Network Theory and Violent Conflicts: Studies in Afghanistan and Lebanon
ISBN: 9783319413921 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a novel approach to understanding violence and violent conflict using complexity and network theories, borrowed from the natural sciences, together with social network analysis.
This book offers a novel approach to understanding violence and violent conflict using complexity and network theories, borrowed from the natural scie...
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469,06 zł |
China and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Strategic Partnership in a Changing World
ISBN: 9781498545020 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines China's relations with member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It highlights the depth of China's ties with the region bilaterally and multilaterally on a five-dimensional approach: political relations, trade relations, energy security, security cooperation, and cultural relations. Regarding each of these criteria, the GCC countries enjoy a strategic significance to China's national security, vital interests, territorial integrity, sovereignty, regime survival, and economic prosperity. China has been an integral part of the political developments on the Arabian Gulf...
This book examines China's relations with member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It highlights the depth of China's ties with the region bilat...
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506,33 zł |
How Iran Fuels Syria War: Details of the IRGC Command HQ and Key Officers in Syria
ISBN: 9781944942908 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the Iranian regime has effectively engaged in the military occupation of Syria by marshaling 70,000 forces, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and mercenaries from other countries into Syria; is paying monthly salaries to over 250,000 militias and agents to prolong the conflict; divided the country into 5 zones of conflict and establishing 18 command, logistics and operations centers. This book examines how the Iranian regime has effectively engaged in the military occupation of Syria by marshaling 70,000 forces, including the Is... |
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91,59 zł |
Beyond Cairo: US Engagement with the Muslim World
ISBN: 9781349343720 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The US's once-enthusiastic commitment to restore trustworthy relations with the Muslim world has dwindled considerably since Obama's 2009 Cairo speech. This book tackles Washington's lagging engagement with the Muslim world and provides a roadmap for how the US can use public diplomacy to re-engage it.
The US's once-enthusiastic commitment to restore trustworthy relations with the Muslim world has dwindled considerably since Obama's 2009 Cairo speech...
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195,42 zł |
Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath: 2011-2016
ISBN: 9781107133433 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppling the authoritarian Mubarak regime in less than three weeks. It was then co-opted by the Muslim Brotherhood through Egypt's first free and fair elections in 2012, which was in turn crushed in 2013 by a popularly supported military regime whose practices of repression negatively impacted the justice system and human rights. The problems facing the country and its people are daunting, particularly economic, demographic, and social pressures. The...
This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppl...
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501,48 zł |
Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath: 2011–2016
ISBN: 9781107589919 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppling the authoritarian Mubarak regime in less than three weeks. It was then co-opted by the Muslim Brotherhood through Egypt's first free and fair elections in 2012, which was in turn crushed in 2013 by a popularly supported military regime whose practices of repression negatively impacted the justice system and human rights. The problems facing the country and its people are daunting, particularly economic, demographic, and social pressures. The...
This book is about the Egyptian people's 2011 Revolution for freedom, justice, and human dignity, and its aftermath. The Revolution succeeded in toppl...
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141,99 zł |
Old Conflict, New War: Israel's Politics Toward the Palestinians
ISBN: 9781349439645 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada and focusing on the concept of a 'new war' that is an outgrowth of internal relations within Israel itself and the diversionary politics of its leadership.
The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the Oslo ...
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195,42 zł |
The True Dream: Indictment of the Shiite Clerics of Isfahan, an English Translation with Facing Persian Text
ISBN: 9781138223721 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911. Although its three authors hail from the clerical class, they criticize the arrogance, corruption and secularity of the Iranian ruling dynasty and clergy, taking Isfahan as their example. The work blends fact and fiction by summoning the prominent men of the city to account for themselves on the Day of Judgment. God speaks offstage, delivering withering judgements of their behaviour. The dream of the authors is a vision of an Iran governed by law, where justice... The True Dream is a Persian satirical drama set in Isfahan in the lead up to Iran s Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911. Although its three auth... |
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741,99 zł |
Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism
ISBN: 9781349291861 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist 'master narratives' and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine thirteen master narratives and explain how extremists use them to solidify their base, recruit new members, and motivate actions.
This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist 'master narratives' and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetor...
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195,42 zł |
Iran's Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism
ISBN: 9783319442266 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution. The ideals of social justice and participatory democracy that galvanized a resilient nation in 1979 have been abandoned as an avaricious ruling elite has privatized the economy, abandoned social programs and subsidy payments for the poor, and suppressed the struggles of women, workers, students, and minorities for...
This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in ...
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390,87 zł |
Us Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Case for Continuity
ISBN: 9783319453262 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of US foreign policy in the Middle East using the theoretical framework of offensive realism and highlighting the role of geography and regional power distribution in guiding foreign policy. It argues that the US has been pursuing the same geostrategic interests from President Truman's policy of containment to President Obama's speak softly and carry a big stick policy, and contends that the US-Iran relationship has been largely characterized by continued cooperation due to shared geostrategic interests. The book highlights the continuity...
This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of US foreign policy in the Middle East using the theoretical framework of offensive realism an...
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390,87 zł |
The International Politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: The Original "Frozen Conflict" and European Security
ISBN: 9781137600059 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security.
This book frames the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in the context of European and international security.
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508,15 zł |
A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781349387113 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book transports the reader across the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea and provides a provocative view of the wars, peace, intrigues, and betrayals that have shaped the political geography of this important and volatile region. The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the eclipsing of the old Iranian-Soviet regime of the sea have given rise to new challenges for the regional actors and unprecedented opportunities for international players to tap into the area's enormous oil and gas resources, third in size only behind Siberia...
In a series of short stories that both inform and amuse, this book transports the reader across the windswept shores of the Caspian Sea and provides a...
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195,42 zł |
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Conflict Resolution to Conflict Management
ISBN: 9781349537389 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the September 2000 confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining the characteristics of a confrontation that developed into a protracted low-intensity conflict. Topics addressed include the strategies adopted by both sides, the reasons for the failure of moderation, and the phenomenon of unilateral disengagement.
This book focuses on the September 2000 confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, examining the characteristics of a confrontation that develop...
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195,42 zł |
The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending/Defining the Nation
ISBN: 9781349535286 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process.
This book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domest...
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195,42 zł |
Critical Issues Facing the Middle East: Security, Politics and Economics
ISBN: 9781349533770 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose to US strategy and policy. They examine the causes of profound economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of reform.
Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose ...
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195,42 zł |
The Shi'is of Jabal 'Amil and the New Lebanon: Community and Nation-State, 1918-1943
ISBN: 9781349531943 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tamara Chalabi highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. It also explores how Arab nationalism was transformed from an ideology of opposition and empowerment of marginal communities, into a tool for the assertion of political domination.
Tamara Chalabi highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. ...
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195,42 zł |
Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience
ISBN: 9781349528714 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A path breaking examination of the potentials and problems of nation building, with historical context and a focus on Afghanistan.
A path breaking examination of the potentials and problems of nation building, with historical context and a focus on Afghanistan.
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195,42 zł |
The Gold Standard Anchored in Islamic Finance
ISBN: 9781349503827 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Askari and Krichene provide a comprehensive background for recent international financial crises rapid expansion of interest-bearing debt and monetary expansion though the fractional reserve banking system. In this context, the authors provide an analysis of the experience and issues associated with international payments systems the various forms of the gold standard, the Bretton Woods system and the present system of flexible exchange rates. The authors go on to examine the case for fixed exchange rates (gold standard and other interesting variations) anchored in Islamic finance. The...
Askari and Krichene provide a comprehensive background for recent international financial crises rapid expansion of interest-bearing debt and monetary...
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195,42 zł |
Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
ISBN: 9781349468140 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation. The author compares four US-based case studies in which activists for and against BDS struggle over issues of identity, morality, legitimacy, and conceptions of "peace."
This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the I...
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390,87 zł |