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  • Strategic IT Procurement in the Financial Sector

    by Mathias Olsson ...
    A Practical Handbook for the C-Suite: Strategy, Procurement, Contracts, Compliance, and Supplier Management Across the Full LifecycleEvery major IT decision a financial firm makes today is also a decision about technology, economics, security, law, and regulatory compliance - all at once. *Strategic IT Procurement in the Financial Sector* reframes procurement not as a checkpoint that IT projects ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The French War on Terror

    A Relational Approach to (Counter-)Terrorism

    Edited by Mathias Delori, Christian Olsson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    This book analyses the French war on terror, covering the French contributions to the US-led ‘war on terror’ and the wars in the Sahel Region since 2013.This book argues that ‘terrorism’ and offensive counter-'terrorism' are not separate phenomena but, rather, need to be analyzed as two segments of one common violent relation. This leads the work to deconstruct the argument made by state officials ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

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  • Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

    Edited by Mamadou Diouf ...
    Series Book 15 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Our fighting sisters

    Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

    by Natalya Vince ...
    Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century’s most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

    The State's Role in Minority Integration

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Republic of Islamophobia

    The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

    by James Wolfreys ...
    Why does Islamophobia dominate public debate in France? Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Championed by Marine Le Pen and drawing on the French colonial legacy, France's 'new secularism' gives racism a respectable veneer. Jim Wolfreys exposes the dynamic driving this intolerance: a society polarized by inequality, and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Language Conflict in Algeria

    From Colonialism to Post-Independence

    by Prof. Mohamed Benrabah ...
    Series Book 154 - Multilingual Matters
    This is a book about the use of languages as a proxy for conflict. It traces the history of Algeria from colonization by the French in 1830 to the celebration of 50 years of independence in 2012, and examines the linguistic issues that have accompanied this turbulent period. The book begins with an examination of 'language conflict' and related concepts, and then applies them to both the French ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Civil War in Syria

    Mobilization and Competing Social Orders

    by Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to prominence. In just a few years, Syria turned into a full-scale civil war involving major regional and ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Headscarf Debates

    Conflicts of National Belonging

    by Anna C. Korteweg, Gökçe Yurdakul ...
    The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited

    Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty

    by Daniel R. Brunstetter, Jean-Vincent Holeindre, Aidan Hehir, Thomas Lindemann, Alex Giacomelli, Nigel Biggar, Kerstin Fisk, Jennifer M. Ramos, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer0, Deborah Avant1, John Kelsay2, John R. Emery3, Shannon E. French4, Victoria Sisk5, Caroline Bass6, Frédéric Ramel7, Brian Orend8, Cian O'Driscoll9 ...
    How do we frame decisions to use or abstain from military force? Who should do the killing? Do we need new paradigms to guide the use of force? And what does “victory” mean in contemporary conflict?In many ways, these are timeless questions. But they should be revisited in light of changing circumstances in the twenty-first century. The post–Cold War, post-9/11 world is one of contested and ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Only Muslim

    Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France

    by Naomi Davidson ...
    The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

    Second Edition

    Edited by Joel Beinin, Frédéric Vairel ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD