that US attempts to undermine the current regime may, paradoxically, embolden the Islamists and help the regime to maintain its authoritarian grip on power.

  • av Mike McGovern
    361

    Gives play to the personalities involved, from Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 'The Ram', who managed Ivorian politics for the country's first 33 years of independence, to the contemporary First Lady Simone Gbagbo. This book's analysis is of the dynamics in place that give certain predictability to the actions of each of the key figures in the drama.

  • - Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries
    av Christoper Cramer
    391

    Addresses the issues about increased violence in the developing countries with two common perspectives. The first is the liberal interpretation, and the second is a romantic, utopian view of violence. This book aims to forge an alternative way of understanding the role of violence in the transition to capitalism and a global economy.

  • - The Ambiguous Genocide
    av Gerard Prunier
    497

  • - The Contested City
    av Menachem Klein
    307

    Although Israelis and Palestinians are adamant that they will not negotiate or compromise over the status of Jerusalem, agreements have been made and understandings reached between the two protagonists, as well as other Arab states. This text sheds light on the political history of Jerusalem.

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    307

    Explores love and death in a Muslim context

  • av Richard Clogg
    251

  • - The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone
    av Lansana Gberie
    400

    The Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people. This title charts in detail the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001.

  • - Afghanistan and the Taliban
     
    351

    This study seeks to penetrate the roots of the Taliban movement on Afghanistan, the factors which contributed to its sudden rise to prominence, and the implications of Taliban mobilization for the stability of Afghanistan and the region.

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