Forthcoming Politics & Development Books

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11. A Strategic Understanding of UN Economic Sanctions

    International Relations, Law and Development

    By Golnoosh Hakimdavar

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Economic Sanctions are increasingly used as a legal, non-military technique of combating abusers of international peace. However it remains unclear how the success or failure of these sanctions is measured. This book examines the seldom-explored United Nations’ economic sanctions deliberation...

    To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
12. Stabilization Operations, Security and Development

    States of Fragility

    Edited by Robert Muggah

    Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

    This edited volume provides a critical overview of the new stabilization agenda in international relations. The primary focus of so-called stability operations since 9/11 has been Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Covering the wider picture, this volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the new...

    To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
13. Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization

    Edited by Henry Veltmeyer

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised on neoliberal principles. It brings together eminent writers on the political economy of international development such as Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Norman...

    To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
14. Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked

    Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor

    By Christopher Shepherd

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
15. Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa

    Angola and Mozambique within the TICAD Process

    By Pedro Amakasu Raposo

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and investment on both sides and the promotion of sustainable development. In 2003, the conference translated Japanese aid policy to Africa into three key...

    To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
16. Trade, Development and Globalization

    By Syed Javed Maswood

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

    This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations. The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for, and in some cases excluded, the developmental interests of the newly independent countries. This book...

    To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
17. Human Rights and Development in the new Millennium

    Towards a Theory of Change

    Edited by Paul Gready, Wouter Vandenhole

    In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of...

    To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
18. Transformations in Trade Politics

    Participatory Trade Politics in West Africa

    By Silke Trommer

    Series: Global Institutions

    This book examines the evolution and application of participatory trade politics in West Africa and discusses the theoretical implications for political economy and global governance approaches to trade policy-making. The author traces the involvement of a network of West African global justice...

    To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
19. Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations

    Comparing Indigenous People in China, India, and Laos

    Edited by Ragnhild Lund, Kyoko Kusakabe, Smita Panda, Yunxian Wang

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

    In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent...

    To Be Published August 28th 2013 by Routledge
20. State Performance and Reform in Developing Countries

    Pockets of Effectiveness

    Edited by Michael Roll

    Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

    The book is to provide an urgently needed corrective to the literature on state failure and governance in the developing world. While most literature is written from a focuses predominantly on state failure, corruption and other elements of ‘bad governance’, this book instead studies the phenomenon...

    To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge