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Politics & International Relations
Keir Giles, Chatham House, UK Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Russia’s War On Everybody describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and what it means not just for governments, but for businesses, societies and for ordinary people.
UK November 2022 • US January 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350255081 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781350255098 • £18.00 / $26.09 ePdf 9781350255104 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Academic Jade McGlynn, Oxford University, UK Since 2012, history and memory have been pushed into the heart of Russian political and popular culture. This book charts the policies, practices, and performances that led to this point by analyzing cultural and political discourse. Through in-depth case studies and interviews with cultural producers, McGlynn demonstrates the vast scale of government initiatives to popularize patriotic history and realize its vision of the ‘culturally conscious’ Russian patriot. Finally, she interprets this political preoccupation with history as symptomatic of populist responses to a perceived loss of cultural identity-drawing developments, often seen as pathologically Russian, into comparison with global trends.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781350280762 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350280779 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350280786 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Bonds of Blood?
Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway This book focuses on a systematic analysis of subnational state-building in post-Soviet Chechnya and Ingushetia and the role of teips (clans) in this process, this study responds to the widely accepted academic claim that governance and ethnic consolidation in the North Caucasus are shaped by the politics of teips and the belief that late and uneven modernization, and the survival of tribal structures have been accountable for systematic failures in state-building in the region. The research is based on over 200 interviews and features never-beforeseen access to the archives of the Chechen Parliament during the period of de facto independence.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 288 pages HB 9781350271692 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350271708 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350271715 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Sheathed Sword
From Nuclear Brink to No First Use
Edited by Prakash Menon, Takshashila Instituition, India & Aditya Ramanathan, Takshashila Institution, India After a brief post-Cold War interlude, nuclear weapons have returned to their prominent place in world affairs. New technologies, changing political contexts, and the death of old arms control agreements mean that today’s nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. This volume includes perspectives from leading scholars from across the globe who deliberate how major powers use nuclear threats as tools of statecraft; how individual states (both nuclear powers and some key non-nuclear powers) think about nuclear weapons and whether they consider no-first-use (NFU) policies feasible, and whether a GNFU agreement is desirable.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 300 pages HB 9789354356933 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354356988 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789354359583 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Terrorism in the Cold War
State Support in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Sphere of Influence
Edited by Adrian Hänni, Distance Learning University, Switzerland, Thomas Riegler, University of Graz & Przemyslaw Gasztold, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw Using a wide range of case studies including the KGB's Abduction Program, Polish Military Intelligence and North Korea's 'Terrorism and Counterterrorism', this book sheds new light on the relations between state and terrorist actors. This range allows for a fresh and insightful assessment of the contacts, dealings, agreements and collusion with terrorist organizations that was undertaken by state actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 224 pages PB 9780755636563 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755600236 ePub 9780755600243 • £26.09 / $37.08 ePdf 9780755600250 • £26.09 / $37.08 Bloomsbury Academic
Securing the State and its Citizens
National Security Councils from Around the World
Edited by Paul O'Neill, RUSI, UK Through a uniquely extensive study of countries from across the world, this book considers how nations have developed bespoke coordination mechanisms to the unique threats they face, and how these mechanisms have had to evolve as threats change. It covers nations for whom the system is well established and countries whose arrangements are more recent. The comparative approach taken in this book identifies enduring principles for shaping the creation or reform of national security coordination fit for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 264 pages PB 9780755642007 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780755642014 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9780755642021 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9780755642038 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Veronica Anghel, European University Institute, Italy & Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins University, USA Developments in European Politics brings together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities to give an up-to-date and systematic analysis of European political developments – in institutions, processes and policy – at national, regional and international levels. It provides wide-ranging and clear analysis of the factors influencing European politics, from the populism and extremism in national politics to the broader forces of globalization, immigration, climate change and international terrorism.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350336339 • £34.99 / $47.95 • HB 9781350336346 • £110.00 / $150.00 ePub 9781350336360 • £31.49 / $43.95 ePdf 9781350336353 • £31.49 / $43.95 Series: Developments in Politics • Bloomsbury Academic The Making of a New Left, From AntiAusterity to the Fall of Corbyn
Michael Chessum, Independent Researcher Looking for answers to problems ignored by the political class - low-wages, un-achievable house prices, global warming - a new global, young and left-wing movement was born from student Occupy campaigning. This is the inside story of how the left came back to life in the 2010s, from a man who found himself at the centre of events - featuring unparalleled access and a range of interviews with key left-wing figures. Influential journalist and activist Michael Chessum explains how this movement was built, why it failed, and what it needs to do now.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 272 pages HB 9780755641284 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9780755641291 • £18.00 / $26.09 ePdf 9780755641307 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Academic
Politics and Governance in the Middle East
Vincent Durac, University College Dublin, Ireland & Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Canada A systematic introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach, it examines political, social and economic developments in the region, whilst scrutinising the domestic and international factors that have played a central role in these developments. Topics covered include the Israel-Palestine conflict; civil war in Syria; the ongoing threat posed by Islamist groups, as well as the effects of increasing globalisation across the MENA. In this new edition, 'spotlight' features in each chapter focus on the politics of individual countries whilst a wider use of textbox examples link themes to specific historical events, figures and concepts.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 320 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350336476 • £32.99 / $44.95 • HB 9781350336483 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePdf 9781350336506 • £29.69 / $41.21 Bloomsbury Academic
The Genesis of the Civil War in Somalia
The Impact of Foreign Military Intervention on the Conflict
Muuse Yuusuf, United Nations This study explores the genesis of the civil war in Somalia by analysing the defeat of Somalia in the 1977 Ogaden war. Muuse Yuusef argues that this defeat, which was prompted by the intervention of the USSR, was a turning point which unleashed long term socio-political forces that led to the collapse of the central government of the country. By recognizing the impact of foreign military interventions in Somalia the book attempts to identify foreign military intervention as a new paradigm in the study of Somalia.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 272 pages PB 9780755642410 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755627097 ePub 9780755627103 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755627110 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Ugandan Agency within ChinaAfrica Relations
President Museveni and China's Foreign Policy in East Africa
Barney Walsh, African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, UK In this book, Barney Walsh presents an in-depth study of China’s involvement in East Africa through specific focus on President Museveni of Uganda who has been uniquely influential in utilising China’s presence to shape regional security dynamics in his favour. Walsh’s analysis of the East African Community (EAC) reveals China’s role in ongoing security issues related to terrorism, resulting from the country’s role in small arms and light weapons (SALW) proliferation and the global ivory trade.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781350255470 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350255487 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350255494 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350255500 • £19.79 / $27.47 Series: Peace, Society, and the State in Africa • Bloomsbury Academic
Imagining Manila
Literature, Empire and Orientalism
Tom Sykes, University of Portsmouth, UK This book examines British and American writing on Manila, situating these representations within scholarship on empire, orientalism and US, Asian and European political history. Through analysis of novels, memoirs, travelogues and journalism written about Manila by Westerners since the early eighteenth century, Tom Sykes builds a picture of Western attitudes towards the city and the wider Philippines, and the mechanics by which these came to dominate the discourse. It uncovers how Western literary tropes have informed understandings of the Philippines, in the West and elsewhere, and the types of counter-narrative which have emerged in the Philippines in response to them.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 216 pages PB 9780755640393 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788318310 ePub 9780755602889 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755602872 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world’s greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people. In this sincere and frank self-portrait she recounts her childhood – marked by the death of her mother and separation from the rest of her family at age seven – her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt; and the challenges of motherhood. At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political.
UK October 2022 • 584 pages • 15 bw illus in 8pp plate section PB 9781350273955 • £16.99 ePub 9781350273962 • £15.29 ePdf 9781350273979 • £15.29 Bloomsbury Academic Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market
Whiteness In Puerto Rico
Translation at a Loss
Guillermo Rebollo Gil, Ana G. Méndez University, USA Here, Guillermo R. Gil examines the social construction of whiteness on the island, using the study of American racism to inform his analysis of Puerto Rican racism and the two culturally distinct, yet intrinsically linked, spaces. Examining the work of Puerto Rican activists, writers and artists, Gil documents the ways in which whiteness shapes and informs Puerto Rican cultural producers while simultaneously being challenged by them. Cross-disciplinary in approach, Whiteness in Puerto Rico speaks to the present political moment in a country marked by austerity, disaster capitalism and protest.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 208 pages HB 9780755635504 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755635511 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755635528 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Marine Resources, Climate Change and International Management Regimes
Edited by Olav Schram Stokke, Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway & Andreas Raspotnik, The Arctic Institute, Norway When ocean changes impact fisheries, how do states navigate inflexible mechanisms to manage these? This open access volume explores how international institutions and regimes set up to manage marine resources are adapting to climate change and the related consequences for the geographic distribution of these resources. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 320 pages HB 9780755618361 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755618378 ePdf 9780755618385 I.B. Tauris Democracy at the Crossroads
Joseph Goddard, University of Copenghagen, Denmark & Russell Duncan, University of Copenhagen, Denmark This sixth-edition of a well-established and popular introduction to life in the United States covers everything from US politics, society and culture, to the country’s history, economy and place on the world stage. With extensive use of empirical data and illustrative material, Contemporary United States offers coverage of all of the latest domestic and international developments, including the Biden administration to date, continuing inequality, the rise of China, the return of Putin and Trump’s foreign policy. It takes a balanced approach, drawing on ideas and frameworks from across the humanities and social sciences. It is essential reading for those taking modules on contemporary America across degree programmes in American studies and civilization, English studies, history, sociology and politics.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 384 pages • 93 bw illus PB 9781350342163 • £31.99 / $42.95 • HB 9781350342170 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePdf 9781350342194 • £28.79 / $39.83 Series: Contemporary States and Societies • Bloomsbury Academic
Dairy Farming in the 21st Century
Global Ethics, Environment and Politics
Bruce A. Scholten, University of Durham, UK This book offers an in-depth discussion of the central and ancillary issues - from economic development to climate crisis - relevant to dairy farming and consumption in the 21st century, presenting the arguments of all sides involved. It is the first book to provide such a comprehensive overview, linking ethics, environment, health and policy-making with in-depth coverage of the major dairy farming regions of the world.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781838604523 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781838604547 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781838604530 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Land Abandoned to the Sea
The Managed Realignment of Coastal Areas
Stuart Oliver, St Mary's University, UK This volume addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping with ecological changes. With a specific focus on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, Stuart Oliver analyses the cultural and social implications of managed retreat and proposes managed realignment as a practical way in which society can rethink itself, address the new realities of the environment and move towards developing a more sustainable relationship with it.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 216 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9780755641376 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788310857 ePub 9780755602803 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755602810 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University, UK Back to Black lays out the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. Kehinde Andrews shows how Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency, and force. Immensely readable and shocking, Andrews traces the true roots of this tradition in this new edition, and connects the dots to today’s struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century.
UK February 2022 • 360 pages PB 9780755639137 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9780755639144 • £13.49 / $19.22 ePdf 9780755639151 • £13.49 / $19.22 Zed Books Francesca Sobande, Cardiff University, UK & layla-roxanne hill What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? This book is the first of its kind to focus on the present-day experiences of Black people in Scotland, and in some of their own words. It functions as a history of meaning and identity from the late twentieth century to the turbulent present, investigating issues regarding race, nationhood, media, resistance, creativity, inequality and ideology. The authors seek to go beyond the BAME model of integration, and reflect upon the issues of archiving and recording the Black Scottish experience.
UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781913441340 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781913441333 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781913441364 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781913441357 • £16.19 / $23.34 Bloomsbury Academic
From Women to the World
Letters for a New Century
Edited by Elizabeth Filippouli, Global Thinkers Forum, UK This is more than a simple collection of letters - it is a book that shows a new model of leadership based on emotional intelligence and the wisdom to inspire, motivate and reinvent our world. A book which brings together letters from 40 accomplished women - politicians, royalty, actors, writers, activists and more - addressed to a woman who means something to each of them, whether a historical figure, mentor or family member. By bringing these women and their values together, this book points toward a paradigm shift for a new, compassionate leadership model based on the examples shared.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 216 pages PB 9780755648191 • £9.99 / $12.95 Previously published in HB 9780755626854 ePub 9780755626861 • £17.09 / $24.72 ePdf 9780755626878 • £17.09 / $24.72 Bloomsbury Academic
Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland
Legislation and Protest
Edited by Fiona Bloomer, Ulster University, UK & Emma Campbell, Ulster University, UK Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban to decriminalization achieved in 2019. This edited collection sets out to document and analyze how this historical change was achieved. Academic and theoretical framings sit alongside first-hand experience of abortion travel and organizing, framing the narrative of the combined contributions to this seismic change.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780755642571 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755642588 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755642595 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Human Rights at the Intersections
Transformation through Local, Global, and Cosmopolitan Landscapes
Edited by Anthony Tirado Chase, Occidental College, USA, Pardis Mahdavi, Arizona State University, USA, Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern California, USA & Hussein Banai, Indiana University, USA Exploring the “lived realities of human rights” that are shown to exist outside of human rights’ traditional state-centrism and beyond a local-cosmopolitan binary, the contributions in this collection critically engage with debates on localism and cosmopolitanism, weaving insights from social sciences, humanities, and medicine into a broader call for interdisciplinary scholarship informed by practice.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781350268661 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350268678 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350268685 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Lives Amid Violence
Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
Mareike Schomerus, Overseas Development Institute, UK This open access book provides detailed analysis of ten years of case studies and quantitative survey results from conflict-affected countries. In doing so, this book offers original and widely applicable conclusions about how lives in conflict work, and challenges the status quo of development practice in conflict settings by offering a set of new paradigms. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NCND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages HB 9780755640836 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755640843 ePdf 9780755640850 I.B. Tauris
Machines Against Measures
Irene Sotiropoulou, University of Hull, UK Monetary-theorist Irene Sotiropoulou explores and critiques the production means that were created for capitalist profit-making, showing how we can subvert these and use them for our own noncapitalist purposes. Using everyday examples from grassroots organisations, this offers new insights into how to be inventive with what we have at hand, revealing a more utopian vision of technology and work, based on re-defining how we measure what we do.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 192 pages PB 9780755639595 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9780755639588 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9780755639601 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9780755639618 • £16.19 / $23.34 Series: Autonomy and Automation • Bloomsbury Academic
Marketization
How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy
Ian Greer, Cornell University, USA & Charles Umney, University of Leeds, UK Drawing on dozens of conversations with policymakers, administrators, businesses, workers, and trade unionists across many European countries, Greer and Umney unpack marketization. They go beyond liberal theories that see markets as natural forms of economic organization and broad-brush left critiques of neoliberalism, looking behind the scenes in the current European political economy to examine the practicalities of how markets are created and manipulated by employers, policymakers and bureaucrats in pursuit of greater profitability.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781913441463 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781913441456 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781913441425 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781913441449 • £16.19 / $23.34 Series: Autonomy and Automation • Bloomsbury Academic
Atrocity Labelling
From Crimes Against Humanity to Genocide Studies
Markus P. Beham, University of Passau, Germany Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime against humanity. Such labels have been popularized among international lawmakers, but with little offered into how and when these terms are applied and to what effect. What determines whether an event is termed a genocide or war crime, and what role does this play in the application of legal proceedings? Encompassing international law, legal history, and discourse analysis, Markus P. Beham unpicks these terms to uncover their historical genesis and their implications for international criminal law initiatives concerned with atrocities.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780755617531 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755617548 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9780755617555 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Public Management in an Information Age
Towards Strategic Public Information Management
Albert Meijer, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Alex Ingrams, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Stavros Zouridis, Tilburg University, the Netherlands New information and communication technologies have drastically changed public management. Public managers are increasingly dependent on information gathered from complex systems and they need to be able to put in place sound IT and communication structures. This accessible new text, aimed specifically at those studying and working in public management, offers readers a solid understanding of ICTs and their implications. It offers aspiring and current public managers a framework for the development of strategic public information management across the full range of public organizations.
UK December 2022 • US February 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350343870 • £36.99 / $49.95 • HB 9781350343887 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781350343894 • £33.29 / $46.70 ePdf 9781350343900 • £33.29 / $46.70 Series: The Public Management and Leadership Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Privileged Populists
Populism in the Conservative and Libertarian Working Class
Micah J. Fleck, The Trans Muse Planet, USA Privileged Populists sets out to understand the organic emergence of anti-political populism within the context of late-stage capitalism in the West. This book analyses how these elements inform and validate each other as means of appealing to the growing sense of cultural angst and economic unrest within the conservative working class—and unwittingly giving undue credence to some of the most extreme right-wing ideological claims in the process.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 296 pages HB 9780755627387 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9780755627394 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9780755627400 • £81.00 / $112.65 I.B. Tauris
