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Context-Sensitive Development: How International NGOs Operate in MyanmarAnthony Ware Focusing on Myanmar, with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, international sanctions, and egregious political repression, Anthony Ware shows how context sensitivity can help development organizations to better meet the needs of their client populations.
Ware points out that, while practitioners have questioned universal economic prescriptions for development, they have been less rigorous in More > | |
Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry FieldsGilbert Felipe Mireles Gilbert Mireles explores the legendary United Farm Workers' campaign to organize laborers—predominantly Latino immigrants—in California's strawberry industry.
Tracing the UFW's actions from the picking fields to the world of government offices and corporate boardrooms, Mireles shows how the very traits that made the union such a successful advocate for farm workers also More > | |
Conversations on the Dresden GalleryLouis Aragon and Jean Cocteau, translated by Francis Scarfe This handsome volume presents the complete transcript of a fascinating encounter that took place in 1956. On that occasion, two great French poets, Louis Aragon and Jean Cocteau, came together foran extended conversation on art, the artist, and the creative process itself.
The text is accompanied by full-color reproductions of seventy of the Dresden Gallery's most beautiful paintings and More > | |
Conversations with CarterDon Richardson, editor Jimmy Carter participated in more than two hundred interviews between 1976 and 1996. In the twenty-three conversations presented here, highly regarded interviewers lead President Carter to clarify his public stands and private beliefs.
The dialogue created through these encounters demonstrates the growth of a principled man, encapsulating the major debates and concerns of the last quarter More > | |
Conversion to IslamNehemia Levtzion, editor | |
Coping with Capital Surges: The Return of Finance to Latin AmericaRicardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones, editors Private capital flows to Latin America have increased dramatically since 1989, approximately doubling in volume each year. This book examines the possible causes and consequences of the new—and unforeseen—wave of investment, from both the borrower and the lender perspectives.
The authors first analyze foreign direct investment, securities, and bank lending, considering the motivations More > | |
Coping with Crisis in African StatesPeter M. Lewis and John W. Harbeson, editors Although large-scale conflicts, political upheavals, and social violence are common problems throughout Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their susceptibility to these crises and their capacities for responding effectively. What accounts for this variance? How do crises emerge, and how are they resolved? When are unexpected events most likely to spiral into crisis? Are there More > | |
Coping with Facts: A Skeptic's Guide to the Problem of DevelopmentAdam Fforde Students and practitioners confronting the mass of competing assertions in the development literature—replete with contradictory "truths"—may well become frustrated. Adam Fforde offers guidance for the perplexed through a penetrating critique of that literature, presenting strategies that will help readers to evaluate the contending solutions to problems of development. More > | |
Copycat Crime and Copycat CriminalsRay Surette How prevalent is copycat crime? Can we accurately identify it? What role does the media play in encouraging it? These are among the questions that Ray Surette addresses in his comprehensive study of the nature of copycat crime, both past and present, and the forces that drive it.
Surette goes beyond prevalent myths and anecdotal evidence to rigorously define copycat crime and to place it in More > | |
Corporate Actors in Global Governance: Business as Usual or New Deal?Matthias Hofferberth, editor What part do/should corporate actors play in global governance? With regard to concerns over such issues as public health, education, human rights, and the environment, they arguably are influential. But what is the actual nature of their engagement, and what motivates it? What challenges do they face when they assume more responsibility in these spheres? Are they responsive to the normative More > |