For sale in CIS only! Today's discussions on Islam and the place religion should have in society often lead to questions about the Shari'a – Islamic law. Those who work for a political role for Islam demand that the Shari'a must be applied in their...

For sale in CIS only! Islamism is often portrayed as a reaction against, or at best a belated accommodation to, modernization. Refuting this dismissive opinion, Bj?rn Utvik explores the movement through the lens of its engagement with social and eco...

For sale in CIS only! More than two years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organised insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering...

For sale in CIS only! Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where, the press would sometimes have us believe, there exists a near unanimous hostility to the United States. This book, by dint of on the groun...

For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...

For sale in CIS only! Nationalism has become a major topic in social science research, and the contributors to "Revisiting Nationalism" seek to sharpen the theoretical focus of what is now a crowded field of intellectual enquiry. Their approach is f...

For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...

For sale in CIS only! An examination of the fluidity of ideas of culture with relation to identity, state-builfing and political action. Does the West impose its own definition of human rights and democracy on the rest of the world? Does globalisati...

For sale in CIS only! In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be the first genocide of the twenty...

For sale in CIS only! Aims to contest conventional ways of presenting Han immigrants in minority areas as a homogenous group of colonisers with shared identification, equal status and access to power. This book demonstrates that the category of 'Han...