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Frontier of Faith Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9781849041836, ISBN: HB: 9781850658542, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defe...
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£30,00
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£45,00
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Policing Economic Crime in Russia From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatisation
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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£55,00
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Countering Al-Qaeda in London
ISBN: PB: 9781849041669, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book presents an inside account of two pioneering projects in London where Muslim community groups worked in partnership with police to reduce the influence of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism. One project empowered London Musl...
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£22,00
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Bombshell The Many Faces of Women Terrorists
ISBN: PB: 9781849041607, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The ultimate stealth weapon, female terrorists kill on average four times more people than their male counterparts. But why are more women drawn to terrorism than ever before? Do women volunteer to be terrorists, or are they co...
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£14,99
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Trieste Adriatic Emporium and Gateway to the Heart of Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781850658399, Hurst Publishers, August 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Neil Kent's portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe's major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the l...
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£22,50
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Aborigines' Protection Society Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1837-1909
ISBN: HB: 9781849041201, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For more than seventy years, the Aborigines' Protection Society, a select group of the great and the good, fought for the natives of the British Empire and against the tide of white supremacy to defend the interests of aborigin...
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£45,00
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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons The Role of Missile Defence
ISBN: PB: 9781849041478, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The goal of a planet free from nuclear weapons is at last being taken seriously by the foreign policy establishments of the leading powers. For the Obama administration, followed by the British government, leading the world to...
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£35,00
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Arab Revolution Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising
ISBN: PB: 9781849041591, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The democratic uprising throughout the Arab world is proving how wrong were the hitherto accepted political alternatives, either dictatorship or Islamism. Yet more lessons are already being learnt from this grass-root process,...
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£14,99
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Many Reasons to Intervene French and British Approaches to Humanitarian Action
ISBN: PB: 9781849041423, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is...
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£19,99
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Art of Coercion
ISBN: HB: 9781849040815, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In today's dominant discourse of liberal interventionism, the role of coercion and the monopoly of violence have been neglected, argues Antonio Giustozzi, an analyst justly renowned for his research and writing on the Taliban....
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£45,00
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