Politics and government Books
Liverpool University Press Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in
Book SynopsisLàzaro Càrdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacan and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary Constitution. Three key obstacles confronted them: the conservative approach of the political Center; the political weakness of their own power base; and the great opposing power of the farmers and their supporting elements, especially the Church and the army. This book discusses the different avenues to reform these leaders took and their short- and long-term implications. Càrdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party (PNR), while reinforcing local agrarian forces and opening channels of direct empathetic communication with the Church and the army. Tejeda attempted to strengthen his position in the federative arena, bypassing the political Center via the National Peasant League (LNC -- Liga Nacional Campesina), whose establishment he was deeply involved in, making a sweeping radical reform while attacking uncompromisingly all the traditional elements of Veracruzan society. Both political projects had unprecedented success but totally different implications. The Càrdenista power base led its author to the next Presidency, during which he implemented a remarkable agrarian project. Tejeda's power base, however, led to the utter annihilation of his political power structure and many of his agrarian achievements, as well as to his failure in the struggle for presidency. From that point of view, only a heavy bureaucratic, centre-based reform initiative could succeed, while a local, radical, adventurous transformation was doomed to failure. The fate of the two governors corresponded to the fate of national revolutionary reformism and thus to the destiny of Mexico.
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Liverpool University Press Jacob L. Talmon: Mission and Testimony --
Book SynopsisIsaiah Berlin, in his "Tribute to a Friend", wrote about the historian Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980): "No matter what his theoretical interests were, or the topics on which he was lecturing or writing, his deepest concern was with the Jewish people, its history, its religious, moral and social values, its place among the nations, its future in Israel and the diaspora." These words capture the essence of Talmon's political essays presented in Mission and Testimony. Talmon was chosen by an international committee of scholars as one of the twenty major historians of the twentieth century, declaring that "his historiography was a convincing apologia for human freedom." He owes his fame primarily to his magnum opus, the trilogy that began with The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (1952), continued with Political Messianism (1960) and concluded with The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution (1981). This edited collection of Talmon's essays comprises the following: Part I, "The Nature of Jewish history", deals with the Jewish presence in history, the universal significance of Jewish history, and the impact of Jewish intellectuals. Part II, "From Anti-Semitism to the Holocaust", concerns the anti-Semitic climate of opinion that led to the Holocaust. Part III depicts the regional and global situation of the State of Israel. In Part IV, "Intellectual and Political Debates", Talmon confronts intellectuals and statesmen such as Arnold Toynbee and Menachem Begin. Part V, "Profiles in History", depicts the intellectual portraits of the historian Lewis Namier and the physicist and champion of human rights Andrei Sakharov.
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Liverpool University Press Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in
Book SynopsisLàzaro Càrdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacan and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary Constitution. Three key obstacles confronted them: the conservative approach of the political Center; the political weakness of their own power base; and the great opposing power of the farmers and their supporting elements, especially the Church and the army. This book discusses the different avenues to reform these leaders took and their short- and long-term implications. Càrdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party (PNR), while reinforcing local agrarian forces and opening channels of direct empathetic communication with the Church and the army. Tejeda attempted to strengthen his position in the federative arena, bypassing the political Center via the National Peasant League (LNC -- Liga Nacional Campesina), whose establishment he was deeply involved in, making a sweeping radical reform while attacking uncompromisingly all the traditional elements of Veracruzan society. Both political projects had unprecedented success but totally different implications. The Càrdenista power base led its author to the next Presidency, during which he implemented a remarkable agrarian project. Tejeda's power base, however, led to the utter annihilation of his political power structure and many of his agrarian achievements, as well as to his failure in the struggle for presidency. From that point of view, only a heavy bureaucratic, centre-based reform initiative could succeed, while a local, radical, adventurous transformation was doomed to failure. The fate of the two governors corresponded to the fate of national revolutionary reformism and thus to the destiny of Mexico.
£32.50
Liverpool University Press Press, Politics and National Identities in
Book SynopsisFor more than three generations, the members of the Godo family controlled Barcelonas top-selling newspaper La Vanguardia, navigating it through the countrys turbulent 20th century. Whether under the corrupt politics of the Bourbon Restoration, the radical transformations of the Second Republic or the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, La Vanguardia remained Barcelonas indisputable journalistic benchmark. Central to this success was the Godo familys extraordinary capacity to meet the changing tastes of a plural audience whilst adjusting to a changing political scenario. In parallel, the ownership of the newspaper allowed family members to expand their interests to other fields, such as politics, business and colonial rule in Cuba and Morocco. The long-standing reputation of the Godo dynasty, however, is in sharp contrast with the lack of studies about their members and the newspaper they founded. This silence is due, in part, to the influence that La Vanguardia still exerts on public life today. Drawing on hitherto unused archival material, this book is the first account about the most renowned publishers and the most important newspaper in Catalonias history. In so doing, it also sheds new light on how the media shaped (and conditioned) Europes birth of mass politics. In fact, while contemporaries often observed that newspapers had a powerful influence over public affairs, historians have not systematically examined the role of press owners as political actors. Likewise, media specialists have seldom considered how the rise of the new mass press affected democratisation and the collapse of liberal institutions. In contrast, Pol Dalmau focuses on the case of a renowned family in Barcelona to uncover the medias critical role in Europes uneven road to modernity. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
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Liverpool University Press Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism:
Book SynopsisSpain's first democracy was announced to popular jubilation in April 1931, a new dawn ushered in without a single shot being fired. Yet just over five years later the country was plunged into a brutal civil war that bequeathed hundreds of thousands of deaths and an authoritarian dictatorship under General Francisco Franco that lasted almost forty years. This book analyses Spain's dramatic political shift, reassessing the role of the right as it mobilised against the Second Republic, swinging from ostensibly "moderate" Catholic conservatism to fascist violence. By providing the first detailed study of the uniformed, paramilitary Juventud de Accion Popular (JAP), Sid Lowe challenges the historiographical orthodoxy on Spanish fascism and assumptions about the role of the hegemonic right-wing party during the Republican years, Jose Maria Gil Robles's CEDA. Drawing on a wide range of previously uncovered primary material, he demonstrates that much of the parliamentary right, its leadership included, abandoned the legal road to power when it could no longer use democracy as a Trojan Horse with which to conquer the state. It throws vital new light on the conspiracy to destroy the Republic, the Nationalist war effort, the creation of the new state, and the true social and political origins of the Franco regime. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Trade Review"Dr Lowe fuses social and political analysis to demonstrate how, at the grass roots of Spanish society, the political culture of the long-lived Franco dictatorship was crucially instigated by the radical, mass Catholic youth movement, JAP. Lowe's originality lies in the fact that his analysis pinpoints the moment and demonstrates the mechanism by which radical Catholics in Spain became fascists. In doing this he has cut the gordian knot that inhibits much of the conventional historiography on the Spanish Catholic right during the 1930s." -- Helen Graham, Dept. of History, Royal Holloway University of LondonTable of ContentsGlossary & Abbreviations; Introduction: 'Immense shame, physical repugnance': Responding to the Republic (The Spanish Right & the JAP After 1931); 'The youth of the new Spain': The Crusade to Save the Fatherland (The JAP until October 1934); 'An iron fist against the anti-Spain': Bringing in the New State (The JAP from October 1934 to December 1935); 'To win or to die': The General Elections (The JAP from December 1935 to February 1936); 'We'll become Nazis if we have to': The Ominous Spring (The JAP from February to July 1936); 'Selfless auxiliaries, enthusiastic servants': Joining the Rising (The JAP from July to December 1936); 'Militias of sacrifice': The Crusade for God, Spain & the New State (The JAP at war until April 1937); Conclusion: 'A magnificent harvest': The Destruction of Democracy in Spain (The JAP, the Right & Fascism from 1931 to 1937); Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Liverpool University Press Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st
Book SynopsisCicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aesthetic responses to a difficult social, political and economic landscape dominated by neoliberal adjustment, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle to establish fully democratic societies. Herein is a mix of male and female authors spread across five Central American countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Thematic unity is provided by nomadism, migration and the inability to leave behind a violent past of armed conflict that bleeds into the present scars that wont heal. An atmosphere of survival, exhaustion, dissipation and decay (in both the physical and moral sense) dominates, but also rays of hope: the writers testify to the triumph of the spirit as much as to its destruction. This vibrant literature speaks of existential crisis in a context of social precarity and lack of opportunity as people dis-embedded by civil war and its aftermath seek release and fulfillment through migration across borders into neighbouring countries or north to the United States or Europe. Whether external or internal, self-imposed or forced, migration brings in train the problem of mal-adaptation to new worlds and struggles with memory an aesthetics of loss and solitude. Various narrative strategies are adopted to try to account for this contemporary social reality, including crime fiction as critical realism, as well as auto-fiction.
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Liverpool University Press Women and Politics in Southeast Asia: Navigating
Book SynopsisThis book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in the realm of politics are a reflection of the power contestations women face with men in other spheres of everyday life. Each chapter seeks to ask a different question in terms of where women viz. men stand in the political landscape of their countries, in an effort to answer the question of Where are the women in the gender trope in Asian politics. While the chapters are primarily empirical as they delve into the challenges, contradictions and conflicts Southeast Asian women encounter, the main assertion is that womens struggles in the realm of politics are a result of having to operate within power structures created principally by men, thereby producing barriers for women to enter politics, on the one hand, and to increase their numbers and widen their sphere of influence, on the other. Recognizing that Asian politics is dominated by men, the question of how women have negotiated a value system that is inherently male-centred and male-controlled is also discussed. The implicit narrative demonstrated in this book is that the political arena should not be considered in isolation from other arenas but instead is essentially a mirror of other arenas whether the home, workplace, nation, and/or global spaces each marked by power contestations between men and women and having a spill-over effect on the other, as well as shaping womens experiences in the political realm.
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Liverpool University Press Cicatrices: Central American Fiction in the 21st
Book SynopsisCicatrices provides an understanding of the mood in Central American fiction over the last five years. Many recent novels and short stories are aesthetic responses to a difficult social, political and economic landscape dominated by neoliberal adjustment, drug trafficking, corruption and the struggle to establish fully democratic societies. Herein is a mix of male and female authors spread across five Central American countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Thematic unity is provided by nomadism, migration and the inability to leave behind a violent past of armed conflict that bleeds into the present scars that wont heal. An atmosphere of survival, exhaustion, dissipation and decay (in both the physical and moral sense) dominates, but also rays of hope: the writers testify to the triumph of the spirit as much as to its destruction. This vibrant literature speaks of existential crisis in a context of social precarity and lack of opportunity as people dis-embedded by civil war and its aftermath seek release and fulfillment through migration across borders into neighbouring countries or north to the United States or Europe. Whether external or internal, self-imposed or forced, migration brings in train the problem of mal-adaptation to new worlds and struggles with memory an aesthetics of loss and solitude. Various narrative strategies are adopted to try to account for this contemporary social reality, including crime fiction as critical realism, as well as auto-fiction.
£30.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government:
Book SynopsisThis book presents simple models of the major alternative types of political regimes, estimates of the parameters of these models, and quantitative estimates of the fiscal choices and economic outcomes of these regimes.William Niskanen provides valuable analysis of the effects of the voting rule, the progressivity of the tax structure, and the length of the fiscal horizon in democratic governments and interesting insights of the effects of alternative regimes on policies, such as war and immigration, that affect the number of people subject to the regime. Economists and political scientists who specialize in public finance, public choice, and the comparative analysis of political regimes will find much to engage them in this book.Trade Review'Niskanen's book applies public choice ideas to illuminate the effects of political institutions on prosperity, and in doing so he has written a book that not only is interesting in its own right but also points in a potentially productive direction for future research.' -- Randall G. Holcombe, Public Choice'I recommend the book as a stimulating read for those interested in the role of basic political institutions for the way economies work. The author helps other scholars towards the end by suggesting important, new research projects with the arguments of the book as a useful starting point.'BR>- Niclas Berggren, Economic Affairs'This book could easily be incorporated into a macro course by someone who was looking for a different context with which to illustrate the construction and use of RBC models. . . . Reading this book reminds me once again of how much admiration I have always had for Niskanen's ability to reduce complex settings to simple models, and to do so in a way that allows him to extract empirically meaningful and interesting implications.' -- Richard E Wagner, Cato Journal'Bill Niskanen has pushed forward analysis of tax and spending systems. He reduces the overwhelming complexity of government fiscal decisions to lay bare the choices that democratic governments make. Future work will build on his.' -- Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. On the Choice of Regime 2. Models of Government 3. The Parameters 4. Autocratic, Democratic, and Optimal Government 5. Variations on the Democratic Model 6. Fiscal Rules for a Democracy 7. A Constitutional Approach to Taxes and Transfers 8. Population Issues 9. Culture and Institutions 10. Conclusion References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Dynamics of Public Policy: Theory and
Book SynopsisIn The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of 'movies not stills' and the regular observation that policy, politics and governance is becoming more complex.Beginning with a discussion of the centrality of temporality, change and history to the social sciences, he develops the provocative claim that existing models of the policy process are of limited value in understanding and explaining policy dynamics. Instead, the author argues that it is only through structured narratives that we can really understand and explain complex policy histories. He sets out a methodology for structuring policy narratives and illustrates the claims of the book through four detailed case studies: health policy and pharmaceutical regulation in the UK; and agricultural policy and budget policy in the EU.Adrian Kay's book will appeal to academics in the fields of policy analysis, public administration and public sector management as well as political science and political theory.Trade Review'. . . this book stakes out positions in important theoretical and methodological debates that are controversial. They should be of interest to everyone who considers institutional analysis an important tool for understanding change in public policy as well as the institutions within which it occurs.' -- John L. Campbell, Australian Journal of Public Administration'. . . this is a first rate book. It draws on a wide range of reading - philosophy, economics and politics - and teases out a number of important ideas. . . for academics and postgraduates it surely will be essential reading and I think has pushed the study of public policy forward.' -- Michael Connolly, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: Why We Need Dynamic Perspectives Part I: Theory 2. Policy Dynamics and History 3. Path Dependency 4. Evolutionary Perspectives 5. Structured Policy Narratives Part II: Evidence 6. The Development of the EU Budget System 7. The Common Agricultural Policy 1977–2003 8. The GP Fundholding Scheme 9. UK Pharmaceutical Policy References Index
£90.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long
Book SynopsisThroughout American history, periodic cycles of economic change have fundamentally reordered the way we work, the organization of business and markets, the role of government, and even the nature of politics. If we are to control our future, we must understand this process of change. These economic transformations are powered by the emergence of waves of new technologies. In the 1890s, the development of electricity and cheap steel led to a new, factory-based economy. In the 1940s and 1950s, automation and advances in electronics and chemicals created a new national corporate, mass-production economy. Since the 1990s, an information technology revolution has again created a robust New Economy.Robert Atkinson examines this process of change over the past 150 years and explores the responses of people and institutions. The book then analyzes today's New Economy, including the new information technology system, and effects on markets, organizations, workers, and governance. Taking into account the historical record, the book discusses the shortcomings of prevailing liberal and conservative economic doctrines and lays out a new growth economics agenda aimed at maximizing the productivity-enhancing forces of the New Economy. Anyone interested in American history as well as the future contours of our economy will find Dr Atkinson's insightful analyses a fascinating guide to the past and a provocative challenge for the future. Economists, business leaders, scholars, and economic policymakers will find it a necessary addition to the literature on economic cycles and growth economics.Trade Review'Atkinson is an effective advocate. He writes well, drawing on a wide range of literature.' -- M. Perelman, Choice'Rob Atkinson is one of our best analysts of how innovation drives local and regional economies, and what to do to take advantage of technological change. In his visionary book, he fluently articulates the principles of a new 'growth economics' that is America's best hope for a prosperous future leaving no one behind.' -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End'Any person concerned about the future of our economy should read this book. Atkinson offers terrific historical perspective as well as specific policy proposals that would give us the best chance for broad based economic growth now and for generations to come. It should be mandatory reading for public policymakers.' -- Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA), Co-chair of the House New Democratic Coalition, US'Rob Atkinson has produced a powerful and far-reaching look at the underlying mechanism powering today's New Economy. In particular, he shows how the US is just at the beginning of an innovation wave which is not only boosting productivity, but transforming economic organization and economic policy as well. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the US economy got to where it is today, and how it can best get to a prosperous and humane future.' -- Michael J. Mandel, Chief Economist, Business Week, and author of Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of GrowthTable of ContentsContents: Part I: How Technology Drives Economic and Social Transformations 1. Introduction: A New Economy? 2. Technological, Economic and Social Transformation 3. Economic Transformations from the 1840s to the 1990s 4. Today’s Entrepreneurial, Knowledge-Based Economy 5. The Key to Productivity Revival? 6. The New Economy and its Discontents Part II: Modernizing Public Policies for the New Economy 7. Legacy Economic Policy Frameworks 8. Growth Economics for the New Economy 9. Implementing Growth Economics 10. Building a More Humane Economy Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the nature of contemporary globalisation. Maurice Mullard aims to show that globalisation is not an inescapable, unstoppable process somehow beyond human control, rather that it represents, and is being shaped by, a series of deliberate policy choices and policy decisions. The emphasis of this fascinating work is on how these policy choices are creating new forms of economic inequalities and also political elites that distort the democratic process.The mapping of winners and losers goes beyond the usual analysis of the rich North versus the poor South, by including an examination of the widening inequalities in the North and the emergence of new elites in the South. Policies of privatisation and liberalisation of water and electricity create new political elites. The author reveals the shift in the North towards multi national corporations with their emphasis on profits and stock market prices, while at the same time incomes for most employees have either stagnated or actually declined. The standard discourse on globalisation and market flexibility often blurs the issues of declining trade union influence and corporations moving to countries offering lower labour costs. Maurice Mullard herein attempts to rectify this imbalance.The Politics of Globalisation and Polarisation is interdisciplinary and will therefore be relevant for academics and researchers of politics, social policy, public policy and economics. Scholars involved in globalisation will find this book to be a major contribution to the ongoing debate.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Politics of Globalisation 2. Democracy, Citizenship and Globalisation 3. Globalisation and Models of Citizenship 4. The Relevance of Democracy 5. Mapping the Winners and the Losers 6. Globalisation and Empowerment 7. Policy Rhetoric and Policy Realities 8. Globalisation by Whom and for Whom? 9. Conclusions References Index
£38.90
Liverpool University Press The New Politics of Sinn Féin
Book SynopsisThe New Politics of Sinn Féin is an assessment of the ideological and organizational development of Provisional republicanism since 1985. The book explores how the Republican movement has changed from an anti-state insurgency to a potential partner in governing the state it was pledged to destroy. In particular, the book attempts to consider the origins of what has become known as ‘New Sinn Féin’.Trade ReviewThe New Politics of Sinn Féin contains by far the best material on the transitions within Irish Republicanism that I have read. There are undoubtedly books on Irish republicanism but NONE has reviewed the ideological shifts that have taken place as coherently as Kevin. Peter Shirlow, Queen’s University, Belfast * Queen’s University, Belfast *Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Defining the Community Introduction to Part I 1. Shaping the Terrain: Economy, State and Civil Society 2. From Resistance Community to Community Politics 3. ‘They Haven’t Gone Away, You Know’: The Withering Away of the ‘Provisional State’? Part II: The Historic Compromise? Introduction to Part II 4. The Ideological Origins of Sinn Féin 5. On the Long Road: The Provisional Politics of Transition 6. The Historic Compromise? Conclusion: The End of a Song? Bibliography Index
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James Currey Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn
Book SynopsisBorders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which includethe Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeabilitybut consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.Trade ReviewThe book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically. * AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS *A rich and focused volume [which] opens up a crucial debate that nobody interested in African political and social issues can ignore. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This insightful new book looks at borders and borderlands from a quite different perspective. In a series of fascinating case-studies, it provides insights into the experience of people living in the borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan. [...] For those seeking to engage with the politics of the Horn of Africa, it is essential to grasp the extraordinary complexity of identity and identity choices. This collection of case-studies, creatively combining the insights of social anthropologists, political scientists and historians, makes a real contribution to such an understanding. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPreface by Gunther Schlee - Günther Schlee Preface by the Editors State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne More State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje Feyissa Making Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu Adugna The Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. Smidt Trans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed Yasin People & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil Hoehne The Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric Barnes The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee Cassanelli Magendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula Wekesa Can Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca Declich Conclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham
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James Currey Peace versus Justice?: The Dilemmas of
Book SynopsisOffers fresh insights on the so-called 'justice versus peace' dilemma, examining the challenges and prospects for promoting both peace and accountability, specifically in African countries affected by conflict or political violence. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of approaches to accountability and peacebuilding. These include not only domestic courts and tribunals, hybrid tribunals, or the International Criminal Court, but also truth commissions and informal or non-state justice and conflict resolution processes. Taken together, they demonstrate the wealth of experiences and experimentation in transitional justice processes on the continent. CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM is Professor of Human Rights at the School of Law, University of East London, United Kingdom. She is also the Chair of the International Studies Association Human Rights Section and consults on issues of governance and conflict prevention for the United Nations Development Programme. SUREN PILLAY is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and a Senior Research Specialistin the Democracy and Governance programme of the Human Sciences Research Council. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana & Namibia): University of KwaZulu-Natal PressTrade ReviewAn insightful volume. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE *Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2011 * . *Excellent and well-timed. It covers key and sensitive issues about African transitional justice. It is recommended reading for policy makers, scholars, human rights activists, practitioners and those with a general interest in transitional justice. * AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW *The volume offers a unique insider analysis by practitioners who have participated in developing or implementing the justice mechanisms discussed. [It] offers a comprehensive look at transitional justice mechanisms in the African context and provides adequate background as well as critical analyses that could be informative to both the general public and experts alike. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transitional Justice & Peacebuilding - Chandra Lekha Sriram Part I: Peace & Justice in Africa Peace & the Politics of Justice in Africa - Yasmin Sooka Inclusive Justice: The Limitations of Trial Justice & Truth Commissions - Charles Villa-Vicencio Prosecute or Pardon? Between Truth Commissions & War Crimes Trials - Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu Gender & Truth & Reconciliation Commissions: Comparative Reflections - Sheila Meintjes Transitional Justice, Democratisation & the Rule of Law - Mireille Affa'a Mindzie Part II: Truth & Reconciliation Processes Peace versus Justice: Truth & Reconciliation Commissions & War Crimes Tribunals in Africa - Alex Boraine Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth & Reconciliation: A Peacebuilding Perspective - Thelma Ekiyor Peace versus Justice? A View from Nigeria - Mathew Kukah A Path to Peace: Ghana & the National Reconciliation Commission - Kenneth Ageymang Attafuah Peace & Justice: Mozambique & Sierra Leone Compared - John Hirsch Part III: War Crimes Tribunals Sierra Leone's 'not so' Special Court - Abdul Tejan-Cole Charles Taylor & the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Politics, Interests & Agendas - Abdul Rahman Lamin The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Reconciling the Acquitted - Wambui Mwangi Part IV: Indigenous Justice The Politics of Peace, Justice & Healing in Post-war Mozambique 'Practices of Rapture' by Magamba Spirits & Healers in Gorongosa - Victor Igreja Indigenous Justice or Political Instrument? The Modern Gacaca Courts of Rwanda - Helen Scanlon Indigenous Justice or Political Instrument? The Modern Gacaca Courts of Rwanda - Nompumelelo Motlafi Part V The International Criminal Court: Problems & Prospects The International Criminal Court Africa Experiment: The Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda & the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Chandra Lekha Sriram The International Criminal Court in Darfur - Dumisa Ntsebeza Conclusion - Suren Pillay
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James Currey Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World
Book SynopsisThis first full account of Obasanjo's life from 1937 to 2010 combines an analysis of an exceptionally vital and complicated man with a history of an exceptionally vital and complicated country. Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state (1976-9) and President (1999-2007). His career is made the focus for a history of Nigeria's first fifty years of independence (1960-2010) and of African continental affairs during the same period (Obasanjo having been an active opponent of apartheid and an architect of the African Union). The most important African leader of his generation, Obasanjo has had an extraordinarily diverse career as soldier, politician, statesman, farmer, author, political prisoner, Baptist preacher, and family patriarch. As a soldier, he secured the victory in Nigeria's civil war. As military head of state, he returned the country to civilian rule. For the next 20 years he was ceaselessly active, before spending three years as a political prisoner. Released from prison, Obasanjo served Nigeria as elected President from 1999 to 2007, until his growing authoritarianism and his manipulation of his successor's election ruined his reputation among many Nigerians. This book argues that the controversial end to his presidency must be understood in the light of his earlier career. The author has used mainly published sources, especially Nigerian newspapers and political memoirs, as well as recently released FCO documents in Britain. John Iliffe is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He retired as Professor of African History at Cambridge in 2006 and has published widely on African history including: A Modern History of Tanganyika; The Emergence of African Capitalism; The African Poor: A History; Africans: the History of a Continent; Honour in African History and The African Aids Epidemic: A History. Nigeria: HEBN [PB]Trade ReviewA comprehensive and engaging survey of Obasanjo's life and career from his birth in 1937 and humble origins to his retirement after 2007. [...] Iliffe's analysis of Nigerian politics makes excellent reading, and underlines just how difficult it is for anyone to manage the Nigerian state. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *There is little that John Ilife's clear and unvarnished biography [...] fails to uncover. * SURVIVAL: GLOBAL POLITICS & STRATEGY *A nuanced biographical narrative stewed with Nigerian history in global context. [...] This is an imaginative and ambitious study. * THE HISTORIAN *A rich and dispassionate biography [that] offers a revealing and remarkably comprehensive overview of postcolonial Nigerian history. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *Will surely add to John Iliffe's reputation as one of the world's most acclaimed African historians. [...] The book is an ingeniously scripted history taking a thoughtful and often critical approach to governance in Nigeria under Obasanjo. * THE ROUND TABLE *An important new biography. [...] Iliffe's biography is of a statesman but it is also an outstanding study of a half century of Nigerian politics. His book sets an admirably high as well as a new standard for African biography by which the work of his successors will have to be judged. * THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW *A scholarly and very highly recommended study of an international figure who has put Nigeria on the course it is today, for better or for worse. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *John Iliffe's biography is the most authoritative, comprehensive and well informed account of Obasanjo's rule and personality up to now. * H-SOZ-U-KULT *This is an important examination of possibly the most controversial personality in modern Nigerian politics. The strength of this study is that it is an outsider's calmer examination of a man who evokes such strong emotions that studies of him within Nigeria are necessarily tainted by widespread perceptions of who he is. - -- Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface A man of controversy Part I MAKING A CAREER (1937-70) Yoruba boy Nigerian soldier Coups & civil war PART II MILITARY RULE (1970-79) Chance and power State-directed development African liberation Return to civilian rule PART III PRIVATE CITIZEN (1979-99) The farmer The author The statesman The politician The prisoner The candidate PART IV FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM (1999-2003) Containing conflict Salvaging the economy Restoring international relationships President and politicians Re-election PART V SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM (2003-7) The imperious presidency Economic reform Africa's elder statesman Managing the succession Retirement
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James Currey Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers
Book SynopsisAn historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion and its ultimate success is far from certain. In the author's view, there are two majorobstacles that need to be overcome, two frontiers that need to be crossed to reach the desired goal. The first is the monopoly of power inherited from the empire builders and zealously guarded ever since by a ruling class of Abyssinian origin. The descendants of the people subjugated by the empire builders remain excluded from power, a handicap that breeds political instability and violent conflict. The second frontier is the arid lowlands on the margins of the state, where the process of integration has not yet reached, and where resistance to it is greatest. Until this frontier is crossed, the Ethiopian state will not have the secure borders that a mature nation state requires. John Markakis is a political historian who has devoted a professional lifetime to the study of Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. He has published several books and many articles on this area.Trade ReviewA magisterial work that synthesizes a half-century's research. ... Historians, political scientists, social anthropologists, and policy makers will find this book enlightening and useful. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Precisely because of the debates it will spark, it is vitally important that people who are engaged with Ethiopia, both Ethiopians and international aid workers, diplomats and others, read and discuss it. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Worthwhile reading and certainly one of the best explanations of the present situation in Ethiopia published so far. It is a must read for those interested in Ethiopia and, indeed, the Horn of Africa. * SOUTHWORLD *Essential reading for all who want to understand how the Ethiopian empire arrived at its present configuration. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Part I The Lowland Periphery High and Low Land: A Study in Contrast Afar & Somali Borana, South Omo, Gambella & Beni Shangul Gumuz - Part II Building the State: The Imperial Model Winning an Empire Building the Imperial State: 1916-1974 Imperial Rule in the Periphery - Part III Rebuilding the State: The Socialist Model The 1974 Revolution Building the Socialist State: 1974-1991 The Socialist State in the Periphery - PART IV Rebuilding the State: The Federal Model Building the Federal State: 1991-1995 Ruling the Federal State : 1995-2010 - Part V The Federal State in the Periphery The Highland Periphery & the Lowland Afar The Somali Borana, South Omo, Gambella & Beni Shangul Gumuz Conclusion
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James Currey Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and
Book SynopsisExamines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It is based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years and attempts a synthesis of historical findingsand political anthropology, including studies carried out from a perspective of development intervention. Presenting a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya, the authors analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. The authors then discuss ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective. A companion volume to Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute forSocial Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewA rich and fascinating look at the complex matrix of clan alliances and conflicts within and between pastoral societies in the context of local and national politics. * NOMADIC PEOPLES *The best reference book for political scientists, historians and administrators who seek to understand the critical issues driving conflict and impeding development in any interethnic pastoralist community in East Africa. * AETHIOPICA *Has profound implications for understanding 'tribalism' in Kenyan politics [and provides] invaluable insight into the regional context, as well as useful analyses for those researching ethnic conflict and policy implications in other parts of the world. * LUCAS BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Günther Schlee Moi Era Politics, Transnational Relations & the Territorialization of Ethnicity - Abdullahi A. Shongolo and Günther Schlee The Post-Moi Period (2002-2007) - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo Feedbacks & Cross-fertilizations: the 'Declaration of Indigenous Communities of Mylae District' - Günther Schlee Some Comparative Perspectives, Conclusions & Recommendations - Günther Schlee
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James Currey Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: A History
Book SynopsisA highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memory and religion. Suffering, the experience of violation brought on by an act of violence or violent circumstances, is omnipresent in today's world - if only indirectly through global media representation. Despite this apparent immediacy, understanding how a person makes sense of his or her suffering tends to be fragmentary and often elusive. This book examines this key question through the lens of rural Zimbabwe and a frontier area on the border with Mozambique. It shows how African women, men, and children fashioned their life-worlds in the face of conflict. Historian Heike Schmidt challenges the apparently inseparable twin pairing of Africa and suffering. Even in situations of great distress, she argues, individuals and groups may articulate their social desires and political ambitions, and reforge their identities - as long as the experience of violence is not one of sheer terror. She emphasizes the crucial role women, chiefs, and youths played in the renegotiation of a sense of belonging during different periods of time. Based on sustained fieldwork, Colonialism and Violence offers a compelling history of suffering in a smallvalley in Zimbabwe over the course of 150 years. Heike Schmidt is Lecturer in Modern History, University of Reading.Trade ReviewAn admirable collection of accounts of the history of conflict and suffering that have been an almost constant feature of life for the Valley's inhabitants as long as anyone can remember. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction Living on the Frontier: Opportunity and Danger Imagining Foreign Lands: Landscapes of Violence The Frontier Society Under Threat: Politicization and Militancy War Rages Hot: Insurgency and Counter-insurgency After Violence: Healing the Wounds of War Epilogue: Violence That Does Not Haunt
£76.00
James Currey Regional Integration, Identity and Citizenship in
Book SynopsisExamines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as a mechanism for conflict resolution, promoting the economy and tackling issues of identity and citizenship. The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated crises: various inter-state wars, civil wars, and inter-communal conflicts; an economic crisis manifested in widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and famines; and environmental degradation that is ravaging the region. While it is apparent that the countries of the region are unlikely to be able to deal with the crises individually, there is consensus that their chances of doing so improve markedly with collective regional action. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA. They identify those factors that can foster integration, such as the proper management of equitable citizenship rights, as well as examining those that impede it, including the region's largely ineffective integration scheme, IGAD, and explore how the former can be strengthened and the latter transformed; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region's economy. Kidane Mengisteab is Professor of African Studies and Political Science at Penn State University; Redie Bereketeab is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.Trade ReviewRegional Integration, Identity, and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa comprises an ambitious and generally well-executed attempt to reassess and articulate novel approaches to the GHR's challenges, proposing possibilities based largely on collaborative grassroots social, economic, and political approaches ... [A]ll of the chapters succeed in moving the larger debate about regional integration toward a more nuanced and regionally specific understanding of identity and social cohesion. * NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsPART I: Relevance of Integration to Identity and Citizenship Relevance of Regional Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Kidane Mengisteab Re-conceptualizing Identity, Citizenship and Regional Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Redie Bereketeab A Diversity Perspective on Identity, Citizenship and Regional Integration in the Greater Horn of Africa - PART II: Critical Factors in Integration - Fowsia Abdulkadir Invisible Integration in the Greater Horn Region - Gaim Kibreab Nationalist, Sub-nationalist, and Region-wide Narratives and the Quest for Integration-promoting Narratives in the Greater Horn Region - Assefaw Bariagaber Infusion of Citizenship, Diversity and Tolerance in the Education Curriculum: Promoting Regional Integration and Peace in the Greater Horn Region - Abdinur S. Mohamud Radio and the Propagation of anti- and pro-Ethiopian Narratives in Somalia - PART III: Lessons from Selected African Integration Schemes - Ali N. Mohamed Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD): A Critical Analysis - Redie Bereketeab The East African Community: Can it be a Model for Africa's Integration Process? - Francis A.S.T. Matambalya The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Quest for Community Citizenship: Any Lessons for the Horn of Africa? - Cyril I. Obi
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James Currey South Africa's Gold Mines and the Politics of
Book SynopsisExamines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century. South Africa's gold mines are the largest and historically among the most profitable in the world. Yet at what human cost? This book reveals how the mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century and allowed miners infected with tuberculosis to spread disease to rural communities in South Africa and to labour-sending states. In the twentieth century, South African mines twice faced a crisis over silicosis, which put its workers at risk of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis, often fatal. The first crisis, 1896-1912, saw the mining industry invest heavily in reducing dust and South Africa became renowned for its mine safety. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. The first crisis also focused upon disease among the minority white miners: the current crisis is about black migrant workers, and is subject to major class actions for compensation. Jock McCulloch was a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at various universities. His books include Asbestos Blues. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): JacanaTrade ReviewMakes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics of health, work, science and regulation in southern Africa. The issues it raises are not limited to silicosis nor confined to the apartheid period. * INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REVIEW *Makes a significant contribution to a vibrant literature. [...] A fine book. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE *'a path-breaking book . . . required reading for graduate students in Southern African studies - in fact for anyone seriously interested in the history of the African sub-continent. -- Professor Dunbar MoodieTable of ContentsA Brief Chronology - Preface: South Africa in the twentieth dentury Gold-mining and life-threatening disease Creating a medical system Compensation A White science Myth-making and the 1930 silicosis conference Tropical labour and tuberculosis Conflict over the compensation system Healing miners The sick shall work Men without qualities
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James Currey From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the
Book SynopsisArgues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and marginalizing it from the club of wealthier nations, and causing it to continue to rely on international aid. Diamonds have played an important role in the political economy of Sierra Leone, as was highlighted by the use of 'conflict' or 'blood' diamonds in the decade-long civil war. Conflict diamonds were used not only by rebels, military groups and others inside Sierra Leone and Liberia, but also by groups extending beyond the borders of West Africa: global criminal networks, international terror groups, and 'legitimate' transnational companies. The diamond trade in Sierra Leone has also been subject to exploitation by global business interests, a form of corporate neo-colonialist predation that continues today and which has curbed the country's growth, while recent newspaper headlines also demonstrate the currency of rough diamonds. Sierra Leone's diamonds have been used to finance factions in Lebanon's civil war, criminal networks in the US and Russia, and al-Qaeda. The marginalization and exclusion of Sierra Leone, this book argues, mean that it, and other such resource-rich nations, remain reliant on aid. Diane Frost is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of LiverpoolTrade ReviewAn easily read summary that should appeal to students. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY, November 2013 *Table of ContentsPart I Sierra Leone and Diamonds - Preface - Introduction Colonialism, post-colonialism and resource predation The political economy of diamonds, governance and civil war Diamonds, workers and hidden voices The grass roots and social organisation Part II The Global Context Diamond wheeling and dealing: from the pit to the global market Parallel economies, global criminal networks and Sierra Leone diamonds Conclusion: the new 'Scramble for Africa': Diamonds: a blessing or a curse?
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James Currey Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in
Book SynopsisAnalyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation andpredatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration. ANC South Africa SWAPO Namibia Zanu-PF Zimbabwe Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute.Trade Review[I]t is only through transparent and thorough research that politically sensitive history can be unravelled and this is precisely what the author has achieved with his Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa. * ITINERARIO *An important comparative study ... essential reading for anyone interested in this topic. * STRATEGIC REVIEW FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA *Comparative in its approach, research-rich, even-handed and a sobering read. * POLITIKON *An important achievement in particular for its synthetic vision and persuasive overall argument. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *A welcome addition to the literature [which] should be viewed as required reading for anyone wanting to get to grips with the topic. * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *A theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of an important subset of African political regimes. . This highly recommended book is essential reading. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Encyclopaedic in detail and scope, elegantly written and carefully analysed, and makes a convincing and nuanced argument for the degeneration of NLMs. ... [This] important volume should become essential reading to anyone hoping to unpick the failures of liberation in southern Africa. * REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY *A mine of information for researchers and those wanting to pick over the wide literature on the topic. * AFRICAN ARGUMENTS *With meticulous detail and extensive documentation, Southall analyses the theoretical and political environment of Southern Africa and the growth of the liberation movements. . Highly recommended. * CHOICE, February 2014 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Analysing Liberation Movements as Governments Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa The Evolution of the Liberation Movements The War for Southern Africa Contradictions of Victory Liberation Movements and Elections Liberation Movements and the State Liberation Movements and Society Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation The Party State, Class Formation and the Decline of Ideology Fueling the Party Machines The Mafia State? The ANC under Jacob Zuma Conclusion: The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements
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James Currey Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers
Book SynopsisAn historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion and its ultimate success is far from certain. In the author's view, there are two major obstacles that need to be overcome, two frontiers that need to be crossed to reach the desired goal. The first is the monopoly of power inherited from the empire builders and zealously guarded ever since by a ruling class of Abyssinian origin. The descendants of the people subjugated by the empire builders remain excluded from power, a handicap that breeds political instability and violent conflict. The second frontier is the arid lowlands on the margins of the state, where the process of integration has not yet reached, and where resistance to it is greatest. Until this frontier is crossed, the Ethiopian state will not have the secure borders that a mature nation state requires. John Markakis is a political historian who has devoted a professional lifetime to the study of Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. He has published several books and many articles on this area.Trade ReviewEssential reading. * GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA *A magisterial work that synthesizes a half-century's research. ... Historians, political scientists, social anthropologists, and policy makers will find this book enlightening and useful. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Reflects Markakis's immense knowledge and passion for Ethiopia. . Readers will find much worth in this expansive and original study. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 21 February 2014 *Precisely because of the debates it will spark, it is vitally important that people who are engaged with Ethiopia, both Ethiopians and international aid workers, diplomats and others, read and discuss it. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Worthwhile reading and certainly one of the best explanations of the present situation in Ethiopia published so far. It is a must read for those interested in Ethiopia and, indeed, the Horn of Africa. * SOUTHWORLD *Essential reading for all who want to understand how the Ethiopian empire arrived at its present configuration. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Part I The Lowland Periphery High and Low Land: A Study in Contrast Afar & Somali Borana, South Omo, Gambella & Beni Shangul Gumuz - Part II Building the State: The Imperial Model Winning an Empire Building the Imperial State: 1916-1974 Imperial Rule in the Periphery - Part III Rebuilding the State: The Socialist Model The 1974 Revolution Building the Socialist State: 1974-1991 The Socialist State in the Periphery - PART IV Rebuilding the State: The Federal Model Building the Federal State: 1991-1995 Ruling the Federal State : 1995-2010 - Part V The Federal State in the Periphery The Highland Periphery & the Lowland Afar The Somali Borana, South Omo, Gambella & Beni Shangul Gumuz Conclusion
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James Currey Darfur: Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916). This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from the region's deep history of independent statehoodunder the Darfur Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance to Darfur which often rested on state coercion and violence, but which was also influencedby enduring local conceptions of the relationship between ruler and ruled, and the agendas of local actors. The state was perceived as a resource as well as a threat by local peoples. Although the British did introduce significant changes to the character of governance in Darfur, local populations negotiated the significance of these innovations, challenging the authority of state-appointed chiefs, defying official attempts to police the boundaries ofethnic territories, and competing for the resources of political support and development that the state represented. Even the violence of the state was shaped and channelled by the initiative of local elites. Finally, the authorsuggests that contemporary conflict and politics in the region must be understood in the context of this deeper history of interaction between state and local agendas in shaping everyday realities of power and governance. Chris Vaughan is Lecturer in African History at Liverpool John Moores University. Previously, he taught at the Universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool and Edinburgh. His articles have appeared in the Journal of African Historyand the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He is co-editor (with Lotje De Vries and Mareike Schomerus) of The Borderlands of South Sudan.Trade ReviewWe have reason to thank Vaughan for 'filling in the blanks' by producing such a rich, thoughtful and satisfying monograph. * THE JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY *Take[s] up the challenge of writing against the grain of state archives, hunting out Sudanese histories of political action and local theories of governance. * JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY *[An] important contribution to the scholarship on Sudanese history in particular and British imperial and African colonial history generally. Challenges the claim to peace and order that British colonial authorities in the Sudan repeated as their credo and mantra, and instead argues that the colonial state's promotion of violence was 'licensed'-meaning officially authorised. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Chris Vaughan provides an important case study of British rule in Darfur, in the western Sudan, showing how local populations 'actually shape the way the state is manifested at a local level' (6). ... provides a significant refinement of current scholarship discussing 're-tribalization' policies in the colonial era. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Vaughan has provided an interesting analysis of power in those pre-independence times, how different groups made the most of the opportunities afforded to them, how colonial rules and regulations were often a mere overlay on local customs and traditions. The colourful anecdotes from colonial archives are the icing on the cake. * AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES *Offers a useful treatment of themes in the political history of Darfur from the sultanate to Sudanese independence and more specifically a distinctive well-defined thesis on the shaping of administrative policy and practice during the era of British rule ...The author has not written a social or cultural history but has argued for a broad characterization of continuing political relationships, and this is his contribution. * IJAHS *This study contributes significantly to scholarship about the colonial state, using evidence derived from the historical experience of colonial Darfur (1916-56). * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *There are no pat answers here. More - and even more-detailed - scholarly attention to the history of individual tribes might make the future more predictable. In framing such studies, historians would have in Darfur an engaging and provocative place to start. * SUDAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction State Authority and Local Politics before 1916: The Darfur Sultans, Turco-Egyptian Rule and the Mahdiyya Colonial Conquest and the Politics of Alliance in Darfur, 1916-1921 'Healthy Oppression'? Native Administration and State Violence in Western Darfur, 1917- 1945 Native Courts and Chieftaincy Disputes in Pastoralist Darfur, 1917-1937 Defining Territories, Policing Movement and the Limits of Legibility in Pastoralist Darfur, 1917-1950 Late Colonialism in Darfur: Local Government, Development and National Politics, 1937-1956 Conclusion: State Formation, Violence and Conflict in Historical Perspective
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James Currey Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and
Book SynopsisExamines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. This study, based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years, focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The authors present a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya and analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. They propose ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective. A companion volume to Islam andEthnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewThe best reference book for political scientists, historians and administrators who seek to understand the critical issues driving conflict and impeding development in any interethnic pastoralist community in East Africa. * AETHIOPICA *Has profound implications for understanding 'tribalism' in Kenyan politics [and provides] invaluable insight into the regional context, as well as useful analyses for those researching ethnic conflict and policy implications in other parts of the world. * LUCAS BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Günther Schlee Moi Era Politics, Transnational Relations & the Territorialization of Ethnicity - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo The Post-Moi Period (2002-2007) - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo Feedbacks & Cross-fertilizations: the 'Declaration of Indigenous Communities of Mylae District' - Günther Schlee Some Comparative Perspectives, Conclusions & Recommendations - Günther Schlee
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James Currey Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn
Book SynopsisBorders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples. State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit them through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which include the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders. Dereje Feyissa is Africa Research Director at the International Law and Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a Lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University.Trade ReviewI would recommend reading the book to anyone who is interesting in understanding the human interactions that revolve around borders. * LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS BLOG *A rich and focused volume [which] opens up a crucial debate that nobody interested in African political and social issues can ignore. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *This insightful new book looks at borders and borderlands from a quite different perspective. In a series of fascinating case-studies, it provides insights into the experience of people living in the borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan. [...] For those seeking to engage with the politics of the Horn of Africa, it is essential to grasp the extraordinary complexity of identity and identity choices. This collection of case-studies, creatively combining the insights of social anthropologists, political scientists and historians, makes a real contribution to such an understanding. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsPreface by Gunther Schlee - Günther Schlee Preface by the Editors State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne More State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje Feyissa Making Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu Adugna The Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. Smidt Trans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed Yasin People & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil Hoehne The Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric Barnes The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee Cassanelli Magendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula Wekesa Can Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca Declich Conclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham
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James Currey Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in
Book SynopsisAnalyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in government. The liberation movements of Southern Africa arose to combat racism, colonialism and settler capitalism and engaged in armed struggle to establish democracy. After victory over colonial and white minority regimes, they moved into government embodying the hopes and aspirations of their mass of supporters and of widespread international solidarity movements. Even with the difficult legacies they inherited, their performance in power has been deeply disappointing. Roger Southall tracks the experiences in government of ZANU-PF, SWAPO and the ANC, arguing that such movements are characterised by paradoxical qualities, both emancipatory and authoritarian. Analysis is offered of their evolution into political machines through comparative review of their electoral performance, their relation to state and society, their policies regarding economic transformation, and their evolution as vehicles of class formation andpredatory behaviour. The author concludes that, while they will survive organizationally, their essence as progressive forces is dying, and that hopes of a genuine liberation throughout the region will depend upon political realignments alongside moral and intellectual regeneration. ANC South Africa SWAPO Namibia Zanu-PF Zimbabwe Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand and a Research Associate of the Society, Work and Development Institute.Trade ReviewAn important achievement in particular for its synthetic vision and persuasive overall argument. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *A welcome addition to the literature [which] should be viewed as required reading for anyone wanting to get to grips with the topic. * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *A theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of an important subset of African political regimes. . This highly recommended book is essential reading. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Encyclopaedic in detail and scope, elegantly written and carefully analysed, and makes a convincing and nuanced argument for the degeneration of NLMs. ... [This] important volume should become essential reading to anyone hoping to unpick the failures of liberation in southern Africa. * REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY *A mine of information for researchers and those wanting to pick over the wide literature on the topic. * AFRICAN ARGUMENTS *With meticulous detail and extensive documentation, Southall analyses the theoretical and political environment of Southern Africa and the growth of the liberation movements. . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Analysing Liberation Movements as Governments - Roger Southall Settler Colonialism in Southern Africa - Roger Southall The Evolution of the Liberation Movements - Roger Southall The War for Southern Africa - Roger Southall Contradictions of Victory - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Elections - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and the State - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Society - Roger Southall Liberation Movements and Economic Transformation - Roger Southall The Party State, Class Formation and the Decline of Ideology - Roger Southall Fueling the Party Machines - Roger Southall The Mafia State? The ANC under Jacob Zuma - Roger Southall Conclusion: The Slow Death of the Liberation Movements - Roger Southall
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James Currey The Road to Soweto: Resistance and the Uprising
Book SynopsisA new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the historical evolution of the struggle against apartheid. This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments in resistance and attempts to develop new forms of politics that prepared the ground for the Uprising. Students at South Africa's segregated universities began to re-organise themselves as a political force; new ideas about race reinvigorated political thought; debates around confrontation shaped the development of new forms of protest. The protest then began to move off university campuses and onto the streets: through the independent actions of workers in Durban, and attempts by students to link their struggles with a broader agenda. These actions made protest public once again, and helped establish the patterns of popular action and state response that would come to shape the events in Soweto on 16 June 1976. Julian Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana 'throws new light on the background to the Soweto Uprising, providing insight into white and black student politics, worker protest and broader dissent' - William Beinart, University of Oxford 'an extremely important contribution to the historiography on protest in South Africa. It links black and white student protests (too often studied in isolation from one another) to workers' movements by looking at the changing forms of protest during the 1960s and 1970s, and the apartheid government's changing responses.' - Anne Heffernan, University of the Witwatersrand 'By showing how the Soweto Uprising served as a precursor for later historical and political events, the author convincingly shows the continuity from one from one protest and decade to the next.' - Dawne Curry, University of Nebraska-LincolnTrade ReviewJulian Brown's analysis of the pre-history of the Soweto uprising seeks to break new ground. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Julian Brown's thoughtful book is chock-full of insights while still under 200 pages of text. Important in its own right, a study on student and mass protest in South Africa could not be timelier. On the fortieth anniversary of the legendary Uprising, yet again South Africa finds itself bitterly divided over a student protest movement exploding onto the scene. Brown's book deserves receives wide readership for these reasons and more. * SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL *The strength of Brown's book is that it encapsulates the long build-up of unrest in the black community. He carefully describes the range of events that led to a growing sense of frustration and anger...Situating the uprising in this context is a powerful corrective to previous attempts to consider it in relative isolation. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *The Road to Soweto is an important, moving, and encouraging book, which revises our understanding of crucial decades of South African history, and puts forward an argument that both emerges from and explains that story. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Road to Soweto White Student Activism in the 1960s: 'The Choice Between Silence and Protest' The Formation of the South African Students' Organisation: 'Carving Out their Own Destiny' Confrontation, Resistance and Reaction: 'The Minister... Cannot Ban Ideas from Men's Minds' The Durban Strikes: 'Souls of their Own' Reimagining Resistance in the Face of Violence: 'Cast off the Students-only Attitude' The Pro-Frelimo Rallies of 1974: 'Stand up and be Counted' Event and Aftermath: The Soweto Uprising Conclusion: Consequences
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James Currey The New Black Middle Class in South Africa
Book SynopsisProvides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's "black middle class". 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The "rise of the black middle class" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of "black diamonds", consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt "tenderpreneurs" who use their political connections to obtain contracts. This book seeks to complicate that picture with a much-needed analysis that recounts its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994, before examining the size, shape andstructure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South. Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): JacanaTrade Review2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *Suggesting that the role of the black middle in class in shaping South African democracy has been largely overlooked, Southall details the development of this segment of society both before and after the end of apartheid in 1994. He seeks to challenge prevailing depictions of middle-class blacks as, at best, too narrow. * SURVIVAL GLOBAL POLITICS AND STRATEGY *This is a very important and timely study that will help make sense of perhaps the key social actors in contemporary South African society. * AUSTRALASIAN REVIEW OF AFRICAN STUDIES *Southall has brought together a rapidly growing volume of disparate studies of South Africa's black middle class and provided an incisive overview with scholarly objectivity. He succeeds admirably in his aim of enabling us to assess better both the social character of the black middle class and its potential as political actor, and deserves congratulation for providing a landmark study. * THE ROUND TABLE *An insightful and engaging read for those who seek to learn more about social stratification and mobility in South Africa. * AFRICA SPECTRUM *This book, without question, will become the standard work on its topic...The South African middle classes have been relatively neglected in contemporary studies... this careful overview fills a crucial gap. * CHOICE *Roger Southall's book delivers an insightful contribution to our understanding of South African society. His assessment of the structures of power that shape the lives of millions of South Africans is historically embedded, yet contextualized in the latest events, including the 2015 student protests. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Study the Black Middle Class? The Middle Class: Problems and Controversies The Black Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994 The Black Middle Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Size, Shape and Structure Black Class Formation under the ANC Education and Black Upward Social Mobility The Black Middle Class at Work The Social World of the Black Middle Class The Politics of the Black Middle Class Afterword: South Africa's Black Middle Class in an African Context
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James Currey The Politics of Peacemaking in Africa: Non-State
Book SynopsisA detailed examination of the role of two critical non-state groups in the Liberian Civil War peace process - the diaspora and the religious - that provides key insights for policymakers and NGOs into the roles that civil societyactors can play in conflict resolution and peacemaking. Throws light on the role of several key agents in bringing to an end one of the darkest episodes in post-independence African history.' Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas Until the 1990s, conflict resolution and peacemaking fell to states, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations. In recent times it is non-armed, non-state actors who have had a pivotal role in seeking to resolve civil wars in Africa. This book examines, for the first time, through an examination of the Liberian Civil War in particular, how non-state actors have impacted upon peace processes. The Liberian Civil War was the first post-Cold War intra-state conflict in West Africa and exemplified the "new wars" breaking out on the continent. The peace process that followed showed how future peacemaking processes might evolve, being not only the first in which a regional economic grouping had a role - in this case ECOWAS - but also involving non-state religious and diaspora actors. Religious actors, initiators of the Liberian peace process, were mediators, dialogue facilitators, watchdogs and trustees of the entire peace process. Although their efforts were mainly influenced by the desire to fulfil the divine mandate to "tend to the flock", they were also able to regain some of the societal influence that organized religion, especially Christianity, enjoyed during the 158 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule. Diaspora actors' roles ranged from being founders and sponsors of warring factions to providing succour to Liberians back home through remittances and engaging in the peace process. Babatunde T. Afolabi is a Senior Programme Manager at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD). He had previously worked at the ECOWAS Commission where he was involved in peace processes across West Africa.Trade Review[P]rovides a rich literature on the role of civil society in peacekeeping that could provide valuable lesson on how civil society can play a pivotal role in the re-engineering of societies and polity as is the case of Liberia. I recommend this book to students and academics who are interested in the nature of peacemaking in developing states and to policy analysts and other practitioners who are engaged in projects that are related to the role of non-state actors in conflict resolution and peacekeeping in Africa. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *This book is an invaluable resource and is recommended for scholars of civil society, peace and security, and makers of policy both in and outside Africa. * JOURNAL OF MIGRATION STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Diaspora Groups' Involvement in the Liberian Peace Processes Civil Society and its Engagement with the Liberian Peace Process Liberia's Evolution and the Descent into Civil War The Liberian Civil War: Interests, Actors and Interventions Religious Actors and the Peace Process The Diaspora and the Manifestation of Interests during the Peace Process Conclusion
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James Currey The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa:
Book SynopsisMulti-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press).Trade ReviewAn essential volume. For scholars of Africa, several of the contributors and perspectives may well be familiar (more than half of the book's contributors are professors, who have published widely), but the gathering of critical perspectives offers a rare opportunity to take stock of what James Ferguson calls a 'shared intellectual sensibility' (Foreword, p. xvii). For those who are not so familiar with African research, or who may want to move beyond policy approaches, this book is a formidable place to start. * AFRICA AT LSE BLOG *This book is an important and stimulating addition to African Studies and, indeed, as emphasized by Jane Guyer and many of the contributors, also to social theory, especially social theory of 'economic life. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *The text is enriched by sound theoretical discussions and by intellectual excursions into the colonial and contemporary era in Nigeria, German Kamerun, apartheid and contemporary South Africa, and, in the case of Mali and its environs, by insights into the formidable challenges posed by ethnocentric mediation and interpretation. Recommended. * CHOICE *The book is highly recommended. * THE ROUND TABLE *This volume insightfully weaves together an impressive range of topics, scales and themes through often rich and fascinating case studies which make it valuable to anyone interested in economic anthropology. * SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY *Wale Adebanwi's thought-provoking introduction spells out an intriguing and yet straightforwardly sociological mission for anthropologists of Africa today: to study the everyday lives of Africans under the economic constraints they face. * Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsForeword - James Ferguson Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction - Wale Adebanwi PART I - MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY AND FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES Cattle, Currencies and the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier - John and Jean Comaroff Currency and Conflict in Colonial Nigeria - David Pratten Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Peter L Geschiere Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Tristan Oestermann The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains: Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists - Celestin Monga PART II - LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES AND PRECARITY From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African History - Frederick Cooper Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force - Maxim Bolt PART III - MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION AND BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS Precarious Life: Violence and Poverty Under Boko Haram and MEND - Michael J. Watts The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid - Anne-Maria Makhulu Marginal Men and Social Conflicts in Nigeria: Okada Riders in Lagos - Gbemisola Animasawun Sopona, Social Relations and the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria - Elisha P. Renne PART IV - HISTORY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY AND DEMOCRATIC LIFE History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa - Sara S. Berry Cultural Mediation, Colonialism and Politics: Colonial "Truchement", Postcolonial Translator - Souleymane Bachir Diagne "Kos'ona Miran?" Patronage, Prebendalism and Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria - Adigun Agbaje AFTERWORD: The Landscapes Beyond the Margins: Agency, Optimization and the Power of the Empirical - Jane Guyer
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James Currey Electricity in Africa: The Politics of
Book SynopsisExamines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states. No country has managed to develop beyond a subsistence economy without ensuring at least minimum access to electricity for the majority of its population. Yet many sub-Saharan African countries struggle to meet demand. Why is this, and what can be done to reduce energy poverty and further Africa's development? Examining the politics and processes surrounding electricity infrastructure, provision and reform, the author provides an overview of historical andcontemporary debates about access in the sub-continent, and explores the shifting role and influence of national governments and of multilateral agencies in energy reform decisions. He describes a challenging political environment for electricity supply, with African governments becoming increasingly frustrated with the rules and the processes of multilateral donors. Civil society also began to question reform choices, and governments in turn looked to new development partners, such as China, to chart a fresh path of energy transformation. Drawing on over fifteen years of research on Uganda, which has one of the lowest levels of access to electricity in Africa and has struggled to construct several, large hydroelectric dams on the Nile, Gore argues that there is a critical need to recognize how the changing political and social context in African countries, and globally, has affected the capacity tofulfil national energy goals, minimize energy poverty and transform economies. Christopher Gore is Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. OA EDITION This book has been made available as Open Access through the support of the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University; Ryerson International; and the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University.Trade Review... should appeal to scholars not only of energy and electricity policy but also of socio-technical transitions and African studies. What is particularly impressive is the attention to the micro-politics of electricity sector reform processes in Uganda whilst drawing on an impressively eclectic range of theoretical resources. -- Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of SussexChristopher Gore's lively new book, Electricity in Africa, is an excellent case study of one of the continent's most pressing issues: energy availability and consumption. Based on over a decade and a half of research and interviews, Electricity in Africa, part of the praiseworthy African Issues series, reveals the emerging scholarship of energy studies in East Africa, focusing on Uganda because of its uniquely bleak energy situation. Despite its increasing population, Uganda has suffered from one of the lowest levels of electricity access in Africa, and Gore provides a thorough examination of how and why this has occurred. * JOURNAL OF GLOBAL SOUTH STUDIES *Electricity in Africa helps us understand the complexity of electricity sector reforms. Gore has interacted with many of the key stakeholders in government and in the development community and has a deep understanding of the specifics of the sector as well as of its history and the Uganda context. * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *Christopher Gore's book is a good step in the direction of the desired continental synthesis of two decades of political economy in relation to electricity in African countries. [.] Gore's emphasis on transformation brings fresh air to the discussion. * AFRICA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Electricity, Infrastructure and Dams in Africa The Politics of Provision: A History of Debate and Reform Privatization and Electricity Sector Reform Dam-building and Electricity in Contemporary Uganda Electricity and the Politics of Transformation
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James Currey Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making,
Book SynopsisHonourable Mention - 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa. Buildings shape politics in the ways they define communities, enable economic activity, reflect political ideas, and impact state-society relations. They are materially and symbolically interwoven with the everyday lives of elites and citizens, as well global flows of money, goods, and contracts. Yet, to date, there has been no research that explicitly connects debates about Africa's domestic and international politics with the study of architecture. This innovative book fills this gap, providing a new and compelling reading of the politics of identity in sub-Saharan Africa through an examination of some of its most significant buildings. Using case studies from nine countries across sub-Saharan Africa, this volume reveals how they are commissioned and built, how they enable elites to project power, and how they form a basis for popular conceptions of the state. Exploring a diverse range of buildings including parliaments, airports, prisons, ministries, regional institutions, libraries, universities, shopping malls, public housing, cathedrals and palaces, the contributors suggest a innovative perspective on African politics, identity and urban development. This book will be a compelling reference for scholars and students of African politics, development studies and city life in its elaboration of and challenges to established concepts and arguments about the relationship between material objects and political ideas. This book is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.Trade ReviewEmploying an interdisciplinary approach, the volume reflects diverse methodological approaches and draws on different theoretical traditions in its analyses. The result is an empirically rich collection of cases, underscored by a sophisticated theoretical framework that allows for rich insights into power, agency, resistance and identity. * SURVIVAL *The essays continually reinforce one another through generous cross-reference, giving the volume an effortless continuity and thematic support. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher PART 1: MAKING 1. Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansion Joanne Tomkinson and Dawit Yekoyesew 2. Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedral Emmanuel K. Ofori-Sarpong 3. China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: Exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains Innocent Batsani-Ncube 4. New homes for a new state: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmes Irene Appeaning Addo PART 2: LIVING 5. Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'Ivoire Julia Gallagher and Yah Ariane Bernadette N'djoré 6. Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's village in Harare Tonderai Koschke 7. Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public libraries Marie Gibert 8. The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era Yusuf Patel PART 3: IMAGINING 9. Pan-African imaginations: The AU building and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria Daniel Mulugeta 10. Asantean Noumena: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase Tony Yeboah 11. From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria Laura Routley Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures Kuukuwa Manful Bibliography Index
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Boydell and Brewer Democracy and Nigerias Fourth Republic Governance Political Economy and Party Politics 19992023
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Boydell and Brewer Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
Book SynopsisTraces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania.For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of Zanzibar, has been known by East Africans and outsiders alike as rich in dangerous knowledge. Despite Pembans' reputation for piety and deep Islamic knowledge,uchawi- 'mystical work and power', sometimes termed 'magic', 'witchcraft', or 'sorcery' - has long featured in diverse visions of their identity and as key to worldly power. Today, as traditional methods of securing agency are called into question and new ways proliferate, the mystical world is an intensely conflicted realm where the nature of power, ethical action, and reality itself is continually reframed. This luminous ethnography follows Pemban notions of invisible and worldly power through the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, the trials of multiparty democracy, the rise of Islamic revival, and intensifying neoliberalism. Through an exploration of rural imaginings of power, it argues that nations and the grammars that underwrite them are made in and by their peripheries, which give 'the centre' shape.? Highlighting the intersections of mystical practices, religion, and politics-as-such on the Swahili Coast, the book contributes new perspectives to studies of the imagination, power, and religious transformation in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the larger Islamic world.
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Boydell and Brewer Religious Plurality in Africa Coexistence Conviviality Conflict
Book SynopsisGrounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Christianity, Islam, and African religious traditions.Across Africa, Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of African religious traditions live in shared settings, demarcating themselves in opposition to one another and at times engaging in violent conflicts, but also being entangled in complex ways and showing unexpected similarities and mutual cross-overs. However, while encounters and entanglements of African religious traditions with either Islam or Christianity have long been a central research issue, the configuration as a whole has barely been taken into account, even though Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of African religious traditions have long co-existed - and still co-exist - more or less peacefully in many settings in Africa. Building on recent interventions to move beyond the compartmentalization of the study of religion in Africa, this edited volume will spotlight why and how an integrated approach to Islam, Christianity, and African religious traditions is important. Bringing together stimulating case studies from Kenya, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Ghana, and Mozambique that offer new directions for ethnographic and historical research, the volume will not only shed light on an important phenomenon out there in the world - the long-overlooked ways in which Muslims, Christians and practitioners of African religious traditions interact with one another in various majority-minority configurations - but will also engage with a critical rethinking of the study of religion in Africa (and beyond).
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Boydell and Brewer Democracy in SubSaharan Africa 20002025 A Political Historical Reassessment
Book SynopsisIs democracy surviving in Africa? Despite the continuance of multiparty elections, in the face of unmet expectations for greater freedom, social justice, and inclusive development, an increasing authoritarianism is spreading across the continent.Although most African states continue to use some form of multiparty elections according to the formal rules of liberal democracy, the reality is that people's expectations for greater freedom, social justice, and inclusive development have not been met. The result is a growing number of African states where power relations are increasingly authoritarian - a trend seen in the West as well. Bringing together contributors from Africa, Europe, and North America, this volume seeks to analyze democracy in sub-Saharan Africa beyond the mere examination of the elements that determine its impasse, the political factors that hinder the proper functioning of democratic institutions or even the models through which a country's level of democratic status is "indexed." Instead, the goal is to address current states of "democracy" in Africa within a larger, global history. Given the post-colonial histories of most African nations, the current demise of democratic governments on the continent cannot be interpreted as a new phenomenon without precedent. The volume presents a longer-view perspective to explain more specifically how history can explain the current crises in democracy and development, exploring how negotiations between external and internal interests have always contested their meanings in Africa, and arguing that these struggles continue to create new conditions for new democratic spaces.
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Policy Press Applying social science: The role of social
Book SynopsisIn complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects. This book draws on a synthesis of critical realism and complexity theory to examine how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis. A central argument is that there is no such thing as a 'pure' science of the social and that a recognition of the inevitability of application imposes obligations on social scientists wherever they work which challenge the passivity of most in the face of inequality and injustice.Trade Review"Byrne has advocated over the last decade an integration of critical realism and complexity theory and here is a good starting point for readers fresh to his argument. His book is worth reading." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful for its focus on 'application'. Will no doubt help those in applied profesion. Very relevant for wsocial work students for constructing evidence. Very useful.""This is a very apprehensible and practically oriented book" Olga Savinskaya, Higher School of Economics"Provocative and passionate, David Byrne's 'Applying social science' is a shot across the bows of those who think of applied social science as an academic backwater. More than a treatise on the practice and politics of social research, this book analyzes the contradictory roles social scientists and social research in 'post-democratic' society." Charles Ragin, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona"Applying social science is the book from David Byrne that many have been waiting for. This book will have a broad appeal to all those who care about the relevance and rigour of social research in the making of the policy and political agenda." Malcolm Williams, Director, Cardiff University School of Social SciencesTable of ContentsContents: The methodological foundations of applied social science; Constructing evidence: the development of knowledge which is to be applied; Surveying the social world: assembling knowledge as a basis for action; Evaluating: the role of social science in the establishment of effectiveness and outcomes; Legitimating: the selective use of social science in justifying policy and practice; Consulting: the role of social science in 'participatory' post-democratic politics; Modeling: the use of social science in predicting the future consequences of present actions; Acting: the role of social science in action-research; The Applied Social Sciences and the Academy; Conclusion: Where now?
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Policy Press Applying social science: The role of social
Book SynopsisIn complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects. This book draws on a synthesis of critical realism and complexity theory to examine how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis. A central argument is that there is no such thing as a 'pure' science of the social and that a recognition of the inevitability of application imposes obligations on social scientists wherever they work which challenge the passivity of most in the face of inequality and injustice.Trade Review"Byrne has advocated over the last decade an integration of critical realism and complexity theory and here is a good starting point for readers fresh to his argument. His book is worth reading." Journal of Social Policy"Very useful for its focus on 'application'. Will no doubt help those in applied profesion. Very relevant for wsocial work students for constructing evidence. Very useful.""This is a very apprehensible and practically oriented book" Olga Savinskaya, Higher School of Economics"Applying social science is the book from David Byrne that many have been waiting for. This book will have a broad appeal to all those who care about the relevance and rigour of social research in the making of the policy and political agenda." Malcolm Williams, Director, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences"Provocative and passionate, David Byrne's 'Applying social science' is a shot across the bows of those who think of applied social science as an academic backwater. More than a treatise on the practice and politics of social research, this book analyzes the contradictory roles social scientists and social research in 'post-democratic' society." Charles Ragin, Department of Sociology, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsContents: The methodological foundations of applied social science; Constructing evidence: the development of knowledge which is to be applied; Surveying the social world: assembling knowledge as a basis for action; Evaluating: the role of social science in the establishment of effectiveness and outcomes; Legitimating: the selective use of social science in justifying policy and practice; Consulting: the role of social science in 'participatory' post-democratic politics; Modeling: the use of social science in predicting the future consequences of present actions; Acting: the role of social science in action-research; The Applied Social Sciences and the Academy; Conclusion: Where now?
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation
Book SynopsisThis book offers empirical analyses of conflicts over the ownership, control, and use of knowledge and information in developed and developing countries.Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen, along with a collection of eminent contributors, focus on how business organizations, farmers, social movements, legal communities, state officials, transnational enterprises, and international organizations shape IP policies in areas such as health, information-communication technologies, indigenous knowledge, genetic resources, and many others. The innovative and original chapters examine conflicts over the rules governing various dimensions of IP, including patents, copyrights, traditional knowledge, and biosafety regulations.Written from a political perspective, this book is a must-read for political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists who study IP and conflicts over property. It is also an essential read for stakeholders in institutions, NGOs and industry interested in knowledge governance and IP politics.Trade Review'A much-referenced work. . . remains one of the few books with a broad social sciences perspective on current conflicts over intellectual property policy, with a focus on the national level set within the context of shifting global patterns.' -- Intellectual Property Watch'We know much more about the global politics of intellectual property than we do about national political contests over the ownership of knowledge. Haunss and Shadlen have identified this gap in the literature and have done a fine job of bringing together a set of essays that helps to fill this gap in our understanding of the multi-layered nature of intellectual property politics.' -- Peter Drahos, The Australian National University, Canberra'This thought-provoking volume provides invaluable new insights and is a major contribution to the debate on the politics of intellectual property rights.' -- Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Rethinking the Politics of Intellectual Property Sebastian Haunss and Kenneth C. Shadlen 2. The Post-TRIPS Politics of Patents in Latin America Kenneth C. Shadlen 3. The Politics of Patents: Conditions of Implementation of Public Health Policy in Thailand Gaëlle Krikorian 4. Illicit Seeds: Intellectual Property and the Underground Proliferation of Agricultural Biotechnologies Ronald J. Herring and Milind Kandlikar 5. Who Speaks for the Tribe? The Arogyapacha Case in Kerala Sabil Francis 6. Lobbying or Politics? Political Claims Making in IP Conflicts Sebastian Haunss and Lars Kohlmorgen 7. Can Patent Legislation Make a Difference? Bringing Parliaments and Civil Society into Patent Governance Ingrid Schneider 8. Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Movie Industry: Contemporary Political Conflicts in Germany Lars Bretthauer 9. Who Benefits? An Empirical Analysis of Australian and US Patent Ownership Hazel V.J. Moir 10. Timing, Continuity, and Change in the Patent System Sivaramjani Thambisetty Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the
Book SynopsisThis book represents a major attempt to draw together two fundamental streams of research: intergovernmental relations and multi-level governance (MLG). Combining US and European schools of thought, this timely volume outlines key areas of convergence and divergence.IGR concerns interactions within the public sector and is traditionally favored in America, whereas MLG is more pertinent to the crossroads of the vertical (intergovernmental) and horizontal (state-society) dimensions and is considered foremost a European approach. The principal objective of this book is to bridge the gap between academic communities on either side of the Atlantic. Prominent scholars have gathered together for this volume and their various contributions, both individually and as a whole, provide a fresh and novel perspective on IGR and MLG and their interconnections.This innovative book will be of particular appeal to scholars and students of political science in America, Europe and beyond as well as practitioners in US and EU governments. The companion volume Policy, Performance and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations is also available from Edward Elgar Publishing.Trade Review'This book provides solid academic evidence of a lively debate and dialogue between US and EU scholars about Multilevel Governance (MLG) and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR). Beyond the contingencies of the terms and the path dependency of their historical developments, there are elements of convergence and overlap. This publication is a good example of how academic transatlantic dialogues result in a stronger understanding of the premises of our concepts, and of the functioning of our systems.' --Geert Bouckaert, Public Management Institute and European Group for Public Administration, Leuven, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Dedication 1. Introduction Edoardo Ongaro, Andrew Massey, Marc Holzer and Ellen Wayenberg 2. Intergovernmental Relations or Multi-level Governance? Transatlantic Comparisons and Reflections Alberta M. Sbragia 3. Multi-level Governance and Intergovernmental Relations: Integrating the Theoretical Perspectives Theo A.J. Toonen 4. Toward an Emergent Theory of IGR Governance at the Dawn of the Network Era Robert Agranoff 5. Rethinking Network Governance: New Forms of Analysis and the Implications for IGR/MLG Michael Farrelly, Stephen Jeffares and Chris Skelcher 6. The Changing Landscape of Intergovernmental Relations and Multi-level Governance in the United States Deil S. Wright, Carl W. Stenberg III and Chung-Lae Cho 7. The Evolution of the Studies of the European Union MLG Simona Piattoni 8. Intergovernmental Decisions and Multi-level Governance: Producing Patchwork Policies Adrienne Héritier Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Taming the Regulatory State: Politics and Ethics
Book SynopsisTaming the Regulatory State incisively analyses the regulatory top-down regimes that are currently dominant and in crisis. Taking a critical perspective, the book offers an account of the inherent vulnerability of the regulatory state caused by one-sided economic thinking and the predominance of governing through hard regulation. Regulatory governance is inclined to eliminate transparency and downgrades the importance of social forces. One striking case that exposes these underlying tensions is the activity of the state-run international investment funds. This volume sets the Norwegian Pension Fund - Global (formerly the Norwegian Petroleum Fund) into this context and shows how the attempt to regulate through ethical guidelines is an illuminating example of an effort, however imperfect, to revive politics and ethics in areas where the market focus usually obscures other considerations. This state-of-the-art book will be invaluable for students and scholars of political science and political economy and will also provide an engaging read for civil servants and policymakers.Trade Review'. . . offering a concise and illuminative account of the "regulatory state". Particularly impressive is its excellent contextualisation of the birth and spread of a regulatory paradigm as well as its potential impact equally on traditional welfare concerns and emerging problems involving the environment. . . it provides a good introduction into regulatory politics. Its historical and intellectual background to this transition is superb and offers insights for the uninitiated and knowledgeable alike. Moreover, it is excellent in its sustained description of the potential problems of regulation and the ways it may be "tamed" for achieving broader social and the ethical objectives. . . a welcome addition to the current interest on regulation. . . it provides readers with a comprehensive description of regulation and the ways in which it may be improved.' -- Peter Bloom, In-Spire, Journal of Law, Politics and Societies'Professor Veggeland's ambitious study of the regulatory state is an exceptionally timely and apposite analysis. It combines theoretical, historical, and empirical perspectives on the evolution of state regulation of the economy over the past century with an emphasis on the past thirty years. It covers issues such as the rise and fall of indicative and central planning (in the context of democratic capitalism), the loss of national sovereignty in the era of European and global integration, and new theories and practice in public administration. Rich with contemporary cases it will contribute to the "agonizing reappraisal" of policy trends in western democracies.' -- Eric S. Einhorn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US'It is not often that the experience of a Northern European semi-periphery speaks directly to a core European, and indeed increasingly global, problematic. Taming the Regulatory State is just such an achievement, combining a comprehensive treatment of the European governance literature with a keen eye for the political as well as ethical dimensions of contemporary state re-structuring. A signally important book.' -- Olivier Kramsch, Radboud Universiteit, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Arrival of the Regulatory State – and its Exit? 2. Political Economy: The Background of the Regulatory State 3. Post-Stagflation Management Strategies 4. Taming Vulnerability and Organizational Dynamics 5. The Regulatory State: How Democratic Is It? 6. Social Capital in the Regulatory State: Nordic Lessons 7. Regionalization in the Regulatory State 8. Cross-border Regionalization in the Regulatory States of the North 9. A Case of Regulatory Taming in Norway: From Government Petroleum Fund to Ethical Pension Fund – Global References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The International Politics of Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis highly topical collection, edited by two accomplished academics, explores how environmental science and energy policy relate to international politics and policy. This complex and essentially interdisciplinary subject has been the core about which academics have fiercely debated and, as yet, unsuccessfully reached satisfactory negotiations. The editors interpret the politics of climate change as being driven less by scientific understanding than by disguised interests and deeply believed norms. The carefully selected papers in this volume both analyse and advocate policies that claim to be directed towards ?combating man-made global warming? and hence ‘?save the planet?’.Trade Review‘The erudite account provided by the volume paints a vivid picture of the growing role that the environment plays in the study of international politics. In this respect, the essays included in this collection would be of relevance not only to scholars and students of international relations, but also to those interested in environmental history, comparative politics, and international political economy.’ -- CEU Political Science Journal‘Through a collection of groundbreaking articles, Aynsley Kellow and Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen reveal the full complexity of the global politics of climate change. The focus on science, norms, negotiations, and future prospects provides valuable insights into avoiding potential pitfalls and finding provocative pathways for governing climate change.’ -- Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Preface Aynsley Kellow and Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen Introduction The International Politics of Climate Change: Learning from Failure of Failing to Learn? Aynsley Kellow and Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen PART I THE PLACE OF SCIENCE 1. Brian Martin (1988), ‘Nuclear Winter: Science and Politics’ 2. Peter M. Haas (1990), ‘Obtaining International Environmental Protection Through Epistemic Consensus’ 3. Raino Malnes (2006), ‘Imperfect Science’ 4. Roger A. Pielke Jr. (2005), ‘Misdefining “Climate Change”: Consequences for Science and Action’ 5. James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Andrew Lacis and Valdar Oinas (2000), ‘Global Warming in the Twenty-First Century: An Alternative Scenario’ 6. R.A. Pielke Jr. (1998), ‘Rethinking the Role of Adaptation in Climate Policy’ 7. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (1997), ‘A Winning Coalition of Advocacy: Climate Research, Bureaucracy and “Alternative” Fuels. Who is Driving Climate Change Policy?’ PART II THE POWER OF NORMS 8. Michael Grubb (1995), ‘Seeking Fair Weather: Ethics and the International Debate on Climate Change’ 9. Ian H. Rowlands (1997), ‘International Fairness and Justice in Addressing Global Climate Change’ 10. Deepak Lal (1995), ‘Eco-Fundamentalism’ PART III INTERESTS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION 11. S.A. Boehmer-Christiansen, D. Merten, J. Meissner and D. Ufer (1993), ‘Ecological Restructuring or Environment Friendly Deindustrialization: The Fate of the East German Energy Sector and Society Since 1990’ 12. Aynsley Kellow (1999), ‘Australia in the Greenhouse: Science, Norms and Interests in the Kyoto Protocol’ 13. Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou (2008), ‘The Kyoto Agreement and the Pursuit of Relative Gains’ 14. Michael T. Hatch (1995), ‘The Politics of Global Warming in Germany’ 15. David L. Levy and Daniel Egan (1998), ‘Capital Contests: National and Transnational Channels of Corporate Influence on the Climate Change Negotiations’ 16. Scott Barrett (1998), ‘Political Economy of the Kyoto Protocol’ PART IV PERSPECTIVES ON NEGOTIATIONS 17. Oran R. Young (1989), ‘The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment’ 18. Hugh Ward, Frank Grundig and Ethan R. Zorick (2001), ‘Marching at the Pace of the Slowest: A Model of International Climate-Change Negotiations’ 19. Marvin S. Soroos (2001), ‘Global Climate Change and the Futility of the Kyoto Process’ 20. Cass R. Sunstein (2007), ‘Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols’ 21. David G. Victor (2006), ‘Toward Effective International Cooperation on Climate Change: Numbers, Interests and Institutions’ PART V CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS 22. Bruce Yandle and Stuart Buck (2002), ‘Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Global Warming Battle’ 23. Dieter Helm (2008), ‘Climate-change Policy: Why Has So Little Been Achieved?’ 24. Scott Barrett (2008), ‘Climate Treaties and the Imperative of Enforcement’ PART VI PROSPECTS 25. Joanna Depledge (2006), ‘The Opposite of Learning: Ossification in the Climate Change Regime’ 26. Aynsley Kellow (2008), ‘Lessons Not Learned in Environmental Governance: International Climate Policy Beyond Kyoto’27. Jake Schmidt, Ned Helme, Jin Lee and Mark Houdashelt (2008), ‘Sector-based Approach to the Post-2012 Climate Change Policy Architecture’ 28. David G. Victor, Joshua C. House and Sarah Joy (2005), ‘A Madisonian Approach to Climate Policy’
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Provision of Public Services in Europe:
Book SynopsisThe book is the first of its kind to provide a comparative analysis of the provision of social and public services in France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Norway. This volume, co-authored by leading national experts, topically examines whether, when, how and why the delivery of social and public services, which was historically a responsibility of local authorities, has been significantly shifted to marketized and commodified forms. However, despite this considerable change, there have been recent indications of remunicipalization in some sectors. Combining both cross-country and cross-policy comparisons in a broad range of pertinent service fields, this volume fills a noticeable gap in the international literature currently available.Mirroring the underlying interdisciplinary approach of the book, the findings will be useful and attractive to students of law and economics as well as political science and sociology. Academic researchers and politicians on all intergovernmental levels will also find this book insightful and stimulating.Trade Review‘This book gives a comprehensive analysis and explanation of social and public services in five European countries. Despite Norway not being a member of the EU, these policy areas deliver a keen lesson in the Europeanization of public policy and the convergence of European states’ approach to governance. It is a book that will become required reading on MPAs and public administration/public management courses.’ -- Andrew Massey, University of Exeter, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Hellmut Wollmann and Gérard Marcou 2. The Multi-level Institutional Setting in Germany, Italy, France and the UK: A Comparative Overview Hellmut Wollmann, Enzo Balboni, Jean-Pierre Gaudin and Gérard Marcou 3. New Public Management in Continental Europe: Local Government Modernization in Germany, France and Italy from a Comparative Perspective Sabine Kuhlmann and Paolo Fedele 4. The Local Government Role in Pre-school Child Care Policy in France, Germany, Italy and the UK Michael Hill, Martine Long, Anna Marzanati and Frank Bönker 5. Towards Marketization and Centralization? The Changing Role of Local Government in Long-term Care in England, France, Germany and Italy Frank Bönker, Michael Hill and Anna Marzanati 6. Health Services: Issues and Trends in Italy, France and Germany Dieter Grunow, Francesco Longo and Martine Long 7. Comparative Study of a Local Service: Waste Management in France, Germany, Italy and the UK Magali Dreyfus, Annette Elisabeth Töller, Carlo Iannello and John McEldowney 8. From Public Service to Commodity: The Demunicipalization (or Remunicipalization) of Energy Provision in Germany, Italy, France, the UK and Norway Hellmut Wollmann, Harald Baldersheim, Giulio Citroni, Gérard Marcou and John McEldowney 9. Neither State nor Market: Municipalities, Corporations and Municipal Corporatization in Water Services – Germany, France and Italy Compared Giulio Citroni 10. Comparative Aspects of Institutional Variants for Local Public Service Provision Giuseppe Grossi, Gérard Marcou and Christoph Reichard 11. From Public Sector-based to Privatized Service Provision. Is the Pendulum Swinging Back Again? Comparative Summary Hellmut Wollmann and Gérard Marcou Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Egypt and the Politics of Change in the Arab
Book SynopsisEgypt and the Politics of Change in the Arab Middle East is a forward-looking analysis of the relationship between economic and political reform in Egypt, and of the evolving nature of Arab society and political culture both in Egypt and elsewhere. Writing from the perspective of a recently retired ambassador with extensive Arab regional experience, Robert Bowker discusses the potential impact of systemic resistance to pressures for greater transparency, accountability and political reform amid ongoing demographic, educational and generational changes. His analysis encompasses the military and security services, the influence of the shadow state and the impact of social surveillance, coercion and corruption. Looking ahead, he discusses emerging business models, returning Arab expatriates, the gradual empowerment of women and the impact of Islam. He considers the political sustainability of economic reform, including the challenges facing marginalized groups. His analysis concludes by reviewing the regional security and political context of reform, the importance of political leadership over the coming decade and the role of external parties.Compelling, insightful and thought-provoking, the book provides a balanced but cautiously optimistic assessment of Egypt?s prospects. It is essential reading for those concerned about the outlook for state and society in Egypt and in other Arab countries.Trade Review‘The situation unfolding in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab Middle East has important implications for the future of the Arab political order. For the first time, a secular but inclusive political alternative to Islamism has emerged. It has captured the political imagination of the emerging Arab middle class. It will shape the regional security environment. Its consequences are unpredictable - but the greatest risk to the region is the marginalization and alienation of a movement that has raised and galvanized its political horizons.’ -- Robert Bowker, In his book Egypt and the Politics of Change in the Arab Middle East, Professor Robert Bowker argues that if regimes fail to address effectively the demands for empowerment of its educated youth, they face the prospect of a tsunami-like current of instability and regression.‘Ambassador Bowker’s new book achieves the challenging objective of making a contribution to scholarship on Egypt and the Arab world while being accessible to a general audience. He addresses the key drivers of change, such as globalization and Islamicization, and the entrenched attitudes, behavior and institutions they confront. Drawing upon an impressive array of empirical information, case studies and first hand observations, he both illustrates and assesses the contending forces and the likely outcomes of their confrontations.’ -- Robert Springborg, Naval Postgraduate School, US‘[This book is] certain to be a valued and respected addition to the literature on the eve of a potentially transformational moment in Egyptian history and thus possibly for the Arab world as well.’ -- Jerrold D. Green, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Jerrold D. Green Preface Introduction: Arab Middle East States and Societies in Transition 1. Getting to Grips with Globalization: Differentiation and Integration in the Arab Middle East 2. Middle East Arab States and Society: Fragmentation and Change 3. Political Reform in Egypt 4. Islam, Globalization and the Outlook for the Arab Middle East 5. The Sustainability of Economic Reform: Governments, Social Contracts and Marginalized Groups 6. Outlook: Demography, Democracy, Dinosaurs and Diplomacy Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Politics of Recession
Book SynopsisThis timely book utilizes the tools of politics, economics and public policy to explore the causes of the recent global financial crisis, which, the author argues, can be explained as the absence of a public interest perspective in policy making. Maurice Mullard points out that recessions are not collective shared experiences. Recessions create winners and losers. Furthermore, recessions are not an external event but reflect the outcomes of the policy process. The author looks beyond economic explanations for the economic crisis, and instead points towards a structural explanation. He explores the concept of social structures, the effects of the relationships between power and influence, and the role of ideology and income inequalities as contributory factors. The commitment to deregulated financial markets created an over the counter derivatives market worth some $640 trillion dollars compared to a global GDP worth $65 trillion dollars. The growth of derivatives markets, the role of credit rating agencies, major shifts in policy making and growing income inequalities are described as major factors explaining the present economic recession. The absence of a public interest perspective, the breakdown of trust in institutions, policy makers dependence on financial contributions, the housing bubble, and the increased concentration of income have distorted the democratic process. Thought provoking and stimulating, this book will provide a fascinating study for students and academics with an interest in politics, economics, political economy and public policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Absence of Public Interest 2. Anatomy of Financial Crisis 3. Explanations of the Financial Meltdown and the Present Recession 4. Derivatives and Securities: The Finance Industry 5. Credit Rating Agencies and their Contribution to the Financial Meltdown 6. Possible Keynesian Explanations and Responses 7. Structural Explanation of the Financial Crisis 8. The Politics of Recession: Power and Politics 9. The Politics of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission 10. Conclusions: Lessons of the Financial Crisis Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Environmental Politics and Deliberative
Book SynopsisCan new modes of governance, such as public-private partnerships, stakeholder consultations and networks, promote effective environmental policy performance as well as increased deliberative and participatory quality? This book argues that in academic inquiry and policy practice there has been a deliberative turn, manifested in a revitalized interest in deliberative democracy coupled with calls for novel forms of public-private governance. By linking theory and practice, the contributors critically examine the legitimacy and effectiveness of new modes of governance, using a range of case studies on climate, forestry, water and food safety policies from local to global levels.>Environmental Politics and Deliberative Democracy will appeal to scholars, both advanced undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as researchers of environmental politics, international relations, environmental studies and political science. It will also interest practitioners involved in the actual design and implementation of new governance modes in areas of sustainable development, food safety, forestry and climate change.Trade Review'This book offers a rare, critical examination of the ''promise'' that new modes of governance - soft, flexible and collaborative - will counteract deficits in governance, legitimacy and implementation. The book is frames by a careful and scholarly review across three intersecting disciplines: green politics; deliberative democracy; and governance theory. . . . The book is clearly argued, usefully interdisciplinary and accessible without too much jargon. The case studies are interesting and relvant to the theory. . . The book provides a fascinating challenge to the normative view of the value of deliberation and new modes of governance in environmental and sustainability policy development and implementation. Scholars might like to read it in conjunction with the range of cases that provide stronger empirical evidence in support of the ''promise''.' --Laura Stocker, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'This important new book provides an excellent critical evaluation of new modes of governance in environmental and sustainability policy. The multidisciplinary team of contributors combine fresh insights from all levels of governance all around a carefully crafted conceptual framework to advance our understanding of the effectiveness and legitimacy of new types of steering, including networks, public private partnerships, and multi-stakeholder dialogues. This is a crucial contribution to the field.' --Frank Biermann, VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: THEORIZING THE PROMISE OF NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE 1. The Promise of New Modes of Environmental Governance Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand 2. Rationalities and Forms of Governance: A Framework for Analysing the Legitimacy of New Modes of Governance Annica Kronsell and Karin Bäckstrand 3. The Deliberative Turn in Green Political Theory Eva Lövbrand and Jamil Khan PART II: GLOBAL AND SUPRANATIONAL GOVERNANCE 4. Weberian Climate Policy: Administrative Rationality Organized as a Market Johannes Stripple 5. The Legitimacy of Global Public–Private Partnerships on Climate and Sustainable Development Karin Bäckstrand 6. Stakeholder Participation in the EU Governance of GMO in the Food Chain Beatrice Bengtsson and Mikael Klintman 7. Participation under Administrative Rationality: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive in Forestry Lovisa Hagberg PART III: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE 8. The Deliberative Turn in Swedish Sustainability Governance: Participation from Below or Governing from Above? Roger Hildingsson 9. Old and New Forms of Governance of Food Technologies in Mid-20th Century Sweden Gustav Holmberg 10. Regulatory Challenges and Forest Governance in Sweden Peter Schlyter and Ingrid Stjernquist 11. Local Climate Mitigation and Network Governance: Progressive Policy Innovation or Status Quo in Disguise? Jamil Khan PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 12. Environmental Politics after the Deliberative Turn Karin Bäckstrand, Jamil Khan, Annica Kronsell and Eva Lövbrand Index
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