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Ethnopolitics in the New EuropeJohn T. Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning What makes some multiethnic states integrate and others descend into civil war? Ishiyama and Breuning extend traditional explanations centered on socioeconomic, cultural, and historical factors to argue that the actions of leaders of ethnic segments—too often ignored—are also critical determinants of policy outcomes.
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Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment LinkRizwanul Islam, editor While it has become abundantly clear that neither overall economic growth nor targeted microlevel interventions inevitably reduce poverty in developing countries, much of the development literature continues to focus on these two approaches. Exploring a third, and more promising, avenue, Fighting Poverty offers a systematic analysis of the link between employment and pro-poor economic growth.
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Dissent from WarRobert Ivie The rhetorical presumption of war's necessity, observes Robert Ivie, functions to shame anyone who opposes military action and to portray dissenters as threats to national security. Showing the danger in this, Ivie explores the language of war supporters, soldiers, and antiwar activists and proposes strategies for resisting the dehumanizing language of war propaganda. His aim throughout is to More > | ![]() |
Sudan: The Elusive Quest for PeaceRuth Iyob and Gilbert M. Khadiagala The formal division in 2011 of Africa's largest state into two new states—Sudan (the Republic of the Sudan) and South Sudan (the Republic of South Sudan)—was the result of civil strife that had endured for generations. In the years leading up to this resolution, Sudan suffered from the failure of both regional and international actors to effectively come to terms with the scope of More > | ![]() |
The Ship [a novel]Jabra I. Jabra, translated and introduced by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen Jabra's highly acclaimed novel is a masterful exploration of the post-1948 Arab world, with its frustrations, yearnings for homeland, and struggle for survival. As his characters interact on a ship sailing from Beirut to Europe, Jabra exposes them to the elements of spiritual and physical displacement. Some survive; others do not.
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Hunters in a Narrow Street [a novel]Jabra I. Jabra, with an introduction by Roger Allen Jameel Farran, a Christian Arab, is forced to flee his destroyed Jerusalem in 1948. Teaching at Baghdad University, he falls in love with a beautiful Muslim girl, Sulafa, but their turbulent affair meets almost insurmountable obstacles of tradition and circumstance.
This is a story of multiple conflicts—between Arab and Jew, desert and city, dictatorship and futile liberal effort, Eastern More > | ![]() |
Women, Culture, and International RelationsVivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Gorman, editors This book expands the agenda of feminist IR by considering the heterogeneity of women’s voices in the realm of world politics, as well as the challenges that this diversity poses.
The authors develop a theoretical discourse that incorporates the combined notions of difference and emancipation in a discussion of the agency of women and their transformative capacity. They use a normative More > | |
Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Devleopment CooperationEdward T. Jackson and Yusuf Kassam This book examines an approach to evaluation that enables citizens and professionals alike to jointly assess the extent to which the benefits of development are shared—and by whom. It presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. As the most comprehensive book on participatory evaluation currently available, this volume is a highly More > | ![]() |
Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change: Land, Climate Dynamics, Technological InnovationPeter T. Jacobs With more and more global economic wealth and power resting with fewer and fewer people, and given the acute land inequalities in the rural areas of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, how valid are the dominant theories about the nature of rural livelihoods? How can the intricacies of the economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries best be More > | ![]() |
The Economic Life of RefugeesKaren Jacobsen What happens to refugees, the victims of forced migration, once the first rush of media attention and aid has passed and they must rebuild their lives essentially on their own? Karen Jacobsen explores the economic survival strategies of refugees, and the obstacles that they face, as they live in a protracted state of displacement. She also proposes alternative approaches for humanitarian agencies More > | ![]() |