Investigates how regimes in the Maghreb have kept dissent at bay, and the means by which their authority has been challenged.
The biography of an influential scholar and lawyer who shaped Western knowledge of Islamic law and of reform within Islam.
A tour d'horizon of India's political economy over the last fifty years, by a distinguished political scientist.
A frank and unsettling account of the conflicted role of women in Italy's mafias - first-hand stories of submission, complicity and revolt.
The first study of an important political nexus in today's Islamist insurgencies, the better to understand their evolution.
An absorbing look at China's diplomatic and business outreach in pursuit of secure hydrocarbon reserves.
Maps the significant yet often overlooked forces shaping Maghrebian society from below.
A sweeping, erudite, and accessible cultural history of the lands of the Near East, from the Sumerians to beyond the end of World War II.
An absorbing history charting the long afterlife of the 1857 'Indian Mutiny' and the Victorians' macabre fetish for collecting body parts.
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.
Drawing on an A-list of Middle East experts, this book assesses the relative merits of the thwarted paths to democracy in the 'Arab Spring' states.
A synoptic history of Imperial and Soviet Russian conquest and colonisation of the North Caucasus.