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  • Working the System

    A Political Ethnography of the New Angola

    by Jon Schubert ...
    Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the system—an emic notion of their current political and socioeconomic environment—Jon Schubert explores what it means and how it feels to be part of the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa

    Beyond the Resource Curse

    Edited by Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel, Elísio Macamo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Development
    This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects as a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Economics and Policies

    by Ali M. El-Agraa ...
    The European Union has established itself as a leading text that provides readers from all disciplines with a sound understanding of the economics and policies of the EU. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis has ensured that previous editions have been read by a generation of students, researchers and policy makers. It covers all major EU policy areas as well as theories of economic ... Read more

    $91.09 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

    $34.79 USD

  • Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism

    by Sol Picciotto ...
    Series series International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
    This analysis of how multi-level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. It covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and a myriad of other ... Read more

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  • The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy

    by Kenneth Heydon ...
    This volume provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions of international trade policy. The volume contains a systematic examination of: - specific trade policy instruments (such as tariffs, non-tariff barriers and trade rules) - sectoral concerns (in agriculture, manufacturing and services) - ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Electricity in Africa

    The Politics of Transformation in Uganda

    by Christopher Gore ...
    Series Book 39 - African Issues
    Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states.No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African ... Read more

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  • EU-Japan Relations, 1970-2012

    From Confrontation to Global Partnership

    Edited by Jörn Keck, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Franz Waldenberger ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU-Japan relations from 1970 to the present. It charts developments over the period, analyses key specific areas of importance to the relationship, and concludes by assessing how the relationship is likely to develop going forward. Throughout, the book discusses the factors on both sides which motivate the relationship, including Japan’s concern to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Trade Agreements at the Crossroads

    Edited by Susy Frankel, Meredith Lewis ...
    The book examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations. With economies shrinking and protectionism on the rise, many fear a protracted global recession. This raises important questions as to what role trade agreements – multilateral, plurilateral, and bilateral – should be playing in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies

    by M. Anne Pitcher ...
    Series Book 119 - African Studies
    In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional arrangements adopted by states in order to create or expand their private sectors, but also on ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Pertinence of Caricom in the 21St Century: Some Perspectives

    by Hon. Prof. Sir Kenneth O. Hall ...
    The papers in this editor's choice from among the many articles, books and other commentaries that have provided clear and reasoned responses and solutions, to inform and guide our leaders in the creation of a Community for All.The publication posits that the time has come for the citizens of the Caribbean Community to be brought formally into the process that directly affects them and their ... Read more

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  • Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

    Challenges and Tasks for the Twenty First Century

    Edited by Ippei Yamazawa ...
    Series series PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)
    This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century. Subjects covered include: * the history of APEC * APEC and the latest WTO round * case-studies of countries in the region including China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Taiwan * APECs approach to competition and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD