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Arab Elites: Negotiating the Politics of ChangeVolker Perthes, editor The recent deaths of four long-term heads of state in the Arab world heralded important changes, as political power passed from one generation to the next. Shedding light on these changes, Arab Elites explores the attitudes and political agendas of the new leadership emerging throughout the region.
A strong analytical framework informs the authors' discussion of elites in Algeria, More > | ![]() |
A Dance of Masks: Senghor, Achebe, and SoyinkaJonathan A. Peters Peters searches for themes about African self-identity by exploring images of the mask in the poetry of Senghor, the fiction of Achebe, and the drama of Soyinka. His focus is not on the mask as a physical object, but as a concept—a dynamic interplay that involves both the mask and its wearer. Within this interplay, he finds important insights about Africanness as defined by three of the More > | |
European Politics Reconsidered, Second EditionB. Guy Peters and Christian Hunold In this expanded, updated edition, the authors add a chapter on new structures of parliaments. They also reflect on recent developments in Germany since unification and reactions of most European countries to continued economic scarcity and public skepticism about government. European Politics Reconsidered documents the evolutionary political processes in Europe to provide a way of understanding a More > | ![]() |
Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations TheoryV. Spike Peterson, editor While IR theorists are increasingly critical of neorealist assumptions about the state and the international system, few have explored the gendered construction of the state and its implications for IR. Recognizing this, the authors of this innovative collection explore how core concepts of political and IR theory—the state, sovereignty, power—are reframed through feminist More > | |
Africa’s Totalitarian Temptation: The Evolution of Autocratic RegimesDave Peterson Disappointment with the ability of democracy to deliver economic rewards in much of Africa—and with the persistence of instability, corruption, and poor governance in democratic regimes—has undermined democracy's appeal for many on the continent. At the same time, many external actors are expressing sympathy for regimes that have demonstrated an ability to impose stability and More > | ![]() |
Development and the Learning OrganisationLaura Roper, Jethro Pettit, and Deborah Eade, editors As development NGOs and aid agencies embrace the idea of "becoming a learning organization," they are increasingly concerned with issues of knowledge generation. This collection, drawn from the contents of the acclaimed journal Development in Practice, presents the work of development scholars and practitioners from a range of institutional backgrounds, some introducing new More > | ![]() |
Migration in the Global Political EconomyNicola Phillips, editor How does the evolution of global capitalism shape patterns and processes of migration? How does migration in turn shape and intersect with the forces at work in the global economy? How should we understand the relationship between migration and development, and how is migration connected with patterns of poverty and inequality? How are processes of migration and immigration governed in different More > | ![]() |
Fixing African Economies: Policy Research for DevelopmentLucie Colvin Phillips and Diery Seck, editors When African countries embarked on the first round of structural adjustments in the 1980s and 1990s, there was little opportunity to first determine what programs would work where—instead, governments reluctantly implemented policies that were imposed by international financial institutions and based on theoretical models. The ensuing process was eventful—and the results More > | ![]() |
A Fragile Balance: Re-examining the History of Foreign Aid, Security, and DiplomacyLouis A. Picard and Terry F. Buss Louis Picard and Terry Buss trace the history of US foreign aid from the earliest assumptions of manifest destiny to the present, placing their discussion within the context of broader foreign policy and security goals. Effectively combining policy and normative perspectives, their book serves as a provocative introduction to the subject. More > | ![]() |
The Limits of Democratic Governance in South AfricaLouis A. Picard and Thomas Mogale In the transition from apartheid rule to democratic governance in South Africa, what has been the impact on South African society at its base—on the people in the country's cities, towns, villages, and farms? Louis Picard and Thomas Mogale offer answers to this fundamental question, tracing historical trends and measuring change (or the lack of it) in the dynamic between the promise of More > | ![]() |