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Information for Autocrats: Representation in Chinese Local Congresses by Melanie Manion
RRP: £23.99£19.99This book investigates the new representation unfolding in Chinese local congresses. Drawing qualitative fieldwork and data analysis from original surveys of 5,130 township, county, and municipal congressmen and women and constituents, Melanie Manion... -
Bully of Asia: Why China's Dream Is the New Threat to World Order by Steven W Mosher
RRP: £16.99£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512997Author Steven W MosherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign by Endre Sashalmi 9781644694176
RRP: £119.99£89.87Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist TitleThis book highlights the main features and trends of Russian "political" thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were... -
The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Persuasion and Violence by Rahmane Idrissa 9780367206949
RRP: £43.99£38.44'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not'. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from the political ideologies that have issued from its... -
The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis by Mark D. Harmon 9780333678183
RRP: £89.99£89.87The British Labour Government and the 1976 IMF Crisis examines the external pressures vis-a -vis British economic policy that culminated in the 1976 UK-IMF crisis. The postwar development of IMF loan conditionality is reviewed as well as the growing... -
Framing Risky Choices: Brexit and the Dynamics of High-Stakes Referendums by Ece Ozlem Atikcan
RRP: £29.99£21.86The majority of policymakers, academics, and members of the general public expected British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum. This perception was based on the well-established idea that voters don't like change or... -
In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved? by Loukas Tsoukalis
RRP: £20.99£15.72Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global... -
Brexit and British Politics by Geoffrey Evans 9781509523856
RRP: £40.00£35.07Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections of the electorate,... -
The German Polity by Eric Langenbacher 9781538146606
RRP: £42.00£37.33This thoroughly revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Germany, one of the world's foremost economic and political powers. During a series of profound crises over the last decade, including migration challenges,... -
Thatcher's Diplomacy: The Revival of British Foreign Policy by P. Sharp 9780333688106
RRP: £44.99£44.97A wide-ranging, readable and controversial assessment of Thatcher's foreign policy throughout her years in office, 1979-90. Successive chapters cover her partnership with Lord Carrington, the Falklands War, her American policy, her fights with the EC... -
Singapore: Smart City, Smart State by Kent E. Calder 9780815729471
RRP: £25.00£21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815729471Author Kent E. CalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State? by Josh Ruebner 9781566560290
RRP: £14.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560290Author Josh RuebnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific by T. J. Pempel
RRP: £24.99£21.67A Region of Regimes traces the relationship between politics and economics-power and prosperity-in the Asia-Pacific in the decades since the Second World War. This book complicates familiar and incomplete narratives of the "Asian economic miracle" to... -
Governing Africa: 3D Analysis of the African Union's Performance by Thomas Kwasi Tieku 9781786610317
RRP: £35.00£30.95The African Union (AU) is the leading international organization on the African continent. Established in 2001, it consists of fifty-four members, a ten-member Commission, political organs, such as the Assembly, Pan-African Parliament, and a body where... -
Europeanization: New Research Agendas by P. Graziano 9780230204317
RRP: £44.99£44.97This cutting-edge handbook, written by foremost authoritative scholars, presents the main theoretical and empirical issues involved in current Europeanization research. It evaluates the achievements and shortcomings of the growing literature. As an... -
Rene and Postcolonial Seychelles: An African Chameleon in the Indian Ocean by Ashton Robinson
RRP: £135.00£117.28Robinson details the life and times of France-Albert Rene (1935-2019), the second post-independence leader of Seychelles who oversaw the nation's transition to democracy after over a decade of his brutal dictatorship.Rene's career was Seychelles' history... -
Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia by Sharifah Munirah Alatas 9781952636424
RRP: £14.99£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636424Author Sharifah Munirah AlatasFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies -
Greater Tibet: An Examination of Borders, Ethnic Boundaries, and Cultural Areas by P. Christiaan Klieger 9781498506465
RRP: £36.00£31.81The concept of Greater Tibet has surfaced in the political and academic worlds in recent years. It is based in the inadequacies of other definitions of what constitutes the historical and modern worlds in which Tibetan people, ideas, and culture occupy... -
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political by Kai Marchal 9781498536288
RRP: £39.00£34.37Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi... -
Routledge Handbook on the Kurds by Michael Gunter
RRP: £43.99£38.84With an estimated population of over 30 million, the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They are becoming increasingly important within regional and international geopolitics, particularly since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Arab... -
The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe's Refugee Crisis by Fiorenza Picozza 9781538150115
RRP: £30.00£26.68Through the concepts of the 'coloniality of asylum' and 'solidarity as method', this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; in so doing, it questions the idea of 'autonomous politics', showing how both refugee mobility and... -
Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights by Aili Mari Tripp 9781108442848
RRP: £25.99£21.99Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to... -
Striking From The Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East by Aziz Al-Azmeh
RRP: £29.99£23.99Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arab world has undergone a series of radical transformations. One of the most significant is the resurgence of activist and puritanical forms of religion presenting as viable alternatives to existing social,... -
The Court of Justice of the European Union and the Politics of Law by Sabine Saurugger
£43.04The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is one of the central institutions of the EU and has played a decisive role in European integration. As one of the most powerful international courts, at a time when political systems around the world... -
Women and the Holy City: The Struggle over Jerusalem's Sacred Space by Lihi Ben Shitrit
RRP: £79.99£72.16Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif is the holiest place in the world for Jews, the third holiest place for Muslims and a constant feature in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the gendered dimensions of inter-communal disputes over sacred... -
An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship by David L. Phillips
RRP: £37.99£33.38Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important... -
Turkey Between East And West: New Challenges For A Rising Regional Power by Vojtech Mastny
RRP: £49.99£43.50As a rising regional power in the critical borderland between Europe and Asia, Turkey has been more challenged than its neighbors by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the break-up of Yugoslavia. A secular Muslim nation with a history of... -
British Political Facts Since 1979 by David Butler 9781403903730
RRP: £89.99£89.87British Political Facts Since 1979 is the definitive record of the who, the what and the when of British political history from the election of Mrs Thatcher as Prime Minister to the present day. It is a comprehensive reference work that will be... -
New Labour: The Progressive Future? by Stuart White 9780333915653
RRP: £89.99£89.87This collection of essays examines New Labour's claim to stand in the vanguard of a new form of progressive politics. By examining the ideology of New Labour, the major policy initiatives of Labour government, and the record and prospects of social... -
Unveiling the Council of the European Union: Games Governments Play in Brussels by Daniel Naurin 9780230250383
RRP: £44.99£44.97Thanks to new transparency rules and increased efforts by scholars, researchers are better equipped than ever before to analyze the decision-making processes of the Council of the European Union and to test old wisdoms. This book covers the most... -
Political Change In Britain: The Evolution Of Electoral Choice by David Butler 9780333226001
RRP: £44.99£40.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333226001Author NA NAFormat PaperbackPage Count 511Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 650g -
Europe In Revolt! by Bhaskar Sunkara 9781608465934
RRP: £14.99£9.88The global recession has had political consequences across the world, but nowhere greater than in the periphery of Europe. In response, a massive wave of resistance has erupted across the continent. Europe in Revolt! examines the key parties and figures... -
Introducing Global Issues by Michael T. Snarr
£27.96The half-decade since the 6th edition of Introducing Global Issues appeared has seen enormous th changes in the international arena, perhaps most notably a move away from multilateral approaches to solving global problems-climate change, the covid... -
A Jewish Woman of Distinction - The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova by Chaeran Freeze 9781684580019
RRP: £23.00£22.53Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines... -
Putin and His Neighbors: Russia's Policies toward Eurasia by Dina R. Spechler 9781498588737
RRP: £35.00£30.95Russian President Vladimir Putin has implemented a set of policies toward his neighbors intended to help him re-establish his country's status as a major world power. These have included dominating, as far as possible, the independent states that once... -
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai 9780307390288
RRP: £22.00£15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390288Author Wangari MaathaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse 9781608464630
RRP: £16.99£10.36In Tomorrow's Battlefield, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking true story of the US military's spreading secret wars in Africa. You won't see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front... -
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence by James A. Colaiaco 9780312088439
£36.19In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national black spokesman during the Montgomery bus boycott to his radical critique of American society and foreign... -
Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific by Michael R. Auslin 9780817923242
RRP: £29.95£27.91The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and... -
Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe: Kyiv's Foreign Affairs and the International Relations of the Post-Communist Region by Martin Malek
RRP: £36.00£29.61The geopolitics of post-communist Europe are not only important for Ukraine itself, but ultimately also for the future of the continent as a whole. This concerns the interactions between Kyiv, on the one hand, and the capitals of East-Central Europe as...