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Religion and Development Ways of Transforming the World

Haar Gerrie ter

ISBN: PB: 9781849041409, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Until recently, policy-makers and academics generally saw religion as something that would disappear as countries made economic progress. But we now know that this rarely happens. People in most countries continue to look at t...

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Islam

Islam without a Veil Kazakhstan's Path of Moderation

Salhani Claude

ISBN: HB: 9781597977319, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2011
228 pp., 23x15 cm

Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Its leaders have wo...

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Media Studies

Selling Fear Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion

Nacos Brigitte L., Bloch-Elkon Yaeli, Shapiro Robert Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226567198, ISBN: HB: 9780226567181, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
264 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 50 line illus.

While we've long known that the strategies of terrorism rely heavily on media coverage of attacks, "Selling Fear" is the first detailed look at the role played by media in counterterrorism – and the ways that, in the wake of 9/11, the Bush administra...

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Grand Strategies Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Hill Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300171334, Yale University Press, May 2011
384 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 5 black&white illus.

"The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm", writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. "It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out". A distingu...

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America

Why Parties? A Second Look

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012742, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
400 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 24 tables, 24 line illus.

Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, "Why Parties?" has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark...

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Insecure Gulf The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era

Ulrichsen Kristian Coates

ISBN: PB: 9781849041270, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Insecure Gulf" examines how the concept of Arabian/Persian Gulf 'security' is evolving in response to new challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer-term. Food, water and energy security, managing and mitigating...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography

Tanguay Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm

Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...

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Cultures of Border Control Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers

Zaiotti Ruben

ISBN: PB: 9780226977874, ISBN: HB: 9780226977867, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 9 tables, 2 line illus.

In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Set...

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Securing Approval Domestic Politics and Multilateral Authorization for War

Chapman Terrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101224, ISBN: HB: 9780226101217, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
208 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 19 tables, 11 line illus.

Among the most momentous decisions that leaders of a state are called upon to make is whether or not to initiate warfare. How their military will fare against the opponent may be the first consideration, but not far behind are concerns about domestic...

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Political Science

In the Shadow of Shari'ah Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan

Nelson Matthew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781850659266, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Recent events in Pakistan, and more widely in the Islamic world, have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. Studies of Islamic law (Shari'ah) lie at the heart of this trend,...

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