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Great Powers in the Changing International OrderNick Bisley What does it mean to be a great power? What role do great powers have in managing international order, and is that role still relevant in a globalizing world? Are new great powers likely to emerge? If so, to what effect? Addressing this set of questions, Nick Bisley provides a historically informed and theoretically grounded analysis of the part that great powers play in contemporary world More > | ![]() |
Inequity in the Global Village: Recycled Rhetoric and Disposable PeopleJan Knippers Black Jan Black shows us how the narrow distribution of benefits from globalization has created a yawning gap in wealth and power both among and within states—a gap that she attributes to a globalized capitalist system run amuck, or more pungently, "mobile money and immobilized political leadership."
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Hands Off Our Grants: Defending the Constitutional Right to Social ProtectionBlack Sash In 2012, South Africa's social welfare system came under attack. Enormous sums of money were siphoned from South African Social Security Agency accounts—allegedly with the complicity of government officials—affecting the livelihoods of millions. But then, in what became a hugely successful grass-roots movement, the beneficiaries of the social grants mobilized behind Black More > | ![]() |
The Clubwoman As Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868 to 1914Karen J. Blair | ![]() |
Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?Judith R. Blau Winner of the ASA Oliver Cromwell Cox Award
Judith Blau's disturbing study presents strong evidence that our schools, assumed by many to be an equalizing force in U.S. society, are in fact racialized settings that reproduce white advantage—to the detriment of all students.
Drawing on rich, longitudinal databases, Blau explores the values, activities, and educational experiences of a More > | ![]() |
Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the GrassrootsJutta Blauert and Simon Zadek, editors Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate knowledge from the realm of practice in a manner than can influence the realm of policy.
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Weavers of the Songsedited and translated by Mishael Maswari Caspi and Julia Ann Blessing A collection of songs sung by Arab women, compiled by Caspi during field research in the West Bank and Israel. The songs, in English translation, are divided into three sections: bridal songs, lullabies, and lamentations. The work also includes a general introduction and a bibliography. More > | |
Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion ReexaminedJames G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh, editors The defeat of the attempted April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) was one of the worst foreign–policy disasters in U.S. history. Since then, explanations of the event have emphasized betrayal by one U.S. agency or another, seeking to assign blame for the "loss" of Cuba. With the benefit of new documentation, however—from U.S. government and Cuban exile More > | |
Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and ConstraintsMarianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabachnick, editors This volume focuses on gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa, considering in particular the impact formal and nonformal education have had on African women.
A variety of country studies illustrate current theoretical debates in three key areas: postcolonial influences on the forms of education that are privileged; human-capital, socialist-feminist, and post-modern perspectives on the More > | |
African Guerrillas: Raging Against the MachineMorten Bøås and Kevin C. Dunn, editors At the center of many of Africa's violent conflicts are movements that do not seem to fit any established theories of armed resistance. African Guerrillas offers new models for understanding these movements, eschewing one-dimensional explanations.
The authors build on—and in some cases debate—insights provided in Christopher Clapham's groundbreaking work. They find a new More > | ![]() |