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Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy by Shivshankar Menon 9780815729105
RRP: £25.00£22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815729105Author Shivshankar MenonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)... -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: £19.99£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green
RRP: £7.99£6.18Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are? Why was the result a shock to so many? Did we not understand how divided we were? Old against... -
Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China by Dr Aviva Xue
RRP: £22.99£20.11On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online... -
Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East by Mehran Kamrava
RRP: £25.00£22.03The 2011 Arab uprisings precipitated the relatively quick collapse of a number of Middle Eastern states once perceived as invincible. The Tunisian and Egyptian states succumbed to revolution-ary upheavals early on, followed by that of Qadhafi's Libya... -
Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: £15.99£14.47What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience for... -
Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo by Ivo H. Daalder 9780815716976
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815716976Author Ivo H. DaalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)... -
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent by Jillian Schwedler
RRP: £25.99£22.49A National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022 Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been... -
Power in Modern Russia: Strategy and Mobilisation by Andrew Monaghan
RRP: £12.99£8.76The book explores the Russian leadership's strategic agenda and illuminates the range of problems it faces in implementing it. Given these difficulties and the Russian leadership's concerns about an unstable and increasingly competitive world, the... -
Ukraine vs. Darkness - (Undiplomatic Thoughts) by Olexander Scherba
RRP: £18.00£15.28This book draws on the authors experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service in, among others, Bonn, Berlin, Washington, and Vienna, and his work as a speechwriter to most Ukrainian foreign ministers for the last two decades. Scherbas... -
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology by Barbara J. Mills 9780197616536
£45.48The American Southwest is one of the most important archaeological regions in the world, with many of the best-studied examples of hunter-gatherer and village-based societies. Research has been carried out in the region for well over a century, and... -
Common Good Politics: British Idealism and Social Justice in the Contemporary World by Colin Tyler 9783319812762
£68.79This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisis and disorientation over political... -
Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: £27.50£24.12This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. 'Shallow Graves' traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation... -
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly 9781610170024
RRP: £18.95£11.47The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all.Robert R. Reilly's eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the... -
Whatever it Takes by George Papaconstantinou
RRP: £22.99£11.67For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and... -
Scottish Independence: Yes or No by Alan Cochrane
RRP: £7.99£6.15In September 2014, a referendum will be held in Scotland to decide whether or not Scotland should become independent and cease to be part of the United Kingdom. In this book, two of the nation's leading political commentators will address both sides of... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram
RRP: £18.99£16.87For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but synonyms for prolonged and brutal wars. But why is MENA... -
Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation by Tom Gallagher 9780814732014
RRP: £25.99£21.24Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom... -
Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev
RRP: £18.99£17.59'A superb literary thriller' The Times, Book of the Week 'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of... -
The Failure of Remain: Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom by Adam Fagan
RRP: £45.00£30.94Studies of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") have largely focused on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of Leave and Remain voters on the other. The Failure of Remain... -
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: £21.95£17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064466Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Dragon's Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo by Ian Bancroft
RRP: £22.00£17.98Twenty years on from the end of war, the status of the north of Kosovo remains disputed. Ten years on from Kosovos declaration of independence from Serbia, the norths predominantly Serb population continues to resist integration. Education, health, and... -
Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850 by Karl F. Friday
RRP: £54.99£48.12Japan Emerging provides a comprehensive survey of Japan from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Incorporating the latest scholarship and methodology, leading authorities writing specifically for this volume outline and explore the main developments in... -
China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths by Sophia Kalantzakos 9780197598740
£24.04Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to date Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones... -
Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition by Nabil Fahmy 9783030263874
RRP: £17.99£12.14Written from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines Egypt's diplomacy in transformative times of war, peace and transition. The author offers unique insights, first-hand... -
Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London by Patria Roman-Velazquez 9783030534462
RRP: £44.99£40.58This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. The authors discuss how networks of solidarity and local... -
The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt by Arwa Salih
RRP: £20.00£16.98Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party and... -
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: £24.99£21.18Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the... -
Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa by Francis M. Deng
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815718277Author Francis M. DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g -
Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: £9.99£6.80In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these... -
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power by Howard W. French
RRP: £20.00£10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172455Author Howard W. FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism by Marcel H. Van Herpen 9781442253582
£39.49This fully updated book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin's three wars, placing the Second Chechen War, the war with Georgia of 2008, and the war with Ukraine of 2014-2015 in their broader historical context. Drawing on extensive original... -
The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: Paul's Letter to the Galatians by Shabbir Akhtar
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle, Paul's letter to the Galatian churches, seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close... -
Thatcher's Secret War: Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90 by Clive Bloom 9780752499741
RRP: £20.00£15.44Margaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds new light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that the Iron Lady and her government waged against 'the enemy within': anti-nuclear,... -
After Brexit, What Next?: Trade, Regulation and Economic Growth by Patrick Minford 9781839103087
RRP: £23.95£21.55This timely book sets out a shrewd and comprehensive policy programme, for both 'microeconomic' supply-side settings of tax and regulatory systems, and 'macroeconomic' policies for fiscal and monetary policies to regulate demand and support the... -
Palestinian Women and Popular Resistance: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Strategies by Liyana Kayali 9780367616366
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance in the West Bank and examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of the Oslo peace accords in 1993 and 1995, the Occupied Palestinian... -
Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914) by Deniz Ekici 9781793612618
RRP: £35.00£30.95A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be portrayed as Kurdish nationalists. This theory prevails because of the belief that they not only endorsed... -
Near Abroad: Putin, the West, and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal
RRP: £30.99£26.34Vladimir Putin's intervention into the Georgia/South Ossetia conflict in summer 2008 was quickly recognized by Western critics as an attempt by Russia to increase its presence and power in the "near abroad", or the independent states of the former Soviet... -
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey by Mikiso Hane
RRP: £54.99£48.12Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second Edition of Premodern Japan. The text traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern... -
Understanding South Africa by Carien du Plessis
RRP: £19.99£17.82When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under...