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The Spectre of Comparison: Politics, Culture and the Nation by Benedict Anderson
RRP: €28.55€26.24"'Come, let us build a Third Kingdom, and in this Third Reich, hey, sisters, you will live happily; hey, brothers, you will live happily; hey, kids, you will live happily; hey, you German patriots, you will see Germany sitting enthroned above all the... -
Women and Gender in Iraq: Between Nation-Building and Fragmentation by Zahra Ali
RRP: €28.55€24.72Since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the challenges of sectarianism and militarism have weighed heavily on the women of Iraq. In this book, Zahra Ali foregrounds a wide-range of interviews with a variety of women involved in women's... -
Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest by Ivan Krastev
RRP: €19.03€16.95Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia,... -
Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation: The Afterlife of the Partition of India by Pranav Kohli 9781009318686
RRP: €119.00€107.43This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within... -
The Contested World Economy: The Deep and Global Roots of International Political Economy by Eric Helleiner 9781009337526
RRP: €27.36€23.28The rapid growth of the field of international political economy since the 1970s has revived an older tradition of thought from the pre-1945 era. The Contested World Economy provides the first book-length analysis of these deep intellectual roots of the... -
Apocalypse Next: The Economics of Global Catastrophic Risks by Stephen Davies 9780255368216
RRP: €20.83€18.73The Covid-19 pandemic was, and remains, a global disaster - claiming countless lives and wreaking economic havoc that still reverberates today. But it could have been worse. Much worse. Author Stephen Davies contends the planet 'dodged a bullet' this... -
Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet by Glenn Denning
RRP: €35.70€27.72What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world-one without hunger or malnutrition, where everyone gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life? Bringing about such a future requires... -
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: €19.03€12.48In this visionary roadmap to the twenty-first-century, Kishore Mahbubani prescribes solutions for improving global institutional order. He diagnoses seven geopolitical fault lines most in need of serious reform. But his message remains optimistic:... -
Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P W Singer
RRP: €20.22€14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358108474Author P.W. SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... -
Dismantling Global White Privilege: Equity for a Post-Western World Chandran Nair 9781523000005
RRP: €27.37€18.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Multicultural Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781523000005Author Chandran NairFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
US Power in Latin America: Renewing Hegemony by Rubrick Biegon 9780367264888
RRP: €49.97€43.73An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting... -
Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State by Yanzhong Huang
RRP: €29.74€25.20Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic... -
Beyond Terror: Islam's Slow Erosion of Western Democracy by Anne Marie Waters 9781732451100
€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732451100Author Anne Marie WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Something or Other Publishing LLCPublisher Something or Other Publishing... -
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
RRP: €13.08€8.71Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to... -
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism by Steven Levitsky
RRP: €41.65€33.01Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable,... -
Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict by Rain Liivoja
RRP: €52.35€46.93The law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it finds itself in a state of flux created by the changing nature of warfare and the influences of other branches of international law. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed... -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: €13.08€9.25For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing... -
The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World by Bernard-Henri Lévy
RRP: €15.46€10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231307Author Bernard-Henri LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Great American Gamble: Deterrence Theory and Practice from the Cold War to the Twenty-First Century by Keith B Payne 9780977622177
RRP: €22.61€21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977622177Author Keith B PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint National Institute for Public PolicyPublisher National Institute for Public... -
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars by Tara Zahra
RRP: €33.31€26.81Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an... -
Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power by Aisha Ahmad 9780190656775
RRP: €35.69€33.74The rise of militant jihadist groups is one of the greatest international security crises in the world today. In civil wars across the modern Muslim world, Islamist groups have emerged out of the ashes, surged dramatically to power, and routed their... -
Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice by Theodore H. Cohn 9780367512507
RRP: €82.10€71.30Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US-China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the... -
Can Russia Modernise?: Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance by Alena V. Ledeneva 9780521125635
RRP: €30.93€26.17In this original, bottom-up account of the evolution of contemporary Russia, Alena Ledeneva seeks to reveal how informal power operates. Concentrating on Vladimir Putin's system of governance - referred to as sistema - she identifies four key types of... -
Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility by Susanne A. Wengle 9781009165907
RRP: €35.69€32.93Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this... -
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East by Adam Hanieh 9781108453158
RRP: €29.74€25.20Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research -... -
The Oxford Handbook of Populism by Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser 9780198846284
RRP: €48.78€48.18Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist... -
The International Relations of the Persian Gulf by F. Gregory Gause 9780521137300
RRP: €30.93€26.17Gregory 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... -
Chinese Soft Power by Maria Repnikova
RRP: €20.23€17.52This Element presents an overarching analysis of Chinese visions and practices of soft power. Maria Repnikova's analysis introduces the Chinese theorization of the idea of soft power, as well as its practical implementation across global contexts. The... -
We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
RRP: €28.55€24.80Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chavez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chavez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical... -
The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security by Marwa Daoudy
RRP: €36.88€27.19Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This study presents a new conceptual framework to evaluate this claim. Contributing to scholarship in the fields... -
From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries by Hilary Appel
RRP: €34.50€29.06The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many... -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
€19.10"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq by Steven Kettell
€46.11Britain's participation in the Iraq war defines one of the most tumultuous periods in its political history. Driven by a desire to enhance the influence of the British government on the world stage, the decision to support the US-led invasion has... -
Good Country Equation by Simon Anholt 9781523089611 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€6.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523089611Author Simon AnholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Good Country Equation by Simon Anholt
RRP: €21.41€14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523089611Author Simon AnholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
RRP: €20.22€17.47With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 by Dominique Arel
RRP: €32.12€25.38The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a 'civil war' in order to claim non-involvement. This flies in the face of evidence, but the... -
Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself by Frances McCall Rosenbluth 9780300251944
RRP: €20.22€17.39How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to... -
Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights, and Gendered Struggles for Justice by Sumi Madhok
RRP: €89.25€80.61Vernacular Rights Cultures offers a bold challenge to the dominant epistemologies and political practices of global human rights. It argues that decolonising global human rights calls for a serious epistemic accounting of the historically and politically... -
Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence by Aliza Marcus
RRP: €28.55€24.80An in depth and scholarly report on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an essential actor on behalf of modern-day Kurds The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West,...