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After the SheikhSThe Coming Collapse of The gulf monarChies

ChriStopher DAviDSon

ChriStopher DAviDSon is reader in politics at the university of durham and the author of several definitive books on the Gulf, including Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success and Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies, all of which are published by Hurst.

the Gulf monarchies (saudi arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the united arab emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, oman, and bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their door-steps, fast-growing populations, and powerful mod-ernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have demon-strated remarkable resilience. the obituaries of the traditional monarchies have frequently been penned, but even now, these absolutist, almost medieval, entities still appear to pose the same conundrum as before: in the wake of the 2011 ‘arab spring’ and the fall of incumbent presidents in egypt, tunisia and Libya, the apparently steadfast Gulf monarchies have, at first glance, re-affirmed their status as the middle east’s only real bastions of stability.

in this book, noted Gulf expert christopher david-son contends that the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, and was always going to. While the revolutionary movements in north af-rica, syria, and Yemen will undeniably serve as impor-tant, if indirect, catalysts for the coming upheaval, many of the pressures that were building up in the arab republics are now also very much present in the Gulf monarchies. it is now no longer a matter of if but when the West’s steadfast allies fall. this is a bold claim to make but davidson, who accurately forecast the economic turmoil that afflicted dubai in 2009, has an enviable record in diagnosing social and political changes afoot in the region.

praise for Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond:

‘a timely and thoughtful contribution to the thus-far scanty literature on the emirate, discussing its “dra-matic trajectory” over the past two centuries. ... as this highly enjoyable book demonstrates, with the world watching and its people asking questions, abu dhabi has everything to play for.’ — Times Higher Education

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Critical Muslim, a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues, presents muslim perspectives on the great debates of our times. it aims to emphasise the plurality and diversity of islam and muslims and to promote dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between ‘islam’ and other cultures, including ‘the West’.

in the inaugural issue of Critical Muslim: ziauddin sardar tries to understand the significance of what just happened in the middle east, robin Yassin-Kassab spends some quality time in tahrir square, ashur shamis dodges the bullets of Gaddafi’s henchmen, abdelwahab el-affendi traces the roots of the uprisings, anne alex-ander tunes into the digital revolution, fadia faqir joins women protestors, shadia safwan asks how long could assad last, jamal mahjoub contemplates futures of the sudan, jasmin ramsey joins the activists in tehran, and jerry ravetz ponders the significance of ibn Khaldun to the arab spring.

also in this issue: rachel Holmes visits the palestinian festival of Literature, s. parvez manzoor asks if turkey is a good model for the muslim world, muhammad idrees ahmad is overwhelmed by leaks, taus makhacheva takes ‘affirmative action’, aasia nasir accuses pakistan and merryl Wyn davies’s ‘last word’ on saudi women drivers. plus a new short story from bilal tanweer and revolutionary poetry from nizar Qabbani, tawfiq zayyad, abul-Qasim al-shabi, ayat al-Qormezi and naomi foyle.

ZiAuDDin SArDAr, co-editor of Critical Muslim, is a renowned writer, broadcaster and cultural critic. a for-mer columnist on the New Statesman, he has also served as a commissioner on the equality and Human rights commission. He is professor of Law and society at middlesex university, and the author of numerous books, the most recent being Reading the Qur’an (Hurst); Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim (Gran-ta); What Do Muslims Believe? (Granta); and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain (Granta).robin YASSin-kASSAb, co-editor of Critical Muslim, is the author of the acclaimed novel, The Road From Damascus (penguin). born in west London, he has lived and worked in france, pakistan, turkey, syria, morocco, saudi arabia and oman. He is a regular contributor to the literary pages of The Guardian and The Independent.

the contributors to cm01 muhammad idrees ahmad, journalist and critic, is finishing a phd at the school of applied social sciences, university of strathclyde • saffi ahmad, a social activist, is contemplating his future • anne alexander, buckley fellow at the centre for research in the arts, social sciences and Humanities, university of cambridge, works on new media and political change in the middle east • rose aslan is a doctoral student in religious studies at the university of north carolina at chapel Hill and specialises in narratives of pil-grimage, ritual and sacred space in muslim traditions • merryl Wyn davies, writer and anthropologist, is director of the muslim institute and author of Introducing Anthropology • abdelwahab el-affendi is reader in politics, centre for the study of democracy, university of Westminster • fadia faqir’s latest novel is My Name is Salma • naomi Foyle co-founded British Writers In Support of Palestine upon her return from the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo • rachel Holmes is finishing her latest book, a biography of eleanor marx • robin Yassin-Kassab’s only novel is The Road From Damascus • jamal mahjoub’s novels include The Drift Latitudes and Travelling with Djinns • taus makh-acheva is an artist based in moscow, dagestan and London • s parvez manzoor is a critic based in stockholm • ehsan masood is editor of Research Fortnight and author of Science and Islam: a history • Aasia Nasir is a Member of the national assembly in pakistan • nizar Qabbani was the most accessible pioneer of arabic modernism • ayat al-Qormezi currently resides in a bahraini prison cell • samia rahman, who is writing her first novel, is deputy director of the muslim institute • jasmin ramsey is a freelance journalist, writer and editor • jerry ravetz, a well-known phi-losopher of science, is the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Science • ziauddin sardar’s latest book is Reading the Qur’an • shadia safwan is a syrian blogger • abu al-Qasim al-shabi’s verses inspired the tunisian revolution • ashur shamis was involved with the front for the salvation of Libya for several years • bilal tanweer is writing his first novel • tawfiq zayyad was the communist mayor of nazareth, and is an important figure in modern arabic poetry.

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neville bolt, phd, holds degrees from the univer-sity of oxford and King’s college, London. He has worked as a producer-director with the bbc, itV, channel 4 and cbc canada, specialising in making investigative documentaries in conflict zones ranging from central america to africa, the middle east, and the indian subcontinent. He has also worked in po-litical communications, creating strategic tV cam-paigns for the uK’s Labour party, amnesty interna-tional, the anti-apartheid movement and african national congress (anc). He is a teaching fellow and research associate in the department of War studies at King’s college, university of London.

the violent imAge insurgenT propaganda and The new revoluTionaries

neville bolt

‘elegantly written and a pleasure to read, it invites the reader on a fairly wild ride, from the fenians to the tali-ban, from print media to social media and back. bolt’s work makes a big argument in a small package, densely researched yet readable. most important, he says some-thing new in a field that desperately needs it.’ — David J. Betz, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London

fast-moving, self- propelled ‘violent images’ have radi-cally changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. the global media has revolutionised the way ideas, messages and images are disseminated, and the speed with which they travel. first satellite tV, then laptops and the internet, and now mobile phones and social media have transformed the way we communi-cate, collapsing time and distance. rebels who hope to overthrow states or to build transnational, ideological communities, have adopted these dynamic technolo-gies. but they have also learned the key lesson: in a visual world, the power of the image has supplanted that of the written world.

neville bolt investigates how today’s revolutionaries have rejuvenated the nineteenth century ‘propaganda of the deed’ so that terrorism no longer simply goads states into overreacting, thereby losing legitimacy. the deed has become a tool to highlight the underlying grievances of communities. pictures of 9/11, 7/7 and abu Ghraib are today’s weapon of choice. The Violent Image explores what happens in the ‘moment of shock’; how emotive pictures attach to messages, causing popula-tions to rise up in anger. from the fenians to the taliban to the arab spring we learn how insurgents have adapted the way they use violence to tell stories and effect social change. in the ‘war of ideas’, the new revo-lutionaries aim to set in motion surges of support that spread virally through global networks at such speed that states can no longer defend their own strategic narratives. Have we now reached the point where insur-gents and populations are driving images and ideas so fast, that a new era of revolutionary politics is already upon us?

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the greAt inDiAn phonebook how The mass mobile Changes business, poliTiCs and daily life

robin JeffreY AnD ASSA Doron

the cheap mobile phone is arguably the most sig-nificant personal communications device in history. in india, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mo-bile phone is even more striking than elsewhere.

in 2001, india had 35 million telephones, only four million of them mobiles. ten years later, it had more than 800 million phone subscribers; more than 95 per cent were mobile phones. in a decade, commu-nications in india have been transformed by a device that can be shared by fisherfolk in Kerala, boatmen in banaras, great capitalists in mumbai and power-wielding politicians and bureaucrats in new delhi.

