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  • Elite Transition

    From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

    by Patrick Bond ...
    Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid, this is an updated edition of a best-selling work of political analysis. Patrick Bond, a former adviser to the ANC, investigates how groups such as the ANC went from being a force of liberation to a vehicle now perceived as serving the economic interests of an elite few.This edition includes new analysis looking at the 2008 ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Retreat

    Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left

    by Boris Kagarlitsky ...
    Translated by Renfrey Clarke ...
    Series series Transnational Institute
    ‘Boris Kagarlitsky is a man of enormous intellect and bravery ... I’ve always been stimulated by discussions with Boris and his relationship with thoughtful figures all around the world’ – Jeremy Corbyn MP‘Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space’ – Open Democracy‘This brilliant and profound book is likely to become a classic’ – Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looting Africa

    The Economics of Exploitation

    by Patrick Bond ...
    Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets

    Between Subordination and Statecraft

    by Ilias Alami, Christopher A. McNally, Fathimath Musthaq, Anush Kapadia, Roxana Ehlke, Tim Salzer, Carola Westermeier, Annina Kaltenbruner, Joel Rabinovich, Elif Karacimen, Pedro Lange Machado, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Eduardo Mantoan, Leslie Elliott Armijo, Patrick Bond, Ingrid Kvangraven ...
    Series series Business, Finance and International Development
    What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to pursue state objectives?In this edited volume, leading scholars explore these questions, focusing on state–finance interactions globally. The book combines literatures on international financial subordination, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • South Africa - The Present as History

    From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana

    by John S. Saul, John S. Saul, Patrick Bond, Patrick Bond ...
    In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in the world - underscored by the police shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012 - regions ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • BRICS and Resistance in Africa

    Contention, Assimilation and Co-optation

    Edited by Justin van der Merwe, Patrick Bond, Nicole Dodd ...
    Series series Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
    Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as another example of foreign interference and exploitation.BRICS and Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of African resistance being developed in response to the growing influence of the BRICS. Its case studies cover such instances as the opposition to China's ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • BRICS

    An Anticapitalist Critique

    Edited by Ana Garcia, Patrick Bond ...
    he emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa on a global stage has upset the dominance of the United States as the world’s only superpower. But can they chart a path toward a more just global economy? This collection, which brings together leading political economists from around the world, argues that the BRICS are actually amplifying some of the worst features of international ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • BRICS and the New American Imperialism

    Global rivalry and resistance

    by Vishwas Satgar, Ferrial Adam, Samir Amin, Patrick Bond, William K Carroll, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexander Gallas, Ana Garcia, Karina Kato, Nivedita Majumdar0, Keamogetswe Seipato1 ...
    Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalismBRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Confronting Global Neoliberalism

    Third World Resistance and Development Strategies

    by Richard Westra ...
    With the world’s attention fixed on the travails of leading global economies due to a still unfolding financial crisis of gigantic proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the third world as the malaise increasingly impacts it. This silence is particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in the neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative

    Infrastructures and Political Ecologies on the New Silk Road

    by Ratchada Arpornsilp, Orlando Woods, Caixia Mao, Patrick Bond, Simone Veglio, Evelina Gambino, Xiaofeng Liu, Hannes Langguth, Ksenija Hanacek, Bowen Gu, Alberto Valz Gris, Kanchana Ruwanpura, Loritta Chan, Barnabas Mah, Francesca Governa, Leonardo Ramondetti, Astrid Safina, Angelo Sampieri ...
    EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US$8 trillion and impact more than 65% of the world’s population.This book explores the unequal ways this ... Read more

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  • Why Africa Fails

    The case for growth before democracy

    by Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha ...
    Africa should accept that its present malaise is largely due to its own mistakes: greed, poor policies and a lack of leadership. Blaming colonialism for Africa’s failings belongs to the past. Africa has been lessed with great wealth, but where has this wealth gone? Why are so many countries in need of aid? And why has this wealth not filtered down to poor people? Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha surveys ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

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