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Joseph E. Stiglitz - Whither Socialism (1996).jpg
The rapid collapse of socialism has raised new economic policy questions and revived old theoretical issues. In this book, Joseph Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical, or Walrasian model (the formal articulation of Adam Smith's invisible hand), which has dominated ...
Megan Vaughan - The Story of an African Famine.jpg
This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through ...
J. R. McNeill - The Mountains of the Mediterranean World (1992).jpg
This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and ...
Adeed Dawisha - Iraq.jpg
In the spring of 2003, at the onset of the invasion of Iraq, Dawisha (Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, 2003) coauthored an article in Foreign Affairs in which he suggested, with cautious optimism, that building democracy in his native country might not be as ...
John Barker - The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond (2007).jpg
"The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond" examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral issues.In a variety of ethnographic and theoretical locations, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people who exemplify key ethical ...
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Though postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, scant attention has been paid to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this ...
Peter Sluglett - Britain in Iraq.jpg
After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was ...
Donald R. Wehrs - Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives (2008).jpg
In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering ...
Ethics and Global Politics - Anisseh Van Engeland.jpg
How do terrorists become politicians? Through a series of comparative case studies important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes are examined. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' ...
David Schenker - Dancing with Saddam.jpg
Jordan has long served as a pivot between moderate pro-Western and radical anti-American states in the Middle East. In the wake of "regime change" in Iraq, the economic, social, and political effects on Jordan will be pervasive. David Schenker, an expert in Middle Eastern ...
Seyla Benhabib - Another Cosmopolitanism (2006).jpg
In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice--norms which ...
Melissa Bull - Governing the Heroin Trade (2008).jpg
This book analyses the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs. The study investigates the problem of drug control providing a systematic analysis of the development of the international system of regulation. ...
Lauri S. Friedman - Iran (2009).jpg
The many issues explored in Introducing Issues with Opposing Viewpoints: Iran include discussions of Iranian relations with the United States, Israel, and Iraq. Readers will also consider arguments about whether Iran is a supporter of terrorism, whether it seeks ...
Robert Grafstein - A Bridge Too Far.jpg
Bringing Chinese scholars and political advisors and practitioners together with scholars who study China and the United States from a Western political scientific perspective, this book uncovers genuine areas of overlap between the politics of the two nations. ...
Lotte Hughes - Moving the Maasai.jpg
In Moving the Maasai Lotte Hughes tells the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, she describes the many intrigues surrounding two ...
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The collapse of this economy in August 1914 and its subsequent restructuring, therefore, created extremely testing conditions for peripheral countries. These conditions and the way in which they were dealt with help to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the ...
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This volume analyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. Drawing from a wide range of examples -- including the Mexican dedazo, clientelism in Brazil, legislative "ghost coalitions" in Ecuador, ...
Staffan I. Lindberg - Democracy and Elections in Africa (2006).jpg
This volume studies elections as a core institution of liberal democracy in the context of newly democratizing countries. Political scientist Staffan I. Lindberg gathers data from every nationally contested election in Africa from 1989 to 2003, covering 232 elections ...
Sonoko Sunayama - Syria and Saudi Arabia.jpg
The nature of the relationship between Syria and Saudi Arabia during the oil era poses many questions for the commentators and analysts of inter-Arab politics during this period. Why have these two states pursued mutually conflicting aims in almost every major regional or ...
Steve Bruce - Paisley.jpg
The career of the Revd Ian Paisley raises vital questions about the links between religion and politics in the modern world. Paisley is unique in having founded his own church and party and led both to success, so that he effectively has a veto over political developments in ...
Gerardo L. Munck - Regimes and Democracy in Latin America.jpg
This volume focuses on democracy in Latin America and assesses the state of current knowledge on the topic and identifies new research frontiers in the study of Latin American politics. It provides an overview of research agendas and strategies used in the literature over ...
Touraj Atabaki - The State and the Subaltern.jpg
This is the first study to observe the practice of modernization in Turkey and Iran not only from above, by examining the measures adopted by the political regimes of the late Ottomans, Ataturk and Reza Shah, but also from below, exploring how different social levels ...
M. Sukru Hanioglu - Preparation for a Revolution.jpg
This book will completely transform the standard interpretation of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, a watershed event in the late Ottoman Empire and a key to the emergence of the modern nation-states in the Middle East and Balkans. Preparation for a Revolution is the first ...
Benedict Andeson - Imagined Communities.jpg
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received ...
Annelin Eriksen - Gender.jpg
Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social ...
Abdullahi A. Gallab - The First Islamist Republic (2008).jpg
By adding a new dimension to the ongoing scholarly and political debate about Islamism or political Islam within the context of modern politics in Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, this study details the development and disintegration of the Islamists' ...
Glenn D. Hook - Militarisation and Demilitarisation in Contemporary Japan (1995).jpg
With chapters on peace thought, the militarization and demilitarization of language, the aspects of the Japanese military build-up in the 1980s and the response to the Gulf War in the 1990s, this study challenges many of the preconceived notions on Japanese defense and ...