Politics & International Relations

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Now in its second edition, Routledge are pleased to feature this excellent textbook, edited by Paul D. Williams, and comprehensively revised to include new chapters on Polarity, Culture, Intelligence and the Academic and Policy Worlds.

The Routledge Contemporary Middle East Series provides the first systematic attempt at studying the key actors of the dynamic, complex and strategically important MENA region. Each case study provides an easily-digestible analysis of the origins of the state, its contemporary politics, economics and international relations. All books in the series are available as free inspection copies!

In a time of great political change and unrest, these highly topical texts offer succinct accounts of the contemporary political environment in the Middle East.
 

This new book by Lyubov Mincheva and Ted Gurr examines the political economy of transborder violence on the European Periphery that poses grave threats to domestic and international security in Europe and elsewhere. The units of analysis are unholy alliances, i.e. hybrid transborder militant and criminal networks, which have been active in the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The concept of Unholy Alliances is extended to also include the trans-state criminal syndicates that arise in failed and dysfunctional states, or operate within the global illicit economy. It also addresses the question of what reigns supreme in securing the militants’ long term success: money; or social endowment, including strong identity networks?

Is academic prestige more important that individual merit? Robert Oprisko argues that 'excellent or not, students from less prestigious institutions are less likely to get an opportunity to showcase their talent', but that this shouldn't necessarily be the case. Is it fair that highly intelligent students are overlooked, simply because of their academic class?
 

We are now looking for proposals for some of our new series in Politics and International Relations!

On Tuesday 29th January, 2013, Laszlo Surjan, Vice-President of the European Parliament, will be hosting a book launch and seminar for Representing Religion in the European Union: Does God Matter?, edited by Lucian N. Leustean.

Rafal Pankowski, author of The Populist Radical Right in Poland, recently commented on Nigel Farage's backing of a populist Polish priest who is widely viewed as homophobic.