Empire of Austerity Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia
ISBN: HB: 9781911723127, Hurst Publishers, September 2025
384 pp., 21,8x13,8 cm
How Russia's post-Soviet economy, engineered to stagnate, explains its conflict with Ukraine and divisions across Eurasia. "Fortress Russia" evokes a Kremlin standing strong against the West. But Moscow's ceaseless quest for safety from sanctions...
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Rudderless Superpower The United States in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781911723721, Hurst Publishers, August 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An authoritative appraisal of US policy in Africa since the end of the Cold War, highlighting ill-fated interventions and a damaging withdrawal from strategic vision. When President George H.W. Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened...
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Death to Order A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042, Yale University Press, July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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Buddhism and the Political Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385, Hurst Publishers, July 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Popular participation is one of the hallmarks of modern politics. So why have democracy and democratic norms generally failed to take root in the Theravada Buddhist countries of South and Southeast Asia? This book explores traditions of Buddhist po...
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Goodbye Globalization The Return of a Divided World
ISBN: PB: 9780300282634, ISBN: HB: 9780300272277, Yale University Press, June 2025
336 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour plates
GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS A bold new account of the state of globalization today – and what its collapse might mean for the world economy. After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing,...
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Sahel The Perfect Storm
ISBN: HB: 9781787385641, Hurst Publishers, June 2025
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A revealing account of Africa's ecological and historical frontier zone, now plagued by interlocking insurgencies and climate change. The Sahel is the borderland of 3 million square kilometres between the Sahara Desert and the African savannah and...
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NATO From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
ISBN: PB: 9780300282641, ISBN: HB: 9780300270112, Yale University Press, May 2025
368 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 5 maps
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day – published for the alliance's seventy-fifth anniversary. For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace – but playing great power politics always...
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Inside Boko Haram Unravelling the Myths of an African Catastrophe
ISBN: PB: 9781787388109, Hurst Publishers, May 2025
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Explores Boko Haram's resilience, local support and economic networks, and its roots in a pre-colonial political order among the Kanuri people of Lake Chad. This book presents a nuanced picture of the origins, rise, transformation, resilience, con...
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Our Dollar, Your Problem An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
ISBN: HB: 9780300275315, Yale University Press, April 2025
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
A leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured. "Our Dollar, Your Problem" argues that America's currency might not have reached today's lofty pinnacle without a certain amount...
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All That Glistens Chinese Party-State Influence in Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781805260073, Hurst Publishers, April 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Investigates how Chinese state entities have compromised business and politics in Britain at the highest levels. In the 2010s, as China slid deeper into authoritarianism and the UK veered towards political uncertainty, the two countries declared a...
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