For sale in CIS only! No country has managed as rapid and positive a turnaround in governance and security conditions this century as Colombia. In 1999, FARC and ELN rebels were literally at the gates of Bogota, and Colombia was a country synonymous...

For sale in CIS only! Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushi...

For sale in CIS only! The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without historical parallel and the 'wiring up' of the world continues apace, even in the poorest regions. Flux and ever-quickening change are the leitmotifs of the "in...

For sale in CIS only! While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice, one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and huma...

For sale in CIS only! Tahir Abbas explores the enigma of modern Islamist Turkey, Ahmet Kuru discovers Turkey's political history, Nagihan Haliloglu gets tangled in Turkish heritage wars, Zeynep Okten has reservations about the country's Islamic fina...

For sale in CIS only! "Divided We Govern" investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coalition governments. Since the 1970s, socialist, communist and regional parties in...

For sale in CIS only! Martti Ahtisaari is the world's most renowned and successful mediator in international conflicts. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lead role in bringing independence to Namibia, Serbia's withdrawal from Koso...

For sale in CIS only! "Comrade September", of the ANC's military wing, MK, was abducted by South African security forces in August 1986, interrogated and tortured. Soon he began to talk, betraying his ANC comrades, and underwent changes that marked...

For sale in CIS only! In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. "The Audacious Ascetic" is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic c...

For sale in CIS only! The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed...