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  • Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World

    by Akel Ismail Kahera, Sultan Barakat, Suzanne Ghadanfar, Ahmed Qadir Ahmed, Aymen Aiblu, Munazzah Akhtar, Fatma Al Habsi, Asser Al Hamoud0, Moza Al Obaidan1, Mostafa Alani2, Howayda Al-Harithy3, Dhirgham Alobaydi4, Yusra Alvi5, Shama Anbrine6, Aamna Azad7, Rasem Badran8, Daria Bobarykina9, Mohamad El Chamaa0, Kokan Grchev1, Abbas M. Hassan2, Huzam Kaddoura3, Mohd Faris Khamidi4, Emine Filiz Kölmek5, Muhammed Madandola6, Mark David Major7, Lamiaa Mostafa8, Rabia Ahmed Qureshi9, Chawan Osman M. Rasheed0, Mohamed Eskandar Shah1, Masoumeh Shafiee2, Ali Akbar Tajmazinani3, Heba O. Tannous4 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    To tackle the paucity of adequate housing in the Muslim World, Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World brings together a cohort of essays that deal with the the latest approaches, policy discussions, attendant research methodologies and recommendations. The volume's multidisciplinary contributors- academics, practitioners, architects, planners, researchers, urbanists, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Russia's Approach to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

    The History, Context, and its effect on Ukraine

    by Sultan Barakat ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's commitment for the reconstruction of the war-devasted Eastern regions of Ukraine. It is surprising how little analytical and comparative literature exists about Russia’s experience in post-conflict recovery despite its involvement in a large number of conflict areas, both as an intervenor and as a donor.Against ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq

    by Sultan Barakat ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    Previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, this volume seeks to analyze to what extent the controversial US policy of democratizing the Middle East with pre-emptive invasions was justified or effective. Post 9/11 the US developed a policy of War on Terror, taking the decision to democratize the Middle East with pre-emptive in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Understanding Influence

    The Use of Statebuilding Research in British Policy

    by Thomas Waldman, Sultan Barakat ...
    The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, post-conflict environments. Large-scale, externally-assisted statebuilding is a relatively new and distinct foreign policy domain having risen to the forefront of the international agenda as the negative consequences of state weakness have been ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Russia Against the West and with the Rest

    by Angela Stent ...
    **From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage."Putin's World is the definitive guide to understanding the tangled history of post-Cold War Russia and its place in the world. Angela Stent offers a thoughtful, sober, and elegantly-written perspective that could not be more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Frontline Ukraine

    Crisis in the Borderlands

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Near Abroad

    Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus

    by Gerard Toal ...
    Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia Against the Rest

    The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    by Richard Sakwa ...
    In this book Richard Sakwa provides a new analysis of the end of the Cold War and the subsequent failure to create a comprehensive and inclusive peace order in Europe. The end of the Cold War did not create a sustainable peace system. Instead, for a quarter of a century a 'cold peace' reflected the tension between cooperative and competitive behaviour. None of the fundamental problems of European ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    by John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Read more

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  • Should We Fear Russia?

    by Dmitri Trenin ...
    Series series Global Futures
    Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way.In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and security policy analyst Dmitri Trenin explains why the Cold War analogy is misleading. Relations ... Read more

    $10.00 USD