This latest incisive work from Christopher Coker is a prescient analysis of the likelihood of a US-China conflict and how it might be avoided.
Islamic consideration of 'power'
Discusses the Caliphate in the ideas and discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Qaeda
Explains the history of the warlord system in Afghani politics
As their roles become more demanding, specialised and far removed from their own inborn predispositions, will the military require ever more years of 'programming'?
A revealing insight in to the hidden contours of Chinese strategic thought
An eyewitness account of the exceptional, non-sovereign, politics that developed during the occupation of Tahrir Square
Definitive account of a rising and fast-changing African state: Angola, still recovering from civil war.
Ethiopia 1984: A groundbreaking account of the reporting of a famine and its unin- tended long-term consequences.
A study of the entanglement of visual art with secularism in the wake of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, tracking the emergence of the artist as an exemplary secular subject.
Sunni-Shia relations in the GCC countries are analysed by the contributors in the wake of recent protests in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
A sober analysis of the risks and benefits of engaging with armed groups proscribed as terrorist and the sometimes contradictory impact of counterterrorist policies.