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  • An Other Israel

    What Living Among the Druze Taught an American Jew About Belonging, Zionism, and the Allure of Hebrew

    by William F. S. Miles ...
    A linguistic memoir by an American Jew who embeds himself in a village of the Arabic-speaking, reputedly secretive, Druze of Israel and emerges transformed by his experience.During the 2015 "Knife Intifada" in Israel, author William Miles, a Jewish political anthropologist, embedded himself for four months in a Druze village within eyeshot of Lebanon. He returned year after year, spending eight ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Hausaland Divided

    Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger

    by William F. S. Miles ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.In 1983 Miles returned as a Fulbright scholar to the region where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 1970s. Already ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Scars of Partition

    Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands

    by William F.S. Miles ...
    Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular attention to the contemporary legacies of artificial boundaries superimposed by Britain and France ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • African Border Disorders

    Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations

    Edited by Olivier J. Walther, William F.S. Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Since the end of the Cold War, the monopoly of legitimate organized force of many African states has been eroded by a mix of rebel groups, violent extremist organizations, and self-defence militias created in response to the rise in organized violence on the continent.African Border Disorders explores the complex relationships that bind states, transnational rebels and extremist organizations, and ... Read more

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    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

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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

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  • Counting Islam

    Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt

    by Tarek Masoud ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in the political unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests to spiritual ones, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

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  • The Least of All Possible Evils

    Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian interventionThe notion of a humanitarian “lesser evil” has become instrumental in justifying the West’s military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible in conflict. It determines the minimum requirements of survival imposed upon an occupied territory.As Eyal ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • How Mass Atrocities End

    Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq

    Edited by Bridget Conley-Zilkic ...
    Given the brutality of mass atrocities, it is no wonder that one question dominates research and policy: what can we, who are not at risk, do to prevent such violence and hasten endings? But this question skips a more fundamental question for understanding the trajectory of violence: how do mass atrocities actually end? This volume presents an analysis of the processes, decisions, and factors that ... Read more

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  • Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey

    The Making of the Justice and Development Party

    Edited by Ümit Cizre ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    Turkey is ninty-nine per cent Muslim, its ruling party, Justice and Development Party (JDP), comes from but denies its Islamist pedigree and has a very secular feel. However, the deeply secular regime distrusts the JDP with regard to its 'true' colours. This book makes sense of these paradoxical perceptions which have characterized Turkey’s politics since the JDP has come to power in 2002.The key ... Read more

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  • Iran and the International System

    Edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Reza Molavi ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Much attention in the West has focused on Iran as a problem country. This book challenges the representations of Iran as a hostile regional power led by ideologues, and goes further by discussing how international relations are viewed from inside Iran itself, outlining the factors which underpin Iranian thinking on international relations and considering what role Iran, as a large and significant ... Read more

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