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Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, ...
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The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia -- now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave the Young Turks and the Ottoman ...
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The Despot's Accomplice
How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-687-9
EAN 9781849046879
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic and security victories.Friendly fire ...
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- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-680-0
EAN 9781849046800
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour investigates one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time. As millions seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflicts, repressive governments and poverty, their movements are enabled and actively encouraged by professional criminal networks that earn billions of dollars. Many of these smugglers carry ...
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- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-679-4
EAN 9781849046794
With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into contemporary debates over what is to be done.Refugees have been with us ...
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Boko Haram
Nigeria s islamist insurgency
Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jamaatu Ahlis Sunnah Liddaawati wal Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now shown clear signs of regionalisation, expanding their operations across ...
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From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as non-lethal psychochemical weapons or as a means of subversion. Lukasz Kamienski explores why ...
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Al-Shabaab in Somalia
The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-510-0
EAN 9781849045100
Since early 2007, a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of Al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance and praise from Ayman al-Zawahiri and the 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. A 2006 offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, the Shabaab ...
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Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious years its cadres have all but severed parts of northern Nigeria -- Africa's most populous state and largest economy -- from the hands of the government in Abuja. Videos ...
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The Russian Civil Wars: 1916-1926
Ten Years that Shook the World
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the ...
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Why Spy? distills Brian Stewarts seventy years of experience in intelligence. Few books currently available have been written by someone who has his practical experience both of field work and of the intelligence bureaucracy at home and abroad. Stewart relates successes and failures via a fascinating series of vignettes, either those cases in which he ...
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Emigration and the Sea
An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
- Hurst, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-416-5
EAN 9781849044165
Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under ...
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- Hurst, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-511-7
EAN 9781849045117
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century. Scrutinising major environmental trends - population growth, coastal ...
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Northern and central Nigeria are engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. 'Boko Haram', and more recently, its splinter group 'Ansaru'. From its inception an inward-looking, almost parochial, movement, Boko Haram, and even more so Ansaru, have now showed clear signs of regionalization, expanding their operations across ...
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- Hurst, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 700 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84904-461-5
EAN 9781849044615
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions-warlords- around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term ...
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In early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of "oppression and aggression" against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi'a sub-sect. This explained why the Alawites largely remained ...
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Dubbed an 'agent of British imperialism' by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889- 1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional story is recounted in this new biography. He studied in St Petersburg, participated in the 1905 Revolution and spent the rest of his life working for various branches of British secret intelligence. Plunging into the ...
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The Blood Telegram
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
- Hurst, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 548 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-457-8
EAN 9781849044578
Named as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Economist and Financial Times.2014 Pulitzer Prize FinalistA riveting history-the first full account-of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their ...
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Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
- Hurst, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-397-7
EAN 9781849043977
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia.Yet many of the contributions ...
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