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Words Kill
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95When Communist revolutionaries seized control of Mainland China in 1949, they faced enormous challenges of state and nation building. China occupied a vast territory, had a huge and poorly integrated population and suffered from a woefully backward economy. Building a Socialist Chinese state required effectivly managing significant opposition to the... more...
Democratic Transition in the Middle East
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack... more...
Chinas Economic Development
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Written by distinguished Chinese academics, this book provides a unique and rare insight into the development of the modern Chinese economy. The authors identify three major factors in the growth of the Chinese economy: economic decentralization and political centralization; the urban - rural divide; and relational society. These are explored in depth... more...
State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00This book explores the linkages between state failure, self-help, and self-organization with regards to Nigerian civil society. more...
Democracy in Iran
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 45.00Democratic government is something that has eluded Iran despite a series of non-violent revolutions aimed at establishing a system of governance that would promote both public freedom and political accountability. This explores the obstacles to the growth of democracy in Iran and posits a plan for non-violent action to help Iranians achieve it. more...
Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 110.00This study presents 13 articles interrogating themes likely to impinge on India?s 15 th general elections in 2009. These were written following intense discussion between the contributors and use available data as well as original data and analysis. The significance of the analyses goes beyond how much these questions find place in the campaign,... more...
The Political Kingdom in Uganda
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 76.95It is rare for a scholar to revisit the scene of earlier research with a view to evaluating how that research has stood up over time. Here David E Apter does that and more. In a lengthy new introductory chapter to this classic study of bureaucratic nationalism, he reviews the efficacy of the concepts in his original study of Uganda of almost a century... more...
Libya
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95This 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 on the twin themes of continuity and change, Ronald Bruce St John emphasises the full extent to which the revolutionary government has distorted... more...
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 27.99The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China?s new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family?the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo?s secret... more...
Muslim Secular Democracy
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00The book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World. more...









