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  • When States Fail

    Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Overcoming the Oppressors

    White and Black in Southern Africa

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Overcoming the Oppressors traces southern Africa's long walk to freedom, the overturning of colonial rule in the northern territories, and the dissolution of backs-to-the-wall white settler suzerainty, first in what became Zimbabwe and then in South Africa. Chapters on the individual countries detail the stages along their sometimes complicated and tortuous struggle to attain the political New ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • The Corruption Cure

    How Citizens & Leaders Can Combat Graft

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globallyCorruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Founder:Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

    Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Things Come Together

    Africans Achieving Greatness in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert Rotberg ...
    For decades, Africa was falling apart. But now it is coming together, and Africans are achieving greatness. Despite the advances, though, the twenty-first century brings challenges to match each and every major opportunity. In Things Come Together, Robert Rotberg brings all of contemporary Africa into a single volume, extolling the successes and explaining the struggles. Rotberg is one of the ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Africa Emerges

    Consummate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities

    by Robert Rotberg ...
    Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and political progress. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role in world affairs. Thanks to shifts in leadership and governance, an African renaissance could be at hand.Yet the road ahead is not ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Transformative Political Leadership

    Making a Difference in the Developing World

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders are rare in the developing world, where often institutions are weak and greed and corruption strong ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement In Africa

    Methods of Conflict Prevention

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationEdited by World Peace Foundation president Robert I. Rotberg, the chapters in this volume focus on preventing outbreaks of civil war and other vicious internal conflicts in Africa. The contributors review the sorry state of African conflict prevention and weigh the merits of new methods of peace enforcement, including militant ... Read more

    $46.49 CAD

  • Governance and Leadership in Africa

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Series series Africa: Progress and Problems
    Many of the problems in Africa today, including widespread poverty and civil unrest, can be traced to the continents legacy of bad governance. In the post-independence period, authoritarian strongmen took control of many countries, enriching themselves and their cronies by exploiting the peoples labor and their countrys resources. In recent years, however, a growing number of African states have ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Anticorruption

    by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Robert I. Rotberg, showcases how to win the ever-raging anticorruption battle, through this guide for citizens and politicians on either side of the aisle.The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Grand Corruption

    Curbing Kleptocracy Globally

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg, Fen Osler Hampson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of grand corruption, showing how it can be assessed, measured, and attacked from within and without.The volume brings together in a single, definitive text some of the best analyses on how to measure the costs of grand corruption and dissects the legal approaches and institutions to counter grand corruption and kleptocracy. Through a series ... Read more

    Was $81.99 CAD Now $72.82 CAD

  • Canada's Corruption at Home and Abroad

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg, David Carment ...
    Although Canada is regarded as one of the least corrupt countries, this volume draws on wide ranging evidence and innovative research from scholars around the world to challenge this assumption.Corruption, defined as the "abuse of entrusted power for private gain," is often understood as being caused by internally motivated greed leading to prohibited acts in contravention of laws, rules and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD