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  • Bridging State and Civil Society

    Informal Organizations in Tajik/Afghan Badakhshan

    by Suzanne Levi-Sanchez ...
    Bridging State and Civil Society provides an in-depth study of parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan that remain marginalized from the larger region. As such, the people have developed distinct ways of governing and surviving, sometimes in spite of the state and in part because of informal organizations. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez provides eight case studies, each an independent look at a particular ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Tajikistan on the Move

    Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

    by Marlene Laruelle, Michele Commercio, Hafiz Boboyorov, Tim Epkenhans, Brent Hierman, Sophie Hohmann, Edward Lemon, Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Parviz Mullojonov, Kirill Nourzhanov0, Sophie Roche1, Jesse Driscoll2, John Heathershaw3 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan stood out for being the only post-Soviet country to recognize an Islamic party—the Islamic ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Afghan-Central Asia Borderland

    The State and Local Leaders

    by Suzanne Levi-Sanchez ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Based on extensive, long-term fieldwork in the borderlands of Afghan and Tajik Badakhshan, this book explores the importance of local leaders and local identity groups for the stability of a state’s borders, and ultimately for the stability of the state itself. It shows how the implantation of formal institutional structures at the border, a process supported by United Nations and other ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

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  • Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

    by John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In 2004, the State Department gathered more than a thousand interviews from refugees in Chad that verified Colin Powell's UN and congressional testimonies about the Darfur genocide. The survey cost nearly a million dollars to conduct and yet it languished in the archives as the killing continued, claiming hundreds of thousands of murder and rape victims and restricting several million survivors to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates: A Socio-legal Study on Conflicts

    by Antoinette Vlieger ...
    Fascinating study and inside account of the lives of maids and caregivers in the oil-rich Middle East, who become contractually bound to near-slavery by taking positions overseas. Dutch law professor Vlieger interviewed many maids, bosses, and job agencies to get to the truth. She places what she found into a theoretical frame of petropolitics. Accessible to everyone, with compelling stories. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debating Security in Turkey

    Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu ...
    Debating Security in Turkey: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, gives a detailed account of the strategic security agenda facing Turkey in an era of uncertainty and swift transformation in global politics, and regional and local dynamics. The contributors to this volume describe the challenges and changes that Turkey encounters in the international, ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Kurdish Question in Turkey

    New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation

    Edited by Cengiz Gunes, Welat Zeydanlioglu ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
    Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkey

    Edited by Metin Heper, Sabri Sayari ...
    In recent years, there has been growing interest in Turkey, stemming from the country’s developing role in regional and global politics, its expanding economic strength, and its identity as a predominantly Muslim country with secular political institutions and democratic processes. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging profile of modern Turkey. Bringing together original ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Modern Afghanistan

    The Impact of 40 Years of War

    by Sonia Ahsan, Parul Bakhshi, Bashir Ahmed Ansari, Just Boedeker, Noah Coburn, Andrea Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Amin Saikal, Fahim Masoud, M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar, Khalid Homayun Nadiri, Anna Larson, Kylea Liese, Mohammad Omar Shariki, Wazhmah Osman, Ahmad Shayeq Qassem, Timor Sharan, Trani Jean-Francois, Robert L. Canfield ...
    What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan collects the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nation as Network

    Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

    by Victoria Bernal ...
    How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borders? In Nation as Network, Victoria Bernal creatively combines media studies, ethnography, and African studies to explore this new political paradigm ... Read more

    $20.89 USD