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New And Forthcoming Title Highlights Being Kurdish in a Hostile World Ayub Nuri Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation that followed the UN's sanctions. The story begins with the historic betrayal by the French and British that deprived the Kurds of a country of their own. Nuri recounts living through the 2003 American invasion and the collapse of Hussein's totalitarian rule, and how, for a brief period, he felt optimism for the future. Then came bloody sectarian violence, and recently, the harrowing ascent of ISIS, which Nuri reported from Mosul.

PB 9780889774940 £23.50 October 2017 University of Regina Press 304 pages

British Fascism A Discourse-Historical Analysis (Explorations of the Far Right Series) John E Richardson Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else.

In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analysing contemporary fascism is particularly difficult, since no fascist party admits to being fascist. Drawing on the critical insights of historical and linguistic research, this book offers an original and discerning approach to the critical analysis of fascism. It demonstrates that any understanding of the continuing popularity of fascist political ideology requires interdisciplinary analysis which exposes the multiple layers of meanings within fascist texts and the ways they relate to social and historic context. It is only through contextualisation we can demonstrate that when fascists echo concepts and arguments from mainstream political discourse (eg: ‘British jobs for British workers’) they are not being used in the same way.

PB 9783838204918 £30.00 June 2017 Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag 308 pages

Syria, Press Framing and the Responsibility to Protect E Donald Briggs, Walter C Soderlund, Tom Pierre Najem The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of World War II, sending shock waves through Syria, its neighbours, and the European Union. Calls for the international community to intervene in the conflict, in compliance with the UN-sanctioned Responsibility to Protect (R2P), occurred from the outset and became even more pronounced following President Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians in 2013. Despite that egregious breach of international convention, no humanitarian intervention was forthcoming, leaving critics to argue that UN inertia early in the conflict contributed to the current crisis.

This book examines the role of the media in framing the Syrian conflict, their role in promoting or, on the contrary, discouraging a robust international intervention. The media sources examined are all considered influential with respect to the shaping of elite views, either directly on political leaders or indirectly through their influence on public opinion. The volume provides a review of the arguments concerning appropriate international responses to events in Syria and how they were framed in leading newspapers in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada during the crucial early years of the conflict.

About the Author: E Donald Briggs is a professor emeritus at the University of Windsor.

Walter C Soderlund is a professor emeritus at the University of Windsor. Tom Pierre Najem researches in the areas of international relations and comparative politics, with a regional specialisation in the Middle East.

PB 9781771123075 £30.99 September 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University 288 pages

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The Political Thought of African Independence An Anthology of Sources Edited by Gregory R Smulewicz-Zucker Assisted by Chelsea Schields This book brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European colonies in Africa began their transition to sovereign rule in the 1950s and '60s. Its wealth of key documents are enhanced by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker's General Introduction, part introductions, headnotes, and annotations, providing needed contextual information and supports for readers.

HB 9781624665400 £74.50 September 2017 Hackett Publishing 298 pages

African Politics Fate of the Nation 3 Scenarios for South Africa's Future Jakkie Cilliers What does our future hold? Will the ANC split within the next five years? Could the DA rule the country in 2024? Will the EFF form an alliance with the ANC? What should we do to make our economy grow at levels that will impact on poverty and inequality? Will we become a more tolerant or a more violent society? In Fate of the Nation scenario expert Jakkie Cilliers answers all these and many other questions. He has developed three detailed scenarios for our immediate future and beyond -- Bafana Bafana, Nation Divided and Mandela Magic. According to Cilliers the ANC is in many ways paralysed by the power struggle between what he calls the Traditionalists (supporters of Jacob Zuma) and the Reformers (led by Cyril Ramaphosa and others). This power struggle leads to policy confusion, poor leadership and general ineptitude in the civil service. Key to which scenario will become our reality is who will be elected to the ANC’s top leadership at their national conference in December 2017. Whichever group wins will determine what our future holds. We could also see a compromise grouping being selected, Cilliers says, in which case the Bafana Bafana scenario – where we simply muddle along as a country – is the strongest possibility. A book for all concerned South Africans.

PB 9781868427970 £19.50 August 2017 Jonathan Ball Publishing Pty 288 pages

The Cowboy Capitalist John Hays Hammond, the American West & the Jameson Raid Charles Van Onselen The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For over a century the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil John Rhodes. Yet the wild adventurism that characterised the raid resembles a cowboy expedition more than a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government.

In The Cowboy Capitalist, Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South African Highveld. This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa’s critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.

About the Author: Charles Van Onselen is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

HB 9781868427383 £29.99 September 2017 Jonathan Ball Publishing Pty 576 pages

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American Politics America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class Leslie G Rubin Aristotle's political imagination capitalizes on the virtues of a middle-class republic. America's experiment in republican liberty bears striking similarities to Aristotle's best political regime-especially at the point of the middling class and its public role. Author Leslie Rubin, by holding America up to the mirror of Aristotle, explores these correspondences and their many implications for contemporary political life. Rubin begins with the Politics , in which Aristotle asserts the best political regime maintains stability by balancing oligarchic and democratic tendencies, and by treating free and relatively equal people as capable of a good life within a law-governed community that practices modest virtues.

The second part of the book focuses upon America, showing how its founding opinion leaders prioritised the virtues of the middle in myriad ways. Rubin uncovers a surprising range of evidence, from moderate property holding by a large majority of the populace to citizen experience of both ruling and being ruled. She singles out the importance of the respect for the middle-class virtues of industriousness, sobriety, frugality, honesty, public spirit, and reasonable compromise. Rubin also highlights the educational institutions that foster the middle class -public education affords literacy, numeracy, and job skills, while civic education provides the history and principles of the nation as well as the rights and duties of all its citizens. Wise voices from the past, both of ancient Greece and postcolonial America, commend the middle class. The erosion of a middle class and the descent of political debate into polarized hysteria threaten a democratic republic. If the rule of the people is not to fall into demagoguery, then the body politic must remind itself of the requirements -- both political and personal..

HB 9781481300544 ÂŁ43.50 March 2018 Baylor University Press 310 pages

From Tolerance to Equality How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage Darel E Paul Over the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public's view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best by the movement of same-sex marriage from the position of a fringe few to the pinnacle of morality and a cornerstone of establishment thought. From Tolerance to Equality explores how this seismic shift of social perspective occurred and why it was led by the country's educational and financial elite. Rejecting claims of a commitment to toleration or a heightened capacity for moral sympathy, author Darel E. Paul argues that American elites use opinion on homosexuality as a mark of social distinction and thus as a tool for accumulating cultural authority and political power. Paul traces this process through its cultural pathways as first professionals and, later, corporate managers took up the cause. He marshals original data analysis and chapters on social class and the family, the ideology of diversity, and the waning status of religious belief and authority to explore the factors behind the cultural changes he charts. Paul demonstrates the high stakes for same-sex marriage's mostly secular proponents and mostly religious opponents--and explains how so many came to fight so vigorously on an issue that directly affects so few. In the end, From Tolerance to Equality is far more than an explanation of gay equality and same-sex marriage. It is a road map to the emerging American political and cultural landscape.

HB 9781481306942 ÂŁ34.50 March 2018 Baylor University Press 210 pages

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Australian Politics Freedom's Salesman David Leyonhjelm Collection of previously published and delivered articles and speeches covering: Becoming a poltician; balancing the Budget; tax and superannuation; minimum wage; free trade; child care and health care; the Nanny State; same-sex marriage; terrorism; free speech; environment and conservation, and much more. This book is a carefully curated collection of articles and speeches written by Senator David Leyonhjelm since his election at the federal election in 2013, with some slightly edited to keep them current. This book sets out to achieve the same purpose as when the articles were first published and when the speeches were first delivered. David seeks to expose people to the principles of liberty in the hope that they will agree that less government and more personal responsibility will lead to a much happier and more prosperous society.

About the Author: David Leyonhjelm is an Australian Senator for the Liberal Democratic Party.

PB 9781925642049 £30.99 August 2017 Wilkinson Publishing 368 pages

Kennett Insights & Reflections Jeff Kennett Jeff Kennett has, in his own words, led a privileged and varied life. From military service to running his own business; former Premier of Victoria to former President of Hawthorn Football Club; founding and current Chairman of the national depression initiative beyondblue. Through this success he has been guided by simple values, good governance and the quality of the team around him. This is a collection of Jeff’s best and most-loved weekly columns for the Herald Sun newspaper. They are his unedited and uninhibited views as an individual who would best describe himself as economically conservative and socially liberal; covering hot button topics including: the Essendon illicit drug scandal; the 2016 Australian Federal Election; economic musings post- GFC; and the Victorian Dairy Farmers dilemma.

About the Author: Jeff Kennett AC is the founding Chairman of beyondblue: the national depression initiative and has been Chairman since 2000.

PB 9781925265910 £23.50 June 2017 Wilkinson Publishing 128 pages

Making Modern Australia The Whitlam Government’s 21st Century Agenda Edited by Jenny Hocking The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twentythree years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australia’s history. This book brings to light aspects of Whitlam’s ambitious reform agenda that have been neglected for too long. The Australian Assistance Plan generated networks of regional and community cooperation that remain today. Plans for energy infrastructure and self-sufficiency that would ensure the use of the nation’s resources for the common good, appear more and more visionary.

The ground-breaking Royal Commission into Human Relationships is clearly a forerunner of the current royal commissions into institutionalised child abuse and family violence. New research shows the extent to which this reforming agenda continued the post-war reconstruction plans of Curtin and Chifley. The personal dimension of this agenda -- How Whitlam’s approach to policy design and implementation was influenced by his childhood in Canberra -- is also detailed. Finally this book reassesses the place of the Whitlam government, and its dismissal, in history, in light of new material that continues to emerge from the personal papers of Sir John Kerr.

PB 9781925495188 £26.99 August 2017 Monash University Publishing 224 pages

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Outsiders Mark Latham Curated collection of the best previously published articles from the former Labor Leader Mark Latham. Articles about political correctness; feminism; Big Brother; Donald Trump; Brexit; the biggest problem with Islam; rise of the Outsiders; gender fluidity; a divided nation, and many more. Mark Latham is the original Outsider, a politician who rose to the very top of his profession but refused to be cowed by political correctness and refused to bend his knee to the leftist fads of the day. Outsiders is a thoughtfully curated collection of Mark’s previously-published articles and thoughts on topics ranging from political correctness to Islam, Donald Trump and Brexit. Not only a superb raconteur, Mark writes as he speaks -- with honesty, extraordinary insights and above all a razor sharp wit and deep love for Australian larrikinism. If you can’t get enough of having your virtue signalled, of having your politics determined by your identity, of saying the appropriate things to show how compassionate you are, of being trigger warned about being offended by unsafe words and ideas, then avoid this book like a dose of the bubonic plague.

PB 9781925642117 £26.99 September 2017 Wilkinson Publishing 192 pages

The Prince and the Assassin Australia's First Royal Tour & Portent of World Terror Steve Harris The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest. The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter-continental terrorist group, a conspiracy and a 'lone wolf'. In a resulting 'reign of terror' extraordinary steps were taken to safeguard security with laws on treason and sedition which even the Queen felt went too far, and the would-be assassin was hastily executed in a miscarriage of justice led by opportunistic politicians. This is an extraordinary and atmospheric weaving of the stories -- some detailed for the first time -- of royal intrigue, sexual appetite, religious bigotry, patriotic vengeance, naked ambition, national security and moral panic. They are stories of royals, immigrants, archbishops, republicans and the founding fathers of Australia and issues that remain with us today.

Drawing on Royal, British and Australian archives, the compelling narrative embraces a pivotal time in the evolution of Australia, and on the 150th anniversary reveals how a minute of madness rocked the country to its foundations, with a legacy which helped shape Australia's history and continues to influence and challenge us today. Revelations' & insights in The Prince and the Assassin: Prince Alfred's spare heir upbringing as 'the chosen one' and prospective King of Australia; Sexually decadent royal behaviour - An historic tour which became the model for 50 subsequent royal tours to Aust; Religious bigotry, violence and death in early Aust; How a young migrant trained and destined to be a priest became an assassin; How the biggest crime in Australia shocked, shamed, terrorised and divided the country; How Henry Parkes, 'founder of federation', suppressed and doctored evidence, hired private spies and criminals for political advantage; Australia suppressing civil liberties, even making it a crime of treason to discuss republicanism and to not drink a toast to the Queen; Australian Catholics accused of disloyalty and an Archbishop conspiring against the Government; Australia's most sensational trial, one of injustice and vengeance for a crime not on the Empire's capital list; Alfred appealing for his would-be killer to not be executed; An Australian Government accused of promoting fear for political advantage and committing treason and fraud.

PB 9781925556131 £25.50 August 2017 Melbourne Books 340 pages

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European Politics Politics of Representation Elections and Parliamentarism in Portugal and Spain, 1875–1926 Edited by Pedro Tavares de Almeida, Javier Moreno-Luzón Electoral and parliamentary arenas play a crucial role in the configuration and dynamics of modern polities. This book explores the practices of citizenship and unveils the fabric of representation in the Iberian countries, during a significant period of liberal politics, that is, from its apogee to its collapse (from the 1870s to the 1920s). Part One examines the evolution of electoral norms and behaviour, as well as the recruitment profile of MPs. Portugal and Spain share fundamental features, such as the extensive clientelistic mobilisation of voters, the dissemination of fraud and corruption, the supremacy of governmental parties and the prevalence of the “politics of notables”. Part Two focuses on Parliament, questioning constitutional models, internal procedures, legislative action and political activity, as well as coetaneous perceptions and images of the institution and its actors as portrayed in novels, newspaper chronicles, cartoons and photographic reports. These essays offer a detailed analysis, as well as a vivid picture, of the politics of representation in Portuguese and Spanish liberalism, revealing significant similarities and differences through cross-country comparisons.

About the Author: Pedro Tavares de Almeida is Professor of Politics, NOVA University of Lisbon. Javier Moreno Luzón is Professor of Modern History, Complutense University of Madrid.

Reviews: “This excellent volume, by leading authorities in the field, is a welcome addition to the steadily growing interest in the history of elections and parliaments in the Iberian world.” -Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Oxford University HB 9781845198756 £65.00 November 2017 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages

Press, Politics and National Identities in Catalonia The Transformation of La Vanguardia, 1881–1931 Pol Dalmau For more than three generations, the members of the Godó family controlled Barcelona’s topselling newspaper La Vanguardia, navigating it through the country’s turbulent 20th century.

Whether under the corrupt politics of the Bourbon Restoration, the radical transformations of the Second Republic or the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, La Vanguardia remained Barcelona’s indisputable journalistic benchmark. Central to this success was the Godó family’s extraordinary capacity to meet the changing tastes of a plural audience whilst adjusting to a changing political scenario. In parallel, the ownership of the newspaper allowed family members to expand their interests to other fields, such as politics, business and colonial rule in Cuba and Morocco. The long-standing reputation of the Godó dynasty, however, is in sharp contrast with the lack of studies about their members and the newspaper they founded. Drawing on hitherto unused archival material, this book is the first account about ‘the most renowned publishers and the most important newspaper in Catalonia’s history’. In so doing, it also sheds new light on how the media shaped (and conditioned) Europe’s birth of mass politics. In fact, while contemporaries often observed that newspapers had a powerful influence over public affairs, historians have not systematically examined the role of press owners as ‘political actors’. Likewise, media specialists have seldom considered how the rise of the new mass press affected democratisation and the collapse of liberal institutions. In contrast, Pol Dalmau focuses on the case of a renowned family in Barcelona to uncover the media’s critical role in Europe’s uneven road to modernity. Published in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

About the Author: Pol Dalmau holds a thesis from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). His research focuses on the birth of the mass media and its connections with broader phenomena in European history (colonialism, democratisation, political culture).

HB 9781845198152 £75.00 December 2017 Sussex Academic Press 280 pages tables & illus

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The Last Survivor Cultural and Social Projects Underlying Spanish Fascism, 1931–1975 Edited by Ferran Gallego, Francisco Morente This book proposes an interpretation of Francoism as the Spanish variant of fascism. Unlike Italian fascism and Nazism, the Franco regime survived the Second World War and continued its existence until the death of dictator Francisco Franco. Francoism was, therefore, the Last Survivor of the fascisms of the interwar period. And indeed this designation applies equally to Franco. The work begins with an analysis of the historical identity of Spanish fascism, constituted in the process of fascistisation of the Spanish right during the crisis of the Second Republic, and consolidated in the formation of the fascist single-party and the New State during the civil war.

Subsequent chapter contributions focus on various cultural and social projects (the university, political-cultural journals, the Labor University Service, local policies and social insurance) that sought to socialise Spaniards in the political principles of the Franco regime and thereby to strengthen social cohesion around it. Francoism faced varying degrees of non-compliance and outright hostility, expressed as different forms of cultural opposition to the Franco regime, especially in the years of its maturity (decades of the fifties and sixties), from Spaniards both inside Spain and in exile. Such opposition is explored in the context of how the regime reacted via the social, cultural and economic inducements at its disposal. The editors and contributors are widely published in the field of Spain of the Second Republic, the civil war and the Franco dictatorship. Research material is drawn from primary archival sources, and provides new information and new interpretations on Spanish politics, culture and society during the dictatorship.

About the Author: Ferran Gallego is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Early Modern and Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Francisco Morente is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Early Modern and Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

HB 9781845198763 £65.00 September 2017 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages

International Politics Cosmic Threats A Planetary Response Neville Brown This book calls for the progressive creation of supra-national institutions intended to protect life on Earth against natural threats, be these terrestrial (pandemics, super-volcanoes, major earthquakes.) or celestial (comets, asteroids, meteor storms). The protection proffered would need to be pre-emptive though also responsive, reducing the number of adverse events but also their specific consequences. Rancid though the world scene currently looks, this may actually be a good time to look towards a planetary security programme that can build up over a century or more. It would need special international institutions that are sufficiently integrated to cope with the celestial and terrestrial contingencies anticipated yet not so much a class apart as to be a law unto themselves, a military regime able to ride roughshod over general world opinion. Such an holistic approach to planetary security might prove to be a definitive substitute for war between nations.

Professor Brown comes to such questions from a broad career background. His lead qualifications are a Masters degree from Oxford in Modern History and a Doctorate of Science from Birmingham (UK) in Applied Geophysics. He has been a naval meteorologist; staff college instructor; part-time but pro-active as a defence correspondent for several of the West's leading journals; and political consultant. From 1980 to 1986, he was Chairman of the Council for Arms Control. From 1993 to 1997 he worked half-time in the Sensors and Electronic Systems directorate of Britain's Ministry of Defence.

HB 9781845197704 £35.00 July 2017 Sussex Academic Press 160 pages PB 9781845197711 £22.50 July 2017 Sussex Academic Press 160 pages

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Israel And Middle Eastern Politics Lost in Translation New Paradigms for the Arab Spring Edited by Uzi Rabi, Abdelilah Bouasria Following the much-publicised self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi on 18 December 2010, a tempestuous succession of demonstrations, revolutions and civil wars swept the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These events, collectively referred to as the “Arab Spring”, spread contagiously throughout the Middle East and the Maghreb. But instead of ushering in tidy transitions of power in autocratic regimes, the revolutions and uprisings ushered in a state of chaos, which greatly complicates the task of analysts and historians whose job it is to make sense of what has taken place. Will the Arab Spring bring much needed change that benefits the Arab peoples or will instability and turmoil keep the Middle East in a perpetual state of what some have termed the “Arab winter”? This is a contributory work by Middle East experts.

As well as political and social analysis of the events and aftermath of the Arab Spring, the work provides a complex of paradigms (ranging from complexity studies to sport) which have thus far been overlooked by scholars and commentators in their assessments of Arab Spring manifestations. The result is unprecedented insights into the myriad forces that have inhibited genuine political and social transformations in the states of the Middle East and North Africa.

About the Author: Prof. Uzi Rabi is Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. His numerous academic works include Yemen: Revolution, Civil War, and Unification (I.B Tauris, 2005). He provides consultation to the media and Israeli policymakers on contemporary Middle Eastern issues. Dr. Abdelilah Bouasria, professor of international politics at the Ecole de Governance et d’Economie in Rabat, Morocco, has taught at George Mason University, the American University and the University of Montana. He is the author of Sufism and Politics in Morocco: Activism and Dissent (Routledge, 2015), and other books and articles.

HB 9781845197667 £65.00 July 2017 Sussex Academic Press 272 pages

National Schism and Civil Integration Mutual Relations Between the Israeli Central Government and the Israeli Arab Palestinian Minority Alexander Bligh, Gadi Hitman This book analyses the changes that have taken place in the mutual relationship between the Israeli establishment and the Arab minority since the early 1990s. Changing internal political circumstances on both sides, often led by external world events, have shaped action/reaction and made relations complex. Special attention is paid to the central government's engagement from a security-based dialogue to one encompassing civil policy.

About the Author: Prof. Alexander Bligh is the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Israel. Formerly: Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities and Director, Middle East Research Center, Ariel University, and Advisor to the Prime Minister for Arab Affairs.

Gadi Hitman is lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Ariel University and Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. His first book, Israel and its Arab Minority: Dialogue, Protest and Violence 1948–2008, was published in 2016.

HB 9781845196493 £65.00 March 2018 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages

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The Anti-Israel Agenda Inside the Political War on the Jewish State Alex Ryvchin Since 1948, Israel has withstood three full-scale invasions on multiple fronts, bloody wars with Palestinian militias, deadly bombings of its diplomatic missions, and hundreds of terrorist attacks within its territory and against its citizens abroad. This violence has inflicted immense suffering and loss on the people of Israel, but the country has emerged from armed conflict with more territory rather than less, while its permanent preparedness for war has ensured that the full weight of Israeli innovation has been thrown behind the country's military, turning it into the most formidable fighting force in the region.

In light of Israel's military prowess, its enemies have opened a new front in their war of annihilation: a full-scale political assault on Israel's legitimacy. The Anti-Israel Agenda reveals how the institutions of greatest moral and political influence including Western governments, the campus, the United Nations, and the Church are being turned against Israel in an effort to isolate and cripple the state until it can no longer defend its interests or its people. Bringing together the finest minds devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict, including Alan Dershowitz, Alan Johnson, Col. Richard Kemp, and Hillel Neuer, this powerful and timely exposé reveals how the conflict with Israel has shifted from the battlefield to the corridors of power, the media we consume, the campuses we attend, and every forum that touches our lives. Engrossing and authoritative, The Anti-Israel Agenda is essential to understanding war and conflict in today s Middle East.

About the Author: Alex Ryvchin was born in Kiev, Ukraine. His refusenik family left the Soviet Union in 1987, when Alex was three years old, and settled in Sydney, Australia. A prominent speaker and writer on the Arab-Israeli conflict, foreign and national affairs, he writes for leading publications throughout the world and has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs.

