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A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW Two leading authorities a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time collaborate on a landmark exam...

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A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Allison examines the phenomenon known as Thucydidess Trap, which is...

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Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the background to the American War of Independenc...

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Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administrations decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of Americas arsenal during the ...

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The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international...

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In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched expos of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially in the work of Alan Dershowit...

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From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott... An undercover agent must capture America's greatest traitor.Sam Capra and his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, are living a quiet life in Austin, Texas, from where Sam runs a collection of bars a...

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming ...

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'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internati...

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The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher

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This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters on Ontological security and (In)Security and ...

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Based on research spanning three continents and including, for the first time, the rebels' own archives, this study offers a landmark re-evaluation of one of the great anti-colonial struggles as well as a model of the new international history. It...

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A gripping and authoritative history of the Six Day War based on extensive research into new Arab, Israeli, Soviet, nad U.S. sources - published for the 35th anniversary of the conflict.

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An innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state How did ordinary people in the Ming dynasty (13681644) deal with the demands of the state? In The Art of Being Governed, Michael Sz...

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This book examines the United States militarys use of concepts from non-linear science, such as chaos and complexity theory, in its efforts to theorise information-age warfare. Over the past three decades, the US defence community has shown an inc...

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This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of...

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs To Know offers an accessible and balanced guide to the world's most intractable conflict. Covering the conflict from its origins through to the present day, Dov Waxman provides clear and concis...

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Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious a...

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This book proposes a normative framework specifically designed for the complex and legally uncertain time period between armed conflicts and peace. As such, it contributes both to the furthering of a jus post bellum framework, and to enhanced lega...

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A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller As taut as a fictional thriller Mail on Sunday Gripping, detailed and richly layered Guardian KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account o...

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'Pulse-pounding' Sinclair McKay | 'Truly masterful' Damien Lewis | 'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this?' Lindsey Hilsum The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the top-...

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"Andreas Malm har gjort en självständig nyproblematisering av imperialismens karaktär och dess orsaker som saknar motstycke såväl i Sverige som internationellt." (Aftonbladet) Som ett resultat av alliansen mellan kapitalet och militarisme...

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In the formation of the modern law of nations, peace treaties played a pivotal role. Many basic principles and rules that governed and still govern relations between states were introduced and elaborated in the great peace treaties from the Renais...

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The extent to which international human rights law continues to apply in situations of armed conflict or national emergency is often unclear. This book sets out how human rights law applies in situations of violence or upheaval, systematically cov...

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In February 2014, al-Qaida issued a statement that shocked the entire Jihadi movement. For the first time in its history, the group declared that a local affiliate, the Islamic State in Iraq, was no longer part of al-Qaida. The renegade Iraqi grou...

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Det påstås att ungefär 14 500 krig har utkämpats sedan år 3 500 f.Kr. Mänskligheten har bara erfarit 300 år av fred på jorden. Under 1900-talet dödades fler människor i krig än något tidigare sekel. Relativt sett dödar vi dock varandra mer sällan....

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'One of the most...

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This book assesses the ten most prevalent unintended effects of international aid and development policies and programmes. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will b...

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Highlights the plight of thousands of injustices around the world.

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States' human rights obligations under international treaties often extend beyond their borders and cases are increasingly being brought for violations which took place outside of a state's territory. This book makes sense of the often confusing c...

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