Hired to cook for London's high-society when they convene at the Galaxy Theater in London's West End, master chef Auguste Didier is once again drawn into a murder investigation. Original.

Contemporary Violence: Postmodern War in Kosovo and Chechnya draws on several years of field research, as well as interpretive IR theory and analysis of empirical source material so as to shed light on contemporary violence.  Drawing on interpretive approaches to International Relations, the book argues that founding events and multiple contexts informed the narratives deployed by different members of each movement, illustrating why elements within the Kosovo Liberation Army and the armed forces of the Chechen republic of Ichkeria favored regional and local strategies of war in the Balkans and the North Caucasus. The book draws on post-positivist analysis and empirical research so as unravel the relationship between narratives, stories and hermeneutic accounts of International Relations; regional politics and trans-local identity; globalisation and visual aspects of contemporary security; criminality and emotionality; which together illustrate the dynamics within the armed resistance movements in Kosovo and the North Caucasus and the road to war in 1999. The book is a major addition to a small field of genuinely readable studies of IR theory. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, students, area studies experts and policy-makers seeking to understand the formation of the armed resistance movements in Kosovo and Chechnya. Among other things, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Political Studies, Area Studies, as well as those within Cultural and Historical and Sociological Studies.

Product Description: The Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) was the first successful insurgent movement in Europe since the Second World War. In the struggle against Milosevic's Serbia it developed from a tiny group in the Swiss political underground in the 1980s to an 18,000 strong military force that was allied with NATO between 1997 and 1999...read more

Product Description: Warum ubertragen die Mitgliedstaaten der Europaischen Union bestimmte Aufgaben in der internationalen Konfliktbearbeitung? Wie wirken nationale auaenpolitische Identitaten auf das gemeinsame Handeln in der EU? Dieser Band untersucht die Kosovopolitiken der Union sowie von funf EU-Staaten (Deutschland, Frankreich, Groabritannien, Niederlande, Griechenland) aus einer vergleichenden Perspektive...read more

Product Description: For a decade, Michael Ignatieff has provided eyewitness accounts and penetrating analyses from the world's battle zones. In Virtual War, he offers an analysis of the conflict in Kosovo and what it means for the future of warfare. He describes the latest phase in modern combat: war fought by remote control...read more

Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.

Product Description: Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-FictionFor every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. Reporters weren’t allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway...read more

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The 'humanitarian' bombing of Yugoslavia played a key role in gaining support of the centre left for war as an instrument of policy. In this study, Johnstone identifies the common geopolitical interests running through past, present and future military interventions. (view table of contents)

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