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Explores how the present 'age of anger' has been abetted by elites, autocrats and the legacy of empire.

Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history.

Explores what it means to want to get there, and maybe even how our original goals--even the destination--may change, wherever or whenever they may be.

A nuanced and thoughtful biography of the elusive, much debated Portuguese dictator.

A defense of the moral and theoretical legitimacy of international intervention, challenging the traditional story of state sovereignty.

A sober and frank account of the strategic options and constraints affecting NATO.

An unflinching account of life in a Pakistani prison by a founding leader and the first elected prime minister of Bangladesh.

A highly original mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia's culture of road-building reflects the world's dangerous obsession with progress and growth.

Vividly traces the paths of Holocaust survivors who risked everything again to make a new life in Palestine.

The sacred and the revered, the divine and the musealised, relics have long been integral to Islamic practice. Wahhabisation has cast a modernist specter over celebrated traditions such as the visiting of shrines and pilgrimages to the birthplaces of beloved religious figures, yet these rituals continue to thrive. In this issue of Critical Muslim, we look at footprints ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad, to Adam and to Jesus. We pay our respects...

A lyrical history of one of India's great rivers--the entry-point of maritime commercial colonialism, and the life-sustaining waterway of Bengal and its former capital, Calcutta.

An enlightening reassessment of Britain's administration of colonial South India based on Sidney Wadsworth's unpublished memoir, revealing how absorbing he found his postings.

Satire and comedy are powerful tools in politics, both to convince and to ridicule. As this original and bleakly humorous book attests, global jihadism is no exception.

A profile of the kingmaker of Japanese politics, famed for his strategic acumen and lasting influence on the country.

An indispensable insider account of transition from guerrilla war to governance in Ethiopia.

A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump's America -- and how a new settlement may be achieved. Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new div...

Eritrea is characterised by regime paranoia, intense domestic repression and isolationism. Martin Plaut's book offers a glimpse into a relatively young nation marred by a stifling dictatorship.

Sheds new light on our understanding of the people of the rainforest. Given the current spotlight on nature and the future of the planet, an understanding of the people of the rainforest is highly topical.

Critical Muslim is a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues, presenting Muslim perspectives on the great debates of our times.

Basing his argument on the criteria for a "just war, " Brauman criticizes the Western obsession with imposing democratic values by force. In this sober and convincing book, he thoroughly dismantles the notion of the justness of "humanitarian wars.