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Scottish Politics by Paul Cairney 9780230390461
$54.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The New Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev 9781509503872
RRP: $32.25$21.65After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail... -
Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right by Daniel Trilling
RRP: $30.95$30.70The past decade saw the rise of the British National Party, the country's most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, "enforced multiculturalism"... -
Russia and the New World Disorder by Bobo Lo 9780815726098
RRP: $32.25$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815726098Author Bobo LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 221mm *... -
The Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor 9780190867324
RRP: $37.40$27.01What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades. It explains not only the thoughts and ideas that motivate Putin's decisions, but also... -
Losing Pravda: Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia by Natalia Roudakova
RRP: $29.66$25.23What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravelling of professional journalism in Russia over the past twenty-five years, and its effects on society. It... -
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
RRP: $14.18$10.60In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) , Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower, and... -
Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power by Aisha Ahmad 9780190656775
RRP: $38.69$36.57The rise of militant jihadist groups is one of the greatest international security crises in the world today. In civil wars across the modern Muslim world, Islamist groups have emerged out of the ashes, surged dramatically to power, and routed their... -
Politics and Governance in the Middle East by Vincent Durac
$48.59This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach that engages with core theory as well as a wide range of research, it examines postcolonial political, social and... -
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814
RRP: $14.18$10.8721 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department... -
Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta
RRP: $20.63$15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307739742Author Eri HottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder
RRP: $21.92$18.19It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future. The last Labour Minister said it was a good thing if young people emigrated, to stop them 'getting under our feet'; one recent Prime Minister said that young Italians should not invest their... -
The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class by Geoffrey Evans 9780198755753
RRP: $61.26$60.73This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This... -
The British General Election of 2019 by Robert Ford 9783030742539
RRP: $42.56$33.95The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged... -
Fractured Continent: Europe's Crises and the Fate of the West by William Drozdiak
RRP: $27.08$23.41In President Obama's effort to reshape America's image abroad, he made overtures to the Islamic world, pivoted towards China and vowed to "reset" relations with Russia. What he overlooked, argues William Drozdiak, was the imminent crisis in Europe. The... -
War and Conflict in Africa by Paul D. Williams
RRP: $45.14$40.31After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's... -
Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance by Peter Hain
RRP: $19.34$14.13"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... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691175799
RRP: $21.92$17.61The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading... -
The Labour Party: A Centenary History by B. Brivati 9780333746509
$58.53On 27 February 1900, the Labour Representation Committee was formed to campaign for the election of working class representatives to parliament. One hundred years on Labour is in government with an overwhelming majority. This book is a unique opportunity... -
Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility by Susanne A. Wengle 9781009165907
RRP: $38.69$35.69Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this... -
Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy by Sean Jacobs
RRP: $21.92$15.05In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, 18 scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today's movement... -
The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey by Soner Cagaptay 9781784538262
RRP: $51.60$39.19In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an... -
Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle Of An Empire by Ruan Ming 9780367158828
RRP: $51.59$45.23In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, launched the economic reforms that turned the world's most populous nation into an economic dynamo. Yet Deng also shaped the destiny of a China that to this day is locked in the iron embrace of the... -
An Introduction to Middle East Politics by Benjamin MacQueen 9781412962162
RRP: $41.27$37.13This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised and restructured in response to events currently taking place. Written in a lively and accessible manner,... -
Russia without Putin: Power, Politics and the Making of Post-Soviet Society by Tony Wood
RRP: $21.92$18.19It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the outside world, and dominates Western media coverage. In Russia itself, he is likewise... -
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela by William Neuman
RRP: $30.95$23.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266163Author William NeumanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Mireya Solis 9780815739975
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739975Author Mireya SolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
The International Relations of the Persian Gulf by F. Gregory Gause 9780521137300
RRP: $33.53$28.37Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller... -
Line of Advantage: Japan's Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo by Michael Green 9780231204675
RRP: $38.70$30.04No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China's rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional hegemony, Japan has taken an increasingly assertive role... -
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey through Modern Turkey by Kaya Genc
RRP: $38.70$28.95Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and... -
Elsetime by Eve McDonnell 9781911427179 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60$3.25It's January 1928, the day before the great flood. There's a snowstorm and the river is about to burst its banks-fourteen souls will be lost. Can Glory an orphan with only one hand and her time-travelling friend Needle and their pet crow change the... -
Brexit For Dummies by Nicholas Wallwork
RRP: $23.21$21.08Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world's biggest break-up Whether you're a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you'll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain's... -
Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know by Barnett R. Rubin
RRP: $14.18$10.02Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points... -
All under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order by Tingyang Zhao
RRP: $32.25$27.34In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China's most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades,... -
Herders, Warriors, And Traders: Pastoralism In Africa by John G Galaty
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book juxtaposes anthropological and historical perspectives on the political economy of African pastoralists, emphasizing dynamic factors in the emergence and realities of livestock-based societies in Africa. .Book InformationISBN... -
Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State by Edwige Fortier
RRP: $39.98$17.13Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010-11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office. These organisations had different visions for a new Tunisia,... -
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-To-Five Emergency by Melissa Gatter
RRP: $64.50$52.52The politics and governance of Jordan's Azraq camp for Syrian refugeesAzraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee... -
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov 9780199964291
RRP: $30.30$22.54Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to... -
Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid by Evan Lieberman
RRP: $45.15$30.47A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely... -
How to Subvert a Democracy: Inside India's Deep State by Josy Joseph
RRP: $21.92$19.75India is a democracy at bay. This compelling book puts the spotlight not on political leaders but on the murky workings of India's deep state-from the police to the federal investigative and intelligence agencies. Traversing the Mumbai train blasts,...