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Utopia or Auschwitz Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781849040242, ISBN: HB: 9781849040211, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One thing above all separated the radical students who demonstrated on the streets of West Berlin and Frankfurt in 1968 from their counterparts elsewhere around the world. The young Germans who became known as the 1968 generati...
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Democratic Governance A New Paradigm for Development?
ISBN: PB: 9781849040198, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
540 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Governance' has become a key word in the lexicon of international relations over the last twenty years. It is used, loosely, and invariably in a liberal idiom, by scholars, activists, civil society organizations, politicians an...
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£25,00
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Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9781850658979, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The prominence of Saudi Arabia in international relations today is undisputed. Bringing together contributors from the worlds of business, politics, journalism and academia, The Kingdom provides a much-needed context to the rol...
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£19,99
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Ismailis in Colonial Era Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969
ISBN: HB: 9781850659822, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the early nineteenth century onwards the Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed historical legend, into a small but highly organised temporal and religious movement with g...
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£30,00
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Thucydides on Strategy Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today
ISBN: PB: 9781849040112, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
212 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its...
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Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9781850659358, ISBN: HB: 9781850659341, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also sai...
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£49,99
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Illusion of Freedom Scotland Under Nationalism
ISBN: PB: 9781850659969, ISBN: HB: 9781850659952, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Alex Salmond, a talented politician in charge of Scotland's devolved government since 2007, is mounting the biggest challenge to the British union state in its 300-year history. His fast-growing Scottish National Party wants Sc...
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£12,99
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£50,00
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Spinning Intelligence Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence
ISBN: PB: 9781850659945, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or sim...
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£17,99
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Global Salafism Islam's New Religious Movement
ISBN: PB: 9781850659808, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
464 pp., 21.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors...
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Whaling in Japan Power, Politics and Diplomacy
ISBN: PB: 9781850659846, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For years, pro-whaling forces and ardent antiwhaling organisations in Japan and abroad have wrestled with a contentious and highly emotive issue, while proponents of whaling have sought to control the parameters of the debate b...
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