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  • Making Mogadishu Safe

    Localisation, Policing and Sustainable Security

    de Alice Hills ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    This Whitehall Paper explores the ways in which Mogadishu’s inhabitants try to stay out of harm’s way, from security officials in the presidential compound of Villa Somalia to the city’s powerful district commissioners, from patrolling policemen to the women road-sweepers in the rubbish-filled alleyways of the Waberi district. Its central proposition is that security is best understood as a ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Gridlock

    Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai

    de Pardis Mahdavi ...
    The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, draws a more complicated and more personal picture of this city filled with migrants. Not all migrant ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    de Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Adapting in the Dust

    Lessons Learned from Canada's War in Afghanistan

    de Stephen M. Saideman ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada’s six-year military mission in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province was one of the most intense and challenging moments in Canadian foreign affairs since the Korean War. A complex war fought in an inhospitable environment, the Afghanistan mission tested the mettle not just of Canada’s soldiers but also of its politicians, public servants, and policy makers. In Adapting in the Dust, Stephen M. ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Sheikhdom

    Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed bin Zayed's UAE

    de Matthew Hedges ...
    Though the Arab Spring has reverberated through the Middle East, largely leaving a path of destruction, the relative calm in the United Arab Emirates has offered a regional roadmap for stability. Domestic changes since 2000 have significantly altered the country’s dynamics, firmly cementing power within Abu Dhabi. While Khalifa bin Zayed succeeded his father as emir of Abu Dhabi and UAE president ... Leer más

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  • Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats

    Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

    de Steffen Hertog ...
    In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies.Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    de John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Big Capital in an Unequal World

    The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

    de Rosita Armytage ...
    Series Libro 29 - Dislocations
    Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite.Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Rule of Law in Afghanistan

    Missing in Inaction

    Edición de Whit Mason ...
    How, despite the enormous investment of blood and treasure, has the West's ten-year intervention left Afghanistan so lawless and insecure? The answer is more insidious than any conspiracy, for it begins with a profound lack of understanding of the rule of law, the very thing that most dramatically separates Western societies from the benighted ones in which they increasingly intervene. This volume ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    Edición de David Weir, Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub ...
    The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources. This volume explores the extent to which these countries have been and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Democracy's Fourth Wave?

    Digital Media and the Arab Spring

    de Philip N. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

  • US Nation-Building in Afghanistan

    de Conor Keane ...
    Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US’s difficulties in the country that meant the battle was virtually lost before it even began. The ... Leer más

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