Plotters
The UK Terrorists Who Failed
ISBN: PB: 9781805261636,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389298,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of – because the perpetrators were caught in time.
Since 2017, the UK has seen fifteen terrible terrorist attacks. But the atrocities on our evening news are the tip of a vast...
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See What You Made Me Do
Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
ISBN: PB: 9781787388260,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383685,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize
Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't...
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Insecure Guardians
Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi
ISBN: HB: 9781787386884,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2022
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An in-depth study of the policing practices of an insecure state, foregrounding the experiences of officers on the frontline of Pakistan's armed conflicts.
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its...
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Nightmarch
Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas
ISBN: PB: 9781787385993,
ISBN: HB: 9781849049900,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2021
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
342 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal anthropology Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the 2019 New India Foundation Book Prize
A first-hand account of India's widespread leftist insurgency,...
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Transforming the War on Drugs
Warriors, Victims and Vulnerable Regions
ISBN: PB: 9781787381988,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A stark reassessment of the merits of conventional anti-drugs policies for dealing with narcotics.
The war on drugs has failed, but consensus in the international drug policy debate on the way forward is missing. Amidst this moment of uncertainty,...
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Criminal Contagion
How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic
ISBN: HB: 9781787384460,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2021
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
304 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
Amid the chaos of the pandemic, mafias and scammers have been profiting from the misfortune of others.
Covid-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, societies and economies in previously unimaginable ways – but gangsters and profiteers have a...
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Human Trafficking
An Organised Crime?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381285,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2019
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
"Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and this picture is inad...
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Scripts of Terror
The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves
ISBN: HB: 9781787380172,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2019
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice – one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it charts a series of different strategic 'scripts' at play i...
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Apartheid Guns and Money
A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2018
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa....
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China
Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9781849048774,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2018
280 pp., 22,5x14,5 cm
280 pp., 22,5x14,5 cm
China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, this internal dynamic...
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