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The Culture of Japanese Fascism by Alan Tansman 9780822344681
€29.20This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, film, art history, and... -
Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow
RRP: €26.17€22.94On the first day of February 2021, Myanmar's military grabbed power in a coup d'etat, ending a decade of reforms that were supposed to break the shackles of military rule in Myanmar. Protests across the country were met with a brutal crackdown that... -
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
€26.76Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chavez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chavez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical... -
Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance by Alena V. Ledeneva 9780521125635
RRP: €30.93€26.17In this original, bottom-up account of the evolution of contemporary Russia, Alena Ledeneva seeks to reveal how informal power operates. Concentrating on Vladimir Putin's system of governance - referred to as sistema - she identifies four key types of... -
The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy by Eric Helleiner 9781009337526
RRP: €27.36€23.28The rapid growth of the field of international political economy since the 1970s has revived an older tradition of thought from the pre-1945 era. The Contested World Economy provides the first book-length analysis of these deep intellectual roots of the... -
Should Britain Leave the EU?: An Economic Analysis of a Troubled Relationship, Second Edition by Patrick Minford 9781785360343
RRP: €43.97€39.78The policy framework advocated by Minford et al. . . . is grounded in economic theory and an incisive empirical analysis of the costs of UK's membership of the EU. Their thesis that the EU is a political union practising economic protectionism in the... -
China Risen?: Studying Chinese Global Power by Shaun Breslin
RRP: €29.74€23.07This major new study examines the nature of Chinese power and its impact on the international order. Drawing on an extensive range of Chinese-language debates and discussions, the book explains the roles of different actors and interests in Chinese... -
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith 9780674293953
€20.09"Washington's relationship with Tokyo is generally considered the most important of the United States' 70-odd alliances. In this intimately knowledgeable book, Smith shows how that alliance looks to the Japanese: increasingly unreliable."-Andrew J... -
Theresa May: The Downing Street Revolution by Virginia Blackburn 9781786062642
RRP: €10.70€9.44Following an extremely turbulent time in British politics, Theresa May is poised to become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain. Theresa May - The Downing Street Revolution will relate May's past political career and explore the strengths which she... -
A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done by Michael Braddick
RRP: €23.80€17.01The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the story of the origins of the UK as if that was the natural endpoint of political development on the island... -
Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership by Cheng Li 9780815726920
RRP: €29.75€26.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726920Author Cheng LiFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 730gDimensions(mm) 224mm *... -
Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China by Chuang 9780882860077
RRP: €14.28€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780882860077Author ChuangFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Charles KerrPublisher Charles KerrWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 118mm * 17mm -
Women At The Center: Grameen Bank Borrowers After One Decade by Helen Todd 9780367216603
RRP: €47.59€41.72The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has successfully lent small sums to poor women for income generation. This empirical study examines the programme's long-term influence and argues that credit alone can create fundamental change, even in an environment... -
Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 by David F. Crew 9780415082402
RRP: €47.59€41.72The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed... -
The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflic: Eighth Revised and Updated Edition by Walter Laquer
RRP: €29.75€19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110057Author Walter LaqueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 212mm... -
Reaching for Utopia: Making Sense of An Age of Upheaval: Essays and profiles by Jason Cowley 9781784631529
RRP: €15.46€10.23Reaching for Utopia brings together insightful essays and profiles chronicling the remarkable political and cultural transformations of the last decade - from the fall of Gordon Brown, to the rise of Corbyn and the radical left, to Brexit. Cowley is... -
The Oligarchy and the Old Regime in Latin America, 1880-1970 by Dennis Gilbert 9781442270909
€38.66In the last decades of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, a new class-the oligarchy-consolidated its wealth and political power in Latin America. Its members were the sugar planters, coffee growers, cattle barons, and bankers who... -
The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance 9780316484817
RRP: €29.75€19.97In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how... -
Blair Inc.: The Money, The Power, The Scandals by David Hencke 9781784189983
RRP: €13.08€11.41Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in... -
France by Chabal 9781509530014
RRP: €53.55€35.28France is the most-visited country in the world. It attracts millions of tourists, most of whom come in search of beautiful architecture, good food, and fine art. But appearances can be deceptive. France is not only a place of culture and glamour; it... -
God and Churchill: How the Great Leader's Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours by Jonathan Sandys
RRP: €14.27€10.03When Winston Churchill was a boy of sixteen, he already had a vision for his purpose in life. "This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion . . . I shall be in command of the defences of London . . . it will fall to me to save the... -
Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer
RRP: €52.35€45.74Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human... -
The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin by Eugene M. Fishel 9780674279186
€23.67In 2014, Russia illegally annexed Crimea, bolstered a separatist conflict in the Donbas region, and attacked Ukraine with its regular army and special forces. In each instance of Russian aggression, the U.S. response has often been criticized as... -
Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal 9780190069513
€23.28Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad"--newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the... -
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland by David McKittrick 9781561310708
RRP: €32.73€26.10Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the... -
International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the War that Liberated South Africa by Ronnie Kasrils
€19.56We hear for the first time from internationalists who secretly worked for the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), in the struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid rule. They acted as couriers, provided safe houses in the neighbouring states... -
The New Snobbery: Taking on modern elitism and empowering the working class by David Skelton 9781785908262
€8.65An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites... -
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson
RRP: €15.46€10.82When Europe's Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs' military leader, Prince Faisal,... -
Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World by Chandran Nair
RRP: €27.37€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Multicultural Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781523000005Author Chandran NairFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Repelling a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan by Penny Hill Press Inc 9781523389209
RRP: €15.41€13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523389209Author Penny Hill Press IncFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: €29.75€25.93This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS by Azad Cudi
RRP: €7.13€5.37'A book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again' John le CarreThe incredible inside story of a Kurdish sniper in the battle against ISIS As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their... -
China's Future by David Shambaugh 9781509507146
RRP: €17.84€11.66China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international... -
The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay by Christopher Clapham
RRP: €23.79€20.96Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite... -
Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America by Jens Andermann 9781571815330
RRP: €117.81€97.48In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the... -
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louer 9780691186610
€23.31A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions, but Shi'a believed that God had... -
Only in Australia: The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism by William Coleman 9780198753254
€79.78This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago... -
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr
RRP: €35.70€32.94'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review This... -
Indigenous Australia For Dummies by Larissa Behrendt
RRP: €24.40€16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730390275Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint For DummiesPublisher John Wiley & Sons Australia LtdWeight(grams)... -
Does ASEAN Matter?: A View from Within by Marty Natalegawa 9789814786744
RRP: €53.37€34.11Written by the highly regarded diplomat Marty Natalegawa, former ambassador and foreign minister of Indonesia, this book offers a unique insider-perspective on the present and future relevance of ASEAN. It is about ASEAN's quest for security and...