Politics and International Relations
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Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives
Three Contemporary Sociological Theorists on Modernity and Other Options
Sandro Segre
‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273049
March 2020
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£79.95 / $79.95‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.
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Paradoxes of Populism
Troubles of the West and Nationalism's Second Coming
Ulf Hedetoft
“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272141
February 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.
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Revising History in Communist Europe
Constructing Counter-Revolution in 1956 and 1968
David A.J. Reynolds
Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272080
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.
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The Modern State and Its Enemies
Democracy, Nationalism and Antisemitism
Samuel Salzborn
‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.
Anthem Press
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9781785272202
January 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.
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The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War
Nicolas Lewkowicz
‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the origins of the Cold War should not be seen from the perspective of a magnified spectrum of conflict but should be regarded as a process by which the superpowers attempted to forge a normative framework capable of sustaining their geopolitical needs and interests in the post-war scenario.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087990
October 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the origins of the Cold War should not be seen from the perspective of a magnified spectrum of conflict but should be regarded as a process by which the superpowers attempted to forge a normative framework capable of sustaining their geopolitical needs and interests in the post-war scenario.
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Transnational Crimes in the Americas
Law, Policy and Institutions
Marshall B. Lloyd
'Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ emphasizes the importance of working within public, international organizations to combat transnational crimes. It documents the role of international institutions within the Americas to form a united effort against the proliferation of illicit drugs, human trafficking, weapons trafficking, money laundering and terrorism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088416
October 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ emphasizes the importance of working within public, international organizations to combat transnational crimes. It documents the role of international institutions within the Americas to form a united effort against the proliferation of illicit drugs, human trafficking, weapons trafficking, money laundering and terrorism.
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The Science Communication Challenge
Truth and Disagreement in Democratic Knowledge Societies
Gitte Meyer
‘The Science Communication Challenge’ explores and discusses the whys – as distinct from the hows – of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, and tracing the origins of that paradigm, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087532
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Science Communication Challenge’ explores and discusses the whys – as distinct from the hows – of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, and tracing the origins of that paradigm, it makes the case for a political category of science communication, aimed at furthering discussions of science-related public affairs.
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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli
Ian St John
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
Anthem Press
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9781783085286
August 2016
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£37.95 / $37.95This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
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Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia
Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11
Iftikhar H. Malik
This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084944
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.
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The Stakes of Regulation
Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later
Steven L. Kaplan
This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psychological.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084760
August 2015
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£130.00 / $130.00This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psychological.
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The Deoband Madrassah Movement
Countercultural Trends and Tendencies
Muhammad Moj
This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.
Anthem Press
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9781783083886
March 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.
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The Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab
An Eroding Social Consensus
Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
with Sohaib BodlaThis book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082896
November 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.
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Ricardo’s Gauntlet
Economic Fiction and the Flawed Case for Free Trade
Vishaal Kishore
‘Ricardo’s Gauntlet’ advances a critique of the mainstream economic case for international free trade. Taking apart the cluster of interconnected and mutually enforcing ‘economic fictions’ upon which the argument for free trade relies, the book challenges the case where it is thought to be strongest, exposing both its fragility and the urgent need for alternatives.
Anthem Press
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9781783082995
September 2014
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£19.95 / $19.95‘Ricardo’s Gauntlet’ advances a critique of the mainstream economic case for international free trade. Taking apart the cluster of interconnected and mutually enforcing ‘economic fictions’ upon which the argument for free trade relies, the book challenges the case where it is thought to be strongest, exposing both its fragility and the urgent need for alternatives.
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Arab Development Denied
Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment
Ali Kadri
Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.
Anthem Press
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9781783082674
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.
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Financial Engineering of Climate Investment in Developing Countries
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action and How to Finance It
Søren E. Lütken
This book applies past climate finance experience and a clear understanding of financing sources and techniques to the development of financial engineering strategies for the new Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in developing countries.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783080182
June 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book applies past climate finance experience and a clear understanding of financing sources and techniques to the development of financial engineering strategies for the new Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in developing countries.
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The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan
Ali Usman Qasmi
This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize 2015.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082339
May 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize 2015.
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Conditioning Democratization
Institutional Reforms and EU Membership Conditionality in Albania and Macedonia
Ridvan Peshkopia
This book analyzes the effects of European Union membership conditionality on institutional reforms in Eastern European countries hoping to join the EU, specifically Albania and Macedonia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283252
April 2014
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£130.00 / $130.00This book analyzes the effects of European Union membership conditionality on institutional reforms in Eastern European countries hoping to join the EU, specifically Albania and Macedonia.
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Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Vivian E. Thomson
With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081103
February 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate change policymaking in the United States.
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Re-balancing China
Essays on the Global Financial Crisis, Industrial Policy and International Relations
Peter Nolan
‘Re-balancing China’ addresses three key sets of issues in China’s political economy: the impact of the global financial crisis, the challenge of globalization for the nation’s industrial policy, and the potential conflict that might arise from the West’s fears of China’s growing economic and military power.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783081264
February 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Re-balancing China’ addresses three key sets of issues in China’s political economy: the impact of the global financial crisis, the challenge of globalization for the nation’s industrial policy, and the potential conflict that might arise from the West’s fears of China’s growing economic and military power.
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Economics of the 1%
John F. Weeks
How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. This book exposes the myths of mainstream economics and explains why current policies fail to serve the interests of the vast majority of people in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Instead, they serve the few, increasing inequality and poverty.
Anthem Press
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9780857281081
January 2014
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£19.95 / $19.95How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. This book exposes the myths of mainstream economics and explains why current policies fail to serve the interests of the vast majority of people in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Instead, they serve the few, increasing inequality and poverty.
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Two Decades of Market Reform in India
Some Dissenting Views
Edited by Sudipta Bhattacharyya
This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283269
December 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.
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The Clash of Globalizations
Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Development Policy
Kevin P. Gallagher
Collecting and synthesizing a series of essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, this book explores the following research questions: to what extent is the global trading regime reducing the ability of nation states to pursue policies for financial stability and economic growth; and what political factors explain such changes in policy space over time, across different types of trade treaties and across nations?
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283276
July 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00Collecting and synthesizing a series of essays on the political economy of trade and development policy, this book explores the following research questions: to what extent is the global trading regime reducing the ability of nation states to pursue policies for financial stability and economic growth; and what political factors explain such changes in policy space over time, across different types of trade treaties and across nations?
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Responsibility to Protect and Prevent
Principles, Promises and Practicalities
John Janzekovic, Daniel Silander
This volume explores the development and application of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which – according to its supporters – has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857280596
July 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume explores the development and application of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which – according to its supporters – has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.
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Development Without Aid
The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora
David A. Phillips
“Development Without Aid” provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the world’s diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a reassertion of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283030
April 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00“Development Without Aid” provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the world’s diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a reassertion of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development.