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Revolt on the Tigris The Sadr Uprising and Governing Iraq
ISBN: HB: 9781850657736, Hurst Publishers, June 2005
250 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A former paratrooper in the British Army with extensive experience of conflict and post-conflict management in the countries of former Yugoslavia, Mark Etherington had just completed a degree in international relations at Cambr...
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£22,00
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Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability Analysing and Fighting Caste
ISBN: HB: 9781850654490, Hurst Publishers, March 2005
206 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ambedkar, the first Untouchable ever to be formally educated, pioneered new strategies, philosophically and practically, which continue to prove effective, not least in the inspirational example he set to India's Untouchable co...
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£35,00
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Revolution Unending Afghanistan 1979 to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781850656838, Hurst Publishers, January 2005
370 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, leading to what the Greeks call 'the Asia Minor Catastrophe', led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations bet...
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£50,00
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Privatising the State
ISBN: PB: 9781850656890, Hurst Publishers, September 2004
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Privatisation is supposed to bring about the retreat of the state. But what happens when the state privatises itself and even its core functions – tax collection, internal security, customs – are auctioned to the highest bidder...
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£35,00
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Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts
ISBN: PB: 9781850656913, Hurst Publishers, April 2004
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Interest in the study of ethnic conflict has soared over the past decade, partly due to the ethnic conflicts that have erupted violently, especially in central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism, but also in oth...
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£25,00
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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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Dangerous Mind Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780300196498, Yale University Press, October 2003
306 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and disturbing critics of liberalism. He was also one of the most important intellectuals to offer his services to the Nazis, for which he was dubbed the "crown jurist of the...
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£24,00
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Disability Protests Contentious Politics, 1970-1999
ISBN: HB: 9781563681127, Gallaudet University Press, October 2001
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among disabled Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this...
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£71,00
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Asad's Legacy Syria in Transition
ISBN: PB: 9781850654506, Hurst Publishers, November 2000
228 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad is one of the Middle East's most prominent leaders, under whose stewardship Syria became a regional power determined to exert its influence, if not hegemony, over the Middle East. Yet three de...
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£19,99
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Nations, Identity, Power The New Politics of Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781850654100, Hurst Publishers, August 2000
447 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Conceptions of nationalism as a historical and contemporary phenomenon remain fragmentary in the late-1990s. This text analyzes the contradictions inherent in the general understanding of nationalism in order to fashion a new i...
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£18,99
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