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John Wiley & Sons Inc How Change Happens
Book SynopsisDiscover how those who change the world do so with this thoughtful and timely book Why do some changes occur, and others don''t? What are the factors that drive successful social and environmental movements, while others falter? How Change Happens examines the leadership approaches, campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns. The book explores successful movements that have achieved phenomenal impact since the 1980stobacco control, gun rights expansion, LGBT marriage equality, and acid rain elimination. It also examines recent campaigns that seem to have fizzled, like Occupy Wall Street, and those that continue to struggle, like gun violence prevention and carbon emissions reduction. And it explores implications for movements that are newly emerging, like Black Lives Matter. By comparing successful social change campaigns to the rest, How Change Happens reveals powerful lessons for changemakers who Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction: How Change Happens 1 Chapter 1 Turn Grassroots Gold 21 Chapter 2 Sharpen Your 10/10/10/20 = 50 Vision 53 Chapter 3 Change Hearts and Policy 77 Chapter 4 Reckon with Adversarial Allies 103 Chapter 5 Break from Business as Usual 119 Chapter 6 Be Leaderfull 143 Conclusion: Where We Go from Here 171 Appendix A: Research Parameters 185 Appendix B: List of Interviews 189 Appendix C: Additional Resources on Movements and Systems 193 Acknowledgments 215 About the Author and GSEI 221 Index 223
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Oxford University Press Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era
Book SynopsisWinner, International Communication Book Award, International Studies AssociationShortlisted, 2023 Susan Strange Best Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 Information Technology and Politics Best Book AwardTransnational Advocacy in the Digital Era explores the role of digital advocacy organizations, a major new addition to the international arena. These organizations derive power and influence from their ability to rapidly mobilize members on-line and off-line, and are shaping public opinion on many issues including climate change, trade, and refugees. Research in international relations (IR) has highlighted the influence of non-governmental organizations, which wield power through their expertise and long-term, moral commitment to an issue. However, no IR scholars have explored the spread and power of digital advocacy organizations. Nina Hall provides a detailed investigation of how these organizations have harnessed digitally networked power and established new advocacy strategies. TheyTrade ReviewThe book reminds scholars of transnational advocacy that new forms of activism regularly challenge the dominance of traditional groups established well before the internet age. * Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego, Global Perspectives *Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era helps scholars and activists understand vital questions about when and why digital advocacy organizations choose to work transnationally. Bridging work in political communications and international relations, its incisive analysis reveals both the power and tensions inherent in the digital advocacy model. * Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland *Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era is groundbreaking work. Nina Hall's extensive research documents an organizational form that has gained traction across national settings. These are groups that extend beyond individual protest moments, building movement capacity and transforming it into long-term political power. This is the first book to examine such organizations through a comparative, cross-national lens. It has a lot to teach both academics and practitioners who specialize in this field. * David Karpf, George Washington University *This book importantly captures shifts in how transnational advocacy occurs even in an era when many states have restricted the ability of such organizations to operate. Hall finds that advocacy organizations see the state as the most important locus of power, and hence the target of their campaigns which are nationally based and include campaigns on elections, unlike charitable organizations which are typically precluded from doing so. These are nonetheless transnational phenomena insofar as these organizations have diffused the advocacy model of rapid-response tactics like analytic digital activism and messaging to rapidly mobilize large memberships—offline and online—rather than relying on professional staff wielding expertise over a given issue. This is an insightful handbook of new forms of advocacy in the face of changing political and technological environments for students, scholars, and practitioners. * Richard Price, The University of British Columbia *With this timely and compelling book Nina Hall brings international relations scholarship on transnational advocacy into the digital age. Hall spells out the unique nature and contributions of digital advocacy organizations, drawing on careful research on diverse organizations working on a range of issues. * Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard University *Nina Hall has identified an important new source of power in global politics and created a valuable framework for further research. * Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Power of Digital Advocacy Organizations 3: Emulation and Propagation 4: Campaigning 5: A Transnational Network: Connect, Enhance and Collaborate 6: Trends in Transnational Campaigning: Issues, Targets, and Partners 7: Mobilizing for Climate Action 8: Member-Driven or Staff-Stewardship? 9: Conclusion Appendix References
£28.94
The University of Chicago Press Organizing Democracy How International
Book SynopsisEmerging democracies need a lot of support from international institutions, and this book analyzes the ways those organizations succeed and fail in providing that assistance.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Organizing Democracy How International
Book SynopsisEmerging democracies need a lot of support from international institutions, and this book analyzes the ways those organizations succeed and fail in providing that assistance.
£24.70
Columbia University Press Negotiating Governance on NonTraditional Security
Book SynopsisMely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. She analyzes how non-state actors are engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address multifaceted problems.Trade ReviewMely Caballero-Anthony is a pioneer of non-traditional security studies and this is the definitive book on the subject from a Southeast Asian perspective. -- Amitav Acharya, author of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast AsiaAn intriguing analysis of an underappreciated reality: the extent to which governments and non-government actors are now effectively cooperating, collaborating and responding collectively to a multitude of non-traditional threats to human security around Southeast and East Asia – from natural disasters to health crises to environmental and migration challenges. As Mely Caballero-Anthony makes clear in this lucid, scholarly and comprehensive work, state-centric preoccupation with military threats to national security is not the only game in town. -- Gareth Evans, former foreign minister of Australia and president emeritus of the International Crisis GroupThis book features impressive research, a clear and effective framework of analysis, and insightful observations in showing why those concerned with security in Asia must go beyond the headlines of China's rise and the North Korean threats to fully understand the region's security dynamics. Specialists have long known of the importance of non-traditional security issues in the region and the leading role of non-state actors in dealing with them. Now they have a single-authored assessment providing thorough and lucid treatment of the subject that ranks with the best studies on the topic. -- Robert Sutter, George Washington UniversitySurveying an economically vibrant but also volatile region, Mely Caballero-Anthony connects the dots of the diverse security challenges Southeast Asia faces. She outlines a way of responding to them that acknowledges that security and insecurity today consist of inter-linked multiple facets. Her insights on security governance in Southeast Asia have resonance for other regions and merit wide attention. -- Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond2. State and Non-State Actors and NTS Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond3. Governance of Health Security4. Governance of Environmental Security5. Governance of Migration6. Governance of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations7. Governance of Nuclear Energy8. Governance of Food SecurityConclusion: Building Security Governance in Times of Turbulence and UncertaintyNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.80
Columbia University Press Negotiating Governance on NonTraditional Security
Book SynopsisMely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. She analyzes how non-state actors are engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address multifaceted problems.Trade ReviewMely Caballero-Anthony is a pioneer of non-traditional security studies and this is the definitive book on the subject from a Southeast Asian perspective. -- Amitav Acharya, author of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast AsiaAn intriguing analysis of an underappreciated reality: the extent to which governments and non-government actors are now effectively cooperating, collaborating and responding collectively to a multitude of non-traditional threats to human security around Southeast and East Asia – from natural disasters to health crises to environmental and migration challenges. As Mely Caballero-Anthony makes clear in this lucid, scholarly and comprehensive work, state-centric preoccupation with military threats to national security is not the only game in town. -- Gareth Evans, former foreign minister of Australia and president emeritus of the International Crisis GroupThis book features impressive research, a clear and effective framework of analysis, and insightful observations in showing why those concerned with security in Asia must go beyond the headlines of China's rise and the North Korean threats to fully understand the region's security dynamics. Specialists have long known of the importance of non-traditional security issues in the region and the leading role of non-state actors in dealing with them. Now they have a single-authored assessment providing thorough and lucid treatment of the subject that ranks with the best studies on the topic. -- Robert Sutter, George Washington UniversitySurveying an economically vibrant but also volatile region, Mely Caballero-Anthony connects the dots of the diverse security challenges Southeast Asia faces. She outlines a way of responding to them that acknowledges that security and insecurity today consist of inter-linked multiple facets. Her insights on security governance in Southeast Asia have resonance for other regions and merit wide attention. -- Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Security Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond2. State and Non-State Actors and NTS Governance in Southeast Asia and Beyond3. Governance of Health Security4. Governance of Environmental Security5. Governance of Migration6. Governance of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations7. Governance of Nuclear Energy8. Governance of Food SecurityConclusion: Building Security Governance in Times of Turbulence and UncertaintyNotesBibliographyIndex
£70.40
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£70.40
Columbia University Press NGOs as Newsmakers
Book SynopsisMatthew Powers analyzes the growing role NGOs play in shaping—and sometimes directly producing—international news. Through an unprecedented glimpse into NGOs’ newsmaking efforts, Powers portrays the possibilities and limits of NGOs as media makers, with important implications for the intersections of journalism and advocacy.Trade ReviewPowers provides a rich analysis of the role of NGOs in shaping international news, taking a useful institutional—“on-the-ground”—perspective to supplement the more celebratory analysis by many communication scholars of digitally enabled social movements, including the Arab Spring and related online phenomena. -- Stephen Reese, University of Texas, AustinPowers offers a sharp dissection and a comprehensive analysis of the news-making strategies of global NGOs. Grounded in smart interpretations of institutional theories, the book shows the ambiguities of NGOs as news makers - the innovations as well as the limitations to broaden the content of regular news cycles. The cases discussed amply demonstrate that NGOs make decisions in fields of news shaped by multiple factors. Powers convincingly argues that NGOs do not make news as they please, but they do so under institutional circumstances existing already in a world saturated with information. -- Silvio Waisbord, George Washington UniversityMatthew Powers' NGOs as Newsmakers combines rich empirical observation, gained through interviews and field work at the Syrian-Turkish border, with sophisticated causal analysis. He compellingly shows how the dwindling resources for international coverage on the one hand and humanitarian NGOs' move toward newsmaking on the other reinforce rather than sideline professional news norms. A must read for anybody interested in the fate of cosmopolitan journalism and humanitarian aid. -- Hartmut Wessler, University of MannheimPowers has produced a landmark study of one of the complex high-stakes dynamics shaping the future of journalism. NGOs as Newsmakers is a work of theoretical nuance and empirical rigor that spotlights the ways NGOs are fueling important and original reporting while also nourishing stereotypes and power dynamics inherent to traditional news practices that have hemmed in reporting. -- Adrienne Russell, University of WashingtonScholars, editors, journalists, NGO practitioners, and policy experts would benefit from reading NGOs as Newsmakers to better understand the current state of affairs between NGOs and newsmakers. In particular, by applying the field variant of institutional theory to illuminate how journalists and NGOs vie for attention in an age of information overload. -- Allison J. Steinke, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities * Digital Journalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A New Era of NGO-Driven News?2. The Changing Faces of NGO Communication Work3. The Partially Opening News Gates4. The Strategic Advocate in the Digital Storm5. Publicity’s Ends6. Explaining the Endurance of News Norms7. The Possibilities and Limitations of NGO CommunicationMethods AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£23.80
University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review"It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology "All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Communication in the Lives of the Globe1. Saving the World: Beginnings of Communication for Development2. Globalization, Discourse, and Development Communication: UNESCO as Prime Mover3. Commuunication for Development: Does It Work?4. Rethinking the Paradigm: The Dependency Phase5. Another Paradigm: Participatory Communication6. Paradigm for a New Millennium: Social Entrepreneurship7. Past, Present, and Future: An Agenda for 2015 and Beyond8. The Future: Some Final ThoughtsReferencesIndexBack Cover
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Third Sector Community Organizations NGOs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meghan Kallman and Terry Clark's book, The Third Sector, is a rare and valuable academic endeavor synthesizing the development of the third sector in six case countries, and it sheds light on the relationship between the state and the third sector in each country. . . . This book is a valuable addition to the third sector literature."--Social Service Review "The Third Sector is a relevant and useful book for political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, and anthropologists interested in the relationship between states and citizen, regardless of what country/region they study." --American Review of Public Administration "A worthy addition to the bookshelves of scholars, practitioners and policy makers alike--highly recommended reading."--Voluntas"The most promising contribution of this volume lies in this set of analyses, especially the chapter on the emergence of civil society in China. By bringing attention to the growing third sectors across Asia, the book has the potential to reinvigorate the sociological study of comparative civil society development as well as nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations more broadly."--American Journal of Sociology"The book is a useful addition to a growing body of research on the third sector that is expanding around the world." --Journal of Planning Education and Research
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Saving the World
Book SynopsisInvigorating global social change through communicationTrade Review "It presents in-depth policy analyses to outline a vision for how communication technologies have--and still can--impact social change and economic/cultural development. . . . McAnany builds an historical paradigm that melds technology with social entrepreneurship. "-- Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Saving the World offers a judicious integration of Emile G. McAnany's own first-hand experience with many of the seminal people and projects in communication for development. McAnany provides a very valuable understanding of the underlying structure of the field and how these ideas have been implemented and theorized."--Joseph Straubhaar, author of Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology"All students who are just beginning will find this book an excellent introduction not only to the ideas and theories but also to the key thinkers who have helped frame the debate over the last 30 or 40 years. . . . Knowing the people and their histories gives an invaluable background to our knowledge."--Communication Research Trends "A comprehensive, ambitious history and policy analysis of the field of development communication. McAnany's grasp of the major developments, issues, and advances of this field will appeal to scholars of communication, sociology, political science, and economics."--Robert Huesca, professor of communication, Trinity University "Savings the World provides a strong history for understanding the context of efforts to use communication to spur development. McAnany's continuing push for measures that will demonstrate success or failure is welcome. This volume will be most valuable to those seeking historical context as they delve into the role of information and communication technologies for development."--International Journal of Communication "Saving the World is a fascinating examination of how earlier technologies were applied to foster social change. An easy-to-read, well-organized document; while McAnany carefully relays theory, he does it in a concise way that anyone will find accessible."--Technical Communication
£18.89
University of Illinois Press The Third Sector
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Meghan Kallman and Terry Clark's book, The Third Sector, is a rare and valuable academic endeavor synthesizing the development of the third sector in six case countries, and it sheds light on the relationship between the state and the third sector in each country. . . . This book is a valuable addition to the third sector literature."--Social Service Review "The Third Sector is a relevant and useful book for political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, and anthropologists interested in the relationship between states and citizen, regardless of what country/region they study." --American Review of Public Administration "A worthy addition to the bookshelves of scholars, practitioners and policy makers alike--highly recommended reading."--Voluntas"The most promising contribution of this volume lies in this set of analyses, especially the chapter on the emergence of civil society in China. By bringing attention to the growing third sectors across Asia, the book has the potential to reinvigorate the sociological study of comparative civil society development as well as nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations more broadly."--American Journal of Sociology"The book is a useful addition to a growing body of research on the third sector that is expanding around the world." --Journal of Planning Education and Research
£17.99
Indiana University Press The Politics of Suffering
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue
£59.50
Indiana University Press The Politics of Suffering
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency charged with providing assistance to Palestinians since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and residents of three camps in Syria. Over time, UNRWA's management of the camps reveals a shift from an emphasis on humanitarian aid to promotion of self-sufficiency and integration of refugees within their host society. Gabiam's analysis captures two forces in tension within the camps: politics of suffering that serves to keep alive the discourse around the Palestinian right of return; and politics of citizenship expressed through development projects that seek to close the divide between the camp and the city. Gabiam offers compelling insights into the plight of Palestinians before and during the Syrian war, which has led to devastation in the camps and masTrade ReviewNell Gabiam's The Politics of Suffering is a deep anthropological engagement with the politics of citizenship and the practices of othering as it relates to the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. In a time of a major refugee crisis world-wide, this book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the shape of the needed global humanitarian response to these increasingly normalized conditions. -- Nezar AlSayyadGabiam's The Politics of Suffering takes us deep into the world of Palestinian refugees in Syria, an understudied and for the present inaccessible area for further research. Through her innovative and original work on the architecture of camp life she unfolds the confluence between humanitarian aid and development alongside the politics of the right of return and citizenship. A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Nell Gabiam's timely and original book makes an excellent contribution to the limited literature on Palestinian refugees in Syria. . . . A highly readable and informative book for the student of the Middle East and refugee studies in general. * Antipode *Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read. * Journal of Palestine Studies *The Politics of Suffering should earn a place on syllabi of courses in applied anthropology and the anthropology of the Middle East as well as the anthropology of migration. It makes critical contributions to those fields and opens up new conversations about the relations among refugeeness, place, and politics. * American Ethnologist * The Politics of Suffering is clearly written and accessible to a wide audience interested in refugee and diaspora studies, humanitarianism and development studies, and/or Palestinian studies. It can be effectively taught in both undergraduate and graduate courses addressing these topics. * City & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Informal Citizens: Palestinian Refugees in Syria2. From Humanitarianism to Development: UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees3. Sumūd and Sustainability: Reinterpreting Development in Palestinian Refugee Camps4. "Must We Live in Barracks to Convince People We Are Refugees?": The Politics of Camp Improvement5. "A Camp Is a Feeling Inside": Urbanization and the Boundaries of Palestinian Refugee IdentityConclusion: Beyond Suffering and VictimhoodEpilogue
£21.59
Indiana University Press Historians and Historical Societies in the Public
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. From Associations of the Educated to Societies for Education: Historical Background2. Historical Societies at the Juncture of Scholarship, Politics, and Education3. From the University Societies to the "University Extension:" Historians as Public Activists4. The Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education: Conservative Activism and the Quest for Useful History Conclusion: Voluntary Historical Societies in the Fin-de-Siècle Associational World BibliographyIndex
£48.60
Indiana University Press Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY
£59.40
Indiana University Press Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hosting States and Unsettled Guests unpacks the complex temporalities of migration. Temporal discombobulation begins under repressive rule in Eritrea. In Ethiopia, refugees' briefly-regained agency is lost in the face of sluggish humanitarian bureaucracy, and troubled relations with the unstable host country. In deftly documenting refugee agency, precarious journeys, and the systemic odds migrants encounter, Riggan and Poole make tremendous contributions to refugee studies and studies of the contemporary Horn of Africa."—Awet T. Weldemichael, Queen's University-Canada, author of Author of Piracy in Somalia."In this exemplary ethnography, replete with vivid details and theoretical nuance, Riggan and Poole analyze how Eritrean refugees weather Ethiopia's shifting paradigms of refugee management and pursue pragmatic visions of their possible futures in a time of political and economic instability. This book is a deft and absorbing piece of anthropological and international scholarship."—Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Editor of Humanizing Education for Refugee and Immigrant Youth"The book provides detailed, nuanced, and critical perspectives on some of the most important challenges of refugee life and refugee policy today: what it means to live as a refugee, how to work with host countries in the global south to ensure refugee's rights and needs are met, how to design education and economic opportunities for refugees, and how to ensure refugees' hopes and dreams for the future are not cruelly disregarded or undermined."—Lauren Carruth, author of Love and Liberation"In a detailed ethnography that profoundly reconceptualizes time and temporality, Riggan and Poole show us the political reality and predicament of life and struggle in refugee camps in northern Ethiopia. This book is a welcome contribution to the field of forced migration studies."—-Shahram Khosravi, author of Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran"Through the moving stories that they collected between 2016 and 2019, Riggan and Poole's engaging ethnography traces the fate of Eritrean refugees in a very unstable Ethiopia. The authors brilliantly examine how temporality (and not just spatiality) plays key roles in understanding Eritrean refugees' everyday lives in refugee camps and urban settings in the years that led up to a devastating war. The authors unveil how Eritrean refugees inescapably experience temporal suffering and teleological violence within these structural barriers, while their present becomes ungraspable and thus unmovable."—Sabina M. Perrino, Binghamton University, SUNY
£22.49
MH - Indiana University Press Undermining Development
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Powerful and the Powerless: Understanding NGOs in Development2. NGO Power3. The Power of Local NGOs in Zimbabwe4. The Power of Local NGOs in Tanzania5. The Power of Local NGOs in Senegal6. Why Power is Crucial to NGOs7. Powerful NGOs, Sustainable NGOs8. Helping Local NGOs in Africa to Develop PowerBibliographyIndex
£831.51
University of Notre Dame Press Uniting Of Europe Political Social and Economic
Book SynopsisThis work uses the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a case study of the community formation processes that occur across traditional national and state boundaries. Haas points to the ECSC as an example of an organization with the ""power to redirect...loyalties and expectations"".Trade Review"A first-rate study. . . " —Foreign Affairs"If one was to develop a list of the twenty most important books on European integration, Ernst Haas's The Uniting of Europe would be an essential inclusion. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the EU. And, unlike so much that has been written about European integration since 1958, it is an easy read." —History: Reviews of New Books
£21.59
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Whose Agency The Politics and Practice of Kenyas
Book SynopsisBy focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".Trade Review“In vivid detail, Hershey provides the rare, truly nuanced view of development interventions. She argues that small, local NGOs can be successful emissaries of HIV/AIDS programming, even while they fail to achieve the true participatory development for which such NGOs are most lauded. A must-read for researchers interested in the on-the-ground politics of development program implementation.”—Jennifer Brass, Indiana University
£63.00
Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International
Book SynopsisOffering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential inTrade Review"This timely and important book provides a comprehensive and compelling look at the role of NGOs in international relations. Pushing against disciplinary silos, it brings together a first rate group of scholars to reflect upon the role of NGOs in a vast number of issue areas and regions of the world. It is essential reading for everyone interested in ‘politics beyond the state’." Erin Hannah, King's University College, Western University, Canada. "An comprehensive and timely collection of essays about the growing and crucial role of non-state actors in world politics. Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations has insights for politicians, pundits, and the public as well as analysts of global governance. This excellent overview provides one-stop shopping for a phenomenon that challenges the contours of our understanding about contemporary transnational interactions." Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA. Table of ContentsIntroducing NGOs and International Relations PART I: History and Contributions 1. The Emergence of NGOs as Actors on the World Stage 2. NGOs’ Interactions with States 3. NGOs in Global Governance 4. Transnational Non-State Politics PART II: Theory and Analysis 5. Constituting NGOs 6. Rationalist Explanations for NGOs 7. NGOs and Post-Positivism: Two Likely Friends? 8. NGOs in Constructivist International Relations Theory 9. The Aesthetic Politics of NGOs 10. NGOs and Social Movement Theory 11. International NGOs in Development Studies 12. NGOs and Management Studies 13. NGOs in International Law: Reconsidering Personality and Participation (again) 14. Voluntaristics: Global Research on NGOs and the Non-Profit Sector 15. Primary Data on NGOs: Pushing the Bounds of Present Possibilities PART III: Issue-Areas and Sectors 16. Feminist Politics and NGO Mobilization: Can NGOs Degender Global Governance? 17. NGOs and Labour 18. NGOs and Human Rights 19. Humanitarian NGOs 20. Five Generations of NGOs in Education: From Humanitarianism to Global Capitalism 21. The Roles of the Citizen Sector in Health and Public Health 22. NGOs and Peace 23. NGOs and the Environment 24. Civil Society, Expert Communities, and Private Standards 25. An Uncomfortable Relationship: NGOs, Trade Associations, and the Development of Industry Self-Regulation 26. NGOs and Global Trade 27. NGOs and Professions 28. Religiously Affiliated NGOs PART IV: Regional Perspectives 29. Transnational NGOs in the United States 30. NGOs in the European Union 31. The Non-Profit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia 32. NGOs in East and Southeast Asia 33. NGOs, Democracy and Development in Latin America 34. Civil Societies and NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa: The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia 35. NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Potentials, Constraints and Diverging Experiences 36. NGOs in South Asia PART V: Contemporary Challenges 37. Democracy and NGOs 38. NGOs and Authoritarianism 39. NGOs and Security in Conflict Zones 40. NGOs and the Challenge of Global Terrorism 41. International NGO Legitimacy: Challenges and Responses 42. NGO Accountability
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The University of Michigan Press When Women Have Wings
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments apparent in one Women's Culture Center in Madellin, Columbia. This book depicts the frailty and complexity of cross-class organizing, and the ways this process may be threatened by professionalized NGO styles.Trade ReviewBy offering a fine-grained, engaging and provocative account of the workings of feminist Non-Governmental Organizations and their working-class women constituencies, When Women Have Wings fills a gaping lacuna in the now expansive literature on women's movements in the Global South. - Sonia E. Alverez, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£28.23
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace
Book SynopsisInvestigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.Trade ReviewGoetze’s contribution should be relevant and inspiring both for scholars interested in peacekeeping and in international political sociology.."" - Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace A Social Analysis of
Book SynopsisInvestigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.Trade ReviewGoetze’s contribution should be relevant and inspiring both for scholars interested in peacekeeping and in international political sociology.."" - Anna Leander, Copenhagen Business School
£50.30
Harvard University Press Raising the World
Book SynopsisSara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe.Trade ReviewFieldston should be commended for providing a long overdue synthesis of U.S. voluntary child-saving agencies during the Cold War. Her book is a very successful contextualization of how U.S. charities such as the Christian Children’s Fund, fueled by the desire to care for wartime dependents and participate in the larger narrative of containment through emulation of the U.S., used foster parenting by sponsorship to export U.S. ideas about democracy and the family. -- M. E. Birk * Choice *This remarkable book brings private humanitarianism into the story of American global power during the Cold War. Moved to relieve suffering and express their commitment to love, peace, and international friendship, ordinary Americans and child welfare professionals ran headlong into the controversies of U.S. foreign and military policy. From postwar Europe and Japan to Korea and Vietnam, Fieldston shows us what happened when Americans and their government agreed that saving the world’s children was the foundation of reconstructing nations and remaking the world. -- Ellen Herman, author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United StatesRaising the World is a major contribution, showing us the affective side of Cold War–era modernization theory. To inoculate poorer nations from communism, Americans embarked on a host of programs overseas. Sound emotional development and individual happy childhoods, these liberal reformers believed, were essential to world peace. A fascinating, nuanced study, Fieldston’s book is essential reading for those who want a better understanding of how ordinary Americans become invested in the project of American hegemony. -- Naoko Shibusawa, author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
£33.96
Princeton University Press Power Interdependence and Nonstate Actors in
Book SynopsisExplores topics that include the uneven role of peacekeepers in civil wars, the success of human rights treaties in promoting women's rights, the disproportionate power of developing countries in international environmental policy negotiations, and the prospects for Asian regional cooperation.Trade Review"Dedicated to the life's work of Robert O. Keohane, this is a book of exceptional intellectual coherence and vigor. A large number of Keohane's distinguished former students here celebrate his seminal contribution to the field of international relations and international political economy. The chapters explore and exemplify his widely recognized and cited institutionalist framework. The volume is a testimony to the undiluted impact Keohane's scholarship continues to have on legions of students and colleagues."—Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University"Robert O. Keohane is a giant in the field of international relations, not only because he has produced innovative ideas and approaches, but also because of his teaching and mentoring. This edited volume by former Keohane students and colleagues is a fitting tribute to his oeuvre, pushing his thinking on power, interdependence, and the role of nonstate actors into previously understudied domains and dimensions of institutionalism, with results that the rest of us might not have thought of before but which won't entirely surprise the master himself. Highly recommended for all serious students of international relations."—John Gerard Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"This important and timely book pushes the theoretical envelope of neoliberal institutionalism and represents an important step forward in international relations theory. The scholarship is sound, well-documented, and effectively presented, and the ideas are framed and explored in ways that will give them lasting value."—Giulio Gallarotti, Wesleyan University"Covering a wide range of topics and probing the strengths as well as some weaknesses of neoliberal institutionalism, this book will interest a broad cross-section of international relations scholars."—Edward D. Mansfield, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Contributors xi Preface xiii INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics: Research Frontiers by Helen V. Milner 3 INSTITUTIONS AND POWER Chapter 2: Institutions, Power, and Interdependence by Randall W. Stone 31 Chapter 3: The Transaction Costs Approach to International Institutions by Michael J. Gilligan 50 Chapter 4: The Influence of International Institutions: Institutional Design, Compliance, Effectiveness, and Endogeneity by Ronald B. Mitchell 66 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS ACROSS ISSUE AREAS Chapter 5: Peacekeepers as Signals: The Demand for International Peacekeeping in Civil Wars by V. Page Fortna and Lisa L. Martin 87 Chapter 6: Women and International Institutions: The Effects of the Women's Convention on Female Education by Beth A. Simmons 108 Chapter 7: Private Governance for the Public Good? Exploring Private Sector Participation in Global Financial Regulation by Layna Mosley 126 Chapter 8: Power, Interdependence, and Domestic Politics in International Environmental Cooperation by Elizabeth R. DeSombre 147 Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Trade Liberalization by Vinod K. Aggarwal 164 POWER AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Chapter 10: International Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World by Jonathan D. Aronson 185 Chapter 11: The Big Influence of Big Allies: Transgovernmental Relations as a Tool of Statecraft by Timothy J. McKeown 204 Chapter 12: On Taking Religious Worldviews Seriously by J. Ann Tickner 223 AFTERWORD Chapter 13: Robert Keohane: Political Theorist 243 Andrew Moravcsik Bibliography 265 Index 291
£36.00
Princeton University Press Rethinking Private Authority
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the author shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the years, largely in the area of treaty implementation.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2014-2015 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Levine Prize, International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government "In this pioneering work, Green explores how governmental and private actors can work together to institute regulations to address global environmental problems... [I]ts conclusions have implications for the entire field of international relations. The work is carefully argued, clearly written, and supported by an extensive bibliography."--Choice "The author has to be acclaimed for her ability to wade through hundreds if not thousands of documents, verify their authenticity and reach conclusions on the variety of measures taken by the private sector in cooperation with governments, international organisations or independently, to discharge their responsibility toward containing emissions."--Madras Sivaraman, International Journal of Environmental Studies "[Green] offer[s] novel and insightful empirical descriptions of the operation of private authority in contemporary global governance."--Elizabeth Acorn, Global Law Books "Offer[s] a persuasive framework for identifying and analyzing private authority at the international level. The usefulness of the framework is illustrated here by extended empirical studies."--Kathryn Hochstetler, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Acronyms xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. A Theory of Private Authority 26 Chapter 2. Agents of the State: A Century of Delegation in International Environmental Law 54 Chapter 3. Governors of the Market: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Authority 78 Chapter 4. Atmospheric Police: Delegated Authority in the Clean Development Mechanism 104 Chapter 5. Atmospheric Accountants: Entrepreneurial Authority and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol 132 Chapter 6. Conclusion 163 Bibliography 183 Index 207
£74.80
Princeton University Press The Power of Organizations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and information-rich. . . . [The Power of Organizations] offers a comprehensive, detailed glimpse of what contemporary organizational theory has become."---Brayden G. King, Administrative Science Quarterly
£80.00
Princeton University Press The Power of Organizations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and information-rich. . . . [The Power of Organizations] offers a comprehensive, detailed glimpse of what contemporary organizational theory has become."---Brayden G. King, Administrative Science Quarterly
£25.50
University Press of Kansas Celebrity Influence Politics Persuasion and
Book SynopsisWhy should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina Jolie when they endorse a politician or take a position on an issue? Do we listen to them? In this book Mark Harvey takes a close look into the phenomenon of celebrity advocacy in an attempt to determine the nature of celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its power.Trade ReviewCelebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a vital impact upon politics within the first two decades of the 21st century. Mark Harvey’s important new book provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded account of this phenomenon. His qualitative and quantitative analysis concerning the political effects of celebrity engagement is especially welcome due to it terrific level of detail. Moreover, Harvey’s insightful account is particularly prescient in the light of the ultimate celebrity politician Donald Trump’s ascendency to the office of the Presidency of the United States."" - Mark Wheeler, Professor of Political Communications London Metropolitan University""In Celebrity Influence Mark Harvey makes a persuasive case for the power of celebrities to shape the national conversation. Harvey offers a detailed and historically rich context through which to understand how entertainers and athletes channel their fame and credibility with audiences into political action. In an era when show business and politics have become increasingly intertwined, Harvey presents a timely analysis of an underappreciated topic."" - Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail
£38.66
Rlpg/Galleys Aid Effectiveness in Africa
Book SynopsisA significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R. Pomerantz examines the relationship between aid donors and recipients and the extent to which trust is present in today''s aid environment. Pomerantz concludes that there are serious gaps, created in part by a striking lack of knowledge of the African context and culture on the part of the donors, and troublesome institutional constraints that make it difficult for aid agencies to change the way they operate. Joining the urgent call to transform aid agencies and increase aid effectiveness, and eschewing pat solutions and simple formulae, the book offers realistic recommendations and provides an eloquent argument for further, far-reaching reform.Trade Review. . . a hopeful book based on years of practical experience and thus should be applauded. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreign Aid Is Not Just Money Chapter 2 Trust in the Aid Setting Chapter 3 Barriers to Trust: Voices from the Field Chapter 4 Culture Matters Chapter 5 Institutional Roadblocks Chapter 6 Tearing Down the Wall: Can Aid Relationships Be Improved?
