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Examines the political and religious realities of Bangladesh and Pakistan, especially the al-Qaeda-linked jihadi networks that threaten to permanently turn Pakistan into an ideological state. This book also considers Islam's influence on the culture of both societies, and, in turn, the influence of these cultures on the tone of Islam.

The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. This book explores how these transformations and influences play out in diverse cyber Islamic environments, and how they are responding to shifts in technology and society.

Widespread confusion over the use of the terms Islamism or Political Islam often obscures the fact that these are not new phenomena and can be traced back more than a century. Through research in to the trajectories of Islamists, this book seeks to understand what has become of political Islam.

Two thousand years ago, Madagascar - an island uninhabited - is twice the size of Great Britain. In the nineteenth century, Britain and France projected global power that effected the island, which became a French colony from 1896 to 1960. This history explains the tension between the formation of original culture and the absorption of immigrants.

The tsunami was perceived as so 'un-natural' that it provoked an immediate, unprecedented international outpouring of sympathy. It took many months, by contrast, for the story of a new famine in the Sahel to make headlines. This book endeavors to shed light on a multifaceted crisis.

Sheds light on the political liberalisation in the Persian gulf, revealing varying levels of commitment to reform across eight Gulf states as they respond to the challenges of increased wealth and education levels, a developing middle class, external actors, and competing social and political groups.

In 1992, United Nations sanctions were imposed on Libya after it refused to hand over for judgement in an international court two Libyan citizens suspected of involvement in the bombing of a passenger plane over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988. This book suggests that the future of Libya lies in becoming paradoxically-an authoritarian liberal state.

The sea is becoming a favoured means of transit for criminal and terrorist activity. This book offers an analysis of maritime security in the 21st century.

This text provides a detailed historical study of Islam under post-war Soviet Communism. Yaacov Ro'i describes and analyzes all aspects of Islam which relate to the Soviet domestic scene, with the purpose of demonstrating how and why it survived in the face of Soviet repression and secularization.

In March 2006, both Afghan and American officials were still claiming, just before a series of particularly ferocious clashes, that 'the Taliban are no longer able to fight large battles'. This book states that in reality, as early as 2003-5 there was a growing body of evidence that cast doubt on the official interpretation of the conflict.

These essays examine the issues arising from privatization in the former "Second World" and "Third World" (Central and Eastern Europe, China and other parts of Asia and Africa), thus highlighting the very different ways in which continuing State interference and privatization are implemented.

With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. This book includes a translation of two key chapters from al-Suri's seminal work "The Global Islamic Resistance Call".

'Governance' has become a key word in the lexicon of international relations over. It is used, loosely, and invariably in a liberal idiom, by scholars, activists, civil society organizations, politicians and the voluntary sector. This book offers a diverse global critique of 'governance' as deployed in several key areas.

Details the concepts at work within the History of the Peloponnesian War and demonstrates, through case studies of conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the continuing relevance of Thucydidean thought to an analysis and planning of strategic operations.

Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006, overturning many assumptions regionally and globally. Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, it is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organization. This book charts the origins of Hamas among the Muslim Brotherhood.

Offers a study of the 'Young Turks', a group of Turkish army officers who sought to reform the Ottoman Empire and led a constitutional revolution against Sultan Ahmed Hamid II in 1908. This book discusses the counter-revolution of 1909 and the emergence of the 'Group of Saviour officers' who formed a cabinet determined to destroy the Young Turks.

The Sufi brotherhoods are not religious orders, but religious communities within the general community of Islam. This book reconstructs the development of the Sufi tradition, guided by insights from original Sufi sources, intended to explain the emergence of the Sufi brotherhoods' form of Islamic communalism and its perennial appeal.

While governments are obliged to protect society and bring terrorists to justice, their effectiveness in tackling terrorism without undermining the support of the population for law and order or jeopardising basic liberties is paramount. This book points out, governments in many countries, from Putin's Russia and Fujimori's Peru to Italy in 1970s.

Russian leaders have always considered the Balkans to be an area of special Russian interests. This work analyses Russia's policy from the death of communist Yugoslavia through the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia, to the 'war on terror' and disputes over the status of Kosovo in the mid-2000s.

Retraces the history of Iran's nuclear project from the 1970s. This work examines the period when the programme was resumed, during Iran's war with Iraq (1985-90), and also sets out the various possible solutions in terms of their feasibility, practically and politically such as: dismantling by force, supervised third party reprocessing, and more.

Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? This book presents the true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a gap in the literature. This book combines innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The contributors provide insights and information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic and cultural dimensions.

A manual in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. It carries multiple Chinese perspectives and also contributions from Western commmentators who offer their own insights on the shrine and its place in post war Japanese diplomacy, ideology and history.

Offers insights in explaining the foreign relations and domestic politics of post-revolutionary Iran. The author guides readers from the nuclear issue, to the perpetual stand-off with the United States, from the future of Iranian democracy to Iranian-Arab relations, and from American neo-conservatism to Islamic utopian-romanticism.

Investigates the paradox at the heart of modern Gulf of Guinea politics. This study aims to bring out the extent to which oil has forged the interaction of the region with the world economy and how the ongoing expansion of the oil sector will deepen this pivotal role.

Details the history and culture of the Somali people. This book offers insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized nature.

Providing the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, this book states that the Muslim population of Europe in the period from 1918-1939 was not one of isolated islands of belief and practice. It suggests that rather, there was far more interaction between Muslim communities than had hitherto been imagined.

The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq's eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. This title presents an overview of regionalism as a political force in contemporary Iraq.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. This book asks why nationalism emerged as a dominant political current, and why, of the many nationalist movements that emerged, some led to violence while others did not.