I.B.TAURIS FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE London Book Fair 2017 Contents Society, International Relations, Politics Kingdom of Women by Choo Waihong China’s Borderlands by Steven Parham Berlin Rules by Paul Lever Europe’s Relations with North Africa by Adam Fawaz Yousef Journalism and the NSA Revelations by Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, Adrienne Russell and Dmitry Yagodin (Eds) Online Activism in the Middle East by Jon Nordenson The UAE by William Gueraiche Brexit, No Exit by Denis MacShane The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay Destroying a Nation by Nikolaos Van Dam Chasing the Chinese Dream by Nick Holdstock Finding Eden by Robin Hanbury–Tenison Why Cold War Again? by Stephen F. Cohen Frontline Turkey by Ezgi Basaran Backlist History, Religion Battles for Freedom by Eric Foner Talleyrand in London by Linda Kelly British POWs and the Holocaust by Russell Wallis Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World by Charles Tieszen The Croatian Spring by Ante Batovic The First Mapping of America by Alex Johnson Kennedy and the Middle East by Antonio Perra Greek Civil War by Spyridon Plakoudas The Korean Diaspora in Post-War Japan by Myung Ja Kim You Win or You Die by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov A Forgotten Man by Geoffrey Elliott The Riviera at War by George G. Kundahl The Tsar’s Armenians by Onur Önol The Women Who Built the Ottoman World by Muzaffer Ozgules Young Lothar by Larry Orbach and Vivien Orbach-Smith Dharma by Veena R. Howard Fighting Proud by Stephen Bourne A History of Stability and Change in Lebanon by Joseph Bayeh The Makers of Modern Syria by Sami Moubayed The Reporting of Genocide by David Patrick Stalin’s Maverick Spy by Hamish MacGibbon The Myth of Hero and Leander by Silvia Montiglio Religion in the Roman World by Juliette Harrisson Building Stalinism by Cynthia Ruder Corinth in Late Antiquity by Amelia Brown Inferno by Margaret Kean Iran and the West by Margaux Whiskin (Ed) Jane Austen’s England by Anne-Marie Edwards Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England by Francis Young The Special Operations Executive (SEO) in Burma by Richard Duckett The Old Believers in Imperial Russia by Peter De Simone Embracing the Darkness by John Callow Backlist Series Architecture, Art, Media, Culture Dressing for Austerity by Geraldine Biddle-Perry Rebuilding Babel by Mark Crinson The Dead City Paul Dobraszcyk Feminism and Art History Now by Victoria Horne, Laura Perry (Eds) The Jazz War by Will Studdert Fascism and Resistance in 1970s Italian Film by Dominic Hubert Gavin Craft on Demand by Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch (Eds) Death in the Desert by Howard Hughes Positive Images by Dion Kagan Backlist Series Society International Relations Politics Kingdom of Women Life, Love and Death in China’s Mountains Choo Waihong Choo Waihong was a corporate lawyer with top law firms in Singapore and California before she took early retirement in 2006 and began writing travel pieces for publications such as China Daily. She lived for six years with the Mosuo tribe and now spends half the year with them in Yunnan, China. `A crisp account by a high powered Singaporean lawyer of how she renounced her former life of February 2017 fifteen hour working days in a male dominated corporate world to find her feminist soul in the last 256 pages matriarchal ethnic group remaining in China. Full of 30 illustrations insights and touching descriptions, this is one of the most accessible and concrete descriptions of the Approx. 75,000 words Mosuo, a group more analysed than understood, World rights available putting the humanity of this tribe at the forefront of their identity.' - Kerry Brown, author of CEO China => Society, China, and The New Emperors History In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little The first and only book on the in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal Mosuo tribe societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest A truly fascinating account of one with the Mosuo women, who live completely of the world's last matrilineal independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, societies with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition - that of 'walking marriage', where women choose Written beautifully, highly their own lovers from men within the tribe but are promotable story beholden to none. Choo Waihong is the only non-Mosuo to have ever lived with the tribe. She tells the remarkable story of her time in the remote mountains of China and gives a vibrant, compelling glimpse into a way of life that teeters on the knife-edge of extinction. China’s Borderlands The Faultline of Central Asia Steven Parham Steven Parham spent a year travelling through the borderlands of Central Asia and recording what he saw. He is Associate Researcher in Ethnography at the University of Bern and a Post-Doctoral Researcher on Central Asia at the University of Tampere in Finland. He has lectured around the world, including at universities in Turkey and in Budapest. February 2017 ‘Illuminating… an invaluable insight’ - Nick Holdstock 304 pages 2 maps As China begins its momentous New Silk Road project and expands its influence into Central Asia, Approx. 100,000 words the borderlands between China, Tajikistan and World rights available Kyrgyzstan have become sites of ethnic tension and political struggle. This region – which marks the => Politics, China, Russia meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia – is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised ‘Silk Road’ sense of fraternity. As Steven Parham shows, many of the world’s Appeal to Russia, China and Soviet borders have proved to be deeply unstable Central Asia markets and, in the end, impermanent. Meanwhile, the looming presence of Modern China and Russia, Economics of these bordelands who are funnelling money and military resources increasingly important in the into the region – partly to fight what they see as a study of Modern China growing Islamic activism – are adding fuel to the fire. This lyrical, intelligent book functions as part travelogue, part sociological exploration, and is Ground-Breaking Research based on a unique body of research – five months trekking through the checkpoints of the border regions. As China continues to grow and become more assertive, as it has been recently in Africa and in the South China Seas – as well as in Xinjiang – China’s borderlands have become a battleground between the Soviet past and the Chinese future. Berlin Rules Europe and the German Way Paul Lever Sir Paul Lever KCMG is a retired former British ambassador. Over the course of a long diplomatic career, his posts included assistant Under- Secretary at the FCO 1992–94; chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee 1994–96; Director for EU and Economic Affairs at the FCO 1996–97; and Ambassador to Germany 1997–2003. After his retirement from the diplomatic service, he was Chairman of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Lever was appointed CMG in 1991 and knighted KCMG in 1998. March 2017 New insights into Germany’s role as the dominant player in Europe. 288 pages Approx. 90,000 words In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and World rights available economic power in Europe – and in the EU. Yet => Current Affairs, Germany’s leadership of the EU is geared Politics, European principally to the defence of German national Studies interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world. Beyond that there is no underlying vision or purpose. In this book, former British ambassador to Germany Paul Lever provides a unique insight into modern New perspective on post-Brexit Germany. He shows how Germany’s history has future of Europe influenced its current economic and social development and provides important perspectives on Germany’s future political and cultural growth, Strong interest in Europe in the especially in the context of the 2015 refugee crisis aftermath of the EU referendum which saw over 1 million refugees offered a home in Germany. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, this book will be essential reading Important perspective into and suggests the future shape of a Germany- debates on the future of Europe dominated Europe. Europe’s Relations with North Africa Politics, Economics and Security Adam Fawaz Yousef Adam Fawaz Yousef is a political economist who specialises in the economics of the European Union, political economy and economic development. He has acted as an economic advisor to a variety of governmental and non- governmental organisations in Europe and North America. March 2017 New framework for understanding European relations with North Africa. 320 pages Approx. 100,000 words The rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has World rights available reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean => International relations. Since 1995 these relations have operated Relations, Politics, under the auspices of the Barcelona Process, which Economics laid the foundations for three initiatives that define European policy towards neighbouring states: the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and the Union for the Mediterranean This book scrutinises these initiatives through a socioeconomic prism. Adam Yousef reviews how Socio-economic perspective on appropriate these initiatives have been in European relations with North promoting socioeconomic development in North Africa African states, projects the long-term implications of these policies and investigates whether they can reduce the gap in social outcomes across the New perspective on EU’s Mediterranean Basin over time.