HB 9789652299147 £18.99 August 2017 Gefen Publishing House 320 pages

The Arab Nationalist Advisor Yusuf Yassin of Sa‘udi Arabia Joseph A Kéchichian Shaykh Yusuf Yassin (1892–1962) marked the contemporary history of the Kingdom of Sa‘udi Arabia in his capacity as a favorite advisor who was the founder monarch’s confidential secretary, relentless envoy and chief foreign policy consultant. Born in Latakiyyah, Syria, Yassin earned the confidence of King ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdul Rahman Al Sa‘ud, and moved to Riyadh even before the Third Sa‘udi Kingdom was inaugurated in 1932. After obtaining citizenship he participated in critical decisions reached by the ruler as regional and international actors honed in on the wealth of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the course of several decades Yusuf Yassin met with and negotiated on behalf of three monarchs, ‘Abdul ‘Aziz and his two successors, Sa‘ud and Faysal, with Arab and global leaders. He was present at the creation of the country and suggested that al-Sa‘udiyyah be added to its very name -- Al-Mamlakah al-‘Arabiyyah al-Sa‘udiyyah -- which reflected his personality and political outlook as an Arab nationalist who cherished the founder.

Joseph Kéchichian has written the first political biography of the statesman, based on original documents [the Yassin Papers] as well as Western diplomatic correspondence. Kéchichian provides insights into the Nationalist Al Sa‘ud Advisor who left his mark on Sa‘udi Arabia. The volume provides essential background on a man who rose from humble origins in Syria to espouse Arabian values, and walks the reader through nearly five decades of Arab history, including the repercussions of the infamous 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, the creation of the League of Arab States, and various Arab crises. These events, experienced and engaged with by Shaykh Yusuf Yassin at the highest political and diplomatic levels, set the stage that empowered Sa‘udi Arabia, along with other Arab States, with the wherewithal to succeed for their respective peoples.

HB 9781845198046 £35.00 March 2018 Sussex Academic Press 320 pages highly illus.

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The Palestinians and British Perfidy The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 Richard Long Ottoman Turkey’s decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of its people, 93 percent of them Arab, the November 1917 Balfour Declaration withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and for strategic reasons earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office official, remarked that ‘The U.K. proposed to hand (Palestine), without consulting the occupants, to a third party; and what sort of third party!’ The result was the foundation of Israel in 1948. Through ethnic cleansing and massacre the new state drove out helpless Palestinian victims of Perfidious Albion, in whom London at no stage showed the slightest interest. They were condemned to seventy years in refugee camps or to second-class citizenship of Israel as, in the words of an Israeli Foreign Minister, the land-grab state was ‘born in sin’. Credit for this shameful act is generally given to the Zionist supporters of Theodore Hertzl. But Britain cleared the way by expelling the Mufti of Jerusalem, the Palestinians’ only leader, providing the Zionists, who extraordinarily made concurrent overtures to Hitler and Mussolini, with military training in Britain’s Second World War campaigns in Iraq and Syria. Itself ejected by its ungrateful protégé, Britain lost all the aims of its Declaration (no base to guard the Suez Canal, no Haifa port, no railway to Iraq and no oil pipeline) and all its prestige in the Arab World.

About the Author: Richard Long was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish at Cambridge and McGill, Montreal. He spent 26 years in eight Middle East countries with the Foreign Office and British Council. Subsequently Director of Islamic Studies at Newcastle University, and of an exchange programme with Durham, he now writes and lectures on the history of Britain at the end of empire in the Middle East. This is his fifth book.

PB 9781845198961 £75.00 March 2018 Sussex Academic Press 312 pages illus

Why Shouldn't Israel Exist in the Middle East?

