A homage to the late, great scholar of war, exploring his considerable legacy and engaging with questions of conflict and strategy in the same spirit. From the collapse of the Soviet Union and the "end of history" to the rise of Islamist terrorism a...

The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a "peace dividend": concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective soci...

A shrewd, unsentimental inspection of the archives, laying bare the charge-sheet against the British and their economic policy in India: the numbers don't lie. With colonialism debates raging worldwide, when it comes to India, a whole spectrum of Em...

Explains how, against the odds, pioneering start-ups have taken on established firms and revolutionised global commerce - with huge implications for the future of business. In a struggle between David and Goliath, the giant is always predicted to wi...

This new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Second World War. Comparing a map of Europe from 1936 with one from 1946, all the countries are there, albeit with s...

This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern armed forces, the devast...

A timely study of the intrinsic connections between Western European nations and their non-Christian minorities in the age of state formation. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the ma...

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 poli...

A renowned social scientist reflects on democratisation theory as applied in the Middle East. Azmi Bishara's "Arduous Paths" builds on his sizeable body of work on democracy through the lenses of civil society, religion and secularism, populism and...

What can we learn from India's postcolonial experience of fashioning a democracy despite its extensive poverty, entrenched inequalities and widespread illiteracy? With India under growing scrutiny over the erosion of its democracy since 2014, worldw...