21st Century History: from c 2000

Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this ...

The twenty-first century will doubtless be that of Asia, which by 2030 will be home to three of the four world's mightiest economies, including Ind...

While the 'New Taliban' looms large in the global media, little is known about how it functions as an organisation. How united is it? Are its struc...

As a teenager, Joseph Sebarenzi fled Rwanda, escaping a campaign of genocide that saw 800,000 Tutsis murdered in just ninety days. He returned to ...

The republics of Central Asia re-emerged as independent actors in the global interstate system in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the...

The war in Afghanistan has been a major policy commitment and central undertaking of the Canadian state since 2001: Canada has been a leading force...

Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime...

The first twenty-five years of life in post-socialist Europe have seen vast political, economic, and cultural changes, as societies that lived unde...

This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military r...

The story of how America turned its back on the world...  In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, wit...

This book offers a novel, incisive and wide- ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and pol...

Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institut...

This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisatio...

Boko Haram's appetite for exemplary violence and kidnapping women and girls has thrust it to the top of the global news agenda. In a few furious ye...

Since 2002 Sunni jihadi groups like Jaysh al-'Adl have been active in Iranian Baluchistan, yet the region remains relatively stable. Dudoignon's bo...

The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories ...

This book begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteen...

Marie Lall's book seeks to uncover and explain the recent political and economic reforms implemented in post-military Myanmar, focussing on key tur...

Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri L...

In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. N...

This Present Darkness analyses how Nigeria acquired its unfortunate reputation as an epicentre of global illicit trade and organised crime. Celebra...

When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on an intense competition that had begun with Partition. Nuclear weapo...

An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond  Comprehensive and engaging.Gideon Rachman, Fina...

Given the length of time the United States spent in Iraq, there is a perception that there was no consideration before the war of what should be do...

DEMOCRATIC EMPIRE DEMOCRATIC EMPIRE The United States Since 1945 Democracy and empire often seem like competing, even opposing, concepts. And yet, ...

Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and compr...

The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study...

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It off...