Politics in the developing world. / edited by Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall and Lise Rakner
Material type: TextPublisher: New York: Oxforn University Press Inc, 2011Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxxviii, 537 p.: ill.; 26cmISBN: 9780199570836Subject(s): Developing countries -- Politics and governmentLOC classification: JF60.P93Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | JF60.P93 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 1806/12 | |
Books | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY General Stacks | WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA - MAIN LIBRARY | JF60.P931 (Browse shelf) | 2 | Available | 1807/12 |
Includes references and glossary.
Contents: Analytical approaches to the study of politics in the developing world -- Colonialism and post-colonial development -- Institutional perspective -- The Developing world in the global economy -- The Developing world in international politics -- Inequality -- Ethnopolitics and nationalism -- Religion -- Women and gender -- Civil society -- People, power and alternative politics -- Theorizing the state -- From conflict to peacebuilding -- Democratization -- Governance and aid conditionality in a globalizing world -- Development -- Environment -- Human rights -- Security -- Reconfiguring the political order: (a) Indonesia: redistributing power (b) South Africa: from divided society to new nation (c) Iraq's triple challenge: state, nation and democracy -- Military in politics versus democratic advance: (a) Pakistan: the military as a political fixture (b) Nigeria: building political stability with democracy (c) Mexico: democratic transition and beyond --- Underdevelopment and development: (a) Guatamala: enduring underdevelopment (b) South Korea: from development to new challenges -- South-south relations and the changing landscape of international development cooperation: (a) India as a 'post-colonial donor' (b) China and the developing world.
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