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“michael harrison smith”

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  • The Natural Advantage of Nations

    Business Opportunities, Innovations and Governance in the 21st Century

    by Karlson Hargroves, Michael Harrison Smith ...
    This book is more than just a 'palliative care' guide for the planet - it is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability. At work, at home and as members of society, our generation has an opportunity - to be part of the obligation - and an exciting solution in restoring the balance. The authors present a bold vision for the future and demonstrate how we can get there, drawing on ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cents and Sustainability

    Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures

    by Cheryl Desha, Charlie Hargroves, Michael Harrison Smith ...
    Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achievable, but that it was an urgent imperative in order to achieve a transition to sustainable development while ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

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    The Primacy of Empowerment

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  • Modern Slavery

    The Margins of Freedom

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  • Making Sense of the Central African Republic

    by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe, Ledio Cakaj, Nathaniel Olin, Enrica Picco, Stephen W. Smith, Laurence D. Wohlers ...
    Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful coups. Over the course of these upheavals, the country has become a laboratory for peacebuilding ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    by Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... Read more

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  • Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa

    Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance

    by Marc Epprecht ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their assumed or perceived homosexual orientation has received considerable coverage in the popular media in recent years. Gay-bashing by political and religious figures in Zimbabwe and Gambia; draconian new laws against lesbians and gays and their supporters in Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda; and the imprisonment and extortion of gay men in Senegal ... Read more

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  • Dirty Wars and Polished Silver

    The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix

    by Lynda Schuster ...
    From a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, an exuberant memoir of life, love, and transformation on the frontlines of conflicts around the world**Growing up in 1970s Detroit, Lynda Schuster felt certain life was happening elsewhere. And as soon as she graduated from high school, she set out to find it.Dirty Wars and Polished Silver is Schuster’s story of her life abroad as a foreign ... Read more

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  • Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad

    In Search of Knowledge

    Edited by Thomas Carothers ...
    "Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading U.S. expert on democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy assistance but also of U.S. grand strategy overall."-SAIS Review Promoting the rule of law has become a major part of Western efforts to spread democracy and market economics around the world. Yet, although programs to ... Read more

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  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Edited by Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford ...
    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Read more

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  • Turkey Reframed

    Constituting Neoliberal Hegemony

    Edited by İsmet Akça, Ahmet Bekmen, Barış Alp Özden ...
    The first decade of the 2000s was a period of radical change in Turkish society and politics, marked by the major economic crisis of 2001 and the coming to power of ex-Islamist cadres organised under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). As the 'Turkish model' gains traction across the Middle East, this chronicle of Turkey's recent history dispels some important myths.This period of radical ... Read more

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  • Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka

    A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

    by Robert Muggah ...
    Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies and durable solutions.Relocation Failures explains how internal displacement and efforts to ... Read more

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