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Criminology

Political Science

Policing Economic Crime in Russia From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation

Favarel-Garrigues Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781849040655, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In analysing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics since the late 1980s. During t...

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Political Science

Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility The Rise of a Global Business Norm

Muhle Ursula

ISBN: PB: 9783593392639, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
390 pp., 21.2x14 cm

Bringing together the fields of sociology, political science, and management and organization studies, Ursula Muhle offers in this unique volume an authoritative overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Muhle first considers the origins of...

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Political Science

America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Middle East

Political Science

Policing and Prisons in the Middle East Formations of Coercion

Khalili Laleh, Schwedler Jillian

ISBN: PB: 9781849040587, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The emergence of the modern Middle East has been accompanied by a concentration of coercive power in the state. Although the region has encompassed numerous Mukhabarat (secret police) states, extensive policing and carceral reg...

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Political Science

Pacific Alliance Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations

Calder Kent E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168341, Yale University Press, September 2010
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Despite the enduring importance of the U. S. -Japan security alliance, the broader relationship between the two countries is today beset by sobering new difficulties. In this comprehensive comparative analysis of the transpacific alliance and its pol...

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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

Paradoxes of Integration Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America

Oliver J. Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226626635, ISBN: HB: 9780226626628, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 43 line illus.

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society".The Paradoxes of Integration" helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships amo...

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Political Science

Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf

Teitelbaum Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9781850659280, Hurst Publishers, November 2008
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Persian (or Arab) Gulf countries produce about 30 per cent of the planet's oil, and keep in the ground around 55 per cent of its crude oil reserves, hence the stability of the region's autocratic regimes is vital to the wor...

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Political Science

Politics of Chaos in Middle East

Roy Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9781850658948, Hurst Publishers, April 2008
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Olivier Roy argues that the unintended and unforeseen consequences of the 'war on terror' have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East such that they appear to be the expression of a widespread 'Muslim anger' agains...

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Gender Studies

Political Science

Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

Rimmerman Craig A., Wilcox Clyde

ISBN: PB: 9780226720012, University of Chicago Press, October 2007
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

Same-sex marriage emerged in 2004 as one of the hottest issues of the campaign season. But in a severe blow to gay rights advocates, all eleven states that had the issue on the ballot passed amendments banning the practice, and the subject soon dropp...

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