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  • Cyberactivism Cyberactivism
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    Cyberactivism

    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning...
    $102.00

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  • Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era
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    Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

    This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and...
    $79.00

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  • Democratic Revolution in Ukraine Democratic Revolution in Ukraine
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    Democratic Revolution in Ukraine

    In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes, made covertly in his office, ordering...
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  • Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century
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    Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century

    　This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is...
    $398.00

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  • The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence
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    The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence

    This book presents findings from a research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, which examined whether linguistic content analysis can indicate whether groups will engage in terrorist violence.
    $373.00

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  • Semantics of Statebuilding Semantics of Statebuilding
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    Semantics of Statebuilding

    This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.
    $398.00

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  • Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation
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    Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. Featuring contributions from both up and coming and well-established...
    $410.00

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  • Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform
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    Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform

    Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to...
    $121.00

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  • Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation
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    Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

    This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of...
    $87.00

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  • Radical Shakespeare Radical Shakespeare
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    Radical Shakespeare

    This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing...
    $131.00

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  • International Politics and Performance International Politics and Performance
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    International Politics and Performance

    Exploring a wide range of issues including rioting, youth-driven protests, border security practices and the significance of cultural awarness in war, this text provides an accessible and cutting edge survey of the intersection of international...
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  • Timor Leste Timor Leste
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    Timor Leste

    This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia's newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The...
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  • Building Bangalore Building Bangalore
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    Building Bangalore

    Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the...
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  • U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective
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    U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective

    This book refutes the claim that American foreign policy has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policy goals and underlying ideological and political factors have not significantly changed over the last hundred years.
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  • New Democracies in Crisis? New Democracies in Crisis?
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    New Democracies in Crisis?

    This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of...
    $432.00

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  • Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule
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    Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule

    This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.This book moves beyond traditional notions of civil society and explains the complexity of state-society relations in...
    $385.00

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  • States of War since 9/11 States of War since 9/11
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    States of War since 9/11

    This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...
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  • Spiraling Webs of Relation Spiraling Webs of Relation
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    Spiraling Webs of Relation

    This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in...
    $74.00

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  • The Maastricht Treaty The Maastricht Treaty
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    The Maastricht Treaty

    The Maastricht Treaty introduced a number of revolutionary changes to the European Union. This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to reflect on the developments in each of these key areas over the past 20 years, and on this basis to...
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  • Insuring War Insuring War
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    Insuring War

    Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have...
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  • Issues in American Politics Issues in American Politics
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    Issues in American Politics

    This wide ranging book provides readers with a reliable and lively guide to contemporary American political practices, processes and institutions.
    $131.00

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  • Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule
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    Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule

    This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.This book was published as a special issue of the Turkish Studies.
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  • Politics and Religion in the United States Politics and Religion in the United States
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    Politics and Religion in the United States

    There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social...
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  • International Security, Conflict and Gender International Security, Conflict and Gender
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    International Security, Conflict and Gender

    This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.
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  • Security Games Security Games
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    Security Games

    Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of 'Mega-Events' - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.
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  • Political Representation and European Union Governance Political Representation and European Union Governance
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    Political Representation and European Union Governance

    This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of  Journal of European...
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  • The Labour Movement in the Global South The Labour Movement in the Global South
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    The Labour Movement in the Global South

    Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains...
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  • The Contested Politics of Mobility The Contested Politics of Mobility
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    The Contested Politics of Mobility

    Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics...
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  • Presidential Power and Accountability Presidential Power and Accountability
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    Presidential Power and Accountability

    Many analysts now believe that the growth of presidential war power relative to Congress is irreversible. This book was written to contest that view. Its purpose is to identify what would be required to restore presidential war power to constitutional...
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  • The US Public and American Foreign Policy The US Public and American Foreign Policy
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    The US Public and American Foreign Policy

    Though often overlooked, public opinion has always played a significant role in the development and promotion of US foreign policy and this work seeks to comprehensively assess the impact and nature of that opinion through a collection of historical and...
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  • Subalternity and Religion Subalternity and Religion
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    Subalternity and Religion

    This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi...
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  • Palestinian Civil Society Palestinian Civil Society
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    Palestinian Civil Society

    Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from...
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  • Intersectionality and Beyond Intersectionality and Beyond
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    Intersectionality and Beyond

    This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a...
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  • Politics in the USA Politics in the USA
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    Politics in the USA

    This highly acclaimed introduction to the essential elements of the American political system is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised to take into account the developments in American politics over the last ten years.
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  • The Industrial Vagina The Industrial Vagina
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    The Industrial Vagina

    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution...
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  • Development Issues in Global Governance Development Issues in Global Governance
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    Development Issues in Global Governance

    This is a new study of how and why multilateral organizations are increasingly working with private actors, including for-profit companies and corporations; business organizations and private foundations.
    $410.00

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  • Women's Suffrage in Asia Women's Suffrage in Asia
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    Women's Suffrage in Asia

    This edited work explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.
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  • Racial Theories in Fascist Italy Racial Theories in Fascist Italy
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    Racial Theories in Fascist Italy

    Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a...
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    Transcending Transaction

    Transcending Transaction examines recent attempts to show how, in theory and history, market transaction can emerge from the unregulated interaction of competitive traders.
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  • Human Trafficking in Asia Human Trafficking in Asia
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    Human Trafficking in Asia

    By analysing the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia, and asserting critical perspectives and methodologies, this book extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place...
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  • Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies
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    Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies

    This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially...
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  • Adventures in the Bone Trade Adventures in the Bone Trade
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    Adventures in the Bone Trade

    As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved...
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  • Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity
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    Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity

    As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political...
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  • US Policies in Central Asia US Policies in Central Asia
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    US Policies in Central Asia

    Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan,...
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