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Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America: Social Movements, State Allies and Institutions by Cora Fernandez Anderson
RRP: $79.78$70.10Although they share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as their recent political histories, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay differ radically in their abortion policies.In this book, Cora Fernandez Anderson examines the role social... -
ASEAN and Regional Order: Revisiting Security Community in Southeast Asia by Amitav Acharya
RRP: $71.38$63.00Founded in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has emerged as one of the most successful regional organizations in the world. This book discusses the future of ASEAN against a backdrop of a growing US-China rivalry and the security... -
Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring by John L. Esposito 9780195147988
RRP: $121.80$89.65In late 2010, the wave of civil resistance known as the Arab Spring stunned the world as dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya were overthrown, while the regimes of Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen brutally suppressed their own revolutions. The Islamic... -
Hong Kong Protest Leaders - Sick facts that Western countries do not know: when a democratic movement itself is not democratic ... by Selina Co 9780646822600
$10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646822600Author Selina CoFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Selina CoPublisher Selina CoWeight(grams) 113g -
A National Health Service?: The Restructuring of Health Care in Britain since 1979 by John Mohan
RRP: $104.98$104.69This book contrasts the proposals of the Royal Commission of the late 1970s with the very different set of priorities enshrined in the 1989 White Paper and describes how the changes between the two documents came about. It argues that the NHS reforms... -
Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide by Rene Lemarchand 9780521566230
RRP: $65.08$59.39This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analysing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority. The author refutes the government's version of these events that places blame on the... -
Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China by Bin Xu
RRP: $48.28$43.39In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past... -
China's Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power by Hoo Tiang Boon 9781626166141
RRP: $100.80$89.06China is today regarded as a major player in world politics, with growing expectations for it to do more to address global challenges. Yet relatively little is known about how it sees itself as a great power and understands its obligations to the world. ... -
Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings by Steve Ellner 9781538125632
RRP: $75.60$66.80This timely book analyzes the governing experiences of the nine major leftist governments in Latin America. The individual country case study chapters are preceded by chapters that frame the discussion by considering the theoretical implications of the... -
China's Legal System Pitman Potter 9780745662695
RRP: $33.58$30.26China's struggle for the rule of law is at a critical juncture. As a key element of governance in the PRC today, China's legal system affects not only domestic affairs but also China's engagement with the world. But can a credible legal system emerge... -
The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China by Roderick MacFarquhar
RRP: $92.38$79.70Thirty years ago, China was emerging from one of the most traumatic periods in its history. The Chinese people had been ravaged by long years of domestic struggle, terrible famine and economic and political isolation. Today, China has the world's second... -
Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse: The Politics of Memory by A. Fuchs 9780230279650
RRP: $94.48$84.19Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film,... -
The Antimafia: Italy's Fight against Organized Crime by A. Jamieson 9780333801581
$92.42This exploration of the full diversity of the Italian Antimafia draws on primary sources and interviews to provide the first complete analysis of social, political and grassroots efforts since 1992. This fascinating study looks at Antimafia initiatives... -
Japan's Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century by Tom Phuong Le 9780231199797
RRP: $63.00$49.75Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked whether the country should or will return to commanding armed forces... -
Will the Middle East Implode? Mohammed Ayoob (Michigan State University) 9780745679259
RRP: $20.98$18.80The Middle East has long been fraught with tension and volatility. However, the recent Arab uprisings have intensified instability, turning this 'hot-spot' into a veritable tinderbox whose potential for implosion has far-reaching regional and global... -
The New Israel: Peacemaking And Liberalization Gershon Shafir 9780813338736
RRP: $92.38$80.72The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization argues that the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be expedited by increased economic liberalization. Israel has undergone dramatic economic change in the 1990s, shifting from a strongly... -
Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War by Amnon Aran
RRP: $189.00$158.59This is the first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers including China, India, the European Union and the United States since the end of the Cold War. It provides an integrated account of these foreign policy... -
The Politics of Public Sector Reform: From Thatcher to the Coalition by M. Burton 9780230363656
RRP: $94.48$94.44The first comprehensive 'bird's eye' account of public sector reform supported by references from over 400 official sources, this book is an invaluable guide to all those in the public, private and voluntary sectors grappling with the twin challenges of... -
The Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party by Willy Wo-Lap Lam
RRP: $79.78$70.10The Fight for China's Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China's vibrant intelligentsia and civil society. This book examines Xi... -
The European Union and Russia by Tuomas Forsberg
$90.38This important text provides readers with a systematic and comprehensive overview of the historic and ever-evolving relationship between Russia and the European Union, and on that basis discusses what the future of relations could look like. The EU's... -
The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
RRP: $157.50$142.25This work offers a refreshingly different perspective on Pakistan - it documents the evolution of Pakistan's structure of power over the past four decades. In particular, how the military dictatorship headed by General Zia ul Haq (1977-1988) - whose rule... -
The Right against Rights in Latin America by Leigh A. Payne
$147.42From President Bolsonaro's openly racist, misogynist, and homophobic rhetoric in Brazil, to the politicisation of gender ideology leading to the rejection of a peace deal in Colombia and beyond, Latin America is home to right-against-rights movements... -
Resolving the Cyprus Conflict: Negotiating History by M. Michael 9780230116740
RRP: $94.48$94.44By placing the conflict in its historical, ideological, ethno-political and geostrategic context, the book extends beyond conventional realist approaches and lays bare those less visible dimensions that are often ignored by analysts and policy-makers... -
African Security in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities by Stephen Emerson 9781526143716
RRP: $63.00$44.75This book explores and analyses the evolving African security paradigm in light of the multitude of diverse threats and challenges facing the continent and the international community. It challenges current thinking and traditional security constructs... -
Periphery: Israel's Search for Middle East Allies by Yossi Alpher 9781442231016
RRP: $81.90$72.18Since its establishment after World War II, the State of Israel has sought alliances with non-Arab and non-Muslim countries and minorities in the Middle East, as well as Arab states geographically distant from the Arab-Israel conflict. The text presents... -
Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by Matteo Capasso 9780815637967
$55.23Treating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, leading up to the 2011 events that sanctioned its fall. It provides a unique and vivid look... -
The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis by Magnus Ryner
$90.38This book draws on critical theory to introduce readers to ways of exploring questions about the EU from a political economy perspective, questions like: -Does the EU help or hinder Europe's 'social models' to face the challenges of globalization? -... -
Beyond Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul by Jere Van Dyk
RRP: $86.00$72.68Without Borders: The Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The... -
China Reconnects: Joining A Deep-rooted Past To A New World Order by Gungwu Wang
RRP: $115.50$100.86'The book is engaging, informative, and provocative and can profitably be read by undergraduates and professors alike. You do not have to agree with the dean of China studies to learn from him.'China Review International The book shows how the Chinese... -
A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East Margaret Lee Meriwether 9780813321011
RRP: $104.98$91.35Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship on women and gender in the nineteenth- and... -
Government In Kano, 1350-1950 by M.G. Smith 9780367159658
RRP: $79.78$72.20This history of the African kingdom that included the famous trans-Saharan trading city of Kano is the third in the late M. G. Smiths series of histories of the Hausa-Fulani kingdoms in West Africa. Combining the approaches of social anthropology and... -
The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State by Dan Blumenthal 9780844750316
RRP: $33.58$26.67This is a book about China's grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People's Republic of China has evolved into America's most... -
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: AChronicle and Analysis of theRevolution of Dignity by Mychailo Wynnyckyj
$81.65In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to... -
Leaderless Europe by Jack Hayward 9780199535026
$160.86From its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless. They have succeeded only too well in demonstrating that much can be achieved without sustained leadership. The attachment to national sovereignty... -
Turkey and the West: Faultlines in a Troubled Alliance by Kemal Kirisci 9780815730002
RRP: $63.00$51.60Turkey: A necessary ally in a troubled region The new U.S. administration will face daunting challenges to the international liberal order, ranging from a fragile European Union rocked by the United Kingdom's exit, to a cold war-like rivalry with Russia... -
Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath: 2011-2016 by M. Cherif Bassiouni 9781107589919
RRP: $65.08$58.32This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppling the authoritarian Mubarak regime in less than three weeks. It was then co-opted by the Muslim... -
Can Labour Win?: The Hard Road to Power by Patrick Diamond 9781783485444
RRP: $37.78$33.47After its disastrous defeat in 2015, Labour is at grave risk of throwing away the 2020 general election. The party has to understand why it suffered such a devastating defeat and learn crucial lessons if it is to recover. The reasons appear obvious... -
The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear by Henry A. Giroux 9781403961389
RRP: $94.48$68.02Henry Giroux continues his critique of American culture and the way it impinges on the lives of our children. This time, Henry goes further, looking at the 'Bush Restoration' years, the attacks of September 11th and the way the world has been transformed... -
The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas by Zoltan Barany
RRP: $73.50$59.09The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the... -
Transborder Pastoral Nomadism and Human Security in Africa: Focus on West Africa Richard Olaniyan 9781032138428
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the nexus between political borders, pastoral nomadism, and human security in Africa. It uses a host of applied interdisciplinary insights to analyse social, political, and cultural processes, circumstances, and consequences to...