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The Predistribution Agenda

Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth

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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics. But what does it mean? The predistributive agenda is concerned with how states can alter the underlying distribution of market outcomes so they no longer rely solely on post hoc redistribution to achieve economic...
by Sandra Rucksthuhl, Christopher Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet...

Beyond Islam

A New Understanding of the Middle East

by Sami Zubaida
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010

In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally...

Palestine Ltd.

Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory

by Toufic Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

ince the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and international finance institutions. Despite their failure to yield peace or Palestinian statehood, the role...

Women's Rights in Authoritarian Egypt

Negotiating Between Islam and Politics

by Hiam Elgousi
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an important part of the crowds protesting. However, despite this, women's rights were not central to the demands made and, in the ensuing social and political struggles, these rights...

After the Third Way

The Future of Social Democracy in Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012

The social democratic parties were once the strongest political forces in Europe. Today, however, they appear disorientated and rudderless, crucially lacking the ideological, intellectual and organisational vitality which underpinned their strength in the post-war political landscape. Electorally...

Power Struggles in the Middle East

The Islamist Politics of Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood

by Eva Dingel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements – one Sunni and one Shi'a – have in common?

Climate Ethics

Environmental Justice and Climate Change

by Joerg Chet Tremmel, Katherine Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet the international measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented. Given the urgency of the problem, why has so little been done? Climate Ethics identifies the reasons behind this crucial paradox and outlines a way...

Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents

Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal. Here, a group of experts on Turkish political economy show how these policies...

Virtual Water

Tackling the Threat to Our Planet's Most Precious Resource

by Tony Allan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011

The groundbreaking new concept that reveals the true and hazardous extent of our everyday water consumption. How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? The answer may shock you: 140 litres! That's the true amount of water used in growing, producing, packaging and shipping the beans...

Turkey’s Cold War

Foreign Policy and Western Alignment in the Modern Republic

by Saban Halis Çalis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Since the end of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has repeatedly attempted to assert its position as a central strategic nation in the formation of world geo-politics. Turkey's Cold War shows for the first time how the country's modern foreign policy, in particular during the Cold War, has been shaped by an aspiration to become part of the Western world.
by Lucy Küng
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

News organisations are struggling with technology transitions and fearful for their future. Yet some organisations are succeeding. Why are organisations such as Vice and BuzzFeed investing in journalism and why are pedigree journalists joining them? Why are news organisations making journalists redundant...
by Jonathan Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015

Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge,...

CEO, China

The Rise of Xi Jinping

by Kerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which...
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