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  • Fighting for Ireland?

    The Military Strategy of the Irish Republican Movement

    by M.L.R. Smith ...
    Fighting for Ireland? is the first in-depth account of the evolution of Irish Republican strategy. It is highly topical in the light of the faltering peace process and the growing speculation over the IRA's next move: further violence or a new non-violent strategy? This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for those who wish to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Political Impossibility of Modern Counterinsurgency

    Strategic Problems, Puzzles, and Paradoxes

    by M.L.R. Smith, David Jones ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military training and techniques. COIN is understood as a logical, effective, and democratically palatable method for confronting insurgency—a discrete set ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa

    Myths and Realities

    Edited by Cathy Haenlein, M L R Smith ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species. This crisis also threatens the security of human beings in ways ignored until recently by decision-makers slow to begin to treat what is typically viewed as a ‘conservation issue’ as serious crime.Over the past decade, as the scale and profitability of poaching and wildlife trafficking have grown, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Front Row Seat at the End of History

    The untimely essays of David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith, 1999-2024

    by David Martin Jones ...
    For over 25 years the essays by David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith critiqued the ideology of the 'end of history'. This belief, popular after the Cold War, assumed the West had 'won' and that the world would naturally converge towards liberal democracy. However, Jones and Smith, based initially on their experiences in Southeast Asia in the 1990s, challenged this idea, observing ethno-religious ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The New Counter-insurgency Era in Critical Perspective

    by Celeste Ward Gventer, M.L.R Smith ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that underpin COIN, providing a critical reappraisal of counter-insurgency thinking. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • The IRA and Armed Struggle

    by Rogelio Alonso ...
    Series series Political Violence
    The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist movements of our time decide to swap weapons for the ballot box?Based on over seventy interviews conducted with former and existing members of the IRA ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Prime Ministers

    The Parliamentary Book Award-winning account of Britain's leaders - a must-read for anyone interested in British politics and history

    by Iain Dale ...
    The ultimate guide to every Prime Minister there's ever been: 55 profiles by 55 different politicians, journalists and academics compiled by leading political commentator Iain DaleWinner of the 2020 Parliamentary Awards for Best Political Book by a Non-ParliamentarianA Times Political Book of the Year 2020*Featuring a foreword by Boris Johnson*-----It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Armed Struggle

    The History of the IRA

    by Richard English ...
    A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.‘An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster, The Times‘An ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Nation and Not a Rabble

    The Irish Revolution 1913–1923

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    The renowned Irish historian delivers "an excellent scholarly reevaluation" of the 1916 Easter Rebellion and the turbulent decade that followed ( Library Journal).On Easter Monday of 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood launched an armed uprising against British rule that would continue for six days. But Easter Rising was only the beginning of an ongoing revolutionary struggle. In A Nation and ... Read more

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  • Unspeak

    How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality

    by Steven Poole ...
    "A sharply articulated, well-documented expos of the political and economic manipulation of language . . . Fans of Orwell, take heart."— Kirkus ReviewsWhat do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ireland In The 20th Century

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD