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  • Controlling the Capital

    Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World

    Edited by Tom Goodfellow, David Jackman ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 international license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with more than twice as many countries experiencing democratic decline as democratic enhancement in recent years. This has been occurring ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Politics and the Urban Frontier

    Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

    by Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Rise of the Infrastructure State

    How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide

    by Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, Guanie Lim, Meredith DeBoom, Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Masalu Luhula, Ferenc Gyuris, Zhengli Huang, Tom Goodfellow, Nicholas Jepson, Wangui Kimari, Gediminas Lesutis, Julie Michelle Klinger, Kuik Cheng Chwee, Jessica C. Liao, Jessica Neafie, Dinesh Paudel, Katharine Rankin, Steven Rolf, Marcelo Saguier, Dorothy Tang, Angela Tritto, Farzana Abdilashimova, Micah Ingalls, Maximiliano Vila Seoane, Ulan Shamshiev, Mary Silaban, Rune Steenberg ...
    Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US–China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Cities and Development

    by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by Charlotte Bretherton, John Vogler ...
    This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It look at the increasingly important part the EU plays in global politics. The authors argue that the EU's significance cannot be grasped by making comparisons with traditional states. Issues covered include: · the ... Read more

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  • Governing the World?

    Cases in Global Governance

    Edited by Sophie Harman, David Williams ...
    ‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global governance works in practice through a set of case studies on both classical issues of international relations ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong with Rights?

    Social Movements, Law and Liberal Imaginations

    by Radha D'Souza ...
    Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation ... Read more

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  • Neo-Colonialism and the Poverty of 'Development' in Africa

    by Mark Langan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of ‘development’ strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation. Eschewing polemics and critically engaging the work of Ghana’s first President – Kwame Nkrumah – the book offers a rigorous assessment of the concept of neo-colonialism. It then demonstrates how neo-colonialism remains an ... Read more

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  • African Agency in International Politics

    Edited by William Brown, Sophie Harman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century.In contrast to the conventional approach of studying how external actors impacted on Africa’s international relations, this book seeks to open up a new approach, focusing on the impact of African political actors on international politics. It does this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations

    Edited by Thomas G. Weiss, Sam Daws ...
    This Handbook provides in one volume an authoritative and independent treatment of the UN's seventy-year history, written by an international cast of more than 50 distinguished scholars, analysts, and practitioners. It provides a clear and penetrating examination of the UN's development since 1945 and the challenges and opportunities now facing the organization. It assesses the implications for ... Read more

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  • Institutions and Democracy in Africa

    How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments

    Edited by Nic Cheeseman ...
    Historically, African political institutions such as constitutions, legislatures and judiciaries have been seen as weak and vulnerable to manipulation, leading some to claim that the continent is 'institutionless'. However, recent developments including the consolidation of presidential term limits in a number of countries demonstrate that this depiction is no longer tenable. By drawing attention ... Read more

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  • State Politics and Public Policy in Eastern Africa

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Gedion Onyango ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses major themes in twenty-first-century east African politics. Predominantly authored by researchers and academics from the region, it examines recent political developments, public policy and governance across east and southern African countries. The book advocates for a regionally-focused comparative approach across Africa, arguing that it provides a greater level of analysis ... Read more

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