Charts Qatar's key role in shaping and determining diplomatic initiatives in Afghanistan, Gaza and elsewhere. This timely monograph chronicles how Qatar transformed itself into a broker of peace in some of the world's most intractable conflicts. In...

How have Central Asians responded to China's growing role in their countries? Can Beijing maintain its dominant position in an increasingly hostile region? Central Asia is at the forefront of China's efforts to assert itself as a major world power....

A definitive study of a hotly debated phenomenon: migration into Europe and America, its socioeconomic impacts, and the eternal policy efforts to stop the inevitable. This authoritative book proposes a fresh perspective on international migration, o...

How did a small post-Soviet state become a digital and e-government powerhouse, producing world-leading tech companies and pioneering policies for remote residency? Three decades after gaining independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is a nation...

Reveals how international finance has kept its grip in post-independence Sudan. In 2019, a people's revolution ended the thirty-year reign of Sudan's military president Umar al-Bashir. A transitional government took power, led by esteemed internatio...

Globalised manufacturing, multinational hegemony, street violence and urban securitisation come together in this eye-opening study of Karachi's economic "order". On 11 September 2012, over 250 workers of Ali Enterprises, which produced jeans for the...

Based on interviews and body-cam footage, a gripping account of British and American volunteers fighting in Ukraine, from Kyiv to Bakhmut. This book is "Black Hawk Down" meets "Enemy at the Gates" meets "Band of Brothers", and it's all true. It's ab...

A Sunday Times Book of the Week One of the Financial Times' Books to Read in 2025 One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 A darkly brilliant, wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with pas...

A world-leading expert on Myanmar assesses the ongoing popular uprising against the military junta that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar's generals didn't expect the nation to rise up against the coup they staged in February 2021. But after decades...

A French-Algerian journalist's stark critique of her crisis-ridden country - how does France work, how did it get here, and how can it change? France - the romanticised, revolutionary land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all - is failing. Re...