Hans Jansen This book is a synopsis of the very extensive work Why shouldn’t Israel exist in the Middle East? (published in 2015). The author argues that the Middle East conflict is the easiest problem in the world to explain, but also the most difficult to solve. “Briefly stated: Israel wants to exist, and to recognise the rights of the Palestinians to have their own state. The Palestinians and many other Arabs and Muslims, however, do not acknowledge that the Jewish State of Israel has a right to exist”. Prof. Hans Jansen, author of the well-known standard work Christian Theology after “Auschwitz: Theological and Ecclesiastical Roots of Anti-Semitism” (The Hague, 1981), of which six editions appeared, was from 1990 to 2000 the holder of the James William Parkes Chair in the History of Christian Literature on Judaism and Jews of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. Since 2002 he has been associated with SWIB, the Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Brussels, where he still gives lectures on the anti-Semitism of Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Jansen has numerous works to his name. In 2004 he wrote an essay for political and religious leaders in Europe entitled The Education System of the Palestinian Authority is Inciting a Holy War against Israel (Christians for Israel International / European Coalition for Israel). In spring 2006 Royal Jongbloed in Heerenveen published his voluminous study entitled “From Anti-Semitism to Suicide Bombing”, a second edition of which appeared six months later. In 2010 a fascinating essay on the work of Erasmus saw the light of day. The essay’s title was Erasmus’s Protest against the Renaissance of Hebrew Literature and from the start it was seen by many readers as a precious gem! The work was published by Royal Jongbloed. In spring 2015, his very extensive book “Why shouldn’t Israel exist in the Middle East?” appeared, followed by a second edition in September 2015. In 2004 he was awarded the Israel Prize by the World Zionist Organization for his complete oeuvre.

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South East Asia Politics Siauw Giok Tjhan Bicultural Leader in Emerging Indonesia Siauw Tion Djin Siauw Giok Tjhan (1914-1981) was one of the most influential Chinese Indonesian political leaders active in the early decades following Indonesia’s independence from1945 to 1965. His participation in politics at this time set him apart from the majority of Chinese who were regarded as non-political and business-minded. When Indonesian independence was declared in 1945, Siauw was appointed a member of the new Republic’s legislative and executive bodies. He remained a high profile member of parliament until the end of 1965. A leader and co-founder of Baperki (the Consultative Body of Indonesian Citizenship), the largest organisation of Chinese Indonesians, from 1954 to 1965, he had widespread support from both peranakan and totok Chinese. When the balance of power tilted to the right after October 1965, Baperki was attacked and banned. Siauw and many other Baperki leaders were arrested and interned without trial for twelve years. It was not until after the fall of President Soeharto in 1998 that his place in modern Indonesian history could be properly recognised.

PB 9781925523362 £30.99 January 2018 Monash University Publishing 400 pages 15 b/w photos

Bestselling Titles Addresses to the German Nation Hackett Classics Johann Gottlieb Fichte This clear, readable, and reliable translation is accompanied by a chronology of the events surrounding Fichte's life, suggestions for further reading, and an index. The groundbreaking introductory essay situates Fichte's theory of the nation state in the history of modern political thought. It provides historians, political theorists, and other students of nationalism with a fresh perspective for considering the interface between cosmopolitanism and republicanism, patriotism and nationalism.

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Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965 Ministers, Mercenaries and Mandarins -- Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action Clive Jones Between 1962 and 1965 Britain engaged in covert operations in support of Royalist forces fighting the Egyptian backed Republican regime that had seized power in the Yemeni capital Sana'a in September 1962. Covert action was regarded as a legitimate tool of foreign policy as Britain attempted to secure the future of the newly formed South Arabian Federation against the animus of Nasser. The use of covert action, as well as the quasi approval given to the use of mercenaries to support the Royalist cause, was the inevitable result of policy differences within Whitehall (most notably between the ‘mandarins' of the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office) as well as international constraints imposed upon the UK in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. The book examines the extent to which British policy, while successful in imposing a war of attrition upon Nasser in the Yemen, contributed to the political demise of the very objective covert action was designed to secure: the future stability of the Federation of South Arabia. The study makes extensive use of primary sources in producing the first detailed account of British involvement in the Yemen Civil War, and how the experience shaped British foreign policy.

About the Author: Clive Jones is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds.

HB 9781903900239 £50.00 October 2004 Sussex Academic Press 273 pages

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