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  • Limits of Global Governance

    de Jim Whitman ...
    Are we creating an ungovernable world? Can we be confident that our existing modes of global governance are sufficient, or adaptable enough, to meet the challenges of globalization?This new study powerfully tackles these key questions, delivering a provocative examination of the cognitive, practical and political limits on our ability to exercise systems of regulation and control on the same scale ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

    Edición de Nana Poku, Jim Whitman ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ‘snapshot fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Africa Under Neoliberalism

    Edición de Nana Poku, Jim Whitman ...
    Series series Contemporary African Politics
    The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa’s political elite to anchor the continent’s development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental governments and the donor communities of the West and particularly their institutions of global ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies

    Edición de Jim Whitman ...
    This book is a long overdue assessment of the role of the UN specialized Agencies in peacekeeping operations. Special emphasis is given to that most vexed category, 'complex emergencies', invloving entrapped or victimized civilian populations and a plethora of UN national military and NGO actors.While based on the full range of recent history, the contributions to this volume are forward looking ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • Beyond Gridlock

    de Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Leer más

    $24.00 USD

  • Homegrown Development in Africa

    Reality or illusion?

    de Chukwumerije Okereke, Patricia Agupusi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the late 1990s many African countries have started to take initiatives to develop an integrated framework that tackles poverty and promotes socio-economic development in their respective countries.This book provides a critical evaluation of ‘homegrown’ ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • State Fragility and State Building in Africa

    Cases from Eastern and Southern Africa

    Edición de Dele Olowu, Paulos Chanie ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent’s citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the drivers of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Shaping the Humanitarian World

    de Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Providing a critical introduction to the notion of humanitarianism in global politics, tracing the concept from its origins to the twenty-first century, this book examines how the so called international community works in response to humanitarian crises and the systems that bind and divide them.By tracing the history on international humanitarian action from its early roots through the birth of ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Price of Rights

    Regulating International Labor Migration

    de Martin Ruhs ...
    Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • China in Africa

    de Chris Alden ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Nowhere in the world is China's rapid rise to power more evident than in Africa. From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China's economic and political reach is redefining Africa's traditional ties with the international community. This book investigates the emerging relationship between China and Africa ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

    de David Hulme ...
    Series series Global Futures
    In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    de Roger C. Riddell ...
    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD