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Brexit and the British: Who Do We Think We are? by Stephen Green
RRP: $16.78$12.98Whatever 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... -
Haiti: The Tumultuous History - from Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation by Philippe Girard
RRP: $29.38$25.24In the aftermath of January's horrific earthquake, the world's attention is focused on Haiti. In this full narrative history of the Caribbean nation, historian Philippe Girard offers insight into Haiti's complex and layered past, showing that its... -
Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program by Siegfried S. Hecker
RRP: $67.20$56.01North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country-one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years-progress from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal... -
Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East by Mehran Kamrava
RRP: $52.50$46.26The 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... -
Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith 9780674293953
RRP: $44.00$35.45"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... -
Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $33.58$30.39What 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: $41.98$36.98Apologies 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)... -
The EU in Association Agreement Negotiations: Challenges to Complex Policy Coordination Daniel Schade 9781032401096
RRP: $83.98$73.63Through its focus on EU Association Agreement negotiations, this book goes beyond the study of traditional EU trade negotiations and puts the spotlight on the increasing number of negotiations where trade relations are discussed alongside political ones... -
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent by Jillian Schwedler
RRP: $50.38$43.76A 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: $27.28$18.40The 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology by Barbara J. Mills 9780197616536
$95.51The 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
$141.27This 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: $57.75$50.65This 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: $39.80$24.09The 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: $48.28$24.51For 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... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram
RRP: $39.88$35.43For 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... -
Ukraine vs. Darkness - (Undiplomatic Thoughts) by Olexander Scherba
$48.47This 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... -
Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? - Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014-2020 by Jakob Hauter
RRP: $65.10$54.71This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraines Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in the... -
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Frederic Wehrey
RRP: $25.18$24.28The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic... -
Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev
RRP: $39.88$36.94'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... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: $35.68$24.23On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: $46.10$37.65Apologies 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... -
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom by Tao Jiang 9780197611364
RRP: $59.83$49.60This book rewrites the story of classical Chinese philosophy, which has always been considered the single most creative and vibrant chapter in the history of Chinese philosophy. Works attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han... -
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order by Ewan Stein
RRP: $50.38$42.78Developing 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... -
We Will Return as Millions: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia by Linda Farthing
RRP: $35.68$24.51In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after... -
China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths by Sophia Kalantzakos 9780197598740
$50.48Featuring 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... -
The Culture of Japanese Fascism by Alan Tansman 9780822344681
RRP: $54.58$48.07This 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... -
Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition Nabil Fahmy 9783030263874
RRP: $37.78$25.49Written 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: $94.48$85.22This 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... -
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: $52.48$44.48Women 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: $41.98$36.98Apologies 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: $20.98$14.28In 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... -
Hezbollah: A Regional Armed Non-State Actor by Hadi Wahab 9781032215280
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines Hezbollah's transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah's historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of... -
Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism by Marcel H. Van Herpen 9781442253582
$82.93This 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 International Significance of the Levellers and the English Democratic Tradition by Tony Benn 9780851246338
$6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246338Author Tony BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Flight from Afghanistan: Tella's Story by Tella Omeri 9781849954341
RRP: $27.28$23.12'In clear and utterly compelling English, this moving memoir tells the story of the agony, and the ecstasy, of one refugee - and of every refugee. A must read for anyone interested in the triumph of Afghanistan's spirit over its seemingly endless... -
New Perspectives on Middle East Politics: Economy, Society, and International Relations by Robert Mason 9781617979903
RRP: $62.98$50.74An ideal primer on contemporary Middle East Politics, covering the entire MENA region from an interdisciplinary perspective This compelling volume examines important and cross-cutting themes in the study of contemporary Middle East and North African... -
The Moscow Factor: U.S. Policy toward Sovereign Ukraine and the Kremlin by Eugene M. Fishel 9780674279186
RRP: $52.40$41.77In 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... -
The Failure of Remain: Anti-Brexit Activism in the United Kingdom by Adam Fagan
RRP: $81.90$64.97Studies 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... -
After Brexit, What Next?: Trade, Regulation and Economic Growth Patrick Minford 9781839103087
RRP: $50.30$45.26This 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...