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  • Getting Somalia Wrong?

    Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State

    de Mary Harper ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Somalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new 'southern front' in the war on terror. At least that is how it is inevitably portrayed by politicians and in the media.Mary Harper presents the first comprehensive account of ... Leer más

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  • Pakistan on the Brink

    The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

    de Ahmed Rashid ...
    The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years.What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban now in both these countries? What does the immediate future hold and what are America's choices as President Obama ... Leer más

    $117 MXN

  • A Single Roll of the Dice

    Obama's Diplomacy with Iran

    de Trita Parsi ...
    Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address the ongoing turmoil in Tehran? This book provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of the Obama administration's early diplomatic outreach to ... Leer más

    $247 MXN

  • The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? And what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-and-answer format, ... Leer más

    $179 MXN

  • Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    For thirty years Sudan has been a country in crisis, wracked by near-constant warfare between the north and the south. But on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation. As Sudan once again finds itself the focus of international attention, former special envoy to Sudan and director of USAID Andrew Natsios provides a timely introduction to the country at this pivotal moment in its ... Leer más

    $179 MXN

  • After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Leer más

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  • The War for Afghanistan: A Very Brief History

    From Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History

    Series Libro 9 - Princeton Shorts
    When it invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the United States sought to do something previous foreign powers had never attempted: to create an Afghani state where none existed. More than a decade on, the new regime in Kabul remains plagued by illegitimacy and ineffectiveness. What happened? As Thomas Barfield shows, the history of previous efforts to build governments in Afghanistan does much to explain ... Leer más

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  • The Struggle for Egypt

    From Nasser to Tahrir Square

    The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel. This is not the first time that the world and has turned its gaze to Egypt, however. A half century ago, Egypt under Nasser became the ... Leer más

    $244 MXN

  • The Battle for the Arab Spring

    Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

    This "lucidly written" account of the 2011 wave of revolutions "includes a wealth of astute analysis on the politics of the region, from Morocco to Oman" (Paul Hockenos, The National).Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to be called the Arab Spring of 2011. Millions took to the streets in ... Leer más

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  • Taliban

    The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond

    de Ahmed Rashid ...
    This New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban availableThis modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Central Asia into sharp focus. Ahmed Rashid offers an authoritative account of the Taliban’s rise to power, the effects of changing American attitudes toward it, and the new faces ... Leer más

    $258 MXN

  • Iran: the Looming Crisis

    Can the West live with Iran's nuclear threat?

    In August 2002 the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear programme was. And in September 2009 US President Barack Obama exposed yet another clandestine nuclear site there, bringing the possibility of a nuclear arsenal ever closer. For seven fruitless years the international community has been too divided to counter ... Leer más

    $229 MXN

  • Al-Shabaab in Somalia

    The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group

    Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily ... Leer más

    $571 MXN