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Guarding the Guardians: Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Governance in Africa

by Mathurin C. Houngnikpo

This book reviews the intrusion of the armed forces in African politics by examining contemporary armies and their impact on society. It revisits the various explanations of military takeovers in Africa and...


Crafting an African Security Architecture: Addressing Regional Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century

by Hany Besada

This book responds to new regional conflicts over health, water, land and food security in the world's poorest, most socially fragmented continent. The work assesses African regional security arrangements and...


Comparative Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond

by Finn Laursen

This volume features up-to-date studies of regional integration efforts, particularly those made in North America, South America, and East Asia. Comparisons are drawn between these efforts and those made in...


The European Union and Interregionalism: Patterns of Engagement

by Mathew Doidge

The European Union and Interregionalism is the most comprehensive study of interregionalism to date, providing a vigorous analysis of its role and functions in the architecture of global governance and of the...


Victims as Security Threats: Refugee Impact on Host State Security in Africa

by Edward Mogire

The refugee phenomenon is a major force in international politics, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where refugees are major actors in the affairs of their home and host countries. This book analyses why...


Building Regions: The Regionalization of the World Order

by Luk Van Langenhove

In this title Luk Van Langenhove advances the concept of region building as an alternative to the construction of regions. He brings together, under one conceptual framework, different processes and concepts...


The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia

by Vladimir Gel'man & Cameron Ross

International experts on Russian regional politics, including top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA, provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies to be found in Russia's sub-national...


European Integration and the Communist Dilemma: Communist Party Responses to Europe in Greece, Cyprus and Italy

by Giorgos Charalambous

European Integration and the Communist Dilemma assesses the response of communist parties to European integration using three contrasting and comparatively significant case studies from Greece, Cyprus and Italy....


Corn Meets Maize: Food Movements and Markets in Mexico

by Lauren E. Baker

Corn Meets Maize links the everyday practices of growing, cooking, and exchanging food in specific cultural, economic, and ecological contexts to broader social movements in Mexico and beyond. The local food...


Nigeria's Critical Election: 2011

by John Adebunmi Ayoade & Adeoye A. Akinsanya

Nigeria's Critical Election is an analytical exposition of the salient constitutional and political issues by Nigerian scholars who have studied, lived through, and taught those issues over the years. It offers...


China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

by Juan Pablo Cardenal, Heriberto Araujo & Catherine Mansfield

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut...


China's Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

by Juan Pablo Cardenal, Heriberto Araujo & Catherine Mansfield

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut...


Los Angeles

by David Rieff

David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare.

Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams...


Chavez's Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America

by Manuel Anselmi

The aim of this book is to reconstruct and understand the revolutionary Bolivarian ideology in Chavez's movement through a historical analysis of its ideological principles and revolutionary scholastic institutions....


The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010

by Lindsay Krasnoff

The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes, a compelling tale that serves as a prism through which to investigate the larger history of France, the evolution of society,...


The Politics of Academic Autonomy in Latin America

by Fernanda Beigel

Academic autonomy has been a dominant issue among Latin American social studies, given that the production of knowledge in the region has been mostly suspected for its lack of originality and the replication...


Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985

by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Neringa Klumbyte & Kate Brown

In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964...


Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti

by Amy Wilentz

The Rainy Season, Amy Wilentz’s award-winning 1989 portrait of Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as “a remarkable account of a journalist’s transformation...


Africans in Global Migration: Searching for Promised Lands

by John A. Arthur, Joseph Takougang & Thomas Owusu

A common thread in this book is the depiction of the African diasporas not only as a cultural epiphenomena (or interlocking communities), but also as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived...