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Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism: US and European Policy in Jordan by Benjamin Schuetze 9781108737012
RRP: $65.08$53.45Appearing against the backdrop of Jordan's remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European 'democracy promotion' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism... -
Anti-Israel Agenda: Inside the Political War on the Jewish State by Alex Ryvchin 9789652299147
RRP: $44.08$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652299147Author Alex RyvchinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing House -
Gender, Governance and Islam by Deniz Kandiyoti 9781474455435
RRP: $46.18$37.74Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their... -
Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon by Nicola Pratt 9780520281769
RRP: $52.50$41.14When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region's gender... -
Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes by Michael Hutt
RRP: $189.00$171.00Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysis of a disaster aftermath that is steeped in the political and cultural complexities of its social and... -
Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics by Jeffrey Mankoff 9781442208254
RRP: $105.00$91.90Now thoroughly updated, this widely praised book provides a thoughtful and balanced examination of the development of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. This edition also places developments of the past two decades into the broader... -
Remembering Leningrad: The Story of a Generation by Mary McAuley 9780299322502
$103.59Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that... -
The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria: A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party by Carl C. Yonker 9783111121741
RRP: $38.85$30.20The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation's complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping... -
Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram by Akali Omeni 9780755636846
$67.79Boko Haram is the major threat to the Nigerian state, and has emerged as a destabilizing factor across sub-Saharan Africa. This is now a major focus of global policy-making, as between 2013 and 2014 insurgency-related deaths in Nigeria exceeded those in... -
Understanding Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism: The Post-Soviet Cossack Revival and Ukraines National Security by Andreas Umland 9783838213774
RRP: $65.10$53.87Nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity are complex social phenomena worldwide and especially so in post-Soviet Ukraine. This monograph explores the causes and conditions of post-communist nationalist revivals focusing on the re-emergence of... -
Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jutta Weldes 9780816631117
RRP: $44.08$38.58Not simply an "event" or merely an "incident," the 1962 standoff between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of United States foreign policy. Jutta... -
Yellow Wind, the by David Grossman 9780312420987
RRP: $39.90$25.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420987Author David GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
China: The Pessoptimist Nation by William A. Callahan 9780199604395
RRP: $78.73$78.54The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China: The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese... -
India: Emerging Power by Stephen P. Cohen 9780815715016
$46.98For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy... -
Contemporary Mexican Politics by Emily Edmonds-Poli 9781538121924
RRP: $94.50$83.77This comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico's political, economic, and social development and examines the most important policy issues facing the country today. Readers will find this widely praised book continues to be the most... -
The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean by Bertil Lintner
RRP: $63.00$56.60The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through... -
A Dictionary of Australian Politics Jackie Dickenson 9781742370507
RRP: $79.78$70.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742370507Author Jackie DickensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g -
Constitutional Policy and Territorial Politics in the UK: Volume 1: Union and Devolution 1997-2007 Jonathan Bradbury (Swansea University) 9781529205886
RRP: $178.50$137.26This is the first of a major two-volume work which provides an authoritative account of devolution in the UK since the initial settlement under New Labour in 1997. This first volume meets the need for a comprehensive, UK-wide analysis of the formative... -
Shreds of War: Fates from the Donbas Frontline, 20142019 by Ildi Eperjesi
RRP: $77.70$63.84In Eastern Ukraine, unfathomable human dramas have unfolded since 2014. Thousands died in the fighting. The homes of tens of thousands were destroyed. Many were captured and tortured, millions ousted from their homes. The lives of many were broken... -
How Ireland Voted 2011: The Full Story of Ireland's Earthquake Election by M. Gallagher 9780230348820
RRP: $94.48$94.44The collapse of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger' economy, in the wake of a banking disaster, provoked a joint EU/IMF rescue plan in late 2010. The election that followed saw Europe's most successful ever party lose more than half of its vote and almost three... -
Women At The Center: Grameen Bank Borrowers After One Decade by Helen Todd 9780367216603
RRP: $83.98$73.63The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has successfully lent small sums to poor women for income generation. This empirical study examines the programme's long-term influence and argues that credit alone can create fundamental change, even in an environment... -
