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Africa

Horn of Africa State Formation and Decay

Clapham Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048286, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contempo...

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Political Science

Politics and State-Society Relations in India

Manor James

ISBN: PB: 9781849047180, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
284 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! James Manor is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on Indian politics, especially how it is affected by caste, political economy – particularly poverty and its alleviation – regionalism and modes of political lea...

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Political Science

Europe

Crimean Nexus Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations

Pleshakov Constantine

ISBN: HB: 9780300214888, Yale University Press, February 2017
216 pp., 21x14 cm

How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in cu...

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Political Science

Master Plan ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Fishman Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300221497, Yale University Press, February 2017
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020. Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materi...

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Political Science

Analytics, Policy, and Governance

Ginsberg Benjamin, Hill Kathy Wagner, Bachner Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300208399, Yale University Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of go...

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Political Science

Strategic Party Government Why Winning Trumps Ideology

Koger Gregory, Lebo Matthew J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226424606, ISBN: HB: 9780226424576, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 figures, 16 tables

Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compellin...

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Political Science

Secessionist Rule Protracted Conflict and Configurations of Non-State Authority

Smolnik Franziska

ISBN: PB: 9783593506296, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
425 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 3 maps, 7 tables

In this timely investigation of secessionist entities in post-Soviet territories, Smolnik explores how political authority is organized, produced, and reproduced in conditions of violent conflict. Drawing on case studies of unrecognized or only parti...

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Political Science

Law

Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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Political Science

Beyond Decent Work The Cultural Political Economy of Labour Struggles in Indonesia

Hauf Felix

ISBN: PB: 9783593506449, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 7 halftones, 3 tables

"Beyond Decent Work" explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative...

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Criminology

Political Science

Sectarianization Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Hashemi Nader, Postel Danny

ISBN: PB: 9781849047029, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As the Middle East descends ever deeper into violence and chaos, 'sectarianism' has become a catch-all explanation for the region's troubles. The turmoil is attributed to "ancient sectarian differences", putatively primordial f...

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