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Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.

Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of patterns of race and ethnic relations across the globe.

The first biography of new Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, an inspiring tale of personal struggle and political intrigue. Varadkar has been both highly visible and a key player in negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit and issues surrounding the Irish border with the North.

Abiding interest in Margaret Thatcher, combined with the growing prominence of women in Parliament makes this a timely book.

Italian politics continue to chart new institutional paths. As governments change without the apparent instability of previous decades, political parties transform themselves and personalist modes of governance emerge. New policy concerns - immigration and highway safety - join with perennial concerns ...

"A passionate, important study of the current affairs of a volatile region."-- Kirkus Reviews starred review

The rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great ...

An expose of Southeast Asia's criminal underworld in the 21st century and its surprising links to the West.

Who is to blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic State? The answer lies far closer to home than you might dare imagine...

The book is a pro-European polemic.

The last great rethink of the welfare system was the Beveridge Report of 1942.

In July 2016 David Cameron rolled the dice on Britain's 43-year-old membership of the EU. Breaking Point explains where post-referendum Britain is heading, how we got here, and what lessons might be learned. It combines analysis of official and off-the-record meetings with senior politicians as well as encounters with ordinary voters.

Despite the rise in research and public awareness about rape culture and gendered violence, it remains a serious problem. Using case studies from the US and UK this book explains how it happens, what it means and how it can be contested.

Including novel case studies, this multi-disciplinary book assembles a rich collection of policing and security frontiers both geographical (e.g. the margins of cities) and conceptual (dispersion and credentialism) not seen or acknowledged previously, pushing criminology to the edge of its current understanding.

In this book, the authors seek to question if a 'criminology of war' is possible, whilst providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology. They also examine how this seemingly 'new horizon' of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.

African Exodus places the emphasis firmly on the causes of the refugee crisis, which are to be found not least in Europe itself, and charts ways in which we might deal with it effectively in the long term.

Based on years of anthropological fieldwork in the House of Lords and and the House of Commons, Crewe explains how relationships within the two Houses are utterly different from their surface appearances. This book looks beneath the surface and uncovers Parliament's surprises and secrets.

The first empirical study of the inner workings of South Africa's dysfunctional policy development process, exposing the challenges of large-scale policy overhaul and the frictions at the heart of the South African state.

An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment.

During 2013-14, the IEA ran a competition ('BREXIT') to find the best blueprint for Britain outside the EU, with the objective of securing a free and prosperous economy should it choose to leave. This book brings together Iain Mansfield's winning submission with edited versions of three other contributions.

A highly respected voice reveals the truth behind the myths in the Middle East's crucible of conflict