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The Comrade from Milan by Rossana Rossanda
£25.46In this much-lauded memoir, acclaimed for its blend of literary elegance and political passion, Rossana Rossanda, a legendary figure on the Italian left, reflects on a life of radical commitment.Active as a communist militant in the Italian Resistance... -
How Corruption and Anti–Corruption Policies Sust – Strategies of Political Domination Under Ukraine′s Presidents in 1994–2014 by Oksana Huss
RRP: £36.00£30.01"Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic... -
The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power by Alison Pargeter 9780863568596
RRP: £10.99£9.96Although the popular uprisings of 2011 were not driven by Islamist forces, it is the Islamist movements, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, that have filled the power vacuums that opened up with the collapse of the regimes of the region. How did... -
Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War by Eline van Ommen 9780520390768
RRP: £25.00£19.59Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far... -
The Land Reform Deception: Political Opportunism in Zimbabwe's Land Seizure Era by Charles Laurie 9780190680527
RRP: £35.49£32.85The Land Reform Deception looks at a particularly contentious period in Zimbabwe's recent history, from 2000-2008, when the government seized commercial farms using illegal and violent methods against a largely unarmed population of farmers and farm... -
Cyber Policy in China Greg Austin (EastWest Institute) 9780745669809
RRP: £15.99£14.41Few doubt that China wants to be a major economic and military power on the world stage. To achieve this ambitious goal, however, the PRC leadership knows that China must first become an advanced information-based society. But does China have what it... -
Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and the Conspiracies by Reno Omokri 9780998182933
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998182933Author Reno OmokriFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint RevmediaPublisher RevmediaWeight(grams) 113g -
Covid-19: The Biometric Vaccine Brave New World Totalitarian Agenda by Peter Tremblay 9781927538753
RRP: £16.95£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927538753Author Peter TremblayFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint The Agora CosmopolitanPublisher The Agora CosmopolitanWeight(grams)... -
China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong by Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette
RRP: £15.99£13.90In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy--a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. Ever since Deng... -
The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era by Christopher J. Bickerton 9780198703617
£107.92The twenty years since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty have been marked by an integration paradox: although the scope of European Union (EU) activity has increased at an unprecedented pace, this increase has largely taken place in the absence of... -
Machiavelli: On Politics and Power by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632062567Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria by Salwa Ismail
RRP: £23.99£20.37Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through... -
Russia's New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order by David G Lewis
RRP: £25.99£21.06David G. Lewis explores the transformation of Russian domestic politics and foreign policy under Vladimir Putin. Using contemporary case studies including Russia's legal system, the annexation of Crimea and Russian policy in Syria he critically... -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
£15.96"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
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... -
Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance by Banu Bargu 9781474450270
RRP: £25.99£21.06Building on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime controls its citizens through physical destruction, structural violence and exposure. The 12 case studies include counterinsurgency warfare,... -
Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Cicciarello-Maher 9781784782238
RRP: £19.99£14.24Since 2011, a wave of popular mobilizations has swept the globe, from Occupy to the Arab Spring, 15M in Spain and the uprisings in Greece. Their demands were varied, but what they share is a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to... -
Iran's Political Economy since the Revolution by Suzanne Maloney 9780521738149
RRP: £30.99£26.83Over three decades after the Iranian Revolution reconfigured the strategic landscape in the Middle East, scholars are still trying to decipher its aftereffects. Suzanne Maloney provides the first comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since... -
Let There Be Water by Seth M Siegel
RRP: £21.99£19.72With hardly a day without a water-crisis story somewhere, Let There Be Water offers prescriptions on how countries, cities, and businesses can avoid the worst of it. With sixty percent of the country in a desert and despite a rapidly growing population,... -
Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union by David Satter
£34.85David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June, 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. After 1982, he was banned from the Soviet Union but allowed back in 1990, and... -
Policies and Policy Processes of the European Union by Laurie Buonanno 9781352009859
£37.56The dynamic and complex system of European Union policymaking is analysed in this new edition of a much-praised textbook. It offers the most integrated understanding of EU policy available. Major approaches to policymaking - including... -
Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World by Andrew L. Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.18The first major profile of Ukraine's courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!From comedian to president to freedom fighter, this is the story of Volodymyr Zelensky, the man who stood up to Vladimir Putin and forever changed the world.About the... -
The Police, Public Order and the State: Policing in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Israel, South Africa and China by John D. Brewer 9780333654880
RRP: £46.00£45.96Are police forces agents of the state or of society? How do different police forces maintain order? How does the nature of a country's political system affect the state's reaction to disorder? This study identifies trends in public-order policing across... -
Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony To Independent Nation Richard A Lobban 9780813335629
RRP: £49.99£43.50The Cape Verde Islands, an Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Senegal, were first settled during the Portuguese Age of Discovery in the fifteenth century. A "Crioula" population quickly evolved from a small group of Portuguese settlers and large... -
China's Digital Nationalism by Florian Schneider 9780190876807
RRP: £31.49£22.37Nationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And as we have increasingly seen, nationalism in digital spheres interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on... -
Civil War in Syria: Mobilization and Competing Social Orders by Adam Baczko
RRP: £24.99£19.99In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and... -
Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies by Courtney Freer 9780190861995
RRP: £88.00£73.28While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called "rentier states" where taxes are very low and oil wealth... -
Syriza in Power: Reflections of an Accidental Politician Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London) 9781509511587
RRP: £14.99£13.58Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into... -
Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation by Tom Gallagher 9780814732014
RRP: £23.99£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... -
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey by Kaya Genç 9781350436770
RRP: £14.99£11.75Turkey is a land torn between East and West, 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 novelist... -
Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali 9781844672486
RRP: £20.99£18.56The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chavez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chavez, Tariq Ali shows... -
Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: £17.00£14.72How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China... -
The Nazi Occult by Kenneth Hite 9781780965987
RRP: £13.99£12.40In the dark dungeons beneath Nazi Germany, teams of occult experts delved into ancient and forbidden lore, searching for lost secrets of power. This book tells the complete history of the Nazi occult programs, from their quests for the Ark of the... -
Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia by Marina Welker 9780520399679
RRP: £30.00£23.29A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke,... -
Germany and the European Union: Europe's Reluctant Hegemon? by Simon Bulmer 9780333645437
£38.14This new textbook offers a path-breaking interpretation of the role of the European Union's most important member state: Germany. Analyzing Germany's domestic politics, European policy, relations with partners, and the resultant expressions of power... -
Understanding Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union Graham Taylor (University of the West of England, UK) 9781787146792
RRP: £17.99£13.22On 23rd June 2016 the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. In this clear and concise book, Graham Taylor argues that the result is the most visible tip of an iceberg of social change that has been decades in the making... -
The Art of Political Control in China by Daniel C. Mattingly
RRP: £30.99£26.77When and why do people obey political authority when it runs against their own interests to do so? This book is about the channels beyond direct repression through which China's authoritarian state controls protest and implements ambitious policies from... -
The Electoral System in Britain by R. M. Blackburn 9780333629185
£46.36This excellent new book provides a comprehensive account of the British system of parliamentary elections. It contains a description of the current structure and operation of the electoral system, and pays special attention to those subjects which have... -
Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics by Michael Wernick
RRP: £16.99£15.07Have you ever wondered how the day-to-day business of government actually works? What do prime ministers and ministers do when away from the spotlight of Question Period? How does a government stay on track, and how can a career be derailed? How can a... -
Global China as Method by Ivan Franceschini
RRP: £17.00£14.72Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned...