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Globalization and Inequality: Neoliberalism's Downward SpiralJohn Rapley Has the far-reaching experiment in creating a new world order along neoliberal lines succeeded? John Rapley answers with an emphatic no, contending that the rosy picture painted by neoliberal proponents of globalization was based on false assumptions.
True, Rapley acknowledges, neoliberal reforms often have generated economic growth—but at a price. The resulting increase in inequality has More > | |
Mexico Under FoxLuis Rubio and Susan Kaufman Purcell, editors Mexico made a peaceful transition to democracy when it elected opposition candidate Vicente Fox president in July 2000—an event that has had a profound impact on the country's political system, its economic and social policy, and its international relationships. Mexico Under Fox examines the elements of continuity and change found in Mexico today.
The authors consider the More > | |
Young Soldiers: Why They Choose To FightRachel Brett and Irma Specht They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe. They are in some ways still children?yet, from Afghanistan to Sierra Leone to Northern Ireland, you can find them among the fighters. Why?
Young Soldiers explores the reasons that adolescents who are neither physically forced nor abducted More > | |
Child Labor in Sub-Saharan AfricaLoretta E. Bass Although both media and scholarly attention to the use of child labor has focused on Asia and Latin America, the highest incidence of the practice is found in Africa, where one in three children works. Loretta Bass presents a comprehensive, systematic study of child labor in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bass offers a window on the lives of Africa's children workers, a view informed by her analysis of More > | |
Inventing Public Diplomacy: The Story of the U.S. Information AgencyWilson P. Dizard Jr. Public diplomacy—the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policies—constitutes a critical instrument of U.S. policy in the wake of the Bush administration's recent military interventions and its renunciation of widely accepted international accords.
Wilson Dizard Jr. offers the first comprehensive account of public More > | |
Women's Work: Gender Equality vs. Hierarchy in the Life SciencesLaurel Smith-Doerr Women scientists working in small, for-profit companies are eight times more likely than their university counterparts to head a research lab. Why?
Laurel Smith-Doerr reveals that, contrary to widely held assumptions, strong career opportunities for women and minorities do not depend on the formal policies and long job ladders that large, hierarchical bureaucracies provide. In fact, highly More > | |
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 > | |
The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics, 2nd EditionWalter C. Opello, Jr. and Stephen J. Rosow This engaging introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Opello and Rosow fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language, and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. This revised edition reinforces their central argument that the current neoliberal state does not More > | |
Security, Strategy and the Quest for Bloodless WarRobert Mandel In recent decades, government and military officials alike have pushed increasingly in the direction of "bloodless wars," where confrontations are undertaken—and ultimately won—with minimum loss of human life. Robert Mandel provides the first comprehensive analysis of this trend.
After exploring the moral, legal, military, and political bases of the desire to More > | |
Gambling Politics: State Government and the Business of BettingPatrick A. Pierce and Donald E. Miller Legalized gambling has spread like wildfire through the United States, with only Hawaii and Utah still prohibiting all of its forms. The reason? Gambling has become the method of choice for states in search of additional revenue: in 2002 alone, state lottery sales exceeded $42 billion, netting nearly $14 billion in "voluntary taxes." Gambling Politics examines this dramatic development More > |