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Hamas in Politics Democracy, Religion, Violence
ISBN: PB: 9781849040297, Hurst Publishers, December 2009
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In January 2006, Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. The inherent contradictions in this situation have left many analysts at...
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£35,00
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Insurgent Archipelago
ISBN: PB: 9781849040136, Hurst Publishers, December 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As a British Gurkha officer assigned to the jungle borders of North Borneo, John Mackinlay experienced firsthand the Maoist-style insurgencies of the 1950s and 1960s, and later in his career, as a scholar researching Muslim NGO...
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Back in the USSR
ISBN: HB: 9781906497279, Seagull Books, November 2009
88 pp., 19x11.9 cm
Though it has been nearly two decades since the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the accompanying disintegration of the Soviet state, a strange aspect of the current cultural situation in Russia and in the other former republics of th...
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Two Underdogs and a Cat Three Reflections on Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497286, Seagull Books, November 2009
112 pp., 18.4x11.2 cm
Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic here presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. Three characters – a dog, an underdog, and a cat – offer the reader narratives that reflect on...
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Torture and the War on Terror
ISBN: HB: 9781906497361, Seagull Books, October 2009
64 pp., 16.5x11.2 cm, 30 halftones
Though the recent election of American President Barack Obama and his signing of the executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay signals a considerable shift away from the policies of the Bush era, the lessons to be learned from the war on...
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£9,00
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Idea of Communism
ISBN: HB: 9781906497262, Seagull Books, October 2009
96 pp., 18.8x11.4 cm
November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failure...
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Democratic Governance A New Paradigm for Development?
ISBN: PB: 9781849040198, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
540 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Governance' has become a key word in the lexicon of international relations over the last twenty years. It is used, loosely, and invariably in a liberal idiom, by scholars, activists, civil society organizations, politicians an...
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£25,00
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Illusion of Freedom Scotland Under Nationalism
ISBN: PB: 9781850659969, ISBN: HB: 9781850659952, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Alex Salmond, a talented politician in charge of Scotland's devolved government since 2007, is mounting the biggest challenge to the British union state in its 300-year history. His fast-growing Scottish National Party wants Sc...
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£12,99
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£50,00
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Why Arendt Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300136197, Yale University Press, August 2009
240 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Upon publication of her 'field manual', "The Origins of Totalitarianism", in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that...
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£19,00
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Hamas Unwritten Chapters
ISBN: PB: 9781849040013, Hurst Publishers, June 2009
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood, details the influence of its exiled leadership in Syr...
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