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Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries
ISBN: PB: 9781850658214, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
342 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why is there so much violence in the developing countries? What does it have to do with economic development? What does it have to do with globalisation? In addressing these and other questions, Christopher Cramer takes a broad...
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£22,00
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Shopping for Bombs Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A. Q. Khan Network
ISBN: HB: 9781850658269, Hurst Publishers, July 2006
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Shopping for Bombs" presents the first detailed account of the emergence of Pakistan's nuclear hero A.Q. Khan as the world's leading black market salesman of nuclear weapons technology. It reveals the inside story of how he so...
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£19,99
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Lone Wolf and Bear Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule
ISBN: PB: 9781850657484, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...
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£20,00
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Dirty War in West Africa The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone
ISBN: PB: 9781850657422, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...
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£30,00
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Darfur The Ambiguous Genocide
ISBN: HB: 9781850657705, Hurst Publishers, July 2005
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be the first genocide of the twenty...
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£35,00
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In the Shadow of Just Wars Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action
ISBN: PB: 9781850657378, ISBN: HB: 9781850657361, Hurst Publishers, March 2004
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian organizations were offered US government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'. In Kosavo, Timor, Sierra Leon...
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£19,99
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£45,00
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Parachutes, Patriots, Partisans The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
ISBN: HB: 9781850655923, Hurst Publishers, January 2004
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The story of the political and military activities of SOE, especially its relationship with British policy-makers, the Foreign Office and the military high command. It also analyzes SOE's relationship with the Yugoslav guerrill...
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£30,00
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Serbian Project and Its Adversaries A Strategy of War Crimes
ISBN: PB: 9781850654995, Hurst Publishers, May 2003
322 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This work offers a military-political analysis of the Yugoslav war. James Gow identifies the core of the war in Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian strategic project to create and consolidate borders through ethnic cleansing, and at t...
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£20,00
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Hungarians A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
ISBN: PB: 9781850656821, ISBN: HB: 9781850656739, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
572 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns' but it was not long before the Hungarians became stea...
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£18,99
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£50,00
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Europe's Last Red Terrorists The Revolutionary Organisation "November 17"
ISBN: PB: 9781850654674, Hurst Publishers, November 2000
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume focuses on the ideology and operations of Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terrorists, the Greek revolutionary organisation November 17. Tracing the history of November 17, which began in the 1970's, this book demostr...
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£25,00
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