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Recent BooksMembers of the DPIR produce a hugevariety of high quality publications. Hereis a selection of recent (and one not sorecent) books to whet your appetites.flicts of 1971 using factshis search for the truthurd exaggerations andn the sacrifices of 1971.factions in contemporaryhat prevent reconciliationwith Bose’s links withlitical values cannot bef recognizing historical, Professor of Economics,by participants at thebeen fed by faulty memoadesh.Dead Reckoningthe facts of that tragic andfor the war that stainedwaz, author of Crossedte interest in settingstudy yet of the social,akistan/Bangladesh war.e are in her debt.’nand massacre cut acrosshan Pakistani and Bengalince a correction of thescholarship. Written withterms of debate aboutrk Moses, Professor at theof the Bangladesh war everhe Mujibnagar indepenngebetter than Sarmiland meticulous research.’ — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray,ISBN 978-1-84904-049-5BOSEDEAD RECKONINGHURSTSARMILA BOSEDEADRECKONINGmemories of THE1971 bangladesh war‘History emerges only slowly from thepassion-filled context of contemporaryevents. Sarmila Bose’s book sets Bangladesh’sliberation struggle at the start ofthis long passage.’ — David Washbrook,Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College,CambridgeThis ground-breaking book chroniclesthe 1971 war in South Asia by reconstitutingthe memories of those onopposing sides of the conflict.The year 1971 was marked by a bittercivil war within Pakistan and warbetween India and Pakistan, backedrespectively by the Soviet Union andthe United States. It was fought overthe territory of East Pakistan, whichseceded to become Bangladesh.Through a detailed investigation ofevents on the ground, Sarmila Bosecontextualises and humanises the warwhile analysing what the events revealabout the nature of the conflict itself.The story of 1971 has so far beendominated by the narrative of thevictorious side. All parties to the warare still largely imprisoned by wartimepartisan mythologies. Bose reconstructsevents via interviews conductedin Bangladesh and Pakistan, publishedand unpublished reminiscencesin Bengali and English of participantson all sides, official documents, foreignmedia reports and other sources.Her book challenges assumptionsabout the nature of the conflict, andexposes the ways in which the 1971conflict is still playing out in the region.9 781849 040495Sarmila BoseDead Reckoning. Memories ofthe 1971 Bangladesh War(Hurst & Co)Sarmila Bose’s innovative bookchronicles the 1971 war in SouthAsia drawing on the memories ofthose on opposing sides of theconflict. The bitter civil war withinPakistan and the war betweenIndia and Pakistan, backedrespectively by the Soviet Unionand the United States, werefought over the disputed territoryof East Pakistan which secededto become Bangladesh. Througha detailed investigation of eventson the ground, Sarmila Bosecontextualises and humanisesthe war while analysing what theevents reveal about the nature ofthe conflict itself.Sudhir HazareesinghLe Mythe Gaullien(Editions Gallimard)Sudhir Hazareesingh examinestwo related phenomena: howde Gaulle created a heroicmyth about himself as France’sprovidential saviour, and howthis myth was disseminated inFrench popular culture from the1940s to the present. The authorfinds compelling evidence ofthe Gaullian cult in a varietyof phenomena, including: theproliferation of statues and streetnames, the tidal wave of memoirsby members of his entourage, themass pilgrimages to Colombeyles-Deux-Églisesafter his death,and the collective idealisation ofhis memory by politicians andintellectuals.Walter Mattli & Ngaire Woods(edited)The Politics of GlobalRegulation(Princeton University Press)The editors have assembled agroup of leading experts in orderto examine how regulation bypublic and private organisations,especially at the global level, canbe hijacked by special interestsor small groups of powerfulfirms. They seek to examinesystematically how and why suchhijacking or ‘regulatory capture’happens, and explain how it mightbe averted. This book is a wakeupcall to proponents of networkgovernance, self-regulation, andthe view that technocrats shouldbe left to regulate with as littleoversight as possible.Marc StearsDemanding DemocracyAmerican Radicals in Search ofa New Politics(Princeton University Press)This major work of history andpolitical theory traces radicaldemocratic thought in Americaacross the twentieth century,seeking to recover ideas thatcould reenergise democraticactivism today. In the struggleto create a more democraticsociety, should citizens restrictthemselves to patient persuasionor take to the streets and seekto impose change? Marc Stearsargues that anyone interested inthese questions could learn fromthe radical democratic traditionthat was forged in the twentiethcentury by political activistsincluding progressives, tradeunionists, civil rights campaigners,and members of the studentNew Left.20