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The Whitehall Effect: How Whitehall Became the Enemy of Great Public Services and What We Can Do about It by John Seddon
RRP: £25.00£20.30In The WHITEHALL Effect, John Seddon explains how and why it is that governments repeatedly fail to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. Although his... -
Pandemonium: Europe's Covid Crisis by Luuk van Middelaar
RRP: £24.99£23.26Over the past decade the European Union has faced threats to its currency, borders and unity. Covid-19, which began its inexorable spread across Europe in February 2020, is the latest crisis to test the Union's resilience. Luuk van Middelaar's... -
Pitch Battles: Protest, Prejudice and Play by Peter Hain
RRP: £25.00£17.62"There will be a black Springbok over my dead body."- Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969Just a year after the controversial D'Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and... -
Good Country Equation by Simon Anholt
RRP: £19.95£13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523089611Author Simon AnholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Dimitar Bechev
RRP: £23.99£20.94The war in Syria has put Russia at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Moscow's return to the region following a prolonged period of absence has enhanced its geopolitical status at a time it has emerged as a rival to the West. Yet, contrary to the... -
Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold by Nelida Fuccaro
RRP: £85.00£69.28Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East Proposes a new research agenda for the study of oil's varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle East Includes 13 case studies, including 2 photo... -
Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Charles Lipson 9780520302020
£26.97Foreign investors are drawn abroad by the lure of profits, but they also face significant risks. Standing Guard examines how investors coped with these risks and protected their capital abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toward the end... -
LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East by Fait Muedini 9781108417242
RRP: £87.99£79.24The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the authorities to stop the parade by... -
The Australian Policy Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process by Catherine Althaus
RRP: £35.99£31.69The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public... -
Brazil Apart: 1964-2019 by Perry Anderson
RRP: £16.99£14.10What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world, offers a matchless... -
Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer 9781908276827
RRP: £15.00£10.78Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the brutality... -
Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism by Sebastian Edwards 9780226004662
RRP: £17.00£16.68The political and economic history of Latin America has been marked by great hopes and even greater disappointments. Despite abundant resources - and a history of productivity and wealth - in recent decades the region has fallen further and further... -
The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad by Antonio Giustozzi
£17.84Selected as one of 'Five books that help explain what is happening in Afghanistan' (Financial Times) So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence... -
The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East by Jamie Allinson
RRP: £22.99£19.56The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of... -
Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel
RRP: £34.99£22.33The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the... -
Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict by Keiko Sakai
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003. Considering the long-term outcomes of the intervention, this volume examines economic collapse, societal... -
Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus
£22.49An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day Kurds The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West,... -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
£22.49Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as New Left Review and Marxism Today, these twenty essays... -
What Next for Britain in the Middle East?: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit by Michael Stephens 9780755617166
RRP: £24.99£21.78As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world? The Middle East is one of the regions the UK has been... -
The Referendum that Changed a Nation: Scottish Voting Behaviour 2014-2019 by Ailsa Henderson
£35.21Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice,... -
Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir by Anton Shekhovtsov
RRP: £37.99£33.38The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £39.00£29.05A #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and malice, promoting inequality and austerity. The whole... -
Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations by Richard Falk 9781949762549
RRP: £32.95£20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762549Author Richard FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics by Ali Riaz 9781032711997
RRP: £49.99£43.50Pathways of Autocratization addresses contemporary global politics' one of the most important questions: how does a country regress from a democracy to an autocracy?This book offers a novel framework for understanding the processes that erode democracy... -
The Political System of the European Union by Simon Hix
RRP: £32.99£29.44Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Hoyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political... -
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by James L. Gelvin
RRP: £10.99£9.59Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype... -
Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World by Paul Collier 9780190659158
RRP: £21.99£13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190659158Author Fellow Paul CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 18mm -
The Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free by Alex Perry
RRP: £12.99£8.60Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds with its rise. Africa has long been misunderstood - and... -
The Dumbing Down of Britain by Duncan Barkes 9781783960941
£6.22If they could see us today, our forefathers would be spluttering into their pint glasses, wondering where it all went wrong. Happy to be spoon-fed on a diet of blandness, buzzwords and uniformity, in the last 20 years our society has become more insular,... -
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order by Ewan Stein
RRP: £23.99£20.37Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign policy dynamics for an accessible insight into how and why... -
The Leeter Spiaking Singlish Book 2: IDIOMS by Gwee Li Sui 9789815009613
RRP: £8.99£6.45Following on the success of his 2017 hit, Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate, Gwee Li Sui is back with a series of three "Leeter" books covering the quintessential features of Singlish, Singapore's unofficial language -... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II by John H. Gill
RRP: £16.99£12.68In the second volume of this epic work, John H. Gill traces Napoleon's progress as he sought to complete his victory over the Habsburgs. The war had erupted on April 10th with Austria's invasion of Germany and Italy. After just two weeks, Napoleon had... -
The Foreign Policy of the European Union by Stephan Keukeleire
£30.55Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, and that areas such as... -
Politics in Pacific Asia: An Introduction by Xiaoming Huang
£46.66This lively and accessible new edition provides a uniquely broad-ranging introduction to the governance and politics of Pacific Asia. Thematically structured around the key institutions and issues, it is genuinely comparative in its approach to the... -
Establishment and Meritocracy by Peter Hennessy
£5.78Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to encourage a more meritocratic society. In this highly personal book, Hennessy examines the rise of... -
Populists And Progressives: The New Forces In American Politics by Steven Rosefielde
RRP: £25.00£21.79Populists and Progressives alerts readers to dramatic changes in the ideological and political structure of America's Democratic and Republican parties roiling Washington and shaping the 2020 presidential election. America now has four distinct... -
LGBTI Rights in Turkey: Sexuality and the State in the Middle East by Fait Muedini
RRP: £23.99£20.37The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the authorities to stop the parade by... -
Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies: Continuity Amid Change by David B. Roberts
£23.29The Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates-play crucial roles in world markets and politics. Their economies, which have traditionally been driven by oil revenues, have simultaneously propelled... -
The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class by Tomila V. Lankina
RRP: £34.99£30.49A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the... -
The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union by T. J. Coles 9781905570812
RRP: £10.99£7.77'If you voted to Leave the European Union, the chances are you've been swindled...' In his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core of free market fanatics in the...