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Lexington Books Acting on Faith
Book SynopsisActing on Faith deftly examines the role of religious discourse in processes of economic development by exploring a case study based on twelve months of intensive qualitative research examining the role of small, Catholic non-government organizations (NGOs) in indigenous communities in northwest Argentina. The difficulty facing the communities and their associated NGOs is how to create conditions that ameliorate poverty, without undermining cultural values. The substantial technical, ecological, and economic obstacles to development in these remote regions compound this change. This book moves beyond a perspective that privileges either the symbolic aspect of religion or the material forces of political economy, and instead sees economic and symbolic systems as mutually conditioning processes of meaning and power. Acting on Faith is an important work for scholars in anthropology and sociology, as well as practitioners in the field of development.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Iruya and OCLADE Chapter 3 Los Blancos and Fundapaz Chapter 4 Development Discourse Chapter 5 Religious Idioms of Development Chapter 6 Land and Its Uses Chapter 7 Claiming Property in Two Communities Chapter 8 Conclusion
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Lexington Books Nongovernmental Organizations NGOs and
Book SynopsisExamines the role of NGOs in the development processes on the African continent. This book raises questions about the influence of funding agencies over the NGOs they support and explores the challenges NGOs face. It argues that increased knowledge and cooperation on various parts is useful to achieve sustainable development.Trade ReviewThis book is a magnificent collection of African minds and cases on collective approaches to sustainable development in the continent. Every African, especially political leaders or aspirants, should take a retreat with this book and reassess why we lack conscience and keep our people characterized as underdeveloped. -- Emmanuel Otu, associate professor of chemistry, Indiana University SoutheastProfessor Dibie is an expert on public management of NGOs. He has assembled a group of African scholars who have a great deal of knowledge in the field of NGOs operations in Africa. The text makes a great overivew of the management of NGOs in Africa. -- Kayode Makinde, vice chancellor, Babcock University NigeriaProfessor Robert Dibie's book is among the most important texts on the most important texts on NGOs and sustainable development in Africa today. It is comprehensive, clear, up-to-date, and highly readable. My undergraduate and graduate students like it very much. Collectively, the chapters take the reader on a stimulating, insightful, and comprehensive journey through the realm of NGOs' role in sustainable development in Africa. -- Patrick Okonkwo, professor of business administration, Central Michigan UniversityThis volume brings together a comprehensive and insightful discussion of the key economic, social, political and institutional variables shaping NGOs operations and sustainable development efforts in Africa. -- Ishenkumba Kahwa, The University of the West Indies, JamaicaThis book is an intelligent discussion of an important international phenomenon. It is a frank, honest, and balanced examination with special appeal to practitioners and administrators. The study's examination of challenges and opportunities facing NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa is both intriguing and provocative. -- Samory Rashid, associate professor of political science, Indiana State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: NGOs and Human Development in Africa: Theory and Model for Collaboration Chapter 2 NGOs and Development Administration in Africa Chapter 3 NGOs, Public Bureaucracy, and Sustainable Development in Africa Chapter 4 The Perception of NGOs Performance in Anglophone Africa Chapter 5 NGOs and Development in Botswana and Nigeria Chapter 5 NGOs and Community Based Environmental Policy in Botswana and Ethiopia Chapter 6 Motivation and Volunterrism in NGOs in Ghana and Nigeria Chapter 7 NGOs and Development in Cameroon Chapter 8 NGOs and Religion in Zimbabwean Uncertain Times Chapter 9 NGOs and Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo Chapter 10 Strategic Repositioning of NGOs for Sustainable Development in Africa Chapter 11 Current and Future Roles of NGOs in the Empowerment of Women in Africa Chapter 12 Public Administration and Sustainability in Africa
£99.00
Lexington Books Conservative Brain Trust
Book SynopsisConservative Brain Trust traces the rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). More than that, it is the story of one of Washington''s leading think tanks: what it''s like to work there, how Washington works, and how AEI influences policy, including policy on the controversial Iraq War. This is a wide-ranging review of the Washington think tank world, focused particularly on AEI. The book is a social science and political study of the role of think tanks in Washington policy-making and, in part, a personal memoir of the author''s adventures and perceptions in seeking to link academic research and American foreign policy. What emerges is a portrait of AEI as an influential, but also troubled, think tank with access to the highest levels of the U.S. government. Irreverent as well as analytic, the author recounts his adventures and experiences in the think tank and policy worlds.Trade ReviewHoward Wiarda authors a fascinating evocative memoir as a 'semi-insider' to the Reagan 'Conservative Revolution' in his capacity as director of the Latin American program for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Howard offers a candid and revealing assessment of Washington Think Tanks from his personal diaries and his involvement with the White House and Congress, the Defense and State Departments, and the CIA, blending with these also a description of the programs and individuals with which he dealt during the 1980s. -- Philip Kelly, Emporia State UniversityHoward Wiarda's observations on his years at the American Enterprise Institute and his service as key adviser to the Kissinger Commission on Central America provide an invaluable glimpse at the way in which United States foreign policy was formulated and implemented during the Reagan era. Wiarda is a keen observer of the Washington policy scene and a provocative critic of the major players who shaped U.S. policy during the Central American revolutions. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand how Washington really works. -- Michael J. Kryzanek, Bridgewater State CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: "The Call" Chapter 2. "Mr. Smith" Goes to Washington: An Introduction to Washington and AEI Chapter 3. Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions Chapter 4. Think Tanks and Foreign Policy Chapter 5. Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area Chapter 6. Power and Policy-Making in Washingon, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made Chapter 7. The Democracy Initiative in American Foreign Policy Chapter 8. The Kissinger Commission on Central America Chapter 9. Am I Entitled to be Called “Honorable”?:Serving the White House at Home and Abroad Chapter 10. Congress, the President, and Foreign PolicyDecision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation Chapter 11. On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good Chapter 12. Washington Adventures and Misadventures:Are We a Banana Republic or What? Chapter 13. The Looming Crisis of AEI Chapter 14. AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C. Chapter 15. AEI Reborn and Reconstituted Chapter 16 Conclusion
£101.70
Lexington Books Conservative Brain Trust
Book SynopsisConservative Brain Trust traces the rise, fall, and rise again of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). More than that, it is the story of one of Washington''s leading think tanks: what it''s like to work there, how Washington works, and how AEI influences policy, including policy on the controversial Iraq War. This is a wide-ranging review of the Washington think tank world, focused particularly on AEI. The book is a social science and political study of the role of think tanks in Washington policy-making and, in part, a personal memoir of the author''s adventures and perceptions in seeking to link academic research and American foreign policy. What emerges is a portrait of AEI as an influential, but also troubled, think tank with access to the highest levels of the U.S. government. Irreverent as well as analytic, the author recounts his adventures and experiences in the think tank and policy worlds.Trade ReviewHoward Wiarda authors a fascinating evocative memoir as a 'semi-insider' to the Reagan 'Conservative Revolution' in his capacity as director of the Latin American program for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Howard offers a candid and revealing assessment of Washington Think Tanks from his personal diaries and his involvement with the White House and Congress, the Defense and State Departments, and the CIA, blending with these also a description of the programs and individuals with which he dealt during the 1980s. -- Philip Kelly, Emporia State UniversityHoward Wiarda's observations on his years at the American Enterprise Institute and his service as key adviser to the Kissinger Commission on Central America provide an invaluable glimpse at the way in which United States foreign policy was formulated and implemented during the Reagan era. Wiarda is a keen observer of the Washington policy scene and a provocative critic of the major players who shaped U.S. policy during the Central American revolutions. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand how Washington really works. -- Michael J. Kryzanek, Bridgewater State CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: "The Call" Chapter 2. "Mr. Smith" Goes to Washington: An Introduction to Washington and AEI Chapter 3. Into the Swim: A Jaundiced View of the Main Washington Foreign Policy Institutions Chapter 4. Think Tanks and Foreign Policy Chapter 5. Latin America on the Agenda: Foreign Policy in a Peripheral Area Chapter 6. Power and Policy-Making in Washingon, D.C.: How Foreign Policy Gets Made Chapter 7. The Democracy Initiative in American Foreign Policy Chapter 8. The Kissinger Commission on Central America Chapter 9. Am I Entitled to be Called “Honorable”?:Serving the White House at Home and Abroad Chapter 10. Congress, the President, and Foreign PolicyDecision-Making: Conflict and Confrontation Chapter 11. On the Lecture Circuit: Doing Well by Doing Good Chapter 12. Washington Adventures and Misadventures:Are We a Banana Republic or What? Chapter 13. The Looming Crisis of AEI Chapter 14. AEI in Collapse: A Farewell to D.C. Chapter 15. AEI Reborn and Reconstituted Chapter 16 Conclusion
£42.30
Lexington Books Bridging the Gaps
