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The fifth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in International Relations.

The fifth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in International Relations.

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective.

This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective.

Sweden has often been described as a democratic forerunner, with one of the world's most stable party systems and with a well-functioning parliamentary system.

Sweden has often been described as a democratic forerunner, with one of the world's most stable party systems and with a well-functioning parliamentary system.

An inside story of local, regional and global advertising in the Middle East.

An inside story of local, regional and global advertising in the Middle East.

A must read for anyone serious about the positive power of persuasion, from a leading behavioral change expert.

This is an in-depth explanation of why we need astrology in the modern world.

Hideout in the Apocalypse is about surveillance and the crushing of Australias larrikin culture.

Read with great interest and was very impressed by the level of research committed to the project.

What does it cost to follow Jesus?

Andre Trocme of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Andre Trocme of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

Personal letters and diaries provide an intimate view into the hearts and minds of a brother and sister who became martyrs in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II.

What is our understanding of Scotland's spiritual identity?

This book analyses the Muslim presence in France.

Hope and change were the keywords of President Barack Obamas 2008 campaign, and in his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he cited the evidence that hed deliveredfrom reversing the Great Recession, rebooting the auto industry, and unleashing the longest stretch of job creation in the nations history to winning marriage equality and securing the right to health insurance for another 20 million citizens.

From the First Gulf War to the present upheaval in Syria, the Kurdish question has been a crucial issue within the Middle East region and in international politics.

Polarized debates about 'Islam' and 'the West' are now so ubiquitous that it is easy to forget how damaging they can be.

The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis.

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime.

The conquest of Egypt by Islamic armies under the command of Amr ibn al-As in the seventh century transformed medieval Egyptian society.

The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions.

Christianity arose from the lands of biblical Palestine and, regardless of its twentieth century associations with the Arab-Israeli conflict, to Christians around the world it remains first and foremost the birthplace of Christianity.

In the wake of the protests that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, Islamist movements of varying political persuasions have risen to prominence.

The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands are pivotal to international security.

In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state.

The activities of pro-Israel pressure groups and lobbyists in the US are well-known.

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9.

How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy?

Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century.

What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to?

Why believe?

Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines.

From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

For many years Malise Ruthven has been at the forefront of discerning commentary on the Islamic world and its relations with the predominantly secularised and Christian societies of the West.

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age.

The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas.

We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board.

Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century.

In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalize and shock.

The term 'jihad' has come to be used as a byword for fanaticism and Islam's allegedly implacable hostility towards the West.

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World.