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Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016: A History
ISBN: HB: 9781849048934, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox...
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£30,00
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Dictionary of Cantonese Slang The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
ISBN: PB: 9781849046626, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
492 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Providing a description and analysis of Hong Kong vernacular Cantonese speech styles, notably the language of the Triad-dominated criminal underworld, of teenagers and of Hong Kong movies and comics, this reference text is arra...
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£18,99
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Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781787380042, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1953 Dag Hammarskjold became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations – the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used hi...
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£30,00
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Doves Among Hawks Struggles of the Israeli Peace Movements
ISBN: HB: 9781787380240, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiralling violence. Now, and esp...
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£50,00
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Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage
ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...
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£25,00
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Defeat is an Orphan How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
ISBN: PB: 9781787380288, ISBN: HB: 9781849046411, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size a...
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£15,99
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£25,00
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Despot's Accomplice How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049306, ISBN: HB: 9781849046879, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
296 pp., 19.8x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. Though the true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats, the West is often complicit in contributing to the global decli...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Digital Middle East State and Society in the Information Age
ISBN: PB: 9781849049054, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new information technologies,...
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£25,00
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Dreamers How Young Indians are Changing the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849049078, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! 600 million Indians, more than half the population, are under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than ever, but with narrow ideas of Indian identity; raised with the cultural values o...
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£14,99
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Despot's Apprentice Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849049436, Hurst Publishers, December 2017
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Donald Trump isn't a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot's apprentice. Whether it's attacking the press, threatening the rule of law, or staffing the White House with family members and cronies, Trump is borrowi...
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£9,99
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