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Political Science

Philosophy

States of Violence An Essay on the End of War

Gros Frederic

ISBN: HB: 9781906497187, Seagull Books, September 2010
321 pp., 20.1x16.3 cm

According to political philosopher Frederic Gros, traditional notions of war and peace are currently being replaced by ideas of intervention and security. But while we may be able to speak of an end to war, this does not imply an end to violence. On...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Fable of the World A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in Our Times

Mairet Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9781906497194, Seagull Books, September 2010
346 pp., 19.8x16 cm

Modern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state – eventually, t...

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Political Science

In Search of the Balkan Recovery The Political and Economic Reemergence of South-Eastern Europe

Cviic Christopher, Sanfey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849040709, ISBN: HB: 9781849040693, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the early '90s the Balkans was rocked by the collapse of communism and the violent break-up of Yugoslavia. But the last decade has seen a transformation of South-Eastern Europe into one of the most dynamic emerging markets i...

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Political Science

Political Islam Observed

Volpi Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781849040617, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
244 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines 'observing' contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being 'observed' practising it. Volpi investigates how...

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Political Science

Leviathan Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Hobbes Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300118384, Yale University Press, July 2010
576 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by Thomas Hobbes and first published in 1651, "Leviathan" is widely considered the greatest work of political philosophy ever composed in the English language. Hobbes' central argument – that human beings are first and foremost concerned with...

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Political Science

Globalization and the Circumpolar North

Heininen Lassi, Southcott Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....

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Political Science

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe

Scharpf Fritz W.

ISBN: PB: 9783593391885, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2010
391 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe".Community and Autonomy" collects in one volume Scharpf...

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Anthropology

Political Science

Neoliberal Frontiers An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa

Chalfin Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226100616, ISBN: HB: 9780226100593, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones

In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanai...

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Fiction

Political Science

Bait Four Stories

Devi Mahasweta

ISBN: HB: 9781906497491, Seagull Books, July 2010
175 pp., 17.8x10.9 cm

Unlike most of Mahasweta Devi's works, which focus on Bengali tribes and the rural dispossessed, the four stories collected in Bait are located in the urban and suburban criminal underworld, and form an unusual segment of Devi's oeuvre. The first s...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Conversations with Jacqueline Rose

Chaudhuri Supriya, Sen Aveek, Bechler Rosemary, Moore Henrietta, Frosh Stephen, Lerman Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780857425928, Seagull Books, July 2010
153 pp., 21.4x14.6 cm

In this collection of conversations that were conducted in Calcutta, at the London School of Economics, through Jewish Book Week, and on the radical website openDemocracy, internationally renowned Jewish scholar Jacqueline Rose explores the debates t...

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