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Youssef Chaitani - Post-Colonial Syria and Lebanon.jpg
The complex relationship between Syria and Lebanon is the political fulcrum of the Middle East, and has dominated headlines since the withdrawal of French colonial forces from the Levant in 1943. One of the great paradoxes of this relationship is how two such very different ...
Ilian Yotov - The Quarters Theory.jpg
An inside look at an innovative Forex trading systemThe Quarters Theory improves and simplifies the decision-making process in foreign exchange trading through the use of a revolutionary new methodology applied to the price behavior of currency exchange rates and trend ...
Robert J.C. Young - Postcolonialism.jpg
This innovative book by one of the leading exponents in the field introduces ‘postcolonialism' in both theoretical and historical terms.Robert Young provides a wide-ranging analysis of postcolonial theory's emergence from anticolonial movements in Europe, ...
T.K. Bhaumik - Old China’s New Economy.jpg
A new China was born in 1949. After thousands of years of feudalism, in six decades the economy has undergone a change from Mao (read socialist economy) to market (socialist market economy). Old China's New Economy: The Conquest of a Billion Paupers, presents a ...
Farhang Rajaee - The Iran-Iraq War.jpg
Before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, international experts from Iran, Europe, the United States, and throughout the Middle East assessed the nature of Iraqi aggression against Iran in an international conference in Tehran. Under the pretext of territorial ...
Immanuel Wallerstein - European Universalism.jpg
How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist. Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilization, ...
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* This series examines the key consequences of arbitrary border making in world history - past and present* These studies describe arbitrary borders as places where people interact differently from the way they would had the boundary not existed* Analytical, but easy to ...
Susan Buck-Morss - Hegel.jpg
In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way ...
Roderick MacFarquhar - The Politics of China. The Eras of Mao and Deng (1997).jpg
Bringing together substantial essays by leading scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to, and analysis of, the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid-1990s. The first four chapters are drawn from The Cambridge History of ...
Gabriel Ondetti - Land.jpg
“Gabriel Ondetti has written an important book. For those interested in Brazil’s landless movement, this new and persuasive explanation of the rise of the movement combines a focus on the political opportunity structure with subjective and cultural factors left out ...
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The struggle for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century was accompanied by wide-ranging debates about political rights, nationality, and citizenship. South American Independence investigates the neglected role of gender in that ...
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While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. What are the alternatives they imagine? Do these alternatives represent a genuine ...
Göran Djurfeldt - The African Food Crisis.jpg
This book is the outcome of a three-year project coordinated by a group of Swedish researchers and with collaborating scholars from Africa and Asia. It provides a comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and ...
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The threat of nuclear weapons did not fade away with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Rather, the geopolitical disorders of the post-Cold War era and the rise of global terrorism have ensured that they remain conspicuously present on the world stage as a serious ...
Graciana del Castillo - Rebuilding War-Torn States.jpg
Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace: ...
Leenco Lata - Horn of Africa as Common Homeland.jpg
Contemporary states are generally presumed to be founded on the elements of nation, people, territory, and sovereignty. In the Horn of Africa however, the attempts to find a neat congruence among these elements created more problems than they solved. Leenco Lata ...
Michael A. Sells - The Bridge Betrayed.jpg
A Serbian American professor of religion, Sells (Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Univ. of Chicago, 1994) explores all angles surrounding the recent systematic destruction of the Bosnian Muslims. He lays down a solid background of the origins of the war and explains the ...
Simone Panter-Brick - Gandhi and the Middle East.jpg
Gandhi’s involvement in Middle Eastern politics is largely forgotten yet it goes to the heart of his teaching and ambition – to lead a united freedom movement against British colonial power. Gandhi became involved in the politics of the Middle East as a result of his ...
Mats Lundahl - Politics or markets.jpg
Politics or Markets? provides a thorough analysis, set within a historical framework, of how political and economic factors have contributed to the present state of underdevelopment in Haiti. Mats Lundahl provides an in-depth analysis of the role of markets and ...
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Haiti is a country in the midst of a political, economic, ecological, and social crisis. Violence has sabotaged attempts to establish the rule of law, and state infrastructure is notably absent in much of the country, leading to an overall climate of insecurity. Haiti: Hope ...
Masoud Kheirabadi - Iran (2003).jpg
Introducing Iran -- The natural environment -- Early history -- Steps toward modern Iran -- People and culture -- Government and politics in Iran -- Economic patterns -- Life in Iran today -- Iran looks ahead.
Janine N. Clark - Serbia in the Shadow of Milosevic.jpg
Since the regime of Slobodan Miloševic was spectacularly overthrown on October 5, 2000, little has been written about subsequent political developments in Serbia. The perception of Miloševic as a criminal leader who plunged the former Yugoslavia into bloodshed and ...
Samuel Farber - The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (2006).jpg
Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as ...
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The ultimate guide to contemporary romantic comedy, Falling in Love Again offers a timely new assessment of this hugely popular phenomenon.Romantic comedy has long been a mainstay of the movies, from the classic screwballs of the 1930s, through to Woody Allen’s ...
Eri Hotta - Pan-Asianism and Japan's War 1931-1945 (2007).jpg
The book sheds light on the critical importance of Pan-Asianism in Japanese imperialism. Pan-Asianism was a cultural as well as political ideology that promoted Asian unity and recognition. The focus of this book is on Pan-Asianism as a propeller behind Japan’s ...
Patrick Bellegarde Smith - Haiti.jpg
The title of this worthwhile volume is a metaphor. Haiti is a breached citadel. As acts of nature, sun, rain, wind and seasons erode the citadel of Haiti, so too is the country of Haiti being eroded by internationalist sentiment, eating away at her culture and way of life. What ...
John Charles Chasteen - Americanos.jpg
In 1808, world history took a decisive turn when Napoleon occupied Spain and Portugal, a European event that had lasting repercussions more than half the world away, sparking a series of revolutions throughout the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the New World. These wars ...