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African Realism?
International Relations Theory and Africa's Wars in the Postcolonial Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
African Realism explains Africa’s international conflicts of the post-colonial era through international relations theory. It looks at the relationship between Africa’s domestic and international conflicts, as well as the impact of factors such as domestic legitimacy, trade, and regional economic...
Polemical Austria
The Rhetorics of National Identity from Empire to the Second Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Austria today offers the picture of a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and violent history. After the First World War, Vienna changed overnight from being the capital of a large continental and multi-ethnic Empire...
Democracy in Small States
Persisting Against All Odds
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand the history of this form of regime: why it has thrives and fails. But, existing studies are limited by their focus on...
Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
How Trade Makes the State
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberia's hard-won peace. Building...
by Van Khanh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book presents research focusing on the Vietnam Nationalist Party (Việt Nam Quốc dân đảng) from 1927 to 1954. It elaborates on the party’s establishment, political ideology and organizational structure, the Yen Bai Uprising, the party’s downfall, and its role in the Vietnamese Revolution....
Scots and Catalans
Union and Disunion
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This...
The Middle East in the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Spanning a period which stretches from the 19th century to the present day, this book takes a novel look at the British labour movement by examining the interaction between trade unions, the Labour Party, other parties and groups of the Left, and the wider working class, to highlight the dialectic...
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Sources and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Conspiracy theories, while not unique to the Middle East, are a salient feature of the political discourses of the region. Strongly reflecting and impacting on state-society relations and indigenous impressions of the world beyond the region, they affect how political behaviour within and among the...
The Middle East
A Cultural Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet few studies of the region's cultural...
Carnage and Culture
Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting...
It's Our Turn to Eat
The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
"A fast-paced political thriller.... Wrong's gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo's courage and a cautionary tale." —New York Times Book Review
“On one level, It’s Our Turn to Eat reads like a John Le Carré novel.... On a deeper and much richer level,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This collection of papers examines the current rise in violence by Dissident Irish Republicans and its impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process.
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century--in government, business, and beyond
Power is shifting-from large, stable armies to loose bands of insrugents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares....