Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanctions supposed to translate into political gain? What are the mechanisms by which sanctions operate - or fail to operate? This is the first comparative study of this vital question. Drawing on Gramscian state theory, Societies Under Siege provides a novel analytical framework to study how sanctions are mediated through the domestic political economy and state-society relations of target states and filter through into political outcomes - whether those sought by the states imposing sanctions or, as frequently occurs, unintended and even highly perverse consequences. Detailed case studies of sanctions aimed at regime change in three pivotal cases - South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar - are used to explore how different types of sanctions function across time and space. These case studies draw on extensive fieldwork interviews, archival documents and leaked diplomatic cables to provide a unique insight into how undemocratic regimes targeted by sanctions survive or fall.

Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Lee

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Product Description 
Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese behaviour abroad is often not the product of a coherent grand strategy, but results from a sometimes-chaotic struggle for power and resources among contending politico-business interests, within a surprisingly permissive Chinese-style regulatory state. Presenting a path-breaking new analytical framework, Fractured China transforms the central debate in International Relations and provides new tools for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and respond to twenty-first century rising powers. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China and Southeast Asia, it includes three major case studies – the South China Sea, non-traditional security cooperation, and development financing–to demonstrate the framework's explanatory power. 
 Review 
‘This exemplary work provides fabulous analyses on China's behaviours in international security and financial engagements. It should be a must-read for anyone who wants to gain more insights into the inner workings of China's foreign policy making and the impacts on China's partners and rivals.' Li Mingjiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore\n'This book is a long overdue and convincing corrective to recent studies of China’s rise that assume a coherent grand design by an all-powerful Chinese state, which would inevitably lead it to the trap of conflict or the temptation of world domination, or both. The reality, as Fractured China argues, is that China is no unitary actor and messy politics and competing domestic interests shape its foreign policy behaviour, whether in the long or short term. And outstanding book.' Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington DC, and Author of The End of American World Order (2018)\n'In this provocative new book, Jones and Hameiri break open the black box of the state to understand China's foreign policy in both traditional and nontraditional spheres. Building on the idea of China as a regulatory state – which highlights the fragmentation and decentralization of relevant actors – they show that the policymaking process is much more complex than commonly believed.' M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 
 Book Description 
Explains how state transformation processes–the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of China's party-state–shape China's external relations. 
 About the Author 
Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His other books include ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (2012), Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (2015), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Markets under Hyperglobalisation (2020).\nShahar Hameiri is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. Among his recent books are Governing Borderless Threats (2015), International Intervention and Local Politics (2017), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (2020).

Fractured China

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

'Non-traditional' security problems like pandemic diseases, climate change and terrorism now pervade the global agenda. Many argue that sovereign state-based governance is no longer adequate, demanding and constructing new approaches to manage border-spanning threats. Drawing on critical literature in political science, political geography and political economy, this is the first book that systematically explains the outcomes of these efforts. It shows that transboundary security challenges are primarily governed not through supranational organisations, but by transforming state apparatuses and integrating them into multilevel, regional or global regulatory governance networks. The socio-political contestation shaping this process determines the form, content and operation of transnational security governance regimes. Using three in-depth case studies - environmental degradation, pandemic disease, and transnational crime - this innovative book integrates global governance and international security studies, and identifies the political and normative implications of non-traditional security governance, providing insights for scholars and policymakers alike.

Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation

Engineering & Transportation

Hameiri, Shahar

Engineering

Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation - the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses - have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese behaviour abroad is often not the product of a coherent grand strategy, but results from a sometimes-chaotic struggle for power and resources among contending politico-business interests, within a surprisingly permissive Chinese-style regulatory state. Presenting a path-breaking new analytical framework, Fractured China transforms the central debate in International Relations and provides new tools for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and respond to twenty-first century rising powers. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China and Southeast Asia, it includes three major case studies - the South China Sea, non-traditional security cooperation, and development financing-to demonstrate the framework's explanatory power.

Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which Europe's elites transformed their own states in order to rule the void where representative politics used to be. Leaving the EU is a necessary but not sufficient step towards closing the chasm between rulers and ruled. This book makes the democratic case for national sovereignty, arguing for a radical, forward-looking reconstitution of the British nation-state through strengthening representative democracy. It is essential for anyone who wonders why British politics is so dysfunctional and who wants to do better.

Hoare, George

Cunliffe, Philip

Ramsay, Peter

Polity

NOW BEING MADE INTO A MOVIE!Beverly Mansion is about a haunted house built in 1835 in Mississippi. Unbeknownst, a family moves in unaware of the properties dark past. They experience things unnatural to this world and unravel the secrets of the past.

Beverly Mansion: A Ghost Story

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Independently published

This is the book for holdem novices and low-limit veterans alike. It doesnt overwhelm you with tables or statistics, and doesnt spend a lot of time on sophisticated plays. It simply gives you good solid strategies and tactics that will consistently beat low-limit holdem games anywhere.

Winning Low-Limit Hold 'Em

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Conjelco

Since its first publication in 1994, Winning Low-Limit Hold'em, by Lee Jones, has become the major reference on playing Texas Hold'em at the lower limits. However, poker has changed over the several years and Lee has continued to study the game. The result is this revised and expanded second edition.
If you play low-limit Hold’em, or would like to learn to play Hold’em, this book is for you. It won’t teach you a lot of advanced poker theory, but it will give you a solid foundation with which you can be a winner at low-limit Hold’em.
Read this book, study it carefully, and be disciplined: you’ll be able to beat any 1-4, 3-6, or 1-4-8-8 Hold’em game you join.

Winning Low-Limit Hold'Em

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Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work

Fractured China

Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation

Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation

Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit

Beverly Mansion: A Ghost Story

Winning Low-Limit Hold 'Em

Winning Low-Limit Hold'Em