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The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism, and ConfrontationAna Julia Jatar-Hausmann Combining historical narrative, statistics, and stories of survival behaviors in everyday life, Ana Jatar-Hausmann offers an analysis of economic policies and trends in socialist Cuba at the end of the twentieth century. Her work, incorporating the results of personal interviews with government officials, academics, and average citizens, uniquely illustrates the complexities and dilemmas of a More > | |
Famine, Conflict and Response: A Basic GuideFrederick C. Cuny, with Richard B. Hill Famine, Conflict, and Response is a practical guide to finding lasting solutions for famine and world hunger. Frederick Cuny's innovative economic approach to countering famine revolves around people's livelihoods, not just their survival, allowing permanent rather than short-term solutions. His ideas were well ahead of his time—and they remain relevant today, as is clear in this More > | |
Women and the State in Post-Sandinista NicaraguaCynthia Chavez Metoyer After winning a stunning and decisive victory in Nicaragua’s 1990 presidential election, Violeta Chamorro reversed much of the social and economic policy enacted by the previous Sandinista government. Cynthia Chavez Metoyer explores state-society relationships during the Chamorro administration, focusing on the effect that the postsocialist, neoliberal state has had on women.
Metoyer first More > | |
Untouchable: Dalits in Modern IndiaS.M. Michael, editor Exploring the enduring legacy of untouchability in India, this book challenges the ways in which the Indian experience has been represented in Western scholarship.
The authors introduce the long tradition of Dalit emancipatory struggle and present a sustained critique of academic discourse on the dynamics of caste in Indian society. Case studies complement these arguments, underscoring the perils More > | |
Competition Policy, Deregulation, and Modernization in Latin AmericaMoisés Naím and Joseph S. Tulchin, editors Economic reforms in Latin America over the past two decades focused first on economic stabilization, later on liberalization and deregulation, and only recently on creating, or in some cases recreating, the legal, regulatory, and statutory institutions complementary to modern global capitalism. This book addresses a central element of the newest round of reforms: the restriction of anticompetitive More > | |
The Weapons State: Proliferation and the Framing of SecurityDavid Mutimer The proliferation of all kinds of weapons (nuclear, chemical, biological, and even conventional) is emerging as a focal point for international security. This book shows how both the language used to talk about weapons proliferation and the practices adopted to respond to it serve to define the problem in ways that promote policy responses doomed to failure.
Examining the metaphors that have been More > | |
Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemin's ChinaAndrew J. Nathan, Zhaohui Hong, and Steven R. Smith, editors As China enters a stage of economic reform more challenging and risky than any that has gone before, the pressure for political liberalization grows apace. This volume explores the dilemmas of this new phase of complex change.
The authors—most of whom write with the insight that comes from having lived and worked within the Chinese system—analyze how the evolution of China’s More > | |
The Making of Telecommunications PolicyDick. W. Olufs III The Making of Telecommunications Policy examines the history, politics, and impact of telecommunications policy.
Beginning with a comparison of several alternate views of the future, Olufs explains how government action makes the widespread use of some new technologies more likely than others. He details the challenges that rapid advances in communications technologies pose for policymaking More > | |
Navigating Modernity: Postcolonialism, Identity, and International RelationsAlbert J. Paolini, edited by Anthony Elliott and Anthony Moran Placing the debate squarely within the discipline of international relations, Albert Paolini assesses the key personal and political dimensions of postcolonialism—one of the major political and cultural issues of the current era.
Paolini is concerned with the connections among postcolonialism, globalization, and modernity, and he offers one of the first detailed statements of those More > | |
Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace—or WarMary B. Anderson Echoing the words of the Hippocratic Oath, the author of Do No Harm challenges aid agency staff to take responsibility for the ways that their assistance affects conflicts.
Anderson cites the experiences of many aid providers in wartorn societies to show that international assistance—even when it is effective in saving lives, alleviating suffering, and furthering sustainable More > |