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Freedom From Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That’s Winning the Fight Against PovertyIan Smillie Freedom From Want traces the evolution of BRAC from it beginnings as a small relief operation in Bangladesh into what is arguably the largest and most successful social experiment in the developing world.
Ranging from distant villages in Bangladesh to New York's financial district, from war-torn Afghanistan to the plains of eastern Africa, Ian Smillie's book—part adventure story, More > | ![]() |
French Cities in the Nineteenth Century: Class, Power, and UrbanizationJohn M. Merriman, editor | ![]() |
From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security ChallengesMwesiga Baregu and Christopher Landsberg, editors From the ongoing war in Angola, to sporadic instability in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, to the conflict in Congo, to issues of land reform and the ravages of AIDS, southern Africa faces varied and complex threats to its peace and security. The authors of From Cape to Congo assess the region's major security challenges, as well as the roles of local, regional, and external actors in managing them. More > | ![]() |
From Dictatorship to Democracy: Rebuilding Political Consensus in ChileJoseph S. Tulchin and Augusto Varas, editors Representing one of the first efforts to evaluate the transition to democracy in Chile, this book is the fruit of a meeting of key participants in the extraordinary effort at political convergence that made possible the victory over Pinochet in the Chilean plebiscite and the subsequent election of Patricio Alwyn to the presidency.
The authors show how the various segments of Chilean politics More > | |
From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of ZionismAmnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein traces the history of the Israeli state, and of Zionism, moving deftly between the roles of objective historian and persuasive politician. More > | ![]() |
From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security: 75 Years of Research and Development at Sandia National LaboratoriesJustin Quinn Olmstead and Leland Johnson Sandia National Laboratories is one of the primary providers of the science, technology, and engineering capabilities needed to ensure both US and global security. Its mandate has moved far beyond its original weapons-centered mission—the development of nuclear weapons—and now encompasses complex economic, energy, environmental, and nonproliferation issues. From Nuclear Weapons to More > | ![]() |
From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive PartyShelley Rigger On March 18, 2000, Taiwan's voters stunned the world by choosing Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to be their president. A host of new issues quickly became the subject of debate. What is the DPP? Where did it come from and what does it stand for? How will it use its newly won power? Will it risk war with mainland China in pursuit of More > | |
From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941Kitaoka Shinichi The years in Japan between June 1924, when a coalition cabinet of three political parties was established, and December 1941, when the country declared war on the United States and Britain, were characterized first by nearly a decade of domestic and international cooperation—and then a period of oppressive militarism. Kitaoka Shinichi captures the essence of these years in Japan's More > | ![]() |
From Political Won't to Political Will: Building Support for Participatory GovernanceCarmen Malena, editor Citizens in both the North and the South lack opportunities, rights, and access to information and have expressed growing disillusionment with their governments. Ordinary citizens (especially women, poor people and other marginalized groups) are largely excluded from the political processes that directly affect their lives.
There is now growing consensus that good governance is participatory More > | ![]() |
From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent ConflictChandra Lekha Sriram and Karin Wermester, editors How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of More > | ![]() |