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Securing the State
ISBN: PB: 9781849041881, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terro...
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£18,99
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Global Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781849041812, ISBN: HB: 9781849041829, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Global Palestine" offers a unique perspective on one of the world's most enduring political controversies by exploring a deceptively simple question: what does Palestine mean for the globe? The book begins from three overlappi...
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£17,99
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£35,00
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China or Japan Which Will Lead Asia?
ISBN: PB: 9781849042154, ISBN: HB: 9781849041720, Hurst Publishers, December 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the world's four mightiest economies, including India. This stimulating book aims to open a debate on the question of leadership in...
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£30,00
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£25,00
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Season of Rains Africa and the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849041805, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary op...
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£12,99
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Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed The MSF Experience
ISBN: PB: 9781849041638, ISBN: HB: 9781849041621, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put another way, the freedo...
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£19,99
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£55,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 01 The Arabs Are Alive
ISBN: PB: 9781849041904, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the inaugural issue of "Critical Muslim": Ziauddin Sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the Middle East, Robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in Tahrir Square, Ashur Shamis dodges the...
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£14,99
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When More is Less The International Project in Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849041645, Hurst Publishers, November 2011
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Astri Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of the intervention and its related peace-b...
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£30,00
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Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires Private Violence in Historical Context
ISBN: PB: 9781849041492, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of...
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£40,00
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Pakistan-US Conundrum Jihadists, the Military and the People: The Struggle for Control
ISBN: PB: 9781849040105, ISBN: HB: 9781849040099, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and st...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Lifeblood How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time
ISBN: PB: 9781849041577, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! One day in 2006, the rich, well connected but very private philanthropist, Ray Chambers, flicked through the holiday snaps of his friend, the development economist Jeffrey Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of...
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£18,99
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