African Studies Paperbacks

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41. Economic Performance in the Middle East and North Africa

    Institutions, Corruption and Reform

    Edited by Serdar Sayan

    Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

    The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are in dire need of substantial institutional reform to improve their growth performance so as to create enough jobs for millions of entrants into their respective job markets, and to fight poverty and income inequality. This is...

    Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
42. The World Bank and Social Transformation in International Politics

    Liberalism, Governance and Sovereignty

    By David Williams

    Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

    In the 1990s the World Bank changed its policy to take the position that the problems of poverty and governance are inextricably linked, and improving the governance of its borrower countries became increasingly accepted as a legitimate and important part of the World Bank’s development activities....

    Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
43. Conflict Management and African Politics

    Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation

    Edited by Terrence Lyons, Gilbert M. Khadiagala

    Series: Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management

    This edited volume builds on a core set of concepts developed by I. William Zartman to offer new insights into conflict management and African politics. Key concepts such as ripe moments, hurting stalemates, and collapsed states, are built upon in order to show how conflict resolution theory may be...

    Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
44. The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

    By John Wright

    Series: History and Society in the Islamic World

    This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into...

    Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge
45. The African Origins of Rhetoric

    By Cecil Blake

    Series: African Studies

    Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of...

    Published June 3rd 2010 by Routledge
46. Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations

    Edited by Larry Crump, S. Javed Maswood

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book brings together an international team of leading academics and researchers to...

    Published December 20th 2009 by Routledge
47. World City Syndrome

    Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town

    By David A. McDonald

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban...

    Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
48. A Roadmap for Understanding African Politics

    Leadership and Political Integration in Nigeria

    By Victor Oguejiofor Okafor

    Series: African Studies

    This book examines the impact of post-colonial leadership on political integration in Nigeria, offering an in-depth understanding of the historical and contemporary forces that shape Nigeria's national politics as well as African politics generally. Okafor discusses how Nigeria's pre-colonial and...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
49. The United Nations and Democracy in Africa

    Labyrinths of Legitimacy

    By Zoë Wilson

    Series: Studies in International Relations

    This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. Wilson's original purpose for researching this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the United Nations' most vexing implementation...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
50. China and Africa

    Engagement and Compromise

    By Ian Taylor

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as China’s hunger for energy resources grows and many...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge