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  • America and Iraq
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    America and Iraq

    This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture,...
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    US-Israeli Relations in a New Era

    This book examines in depth the fundamental problems, factors and issues in current US-Israeli relations, which will have implications both for the Middle East and for world peace and prosperity.
    $121.63

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    Russia and the Cult of State Security

    This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet...
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    Coalition Government and Party Mandate

    Which kind of decisions are passed by Cabinet in coalition governments? What motivates ministerial action? How much leeway do coalition parties give their governmental representatives? This book focuses on a comparative study of ministerial behaviour in...
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    Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States

    This book, based on extensive original research, including new survey research amongst young people, examines the political attitudes of Russian and Ukrainian adolescents without any firsthand experience with communism.
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    Political Evil in a Global Age

    Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most powerful political theorists. The purpose of this book is to make an innovative contribution to the newly emerging literature connecting Arendt to international political theory and...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem
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    The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem

    This book examines the politics of Jerusalem since 1967 and the city's decline as an Arab city. Covering issues such as the Old City, the barrier, planning regulations and efforts to remove Palestinians from it, the book provides a broad overview of...
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  • Parliaments and Citizens
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    Parliaments and Citizens

    The relationship between parliaments and citizens is one of the least studied subjects in legislative studies, yet this is a crucial dimension to understand parliaments and the role they play in our political systems. Furthermore, this relationship...
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    The UN Human Rights Council

    The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on...
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    China and Orientalism

    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of 'essential difference' to one of 'sameness' or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of...
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    US-China Relations

    This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policy in the U.S. Congress, which has been unusually active in the development of this relationship, and the most controversial issues in US-China relations:...
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  • The Globalization of NATO The Globalization of NATO
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    The Globalization of NATO

    This book examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
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  • The Politics of Rural Reform in China The Politics of Rural Reform in China
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    The Politics of Rural Reform in China

    Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past...
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  • Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf
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    Islands and International Politics in the Persian Gulf

    The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle East and in global affairs more generally. This book examines the history of international relations in the...
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  • Armed Drones and the Ethics of War Armed Drones and the Ethics of War
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    Armed Drones and the Ethics of War

    This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference...
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  • Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization
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    Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization

    Turkish society has been going through institutional and ideological change that has affected its social, cultural and political practices. This book examines these contemporary tensions, which have led to a re-appraisal of Turkey as a nation and Turkish...
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  • History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation
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    History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school...
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  • Hard Questions for Democracy Hard Questions for Democracy
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    Hard Questions for Democracy

    The recent financial and economic crisis has forced governments and people from around the globe to ask some hard questions about how democracy has evolved. Some of these are old questions; others are new. Is democracy really the most desirable form of...
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  • Bourdieu in International Relations Bourdieu in International Relations
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    Bourdieu in International Relations

    This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu's...
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  • Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium
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    Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium

    In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together...
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  • American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction
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    American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction

    On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, President G.W. Bush argued that if setting up democracy in Japan and Germany after WW II was successful, then it should also be successful in Iraq. This book provides a detailed comparison of the reconstruction of...
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  • Nationalism and Conflict Management Nationalism and Conflict Management
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    Nationalism and Conflict Management

    Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics. Despite the emergence of approaches to managing it, from nation-building to territorial autonomy, in recent years, the application of these approaches has been uneven. Old conflicts...
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  • Religion, Identity and Human Security Religion, Identity and Human Security
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    Religion, Identity and Human Security

    This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek a reconceptualization of human security along...
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  • The Trickster and the System The Trickster and the System
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    The Trickster and the System

    This book offers an analytical paradigm to examine relationships between tricksters and systems, change and stability, in a range of contexts.
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  • Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
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    Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

    The aim of this book is to bring together geographers, and Schmitt experts who are attuned to the spatial dimensions of his work, to discuss The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Schmitt, 1950 [2003]).
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  • Gender, Violence and Popular Culture Gender, Violence and Popular Culture
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    Gender, Violence and Popular Culture

    This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows...
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  • International Law and Civil Wars International Law and Civil Wars
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    International Law and Civil Wars

    This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force...
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  • Reforming the UN Security Council Membership Reforming the UN Security Council Membership
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    Reforming the UN Security Council Membership

    This book comprehensively examines the different proposals put forward for reforming the United Nations Security Council, analysing their objectives and exploring whether the implementation of their proposals would actually create a representative and...
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  • Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka
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    Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka

    The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka's coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by...
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  • Political Theologies in the Holy Land Political Theologies in the Holy Land
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    Political Theologies in the Holy Land

    This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology from the birth of the movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice which has shaped...
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  • Sex Trafficking in South Asia Sex Trafficking in South Asia
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    Sex Trafficking in South Asia

    This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular...
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  • Rethinking Religion in India Rethinking Religion in India
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    Rethinking Religion in India

    This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical...
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  • The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting
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    The Role of Governments in Legislative Agenda Setting

    With a strong comparative framework, this book examines fourteen countries with parliamentary or semi-presidential systems of government to provide a detailed investigation into the mechanisms by which governments determine the agendas of their...
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  • Singapore in the Malay World Singapore in the Malay World
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    Singapore in the Malay World

    Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive...
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  • The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe
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    The Structure of Political Competition in Western Europe

    Is European party politics hovering above society? Why do voters pick one party over others? Is it a question of class? Of religion? Of attitudes about taxes or immigration or global warming? Or is it something else entirely? The Structure of Political...
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  • Capital as Power Capital as Power
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    Capital as Power

    The book presents a radically new framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, it articulates a new theory of accumulation, develops new empirical methods of research and offers a new history...
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  • Rent Seeking in China Rent Seeking in China
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    Rent Seeking in China

    In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same...
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  • Acting Locally Acting Locally
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    Acting Locally

    Until now, local environmental campaigns have been relatively neglected in the scientific literature. Drawing on European examples, this book fills the gap by examining the networks amongst actors and organizations which connect local campaigns...
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  • Feminist Security Studies Feminist Security Studies
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    Feminist Security Studies

    This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective - uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to Security Studies. 
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  • Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia
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    Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia

    Armed separatist movements in Papua, East Timor and Aceh have been a serious problem for Indonesia's central government. This book examines the policies of successive Indonesian governments to contain secessionist forces, focusing in particular on...
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  • Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe
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    Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe

    This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues...
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  • Religious Discrimination and Hatred Law Religious Discrimination and Hatred Law
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    Religious Discrimination and Hatred Law

    A comprehensive guide to religious discrimination and hatred legislation, this book, by a practising barrister, offers an accessible examination of this controversial area, using a variety of practical examples covering all forms of religious belief.
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  • Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics
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    Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics

    A comprehensive set of resources, this Handbook provides linkages to established theories of media and politics, political communication, governance, deliberative democracy and social movements, all within an interdisciplinary context...
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