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  • Emigration Nations

    Policies and Ideologies of Emigrant Engagement

    Edited by M. Collyer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens living abroad. Using detailed case studies, this book sets out to explain this significant development, with an innovative new theoretical framework. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Shackled Continent

    Power, Corruption, and African Lives

    by Robert Guest ...
    A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • World Heritage

    Benefits Beyond Borders

    Edited by Amareswar Galla ...
    Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage sites illustrating their benefits to local ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Global Muckraking

    100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

    Edited by Anya Schiffrin ...
    Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world?This groundbreaking new book ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why States Recover

    Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

    by Greg Mills ...
    State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other hand, is at the other end of the scale. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Congo Masquerade

    The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure

    by Theodore Trefon ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa

    The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments

    Edited by Renu Modi, Fantu Cheru ...
    Series series Africa Now
    The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new global South donors - especially India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased involvement and investment in the continent.Approaching the topic through the framework of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Law and Society in Latin America

    A New Map

    Edited by Cesar Garavito ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Havana Habit

    by Gustavo Perez Firmat ...
    Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained.In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems

    Globalization, Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers

    Edited by Ellen B. McCullough, Prabhu L. Pingali, Kostas G. Stamoulis ...
    'There should be a good market for this book. The topic is very timely and a major theme of the new World Development Report 2008. The editors and contributors are world class.'Derek Byerlee, World Bank'This is a topic of wide interest and high policy importance. The depth of coverage and excellent synthesis should ensure that the book will have a substantial market in high-level undergraduate and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Localization

    A Global Manifesto

    by Colin Hines ...
    Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • State and Economic Development in Africa

    The Case of Ethiopia

    by Aaron Tesfaye ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically assesses the impact of Ethiopia’s policy of Agriculture Development Led Industrialization. Employing qualitative and quantitative analysis, it presents empirical evidence suggesting persistent economic growth. The research highlights improvements in infrastructure, health care, education, poverty alleviation as well reductions in infant mortality rate. The impact of this ... Read more

    $89.99 USD