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  • Kenya's Engagement with China

    Discourse, Power, and Agency

    by Anita Plummer ...
    In recent decades, Kenya has witnessed profound changes in its economic, cultural, and environmental landscapes resulting from its interactions with China. University students are competing for scholarships to study in China, coastal artisanal fishers are increasingly worried about Chinese-owned trawlers depleting fish stocks, fishers on Lake Victoria are grappling with the impact of frozen ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    A Beginner's Guide

    by Prof. David Collins ...
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    One of the most important yet least understood organizations in the world, the WTO is a lynchpin of globalization, allowing us to enjoy products and services from around the globe. However, it also lays bare the frailty of many industries, leading some to claim that it stokes unemployment and harms the developing world.In this engaging introduction, David Collins examines the goals of the WTO and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • China in Africa

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • 50 Years Of Singapore And The United Nations

    by Tommy Koh, Li Lin Chang, Joanna Tze Yan Koh ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    In 2015, Singapore marks the 50th anniversary of its independence, and the United Nations (UN) the 70th anniversary of its founding. This book celebrates 50 years of a mutually beneficial relationship between Singapore and the UN.In the early years of Singapore's independence, the UN system provided Singapore with many benefits which were helpful in Singapore's journey from the Third World to the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    by Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

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  • State Capitalism

    How the Return of Statism is Transforming the World

    by Joshua Kurlantzick ...
    The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability. The last fifteen years, starting with the Asian financial crisis, have seen the gradual erosion of that ... Read more

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  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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  • The BRICS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew F. Cooper ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - has emerged as a challenge to the international status ... Read more

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  • The New Economic Diplomacy

    Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

    Edited by Nicholas Bayne, Stephen Woolcock ...
    Series series Global Governance
    The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact of the financial crisis and the immediate reaction to it, a lot has happened since then, and the ... Read more

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  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

    by Maria Ivanova ...
    Series series One Planet
    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Read more

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  • Zambia at Fifty Years

    What Went Right, What Went Wrong and Wither To? a Treatise of the Country’S Socio-Economic and Political Developments Since Independence

    by Royson Mukwena ...
    This book looks at what went wrong and right during Zambias first fifty years of nationhood and based on this makes some recommendations, where necessary, on the way forward for the country in the areas covered in the book. The cutoff point for the book is October 24, 2014. The book is a systematic discourse on a range of socioeconomic and political developments in the country since independence. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Clash of Empires

    From 'Chimerica' to the 'New Cold War'

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    Series series Elements in Global China
    Many believe the recent deterioration in US–China relations represents a 'New Cold War' rooted in ideological differences. However, such differences did not prevent the two countries from pursuing economic integration and geopolitical cooperation in the 1990s and 2000s. Ho-fung Hung argues that what underlies the change in US–China relations is the changing relationship between US–China ... Read more

    $20.49 USD