Mandate Of Heaven: Marx and Mao in Modern China by Nigel Harris 9781608464654
RRP: $46.18$31.14This updated edition of Mandate of Heaven - with a new introduction by the author - discusses China's transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power. How did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of... -
Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution by Cira Pascual Marquina 9781583678640
RRP: $42.00$34.52"Today more than ever, we need to listen to critical voices from the Venezuelan grassroots, and this is exactly what Venezuela, the Present as Struggle gives us. Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert have gathered the tools we need to navigate the... -
Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity by Akbar Ahmed
RRP: $63.00$48.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815727583Author Akbar AhmedFormat HardbackPage Count 591Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm)... -
Political Science in Africa: Freedom, Relevance, Impact by Liisa Laakso 9781350299498
$50.63Bringing together African and international scholars, this book gives an account of the present state of the discipline of political science in Africa - generating insights into its present and future trajectories, and assessing the freedom with which it... -
Cyril Ramaphosa: The Road to Presidential Power Anthony Butler 9781847012296
RRP: $94.50$81.12Commanding biography that tells the full story of this enigmatic political leader's life and political career for the first time, from township youth and student activist to president of the post-apartheid state. President Cyril Ramaphosa is South... -
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India by Mukulika Banerjee 9780197601860
$179.13An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivation of democracy. Cultivating Democracy provides a compelling ethnographic analysis of the... -
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World by Sune Haugbolle 9781032134147
RRP: $83.98$73.63Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume. Altered States views the state less as a matter of... -
Russia's Muslim Heartlands: Islam in the Putin Era by Dominic Rubin
RRP: $52.50$46.26Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren,... -
Ordinary People: LGBTQ Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova 9781620977934
RRP: $33.58$23.18An inspiring and beautifully produced series of photo-portraits of LGBTQ Russians living in an increasingly homophobic Russia Do we want children from elementary school to be imposed with things that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want them to... -
Capitalism Russian-Style by Thane Gustafson 9780521645959
RRP: $65.08$47.99For a decade Russia has been dismantling communism and building capitalism. Describing a deeply flawed fledgling market economy, Capitalism Russian-Style provides a progress report on one of the most important economic experiments going on in the world... -
State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein by Lisa Blaydes
RRP: $52.50$41.14A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisionsHow did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political... -
The Oxford Handbook of French Politics by Robert Elgie
$88.35The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science. The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational... -
Ten Years of New Labour by Matt Beech 9780230574434
RRP: $94.48$94.44Evaluates the Blair government from 1997-2007 conducting high quality research into aspects of British politics with particular emphasis on parties, policies and ideologies. With contributions from key figures in the field further topics include New... -
The Strange Death of Labour Scotland by Gerry Hassan 9780748640027
RRP: $52.48$47.48The Scottish Labour Party is in an unprecedented position. Having been the leading party in Scotland for fifty years it lost an election and office to the SNP in 2007. This book addresses, examines and analyses the last thirty years of Scottish Labour,... -
Understanding Contemporary Brazil Jeff Garmany 9781138039339
RRP: $77.68$68.31Brazil has famously been called a country of contradictions. It is a place where narratives of "racial democracy" exist in the face of stark inequalities, and where the natural environment is celebrated as a point of national pride, but at the same time... -
Presidentializing the Premiership: The Prime Ministerial Advisory System and the Constitution by Sue Pryce 9780333681855
RRP: $188.98$188.73Has the presidentialization of British electoral politics now penetrated other institutional and governmental relationships? This book argues it has in respect of the prime ministerial advisory system. The prime minister has become a president in the... -
Modern Egypt: The Formation Of A Nation-state by Arthur Goldschmidt
RRP: $83.98$80.72This second edition of scholar Arthur Goldschmidt presents a concise survey of Egyptian history since the mid-eighteenth century. It focuses on Egypt's evolution as a nation-state, dispelling common misconceptions about Egypt's modern history. Professor... -
Why India is not a Great Power (Yet) by Bharat Karnad 9780199459223
RRP: $73.48$68.06Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense... -
The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998-2018 by Min Ye 9781108479561
RRP: $176.38$157.75From 1998 to 2018, China had three political-economic crises, resulting in bureaucratic paralysis. It was at such junctures that China's leadership launched initiatives, like the Western Development Program, that mobilized state and market actors to...