Politics & Development

Written by leading experts, this volume brings together ‘liberal’ and ‘post-liberal’ approaches to peacebuilding. Besides challenging dominant peacebuilding paradigms, the book scrutinizes how far key concepts of post-liberal peacebuilding offer sound categories and new perspectives to reframe peace..

Written by leading experts, this volume brings together ‘liberal’ and ‘post-liberal’ approaches to peacebuilding. Besides challenging dominant peacebuilding paradigms, the book scrutinizes how far key concepts of post-liberal peacebuilding offer sound categories and new perspectives to reframe peace..

An estimated two billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence. Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas, and governments and international agencies seek avenues to enable socio-economic recovery and to support people as they try to rebuild their li..

This book examines the nature of political transitions in Southeast Asia and why political transitions toward political liberalisation and democracy have failed to take off. It considers political systems in the region that have gone through significant periods of transition but continue to face ser..

This book critically analyses opportunities and constraints related to the impact of democracy on development in one of the world’s poorest countries. The contributors to this volume include some of the most influential voices on democracy and development in Malawi, including academics, practitioner..

This book critically analyses opportunities and constraints related to the impact of democracy on development in one of the world’s poorest countries. The contributors to this volume include some of the most influential voices on democracy and development in Malawi, including academics, practitioner..

This book explores privatization in Malaysia, focusing in particular on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatizations: the national sewerage company (IWK), Kuala Lumpur Light Rail Transit (LRT), national airline (MAS), and national car company (Proton)...

This book explores and tests different theories of how governments respond to dissent and how dissidents respond to repression using extensive empirical data and detailed studies on Latin America and Africa...

This book offers new insights into the politics of development. Integrating the politics of identity and redistribution through critical reinterpretations of historical and contemporary development processes, it is a genuine attempt to ‘re-think’ the politics of global development...

This book offers new insights into the politics of development. Integrating the politics of identity and redistribution through critical reinterpretations of historical and contemporary development processes, it is a genuine attempt to ‘re-think’ the politics of global development...

The book addresses the social, political and cultural significance of revolt and revolution in three dimensions. First, it analyzes revolt and revolution as ‘events’ which are of history but not reducible to it. Second, it elaborates on theories that grant revolt and revolution a central place in th..

The book is a comparative study of the prominent quest for self-determination and secessionism cases in Africa. It further examines the theoretical, international law, and charters of the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU) stand on the issue of self-determi..