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Congo's Violent Peace

Kris Berwouts

• Paperback | Engels | African Arguments
• Despite a massive investment of international diplomacy and money in recent years, the Democratic Republic of Congo remains a conflict-ridden and vola... Lees meer

The United States in Africa

Raymond W Copson

• Hardcover | Engels | African Arguments
• The George W. Bush administration maintains that in sub-Saharan Africa it is making major new contributions in fighting disease, promoting development... Lees meer

The Saudi Enigma

Pascal Ménoret

• Paperback | Engels
• Saudi Arabia is a major piece on the world geopolitical chessboard. Despite the suspicion that has enveloped the country since September 11, 2001, Sau... Lees meer

Women in Politics

• Paperback | Engels | Feminisms and Development
• Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women's political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rare... Lees meer

Just War and the Responsibility to Protect

Robin Dunford, Michael Neu

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of 'Humanitarian Intervention' an... Lees meer

Macro-Economics

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book makes clear that systematic gender biases are present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household - and presents options for ... Lees meer

Naming the Enemy

Amory Starr

• Paperback | Engels
• A new movement of 'anti-globalists', in Time Magazine's words (24 April 2000), now 'oppose corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised... Lees meer

Running Guns

• Paperback | Engels
• Whether the war zone be in Africa, Sri Lanka, Chechnya or Afghanistan, most people are not killed by hi-tech or heavy weaponry, but by the small arms,... Lees meer

Citizenship and Social Movements

• Paperback | Engels | Claiming Citizenship
• Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collect... Lees meer

African Literature as Political Philosophy

Mary Stella Chika Okolo

• Paperback | Engels | Africa in the New Millennium
• The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this de... Lees meer

Globalizing Citizens

• Hardcover | Engels | Claiming Citizenship
• Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every... Lees meer

Secrets and Siblings

Mari Manninen

• Paperback | Engels
• Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace. Mrs Wang Maochen from Beijing has seven chi... Lees meer

Researching Sex and Sexualities

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim... Lees meer

Building a Capable State

Ian Palmer, Nishendra Moodley, Susan Parnell

• Hardcover | Engels
• The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally ... Lees meer

Free Trade

Graham Dunkley

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Issues
• In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to toda... Lees meer

Crisis and Class War in Egypt

Sean F McMahon

• Paperback | Engels
• In 2011, capital's crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the worki... Lees meer

The Millennium Development Goals

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in ... Lees meer

Nothing to Lose But Our Fear

Fiona Jeffries

• Hardcover | Engels
• Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it's not the war on terror, it... Lees meer

Theory of African Literature

Chidi Amuta

• Paperback | Engels | African Culture Archive
• This groundbreaking work, first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessment of African literature, and r... Lees meer

Employing the Enemy

Matthew Vickery

• Paperback | Engels
• Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2018 Thousands of Palestinians, including children, are building and working on illegal Israeli settlements.... Lees meer

Contested Knowledge

John Phillips

• Paperback | Engels
• This is the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory currently available. Providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, ... Lees meer

The Secret Politics of Our Desires

• Paperback | Engels
• This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to stud... Lees meer

A History of Africa

Hosea Jaffe

• Paperback | Engels | African History Archive
• Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence,... Lees meer

Circumcision of Women

Olayinka Koso-Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels
• African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circu... Lees meer