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  • Armed Groups and the Politics of International Legitimation

    Non-state armed groups - rebels, guerrillas, militias, liberation movements - not only fight for state power but also for international legitimacy. Why are some armed groups successful in turning the power of the gun into legitimate authority that is internationally recognized while others fail? Contributing to a vibrant scholarly debate, this book is the first comparative study of armed groups ... Read more

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  • The Foreign Policies of East African States

    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa.It reveals the regional dynamics and the way in which the international system interacts with these policies and how they are driven by domestic politics versus national visions, and vice versa. As such, it provides fine-grained and historically informed analyses of the international relations ... Read more

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  • The Historicity of International Politics

    Imperialism and the Presence of the Past

    The past is constantly present, not least in the study of imperialism and imperial forms of power in international politics. This volume shows how historical trajectories have shaped international affairs covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings in international politics, substantiating the claim that imperial and colonial legacies - and how they have transformed over time - ... Read more

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  • The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics

    This volume offers insights from political anthropology on how to analyze and how to think about contemporary areas of internationalized political phenomena in a fresh manner. By drawing on a variety of cases like policing, budgeting, the role of monetary politics in everyday life, development agencies, and international organisations it shows the promise of an “extended experience” for the study ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of States

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    State domination in the non-Western world is hallmarked by its constantly shifting character. This stimulating book develops a new approach to the study of state formation and state erosion to explain dynamics that neither follow the pathways of development nor the rule of stagnation that dependency theory once suggested. Carefully edited by Klaus Schlichte, this book provides a fresh angle to the ... Read more

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    War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

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    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

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  • The Darker Nations

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  • The People Want

    A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
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  • Nation-States and Nationalisms

    Organization, Ideology and Solidarity

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    Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule.This innovative and concise book ... Read more

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