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Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book tells the story of the Sudanese revolution of 2019; of how it succeeded in bringing down the long-standing rule of President Omar al-Ba...
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Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed
HardcoverOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first...
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A Democracy Is Born: An Insider's Account of the Battle Against Terrorism in Afghanistan
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In October 2004, more than eight million citizens of Afghanistan turned out to vote in the first democratic election in the turbulent, 5,000-year h...
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Turkey's Political Leaders: Authoritarian Tendencies in a Democratic State
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This longitudinal study reveals how the conduct of political leaders has been central to the shortcomings of the Turkey's democratic system. The mo...
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The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition betwee...
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The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A narrative chronicle of Israeli democracy that defines historic phases and follows thematic challenges to democracy, including: competition betwee...
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Indonesia at the Crossroads: Transformation and Challenges
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /After a swift and bloody regime change in 1998, Indonesia established democratic institutions. Democratization over the first two decades of the 21...
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South Korea's Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regression in the past decade, barely thirty years...
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South Korea's Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Like in many other states worldwide, democracy is in trouble in South Korea, entering a state of regression in the past decade, barely thirty years...
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Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future
PaperbackOriginal price $52.95 - Original price $52.95Original price $52.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been...
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Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future
HardcoverOriginal price $160.00 - Original price $160.00Original price $160.00$193.99$193.99 - $193.99Current price $193.99| /This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been...
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Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were...
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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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Unemployment and Resistance in Tunisia: The Democracy-Security Nexus
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Saerom Han provides a reassessment of Tunisian democratisation by exploring why and how unemployed protesters became articulated with the so-called...
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Calvin's Crusaders in the Wars That Made America: The Story of Nathaniel and Isabella Scudder--Princeton Patriots of the Revolutionary Era
PaperbackOriginal price $51.00Original price $51.00 - Original price $51.00Original price $51.00Current price $44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Nathaniel Scudder, a well-educated Presbyterian physician, was an idealistic early advocate of the rebellion. Like many of his fellow graduates of ...
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To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the he...
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The Politics of Radical Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democ...
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Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971: History Revisited
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The famous British philosopher and historian, R.G. Collingwood, suggested that a historian must reconstruct history by using 'historical imaginatio...
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be ou...
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City on Fire: the fight for Hong Kong
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution. Through the long, hot...
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion i...
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed it When Europe...
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Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic party Black Americans are by far the most ...
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