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  • The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes in Africa

    Judicialising Peace

    de Line Gissel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    The book investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) affects efforts to negotiate peace. It offers an interpretive account of how peace negotiators and mediators in two peace processes in Uganda and Kenya sought to navigate and understand the new terrain of international justice, while also tracing how and why international decision-making processes interfered with the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Lion Sleeps Tonight

    And Other Stories of Africa

    de Rian Malan ...
    An essay collection that offers "a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa" from the bestselling author of My Traitor's Heart ( The Sunday Times).The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan's remarkable chronicle of South Africa's halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Continent

    Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa

    de Dayo Olopade ...
    "For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start" (Reuters).Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges.She found what cable ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • States and Power in Africa

    Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition

    de Jeffrey Herbst, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    de Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Chibok Girls

    The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria

    de Helon Habila ...
    On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by the deadly terrorist group Boko Haram.Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.On April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group. Most ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Nigeria

    Dancing on the Brink

    de John Campbell ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Africa in the World

    Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State

    de Frederick Cooper ...
    At the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Understanding Eritrea

    Inside Africa's Most Repressive State

    de Martin Plaut ...
    The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean. Still they flee, to avoid permanent military service and a future ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Policing in Africa

    de D. Francis ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This wide-ranging collection offers fresh insights into a critical factor in development and politics on the African continent. It critically examines and illustrates the centrality of policing in transition societies in Africa, and outlines and assesses the emergence and impact of the diversity of state and non-state policing agencies. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    de M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria

    Edición de M. Okome ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Since the 1990s, attempts at democratic transition have generated hopes for 'civil society' as well as ambivalence about the state. The interdisciplinary studies gathered here explore this dynamic through the complex interactions of state fragility, self-help, and self-organization in Nigeria. Nigeria stands as a particularly interesting case, as its multifaceted associational life extends far ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD