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    Sudan's Unfinished Democracy
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    Sudan's Unfinished Democracy

    The historical background, key events and troubled aftermath of the Sudanese revolution: where can the democracy movement go from here?This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing...
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    The Covid Consensus
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    The Covid Consensus

    Why does Western pandemic policy have support across the political spectrum, when its social impacts conflict with ideology on both right and left?During the pandemic, the Left has agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns...
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    Made in China
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    Made in China

    What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world?The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't...
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    Defying the Dragon
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    Defying the Dragon

    'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in...
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    Cold War in the Islamic World
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    Cold War in the Islamic World

    For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the SunniShia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis see this as a conflict...
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    Belt and Road
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    Belt and Road

    China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy...
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    Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
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    Peace, Poverty and Betrayal

    How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the clichs of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige and rule', the foundation of common purpose between...
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    Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War
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    Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War

    In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless...
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    Salman's Legacy
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    Salman's Legacy

    King Salman of Saudi Arabia began his rule in 2015 confronted with a series of unprecedented challenges. The dilemmas he has faced are new and significant, from leadership shuffles and falling oil prices to regional and international upheaval. 'Salman's...
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    Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa
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    Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa

    When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqueness of his contribution, it is perhaps surprising that a collection of his writings did not appear during...
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    India and the Silk Roads
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    India and the Silk Roads

    India's caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing...
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    Anglo-India and the End of Empire
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    Anglo-India and the End of Empire

    This refreshing account looks at the dramatic end of British rule in India through Anglo-Indian eyes, a perspective that is neither colonial apologia nor nationalist polemic. The standard image of the Raj is of an aloof, pampered and prejudiced British...
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    Middle East Crisis Factory
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    Middle East Crisis Factory

    Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play?Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash tell the story of the modern Middle East as a series of...
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    Understanding Eritrea
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    Understanding Eritrea

    The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not...
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    Everything You Have Told Me Is True
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    Everything You Have Told Me Is True

    Al Shabaab is one of the century's most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing power, ruling over millions of Somalis and vast swathes of territory, and kinetic power, committing spectacular acts of violence. But what lies behind the...
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    History of Finland
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    History of Finland

    Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed and maturing into a conscious nation, independent state and...
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    Malevolent Republic
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    Malevolent Republic

    *** A Financial Times Summer Book Pick******A Times Literary Supplement Summer Book Pick***After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. India,...
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  • Break-Up
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    Break-Up

    Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership changed the face of Scotland, bringing the country to within 200,000 votes of independence in 2014 and holding sway at Holyrood for more than a decade. Since the referendum, Scottish nationalism...
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    China vs America
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    China vs America

    As a Cabinet minister attending meetings of the UK's National Security Council, Oliver Letwin took a profound interest in our relationship with China. So much of the discussion of world events inevitably turns into a debate about the attitudes...
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  • Ernest Bevin
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    Ernest Bevin

    Book of the year, The Spectator Political book of the year, The TimesAs a statesman, Ernest Bevin is second only to Churchill in impact and legacy. Born in abject poverty to a single mother, and with virtually no formal education, Bevin went on to...
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    In the Shadows
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    In the Shadows

    The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in various guises since the early twentieth century, but it was only formally constituted in July 1940. In this book, Michael Ashcroft tells the...
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    The Noble Liar

    Fully updated Mass Market Paperback edition of the bestselling polemic about perceived media bias To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it...
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    Behold the Dark Gray Man
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    Behold the Dark Gray Man

    Katharine Campbell's father Sholto Douglas was the hero of her childhood, an unconventional senior commander in the Royal Air Force described as 'a gloriously contentious character'. Following childhood abandonment and poverty, Sholto rose through the...
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    Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation
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    Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation

    Natural gas pricing should be as critically important to the general public as it is to industry specialists. Pricing is the basis of balancing the interests of European and Asian consumers of power and electricity with those of the limited number of...
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    The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare
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    The role of terrorism in twenty-first-century warfare

    This book presents a critical reflection on the major armed conflicts that occurred during the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria all involved the use of terrorism by...
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    The US vs China
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    The US vs China

    This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in...
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    Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy
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    Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

    Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognised,...
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    Mad money
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    Mad money

    Mad money is a classic of International Relations and international political economy literature. It also has profound modern relevance. First published by Manchester University Press in 1998, the book called for an end to the volatility of international...
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    The Life and Death of States
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    The Life and Death of States

    An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order.Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The...
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    The Invention of International Order
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    The Invention of International Order

    The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating...
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    Of Rule and Office
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    Of Rule and Office

    A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thought.Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek...
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    The Times They Were a-Changin'
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    The Times They Were a-Changin'

    An award-winning historian onthe transformative year in the sixties that continues to reverberate in our lives and politics-for readers of Heather Cox Richardson.If 1968 marked a turning point in a pivotal decade, 1964-or rather, the long 1964, from...
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    A Road Unforeseen
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    A Road Unforeseen

    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn wartorn Syria, a Kurdish democratic society-based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and...
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    Bride
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    Bride

    Palestine, 1850: a backwater of the Ottoman Empire, but soon to become the focus of intense jealousies. Locally Arabs and Jews became increasingly polarised, internationally the vacuum left by the demise of the Ottoman Empire was filled with the...
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  • The Disenchanted Earth
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    The Disenchanted Earth

    Richard Seymour is one of the UK's leading public intellectuals. A regular contributor to a range of periodicals including the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times and the London Review of Books, he combines an incisive and well-honed...
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  • Politics and the English Language
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    Politics and the English Language

    George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is...
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    To the Mountains
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    To the Mountains

    **Selected as one of the 'Biggest Non-Fiction Books of 2019' by The Times**As one of theearliestArabs to join the Afghan Jihad, theAlgerian IslamistAbdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam...
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    Liberal Capitalist Democracy
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    Liberal Capitalist Democracy

    A spectre is haunting Europe and America: the spectre of anti-democratic, right-wing nationalism. This has finally exposed as ill-based the astonishingly widely shared belief that unleashing capitalism will, sooner or later, lead societies to democratic...
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    The Zelensky Effect
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    The Zelensky Effect

    With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces stood ready to evacuate Ukraine's neophyte leader, a man whose main qualification just three years earlier seemed to be having played a president on TV. But in what became an...
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    The Rule is for None but Allah
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    The Rule is for None but Allah

    The last four decades have been shaped by the rise of Islamist politics across significant swathes of the globe. Whether by gun or by ballot box, various Islamist movements - from as far and wide as the Malian desert and Indonesia's archipelagos - have...
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    Fear and Insecurity
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    Fear and Insecurity

    To observers of the Iran-Israel conflict, its vitriolic rhetoric might suggest an ancient hatred between Jews and Muslims - a biblical feud dating back hundreds, or thousands, of years. But this rivalry is a far more modern development.In this...
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    Tainted Democracy
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    Tainted Democracy

    Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbn. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbn launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's...
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    The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
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    The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan

    The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a...
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    Authoritarian Century
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    Authoritarian Century

    Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough. Yet, today, we face an...
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    How to Subvert a Democracy
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    How to Subvert a Democracy

    India is a democracy at bay. This compelling book puts the spotlight not on political leaders but on the murky workings of India's deep state - from the police to the federal investigative and intelligence agencies.Traversing the Mumbai train blasts, the...
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    Serious Minds
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    Serious Minds

    An elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain.The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful ... intellects' British statesmanship had ever seen. His...
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    Stranger in My Own Land
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    Stranger in My Own Land

    After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them.This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine,...
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    Mugabe's Legacy
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    Mugabe's Legacy

    Zimbabwe's party-internal 'coup' of 2017, and deposed president Robert Mugabe's death nearly two years later, demand careful, historically nuanced explanation. How did Mugabe gain and retain power over party and state...
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