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  • African Refugees

    Development Aid And Repatriation

    Edited by Howard Adelman ...
    Of the world's refugees, more than a third live in Africa, displaced from their homelands by war, poverty, famine and political persecution. In this book, contributors explore key issues related to these refugee populations. The first section looks at the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees, and the second deals with the issue of relief by considering specific cases, the general ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Protracted Displacement in Asia

    No Place to Call Home

    Edited by Howard Adelman ...
    In a protracted displacement situation, refugees are sequestered in camps without right of mobility or employment; their lives remain on hold and stagnate in a state of limbo for a long period. This book reviews the situation and results of research and policies that have left refugees as a forgotten group in protracted situations. The work features case studies by experts who conducted field work ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • No Return, No Refuge

    Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation

    by Howard Adelman, Elazar Barkan ...
    Refugee displacement is a global phenomenon that has uprooted millions of individuals over the past century. In the 1980s, repatriation became the preferred option for resolving the refugee crisis. As human rights achieved global eminence, refugees' right of return fell under its umbrella. Yet return as a right and its practice as a rite created a radical disconnect between principle and everyday ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Roads to Reconciliation

    by Howard Adelman, Tone Bringa, Craig Etcheson, Alcinda Honwana, Vasuki Nesiah, Mohamed Othman, Filip Reyntjens, William Schabas, Daphna Shraga, Dionisio Babo Soares, Stef Vandeginste, Rubén I. Zamora ...
    Series series Press for Change (lex)
    The past two decades have witnessed the end of several civil wars and authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the ideal of democratization, in which more countries are emerging from deep-rooted conflicts, international attention is turning to the question of how societies with a grievous past face issues of accountability and reconciliation. How do societies deal with a past characterized by ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Religion, Culture, and the State

    Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report

    Edited by Howard Adelman, Pierre Anctil ...
    The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

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  • The New Asian Hemisphere

    The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers.Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free-market economics to modern science and technology, from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative in their own way, creating new ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Understanding the Global Community

    Edited by Suzette R. Grillot, Zach P. Messitte, Ph.D ...
    Since the end of the Cold War,interaction among communities across the globe has increased exponentially. Globalization has changed how we live, how we communicate, what we eat, and how we travel around the world. What do such social, political, and economic changes mean in a twenty-first-century context?Understanding the Global Community explores these and other key questions, offering a concise ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • India and Asian Geopolitics

    The Past, Present

    by Shivshankar Menon ...
    A clear-eyed look at modern India's role in Asia's and the broader worldOne of India's most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the increasingly complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon traces India's approach to the shifting regional landscape ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • To See Ourselves as Others See Us

    How Publics Abroad View the United States after 9/11

    by Ole Rudolf Holsti ...
    "Holsti, the authority on American foreign policy attitudes, investigates others' views of us. It's not pretty. It matters. Read this."---Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations, Yale University, and editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution"Clearly and engagingly written, Holsti's book ranks among the most important---and most objective---of the post-9/11 scholarly ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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