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Before Intelligence Failed: British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya by Mark Wilkinson
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.75In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British... -
Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era by Finn Fuglestad
Booksplease Price: £50.08The Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing... -
Crisis in Greece by Peter Siani-Davis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.91Few countries experienced the period of turbulence surrounding the global financial crisis as intensely as Greece. The country topped the global news agenda as images of mass protests in Athens... -
A Hero's Curse: The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela by Kajsa Norman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28'A Hero's Curse' is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simon Bolivar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chavez. For nearly two hundred... -
Muslim Communities of Grace: The Sufi Brotherhoods in Islamic Religious LIfe by Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.43The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. Their members neither live in monasteries nor take vows of celibacy and poverty. They... -
Critical Muslim 04: Pakistan?: Pakistan? by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849042239
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88Ziauddin Sardar questions the question mark that is always placed in front of Pakistan, Robin Yassin-Kassab asks why Pakistan has not imploded, Taimur Khan breaks bread with the gangsters and bookies... -
Iraq's Democratic Moment by Hadid Foulath
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.73In 1936, a coup d'etat brought the nationalist forces to power amid great public jubilation, only for the coup to fail when its leaders fell out among themselves. In 1941, the Iraqi army went to war... -
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War by Myra Macdonald
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage... -
Caretaking Democratization: The Military and Political Change in Myanmar by Renaud Egreteau
Booksplease Price: £36.85This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking... -
China or Japan: Which Will Lead Asia? by Claude Meyer
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the four world's mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book opens a debate on the... -
Bridge Over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners by Kajsa Norman 9781849046817
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they... -
Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide by Vicken Cheterian
Booksplease Price: £32.84The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman... -
A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka by Ajith Boyagoda
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking... -
Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East by Khaled Hroub
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78Over the past decade or so religious broadcasting in the Middle East has been one of the chief beneficiaries of new, transnational media flows and the now commonplace availability of satellite... -
Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance After the Arab Spring by Osama Abi-Mershed
Booksplease Price: £23.93Social Currents in North Africa presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. It explores some of the most salient institutional and cultural parameters... -
Sick-Note Britain: How Social Problems Became Medical Issues by Adrian Massey
Booksplease Price: £20.00The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's... -
Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age by Mohamed Zayani
Booksplease Price: £23.93In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by... -
The Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of an Insurgency by Charles Lister
Booksplease Price: £23.90The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle... -
The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam by Medina Tenour Whiteman 9781787383029
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place-not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In... -
Shi'ism in South East Asia: 'Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions by 9781849044363
Booksplease Price: £45.77This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety... -
The Survival of the Jews in France: 1940-44 by Jacques Semelin
Booksplease Price: £32.84Between 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28For 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
Booksplease Price: £28.53The 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... -
Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe by Andrei Puppidi
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.08Key protagonists in these debates included Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli. Today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel, and direct contact with the Ottoman Empire was... -
On Germany by Giles MacDonogh
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a... -
Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan by Montgomery McFate
Booksplease Price: £36.85The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece... -
Stalin's American Spy: Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-trials by Tony Sharp
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.48Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the... -
Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10Investigates the emerging phenomenon of militant fundamentalist Islam of a global nature and without links to a particular country or culture. Olivier Roy investigates here the emergence of a... -
Whatever Happened to the Islamists?: Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam by Amel Boubekeur
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.76Widespread confusion over the use of the terms Islamism or Political Islam often obscures the fact that these are not new phenomena and can be traced back more than a century. But like all utopian... -
Putin's New Order in the Middle East by Talal Nizameddin 9781849042598
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.42Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth trans- formed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012... -
NGOs: A New History of Transnational Civil Society by Thomas Davies 9781849043106
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In contrast... -
The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power by Patrick Porter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Does technology kill distance? Does the 'globalisation' of the world make the US and its allies vulnerable to violence, terrorism or cyber-assault? 'Globalism'-- the belief that changes in... -
Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational Wars by Jack McDonald
Booksplease Price: £23.93President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law... -
Critical Muslim 54: Liberalism Ziauddin Sardar 9781805263074
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Since its beginnings--born out of the Enlightenment--liberalism has risen to become the global standard; an almost utopian ideal, against which political and moral philosophies have been judged. Yet,... -
The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India by Edward Simpson 9781849042871
Booksplease Price: £23.93For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious... -
Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy by Usaama al-Azami
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for 'bread, freedom... -
Pauperland: Poverty and the Poor in Britain by Jeremy Seabrook
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain.Yet despite... -
Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC by Zahra Babar
Booksplease Price: £23.93Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades,... -
America and Britain: Was There Ever A Special Relationship? by Guy Arnold 9781849043281
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10Britain's political and military elite has for decades nurtured the idea that enduring ties bind the interests of London and Washington, in good times and bad. Irrespective of the end of the Cold... -
The Near East: A Cultural History by Arthur Cotterell
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the...