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The Eu and its Neighbours: Values versus Security in European Foreign Policy by Gergana Noutcheva 9780719086762
RRP: $189.00$154.73Is there a tension between the normative fundamentals and strategic objectives of European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)? Is 'values versus security' an unavoidable choice to be made by the EU and its neighbours or, rather, a false dichotomy? The book... -
The Modern Chinese State by David Shambaugh 9780521772341
RRP: $189.00$152.40This is the first book to examine systematically the evolution of the Chinese state from the late Ming Dynasty of the seventeenth century, through the Nationalist and Communist party states of the twentieth century, and into the next century. Leading... -
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession by Richard Sakwa 9780521768429
RRP: $111.28$100.82The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature, but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of the fundamental processes shaping contemporary Russian politics,... -
Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987 by Norma J. Kriger 9780521818230
RRP: $189.00$152.40Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities... -
War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation by Brad K. Blitz 9780521677738
RRP: $65.08$56.22The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark the region. This 2006 volume analyses the causes of the conflict and describes its course from the onset of war in Croatia to... -
Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion by James L. Gibson 9780521675154
RRP: $65.08$53.45Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa investigates the degree to which the political culture of South Africa - the beliefs, values, and attitudes toward politics held by ordinary people - impedes or promotes the consolidation of democratic reform. One... -
Informal Politics in East Asia by Lowell Dittmer 9780521645386
RRP: $65.08$53.45The authors of Informal Politics in East Asia, first published in 2000, argue that political interaction within the informal dimension (behind-the-scenes politics) is at least as common and influential, though not always as transparent or coherent, as... -
The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe by Karen Dawisha 9780521599382
RRP: $77.68$68.63Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post-communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The authors analyse the... -
Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe by Karen Dawisha 9780521597333
RRP: $88.18$76.84Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia/Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania. The authors analyse the... -
Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova by Karen Dawisha 9780521597326
RRP: $77.68$71.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus by Karen Dawisha 9780521597319
RRP: $77.68$71.30Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on the former Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Chapters on Kazakhstan, Kyrkyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,... -
Russia's New Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society by Stephen White 9780521583190
RRP: $188.98$166.32Just as the Bolshevik revolution defined the early politics of the 20th century, the transition from communist rule is the landmark event of its final years. In this important 1999 textbook, based on a wealth of references including interview and survey... -
New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations by Ian Bremmer 9780521577991
RRP: $92.38$80.96Since its publication in 1993, Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor-States edited by Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras has established itself internationally as the genuinely comprehensive, systematic and rigorous analysis of the nation- and... -
The Rebirth of Politics in Russia by Michael Urban 9780521566117
RRP: $77.68$68.63Blending first hand accounts of grassroots politics with an original theory of social relations under communism, this 1997 book seeks to explain one of the seminal events of this century: the rebirth of politics in Russia amid the collapse of the USSR... -
The Rebirth of Politics in Russia by Michael Urban 9780521562485
RRP: $239.40$215.63Blending first hand accounts of grassroots politics with an original theory of social relations under communism, this 1997 book seeks to explain one of the seminal events of this century: the rebirth of politics in Russia amid the collapse of the USSR... -
Latvia in Transition by Juris Dreifelds 9780521555371
RRP: $65.08$59.39Latvia in Transition provides the material necessary to understand present-day Latvia. The author examines the main events, processes and problems of the transitional period of this country from a dependent and Moscow-dominated Soviet Republic to an... -
Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society by Stephen White 9780521552110
RRP: $218.40$194.94Russians are the world's heaviest drinkers. The consumption of alcohol permeates family life, shapes the economy, and plays an occasional but striking role in the political leadership. It was in Russia in the 1980s that the most sustained attempt of its... -
Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan by Alyssa Ayres 9780521519311
RRP: $189.00$151.56Alyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great... -
Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970 by Linda Racioppi 9780521414579
RRP: $191.08$171.99This book seeks to understand the evolution of Soviet policy towards the countries of South Asia, the regional constraints and policy opportunities which influenced the policy process in Moscow, and the relationship between Soviet perceptions and policy... -
Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking by Derek Leebaert 9780521407694
RRP: $65.08$59.39The Soviet Union remains a superpower with global security interests and ambitions. The doctrines, practices, and capabilities of its still formidable armed forces are shaping world politics just at the same time that the future of the country that... -
Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking by Derek Leebaert 9780521404297
