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November / 978-1-85065-872-6, £16.99 pb HURST

KORAN, KALASHNIKOV AND LAPTOP The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan ANTONIO GIUSTOZZI

‘Provides a balanced, objective and un-sensationalised consideration of the emergence of the neo-Taliban, taking on board the many perspectives and insights provided by numerous actors and analysts while also drawing on the author’s own conclusions. In so-doing, it covers new and important ground in research on Afghanistan.’ — Peter Marsden, author, The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan

AN IRAQ OF ITS REGIONS Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? REIDAR VISSER & GARETH STANSFIELD (EDS)

‘A very timely, well conceived and expertly developed volume on a matter that, in the growing furore over the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, has become an intense topic of debate.’ —Joost Hiltermann, International Crisis Group expert on Iraq

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of regionalism as a political force in contemporary Iraq.

November / 978-1-85065-875-7, £16.99 pb

KILLING CIVILIANS Method, Madness and Morality In War HUGO SLIM

‘An excellent book... . I recommend it to the practitioner, political, humanitarian and military, and in equal measure to the general public in whose name they act.’ —General Sir Rupert Smith, KCB, DSO, OBE, QGM, author, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

‘... the essential text on the hideous but important topic of why and how soldiers kill non-combatants.’ —Alex de Waal, program director, Social Science Research Council, New York

November / 978-1-85065-881-8, £20.00 hb

IRAN AND THE BOMB The Abdication of International Responsibility THÉÉRÈÈSE DELPECH

‘[Théérèèse Delpech’s] authority and autonomy have never faced an outcast’s passage through a desert of scorn; instead they are bolstered by private conversations with government leaders, and in 2005 by one of France’s major literary awards, the Prix Femina for nonfiction.’ —New York Times

‘In this book Théérèèse Delpech, a UN advisor on proliferation and an intrepid and tenacious researcher, uncloaks the network of collaboration that has enabled Tehran to reach the threshold of having nuclear weapons.’ —Le Monde

‘One of the world’s leading authorities on international nuclear security dissects Iran’s nuclear programme in minute detail.’ —The Middle East

July / 978-1-85065-844-3, £25 hb