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Islam

Current Affairs

From Independence to Revolution Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

Kennedy Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9781849047050, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "From Independence to Revolution" tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition – the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Musl...

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Africa

Current Affairs

How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781849047234, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1977, R.W. Johnson's bestselling "How Long Will South Africa Survive?" offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in go...

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Middle East

Algeria Modern From Opacity to Complexity

Martinez Luis, Boserup Rasmus Alenius

ISBN: HB: 9781849045872, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to...

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Africa

Current Affairs

Secure the Base Making Africa Visible in the Globe

wa Thiong'o Ngugi

ISBN: HB: 9780857423139, Seagull Books, December 2015
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrat...

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Political Science

Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...

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Political Science

"We Love Death As You Love Life" Britain's Suburban Mujahedeen

Pantucci Raffaello

ISBN: PB: 9781849041652, Hurst Publishers, March 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As Mohammed Siddique Khan led his group of fellow believers into London on the morning of 7 July 2005 it is unlikely that they were thinking much beyond the immediate impact of their actions. Driven by anger at the West's treat...

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Military

Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

Keen David

ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...

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Middle East

Current Affairs

Among the Ruins Syria Past and Present

Sahner Christian C.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044004, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. "Among the Ruins" blends history, memoir and repo...

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Current Affairs

General

End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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