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  • Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom
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    Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom

    In Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom, Howard Jones explores the relationship between President Lincoln's wartime diplomacy and his interrelated goals of forming a more perfect Union and abolishing slavery. From the outset of the Civil War,...
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  • Small States Inside and Outside the European Union Small States Inside and Outside the European Union
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    Small States Inside and Outside the European Union

    Small States in and outside the European Union offers a broad overview of the small states problematic in Europe. It touches upon definition issues, history, security policy, neutrality, EU institutional aspects and also...
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  • Oman Under Qaboos
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    Oman Under Qaboos

    This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the "rentier" model...
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  • Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57 Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57
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    Britain, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 1949-57

    This book focuses on the bilateral and multilateral relations between Britain, the 'former proprietor' and Israel, the 'successor state', during the period following their armed clash in January 1949, to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza and the Sinai in...
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  • Gordon and the Sudan Gordon and the Sudan
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    Gordon and the Sudan

    This book analyzes the administration of leadership of Charles George Gordon, the governor-general of the Sudan, during the Turkiyya period (1821-85).
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  • The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position
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    The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position

    This work explores the geopolitical struggles that are currently underway in the newly independent states of the Caucasus region, showing how many players in the region are coalescing into two opposing blocs. The growing political, military and economic...
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  • Managing Water Conflict Managing Water Conflict
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    Managing Water Conflict

    Countries are meeting increasing water demand by building reservoirs and by diverting water from one area to another. When the water belongs to an international river system, these measures lead to riparian conflicts. However, water scarcity not only...
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  • Decision on Palestine Deferred
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    Decision on Palestine Deferred

    Professor Penkower's latest book, Decision on Palestine Deferred, offers the first sustained, documented account of Palestine and the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War. Firmly grounded in three decades of archival research, his spirited...
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  • Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000 Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000
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    Israeli-Egyptian Relations, 1980-2000

    A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author's time in Egypt as a high-level Israeli diplomat (he...
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  • Globalisation For Sale Globalisation For Sale
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    Globalisation For Sale

    First published in 2001. Understanding and managing global financial flows and their impact of social spaces and people, is one of the most complex and difficult tasks facing politicians and social theorists today. Helping to meet the challenges posed by...
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  • The War In Iraq The War In Iraq
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    The War In Iraq

    Read why there is a conflict in Iraq and where it will eventually led. Read what the Bible says about the foreign insurgents, suicide bombings, the fall and capture of Saddam Hussein, the Iranian instigation, the United States involvement and...
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  • Modernization of Japan Modernization of Japan
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    Modernization of Japan

    The Japanese are a diligent people, constantly working to ensure institutional success. The Japanese have an innate ability to copy foreigners. In their effort to build a strong country, the Japanese sought knowledge from abroad; and perfected these...
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  • Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2012 Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2012
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    Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2012

    Sixth in the annual series, this volume examines the major trends in armed conflicts in South Asia during 2011, efforts towards conflict management undertaken by the State and their effectiveness, as also the road ahead. While focusing on the burning...
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  • Participolis Participolis
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    Participolis

    While participatory development has gained significance in urban planning and policy, it has been explored largely from the perspective of its prescriptive implementation. This book breaks new ground in critically examining the intended and unintended...
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  • Multilateral Counter-Terrorism Multilateral Counter-Terrorism
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    Multilateral Counter-Terrorism

    Contemporary terrorism is a global phenomenon requiring a globalized response. In this book Peter Romaniuk aims to assess to what extent states seek multilateral responses to the threats they face from terrorists. Providing a concise history and a clear...
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  • Shaping the Humanitarian World Shaping the Humanitarian World
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    Shaping the Humanitarian World

    Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises...
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  • Maritime Piracy Maritime Piracy
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    Maritime Piracy

    Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry's rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and...
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  • Global Institutions of Religion Global Institutions of Religion
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    Global Institutions of Religion

    This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise introduction to religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world affairs. Focusing on formal institutions specifically dedicated to governing...
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  • Global Monetary Governance Global Monetary Governance
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    Global Monetary Governance

    Benjamin J. Cohen has been one of the most original and influential writers on international political economy. This book provides an overview of his contribution to the field, grouped around the central theme of global monetary governance. The book is...
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  • Critical Practices in International Theory Critical Practices in International Theory
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    Critical Practices in International Theory

    Critical Practices in International Theory brings together for the first time the essays of the leading IR theorist, James Der Derian. The essays cover a variety of issues central to Der Derian's work including diplomacy, alienation, terrorism,...
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  • Political Theory of Global Justice Political Theory of Global Justice
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    Political Theory of Global Justice

    Could global government be the answer to global poverty and starvation?Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government,...
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  • Small Arms and Security Small Arms and Security
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    Small Arms and Security

    This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been established in the policies and practices of states, regions and international organizations. It also attempts...
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  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method
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    Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways. Drawing...
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  • The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology
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    The Race to Commercialize Biotechnology

    This comparative study looks at the early development of biotechnology in the US and Japan. Drawing on primary and secondary sources it traces the historical roots of recombinant DNA technology, discusses the tensions between regulation and promotional...
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  • World of Our Making World of Our Making
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    World of Our Making

    World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in this volume, Onuf's seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern international relations. Onuf understands all of international relations to...
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  • Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace
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    Ending Wars, Consolidating Peace

    The transition from war to peace is fraught with tension and the risk of a return to bloodshed. With so much at stake, it is crucial that the international community and local stakeholders make sense of the complex mosaic of...
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  • The Kurds and US Foreign Policy The Kurds and US Foreign Policy
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    The Kurds and US Foreign Policy

    This book provides a detailed survey and analysis of US-Kurdish relations and their interaction with domestic, regional and global politics. Using the Kurdish issue to explore the nature of the engagement between international powers and weaker non-state...
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  • Transnational Politics and the State Transnational Politics and the State
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    Transnational Politics and the State

    In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the...
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  • Edges of Global Justice Edges of Global Justice
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    Edges of Global Justice

    This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays...
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  • Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush
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    Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush

    Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international...
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  • The Afghan Papers The Afghan Papers
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    The Afghan Papers

    In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. ...
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  • The State and Security in Mexico The State and Security in Mexico
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    The State and Security in Mexico

    At the turn of the millennium, Mexico seemed to have finally found its path to political and economic modernization; a state which had been deeply embedded in society was being pulled out, with new political leaders allowing market forces to play a...
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  • The Global Partnership Against WMD The Global Partnership Against WMD
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    The Global Partnership Against WMD

    The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry was suddenly a much increased threat. The G8...
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  • Emerging China Emerging China
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    Emerging China

    This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries. From this perspective, it explores the prospects for 'partnership' in Asia,...
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  • The Rebuilding of Greater Russia The Rebuilding of Greater Russia
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    The Rebuilding of Greater Russia

    This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through...
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  • NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century
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    NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century

    Since the end of the Cold War NATO has redefined its raison d'etre, extending its membership, broadening its political goals and widening its zone of operation.  It has also sought to enhance its co-operation with Russia, for example through the...
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  • The New American Way of War The New American Way of War
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    The New American Way of War

    This book explores the cultural history and future prospects of the so-called 'new American way of war'. In recent decades, American military culture has become increasingly dominated by a vision of 'immaculate destruction', which reached its apogee...
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  • The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo
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    The Secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo

    The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel. Through an in-depth examination of the Oslo negotiations,...
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  • Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
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    Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute

    The unresolved territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the South Kuril Islands/Northern Territories remains the largest obstacle to concluding a peace treaty and fully normalising bilateral relations between the two nations. This book traces...
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