The Problem of Property
This book, The Problem of Property, is Karl Widerquist’s first statement of the “indepentarian” theory of property, called, “Justice as the Pursuit of Accord” (JPA). It argues the natural-rights-based arguments…
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The Red Star and the Crescent
The Red Star and the Crescent provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have…
The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri
In this critical examination of the famous South Asian thinker Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), a notorious Anglophile and defender of Empire, Ian Almond analyses the factors that played a role…
Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age
The Arab Spring marked the most profound uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong…
Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan
Over 20 years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have…
Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots…
Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East
This book delves into how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000’s, Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign…
Umm al-Dunya
Focusing on learners of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic who have previously studied Modern Standard Arabic, this is the first textbook to handle the different levels and the variety of contexts of…
Understanding Comparative Politics
Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvenated the study of the subject. Mehran Kamrava…
Universal Dimensions of Islam : Studies in Comparative Religion
Islam’s acceptance of other religions remains an enigma for many Westerners. Yet it is Islam’s doctrine of Unity, which affirms one supreme God, as well as its acceptance of multiple…
Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building
In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa’s biggest country. Sudan’s revolutionary regime was built on four pillars –…
Why Comrades Go to War: Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa’s Deadliest Conflict
In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition…
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