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The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and Social Roots of Extremism
By Eamon Murphy
This book aims to explain the rise of Pakistan as a centre of Islamic extremism by going back to the roots of the state and the nature of Islam in Pakistan. The broad aim therefore is to examine the social, and political and economic factors that have...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-56526-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Regional Powers and Security Orders: A Theoretical Framework
By Derrick Frazier, Robert Stewart-Ingersoll
This book provides a coherent new theoretical framework for understanding regional security orders and the behaviour of states within them....
July 2011 | 978-0-415-56919-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries
Edited by Paul Amar
In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector,...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-57795-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Modern Turkey: People and State in a Globalising World
By Bill Park
This book provides a wide ranging overview of Turkey and its people in the contemporary world. In particular it seeks to place them within the context of a rapidly globalizing world and includes chapters on politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-44371-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy
Edited by Adrian Dellecker, Thomas Gomart
This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia, as well as offering an interpretation of Russia’s coherence on the international stage, seeking to understand Russia and explain its behaviour. The authors analyse...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-54733-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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ASEAN Regionalism: Co-operation, Values and Institutionalisation
By Christopher Roberts
This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-49001-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sino-Japanese Relations: History, Politics, Economy
Edited by Caroline Rose
Academic and popular interest in China and Japan, the two major powers in East Asia, has risen dramatically in the last decade. While on the one hand their relationship has benefited from high levels of two-way trade and investment underscoring their growing economic interdependence, political...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-56614-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan
By Niaz A Shah
Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework of compatible application, Niaz A. Shah argues that the Islamic law of qital (i.e....
March 2011 | 978-0-415-56396-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Asia's Nuclear Futures
By Chung Min Lee
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the role of nuclear weapons in Asia since 1945, its implications for regional and global security, and the conditions under which more Asian countries might seek to acquire a nuclear capability in the future. It focuses in particular on...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-42825-5 | Hardback (Routledge)