Future Perfect / Present Tense
Migrant Workers, Expats, and Sponsors in Abu Dhabi
ISBN: HB: 9781849048224,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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"Future Perfect/Present Tense" examines the relations between migrants and the Emirati individuals and institutions that sponsor them. Divided by culture, language, and status, the two groups harbour opposing visions of a perfe...
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£30.00
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Peacekeeper, Humanitarian, Abuser
Children at Risk Worldwide
ISBN: PB: 9781787381131,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2025
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Thousands of organisations around the world are doing all they can to protect children, but many more are putting them at risk – and there is no single international legal framework or justice system to hold them to account.
U...
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£14.99
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Buddhism and the Political
Organisation and Participation in the Theravada Moral Universe
ISBN: HB: 9781849048385,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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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 trad...
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£35.00
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Empire of Austerity
Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia
ISBN: HB: 9781911723127,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
384 pp., 21,8x13,8 cm
384 pp., 21,8x13,8 cm
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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...
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£30.00
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Inside Boko Haram
Unravelling the Myths of an African Catastrophe
ISBN: PB: 9781787388109,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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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, transforma...
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£25.00
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What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?
Power, Identity and Nation-Building
ISBN: HB: 9781805260585,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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An in-depth study of this Central Asian nation's evolution since 1991, exploring how ethnicity, war and internal unrest are shaping and reshaping Kazakh identity.
In early 2022, protests rocked Kazakhstan. Initially peaceful...
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£30.00
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Caliphate or Supreme Imamate
ISBN: HB: 9780300187298,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A translation of Muhammad Rashid Rida's best-known work, which examines the compatibility of Islamic political and legal tradition with modern thought.
Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935) was a prominent Muslim intellectual and reformer. Born in a vil...
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£40.00
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National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300253108,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A deeply researched, fully updated edition of "The National Security Constitution" that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy.
Since the beginning of the American Republic, a...
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£35.00
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My Egypt Archive
ISBN: PB: 9780300276800,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260991,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt.
An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of h...
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£15.99
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£20.00
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Insurgent Nations
Rebel Rule in Angola and South Sudan
ISBN: PB: 9781787389434,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2024
408 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
408 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A comparative study of rebel leaderships in Africa, providing a new understanding of state formation and government legitimacy in two diverse nations.
Over two separate twelve-year periods, two opposing "states" governed in pa...
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£22.00
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