Village councils banned unmarried girls from hav-ing mobile phones. families debated whether new brides should surrender them. cheap mobile phones became photo albums, music machines and radios. religious images and uplifting messages flooded tens of millions of phones each day. por-nographers and criminals found a tantalising new tool. in politics, organisations with cadres of true-believers exploited a resource infinitely more effec-tive than telegrams, postcards and the printing press for carrying messages to workers, followers and voters.

jeffrey and doron focus on three groups — con-trollers: the bureaucrats, politicians and capitalists who wrestle over control of radio frequency spec-trum; servants: the marketers, agents, technicians, tower-builders, repairers and second-hand dealers who carry mobile phones to the masses; and users: the politicians, activists, businesses and households that adapt the mobile phone to their needs.

the book probes the whole universe of the mobile phone — from the contests of great capitalists and governments to control radio frequency spectrum to the ways ordinary people build the troublesome, addictive device into their daily lives.

robin JeffreY is a Visiting research professor at the national university of singapore and the author of India’s Newspaper Revolution also published by Hurst. ASSA Doron is an anthropologist at the australian national university and author of Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges.

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in january 2011 president bashar al-assad told the Wall Street Journal that syria was ‘stable’ and im-mune from revolt. in the months that followed, and as regimes fell in egypt and tunisia, thousands of syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many dying at the hands of the regime.

in Revolt: Eye-Witness to the Syrian Uprising, stephen starr delves deep into the lives of syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years. in conversations with people from all strata of syrian society, starr draws together and makes sense of perspectives illustrating why syria, with its numerous sects and religions, was so prone to violence and civil strife.

through his unique access to a country largely cut off from the international media during the unrest, starr delivers compelling first hand testimony from both those who suffered and benefited most at the hands of the regime.

Revolt details why many syrians wanted assad’s government to stay as the threat of civil war loomed large, the long-standing gap between the state apparatus and its people and why the country’s youth stood up decisively for freedom. starr also sets out the positions adhered to by the country’s minorities and explains why many syrians believe that enforced regime change might precipitate a region-wide conflict.

Stephen StArr is a freelance irish journalist who has been reporting from damascus since 2007. He covered the syrian uprising for some of the world’s leading newspapers and his work has been pub-lished in The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Times and Sunday Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Irish Times. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Near East Quarterly.

revolt eye-wiTness To The syrian uprising

Stephen StArr

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the gYpSY menACepopulism and The new anTi-gypsy poliTiCs

miChAel StewArt (eD.)

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miChAel StewArt is a Lse-trained social anthro-pologist who has worked with romany communities in Hungary and romania for over twenty-five years. He is the author of Time of the Gypsies (1997) and co-editor of Lillies of the Field: Marginal People who Live for the Moment (1998). He teaches anthropol-ogy at ucL and has, since 1998, run a summer school at central european university for researchers work-ing with roma.

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across europe, roma and Gypsies are suffering in-creasing intolerance and hostility. a new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community or nation, finds in the roma a suitable target population to which ‘ordinary citi-zens’’ fears and frustrations can be attached. this politics draws on a rising tide of xenophobia; a feeling of loss of sovereignity and democratic over-sight; disillusionment with political elites; frustra-tions with the failure of welfare programmes; the presentation of social and political conflicts as cul-tural issues; and a growing rejection of the ideal of a trans-national european order.

The Gypsy Menace’s fifteen chapters range geo-graphically from belfast to sofia, via paris, rome, prague and budapest. they show how, in their reac-tions to the presence of ten million or so romany persons in their midst, some europeans are testing the limits of the ‘social imaginary’ and beginning to flesh out new ways of thinking about the ties that bind and connect citizens in europe — and those that can be severed. the authors, who include po-litical scientists, sociologists and anthropologists from across the continent, set the rapid shifts in political debate regarding roma against the back-ground of huge social and economic changes in the past thirty years, the recent, frightening resurgence of populist politics, and a noticeable increase in inter-ethnic violence and hate crimes. this book resets the agenda for thinking about europe’s larg-est minority, analysing not only the challenges a liberal, tolerant politics confronts but also suggest-ing ways of acting against the new xenophobia


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current affairspaperback £19.99 978-1-84904-195-9

mAtthew ArnolD is an academic and aid worker specialising in post-conflict reconstruction and the co-author of Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace. mAtthew leriChe has a phd from King’s college London and has been living and working in south sudan and the region since 2004. He is currently a fellow in managing Humanitarianism at the Lse.

in july 2011 the republic of south sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been africa’s longest running civil war. the process leading to independence was driven by the sudan peoples’ Liberation movement, a primarily southern re-bel force and political movement intent on bringing about the reformed unity of the whole sudan. through the comprehensive peace agreement of 2005, a six year peace process unfolded in the form of an interim period premised upon ‘making unity attractive’ for the sudan. a failed exercise, it culmi-nated in an almost unanimous vote for independence by southerners in a referendum held in january 2011.

Violence has continued since, and a daunting pos-sibility for south sudan has arisen — to have won independence only to descend into its own civil war, with the regime in Khartoum aiding and abetting factionalism to keep the new state weak and vulner-able. achieving a durable peace will be a massive challenge, and resolving the issues that so inflamed southerners historically — unsupportive govern-ance, broad feelings of exploitation and marginalisa-tion and fragile ethnic politics — will determine south sudan’s success or failure at statehood.

a story of transformation and of victory against the odds, this book reviews south sudan’s modern his-tory as a contested region and assesses the political, social and security dynamics that will shape its im-mediate future as africa’s newest independent state.

South SuDAn from revoluTion To independenCe

mAtthew ArnolD AnD mAtthew leriChe

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From revolutionto independence

South SudanMatthew Arnold | Matthew LeRiche

‘a beautifully-written and fascinating insight into the recent history of mozambique. … Lefanu’s coverage of samora is even-handed: he emerges as a gifted, good and charismatic man motivated by the princi-ples of social justice and a form of nationalism that cut across colour, race and tribe. but she also portrays him as a human being, flawed at times by contradic-tions and failures. … Lefanu explores the mythology around his significance and legacy in mozambique today and those of josina, his freedom fighter wife before her untimely death. … a brilliant book.’ — Susan Williams, author of Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

S iS for SAmorA a lexiCal biography of samora maChel and The mozambiCan dream

SArAh lefAnu

S is for Samora

Sarah LeFanu

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Historypaperback £16.99 978-1-84904-194-2

SArAh lefAnu is author of the acclaimed biogra-phy Rose Macaulay, and of mLa award-winning In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction. from 2004 to 2009 she was artistic director of the bath Literature festival. she has been rLf fellow at the university of exeter, and teaches at the university of bristol’s department for Lifelong Learning.

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samora machel led freLimo, the mozambican Liberation front, to victory against portuguese co-lonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent mozambique’s first president. He died eleven years later in a mysterious plane crash. draw-ing on stories, speeches, documents, and the memories of those who knew him, this biography presents the many different faces of the man nelson mandela called ‘a true african revolutionary’. machel was a trained nurse who became a consummate military strategist, a farmer’s son with the diplo-matic skills first to tread the tightrope between china and the soviet union and then to charm margaret thatcher, a man of the people who found himself utterly alone, a dedicated seeker of peace who never saw anything but war.

the book examines the discourse of equality, lib-erty and comradeship that flourished during the 1960s and 1970s in the liberation struggles of the countries of southern africa, in the face of the domi-nant rhetoric of the cold war. it meditates on the different languages through which the mozambican dream was articulated: the linguistic currencies of anti-colonialism, of anti-racism, and of marxism-Leninism, while exploring the gaps between then and now, between mozambicans and the western idealists who wanted to be part of their new society, and be-tween the polyglottal mozambicans themselves.


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balkansHardback £29.99 978-1-84904-187-4

JAmeS pettifer teaches balkan history at oxford university. He has been a Visiting professor at the institute of balkan studies, thessalonica and was an Honorary fellow of the department of Greek and byzantine studies, birmingham university, uK. in 2007 he was stanley j. seeger research fellow at princeton university, new jersey, usa. from 2000 until its abolition in 2010 he also worked in the re-search and analysis branch of the defence academy of the uK. He is the author of several standard works on the southern balkans, Greece and turkey.

‘an excellent book … almost wholly unrivalled in the depth of its treatment of the KLa. … it will be of interest both to specialists on Kosovo, the former Yugoslavia and the balkans, and to less specialist readers seeking an introduction to the topic of the KLa and 1990s Kosovo conflict.’ — Marko Attila Hoare, Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University and author of The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

the Kosova Liberation army (KLa) was the first suc-cessful insurgent movement in europe since the second World War. in the struggle against milose-vic’s serbia it developed from a tiny group of con-spirators in the swiss political underground in the 1980s to an 18,000 strong military force that was allied with nato between 1997 and 1999.

in this ground-breaking and innovative history, james pettifer traces the development of the force using previously unknown documents from russian, american, serbian, swiss archives, amongst others, numerous interviews with participants and observers and eye witness material. the KLa drew on deep historical traditions of resistance to ser-bian rule in Kosova, but in other respects was highly innovative and was the first postmodern insurgency for which the image it carried in the media was almost as important as its achievements in the campaign.

the book focuses in particular depth on the work of the KLa leaders in secret organisations prior to the war, and how milosevic misunderstood the nature of the opponent he was facing. this also applied to many nato nations, who often saw the unique Kosova struggle as an extension of the earlier bosnian and croatian conflicts. the author draws on years of study of the region and personal knowledge of many of the KLa and other leaders involved to write what should become the standard account of the origins of the conflict.

the koSovA liberAtion ArmY underground war To balkan insurgenCy, 1948-2001

JAmeS pettifer

THE KOSOVA

LIBERATION ARMY

Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001

James Pettifer

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‘paul Lendvai, the Hungarian writer with budapest roots, sheds light upon the darkening internal affairs of the young Hungarian democracy. … Lendvai provides indispensable help for our orientation and attitude towards the country and its representa-tives.’ — Die Zeit

‘Lendvai is one of the grand old men of central european journalism … but never before has one of his titles provoked such fierce reactions from the powers that be.’ — Paul Hockenos, The Boston Review

How has Hungary, a country once in the vanguard of political and economic reform under communism, become a chilling example of the new threats confront-ing democracy in central europe? the return of Hun-gary’s demons of the past — nationalism, ethnic hatred, deeply-rooted corruption and authoritarian tendencies — has engendered international concern. since win-ning a two-thirds majority in parliament in the spring of 2010, the dynamic right-wing populist prime minis-ter Viktor orban has embarked on a sweeping and ruthless concentration of power and has sought to reshape the state in his own image.

a new constitution and a sweeping series of laws and decrees — radical changes in the judicial and electoral system and the dismantling of constitutional safe-guards ensuring the autonomy of the executive branch and the freedom of the media — seem destined to ensure a long-term hegemony of the far right. mean-while a campaign of vituperative nationalist rhetoric and the granting of voting rights to 2.5 million ethnic Hungarians living in neighbouring countries are bound to increase tensions in this volatile corner of europe.

Lendvai offers readers an unsparing and dispassion-ate account, based on his intimate personal knowledge of Hungary’s major political figures and its political culture, of the turbulent events since the collapse of the communist regime which affect not only Hungary, but also the political and economic stability of the danube basin.

hungArY beTween demoCraCy and auThoriTarianism

pAul lenDvAi

pAul lenDvAi was born in budapest and came as as a refugee to austria after the Hungarian revolu-tion. He was Vienna correspondent of the Financial Times for 22 years and subsequently worked as editor-in-chief of the austrian broadcasting corpo-ration. He is co-publisher and editor of the interna-tional journal, Europäische Rundschau and has a weekly column in the Vienna daily, Der Standard. He has written 14 books on central and eastern europe. He has received numerous prizes and awards and is arguably austria’s best-known political commenta-tor. His latest book, Inside Austria, was published by Hurst in 2010.

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Hungary

Paul Lendvai

Between Democracy and authoritarianism


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knut S. vikør is professor of History at the uni-versity of bergen and the author of Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muhammad B. Oali Al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood and Between God and the Sultan: A History of Islamic Law, both of which are published by Hurst.

the maghreb — the region that today encom-passes morocco, algeria, tunisia and Libya — is a region apart within the larger muslim and arab world. today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent long periods of colonisation and anti-colonial nationalist resistance, both peaceful and militant. to under-stand the nature of today’s developments in north africa we need fully to appreciate the tumultuous history of the region and how its four discrete countries followed different trajectories, some marked by a continuity of social and political struc-tures in both the colonial era and as independent states, while others were marked by sharp ruptures and violent struggles. these historical differences are still visible in the current era and tell us much about the societies in question.

this short history of the maghreb surveys its de-velopment from the coming of islam to the present day, but with greatest emphasis on the modern period from the early nineteenth century onwards. it follows the french protectorates, morocco and tunisia, and how their nationalist movements forged the independent states that followed; and it chronicles the wars of resistance and liberation in algeria and Libya, and how these conflicts also marked their independence, with a long-running civil war in the former and the recent uprising against the Gaddafi regime in the latter.

the mAghreb SinCe 1800 a shorT hisTory

knut S. vikør

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politicsHardback £29.99 978-1-84904-200-0

miChAel J. williS is King mohamed Vi fellow in moroccan and mediterranean studies at st antony’s college, oxford university. prior to this he taught politics for seven years at al akhawayn university in ifrane, morocco. His research focuses on the politics, modern history and international relations of the maghreb. His previous publications include The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History.

‘michael Willis has sought to encompass the political evolution of the three core countries that make up the maghreb – tunisia, algeria and morocco – in terms of how power has been articulated and exer-cised there from independence until the present day. … this is a bold and ambitious attempt to treat the maghreb as a region with parallel, yet individu-al national experiences that must be treated to-gether to define the region’s specificities and to highlight its common experiences. indeed, it is this approach that gives this study much of its original-ity. … this should become an essential introductory reading for everybody interested in north africa, whether for academic or professional purposes.’ — George Joffe, Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge

the overthrow of the regime of president ben ali in tunisia on 14 january 2011 took the world by surprise. the popular revolt in this small arab country and the effect it had on the wider arab world prompted ques-tions as to why there had been so little awareness of it up until that point. it also revealed a more general lack of knowledge about the surrounding western part of the arab world, or the maghreb, which had long attracted a tiny fraction of the outside interest shown in the eastern arab world of egypt, the Levant and the Gulf.

this book examines the politics of the three states of the central maghreb — algeria, tunisia and mo-rocco — since their achievement of independence from european colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. it explains the political dynamics of the region by looking at the roles played by various actors such as the military, political parties and islamist movements and addresses issues such as berber identity and the role played by economics, as well as how the states of the region interact with each other and with the wider world.

politiCS AnD power in the mAghreb algeria, Tunisia and moroCCo from independenCe To The arab spring

miChAel J. williS

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pAkiStAn a new hisTory

iAn tAlbot

if pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country — the generosity and hospitality of its peo-ple, the dynamism of its youth — it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. sidestepping easy headlines to identify pakistan’s true dangers, this volume revisits the major turning points and trends of pakistani history over the past six decades, focusing on the increasing entrench-ment of pakistan’s army in its political and eco-nomic arenas; the complex role of islam in public life; the tensions between central and local identities and democratic impulses; and the effect of geopolitical influences on domestic policy and development.

While ian talbot’s study centres on pakistan’s many failures — the collapse of stable governance, the drop in positive political and economic development, and, most of all, the unrealised goal of securing a separate muslim state — his book unequivocally affirms the country’s potential for a positive reawak-ening. these failures were not preordained, talbot argues, and such a fatalistic reading does not respect the complexity of historical events, individual actors, and the state’s own rich resources. While he acknowl-edges grave crises still lie ahead for pakistan, talbot’s sensitive historical approach makes it clear that fa-vourable opportunities still remain for pakistan, in which the state has a chance to reclaim its priorities and institutions and reestablish political and eco-nomic sustainability.

Ian Talbot

A New HistoryPakistan

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iAn tAlbot is professor of History at southampton university, one of europe’s leading historians of south asia, and the author of many books on the sub-continent.

