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  • Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict

    Debate-Framing and Rhetoric in Independence Campaigns

    by Beata Huszka ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
    This book analyses how national independence movements’ rhetoric can inflame or dampen ethnic violence. It examines the extent to the power of words matters when a region tries to break away to become a nation state.Using discourse analysis, this book examines how the process of secession affects internal ethnic relations and analyses how politicians interpret events and present arguments with the ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    by Zhao Ziyang ...
    Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • From Rebel to Ruler

    One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

    by Tony Saich ...
    A Project Syndicate Best Read of the YearOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth ... Read more

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  • Don't Mourn, Balkanize!

    Essays after Yugoslavia

    by Andrej Grubačić ...
    Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. In this collection of essays, commentaries, and interviews, written between 2002 and 2010, Andrej Grubačić speaks about the politics of balkanization—about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

    by Michel Cormier ...
    With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

    by Willy Wo-Lap Lam ...
    Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Chinese Politics

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass on from one leader to the next. Indeed, each new leader must deploy whatever resources he has to gain control ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping

    by Michael E. Marti ...
    China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Dengs efforts to link all the major elements of societythe PLA, the Party, the revolutionary elders, and the regional governorsinto a coalition ... Read more

    $28.13 CAD

  • Of Khans and Kremlins

    Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-Federalism in Russia

    by Katherine E. Graney ...
    Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic of Tatarstan, one of the constituent members of the Russian Federation. In the first book by a Western scholar in English to chronicle the efforts made by the leadership of the Russian republic of ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Hunger and Fury

    The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans

    by Jasmin Mujanovic ...
    Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom have held power since the early 1990s, and the hollowness of the West's "democratization" agenda. There is a widely held assumption that ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.

    The Dynamics of a New Empire

    by Willem Van Kemenade ...
    On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has escalated at a rocket's pace. A few years ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD