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  • The Arab Uprisings

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and assesses their historical and global significance. Gelvin begins with an overview-What were the conditions in the Arab world that led ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Arab Uprisings

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010. In this updated and revised second edition, James L. Gelvin explores the varied paths taken by the uprisings and assesses their historical and global significance. Gelvin begins with an overview-What were the conditions in the Arab world that led ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

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  • The Ethics

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  • The Ayatollahs' Democracy

    An Iranian Challenge

    by Hooman Majd ...
    "One of America's most astute revealers of Iranian culture and identity."-Reza Aslan, The AtlanticHailed as one of the year's best foreign policy books, Hooman Majd's latest offers dramatic perspective on a country with global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and policies with enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on privileged access to the Iranian power elite, Majd "gives a ... Read more

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  • A History of Thailand

    by Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chris Baker ...
    In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace how a Buddhist cosmography adapted to new ideas of time and space, and a traditional polity was transformed into a new nation-state under a ... Read more

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  • What is Coming?

    by Wells H. G. (Herbert George) ...
    Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Caspian Oil During World Wars

    by Iakovos Alhadeff ...
    A very short essay with the the battles for the Caspian oil during World Wars, but also during more recent wars of attrition ... Read more

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    by Iakovos Alhadeff ...
    This long essay is the second part of a series, with the first part being "USA Russia & China in the Middle East: Alliances & Conflicts". Over 80 maps are used to explain the energy war between Russia and Turkey, two countries that have been fighting for regional dominance for many centuries.Today, the main geographical locations of their conflicts are the regions of Central Asia and East ... Read more

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  • The Soldier and the Changing State

    Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas

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    The Soldier and the Changing State is the first book to systematically explore, on a global scale, civil-military relations in democratizing and changing states. Looking at how armies supportive of democracy are built, Zoltan Barany argues that the military is the most important institution that states maintain, for without military elites who support democratic governance, democracy cannot be ... Read more

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  • After Hegemony

    Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

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    This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes," through which cooperation has taken place in the world political economy and describes the ... Read more

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