ShiiSm AnD politiCS in the miDDle eASt lAurenCe louër

trAnSlAteD from frenCh bY John king

‘this short and elegantly written book manages the extraordinarily difficult feat of presenting the reader with a lucid introduction to shiism in the middle east that is at the same time full of penetrating insights. … dealing with shiism in the middle east as a whole, Louër’s book looks at the sect’s political transforma-tion after the islamic revolution and the fall of ba-athist iraq, paying particular attention to the chang-ing role of the clergy, the rise of lay authorities, and transnational patterns of religious thought and practice that cannot be divided by neatly marked national categories.’— Faisal Devji, author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (2009).

in this timely book, completed before the current outbreak of unrest in bahrain that has formed part of the arab spring, Laurence Louër explains, the background of the bahraini conflict in the context of the wider issue of shiism as a political force in the arab middle east, amongst other issues relating to the role of shiite islamist movements in regional politics. Her study shows how bahrain’s troubles are a phenomenon based on local perceptions of injus-tice rather than on the foreign policy of shiite iran.

more generally, the book shows that, though iran’s islamic revolution had an electrifying effect on shiite movements in Lebanon, iraq, the Gulf and saudi arabia, local political imperatives have in the end been the crucial factor in the direction they have taken. in addition, the overwhelming influence of the shiite clerical institution has been diminished by the rise to prominence of lay activists within the shiite movements across the middle east and the emergence of shiite anti-clericalism. this book contributes to dispelling the myth of the determin-ing power of iran in the politics of iraq, bahrain and other arab states with significant shiite populations.

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Dr lAurenCe louër is research fellow at ceri/sciencespo in paris. she has served as a permanent consultant for the policy planning department of the french ministry of foreign affairs (cap) since 2004 and as co-editor-in-chief of critique interna-tionale since 2006. Her research focuses on the politics of identity and ethnicity in the middle east. she is the author of two other Hurst titles: Transna-tional Shia Politics: Political and Religious Networks in the Gulf (2008) and To Be An Arab In Israel (2007).

CompArAtive politiCS AnD internAtionAl StuDieS SerieS, ChriStophe JAffrelot (eD.)

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Antonio giuStoZZi is an associate at the crisis states research centre, London school of econom-ics. He has written extensively on afghanistan and on security issues more widely, including Decoding the New Taliban: Insights From the Afghan Field (2010) and The Art of Coercion (2011). mohAmmeD iSAqZADeh holds an mphil from oxford university and teaches at the american university in Kabul. He is co-author of a paper on afghanistan’s paramilitary policing.

policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. although a vast literature on policing ex-ists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. even the police forces of Western europe and north america have rarely been investigated in depth as far as their history and functioning goes. in particular, the politics of policing, its political economy, have been largely neglected.

this book is a rare in-depth study of a police force in a developing country which is also undergoing a bitter internal conflict, further to the post-2001 external intervention in afghanistan. policing af-ghanistan discusses the evolution of the country’s police through its various stages but focuses in particular on the last decade.

the authors review the ongoing debates over the future shape of afghanistan’s police, but seek pri-marily to analyse the way afghanistan is policed relative to its existing social, political and interna-tional constraints. Giustozzi and isaqzadeh have observed the development of the police force from its early stages, starting from what was a rudimen-tary, militia-based, police force prior to 2001. this is a book about how the police really work in such a difficult environment, the nuts and bolts approach, based on first hand research, as opposed to a de-scription of how the afghan police are institution-ally organised and regulated.

poliCing AfghAniStAn The poliTiCs of The lame leviaThan

Antonio giuStoZZi AnD mohAmmeD iSAqZADeh

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nile green is professor of south asian and islamic history at ucLa and chair of the ucLa program on central asia. His research focuses on the history and literature of the muslim communities of india, paki-stan, afghanistan, iran and the indian ocean. His books include Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century; and Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean. nuShin ArbAbZADAh is a research scholar at the ucLa center for the study of Women. raised in afghanistan, she writes regularly on afghanistan for The Guardian. Her books include No Ordinary Life: Being Young in the Worlds of Islam and From Outside In: Refugees in British Society.

Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century afghan dari and pashto literature to show not only how afghans have re-flected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sought to dominate the ideo-logical contours of that history through the patron-age or exile of writers. drawing on an abundance of afghan language sources, the chapters by leading international experts reveal a disruptive twentieth century dynamic between the importing of multiple conflicting ideologies through literary globalisation and the destabilisation of the state as a consequence of these literary and ideological flows.

as the first scholarly survey of modern afghan lit-erature, afghanistan in ink places the twentieth century’s itinerant and exiled afghan writers into their transnational contexts to trace afghan artistic and ideological interactions with muslim and West-ern nations. the volume emphasises the study of literatures in their social and political contexts. With its extensive contextualising introduction, this book provides both specialists and non-specialists with unique ‘inside’ perspectives on the interweaving of religious, political and cultural debates that have shaped modern afghan society.

AfghAniStAn in ink liTeraTure beTween diaspora and naTion

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Fountainhead of Jihad is the first in-depth study of the history, links, and organisational logic of the Haqqani network. drawing upon a wealth of previ-ously unresearched primary sources in many lan-guages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current afghan insurgency, and shown here to have been for decades at the centre of a nexus of trans-national islamist militancy, fostering the develop-ment of jihadi organisations from southeast asia to east africa. addressing the abundant new evidence documenting the Haqqani network’s pivotal role in the birth and evolution of the global jihadi move-ment, the book also represents a significant advance in our knowledge of the history of al-Qaeda, funda-mentally altering the picture painted by the existing literature on the subject.

fountAinheAD of JihAD The haqqani nexus, 1973-2010

vAhiD brown AnD Don rASSler

vAhiD brown is a specialist in the history of islam-ist militancy and is the author of Cracks in the Foun-dation: Leadership Schisms in al-Qa’ida, 1989-2006. He is also a phd student at princeton university.Don rASSler is an instructor in the department of social sciences and an associate at the combat-ing terrorism center (ctc) at the us military acad-emy, where he manages the ctc’s south asia re-search program. He holds an ma in international affairs from columbia university’s school of inter-national and public affairs.

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beYonD SwAt hisTory, soCieTy and eConomy along The afghanisTan-pakisTan fronTier

mAgnuS mArSDen AnD benJAmin hopkinS (eDS)

‘easily readable and enjoyable, this book offers fresh and theoretically rich perspectives on a number of concerns that go well beyond swat. … exemplary.’ — Marta Bolognani, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.

Beyond Swat readdresses fredrik barth’s seminal work Political Leadership among Swat Pathans, and the reactions it sparked, in relationship to contem-porary developments in swat and the wider afghan-istan-pakistan frontier region. it explores the rele-vance of these scholarly debates to understanding the key dynamics affecting the region and its people today.

Written by anthropologists and historians with long-standing research experience in afghanistan and pakistan, as well as expertise in one or more of the region’s languages, each chapter explores vary-ing yet interconnected dimensions of the region’s culture, society and politics over a broad span of history and their relevance to wider debates about the dynamics shaping this and other comparable ‘frontier’ spaces. the parallels the authors make cross temporal, as well as spatial boundaries and, in doing so, open up theoretically innovative lines of scholarly enquiry about the afghanistan-pakistan frontier, the nature of islamic militancy, its connec-tions to ethnicity, class and transformations in the nature of state power, and, more generally, the re-lationship between anthropology and history.

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mAgnuS mArSDen is senior Lecturer in social anthropology with reference to south and central asia, at the school of oriental and african studies, London. He has spent 15 years conducting research in both afghanistan and pakistan. His publications include Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier (2005) and, as co-edi-tor with benjamin Hopkins, Fragments of the Afghan Frontier.benJAmin hopkinS is assistant professor of Histo-ry and international affairs, George Washington uni-versity, author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan, and co-editor, with magnus marsden, of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier.


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mehrAn kAmrAvA is the director of the center for international and regional studies at Georgetown university in Qatar. He is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. He has also edited The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity, and, with manochehr dorraj, Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic.

‘the book’s central thematic interest is the growing significance of the persian Gulf on the global stage and the concomitant socio-economic changes these countries have been experiencing for the last ten years. … it presents a multi-faceted, subtle and com-plementary picture of the current economic dynamics in the Gcc and iran, the social and economic achieve-ments, as well as the long-term trends plaguing the region’s development. … undoubtedly, it is bound to become a key point of reference for any work on the economy and political economy of iran and the Gulf monarchies and a prerequisite for researchers inter-ested in the political economy of the middle east and more broadly in post-rentier and developmental strategies in the region and elsewhere.’ — Dr Marc Valeri, author of Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State

change occurs rapidly in the persian Gulf. While some states have capitalised on the fast-paced nature of globalised fiscal transactions and have become im-portant markets for foreign investment, others have fallen victim to such speculations. the ‘dubai model’ of economic diversification is being re-evaluated as the Gcc states continue to seek the best means of organizing their economies and competing within the global order.

explaining the different ways in which globalising forces have shaped new dimensions to the political economy of the persian Gulf states, this book evaluates the changes that have occurred, especially in light of the ongoing global economic crisis. mutually benefi-cial rentier arrangements have guided the Gcc coun-tries formation of oil-based economies and labor rela-tions in the past, but will this necessarily be the case in the future? this book addresses key issues including discussion on the future demographic aspects of the Gcc; the feasibility of establishing a Gcc monetary union; the effects of rentierism on state autonomy; and analysis of sovereign wealth funds and islamic banking models.

the politiCAl eConomY of the perSiAn gulf mehrAn kAmrAvA (eD.)

