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New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them by Amrita Narlikar
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.54Being the new kid on the block is seldom easy at any level, and it is certainly not easy in the anarchical world of international politics. New powers such as Brazil, China and India have to tread a... -
Many Reasons to Intervene: French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action by Boris Martin
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern... -
The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War by Stephen Ellis 9781850654179
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.70Liberia was in the headlines in 1990 when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid seige to the capital, Monrovia. In... -
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History by David Lloyd Dusenbury 9781787382176
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died... -
Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh 9781787380325
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's... -
The International Campaign Against Leprosy: 1948-2005 by Jo Robertson 9781787385498
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87This book may offer a cautionary tale in the age of Covid-19. The narratives we shape around disease in society are so often about politics, and the competing versions of leprosy eradication's story... -
Politics from Afar: Transnational Diasporas and Networks by Terence Lyons
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.54More than ever, diasporas have a direct impact on the politics of their homelands. Today's diasporic activists-empowered by new media and the ease of travel afforded by globalization-engage directly... -
Emirati Women: Generations of Change by Jane Bristol-Rhys
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.43The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted the people of Abu Dhabi out of the isolating poverty into which it had plunged in the 1930s and onto the global stage. Massive construction projects... -
From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy by Jean-Pierre Filiu
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out... -
Civilisation of Perpetual Movement: Nomads in the Modern World by Nick McDonnell
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.54From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilized', sedentary... -
The Illusion of Freedom: Scotland Under Nationalism by Tom Gallagher 9781850659952
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $55.96Alex Salmond, a talented politician in charge of Scotland's devolved government since 2007, is mounting the biggest challenge to the British union state in its 300-year history. His fast-growing... -
Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.26How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates... -
Dag Hammarskjoeld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa by Henning Melber
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.98In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern... -
Critical Muslim 06: Reclaiming Al-Andalus by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36Ziauddin Sardar sides with the philosophers of al-Andalus in their struggle with orthodox theologians, Robin Yassin-Kassab goes on a poetic journey, Nazry Bahrawi reveals how the Andalusi... -
Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives by Professor Salman Sayyid
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87Since September 11 the term Islamophobia has entered common parlance across the globe. Widely used but diversely and inconsistently defined and deployed, Islamophobia remains hotly disputed and... -
Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $75.72This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1920s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on... -
An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? by Reidar Visser
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.89The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq's eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. With the formation... -
The 'Russian' Civil Wars 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World by Jonathan D. Smele 9781849047210
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $27.92This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting... -
Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists by Laurent Gayer 9781850659778
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.42There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over... -
Diplomatic Sites: A Critical Enquiry by Iver B. Neumann 9781849042406
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.54Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the... -
The Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes: Algeria, Iraq, Libya by Luis Martinez
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.54During the 1970s, owing to their oil 'rents', Algeria, Iraq and Libya all seemed engaged in a swift modernization process. Oil was the godsend that would enable these states to catch up economically... -
Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Booksplease Price: $16.91Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the... -
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.60Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was... -
War and the Liberal Conscience by Sir Michael Howard
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.34Isn't war rooted in the vested interests of the ruling classes? (But have not democracies proved as bellicose as other states?) Should not political disputes be settled by civilised negotiations?... -
The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87The contradictory trends of the 'post-Arab Spring' landscape form both the backdrop to, and the focus of, this volume on the changing security dynamics of the Persian Gulf, defined as the six GCC... -
The Petro-Developmental State in Africa: Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea by Jesse Salah Ovadia 9781849044769
Booksplease Price: $87.99Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural... -
The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution by Matthew Akester 9781849046770
Booksplease Price: $24.14The Division of Heaven and Earth is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era - a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests... -
Critical Muslim 05: Love and Death by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36Aamer Hussein takes love to its logical conclusion, Robert Irwin traces the origins of the ghazal (love lyric ), Christopher Shackle recites epic Panjabi poems of sacred love and lyrical death,... -
Shiism and Politics in the Middle East by Laurence Louer
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.98In this timely book, completed before the current outbreak of unrest in Bahrain that has formed part of the Arab Spring, Laurence Louer explains, the background of the Bahraini conflict in the... -
I-Muslims: Rewiring the House of Islam by Gary R. Bunt 9781850659501
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.17The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces... -
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE by Christopher M. Davidson 9781787383937
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.98Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic... -
Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe by Greg Mills 9781849044615
Booksplease Price: $36.04State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions - warlords -... -
The Cauldron: NATO's Campaign in Libya by Rob Weighill
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.66In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without... -
External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 by Stephen Ellis 9781849045063
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.63External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments... -
Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.63This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. 'Shallow Graves'... -
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.94To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in... -
Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts by Madawi Al-Rasheed 9781849042284
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.63In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of... -
The Survival of the Jews in France: 1940-44 by Jacques Semelin
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.36Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there... -
Cyril Ramaphosa: The Path to Power in South Africa by Ray Hartley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.00For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid... -
Violent Non-state Actors in World Politics by Klejda Mulaj
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.80The 2008 attacks on Mumbai were carried out by a Pakistani militant group known as Lashkar i-Taiba, termed a 'non-state actor' by Pakistan's president, Asif Zardari. In most cases, violent non-state...