The world is changing, and so is the unquestioning belief that development policies are always right. Instead of focusing on the rather limited notion of poverty, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the broad issue of development. What are the drivers of development? W…
"Foreign aid has increasingly been subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s, the Bretton Woods institutions and major Western governments made aid dependent on reforms of the economic policy of recipient countries. The main objective of this first generation conditional…
"Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority."--Page 4 of cover.
"Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority."--Page 4 of cover.
Reconstructs negotiations of the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
The author argues that there are alternatives to the way the Western coalitions responded to 9/11 and the profound challenges of mass terrorism and political violence, ones which can better address the roots of these challenges and deliver political and social justice. In order …
In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coaliti…