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New Directions in Peacebuilding EvaluationIn this landmark collection, the voices of pathmakers and innovators in peacebuilding evaluation are assembled to provide new direction for the field. Stock is taken of the development and challenges of engaging in the real-time learning that evaluation requires. Best practices for overcoming challenges...
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Rule and Resistance Beyond the Nation State: Contestation, Escalation, ExitRule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional governance, social movement studies only see instances of resistance....
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Rent and Its Discontents: A Century of Housing StruggleThe 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. With the decimation of...
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The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Popular Culture and Russia's Foreign PolicyIn the course of Vladimir Putin's third presidential term, many of the doctrines and ideas associated with Eurasianism have moved to the center of public political discourses in Russia. Eurasianism, both Russian and non-Russian, is politically active --influential and contested-- in debates about identity,...
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Territory Beyond TerraAt the root of our understanding of territory is the concept of terra--land--a surface of fixed points with stable features that can be calculated, categorised, and controlled. But what of the many spaces on Earth that defy this simplistic characterisation: Oceans in which 'places'...
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Democracy Hacked: How Technology Is Destabilising Global PoliticsTechnology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting people, the social...
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Democracy Hacked: Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital AgeIn the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes, and turn social networks into battlefields. Facebook, Google and Twitter - where our politics now takes place - have lost control...
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Justice: A Beginner's GuideIn this highly topical introduction, Professor Raymond Wacks explains and evaluates the leading theories of justice that have shaped our societies and their legislative and judicial systems, and explores the extent to which fundamental notions like fairness, equality and freedom are reflected in contemporary...
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May at TenTheresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. Written by one of Britain's leading political and social commentators, May at 10 describes how Theresa May arrived in Downing Street with the clearest, yet toughest, agenda of any...
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'I Still Find That Offensive!'How did we become so thin-skinned? In this new and updated edition of her acclaimed polemic I Find That Offensive Claire Fox addresses head on the possible causes of what is fast becoming known as 'Generation Snowflake' in a rallying cry to toughen up,...
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Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President....
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The Sun Tyrant: A Nightmare Called North KoreaWhen JP Floru tags along with three friends running the marathon in Pyongyang, little could have prepared him for what he witnessed.Shocking and scary, The Sun Tyrant uncovers the oddities and tragedies at the heart of the world's most secretive regime, showing what happens...
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Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy - From Devaluation to BrexitIn this lively and wide-ranging account, journalist William Keegan takes us on a tumultuous journey through the past fifty years of our economic history - and looks ahead to explain why Brexit poses the biggest existential threat the British economy has yet faced. Peppered...
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We Are Arrested: A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish PrisonCan D ndar is a very courageous journalist. --Orhan PamukIn November 2015, Can D ndar, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, was arrested on charges of divulging state secrets and espionage. Condemned and arraigned by the President himself, D ndar's crime was informing...
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Margaret Thatcher the Honorary Jew: How Britain's Jews Helped Shape the Iron Lady and Her BeliefsJournalist Robert Philpot explores the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Britain's Jewish community, demonstrating that her regard did not come simply from representing a constituency with more Jewish voters than any other, but one that stretched back to her childhood. She saw her own...
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Hello, Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News 'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical Magazine Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals...
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The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and RiskTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the world stage. But what lies beneath the facade of...
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Split-Ticket Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: A Theoretical and Methodological InvestigationWhy do voters support different parties at elections when given the opportunity of casting two votes to elect the same representative body? This book relaxes common assumptions in the voting behaviour literature to provide an in-depth study of split-ticket voting across ten established and...
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People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War EraThis widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout, attention is placed on the interplay of threats and vulnerabilities, the policy...
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Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to SerfdomFor years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools...
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