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From War to Genocide: Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990-1994 by Andre Guichaoua 9780299298241
RRP: £26.95£26.35In April 1994 Rwanda exploded in violence, with political, social, and economic divisions most visible along ethnic lines of the Hutu and Tutsi factions. The ensuing killings resulted in the deaths of as much as 20 percent of Rwanda's population. Andre... -
Africa's International Relations: The Diplomacy Of Dependency And Change by Ali A Mazrui
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book approaches the study of Africa's international relations with a consciousness not only of past events but also of future prospects. It focuses on the black peoples everywhere, not merely those of the African continent, to understand the... -
Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 by Sabrina P. Ramet 9781108718660
RRP: £36.99£32.75The collapse of the communist monopoly across Central and Southeastern Europe in 1989/1990 initiated a process of rapid political, economic, and cultural change. While Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia went on to suffer three and a half years of... -
Globalizing India: How Global Rules and Markets are Shaping India's Rise to Power by Aseema Sinha
RRP: £26.99£22.80India's recent economic transformation has fascinated scholars, global leaders, and interested observers alike. In 1990, India was a closed economy and a hesitant and isolated economic power. By 2016, India has rapidly risen on the global economic stage;... -
Kikuyu Women, The Mau Mau Rebellion, And Social Change In Kenya by Cora Ann Presley
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the issues of land, labor, and cultural nationalism of Kikuyu women; differences between women's actions and men's; and differences between loyalist and nationalist women from the beginning of the colonial period till the end of the... -
Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India by Rachel E. Brule
RRP: £36.99£25.45Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's... -
Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution by J. Martin 9780230602748
RRP: £44.99£44.97Piero Gobetti was a radical liberal and critic of Italian politics in the years after World War I, he proposed 'revolutionary liberalism', which guided his opposition to Fascism and inspired key figures in the Italian Resistance. Accessible but critical,... -
Indian Foreign Policy by Chris Ogden 9780745660875
RRP: £16.99£15.22India is becoming an increasingly visible, powerful and influential state within the global system. As this rise to prominence continues, better appreciating the interests and principles that structure the international interactions of South Asia's... -
Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars by Jonathan Spyer
RRP: £36.99£32.53Days of the Fall takes the reader into the heart of the terrible wars in Syria and Iraq. The book combines frontline reporting with analysis of the deeper causes and effects of the conflict. Over five years, Jonathan Spyer reported from the depths of the... -
Ethnic Challenges Beyond Borders: Chinese and Russian Perspectives of the Central Asian Conundrum by Rouben Azizian 9780333694671
RRP: £89.99£89.87A rare collection of essays by leading Chinese and Russian Central Asian specialists. The contributors address the problems and challenges posed by the resurgence of Central Asia to China and Russia. Both Countries are in search of a post communist and... -
The Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence by Mauvaise Troupe
RRP: £14.99£12.55At a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural and agricultural territory, in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable and controllable, there are inhabitants who oppose these projects with a firm, unwavering NO! This is... -
A Special Relationship?: British Foreign Policy in the Era of American Hegemony by Simon Tate 9780719083716
RRP: £85.00£60.17This book addresses the special relationship from the perspective of post-Second World War British governments. It asks how they have perceived the special relationship and performed a foreign policy role within it? This enables the book to argue that... -
Democratic Brazil Divided by Peter Kingstone
£45.92March 2015 should have been a time of celebration for Brazil, as it marked thirty years of democracy, a newfound global prominence, over a decade of rising economic prosperity, and stable party politics under the rule of the widely admired PT (Workers'... -
Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Movements by Zoltan Pall
RRP: £30.99£22.85The past two decades have seen an increasing association between Lebanese Salafism and violence, with less attention being paid to Salafis who focus on peaceful proselytization. In reality, it is these Salafis whose influence has dramatically grown since... -
House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy by Ronojoy Sen
RRP: £75.00£67.74While there is overwhelming support for democracy in India and voter turnout is higher than in many Western democracies, there are low levels of trust in political parties and elected representatives. This book is an attempt to look beyond Indian... -
Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today by Daniel Philpott 9780190908188
RRP: £34.99£26.34Since at least the attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most pressing political questions of the age has been whether Islam is hostile to religious freedom. Daniel Philpott examines conditions on the ground in forty-seven Muslim-majority countries... -
The Failure of Political Opposition in Japan: Implications for Democracy and a Vision of the Future by Arthur Stockwin 9781032185422
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book explores the party politics and political system of Japan, which since 1955 has been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with a particular focus on the evolution of LDP governments between the 1990s and 2010s.Through its evaluation... -
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East by Steven A. Cook 9780190931759
RRP: £20.49£14.98More than half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. In False Dawn, noted Middle East... -
Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity by Andrei P. Tsygankov 9781538124079
£34.04Now fully updated and revised, this clear and comprehensive text explores the past thirty years of Soviet/Russian international relations, comparing foreign policy formation under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin. Challenging conventional views of... -
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron by Tim Bale 9780745687445
RRP: £55.00£35.85The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good position to win another. But many questions about their recent past, present, and future still remain. Just why... -
Russian 'Hybrid Warfare' and the Annexation of Crimea: The Modern Application of Soviet Political Warfare by Kent DeBenedictis 9780755639991
RRP: £90.00£89.88Western academics, politicians, and military leaders alike have labelled Russia's actions in Crimea and its follow-on operations in Eastern Ukraine as a new form of "Hybrid Warfare." In this book, Kent DeBenedictis argues that, despite these... -
Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities by Vivien Law 9780521599689
RRP: £30.99£28.28This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states. The first chapter provides a conceptual and theoretical context for examining national identities, drawing in particular upon post-colonial... -
Tangled Governance: International Regime Complexity, the Troika, and the Euro Crisis by C. Randall Henning 9780198801801
RRP: £38.99£34.63Tangled Governance addresses the institutions that were deployed to fight the euro crisis, reestablish financial stability in Europe, and prevent contagion to the rest of the world. Henning explains why European leaders chose to include the International... -
The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience by Julie M. Norman
RRP: £37.99£33.38Providing a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palestinian national struggle. Based on direct interviews with former prisoners and former security sector... -
Quantifying the World: UN Ideas and Statistics by Michael Ward
RRP: £23.99£20.84Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the postwar period demonstrates how statistics have shaped... -
After Autonomy: A Political Post-Mortem for Hong Kong in the first Handover, circa 1997-2019 by Daniel F. Vukovich
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book offers a sharp, critical analysis of the rise and fall of the 2019 anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, including prior events like Occupy Central and the Mongkok Fishball Revolution, as well as their aftermaths in light of the... -
Emerge!: The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East by Elza S. Maalouf 9781590792865
RRP: £21.95£16.88In the Middle East, turmoil has spread quickly. Oppression, inequality, and violence have been keyed in to the very makeup of its society. But what causes a culture to emerge and prosper or stagnate and fail? How can the people take charge of their own... -
The Evolution of the South Korea-United States Alliance by Uk Heo
RRP: £24.99£21.18In contrast to previous studies of the South Korea-United States alliance, Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig analyze the bigger picture, including the history, economics, security, alliance structure, politics, and the future of the alliance. Taking alliance... -
The Government And Politics Of Israel: Third Edition by Donald Peretz
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the dynamics of Israeli politics. It aims to familiarize those interested in Israel's government with that country's origins; the way its political institutions, practices, and traditions have... -
Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia by Aurel Croissant
RRP: £17.00£14.72Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia reviews the historical origins, contemporary patterns, and emerging changes in civil-military relations in Southeast Asia from colonial times until today. It analyzes what types of military organizations emerged... -
NoNonsense Globalization: Buying and Selling the World by Wayne Ellwood 9781780262376
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780262376Author Wayne EllwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States by Jesse Driscoll
RRP: £24.99£20.94The break-up of the USSR was unexpected and unexpectedly peaceful. Though a third of the new states fell prey to violent civil conflict, anarchy on the post-Soviet periphery, when it occurred, was quickly cauterized. This book argues that this outcome... -
Gender in Modern East Asia by Barbara Molony
RRP: £53.99£47.27Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global... -
China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China by John W. Garver 9780190261054
RRP: £77.00£54.75From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path... -
Building an Authoritarian Polity: Russia in Post-Soviet Times by Graeme Gill 9781107562424
RRP: £22.99£19.56Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been... -
From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television by Sabina Mihelj
RRP: £36.99£21.89In From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television, Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand... -
Islam and Law in Lebanon: Sharia within and without the State by Morgan Clarke
RRP: £36.99£25.45The modern state of Lebanon, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, is home to eighteen officially recognised different religious communities (or sects). Crucially, political office and representation came to be formally shared along confessional... -
Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss Among Syrian Labourers in Beirut by Philip Proudfoot
RRP: £85.00£60.17Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of... -
Media and Power in Southeast Asia by Cherian George
RRP: £17.00£14.72This study of Southeast Asian media and politics explores issues of global relevance pertaining to journalism's relationship with political power. It argues that the development of free, independent, and plural media has been complicated by trends... -
European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration by Stephan Leibfried 9780815752479
£22.77As the European Union grows and matures, its movement toward a single market has been the primary focus of attention. However, other policy areas have been greatly affected by the process of European integration. This volume deals with the development of...