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Corporate Peace How Global Business Shapes a Hostile World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381278, Hurst Publishers, January 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ours is an era of big companies, multinational brands and global business power, but also of seemingly unending conflict. Corporate Peace examines how corporations respond to the life-and-death business of war and peace. What h...
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£20,00
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Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016: A History
ISBN: HB: 9781849048934, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox...
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£30,00
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Architectures of Violence The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, from Yugoslavia to Syria
ISBN: HB: 9781849048118, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the gen...
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£35,00
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ISIS Reader Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement
ISBN: HB: 9781787381971, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the wake of its "Caliphate" declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persist...
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£35,00
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Iranian Ways of War From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani
ISBN: HB: 9781787380349, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern a...
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£35,00
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Sacred Warriors Shia Militias, the Future of Iraq, and Iran's Battle for the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849049634, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The fall of Iraq's Baath regime was swiftly followed by the proliferation of terrorist groups, militant organisations and an ongoing sectarian conflict that continues to engulf the region. However the Shia militias involved rem...
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£35,00
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Saffron "Modernity" in India Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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£25,00
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Sahel A Short History of Mali, Niger and the Lands in Between
ISBN: HB: 9781849044738, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Sahel, where the southern edge of the Sahara meets the land in between it and the savannah, is alternatively ignored and misunderstood. In the 1970s it was synonymous with drought and famine, yet crops and herds flourish al...
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£25,00
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Future Perfect / Present Tense Migrant Workers, Expats, and Sponsors in Abu Dhabi
ISBN: HB: 9781849048224, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Future Perfect/Present Tense" examines the relations between migrants and the Emirati individuals and institutions that sponsor them. Divided by culture, language, and status, the two groups harbour opposing visions of a perfe...
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£30,00
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New History of Fiji
ISBN: HB: 9781849049009, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
500 pp., 24.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Fiji, or "Viti", lies among intricate Southwestern Pacific reefs with upwards of 300 habitable islands and many islets. This book reveals the long history of this overlooked island nation since voyagers first settled there 4,00...
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£55,00
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