Rise and Fall of the EAST
How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
ISBN: PB: 9780300281934,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023
The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance.
Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST...
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14.99 GBP
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Great Transformation
China's Road from Revolution to Reform
ISBN: HB: 9780300267082,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history.
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary pe...
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30.00 GBP
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Return of the Taliban
Afghanistan after the Americans Left
ISBN: PB: 9780300278712,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
352 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 2 tables, 2 maps
352 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 2 tables, 2 maps
The first account of the new Taliban – showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors.
Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan – a scenario few Western commentators antic...
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11.99 GBP
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Battle for Syria
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300249910,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
Updated with two new chapters, this book exposes the profound influence of the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in Syria's bloody conflict and explores the implications of the perceived decline of American power in the Mid...
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13.99 GBP
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Another Kind of War
The Nature and History of Terrorism
ISBN: PB: 9780300188813,
Yale University Press,
September 2019
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
520 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
In the years since 9/11, there has been a massive surge in interest surrounding the study of terrorism. This volume applies distinguished military historian John Lynn's lifetime of research and teaching experience to this difficult topic. As a form o...
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32.50 GBP
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Road Before Me Weeps
On the Refugee Route Through Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300241228,
Yale University Press,
March 2019
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 17 colour illus.
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 17 colour illus.
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, S...
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30.00 GBP
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Useful Enemies
When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them
ISBN: PB: 9780300205435,
Yale University Press,
October 2014
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...
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27.00 GBP
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Libya
The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
ISBN: HB: 9780300139327,
Yale University Press,
May 2012
304 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader", his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the...
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35.00 GBP
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Apocalyptic Realm
Jihad in South Asia
ISBN: HB: 9780300173789,
Yale University Press,
March 2012
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
This hard hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. Dilip Hiro tracks the growth of the jihadist movement from its first violent activities in Afghanis...
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19.99 GBP
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Prison and the American Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300171495,
Yale University Press,
May 2011
258 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
258 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...
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19.00 GBP
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