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  • Sufism and Zen in the West

    The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice

    Edited by Dr Saeko Yazaki, Michael Conway ...
    Historically and culturally, Sufism and Zen may not seem to have anything in common. However, in the West, their spiritual messages are often perceived as strikingly similar. In this book, scholars analyse the ways in which Sufism and Zen were introduced to and developed in the West. The collection shows that the popularity of these religions arose not because of the substantive shared elements ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Climate Policy and Politics in the Middle East

    Environmental, Economic and Political Challenges

    Edited by Dr Aisha Al-Sarihi, Michael Mason ...
    The Middle East region is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This book assesses the extent to which there is political and economic space for Middle Eastern states to transition into a sustainable, just and climate resilient future.The book offers a regional political economy perspective, comparing the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf States with those Arab states in the Mashreq ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures

    The Culture of Love and Languishing

    Edited by Alireza Korangy, Hanadi Al-Samman, Michael Beard ...
    In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region. This book explores the concept of the beloved in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary manner, revealing how shared ideas on the subject supersede geographical and temporal boundaries, and ideas of nationhood. The book considers the beloved in its ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • The Untold Story of the Golan Heights

    Occupation, Colonization and Jawlani Resistance

    Edited by Michael Mason, Munir Fakher Eldin, Muna Dajani ...
    In 1967 Israel occupied the western section of Syria's Golan Heights, expelling 130,000 residents and leaving only a few thousand Arab inhabitants clustered in several villages. Sometimes characterised as the 'forgotten occupation', the western Golan Heights have been transformed by Israeli colonisation, including the appropriation of land and water resources, economic development and extensive ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • US Approaches to the Arab Uprisings

    International Relations and Democracy Promotion

    Edited by Amentahru Wahlrab, Michael J. McNeal ...
    From nonviolent protests in Cairo and Manama to the ousting of Libya's Gaddafi and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the series of uprisings which swept through the Middle East and North Africa from late 2010 have been burdened with the collective hopes and expectations of the world. Western supporters quickly identified these uprisings as a collective 'awakening' - a move towards democracy - ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • China’s Frontier Regions

    Ethnicity, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations

    Edited by Doug Smith, Michael E. Clarke ...
    China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China's ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping's policy of ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Cyber War and Cyber Peace

    Digital Conflict in the Middle East

    Edited by Eliza Campbell, Michael Sexton ...
    Series series Middle East Institute Policy Series
    The Middle East is the region in which the first act of cyber warfare took place. Since then, cyber warfare has escalated and has completely altered the course of the MENA region's geopolitics.With a foreword by top national security and cyber expert, Richard A. Clarke, this is the first anthology to specifically investigate the history and state of cyber warfare in the Middle East. It gathers an ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • What Next for Britain in the Middle East?

    Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit

    Edited by Michael Stephens, Christopher Phillips ...
    As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world? The Middle East is one of the regions the UK has been most engaged in historically. This book assesses the drivers of foreign policy successes and failures and asks if there is a way to revitalise ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Cinema in Central Asia

    Rewriting Cultural Histories

    Edited by Michael Rouland, Gulnara Abikeyeva, Birgit Beumers ...
    Series series KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
    Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the cinema of the region combines serious scholarly study with practical accessibility to construct an ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Accidental Allies

    The US–Syrian Democratic Forces Partnership Against the Islamic State

    by Dr Michael Knights, Wladimir van Wilgenburg ...
    Series series The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
    The U.S.-led effort to fight the Islamic State in northeastern Syria since 2014 has been as controversial and poorly understood as it has been significant. Advocates of fighting “by, with and through” the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) view the campaign as a near-ideal case study of a cost-effective U.S. military intervention that should be duplicated in the future. Critics of the ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Progressive Politics after the Crash

    Governing from the Left

    Edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond, Michael McTernan ...
    Series series Policy Network
    Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise and control global market capitalism. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Question of Security

    The British Defence Review in an Age of Austerity

    Edited by Michael Codner, Michael Clarke ...
    Series series RUSI Defence and Security Studies
    Britain now faces fundamental choices in organising its armed forces and military strategy - more so than at any time since the 1930s. This vital new book prepares the ground for a major government review of UK defence and security policy, analysing every important facet the review will face: from the spending constraints created by the financial crisis, to the decisions the country has to take on ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD