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A hard-hitting analysis of an African famine: why it happened, why it need not have happened and how the securitisation of the victims hindered attempts to bring aid relief

A fascinating inside look at what it takes to bring irreconcilable foes to the conference table and the pressures of brokering peace in an ethnically riven society at war with itself

A rare and hugely successful story in the global development world, Jenkins and Manor present detailed research that convincingly demonstrates the efficacy of the MGNREGA in India

Shows how some rural communities tenaciously held on to the lifeline opium production offered, flouting the bans imposed by the Taliban and, later, the regulations imposed by the international community

Assesses social, religious and political polarisation under the AKP of Recep Erdogan and the likely consequences for Turkey's evolution

A scholarly investigation of the lesser and greater port cities of the Persian Gulf, their hinterlands, their wider influence and future prospects

A deeply researched and gracefully written history of Boko Haram's cultural and religious hinterland in northern Nigeria

Fascinating ethnography of women in the Caucasus living through a period of Islamic revivalism

The populist turn to street protest and the reasons behind its global resurgence are the twin themes of this timely analysis

2014 was a 'Red Year' - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of foreign policy and military strategy. In David Kilcullen's words, 'What the hell happened?' Read this book to find out.

When your business, your defence ministry or your PC is hacked, how do you know who did it, given the limitless range of possible culprits? This book explores the complexities of attribution

A cautionary investigation of the global futures business - political risk, investment funding, think tanks - and how its predictions distort our understanding of the world we live in

Introduces and explains the economics behind the multi-billion dollar humanitarian marketplace and how it came about

Critical Muslim take on Turkey

Looks at educational reform through the Islamic perspective

*A concise introduction to Fanon's thought that contextualises it within the world of philosophy.

Challenges our current notions on global politics.

Providing both personal and professional revelations about the mid- to late-20th century book trade in England, this is the autobiography of Christopher Hurst, director of C.Hurst & Co. Publishers.

Award-winning book looking at the complicated history of the ANC.

Seeks to understand the mechanisms of social and political perpetuation of authoritarianism in post-colonial states such as Oman. This book shows how one monarchical power has built and renewed its basis to meet the challenges threatening its stability. It also sheds light on the strategies adopted and challenges faced by other Arab monarchies.

This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of 'race' became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century.

Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the authorities in Kabul for decades. This book explains why.

Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Local initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa's petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book.

Explains how as a result of British efforts to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances

Goldsmith examines how sectarian insecurity obstructs the emergence of genuine political pluralism in the Middle East, taking Syria's Alawites under the Asad dynasty as an example.

Tells the hidden history of the US involvement in Bangladesh's secession from Pakistan

Leading experts analyse the critical role played by Salafism across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution.