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  • Life after Violence

    A People's Story of Burundi

    by Peter Uvin ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time.Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their relationships ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The International Organization of Hunger

    by Peter Uvin ...
    First Published in 1993, this is part of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva series.This study which looks at whether scholars of international politics attempt to understand cooperative behavior in the light of the theories developed by the observers of both conflict and of cooperation. This volume expands the short list of such works and does so with insight, a wide range of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Migration in West Africa

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Joseph Kofi Teye ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader examines the dynamics and impacts of international migration within and from West Africa. The book presents key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on historical trends, geographical patterns, drivers and socio-economic impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration in West Africa, a region that is characterised by high level of mixed migration ... Read more

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  • Politics in the Age of Austerity

    Edited by Wolfgang Streeck, Armin Schäfer ...
    In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • An Independent Quebec

    The Past, the Present and the Future

    by Jacques Parizeau ...
    Translated by Robin Philpot ...
    Drawing on his rich experience in public service and teaching, Jacques Parizeau, former premier of Quebec, explains in these pages how the idea of an independent Quebec first took root and evolved. This is the first book of Parizeau's political writing to be translated into English, and it provides lively commentary on the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, on the the author's career as finance ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Losing Control?

    Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization

    by Saskia Sassen ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses rights?Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Alt-Finance

    How the City of London Bought Democracy

    by Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron ...
    Translated by Théo Bourgeron, Meg Morley ...
    Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind Britain leaving the European Union, a flagship institution of neoliberalism. Beyond this counterintuitive move, what was really happening and why? ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics

    by Johannes Lindner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    Why did the European Union experience a stark variation in the levels of conflict between the late 1970s, when budgetary disputes dominated European politics, and the 1990s, when political actors were able to settle upon budgetary agreements without major conflicts?This book responds to this key question with a two-step argument: Its first part shows that decision-making rules can be regarded as a ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Democracy

    Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

    by Arend Lijphart ...
    Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics.Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Property and Political Order in Africa

    Land Rights and the Structure of Politics

    by Catherine Boone ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Foreign Direct Investment and Human Development

    The Law and Economics of International Investment Agreements

    Edited by Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen, Jan Wouters ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Economic Law
    This book presents original research that examines the growth of international investment agreements as a means to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and considers how this affects the ability of capital-importing countries to pursue their development goals. The hope of countries signing such treaties is that foreign capital will accelerate transfers of technologies, create employment, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD