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  • Saudi Arabia

    A Kingdom in Peril

    by Paul Aarts, Carolien Roelants ...
    The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom's will in the Arab world-particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

    by Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell ...
    The official spin on numerous government programs is flat-out bullshit, according to Jesse Ventura. In this incredible collection of actual government documents, Ventura, the ultimate non- partisan truth-seeker, proves it beyond any doubt. He and Dick Russell walk readers through 63 of the most incriminating programs to reveal what really happens behind the closed doors. In addition to providing ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Naming Names

    by Victor S. Navasky ...
    Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC from a longtime editor of The Nation and former Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review .Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and A... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The New Cold War

    How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

    by Edward Lucas ...
    Revised and updated with a new preface on the Crimean crisis______________________________________'An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin's Russia poses ... A useful appeal for vigilance' - Sunday Times'Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Wise up and stick together is the concluding message in Lucas's outstanding book' - Micha... ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • On Suicide Bombing

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"-a conceptual leap that struck Asad as problematic. Is there a "religiously-motivated terrorism?" If so, how does it differ from ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Networks of Rebellion

    Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse

    by Paul Staniland ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Insurgent cohesion is central to explaining patterns of violence, the effectiveness of counterinsurgency, and civil war outcomes. Cohesive insurgent groups produce more effective war-fighting forces and are more credible negotiators; organizational cohesion shapes both the duration of wars and their ultimate resolution. In Networks of Rebellion, Paul Staniland explains why insurgent leaders differ ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Psychology of Terrorism

    by John G. Horgan ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded.The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Arms and the People

    Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring

    Edited by Mike Gonzalez, Houman Barekat ...
    This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?Arms and the People explores the impact of social extremes on the solidarity within the state’s military, and on the changing loyalties of these soldiers. The authors ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Procurement

    Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter

    by Aaron Plamondon ...
    In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the Sea King maritime helicopter. The Liberals claimed the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. The incident drew public attention to the waste in Canada’s defence spending and to the under-equipped state of its military.Aaron Plamondon ties the bungled ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Beyond Religious Freedom

    The New Global Politics of Religion

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Media, Politics and the State

    Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

    Edited by Daniel Trottier, Christian Fuchs ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Maritime Security in Southeast Asia

    Edited by John Skogan, Kwa Chong Guan ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Series
    This book confronts both the maritime security challenges and responses. In Southeast Asia, maritime security has, over the last twenty years, taken on a much greater importance, due to the Law of the Sea convention, which has resulted in a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs).As well as traditional security threats to maritime security, there has also emerged a range of non ... Read more

    $65.99 USD