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  • Towards a Brave New Arms Industry?

    by Richard Bitzinger ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    In the post-Cold War era, most countries have been forced to radically reduce their arms industries, and abandoned self-sufficiency in favour of a subordinate role in an increasingly globalized worldwide defence industry. This has significant implications for the future of armaments production, for proliferation, and for arms control. ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • The New Cold War

    How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

    by Edward Lucas ...
    Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Micha... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • On Suicide Bombing

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Salvador Allende

    Revolutionary Democrat

    by Victor Figueroa Clark ...
    Series series Revolutionary Lives
    This is a political biography of one of the 20th century’s most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. Was he a revolutionary or a reformist? A bureaucrat or ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    by Ugur Ümit Üngör ...
    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

    by Tom Garvin ...
    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change the World Without Taking Power

    The Meaning of Revolution Today

    by John Holloway ...
    Series series Get Political
    The wave of political demonstrations since the Battle of Seattle in 2001 have crystallised a new trend in left-wing politics. Modern protest movements are grounding their actions in both Marxism and Anarchism, fighting for radical social change in terms that have nothing to do with the taking of state power. This is in clear opposition to the traditional Marxist theory of revolution, which centres ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gag Rule

    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy

    by Lewis Lapham ...
    From one of America’s most important voices of protest, an urgent polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few.Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, had voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Eye of the Storm

    The View from the Centre of a Political Scandal

    by Rob Wilson ...
    MPs' expenses in 2009. Phone hacking in 2011. 'Plebgate' in 2012. If a good speech or a ground-breaking new policy fails to get people talking, you can be sure a juicy scandal will do the trick. Our instantaneous news culture of social networks, blogs and Twitter feeds means politicians now, more than ever, can find themselves the focus of every journalist in the country in what seems like the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychology of Terrorism

    by John G. Horgan ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded.The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Madmen at the Helm

    Pathology and Politics in the Arab Spring

    by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach ...
    The Arab Spring was a watershed in Arab history, which gave young protesters the impetus to challenge established and entrenched dictatorial regimes for the first time, and to demand democracy. In this unique book, Muriel Mirak-Weissbach reviews specialist literature and provides a profile of the personality disorder of narcissism displayed by five leaders (Mubarak, Qaddafi, Ben Ali, Saleh and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Checkbook Elections?

    Political Finance in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Pippa Norris, Andrea Abel van Es ...
    Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world. Both long-established democracies and emerging economies have been continually plagued by problems of financial malfeasance, graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new light on these important challenges, this book addresses ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD