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Indonesia: State and Society in TransitionJemma Purdey, Antje Missbach, and Dave McRae Indonesia remains a country in transition even now, some two decades after its extraordinary shift from authoritarianism to democracy and from economic crisis to a rapidly growing economy. What explains the trajectory of that shift? What challenges does this island nation of 270 million people—with the world's largest Muslim population—face now, as the quality of democratic life More > | ![]() |
Journeys Out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived ExperienceJamie Rife and Donald W. Burnes How do individuals move from being homeless to finding safe, stable, and secure places to live? Can we recreate the conditions that helped them most? What policies are needed to support what worked—and to remove common obstacles?
Addressing these questions, Jamie Rife and Donald Burnes start from the premise that the most important voices in efforts to end homelessness are the ones most More > | ![]() |
A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s WarsAlan Doss Alan Doss offers a rare window into the real world of UN peacekeeping missions in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Doss's story is one of presidents and prelates, warlords and warriors, heroes and villains, achievements and disappointments—and innocent people caught in the midst of deadly violence. As he shares his front-line More > | ![]() |
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, 5th editionJillian Schwedler, editor The previous edition of Understanding the Contemporary Middle East was published soon after the Arab uprisings, and the authors—writing across disciplines—captured those moments of possibility. Now, more than six years later, the Middle East is substantially changed, with three protracted civil wars, several retrenched authoritarian regimes, possibly one emerging democracy, and social More > | ![]() |
When Religion Kills: How Extremists Justify Violence Through FaithPhil Gurski Christian fundamentalists. Hindu nationalists. Islamic jihadists. Buddhist militants. Jewish extremists. Members of these and other religious groups have committed horrific acts of terrorist violence in recent decades. How is this possible? How do individuals use their religious beliefs to justify such actions? How do they manipulate the language and symbols of their faith to motivate others to More > | ![]() |
The Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Public Debates, Private LivesJane Marcus-Delgado With Latin America home to some of the most draconian bans on abortion in the world, abortion rights is one of the most controversial and hotly contested topics in Latin American politics today. Jane Marcus-Delgado explores the ways in which key actors—from politicians to grassroots activists to the global community—participate and shape strategies in the ongoing More > | ![]() |
Making US Foreign Policy: The Essentials, 2nd editionRalph G. Carter Whether your approach to teaching US foreign policy is thematic, historical, case-study oriented, regional, or perhaps a blend of several approaches, Making US Foreign Policy: The Essentials is likely to be a text that you will want to assign as required reading.
The text focuses on the most fundamental questions: Who makes foreign policy decisions? How? What accounts for particular decisions? More > | ![]() |
Opioids in South Africa: Towards a Policy of Harm ReductionThembisa Waetjen, editor From over-the-counter cough syrups and prescribed painkillers to heroin and fentanyl bought on the street, the misuse of opioids has ignited widespread debates about drug policy reform. In this book, the contributors draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives to focus on these issues in South Africa.
Experts in medicine, pharmacology, and the social sciences and humanities, together with More > | ![]() |
China’s Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Conditions and ChallengesEnrique Dussel Peters, editor In recent years, China's explosive outflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) globally can be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with close to 10 billion of that going each year to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The characteristics and significance of that investment in LAC are the focus of this new book.
The authors first discuss FDI in the region from the Chinese More > | ![]() |
South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour, and Communication Survey, 2017Leickness Simbayi, Khangelani Zuma, Nompumelelo Zungu, et al. This study reports the results of the most recent in a series of cross-sectional surveys undertaken by a research consortium led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The consortium includes local researchers from the South African Medical Research Council, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Global Clinical and Viral Laboratories, and University of Cape Town, as well as More > | ![]() |