Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787388255 ISBN 13: 9781787388253
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An engrossing look at the new frontier in AI, and how it will change war forever.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787388271 ISBN 13: 9781787388277
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, 'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' is a fresh and elegant history of British India.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787388077 ISBN 13: 9781787388079
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An intimate reflection on mixed identity shaped by cultural crossings.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787387771 ISBN 13: 9781787387775
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 178738795X ISBN 13: 9781787387959
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focusing on Putin's volunteer militants, Arutunyan's reportage covers the pro-Russian insurgency and the war it sparked in eastern Ukraine.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 178738781X ISBN 13: 9781787387812
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A moving exploration of belonging in a contested homeland, from a Palestinian writer and citizen of Israel.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787387143 ISBN 13: 9781787387140
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab uprisings, Tunisia charted a unique path that has earned it praise as 'a beacon of hope' in a troubled region. Since the 2011 revolution, it has embraced a new culture of democracy, based on pluralism, civilian rule and the peaceful transfer of power. Equally noteworthy are the country's burgeoning civil society, its various institutional reforms and its progressive new constitution, which upholds individual freedoms and champions women's rights. But in spite of these achievements, daunting challenges remain. Although Tunisia has succeeded in defusing many crises, its transition has been uneasy; its democracy is fragile and its future continues to be uncertain. As the country emerges from decades of authoritarian rule, it faces enormous political, social, economic and security challenges, which are undermining its peaceful evolution. It is this state of fragility that 'A Fledgling Democracy' seeks to capture. Focusing on the socio-political dynamics that have unfolded in this North African nation since the revolution, the contributors to this volume shed light on how Tunisia has navigated its first decade of democratic transition, and reflect on what the ongoing changes and challenges mean for the country today.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787388034 ISBN 13: 9781787388031
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A history of Iran's political underdevelopment, of how and why social movements emerged, and of how they blossomed into revolutions that ultimately betrayed their ideals.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787387984 ISBN 13: 9781787387980
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative account of the Turkish president's wars at home and abroad, and how each of these power games has shaped both policy and strategy.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787387925 ISBN 13: 9781787387928
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787386880 ISBN 13: 9781787386884
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack of adequate reform has upheld institutional weaknesses. This exploration of policing in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial capital, reveals many colonial continuities. Both civilian and military regimes continue to ensure the suppression of the policed via this institution, itself established to militarily subjugate and exploit in the interests of the ruling class. However, contemporary policing practice is not a simple product of its colonial heritage: it has also evolved to confront new challenges and political realities. Based on extensive fieldwork and around 200 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly 'postcolonial condition of policing'. Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order and ensuring national security. This is evident not only in spectacular displays of violence and malpractice, but also in police officers' routine work. Caught in the middle of the country's armed conflicts, their encounters with both state and society are a story of insecurity and uncertainty.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787384748 ISBN 13: 9781787384743
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When mass protests erupted in Algeria in 2019, on a scale unseen anywhere in the region since the Arab Spring, the outside world was taken by surprise. Algeria had been largely unaffected by the turmoil that engulfed its neighbours in 2011, and it was widely assumed that the population was too traumatised and cowed by the country's bloody civil war to take to the streets demanding change. Michael J. Willis offers an explanation of this unexpected development known as the Hirak Movement, examining the political and social changes that have occurred in Algeria since the 'dark decade' of the 1990s. He examines how the bitter civil conflict was brought to an end, and how a fresh political order was established following the 1999 election of a dynamic new leader, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Initially underwritten by revenue from Algeria's substantial hydrocarbons resources, this new order came to be undermined by falling oil prices, an ailing president, and a population determined to have its voice heard by an increasingly corrupt, out-of-touch and opaque national leadership. Exactly twenty years passed before Bouteflika's presidency was brought to an end by the Hirak protests--this book is an authoritative account of them.
Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1787388131 ISBN 13: 9781787388130
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a persuasive rethink of methodologies for true transitional justice in Yemen and for a truly post-conflict state, drawing on history, fieldwork and policy analysis.