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Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party's identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy. *BR**BR*Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and other primary sources, Daher's analysis confidently positions Hezbollah within socio-economic and political developments in Lebanon and the Middle East. He emphasises Hezbollah's historic ties with its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its media and cultural wings and its relationship with Western economic policies.*BR**BR*Further chapters examine the party's policies towards workers' struggles and women's issues, and its orientation towards the sectarian Lebanese political system. Hezbollah is a well informed and fresh analysis of a topic which remains central to our understanding of one of the world's most tumultuous and politically unstable regions.

An innovative perspective on the relationship between religion, civil society and development through the prism of faith-based NGOs in West Africa

This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions. *BR**BR*Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.

The exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf is explored in this accessible yet in-depth analysis by scholars from the region.

The ABCs of Political Economy is an accessible introduction to modern political economy. While informed by the work of Marx, Keynes, Veblen, Kalecki and other great political economists, Robin Hahnel teaches the reader the essential tools necessary to understand economic issues today from a modern perspective, searching for ways to replace the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable co-operation. The ABCs of Political Economy empowers people who are dissatisfied with today's economies but are often intimidated by conventional economic analysis. No previous economics background is assumed, and everything is explained in verbal form in eight core chapters.Examining the nature of today's economic market, issues of economic justice, macroeconomics and globalization, Robin Hahnel provides an ideal introduction to key economic ideas, offering a critical perspective on our present system and outlining clear alternatives for the future.

A succinct history of racism, xenophobia and the concept of 'otherness' from ancient Greece to the present day.

A reflective, critical perspective on the evolution of cyberspace.

Examines the reform proposals for the World Bank.

A study of popular politics in Belfast from 1905-23.

Karl Kautsky integrates questions of political strategy, ecology, sexuality and the family.

Thirteen distinguised authors explore key questions on Third World democratisation.

A comprehensive look at energy and environmental problems, and their possible solutions and costs.

Differentiating between true democratic socialism and pseudo-socialism.

From Rio to reality in the developing world

The ethics of animal genetic engineering, and the wider controversies surrounding animal experimentation and welfare, are the focus of much public debate.

A critical analysis of the theoretical and programmatic problems and contradictions of the socialist ideal.

Is sexuality innate or socially determined? How has the history of sexuality been constructed? The author's survey introduces the literature and perspectives of writers from Freud to Scruton and provides a critical commentary along with explanations of the issues involved.

A fresh perspective on the postwar cultural history of the United States.

A pioneering account demystifying Marxist dialectics and critiquing key materialist thinkers.

Karl Kautsky integrates questions of political strategy, ecology, sexuality and the family.

Leon Trotsky and Victor Serge represent the great and tragic oppositional figures to Stalin's dictatorial grip on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. Written during this period, the letters exchanged between these two friends, published here in translation for the first time together with other material from both the Trotsky Archive at Harvard and the Serge Archive in Mexico, present a unique first-hand account of the alternatives and arguments of the Trotskyist opposition in exile. The correspondence chronicles Trotsky's attempts to found a new Fourth International and casts new light on the trajectory of the Russian revolution from Lenin to Stalin and the long term effects of Stalinism for the revolutionary movements in the West. A remarkable insight into the lives of two prominent thinkers of the twentieth century, these letters also help us to understand an important relationship during a critical period in European politics. Each section is prefaced by a clear introduction that contextualises and clarifyies the documents.

Tarbuck guides the reader through Nikolai Bukharin's key contributions to historical materialism.

An anthropological study of the privatisation and political economy of modern fishing

A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, focusing on the Productivist art movement of the 1920s

A classic, radical study of development via US foreign policy from the post-war period