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(P/B) BALKAN STRONGMEN
Brings strongmen to life, providing fascinating insights into the personalities and examining political oppression, the cult of personality and the historical impact of dictatorship on South-Eastern Europe. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) KILLING CIVILIANS
This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed. They are policies in war. In meetings or on mobile phones, political and military leaders decide that civilians are appropriate or inevitable targets. The principle that unarmed and innocent people should be protected in war is an ancient, precious but fragile idea. Today, the principle of civilian immunity is enshri...
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(P/B) TURKEY FROM EMPIRE TO REVOLUTIONARY REPUBLIC
The histories of modern Turkey available to Western readers are almost entirely by Western scholars; substantial works in Turkish exist, but have not been translated. The appearance of Aksin's work in this English edition thus establishes a bridge between Turkish scholarship and Western readers, who will find his treatment of the period before, during and after the First World War, encompassing the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Ataturk, clear and compelling. The final three chapters, on the 1980s, the 1990s and the new millenn...
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(P/B) ALBANIA
Situated between Greece on the south, the former Yugoslavia on the north and east, and the Adriatic Sea on the west, Albania is the country the world forgot. Throughout this century, Albania has been perceived as primitive and isolationist by its neighbors to the west. When the country ended fifty years of communist rule in 1992, few outsiders took interest. Deemed unworthy of membership in the European Union and overlooked by multinational corporations, Albania stands today as one of the poorest and most ignored countries in Europe. Mir...
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(H/B) SECURING THE STATE
Governments recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early twenty-first century must centre on the creation of public confidence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism and proliferation, and of natural hazards such as pandemics and climate change. Based on his own experience in government, David Omand argues that while public security is vital for good government, the effects of bad government will result from failure to maintain the right relationship between justice, liberty...
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(P/B) SERBIA'S GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
Although the Great War continues to attract a great deal of attention from historians, not a single history of Serbia in the First World War exists in English. The publication of Andrej Mitrovic's classic study on the subject, first published in Serbo-Croat in 1984, is therefore both long-overdue and timely. The book is the most complete, single-volume political, social and diplomatic history of Serbia during this crucial period that exists in any language.(from the publisher)...
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(H/B) INGLORIOUS DISARRAY
Since that fateful week of war in June 1967, when Israel's speedy military victory over the Arab states redrew the map of the Middle East, Europe - at least in terms of its influence in this crucial region - has been a cause looking for an opportunity (to borrow Henry Kissinger's classic description of Russian foreign policy). Europe's ongoing attempt to assert itself as a key player in the Middle East conflict has come to nought. It has even proved unable to arrive at a consensus about how to act, and when it has overcome this obstacle it...
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(P/B) BALKAN IDENTITIES
A collection of 17 essays on the Balkans, by historians, anthropologists and literary historians. They concentrate on four main themes: the construction of historical memories; the sites of national memory; the transmission of national memory; and the mobilisation of national identities. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) SERBIA

(H/B) THE ACCIDENTAL GUERRILLA
In the first few years of the post-9/11 era, the established models for fighting 'small wars' proved distressingly ineffective against resilient insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the insurgents fought Western militaries to a stalemate, it was clear that a new approach was necessary. David Kilcullen, one of the world's most influential experts on guerrilla warfare, is a key architect of the West's revamped military strategy. As the Senior Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, Kilcullen's revolutionary approach to counterinsurgen...
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(H/B) NETWORKS OF POWER IN MODERN GREECE
"Networks of power in modern Greece" is a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by leading historians and anthropologists that provides exciting new perspectives on Greek history and society. It presents pioneering work on the Greek merchant marine in the Ottoman period and on the role of women in the war of independence. Local perspectives transform our view of miracle-working shrines and the role of religion in the early nineteenth century, while Basil C. Gounaris shows how clientilistic networks linked the nationalist heroes of...
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(P/B) MILITARY ORIENTALISM

(P/B) EXPLORING OTTOMAN AND TURKISH HISTORY

(P/B) THE SCIENTIFIC WAY OF WARFARE

(H/B) RUSSIA AND THE BALKANS
Russian leaders have always considered the Balkans to be an area of special Russian interests. This work analyses Russia's policy from the death of communist Yugoslavia through the conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia, to the 'war on terror' and disputes over the status of Kosovo in the mid-2000s. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) TURKISH AND OTHER MUSLIM MINORITIES IN BULGARIA

(H/B) DUBAI - THE VULNERABILITY OF SUCCESS

(P/B) POLITICS OF CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

(H/B) BALKAN STRONGMEN
During the last two decades of the twentieth century the Balkan peninsula increasingly commanded the world's attention because of the personalities and policy decisions of strongmen such as Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria, and Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia. Their often bizarre and generally brutal regimes shocked world public opinion, and their passing was hailed as the end of an era of darkness and the beginning of a new dawn. What is often overlooked by all but close observers of the region, however, is that these ...
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(P/B) GLOBALISED ISLAM (1850655987)