Books

  • Sep012016

    Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

    Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain’s radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire…

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  • Jun012016

    Salafi–Jihadism: The History of an Idea

    No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the spectre of global jihadism. While much…

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  • Jan212016

    Realpolitik: A History

    Realpolitik is approaching its 160th birthday, though it has existed as a form of statecraft for centuries and is arguably as…

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  • Apr232015

    Post-war Japan as a Sea Power Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy

    In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the…

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  • Jul312014

    Castlereagh: The Biography of a Statesman

    Damned in coruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of…

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  • May162012

    Maritime Strategy and National Security in Japan and Britain

    Sharing a similar geography at the opposite ends of the Eurasian Continent and dependent on maritime trade to supplement the…

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  • May262009

    Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

    The peace agreement in Northern Ireland has been held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The…

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  • Nov122008

    The Glory of Being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast

    At a moment when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has excluded Ireland from his version of modern Britishness, John Bew’s…

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