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Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849042024, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably l...
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£35,00
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Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes Algeria, Iraq and Libya
ISBN: HB: 9781849041744, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! During the 1970s, owing to their oil 'rents', Algeria, Iraq and Libya all seemed engaged in a swift modernisation process. Oil was the godsend that would enable these states to catch up economically. Algeria was a 'Mediterranea...
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£40,00
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Iraq's Democratic Moment
ISBN: HB: 9781849042185, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1920, a massive uprising took place against British occupation of Mesopotamia. This initiated a struggle for democracy that pitted nationalist leaders against the British, their local political allies and a newly-installed m...
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£35,00
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849041331, ISBN: HB: 9781849041324, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! During the decade prior to the Arab Spring dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels were established across the Middle East, advocating different forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through thei...
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£25,00
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£45,00
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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781611683219, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2012
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the gro...
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£20,00
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Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...
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£42,00
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Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849042109, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...
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£27,50
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City of Soldiers A Year of Life, Death and Survival in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9781908493088, Signal Books, May 2012
288 pp., 21.5x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliban with flip-charts and pens,...
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£12,99
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Untold Story of People of Azad Kashmir
ISBN: HB: 9781849041508, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Azad (Free) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is that part of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan, separated by a Line of Control from Indian territory. This book is a rarity: it offers a fresh interpretive history of the largely forgotten four...
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£55,00
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Violent Image Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries
ISBN: HB: 9781849041911, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutionised the way ideas, messages and images are disseminated, and the speed with whic...
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£45,00
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