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New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding in conflict-prone or post-conflict countries — such as East Timor, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone — aims to prevent the re-... »
Usable Thoughts: Climate, Water and Weather in the Twenty-first Century
Short quotations are often used to stimulate thought and evoke discussion. The intention of this book is no less ambitious... »
The State of the Environment in Asia 2006/2007
The State of the Environment in Asia 2006/2007 is the fourth in a series of publications on Asia’s environmental landscape... »
Partnerships for Women’s Health: Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further twenty suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite me... »
Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons
Every day, small arms and light weapons (SALW) kill and maim, wound and threaten millions of adults and children, whether combatants and civilians... »
African Security Governance: Emerging Issues
This volume explores the sources and manifestations of political violence in South and Southeast Asia and the myriad roles that it plays in everyda... »
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the Implications of Culture & Context
Popular understanding of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is riddled with contradiction and speculation... »
Envisioning Reform: Enhancing UN Accountability in the 21st Century
The term accountability is increasingly heard at the United Nations. More than six decades after the organization’s founding, people continue to... »
Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization
In this book, some of the world’s leading Latin Americanists explore the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization. What is the relat... »
Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerba... »
The United Nations and Nuclear Orders
Recent tensions surrounding the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran, as well as the shocking revelations of A.Q. Khan’s atomic bazaar, have... »
Human Insecurity in East Asia
Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster. Nor does human insecurity exist solely within... »
Heads Up! Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards
The forces of nature can have deadly and damaging consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer o... »
The Rise of Bilateralism
As multilateral negotiations become increasingly complex and protracted, preferential trade agreements have become the centrepiece of trade diploma... »
World Religions and Norms of War
Recent armed conflicts—domestic and international—have drawn fresh attention to age-old questions concerning when war can be justified, and wha... »
Full Participation: A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting
Full Participation is the first book-length study of compulsory voting to be published in the English language. About a quarter of all democracies... »
The Business of Sustainable Development in Africa: Human Rights, Partnerships, Alternative Business Models
This book is on the role of business decision-makers in sustainable development. It is an important read for academics, managers, and all students... »
The Political Interests of Gender Revisited: Redoing Theory and Research with a Feminist Face
Structured around three conceptual guideposts—“politics,” “interests,” and “gender”—this anthology demonstrates the continued relev... »
