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Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities fo... »
Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development: Opportunities, Promises and Concerns
Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single discipl... »
Reconciling Enemy States in Europe and Asia
Drawing from sources in English, French, Korean, Italian, German and Japanese, Heo establishes a model that clarifies why certain countries reconci... »
Business and Climate Policy: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Private Voluntary Programs
Climate change has become one of the most important and challenging global policy fields. Attention has primarily focused on the successes and fail... »
Public Works and Social Protection in Southern Africa: Do Public Works Work for the Poor?
Public Works Programmes (PWPs) are widely implemented throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa, often with funding from major international donor... »
Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa
On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township near Johannesburg turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two wee... »
Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism and Terrorism
First colonized and now living under political oppression, experiencing peripatetic marginalization, feeling dejected, intimidated and humiliated,... »
HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa
Throughout recorded history, communicable diseases have devastated armies and weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security... »
The Hidden Alternative:Co-operative Values, Past, Present and Future
The proclamation by the United Nations that 2012 would be the International Year of Co-operatives represents a milestone in the history of the inte... »
Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes of Japan
Satoyama is a Japanese term which describes mosaic landscapes of different types of ecosystem—secondary forests, farm lands, irrigation ponds and... »
The United Nations and the Regions
This book investigates the implications of the rising importance of supra-national regional organizations for global governance. »
EU Enlargement and Turkish Labour Migration
This book provides an accessible and comprehensive evaluation of labour migration in general and Turkish labour migration to the European Union in... »
Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World
Current economic growth strategies around the world are rapidly depleting the natural resources and eco-system services that we depend on. Just Tra... »
Accountable Government in Africa:Perspectives from Public Law and Political Studies
The book brings together a number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratisation studies to discuss problems... »
Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist’s View of the Crisis We Face
Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash c... »
The People vs. the State: Reflections on UN Authority, US Power and the Responsibility to Protect
Professor Ramesh Thakur, former Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University and UN Assistant Secretary-General, is sometimes described as o... »
Achieving Global Sustainability: Policy Recommendations
The problem of global sustainability is indisputably the most serious issue facing humanity today. One of the biggest factors in the deterioration... »
Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights
Civil Society, Conflicts and the Politicization of Human Rights explores violent conflict and peace. The contributors examine how violence is gener... »