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tArAk bArkAwi is senior lecturer at the centre of international studies, university of cambridge. He specialises in the study of war, armed forces and society with a focus on conflict between the West and the global south. He is author of Glo-balization and War and many scholarly articles. With shane brighton, he is co-editor of the criti-cal War studies series, also published by Hurst keith StAnSki is a phd candidate in politics and international relations at the university of oxford.He is a Visiting scholar with the afghanistan re-gional project at new York university’s center on international cooperation

‘a wonderful and very serious contribution to theliterature on war. its engagement with orientalismis wonderful, thought-provoking and original.’— Dr Laleh Khalili, Senior Lecturer in Politics of theMiddle East and Research Tutor, School of Orientaland African Studies, University of London

While the concept of orientalism has long been associated with war, yet there is no systematic ex-ploration of the place of orientalism in war and of war in orientalism. orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully un-derstood in terms of a distinction between ‘West’ and ‘east’ from the Greek and persian Wars onwards. it is also about an institutionalised community of experts who represent with authority this world of east and West, as for example in media and policy discussions of the islamic sources of terrorism.

the papers in this volume, which include chapters by bruce cumings, susan jeffords, and john mowitt among others, explore three dimensions of the rela-tions between orientalism and war. the first con-cerns the representations of ‘self’ and ‘other’ that mark the participation of orientalism in war and which, for example, suffuse media coverage of the War on terror. second are the ways in which war is productive of orientalisms. it is in and through vio-lent conflict that various Western and eastern identities are defined and come to be taken for granted. the third is about the inverse relation: how orientalisms amount to acts of war. by redefining politics and identities in such a way as to require a West that brings order to an unstable, violent east, orientalism is productive of war. patrick porter closes the volume in an afterword about the themes explored in these papers and questions for further reflection.

orientAliSm AnD wAr tArAk bArkAwi AnD keith StAnSki (eDS)

Orientalism and War

Tarak Barkawi & Keith Stanski (Editors)

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mehrAn kAmrAvA is the director of the center for international and regional studies at Georgetown university in Qatar. He is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. He has also edited The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity, and, with manochehr dorraj, Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic.

‘a top flight collection of essays on one of the most controversial and sensitive topics in both middle east politics and studies of nuclear proliferation in gen-eral. … provides a great overview of how the current situation has come about, and how regional actors are likely to press ahead in the medium and long-term future. a solid multidisciplinary investigation into a key global issue.’ — Christopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics at Durham University

the nuclear age is coming to the middle east. under-standing the scope and motivations for this develop-ment and its implications for global security is es-sential. the last decade has witnessed an explosion of popular and scholarly attention focussed on nu-clear issues around the globe and especially in the middle east. these studies fall into one of four gen-eral categories. they tend to focus either on the se-curity and military aspects of nuclear weapons, or on the sources and mechanisms for proliferation and means of reversing it, or nuclear energy, or the logics driving state policymakers toward adopting the nuclear option. The Nuclear Question in the Middle East is the first book of its kind to combine thematic and theoretical discussions regarding nuclear weap-ons and nuclear energy with case studies from across the region.

What are the key domestic drivers of nuclear be-haviour and decision-making in the middle east? How are the states of the Gulf cooperation council seek-ing to employ nuclear energy to further guarantee and expedite their hyper-growth of recent decades? are there ideal models emerging in this regard that others might emulate in the foreseeable future, and, if so, what consequences is this development likely to have for other civilian nuclear aspirants? these region-wide themes form the backdrop against which specific case studies are examined.

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migrAnt lAbour in the perSiAn gulf mehrAn kAmrAvA AnD ZAhrA bAbAr (eDS)

‘an excellent reader on the sensitive and often thorny issue of labour migration in the Gulf states. … the book has great originality and will make an important contribution not only to Gulf studies, but to migration studies in general, and perhaps even scholars of international political economy.’ — Christopher Davidson, author of Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond and Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies.

the phenomenal growth of the countries of the persian Gulf over the last two decades or so has been made possible through the labour of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers of all stripes and backgrounds from all over the world. in some coun-tries of the persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers. unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies man-aging the armies of migrant labourers employed in their countries, and there are equally fundamental social, cultural, and economic consequences in-volved as well. despite the pervasive and far-reaching nature of the phenomenon, to date there have not been any comprehensive, easily accessible studies of labour migration in the persian Gulf.

Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf is a multi-disci-plinary examination of the manifold causes, nature, processes, and consequences of labour migration into the persian Gulf. it critically analyses the effects of migration for native communities, looking at the types and functions of informal — and at times formal — bi-national and multinational networks that emerge from and in turn sustain migration patterns over time, the role and functions of recruit-ment agencies, and the values, behaviours, and plans of migrants workers prior to and after setting off for the persian Gulf.

mehrAn kAmrAvA is the director of the center for international and regional studies at Georgetown university in Qatar. He is the author of a number of journal articles and books, including, most recently, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War, and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. He has also edited The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity, and, with manochehr dorraj, Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic.ZAhrA bAbAr is project manager at the center for international and regional studies of Georgetown university’s school of foreign service in Qatar. Her cur-rent research interests lie in gender and development, persian Gulf migration policy, and Gcc integration.




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Deep DAttA-rAY is a leader writer and foreign policy analyst with the Times of India, new delhi.

‘the strength of the book is its in-depth discussion of the complexities of a major third World foreign min-istry outside the “Western triad of anarchy-modernity-civilization.” … what sets it apart from most other studies is the way in which the voices of indian foreign service officers interviewed as part of the author’s research bring the discussion to life. … a rich, subtle and instructive study.’ — William Maley, Director, Asia-Pacific College of Diplo-macy School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Australian National Uni-versity

diplomacy is conventionally understood as an authen-tic european invention which was internationalised during colonialism. for indians, the moment of colo-nial liberation was a false dawn because the colonised had internalised a european logic and performed european practices. implicit in such a reading is the enduring centrality of europe to understanding in-dian diplomacy. this eurocentric discourse renders two possibilities impossible: that diplomacy may have indian origins and that they offer un-theorised poten-tialities.

abandoning this eurocentric model of diplomacy, deep datta-ray recognises the legitimacy of inde-pendent indian diplomacy and brings new practices He creates a conceptual space for indian diplomacy to exist, forefronting civilisational analysis and its focus on continuities, but refraining from devaluing trans-formational change.

the mAking of moDern inDiAn DiplomACY a CriTique of euroCenTrism

Deep DAttA-rAY

The Making of Modern indian

diploMacy

deep datta-ray

A Critique of Eurocentrism

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DiviDeD we governThe paradoxes of power in ConTemporary indian demoCraCy

SAnJAY rupAreliA

sanjay ruparelia confronts one of the most striking developments in modern indian politics: the increas-ing influence of communist, regional, and lower caste-orientated socialist parties on politics since the late 1980s. in particular he traces these their at-tempts to construct a progressive ‘third force’ vis-à-vis the historically dominant indian national con-gress and Hindu nationalist bharatiya janata party (bjp), and the subsequent decline of the broader indian left as a collective political power. ruparelia develops an original theoretical argument, deploy-ing an innovative conceptual grammar of institu-tions, power, and judgment to explain the vicissi-tudes of the contemporary indian left over the past two decades.

Divided We Govern is a fine-grained analytic narra-tive to explain the vagaries of power-sharing in contemporary indian democracy. it draws together a variety of tools and resources to create a dynamic causal account of multiparty governments and their function — only partly captured by many scholarly analyses and the theories on which they rely. ru-parelia’s narrative comprises information gathered from newspapers and periodicals, party manifestoes, and government documents; original statistical analyses of official electoral data and national elec-tion surveys; and the rare testimonies of senior party leaders, high-ranking government officials, and seasoned political journalists, obtained through dozens of in-depth interviews and intensive field-work.

SAnJAY rupAreliA is assistant professor of po-litical science, the new school for social research, new York and author of Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?

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AnDrei pippiDi is emeritus chair of medieval History at the university of bucharest, romania.

