Politics & Development

It is now over 100 years since the Berlin Conference of 1884 which started the ‘Scramble for Africa’ whereby the various European powers carved up the African Continent between themselves. During the last century the relationship between Africa and Europe has changed dramatically – from a colonial t..

Despite the global condemnation following recent examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect is the first book to study ..

Whilst public support for the aid program in Australia is strong, Australians are wary of costs and want to ensure that aid is proven to be effective. Australia's Foreign Aid Program shows how aid fits into the story of Australia’s place in the world and why this form of public expenditure persists,..

There is a pressing need to examine celebrities and the role of context in the power relations that constitute North-South relations. This book gazes through the keyhole of ‘celebrity’ in order to investigate key concepts such as accountability, agency, authenticity, brand, development, mediation, i..

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. It does so via a trans-disciplinary approach that draws on case studies from Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa...

This book compiles a wide range of innovative articles at the forefront of thinking about the intersections of power, participation, and engagement in the realm of community practice, serving as a heuristic framework for ‘democratic community development’. It was originally published as a special is..

In the five years since the first edition of Conflict and Development was published the awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown exponentially. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for ending violence and for triggering post-conflict re..

This book tracks a number of major corruption scandals across the world in a comparative analysis to assess the full impact of corruption across a range of measures. This will be useful to students and scholars of international development and politics, as well as to development practitioners, donor..

 This interdisciplinary volume succinctly addresses the gap in criminological and security studies on the Caribbean by drawing attention to the understudied nexus of crime and the ways in which underdevelopment creates environments for insecurity...

This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of ‘social entrepreneurship’ in Thailand and Southern India...

This book argues that violence-affected communities use memory-based narratives in order to shame states into cooperating with claims for cultural rights protections. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empi..

This book argues that violence-affected communities use memory-based narratives in order to shame states into cooperating with claims for cultural rights protections. Shaming and claiming is a social movement tactic that binds historic violence to contemporary citizenship. Combining theory with empi..