Book SynopsisAs neoliberal philosophies and economic models spread across the globe, faith-based non-governmental (third-sector) organizations have proliferated. They increasingly fill the gaps born of state neglect by designing and delivering social services and development programming. This collection shines a much-needed critical light onto these organizations by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism and development practices on the poor and powerless. The essaysgrounded in empirical case studiescover such topics as the meaning of faith-based development, evaluations of faith-based versus secular approaches, the influence of faith-orientation on program formulation and delivery, and examinations of faith-based organizations'' impacts on structural inequality and poverty alleviation. Bridging the Gaps demonstrates the vital importance of ethnography for understanding the particular role of faith-baTrade ReviewThis collection is an important addition to the growing literature on faith-based organisations and how they engage with development. In its richly contextualised and nuanced ethnographies of FBOs in Central and Latin America and the Caribbean, it highlights the complexities of the faith-based sector and the ways in which FBOs themselves are transformed by their encounter with development discourse and neoliberalism. Together, the book demonstrates the possibilities and limits of faith engagement with development. It should be read by anyone seeking to understand the shifting roles, constraints, challenges, and opportunities of faith-based development activity. -- Michael Jennings, senior lecturer in international development at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Faith-Based Organizations, Neoliberalism, and Development: An Introduction 2 Waging the War on Drugs: Neoliberal Governance and the Formation of Faith-Based Organizations in Urban Mexico 3 Fighting for "Livity": Rastafari Politics in a Neoliberal State 4 Encouraging Development "Alternatives": Grassroots Church Partnering in the U.S. and Haiti 5 Searching for Solidarity in Nicaragua: Faith-Based NGOs as Agents of Trans-cultural Voluntourism 6 Beyond Development and "Projects": The Globalization of Solidarity 7 How Is Your Life Since Then? Gender, Doctrine, and Development in Bolivia 8 "God Wants Us to Have a Life That Is Sustainable": Faith-Based Development and Economic Change in Andean Peasant Communities 9 A Chilean Faith-Based NGO's Social Service Mission in the Context of Neoliberal Reform 10 Faith-Related Education NGOs in Latin America: The Case of Fe y Alegria in Perú 11 Soka Gakkai in Brazil: Buddhism, Recruitment, or Marketing? 12 Faith, Hope, Charity: Catholic Development Organizations in Argentina 13 The Salesian Missions of Ecuador: Building an Anti-Neoliberal Nation through the Cultural and Political Construction of the Indigenous Movement
£89.10
Rlpg/Galleys The Politics of Crisis Management in China
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People's Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of the non-governmental groups which established a partnership with the state in the rescue operations, and the process and politics of reconstruction. The book is rich in materials, including comparative case studies of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Myanmar, and the contrasts with the Japanese earthquake tsunami in 2011. Researchers, government officials, policy analysts, seismic specialists, journalists and students will find this book extremely useful, conceptually insightful and practically policy-relevant.Trade ReviewThis book offers a systematic and well-textured case study with keen analytical insights in a comparative framework of the key dimensions of China’s regime responses and crisis management efforts in the aftermath of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Its focus on the rescue-relief-rehabilitation processes should render this book a much welcomed contribution to the Chinese governance, comparative politics, and Asian public administration fields as well as being a highly relevant and directly useful reference work on natural disasters relief and humanitarian aid for international bodies, national regimes and NGOs around the globe. Readers in the academic world and in the public sector will enjoy the rich details and refreshing findings of this illuminating volume that highlights the realpolitik implications with domestic consequences and external impacts of a rising China as a global soft power player with a huge crisis management capacity. The book’s detailed coverage of the PLA’s leading role in post-quake rescue-relief operations have yielded valuable appreciation of the Chinese military’s other vital domestic functions. This has direct bearings on the elevation of natural disaster crisis management capacity into becoming a high priority concern on the China’s national security and societal harmony agenda as well as 21st century developmental strategies. -- Ming K. Chan, Stanford UniversityThe unprecedented response by the Chinese public to the tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake has long called for scholarly treatment and analysis. The field is indebted to Professor Lo for this path-breaking initial study which comprehensively explores both the governmental and popular response to the crisis, usefully framing it as a comparative study of crisis management in China, insightfully juxtaposing it to the management of recent other crises as well as the events surrounding the Tangshan earthquake of 1976. -- Victor C. Falkenheim, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Crisis Management and Earthquake Chapter 1: The Critical 72 Hours After the Sichuan Earthquake Chapter 2: The Response of Interest Groups, Citizens and Tibetan Activists Chapter 3: The Role of the People’s Liberation Army Chapter 4: Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Work and Policy Learning Chapter 5: Crisis Management in Comparative Perspective Conclusion
£82.80
Rlpg/Galleys Special Interest Society
Book SynopsisVoluntary associations have been ubiquitous in our society for hundreds of years. Efforts to develop a classification scheme have often overlooked one important segment: membership-based organizations (MBOs). MBOs are created voluntarily by a group of like-minded individuals who seek to advance their interests by organizing to promote and protect a specific domain. A number have earned the reputation for operating as special interests. To accept that notion would not be telling the full story and would overlook the many contributions they have made. A central thesis of Special Interest Society: How Membership-based Organizations Shape America is that no modern democratic society can function without them. With a focus on how they emerge and the steps they take to advance their mutual interests, the book also provides a sober account of how MBOs can be slow to accept important and necessary changes. It also reveals the less flattering role they have played in denying access or limiting Trade ReviewAs a longtime fan and former colleague of Amos Hawley, I was delighted to see that James R. Hudson has used Hawley's keen insights about the nature of corporate groups in modern society to examine membership-based organizations in the United States. The book is also packed with interesting observations about the emergence and influence of membership-based organizations in the late 20th century. -- Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSpecial Interest Society: How Membership-based Organizations Shape America reveals that Jim Hudson has taken a neglected topic, essentially organizations of like-minded people, and amassed a fascinating compendium of knowledge about them. He shows that there is a vast range of interests that bring them together, from fruit growers to antique car collectors, and that their organizations have wonderfully interesting, occasionally quirky, stories. Despite the differences in the substantive interests of their members, Hudson finds regular patterns in how they build vibrant, long-lasting, effective organizations. Looking around the world in recent decades, we can see how elusive civil society is, how difficult it is to build and maintain. Following Alexis de Tocqueville, Hudson shows that membership-based organizations are distinctively American and that they support our traditions and structures in many ways. Special Interest Society demonstrates that membership-based organizations are essential building blocks to American democracy itself. -- Harvey M. Choldin, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThis book is best classified as being part of historical sociology, as it feels dated. Hudson (emer., Penn State) himself admits in the preface that there might be controversy about using the human ecology framework for his analysis. But perhaps it is timely in light of the resurgence (in some circles) of acknowledging the validity of sociobiology. By nature, humans are social creatures, no less so when creating formal social organizations, which Hudson, with assistance from his wife, Patricia, note with analysis of an extensive list of professional organizations. In some cases, the purpose of membership organizations included in this list is amusing—e.g., the Prune Bargaining Association. Interest in this book should not be limited to students and scholars of social change. It should be of interest as well to those who identify themselves as organizational theorists and those exploring the concept of professionalism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter One: A Voice for Every Interest: A primer on Associations in America Chapter Two: A Brief Perspective of the Contributions Made by MBOs Chapter Three: Emergence Chapter Four: Building and Shaping the Organization Chapter Five: Building the Member Community Chapter Six: I Hear You Knocking…But You Can’t Come In Chapter Seven: The Search for Legitimacy Chapter Eight: Promote Chapter Nine: Protect Chapter Ten: Membership-Based Organizations as Change Agents Chapter Eleven: The Future Is Certain Appendix: Membership-Based Organizations Included in the Research Bibliography About the Authors
£91.80
Lexington Books Special Interest Society
Book SynopsisVoluntary associations have been ubiquitous in our society for hundreds of years. Efforts to develop a classification scheme have often overlooked one important segment: membership-based organizations (MBOs). MBOs are created voluntarily by a group of like-minded individuals who seek to advance their interests by organizing to promote and protect a specific domain. A number have earned the reputation for operating as special interests. To accept that notion would not be telling the full story and would overlook the many contributions they have made. A central thesis of Special Interest Society: How Membership-based Organizations Shape America is that no modern democratic society can function without them. With a focus on how they emerge and the steps they take to advance their mutual interests, the book also provides a sober account of how MBOs can be slow to accept important and necessary changes. It also reveals the less flattering role they have played in denying access or limiting Trade ReviewAs a longtime fan and former colleague of Amos Hawley, I was delighted to see that James R. Hudson has used Hawley's keen insights about the nature of corporate groups in modern society to examine membership-based organizations in the United States. The book is also packed with interesting observations about the emergence and influence of membership-based organizations in the late 20th century. -- Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSpecial Interest Society: How Membership-based Organizations Shape America reveals that Jim Hudson has taken a neglected topic, essentially organizations of like-minded people, and amassed a fascinating compendium of knowledge about them. He shows that there is a vast range of interests that bring them together, from fruit growers to antique car collectors, and that their organizations have wonderfully interesting, occasionally quirky, stories. Despite the differences in the substantive interests of their members, Hudson finds regular patterns in how they build vibrant, long-lasting, effective organizations. Looking around the world in recent decades, we can see how elusive civil society is, how difficult it is to build and maintain. Following Alexis de Tocqueville, Hudson shows that membership-based organizations are distinctively American and that they support our traditions and structures in many ways. Special Interest Society demonstrates that membership-based organizations are essential building blocks to American democracy itself. -- Harvey M. Choldin, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThis book is best classified as being part of historical sociology, as it feels dated. Hudson (emer., Penn State) himself admits in the preface that there might be controversy about using the human ecology framework for his analysis. But perhaps it is timely in light of the resurgence (in some circles) of acknowledging the validity of sociobiology. By nature, humans are social creatures, no less so when creating formal social organizations, which Hudson, with assistance from his wife, Patricia, note with analysis of an extensive list of professional organizations. In some cases, the purpose of membership organizations included in this list is amusing—e.g., the Prune Bargaining Association. Interest in this book should not be limited to students and scholars of social change. It should be of interest as well to those who identify themselves as organizational theorists and those exploring the concept of professionalism. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter One: A Voice for Every Interest: A primer on Associations in America Chapter Two: A Brief Perspective of the Contributions Made by MBOs Chapter Three: Emergence Chapter Four: Building and Shaping the Organization Chapter Five: Building the Member Community Chapter Six: I Hear You Knocking…But You Can’t Come In Chapter Seven: The Search for Legitimacy Chapter Eight: Promote Chapter Nine: Protect Chapter Ten: Membership-Based Organizations as Change Agents Chapter Eleven: The Future Is Certain Appendix: Membership-Based Organizations Included in the Research Bibliography About the Authors
£40.50
Rowman & Littlefield Jews and Human Rights Dancing at Three Weddings
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the US, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. This work examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history.Trade ReviewThis clear-eyed and comprehensive history of the significant Jewish involvement in international human rights breaks new scholarly ground. Galchinsky carefully delineates how external and internal pressures have shaped and transformed Jewish human rights agendas in Israel and on the worldwide stage. -- Judith R. Baskin, University of OregonMichael Galchinsky has given us an intricate picture of the personalities, politics, and practices that make up Jewish human rights activities in the contemporary world. He presents a nuanced view of the post-modern struggle to articulate a Jewish approach to human rights that is pulled in a variety of directions by often opposing forces. -- Peter J. Haas, Case Western Reserve UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern worldddd -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important work. In his meticulous examination of three major instances of Jewish and Israeli human rights advocacy since World War II, Michael Galchinsky has elucidated the political and practical limits of this activism as well as the undoubted accomplishments. Highly recommended for students of contemporary history as well as for the general reader. -- Carole Fink, The Ohio State UniversityMichael Galchinsky's boundary-shattering analysis in Jews and Human Rights looks at all of the roles in the evolving world of 'human rights' assumed by Jews—Jews as victims and claimants, as organizers and theoreticians, as activists and critics. Galchinsky explores this complex and often contradictory and controversial relationship in a way to merge legal, cultural, and intellectual history into a readable narrative of the history of the Jews in the modern world. A brilliant book! -- Sander L. Gilman, Emory UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern world -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important, timely and well-researched scholarly work. It presents a unique perspective of looking at the issue of human rights from the particular to the universal in the global age. An essential work for understanding the inter-related issues of human rights, Jewish activists, and Israel. -- Fred A. Lazin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelThis book is informative and readable. Recommended. * CHOICE *More studies are needed that take what we know of complex transnational Jewish identities and examine their rich relationships with the state, including intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations. In Dancing at Three Weddings, Michael Galchinsky marries the two. While many traditional histories examine genocide in graphic detail, Galchinsky's contribution is a catalog of the motivations and responses by a diverse community of Jews to deal with postwar tragedies. * American Jewish History *Since World War II, Jews, working alone or through NGOs, have been active in the international human rights movement. While many books have been written on the biblical and rabbinic context for Jewish involvement in social action, Galchinsky focuses instead on sociological and political motvies. The book includes extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Recommended for academic libraries. * AJL Newsletter, November/December 2009 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Building Human Rights Chapter 2 Freeing Soviet Jews—and After Chapter 3 Jewish Responses to Non-Jewish Genocides Chapter 4 American Jews and Violations in Zion: A Case Study Chapter 5 Israeli, Jewish, Human Chapter 6 Appendix A: Genocides and Other Mass Killings Chapter 7 Appendix B: Israel's Adoption of Major Human Rights Treaties Chapter 8 Appendix C: Glossary of Abbreviations
£127.80
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Jews and Human Rights Dancing at Three Weddings
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the US, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. This work examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history.Trade ReviewThis clear-eyed and comprehensive history of the significant Jewish involvement in international human rights breaks new scholarly ground. Galchinsky carefully delineates how external and internal pressures have shaped and transformed Jewish human rights agendas in Israel and on the worldwide stage. -- Judith R. Baskin, University of OregonMichael Galchinsky has given us an intricate picture of the personalities, politics, and practices that make up Jewish human rights activities in the contemporary world. He presents a nuanced view of the post-modern struggle to articulate a Jewish approach to human rights that is pulled in a variety of directions by often opposing forces. -- Peter J. Haas, Case Western Reserve UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern worldddd -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important work. In his meticulous examination of three major instances of Jewish and Israeli human rights advocacy since World War II, Michael Galchinsky has elucidated the political and practical limits of this activism as well as the undoubted accomplishments. Highly recommended for students of contemporary history as well as for the general reader. -- Carole Fink, The Ohio State UniversityMichael Galchinsky's boundary-shattering analysis in Jews and Human Rights looks at all of the roles in the evolving world of 'human rights' assumed by Jews—Jews as victims and claimants, as organizers and theoreticians, as activists and critics. Galchinsky explores this complex and often contradictory and controversial relationship in a way to merge legal, cultural, and intellectual history into a readable narrative of the history of the Jews in the modern world. A brilliant book! -- Sander L. Gilman, Emory UniversityThis book offers an original analysis of the crucial role that Jews have played in the rise of modern international human rights movements. It is strongest in its ability to understand the tensions that Jewish human rights activists face in trying to foster global human rights and human rights in Israel in the face of a pronounced bias against Israel in the so-called 'international human rights community.' A major contribution to the sociology of human rights in the modern world -- Thomas Cushman, Wellesley CollegeThis is an important, timely and well-researched scholarly work. It presents a unique perspective of looking at the issue of human rights from the particular to the universal in the global age. An essential work for understanding the inter-related issues of human rights, Jewish activists, and Israel. -- Fred A. Lazin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelThis book is informative and readable. Recommended. * CHOICE *More studies are needed that take what we know of complex transnational Jewish identities and examine their rich relationships with the state, including intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations. In Dancing at Three Weddings, Michael Galchinsky marries the two. While many traditional histories examine genocide in graphic detail, Galchinsky's contribution is a catalog of the motivations and responses by a diverse community of Jews to deal with postwar tragedies. * American Jewish History *Since World War II, Jews, working alone or through NGOs, have been active in the international human rights movement. While many books have been written on the biblical and rabbinic context for Jewish involvement in social action, Galchinsky focuses instead on sociological and political motvies. The book includes extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Recommended for academic libraries. * AJL Newsletter, November/December 2009 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Building Human Rights Chapter 2 Freeing Soviet Jews—and After Chapter 3 Jewish Responses to Non-Jewish Genocides Chapter 4 American Jews and Violations in Zion: A Case Study Chapter 5 Israeli, Jewish, Human Chapter 6 Appendix A: Genocides and Other Mass Killings Chapter 7 Appendix B: Israel's Adoption of Major Human Rights Treaties Chapter 8 Appendix C: Glossary of Abbreviations
£38.70
Pluto Press The Politics of Human Rights
Book SynopsisA new edition of this popular introduction to the politics of human rights.Table of ContentsForeword 1. The Politics of Universal Human Rights 2. The Discourse of Universal Human Rights 3. International Human Rights Law and Global Politics 4. The Political Economy of Human Rights 5. Globalisation, Democracy and Human Rights 6. The Promise of Global Community and Human Rights Bibliography Index
£24.29
Edinburgh University Press A Glossary of the European Union
Book SynopsisThis A-Z guide explains the key concepts and institutions linked to the European Union, along with brief biographies of the leading figures related to the foundation and development of the EU. This will allow students to link some of the theoretical concepts with the people who introduced them.The book is useful in discerning between the British and European Parliaments - students often confuse many of the concepts of the EU with those of the British Government, and the definitions in this Glossary will demonstrate that the bodies have differing roles to play in many aspects of their existence.
£121.59
Edinburgh University Press A Glossary of the European Union
Book SynopsisThis A-Z guide will explain the key concepts and institutions linked to the European Union, along with brief biographies of the leading figures related to the foundation and development of the EU. This will allow students to relate some of the theoretical concepts with the people who introduced them.Trade ReviewAn excellent book that is well written and which benefits from being comprehensive enough to answer the majority of the questions that someone might seek answers for; at the same time it is brief and clear enough to get these points across... A very useful addition to the literature on the EU which will be particularly welcomed by undergraduate and A-level students as well as a non-academic audience. -- Alasdair Blair, Coventry University Political Studies Review An excellent book that is well written and which benefits from being comprehensive enough to answer the majority of the questions that someone might seek answers for; at the same time it is brief and clear enough to get these points across... A very useful addition to the literature on the EU which will be particularly welcomed by undergraduate and A-level students as well as a non-academic audience.
£17.09
Rlpg/Galleys The World We Want
Book SynopsisWeaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies and discusses the power of human connection. This book shows how citizen engagement and open source solutions could tip the scale toward a better world.Trade ReviewThe World We Want provokes thought and provides keen insight—a must read for all of us aiming to use philanthropy to build a better world. -- Bill Bradley, Former U.S. SenatorThe World We Want is a wonderful book for anyone wishing to make a difference and find inspiration from fellow travelers. Peter Karoff and Jane Maddox have listened well to a wonderful collection of engaged citizens. In the process, they have also redefined what it means to be a philanthropist—be ready to discover it's in everything you do! -- Kathy Bushkin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations FoundationPeter Karoff, the poet laureate of philanthropy, brings to life a number of powerful and innovative paths for creating a better world. This book combines inspiring stories, thoughtful analysis, and provocative questions. It should guide a new generation of philanthropic entrepreneurs and engaged citizens as they seek to apply their knowledge and skills, as well as their resources, to the task of improving the conditions in which we live. -- J. Gregory Dees, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, co-author of Enterprising NonprofitsIt is tempting to approach a title like The World We Want with resistance. Whose "we?" How do they know what I want? And then Peter Karoff introduces us, one by one, to his cast of storytellers, and we are irresistibly drawn into his concept—a poet's journey of possibilities and celebration, frustrations and reassurance. After all, we all have our dreams of a better world, and our own versions get activated and integrated into these inspiring accounts. By the end, we are captured, engaged, and Peter's book has accomplished its purpose—a design experiment of hope. -- Kelin E. Gersick, Senior Partner, Lansberg, Gersick & Associates; Management Fellow, Yale School of Management; and author of Generation to GeKaroff's life has grown from 'peddler' to philanthropist and poet. In The World We Want he teaches us to connect dream to deed, and through his heroes we learn about the limits, passion, and power of philanthropy. -- Peter Goldmark, director of Environmental Defense; former president, Rockefeller Foundation; former CEO, International Herald Tribune'Dare to be naïve,' Buckminster Fuller once said. In The World We Want, Peter Karoff, a poet and preeminent philosopher of philanthropy, offers us visions of a better world via a guided tour of idealism in America, circa 2006. His 'naiveté,' and that of the many accomplished activists he interviews, offers a compelling challenge to the cynicism and resignation that reign in much of the country today. A stirring read. -- Paul Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston FoundationPeter Karoff is a poet as well as a visionary, so it comes as no surprise that The World We Want is a lyrical and uplifting book whose conversations with great leaders and change agents can inspire us all to make a difference in the world. Savor this wonderful, positive book. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and EndKaroff has succeeded in giving the reader a view of a world we do all indeed want. Each of his interviewees speaks with passion and truth about a different tile in the mosaic of a whole world of humaneness and beauty. Would that we may achieve it. Karoff's poems, beautiful and moving, work as exclamation points for the chapters. -- James E. Hughes Jr., Esquire, author of Family Wealth--Keeping It in the FamilyIt's easy for those who want to make the world a better place to become mired in cynicism or overwhelemed by the depth and scope of the world's problems. Thankfully, there are the ever-optimistic Peter Karoffs of the world to inspire us to get up off our sofas and take action.Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. My Imagined Community Chapter 2 2. Listen to the Voices Chapter 3 3. Paradigms of Change Chapter 4 4. Listening Post: Reflection and Radical Change Chapter 5 5. Intersections Chapter 6 6. Open Sesame: Networks of Cooperation and Open Source Solutions Chapter 7 7. On the Ground Chapter 8 8. Global Challenge Chapter 9 9. The Conscience of a Place: Being of a Community Chapter 10 10. Citizen Lights: Citizenship and Education Chapter 11 11. Building Beloved Community: Spirit and Activism Chapter 12 12. Generosity and Sacred Search: Motivation Chapter 13 13. The World We Want
£94.50
Rlpg/Galleys The World We Want
Book SynopsisPresents a collective vision of an ideal world. This book weaves together multi-sector, multidiscipline strategies. It talks about the power of human connection, reinforced by personal stories of motivation and the human capacity for caring. It shows how citizen engagement and open source solutions could tip the scale toward a better world.Trade ReviewThe World We Want provokes thought and provides keen insight—a must read for all of us aiming to use philanthropy to build a better world. -- Bill Bradley, Former U.S. SenatorThe World We Want is a wonderful book for anyone wishing to make a difference and find inspiration from fellow travelers. Peter Karoff and Jane Maddox have listened well to a wonderful collection of engaged citizens. In the process, they have also redefined what it means to be a philanthropist—be ready to discover it's in everything you do! -- Kathy Bushkin, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the United Nations FoundationPeter Karoff, the poet laureate of philanthropy, brings to life a number of powerful and innovative paths for creating a better world. This book combines inspiring stories, thoughtful analysis, and provocative questions. It should guide a new generation of philanthropic entrepreneurs and engaged citizens as they seek to apply their knowledge and skills, as well as their resources, to the task of improving the conditions in which we live. -- J. Gregory Dees, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, co-author of Enterprising NonprofitsIt is tempting to approach a title like The World We Want with resistance. Whose "we?" How do they know what I want? And then Peter Karoff introduces us, one by one, to his cast of storytellers, and we are irresistibly drawn into his concept—a poet's journey of possibilities and celebration, frustrations and reassurance. After all, we all have our dreams of a better world, and our own versions get activated and integrated into these inspiring accounts. By the end, we are captured, engaged, and Peter's book has accomplished its purpose—a design experiment of hope. -- Kelin E. Gersick, Senior Partner, Lansberg, Gersick & Associates; Management Fellow, Yale School of Management; and author of Generation tKaroff's life has grown from 'peddler' to philanthropist and poet. In The World We Want he teaches us to connect dream to deed, and through his heroes we learn about the limits, passion, and power of philanthropy. -- Peter Goldmark, director of Environmental Defense; former president, Rockefeller Foundation; former CEO, International Herald Tribune'Dare to be naïve,' Buckminster Fuller once said. In The World We Want, Peter Karoff, a poet and preeminent philosopher of philanthropy, offers us visions of a better world via a guided tour of idealism in America, circa 2006. His 'naiveté,' and that of the many accomplished activists he interviews, offers a compelling challenge to the cynicism and resignation that reign in much of the country today. A stirring read. -- Paul Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston FoundationPeter Karoff is a poet as well as a visionary, so it comes as no surprise that The World We Want is a lyrical and uplifting book whose conversations with great leaders and change agents can inspire us all to make a difference in the world. Savor this wonderful, positive book. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and best-selling author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and EndKaroff has succeeded in giving the reader a view of a world we do all indeed want. Each of his interviewees speaks with passion and truth about a different tile in the mosaic of a whole world of humaneness and beauty. Would that we may achieve it. Karoff's poems, beautiful and moving, work as exclamation points for the chapters. -- James E. Hughes Jr., Esquire, author of Family Wealth--Keeping It in the FamilyIt's easy for those who want to make the world a better place to become mired in cynicism or overwhelemed by the depth and scope of the world's problems. Thankfully, there are the ever-optimistic Peter Karoffs of the world to inspire us to get up off our sofas and take action.Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. My Imagined Community Chapter 2 2. Listen to the Voices Chapter 3 3. Paradigms of Change Chapter 4 4. Listening Post: Reflection and Radical Change Chapter 5 5. Intersections Chapter 6 6. Open Sesame: Networks of Cooperation and Open Source Solutions Chapter 7 7. On the Ground Chapter 8 8. Global Challenge Chapter 9 9. The Conscience of a Place: Being of a Community Chapter 10 10. Citizen Lights: Citizenship and Education Chapter 11 11. Building Beloved Community: Spirit and Activism Chapter 12 12. Generosity and Sacred Search: Motivation Chapter 13 13. The World We Want
£31.50
McGill-Queen's University Press A House of Ones Own The Moral Economy of
Book SynopsisAn intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.Trade Review"A House of One's Own provides an excellent, grounded, and accessible ethnographic analysis of the work of aid organizations on the ground." Roberto E. Barrios, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press State of Exchange Migrant NGOs and the Chinese
Book SynopsisThis exploration of the interactive relationship between Chinese NGOs and the Chinese state provides fresh insights into how the Chinese government operates and why it needs non-governmental organizations to survive.Trade ReviewWith its multifaceted approach, this book is a must read for researchers and students of state–society relations in China and beyond. -- Anja Ketels * International Society for Third Sector Research *[Hsu] carries out rigorous academic analysis to explore in case studies in both Beijing and Shanghai how the central government, the municipal government, street neighborhood entities, and residents’ committees interact to address issues involving migrant workers … This well-done study contributes to understanding Chinese politics and, more generally, how local governmental units operate with some independence under authoritarian central governments. -- J. A. Rhodes, Luther College * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Moving Towards a Spatial Framework2 Understanding Non-Governmental Organizations in China3 Symbolic Cooperation4 Asymmetric Cooperation5 Strategic Cooperation6 Foray in Spaces New and OldConclusionAppendices; Notes; References; Index
£51.00