‘this one of he most fascinating scholarly works that i have ever read. the author’s cultural knowledge is enormous, based on research into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript manuscripts as well as sources in ten languages. pippidi provides a broad and clear analysis of how ‘europe’ saw, and was af-fected by, the long-enduring ottoman empire.’— Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, author, A History of the Balkans

How the great minds of the West formed an image of the ottoman empire and of eastern europe in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intel-lectual foundations of this construction, are the principal themes of pippidi’s pathbreaking book. Key protagonists in these debates included erasmus, Luther and machiavelli. today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel, and direct contact with the ottoman empire was scarce or non-existent. nor were they well disposed to its predeces-sor, the byzantine empire, whose fall presented them with an intellectual conundrum: how were they to explain the irresistible advance of the ottomans across the balkans and the inability of christian eu-rope to hold the line? they also felt compelled to incorporate this significant new threat into their vi-sion of a world order, to rationalise it, to unravel its origins. these discussions spawned a common market of ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-tury, as europeans debated and represented the ottoman threat. readers of this book will find many echoes in pippidi’s analysis of today’s debates about the relationship of turkey with europe and the strug-gle to accommodate the descendants of the otto-mans in our midst.

viSionS of the ottomAn worlD in renAiSSAnCe europe

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Andrei PiPPidi

Visions of the ottoman World in renaissance europe

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‘aims to provide a comprehensive study of reform attempts in Greece in a wide range of policy areas, with a theoretical underpinning. the list of authors includes some of the best experts on Greece. … this book is extremely topical and it will remain so for some time.’ — Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission and Jean Monnet Professor of European Organisation, Univer-sity of Athens.

ever since Greece’s 1974 transition to democracy there has been constant talk of reforms. major changes in its economy, society and polity have attempted to bring Greek institutions and policies in line with more developed West european coun-tries. some reforms have come to fruition (creation of the nHs, eurozone entry, banking liberalisation, some privatisations), others have recurred over the years (educational reform), while others have been spasmodic and elusive (pension and civil service reforms). the Greek malaise, widely felt and discussed in the country, has intensified the need for yet further reforms, yet attempts to introduce them has also fuelled systematic resistance from organised interest groups, which has led to a broadly perceived sense of inertia and stagnation, or at least truncated progress. this book sets out the background to Greece’s current political and eco-nomic crisis, examining its three decades of stop-start reforms and their political and institutional consequences.

from StAgnAtion to forCeD ADJuStment reforms in greeCe, 1974-2010

StAthiS kAlYvAS, george pAgoulAtoS AnD hAriDimoS tSoukAS (eDS)

StAthiS n. kAlYvAS is arnold Wolfers professor of po-litical science and director of the program on order, conflict, and Violence. He is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (2006) and The Rise of Christian De-mocracy in Europe (1996).george pAgoulAtoS is associate professor of politics at the department of international & european eco-nomic studies, athens university of economics & business and Visiting professor at the college of europe in bruges.hAriDimoS tSoukAS holds the columbia shipping company chair of organization and management at the university of cyprus, and is professor of organization studies at Warwick business school, university of War-wick. He is editor-in-chief of Organization Studies, a eu-ropean management journal.“

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foulAth hADiD was educated at Victoria college, alexandria, and christ ’s college, cambridge and is now an Honorary fellow of st antony’s college, university of oxford. He edit-ed his father’s memoir, The Struggle for Democra-cy in Iraq, and has published articles on democra-cy in the middle east.

in several arab countries — iraq, egypt, syria and Leb-anon — an arab spring, or ‘arab awakening’, as it was termed, erupted over a century ago, foreshadow-ing the events of 2011 in the middle east.

in 1920, a massive uprising took place against british occupation of mesopotamia. this initiated a struggle for democracy that pitted nationalist lead-ers against the british, their local political allies and a newly-installed monarchy.

Iraq’s Democratic Moment is the story of that long and passionate struggle of the iraqi peo-ple to achieve the liberal democracy promised them by the constitution of their newly-created country. in 1936, a coup d’etat brought the nationalist forc-es to power amid great public jubilation, only for the coup to fail when its leaders fell out among them-selves. in 1941, the iraqi army went to war with the british for violating the terms of the anglo- iraqi treaty. the iraqis lost the war, and as a result, had to endure british military occupation for the next five years. in 1946, political parties were al-lowed a certain degree of freedom, but the oppor-tunity was thwarted as the regime failed to deliver on the democratic reforms promised. further op-portunities presented themselves, especially in 1948, when a massive uprising known as al-Wathba forced the cancellation of the ports-mouth treaty. in 1952, the iraqi intifada brought more pressure to bear on the regime to introduce the political reforms that the iraqi peo-ple were clamouring for. on both these two occa-sions, the ruling regime failed yet again to imple-ment free elections and parliamentary democracy.

perhaps the best opportunity of all was presented by the 1958 revolution. this ended with the army retaining power and the political parties col-lapsing in disarray. the failure of the revolution and the brutal authoritarian rule that fol-lowed dashed the country’s hopes for the democ-racy that it had so long struggled and sacrificed for, but which it has yet to achieve.

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the DYnAmiCS of Sunni-ShiA relAtionShipS doCTrine, TransnaTionalism, inTelleCTuals and The media

brigitte mAréChAl AnD SAmi Zemni (eDS)

Brigitte Maréchal and SaMi ZeMni editorS

Doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals anD the meDia

the dynaMicSof Sunni-ShiarelationShipS

before the immense changes of the 2011 ‘arab spring’, it was sunni-shia sectarian rivalry that preoccupied most political analyses of the middle east. the growing tensions and occasional clashes between believers in the two main strands of islam were major concerns. upheavals within the shia sphere of influence had altered the relationship: the iranian revolution of 1979 changed the politics of iranian shiism, and impacted on shia communities regionally, while the 2003 anglo-american invasion of iraq initiated a new phase of tension in sunni-shia relations. the spectre of a sectarian war in iraq, a diplomatic and military offensive against the Leba-nese Hezbollah and a potentially nuclear armed iran (along with tehran’s support for Hamas) prompt-ed King abdallah ii of jordan to warn of an emerging ‘shia crescent’. However, away from such grand geopolitical gestures, sunni-shia relations are being rearticulated through an array of local, regional and global connections.

this book presents wide-ranging and up-to-date research that sheds light on the political, socio-logical and ideological processes that are affecting the dynamics within, as well as the relationships between, the shia and sunni worlds. among the themes discussed are the ideological and doctrinal evolutions that are taking place, the contextualisa-tion of the main protagonists’ political practices, transnational networks, and the role of intellectuals, religious scholars and the media in shaping and informing this dynamic relationship.

SAmi Zemni is professor of political and social sci-ences at the centre for third World studies, Ghent university (belgium) where he leads the middle east and north africa research Groupbrigitte mAréChAl is professor in the socio-anthropology of religion, catholic university of Leuven. she is also director of cismoc (centre inter-disciplinaire d’etudes de l’islam dans le monde contemporain).

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John M. Willis

Cartographies of the Yemeni Past

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Unmaking North and South revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen’s north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, and religious reform in the indian ocean arena. the study is centered on the forma-tion of the british aden protectorate and the zaydi-shiite imamate of the Hamid al-din family in the period between 1857 and 1934. focusing on the british creation of a series of “native states” on the model of princely india in the Yemeni south and imam Yahya Hamid al-din’s formation of a hybrid state based on ottoman state form and sunni re-formist ideology in the north, the book demon-strates the extent to which Yemen’s modern his-tory was rooted both in the structures of the british raj and the intellectual debates of the greater sunni muslim world.

john Willis uses a variety of case studies dealing with imperial state ritual, arms smuggling, cartog-raphy and colonial ethnography, debates over the nature of the islamic polity, and an undeclared war between the british and the Yemeni imamate in order to re-center the history of Yemen in a trans-regional context. moving deftly between narratives of the colonial, local, modern, and islamic, Willis questions the historical inevitability of the post-colonial Yemeni nation and suggests other modes of narrating Yemen’s contested past.

John m. williS is assistant professor of History at the university of colorado, boulder.

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CitY of SolDierSa year of life, deaTh and survival in afghanisTan

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behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the taliban with flip-charts and pens, not guns? in her account of sixteen months in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah, working for the uK-led provincial reconstruction team, Kate fearon records everyday life on the frontline. amidst the violence she unearths extraordinary stories of how ordinary afghans live and what they think, both inside and outside the walls of military bases.

from the thrills and risks of getting there to exploring Helmand and its history this book follows the author’s daily life she gets to know the people behind the war. she learns pashto, visits the districts, meets the us marines, observes elections and evades suspected suicide bombers. she describes working with the tribal elders on informal justice and policing issues, and building local democracy with them. she also listens to the musings of young men on marriage (and nightclubs), discovers what afghan women really think of their burquas, and discusses poppy growing, pornography, forbidden love notes, drinking and dancing.

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more thAn CowboYS Travels Through The hisTory of The ameriCan wesT

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‘royal tourist visits the colonies’ was the local headline. in her Vc-10, the Queen had flown into the small town of sheridan in Wyoming. first, she took an extended walkabout along main street and then she holidayed for several days on a friend’s ranch in the shadow of the big Horn mountain.

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Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. this will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-saharan africa and possibly the world’s third largest city. this phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady turbulence, especially as it only took on the form of a coherent urban entity in the eighteenth century. after nigeria’s independence Lagos remained both trading hub and, for thirty years, a federal capital and political vortex. now its driving sense of ‘can-do’, its outreach and vitality, make it a fulcrum and a channel for commercial and cultural talent.

Kaye Whiteman explores a city that has constantly re-invented itself, from the first settlement on an uninhabited island to the creation of the port in the early years of the twentieth century. Lagos is still defined by its curious network of islands and lagoons, where erosion and reclamation lead to a permanently shifting topography, but history has thrust it into the role of a burgeoning mega-city, overcoming all nature’s obstacles. the city’s melting-pot has fertilised a unique literary and artistic flowering that is only now beginning to be appreciated by a world that has only seen slums and chaos.

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in 1867 the Daily Alta California commissioned mark twain to cover the story of the world’s first luxury cruise, a six-month round tour to the Holy Land from new York on board the Quaker City, an ex-civil War mississippi side-wheel paddle steamer. the captain, crew and passengers were highly respectable presbyterian christians on a mission; the islamic Holy Land was under loosening ottoman control. the interchangeable infidels and zealots saw mark twain as a distracting influence, and he saw them as wonderful source material — manna from heaven — for comments on the folly of the human condition. the resultant The Innocents Abroad was his bestselling book in his lifetime and is still regarded as a classic of travel writing and a masterpiece of satire on political and religious excess.

ian strathcarron follows mark twain and his caravanserai as it sways across the Holy Land and the two writers’ contrasting adventures and observations are told in Innocence and War.

twain’s pilgrims landed in beirut and went on to baalbec and damascus. they then headed south through the Golan Heights, the Galilee and nazareth then finally on to jerusalem, jericho, the dead sea, bethlehem and jaffa. strathcarron follows their exact route though the countries that are now Lebanon, syria, israel and the West bank — with diplomatic diversions by sea on the writer’s yacht Vasco da Gama, where needed.

together they meet the tribes and tribulations of the Holy Land, where the religious is political and the political is religious, where natural beauty meets man-made squalor, where hope and despair hang from the same tree and where trouble is always close at hand. travel was troublesome then and it is troublesome

now. troublemakers and troubleshooters vie for supremacy. both protagonists suffer for their troubles — and only sometimes laugh it off.

lorD StrAthCArron is an author and adven-turer who lives on his yacht Vasco da Gama, writing historical travel books and generally trying to stay out of trouble. more on: www.strathcarrons-ahoy.com

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the reality of marseille, with its secret life and scarred beauty, has little in common with its sulphurous reputation. its inhabitants, who like to keep themselves and their city’s true character to themselves, prefer it that way. a taste for independence has been part of the city’s nature and history from the beginnings 2,600 years ago; since then it has only been part of france for the past 600, and for much of that time unwillingly. ringed on three sides by steep hills and by the sea on the fourth, marseille resembles an island, and soon gives to incoming migrants a marseillais identity, separating them both from their multiple origins and from the french of the surrounding mainland.

founded as a Greek trading station, the city has traded always, favouring the transit of goods by sea and land over industrialisation; as a result the twentieth-century recession of sea traffic and partial closure of the docks can make marseille appear neglected, dishevelled, and under-employed as a great port and historical centre. the appearance is deceptive; marseille is a ceaselessly changing and culturally ever-creative fusion of peoples — rich and poor, black, brown and white, a population, according to the novelist blaise cendrars, that remains ‘insolent, happy to be alive, and more independent than ever’. the Vieux-port into which the first Greek settlers rowed their fifty-oared ships is still the vital centre of the city and even if less vibrantly active than in the days of sail, it is here that the sense of the living marseille can be grasped. moreover, the euroméditerranée project and the naming of marseille as cultural capital of europe in 2013 have together brought in massive capital transfusions to a process of urban rehabilitation which is continuing.

david crackanthorpe explores the striking architecture of marseille’s monuments, the remains of Greek and roman docks and wall, the islands of the gulf and the magnificent coast, the city’s distinctive language, food and popular culture. With all the disfigurements it has suffered, marseille remains one of the world’s most unique cities and its site among the most splendid.

DAviD CrACkAnthorpe is the author of several novels. He lives in the south of france.

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wAlking the hexAgonan esCape around franCe on fooT

terrY CuDbirD

Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around france? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home?

in this fascinating book terry cudbird reveals the obsession which is long distance walking — the intoxicating freedom to go where you want, the escape from the complications and paraphernalia of everyday life, the unpredictable encounters. His itinerary covered the six sides of the french hexagon. in a year’s walking he passed through the pyrenees, the Languedoc, provence, the alps, the jura, alsace, Lorraine, picardy, normandy, brittany and aquitaine. en route he discovered the astonishing variety of france’s regions; their culture, history, languages, architecture and food. He passed through cities and hamlets, idyllic mountains and bleak plains, the heat of Le midi and the cold of Le nord.

the author relates the highs and lows of a sometimes gruelling trek: the dramatic changes in landscape, the unexpected acts of kindness but also the guard dogs, snorers in hikers’ refuges, storms, man-eating insects, blisters, exhausted limbs, lack of water and a rucksack which was always too heavy. most important, he met hundreds of french people, many with an unusual outlook on life and interesting stories to tell: hermits, hippies, pilgrims, monks and farmers to name but a few. He made some lasting friends.

terry cudbird’s journey is rich in incident and observation. it is also, in part, the story of an individual coming to terms with his parents’ old age and growing dementia. through walking he finds not only a source of endless new horizons but also the means of accepting the past and its loss.

this book will be of interest to walkers, lovers of france and anyone who has ever dreamt of encountering real adventures not far from home.

terrY CuDbirD studied history at cambridge and french History at university college London and in france. He has enjoyed long distance walk-ing all his life. His website www.walkingaround-france.com describes his route in detail and has attracted much interest in the uK and abroad. this is his first book.

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John bull

the peak district was britain’s first national park and the ‘breathing space’ for people in the great cities of the industrial north. prehistoric man built stone circles at stanton-in-the-moor and arbor Low and the romans had garrisons here, but for many centuries the region was regarded as a ‘howling wilderness’, exploited by its aristocratic landlords for hunting, sheep-raising, lead-mining and the stone used to build great houses such as chatsworth and Haddon Hall and ancient parish churches in tideswell and bakewell.

the river dove was the inspiration for charles cotton’s continuation of the Compleat Angler and the peak’s rivers turned the wheels that drove the country’s earliest textile mills. Later, its water supplied the needs of the new cities through reservoirs at Longdendale and derwent. soon the peak district was ‘discovered’ by writers and travellers seeking an unspoilt refuge from urban life. as railways made the area more accessible, demands by walkers and climbers for greater access to the moors led to historic clashes such as the mass trespass of the 1930s.

john bull explores the culture and history of the two landscapes of the dark and White peak, which annually attract millions of visitors seeking tranquillity, spectacular beauty and a chance to visit an area where ancient traditions and cultural distinctiveness live on.

roCkS AnD wAter: spectacular scenery and wild moorland; caverns and chasms; mines and quarries; rain, rivers and curative spa waters.

literArY eChoeS: chatsworth and jane austen’s ‘pemberley’; romantic and gothic fiction from charlotte brontë and conan doyle to Hilary mantel.

Struggle AnD ChAnge: mill owners, child labour and factory reform; carpenter and ruskin; radicals and nonconformists: Wesley, ewan maccoll and the clarion cycling and rambling clubs.

John bull lived in Hayfield and Glossop in the High peak for thirty years. He was a member of the peak national park authority and chaired its plan-ning committee between 1997 and 2004.

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the blACk CArib wArS freedom, survival and The making of The garifuna

ChriStopher tAYlor

‘both engagingly written and extremely well-researched, this book offers the fullest historical account of Vincentian history during the eighteenth century, based on archival sources that no one else has accessed.’ peter Hulme, author of Wild Majesty

the Garifuna people today live all along the caribbean littoral of central america, from belize, through Guatemala and Honduras down to nicaragua, and also in some of the biggest cities of the united states. for more than two hundred years they have preserved their unique culture and language — the direct descendant of that spoken in the islands at the time of columbus. all of them, however, trace their origin back to the island of st. Vincent — Youroumaÿn in their own language — where shipwrecked and runaway slaves joined together with the local carib indians to form a distinct society, known to the european colonists as the black caribs.

relations with the french veered between conflict and cooperation but when a deal struck in paris in 1763 ceded the island to britain, the stage was set for the black caribs’ final, desperate struggle to preserve their freedom. What followed was a series of bloody wars punctuated by periods of wary coexistence in which a small but determined people stood up to the might of the british empire.

the product of extensive original research in st. Vincent, the united Kingdom and france, The Black Carib Wars combines a compelling narrative with new details of the black caribs’ fight to stay free. it draws in characters such as daniel defoe, the first man to describe an eruption of st. Vincent’s volcano, and captain bligh, who belatedly brought tahitian breadfruit to the island after his mission was interrupted by the mutiny on the bounty. it looks at who the black caribs were, why they fought so tenaciously and how leaders such as tourouya, bigot and chatoyer managed to marshal a fiercely individualistic society against the external threat.

ChriStopher tAYlor is a writer and journalist working for the Guardian. He has travelled widely in Latin america and the caribbean and is the au-thor of The Beautiful Game: A Journey Through Latin American Football (1998).

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in the wake of the revolutions in france and Haiti, the black caribs fought their last battle, ending in agonising defeat and decimation in british captivity. The Black Carib Wars recounts how the survivors were shipped off to the faraway shores of central america and what became of those who escaped deportation from st. Vincent.

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bArrY hAtton

‘enthralling... a hugely affectionate picture of the everyday lives of ordinary Kosovans and a wonderful evocation of a place that most of us know so little about. food, above all honey, is the key that unlocks the doors between cultures. and i have every intention of trying some of the recipes.’sophie Grigson

‘a sheer delight; a beguiling, bittersweet story of her lively love affair with a traditional world, as ancient as apiculture, in transition to new nationhood.’ The Times

‘Hatton clearly loves portugal and has written an engaging, often delightful history. Publishers Weekly

‘barry Hatton has written a lively and rigorous account of how a nation that is so often overlooked has come through disaster, dictatorship, revolution and economic mismanagement… The Portuguese is a must-read for first-timers wanting to know more about the country, but it is also a constant delight for those already well-versed in a fascinating nation.’ Iberosphere

the iSle of wight, portSmouth AnD the Solent a CulTural hisTory

mArk bArDell

the isle of Wight is england’s largest island, but its diamond shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the solent, with its own local roadsteads and a unique double tidal system. this geography has shaped the area’s history. southampton’s docks, located on southampton Water to the north-west, had become the country’s largest civilian port by the mid-twentieth century. just north-east across the stretch of water called spithead is the island city of portsmouth with its ideal natural harbour. this was an internationally important port for over three hundred years, while the whole area has been a place of naval significance on the world stage for even longer.

from when Queen Victoria bought osborne House in 1845 and had it remodelled as an italianate mansion the isle of Wight became a hub of Victorian society. the poet Laureate alfred Lord tennyson lived at freshwater, while charles swinburne grew up at bonchurch, a place where charles dickens vacationed. charles darwin began his Origin of Species here, and Karl marx came to restore his health; it was the expanding rail network that brought them there.

mark bardell explores the isle of Wight and portsmouth and the surrounding maritime landscapes, revealing unexpected historical and literary associations.

mAritime legACY: seaside resorts and piers; Queen Victoria’s bathing machine; tourism, festivals and cowes Week; the Titanic and Queen mary.

urbAn DeSign AnD ArChiteCture: military and naval imperatives; portsmouth dockyard and the solent forts; lighthouses and fortifications; Victorian mansions and the first garden suburb in southsea.

writerS AnD ArtiStS: portsmouth and rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells and arthur conan doyle; the isle of Wight and the young turner’s seascapes; j. d. fergusson and eric ravilious, war artists in portsmouth.

mArk bArDell is a local historian and the author of Portsmouth: History and Guide.

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eliZAbeth gowing’s translation of the biography of Yugoslavia’s longest-held political prisoner, adem demaçi, was recently published by rrokullia press. she is a regular columnist for Prishtina Insight newspaper and is currently working on Edith and I, a biography of the edwardian anthropologist and balkan traveller, edith durham.

bArrY hAtton has been a foreign correspondent in Lisbon for more than twenty years. He has previously co-authored a biography, in portuguese, of portugal’s first ever woman prime minister, maria de Lourdes pintasilgo.

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Afghan Way of War, The 34Afghanistan in Ink 16After the Sheikhs 1American Neoconservatism 35Arab Revolution, The 34arbabzadah, nushin 16arnold, matthew 9babar, zahra 22barkawi, tarak 20Beyond Swat 18bloom, mia 33bolt, neville 4Bombshell 33boubekeur, amel 35brown, Vahid 19Countering Al-Qaeda in London 33Critical Muslim 2datta-ray, deep 25

davidson, christopher 1, 37devji, faisal 36Divided We Govern 24doron, assa 5

drolet, jean-françois 35Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships, The 28ellis, stephen 32Enemy We Created, An 34filiu, jean-pierre 34Fountainhead of Jihad 19From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment 26 Giustozzi, antonio 17Great Indian Phonebook, The 5Green, nile 16Gypsy Menace, The 7Hadid, foulath 29Hayes, romain 36Hopkins, benjamin 18Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed 35Hungary 10Impossible Indian, The 36Iraq’s Democratic Moment 29ishaqzadeh, mohammed 17jeffrey, robin 5johnson, rob 34Kalyvas, stathis 26Kamrava, mehran 21, 22, 23Kosova Liberation Army, The 11

Kuehn, felix 34, 37Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007 37Kwami, atta 37Lambert, robert 33Lefanu, sarah 8Lendvai, paul 10Leriche, matthew 9Lifeblood 32Louër, Laurence 14, 31Maghreb since 1800, The 13 magone, claire 35Making of Modern Indian Diplomacy, The 25maréchal, brigitte 28marsden, magnus 18Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf 22neuman, michael 35Nuclear Question in the Middle East, The 23omand, david 31Orientalism and War 20pagoulatos, George 26Pakistan 15pantucci, raffaello 33perry, alex 32pettifer, james 11pippidi, andrei 27Poetry of the Taliban 37Policing Afghanistan 17Political Economy of the Persian Gulf, The 21 Politics and Power in the Maghreb 12Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies 37rassler, don 19Revolt 6roy, olivier 35ruparelia, sanjay 24S is for Samora 8sardar, ziauddin 2Season of Rains 32Securing the State 31Shiism and Politics in the Middle East 14 South Sudan 9stanski, Keith 20starr, stephen 6stewart, michael 7Storming the World Stage 36strick van Linschoten, alex 34, 37Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany 36

talbot, ian 15tankel, stephen 36Transnational Shia Politics 31tsoukas, Haridimos 26Unmaking North and South 30Vikør, Knut s. 13Violent Image, The 4Visions of the Ottoman World in

Renaissance Europe 27‘We Love Death as You Love Life’

33Weissman, fabrice 35Whatever Happened to the Islamists? 35Who Killed Hammarskjöld? 32Williams, susan 32Willis, john m. 30Willis, michael j. 12Yassin-Kassab, robin 2zemni, sami 28

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bardell, mark 46Black Carib Wars, The 44bull, john 45City of Soldiers 39crackanthorpe, david 43cudbird, terry 42fearon, Kate 39Gowing, elizabeth 47Hatton, barry 47Innocence and War 40Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the Solent, The 46Lagos 41Marseille 43More than Cowboys 38Peak District, The 45Portuguese, The 47slessor, tim 38strathcarron, ian 40taylor, christopher 44Travels Through Blood and Honey 47Walking the Hexagon 42Whiteman, Kaye 41

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