African & Third World Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Transnational Companies and Security Governance

   Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

   By Jana Hönke

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies. It investigates the everyday security practices of mining companies in Subsaharan Africa to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa

   Uganda in Comparative African Perspective

   By Roger Tangri

   Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

   This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Pathways to Judicial Power in Transitional States

   Perspectives from African Courts

   By Rachel Ellett

   This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intriguing connection between the construction of judicial power on the one hand, and the institutional...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform

   Lessons from Brazil

   By George Meszaros

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. China's Rise in Africa

   Perspectives on a Developing Connection

   Edited by Ian Taylor, Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus

   In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations

   A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment

   By Carlos Ramirez-Faria

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

   First published in 1991 this text provides an incisive analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. Central to the author’s investigation is the concept of underdevelopment, and a focus on successive Western ‘systems of conceptualisation’ of the relationship...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium

   Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book constitutes Volume II of a set of two Volumes. Volume II considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I

   Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

   Edited by Ben Chigara

   This book constitutes Volume I of a set of two Volumes. Volume I attempts a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in light of intensifying...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Re-Envisioning Global Development

    A Horizontal Perspective

    By Sandra Halperin

    Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

    Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge