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  • Oil

    by Gavin Bridge, Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Resources
    Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil-rich countries. The politics of oil are now ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Environmental Defenders

    Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory

    Edited by Mary Menton, Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.Between 2002 and 2019, at least two thousand people were killed in 57 countries for defending their lands and the environment. Recent policy initiatives and media coverage have provided much needed attention to the protection and support of defenders, but there has so far ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Rebel Economies

    Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians

    by Clémence Pinaud, Jonathan Benthall, William Caferro, Gilles Carbonnier, Christopher Cramer, Zachariah Mampilly, Edward McCord, Didier Fassin, Nicola Di Cosmo0, Philippe Le Billon2 ...
    As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions of war economies by non-state actors across different periods and regions, while presenting their ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Geopolitics of Resource Wars

    by Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Geopolitics
    This new book provides fresh and in-depth perspectives on so-called 'resource wars'.Highlighting the multiple forms of violence accompanying the history of resources exploitation, business practices supporting predatory regimes, insurgent groups and terrorists, this is an authoritative guide to the struggle for control of the world's resources.It includes key conceptual chapters and covers a wide ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Fuelling War

    Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts

    by Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    A generous endowment of natural resources should favour rapid economic and social development. The experience of countries like Angola and Iraq, however, suggests that resource wealth often proves a curse rather than a blessing. Billions of dollars from resource exploitation benefit repressive regimes and rebel groups, at a massive cost for local populations. This Adelphi Paper analyses the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

    Protecting Culture and the Environment

    Edited by Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book ... Read more

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  • The End of the Free Market

    Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

    by Ian Bremmer ...
    Understanding the rise of state capitalism and its threat to global free marketsThe End of the Free Market details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies and large pools of excess capital, using them for political gain. This trend threatens America's competitive edge and the conduct of free ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Theories and Practices of Development

    by Katie Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction

    by Jussi M. Hanhimaki ...
    The United Nations has been called everything from "the best hope of mankind" to "irrelevant" and "obsolete." With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Civil Society and International Governance

    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

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  • Winning the War on War

    The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide

    by Joshua S. Goldstein ...
    Everyone knows: wars are getting worse, more civilians are dying, and peacemaking achieves nothing, right? Wrong.Despite all the bad-news headlines, peacekeeping is working. Fewer wars are starting, more are ending, and those that remain are smaller and more localized. But peace doesn’t just happen; it needs to be put into effect. Moreover, understanding the global decline in armed conflict is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Geographies of Developing Areas

    The Global South in a Changing World

    by Glyn Williams, Paula Meth, Katie Willis ...
    Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of problems, from rapid urbanization to poverty, this book focuses on the diversity of life in the South, and looks at the role the South plays in ... Read more

    $115.99 USD