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48 produkter
Iran Rising
The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Av Amin Saikal
Inbunden, 2019
271 kr
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An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East and the worldWhen Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would …
How to Lose a War
The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan
Av Amin Saikal
Inbunden, 2024
238 kr
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An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to …
Regime Change In Afghanistan
Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of …
Soviet Union As An Asian-pacific Power
Implications Of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative
Av Ramesh Thakur, Carlyle A. Thayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1562 kr
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This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific.
Regime Change In Afghanistan
Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of …
Soviet Union As An Asian-pacific Power
Implications Of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative
Av Ramesh Thakur, Carlyle A. Thayer m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
500 kr
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This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific.
American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East
From Bush to Obama
Av Shahram Akbarzadeh, James Piscatori m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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The recent "Arab spring", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the …
The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Inbunden, 1989
1579 kr
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Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afghanistan; invasion ended the growth in superpower dentents that had characterised the late 1970s; and in the Soviet …
The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afghanistan; invasion ended the growth in superpower dentents that had characterised the late 1970s; and in the Soviet …
Russia in Search of its Future
Häftad, 1994
441 kr
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Russia's renewal since the collapse of Communism has proved extraordinarily disturbed, and was marked by escalating conflict between President Yeltsin and the Congress of People's Deputies inherited from the Soviet era. This culminated in insurrection and violence on the streets, and when the main …
Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role
Häftad, 2011
395 kr
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A decade after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the country continues to face a growing insurgency and crises of governance. The Afghanistan Conflict and Australia's Role tackles a number of critical dimensions-politics, society, military, and reconstruction-of this conflict from …
Rise and Fall of the Shah
Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule
Av Amin Saikal
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny and controversy. But, as Amin Saikal shows, this was far …
Iran Rising
The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2019
271 kr
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An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East and the world When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western shah in favor of an Islamic regime, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would …
Iran Rising
The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
Av Amin Saikal
Häftad, 2021
209 kr
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An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East and the worldWhen Iranians overthrew their pro-Western monarchy in favor of an Islamic regime in 1979, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would paralyze the …
Iran at the Crossroads
Av Amin Saikal
Inbunden, 2015
649 kr
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Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportunity to regain its traditional greatness as a cradle of rich civilisation and culture, with a capacity to be a very influential and stabilising …
Iran at the Crossroads
Av Amin Saikal
Häftad, 2015
165 kr
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Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportunity to regain its traditional greatness as a cradle of rich civilisation and culture, with a capacity to be a very influential and stabilising …
Iran at the Crossroads
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2015
208 kr
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Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportunity to regain its traditional greatness as a cradle of rich civilisation and culture, with a capacity to be a very influential and stabilising …
Spectre of Afghanistan
Security in Central Asia
Av Amin Saikal, Kirill Nourzhanov
Häftad, 2021
373 kr
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Connecting a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country’s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given …
Modern Afghanistan
A History of Struggle and Survival
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2004
440 kr
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Afghanistan's history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime and then the US invasion after the catastrophe of September 11th. Why does Afghanistan remain so vulnerable to domestic instability, foreign intervention and ideological …
Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia
Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule After the Arab Spring
Av Amin Saikal, Amitav Acharya
E-bok, 2013
2087 kr
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The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in the Middle East and North Africa that produced these attempts at revolution, Amin Saikal and Amitav …
Weak States, Strong Societies
Power and Authority in the New World Order
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2015
2182 kr
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Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the bipolarity of the world gave other powers a defined structure within which to vie for power, …
Weak States, Strong Societies
Power and Authority in the New World Order
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2015
2247 kr
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Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the bipolarity of the world gave other powers a defined structure within which to vie for power, …
Zone of Crisis
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq
Av Amin Saikal
E-bok, 2014
739 kr
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The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation, …
Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia
Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule After the Arab Spring
Av Amin Saikal, Amitav Acharya
E-bok, 2013
2087 kr
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The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in the Middle East and North Africa that produced these attempts at revolution, Amin Saikal and Amitav …
Soviet Union As An Asianpacific Power
Implications Of Gorbachev''s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative
Av Amin Saikal, G J Gill m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
589 kr
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This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev''s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific.
Regime Change In Afghanistan
Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy
E-bok, 2019
838 kr
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This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of …
Soviet Union As An Asianpacific Power
Implications Of Gorbachev''s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative
Av Amin Saikal, G J Gill m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
576 kr
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This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev''s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific.
Regime Change In Afghanistan
Foreign Intervention And The Politics Of Legitimacy
E-bok, 2019
785 kr
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This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of …
Islam beyond Borders
The Umma in World Politics
Av James Piscatori, Amin Saikal
Inbunden, 2019
1460 kr
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Assuming a central place in Muslim life, the Qur'an speaks of one community of the faith, the umma. This unity of the faithful is recognised as the default aspiration of the believer, and in the modern era, intellectuals and political leaders have often vied both to define, and to lead it. Based on …
Islam beyond Borders
The Umma in World Politics
Av Amin Saikal, James Piscatori
E-bok, 2019
460 kr
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Assuming a central place in Muslim life, the Qur''an speaks of one community of the faith, the umma. This unity of the faithful is recognised as the default aspiration of the believer, and in the modern era, intellectuals and political leaders have often vied both to define, and to lead it. Based …
