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Cover of Network PowerNetwork Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
by Grewal, David Singh
For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices;...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 28, 2008 More

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century AfricaWhen Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa
by Bates, Robert H.
In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H....
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2008 More

Cover of Starved for ScienceStarved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Heading upcountry in Africa to visit small farms is absolutely exhilarating given the dramatic beauty of big skies, red soil, and arid vistas, but eventually the two-lane tarmac narrows to rutted...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2008 More

Cover of Crafting CooperationCrafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective
by Acharya, Amitav; Johnston, Alastair Iain
Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others are...
Publication Type: Edited Work
Published Date: November 2007 More

Cover of Postcolonial DisordersPostcolonial Disorders
by Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio; Good, Byron J.; Hyde, Sandra Teresa; Pinto, Sarah
The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Publication Type: Edited Work
Published Date: February 2008 More

Cover of La République de DieuLa République de Dieu
by Cogan, Charles G.
Charles Cogan's new book, La République de Dieu arrived in Paris bookstores on February 22, 2008, coinciding with a five-part series of interviews with him, February 25-29, on Radio France Culture....
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: February 2008 More

The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
by Bates, Robert H.; Ndulu, Benno J.; Fosu, Augustin K.
The period from 1960 to 2000 was one of remarkable growth and transformation in the world economy. Why did most of Sub-Saharan Africa fail to develop over this period? Why did a few small African...
Publication Type: Edited Work
Published Date: February 2008 More

In Theory and in Practice: Harvard's Center for International Affairs, 1958–1983
by Atkinson, David C.
Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Center for International Affairs, Atkinson’s history of the Center’s first twenty-five years traces the institutional and intellectual...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: November 2007 More

Cover of Michael Sandel's book.The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
by Sandel, Michael
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: June 2007 More

Cover of Erez Manela's bookThe Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
by Manela, Erez
During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May 2007 More