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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peo...
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Taiwan: A Political History / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'. ― Foreign A...
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to th...
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between...
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Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Praise for the first edition:"[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and polit...
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Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's pree...
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Cubanthropy: Two Futures That Happened While You Were Busy Thinking
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Cuban art critic and curator Iván de la Nuez explores the effects of the policies that have tried to constrain or liberate Cuba in recent decades...
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Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media orga...
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Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921-46
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /While the wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, alongside the establishment of the so-called "Islamic Caliphate" have brought the debate about the ...
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State Atrophy in Syria: War, Society and Institutional Change
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /How do governments contribute to galvanizing public hostility against state institutions? And what are the consequences of undermining the state as...
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Water Security for Palestinians and Israelis: Towards a New Cooperation in Middle East Water Resources
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Shared water resources in Israel and Palestine are often the site of political, economic, historical, legal and ethical contestation. In this, the ...
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Iran's Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book explores Iran's soft power in two of its eastern neighbours - namely Afghanistan and Pakistan - in key areas including the cultural, reli...
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Korea: A New History of South and North
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300259810 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 06-27-2023 Pages: 288 Product Dimens...
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Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Another India tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Mu...
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Mimi ni Shehe Mujib: Uzungumzi Nafsi wa Kiutendi
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Mwandishi huyu tajika na mtunzi, Anisur Rahman, ameandaa kazi bora ya Mimi ni Shehe Mujib: Uzungumzi Nafsi wa Kiutendi. Kazi hiyo ilinivutia kwa sa...
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balan...
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The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /In The Coalitions Presidents Make, Marcus Mietzner explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one o...
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The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /In The Coalitions Presidents Make, Marcus Mietzner explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one o...
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Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /North Africa was once on the geopolitical periphery of Middle East dynamics, but it has increasingly come to shape regional trends. In addition to ...
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western p...
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An Encounter with Dylan Thomas
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran's oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who...
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The Oxford Handbook of South Korean Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /South Korea is best-known for its economic development, democratic transition and consolidation, vibrant civil society, and emergence as a cultural...
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The Other One Percent: Indians in America
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make ...
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Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activis...
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