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Charts the evolution of the Russia-Iran relationship in the twenty-first century, from tenuous alignment to robust partnership.

When President George H.W. Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened in Malta in December 1989, superpower contestation gave way to a new era of US unipolarity. In Africa, the Cold War had already ended. The Soviet Union had abandoned its Marxist-Leninist client states, and Cuban forces were leaving Angola. Yet, just five years later, Washington's hegemonic aspirations in Africa seemed quixotic at best and delusional at worst. US military defeat in Somalia and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide both highlighted the absence of American grand strategy. Over the next quarter-century, the US ceded its economic primacy in Africa to China and was relegated to a spectator role in key security crises. Could the US have forestalled the continent's embrace of multipolarity through consistent engagement and a firm break from Cold War thinking? And is the crumbling of US power there reversible? Rudderless Superpower addresses these questions through a meticulous chronological examination of US policy in Africa since the 1990s. In a break from traditional accounts revolving around crisis moments and leadership at the White House, Ramani contends that the perpetuation of Cold War-era mistakes and diplomatic failures placed US influence in Africa on a path of inexorable decline.

An incisive study of one of the world's most important, and rapidly complexifying, international partnerships.

A micro-history of 'Charlemagne's city' in the First and Second World Wars, its inhabitants' embrace of Nazism, and Churchill's response.

A world-leading expert on Myanmar assesses the ongoing popular uprising against the military junta that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi.

A frank assessment of what kind of strategic power Britain aspires to be, given its dwindling armed forces and growing threats from Russia and other actors.

A fascinating account of how Saudi Arabia leveraged its massive oil wealth to alter the balance of power in world football.

A landmark book on South Asian queer communities in Britain and how they have helped to shape LGBTQ+ movements since the 1970s.

The intriguing story of how two revolutionary writers and their pioneering war reporting changed the way we think about modern conflict.

A hundred-year history of the challenges and triumphs of contemporary Taiwan, through the inspiring true story of one man who lived through it all.

A captivating portrait of an overlooked Andalusian gem.

The first popular history of a small post-Soviet state, and a very old European power.

A hard-hitting critique of the Church of England as a social, spiritual and financial driver and beneficiary of the British Empire.

Vivid reportage from a war at the edge of Europe, between two ancient peoples caught up in great power interests and clashing narratives of home.

An insider's account of the rise and fall of Western business ventures in post-Soviet Russia.

A masterful new biography of North Korea's despotic founding father and his enduring impact on his country today.

A history of an ideology and its tyrannical adherents who stubbornly refuse to go away.

Aristotle claimed that all human beings want to know. Yet our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow preposterous prophets; irrational rumours trigger fanatical acts; and magical thinking crowds out common sense and expertise. Why is this? Where does this will to ignorance come from, and how does it continue to shape our lives?In this dazzling exploration of our wish for innocence and ignoranceand its consequences acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. With erudition and brio, Lilla ranges from the Book of Genesis and PlatosDialoguesto Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, revealing the paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves. He also exposes the illusions that this impulse can lead us to entertain: the belief that the ecstasies of prophets, mystics and holy fools will offer access to esoteric truths; the mythology of childrens lamb-like innocence; and nostalgic fantasies of recapturing the glories of vanished, allegedly purer civilisations.

Between the end of the Second World War and the first decades of the twenty-first century, Britain became multicultural. This book tells the remarkable story of how that came about. Kieran Connell, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath, inner- city Birmingham, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development. He also shines a light on the shifting nature of British racism, revealing the day-to-day effects it hadand still hason ethnic minority groups.Journeying far beyond London,Multicultural Britaindelves into the messy contradictions at the heart of a countrys transition into the diverse society we know today. It highlights the vital role of ordinary people in the making of multicultural Britain, and takes aim at public leaders, from Enoch Powell to Harold Wilson to Margaret Thatcher, who have too often legitimised racism for their own political ends.In post-Brexit Britain, between Black Lives Matter and anxieties around immigration, how communities and individuals live together remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. Connell offers a fresh perspective on British multiculturalism as a rich and complex lived realitynot simply as a problematic idea.

Suppose you chose seven typical children to represent todays UK. Who would they be? What would they reveal?Seven Childrenis about hidden realities of injustice and hope. In his highly original, thought- provoking new book, inequality writer Danny Dorling constructs seven average children from millions of statisticseach child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket. From the poorest to the wealthiest, Dorlings seven children were born in 2018, when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression and became Europes most socially divided nation. They turned 5 in 2023, amid a devastating cost- of-living crisis. Their country has Europes fastest- rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations prevail, and change is possible.Immersive and intimate, this book gets to the heart of post-pandemic Britains most pressing economic, social and political issues. What do we miss when we focus only on the superrich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living, between those two extremes? Who are todays real middle class? And what if tomorrows challenge isnt spiralling inequality, but how to reverse the new trend that leavesallchildren worse off than their parents?

A captivating culinary journey through the West's love-hate relationship with anchovies.

A fascinating portrait of old cosmopolitan Central Europe, and a remarkable woman enduring as evil rises--all through the family belongings hidden in a suitcase.

Can development remake itself for today's world? To do so, it must shed its colonial baggage, embrace diverse voices and prioritise genuine sustainability.

This short history of the Maghreb surveys its development from the coming of Islam to the present day, but with greatest emphasis on the modern period from the early nineteenth century onwards.

A history of the perennial struggle between Amhara and Tigray for hegemony in Ethiopia.

An eye-opening account of the British terror attacks you've never heard of--because the perpetrators were caught in time.