RRP: $239.40$205.28The Soviet Union remains a superpower with global security interests and ambitions. The doctrines, practices, and capabilities of its still formidable armed forces are shaping world politics just at the same time that the future of the country that... -
The Foreign Policy of the GDR in Africa by Gareth M. Winrow 9780521380386
RRP: $239.40$206.12In this 1990 book Gareth Winrow provides a comprehensive account in English of East German foreign policy towards Africa since the early 1950s. He challenges the view of the GDR's role in Africa as solely that of a proxy for the Soviet Union. Instead, as... -
The Soviet Union and the Strategy of Non-Alignment in the Third World by Roy Allison 9780521355117
RRP: $188.98$162.73This study investigates the overall Soviet conception of non-alignment in the Third World and assesses Soviet policy in relation to this issue. The author argues that official Soviet encouragement for the policy of non-alignment and Soviet support for... -
East Germany and Detente: Building Authority after the Wall by A. James McAdams 9780521268356
RRP: $189.00$161.89The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West detente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent... -
Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956-1983 by Raymond Taras 9780521262712
RRP: $239.40$214.79Ideology in a Socialist State describes the changes in the ideology of Poland's rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial law in 1983. Ideology has been one of the most debated and equivocal concepts in social science, yet this is... -
The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People's Republic of China by Roderick MacFarquhar 9780521196932
RRP: $149.10$136.92Thirty 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... -
Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia: An Analysis of Elite Political Discourse by Michael Urban 9780521195164
RRP: $109.20$98.15In Russian politics reliable information is scarce, formal relations are of relatively little significance, and things are seldom what they seem. Applying an original theory of political language to narratives taken from interviews with 34 of Russia's... -
Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance by Jacques Bertrand 9780521194341
RRP: $178.50$161.70As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking independence. This volume brings together international experts on countries in all regions of Asia to debate how differently... -
The International Relations of the Persian Gulf by F. Gregory Gause 9780521190237
RRP: $180.58$153.59Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller... -
Patronage and Politics in the USSR by John P. Willerton 9780521121330
RRP: $65.08$59.39How do Soviet politicians rise to power? How are national and regional regimes formed? How are conflicting political interests brought together as policies are developed in the Soviet Union? In Patronage and Politics in the USSR, first published in 1991,... -
Internationalism and the Ideology of Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe by Jonathan C. Valdez 9780521121323
RRP: $65.08$55.50Jonathan Valdez explores the role of ideology in the maintenance and subsequent collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. He looks at how Marxism-Leninism was used to legitimise Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, to rationalise policy decisions,... -
The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union: The Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management by Peter Rutland 9780521121309
RRP: $65.08$59.39In this 1992 book Professor Peter Rutland analyses the role played by regional and local organs of the Soviet Communist Party in economic management from 1970 to 1990. Using a range of political and economic journals, newspapers and academic... -
Negotiating Democracy: Politicians and Generals in Uruguay by Charles Guy Gillespie 9780521025638
RRP: $65.08$59.39Uruguay was once the most stable democracy in Latin America, but in 1973 the military seized power for the first time. Political parties did not disappear, however, even though they were made illegal. By the 1980s Uruguay's generals were anxious to find... -
Church and State in Yugoslavia since 1945 by Stella Alexander 9780521089227
RRP: $77.68$70.46This full-length study of the relations between Church and state in communist regime is set in the only communist country where free research into the subject has ever been possible; it gains additional interest and topicality from the identification of... -
Ideology in a Socialist State: Poland 1956-1983 by Raymond Taras 9780521063838
RRP: $65.08$59.39Ideology in a Socialist State describes the changes in the ideology of Poland's rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial law in 1983. Ideology has been one of the most debated and equivocal concepts in social science, yet this is... -
Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition by Roger E. Kanet 9780521063418
RRP: $65.08$59.39The late twentieth century witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Eastern Europe sprang free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and... -
Post-Communist Democratization: Political Discourses across Thirteen Countries by John S. Dryzek 9780521001380
RRP: $65.08$59.39Democracy is not just a matter of constitutions, parliaments, elections, parties and the rule of law. In order to see if or how democracy works, we must attend to what people make of it, and what they think they are doing as they engage with politics, or... -
India Since 1980 by Sumit Ganguly 9780521860932
RRP: $98.70$88.94This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the... -
War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation by Brad K. Blitz 9780521860420
RRP: $92.40$84.23The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark the region. This 2006 volume analyses the causes of the conflict and describes its course from the onset of war in Croatia to... -
Understanding Russian Politics by Stephen White 9780521868570
RRP: $188.98$167.58A fresh and compelling interpretation of Russian politics by a leading authority, this textbook focuses on political developments in the world's largest country under Putin and Medvedev. Using a wealth of primary sources, it covers economic, social and...