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  • Boko Haram

    The Socio-Economic Drivers

    by Lucky E. Asuelime, Hakeem Onapajo, Ojochenemi J. David ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the socio-economic determinants of the emergence and persistence of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Since 2009, Boko Haram continues to capture mainstream news headlines, as well as the imagination of aspiring young Salafi-jihadists around the world who support the notion of a radical Islamist socio-political system. By providing an essential overview of the literature on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Public Power in the Age of Empire

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Women and the War on Boko Haram

    Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

    by Hilary Matfess ...
    Series series African Arguments
    For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram's campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Ending Wars

    by Feargal Cochrane ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is aimed at understanding how violent conflicts can be brought to a close through intervention, mediation and political negotiation.The simple premise underlying the book is that wars between states and wars within states are generally fought by ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • History of the Future

    The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today

    by Max Singer ...
    History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa

    Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states

    by Amneh Badran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful movements have not emerged in Israel.The book reveals patterns of behaviour shared by groups in both ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Dilemmas of Inclusion

    Muslims in European Politics

    by Rafaela M. Dancygier ...
    As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the majority electorate, generating severe trade-offs for parties seeking to broaden their coalitions. Dilemmas of Inclusion explains when and why European ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Passive Revolution

    Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism

    by Cihan Tuğal ...
    Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience.In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo

    Political guilt, wasted money

    by Anne Le More ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    Why has the West disbursed vertiginous sums of money to the Palestinians after Oslo? What have been donors’ motivations and above all the political consequences of the funds spent?Based on original academic research and first hand evidence, this book examines the interface between diplomacy and international assistance during the Oslo years and the intifada. By exploring the politics of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Power and Change in Iran

    Politics of Contention and Conciliation

    Edited by Daniel Brumberg, Farideh Farhi ...
    "By a wide margin, this book is the most sophisticated treatment of the internal dynamics and paradoxes of Iranian politics that I know of." —Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East StudiesThis volume provides an unparalleled and timely look at political, social, economic, and ideological dynamics in contemporary Iran. Through chapters on social welfare and privatization, university ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Boko Haram

    Terrorism and Insurgency in Africa

    Edited by James J. Hentz, Hussein Solomon ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria.Boko Haram’s goal of an Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Borno State in the North East that will eventually cover the areas of the former Kanem-Borno Empire, is a rejection of the modern state system forced on it by the West. The central theme of this volume examines the relationship ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD