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Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink

by John Campbell

In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbell explores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very...


Foreign Relations of the PRC: The Legacies and Constraints of China's International Politics since 1949

by Robert G. Sutter

This cogent but comprehensive book examines the international relations of the People’s Republic of China since its founding in 1949. Noted scholar Robert G. Sutter provides a balanced assessment of the country’s...


Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy

by Ohannes Geukjian

This book examines the underlying factors of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the South Caucasus from 1905 to 1994, and explores the ways in which issues of ethnicity and nationalism contributed to that conflict....


Global and Regional Problems: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study

by Pami Aalto & Vilho Harle

Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems...


Sustainable Development in the USA

by Jean-Marc Zaninetti

After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world. Nowadays, this expansionist model has reached...


Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis

by Brahma Chellaney

This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security. Writing in a direct, non-technical, and engaging style, Brahma Chellaney...


Sport Management in the Middle East: A Case Study Analysis

by Mohammed Ben Sulayem, Sean O'Connor & David Hassan

The Middle East is one of the fastest growing and significant markets in world sport, as well as a powerful source of investment in sport. Bids for the Olympics in 2020 and the soccer World Cup in 2022, as well...


Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India: I Can Change

by Aditi Mitra

Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India: I Can Change uses data collected from educated, urban, middle and upper-class women at the forefront of women’s empowerment movements as volunteers...


Libya: Continuity and Change

by Ronald Bruce St John

This book examines the socioeconomic and political development of Libya from earliest times to the present, concentrating in particular on the four decades of revolutionary rule which began in 1969. Focusing...


The Social Life of the Hebrews (Routledge Revivals)

by Edward Day

First published in 1901, this study of the social life of the Hebrews considers both the time of the judges and the time of the monarchy. Written in a popularly scientific style, designed to appeal to students...


Seafaring and the Jews

by Nadav Kashtan

This collection studies Jewish involvement in seafaring from Biblical, through Greco-Roman, Medieval and Early Modern periods to the present. This broad historical perspective allows a closer look at various...


Egypt's Incomplete Revolution: Lutfi al-Khuli and Nasser's Socialism in the 1960s

by Rami Ginat

The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli's contribution to the short-lived yet formidable success of Arab...


Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

by Issa J Boullata

This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments...


Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis

by Hussein Abdul-Raof

The Qur'an is read by millions of Muslims on a daily basis, yet there is no book available to the reader, Arab or non-Arab, which provides a linguistic and rhetorical insight into Qur'anic discourse. This book...


Political Culture in Libya

by Amal S M Obeidi & Amal Obeidi

Few empirical studies of Arab countries have dealt with political culture and political socialisation or focused on people's beliefs, values, and attitudes towards the government or political leaders, mainly...


The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period

by Herbert Berg

The most important debate in Islamic origins is that of the reliability of the lists of transmitters (isnads) that are said to guarantee the authenticity of the materials to which they are attached. Many scholars...


The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal

by Yasin Dutton

If the Qur'an is the first written formulation of Islam in general, Malik's Muwatta' is arguably the first written formulation of the Islam-in-practice that becomes Islamic law. This book considers the methods...


In the Path of Allah: 'Umar, An Essay into the Nature of Charisma in Islam'

by John Ralph Willis

A West African Sufi and religious reformer (c.1794-1864), struggled to reconcile the temporal achievements of his jihad with his mystical calling. The fame of Shaykh Omar rested on his reputation as a worker...


Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

by Pamela Karimi

Examining Iran's recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in...


Navigating Perilous Waters: An Israeli Strategy for Peace and Security

by Ephraim Sneh

Israel is a Jewish state in a Muslim Middle East. How can it survive in that region? This book answers this question by analyzing the dangers and threats that Israel faces today. The book also highlights an...