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  • Condemned to Repeat?

    The Paradox of Humanitarian Action

    by Fiona Terry ...
    Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • The Hole in Our Gospel Special Edition

    What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

    by Richard Stearns ...
    ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner! What Does God Expect of Us?Is our faith only about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?More than twenty years ago Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Where Soldiers Fear to Tread

    A Relief Worker's Tale of Survival

    by John Burnett ...
    “There is going to be a shooting here and it is a toss-up who is going to get the boy’s first round. The soldier, about ten years old, is jamming the barrel of his gun hard against my driver’s face, and unless the kid decides to go for me, the relief worker, my driver is going to get his head blown off.”WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREADJohn Burnett survived this ordeal and others during his service as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rethinking Private Authority

    Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

    by Jessica F. Green ...
    Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Expose, Oppose, Propose

    Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Transnational Private Governance and its Limits

    Edited by Jean-Christophe Graz, Andreas Nölke ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This volume explores a variety of forms of transnational private governance where non-state actors cooperate across borders to establish rules and standards accepted as legitimate by other agents.Transnational private governance is a core feature of the devolution of power that we observe in the global realm and that is bringing about new forms of authority. Transnational Private Governance ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Oil, power and a sign of hope

    Of corporations and the human right to clean water

    by Klaus Stieglitz, Sabine Pamperrien ...
    "Mercedes AMG Petronas F1-Team"is the official name of the team that has been operated in the Formula 1 competition since the 2010 season by Germany's Daimler AG, one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles. The "Petronas" forming part of the racing team's name is also emblazoned on its legendary Silver Arrow cars. Owned by the Malaysian government, Petronas is a multinational ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation

    Edited by Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Andreas Nölke ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This ambitious volume explores the politics of recent changes in corporate governance regulation and the transnational forces driving the process.Corporate governance has in the 1990s become a catchphrase of the global business community. The Enron collapse and other recent corporate scandals, as well as growing worries in Europe about the rise of Anglo-Saxon finance, have made issues of corporate ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Resilient Sector Revisited

    The New Challenge to Nonprofit America

    by Lester M Salamon ...
    Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions being buffeted by a withering set of challenges, yet still finding ways to survive and prosper. These ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Civil Society in Question

    by Jamie Swift ...
    In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present. Swift looks at its practical application in specific cases, such as Canada’s Victorian Order of Nurses, and with community-based groups in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh). He examines the relationship between ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War

    Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers

    Edited by Harald Muller, Carsten Rauch ...
    Series series New International Relations
    Great-power conflict and great-power war are still the most dangerous risks the international community is facing today. This edited volume investigates the feasibility of a modern day concert of powers as a way for managing the risk of great power conflicts in the 21st century. The volume takes its inspiration from history.The 19th century European Concert was not only able to ensure a period of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Institutionalizing Health and Education for All

    Global Goals, Innovations, and Scaling Up

    by Colette Chabbott ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Educational Reform Series
    Health for All and Education for All have been rallying cries for a host of international development activities for more than a quarter century. Where did these global goals come from? Why have the health goals seemingly advanced so much faster than those in education? In this book, author Colette Chabbott explores the foundational role that international development organizations and the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD