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The Rise and Decline of the Insurgency in Pakistan’s FATA
This book analyzes the emergence, rise, and decline of insurgency by the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan’s North-Western region, also known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It provides a detailed account of the rise and decline of the FATA insurgency and also examines aftereffects of the insurgency. Offering an in-depth analysis of how insurgency in the FATA began in 2004 after Pakistan entered its military forces into the tribal areas, the author illustrates that the insurgency erupted when state repression on masses is combined with a disruption of the previous modus vivendi centered on co-optation of local elites. In the following years, the insurgency became so powerful tha...
Crossing the Aisle
This book is the first systematic study of the causes and consequences of legislative party switching in the US. It provides a sophisticated analysis combining quantitative data from Congress and state legislatures with elite interviews with switchers, non-switchers, and a party leader, including a 'real time' look into the decision.
The Terrorism Trap
After two decades and trillions of dollars, the United States’ fight against terrorism has achieved mixed results. Despite the vast resources and attention expended since 9/11, terrorism has increased in many societies that have been caught up in the war on terror. Why have U.S. policies been unable to stem the tide of violence? Harrison Akins reveals how the war on terror has had the unintended consequence of increasing domestic terrorism in U.S. partner states. He examines the results of U.S.-backed counterterrorism operations that targeted al-Qaeda in peripheral regions of partner states, over which their central governments held little control. These operations often provoked a violent...
The Scarce State
States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a limited impact. Isolated state actions in regions where the state is otherwise scarce can have outsize, long-lasting effects on society. The Scarce State reframes our understanding of the political economy of hinterlands through a multi-method study of Northern Ghana alongside shadow cases from other world regions. Drawing on a historical natural experiment, the book shows how the contemporary economic and political elite emerged in Ghana's hinterland, linking interventions by an ostensibly weak state to new socio-economic inequality and grassroots efforts to reimagine traditional institutions. The book demonstrates how these state-generated societal changes reshaped access to political power, producing dynastic politics, clientelism, and violence. The Scarce State challenges common claims about state-building and state weakness, provides new evidence on the historical origins of inequality, and reconsiders the mechanisms linking historical institutions to contemporary politics.
Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia
Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.
Solferino 21
War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving fast--'big aid' demands more and more money, while aid workers try to digitalise, preparing to meet ever-broader needs in the long, big wars and climate crisis of the future. This book draws on the founding moment of the modern Red Cross movement--the 1859 Battle of Solferino, a moment of great change in the nature of conflict--to track the big shifts already underway, and still to come, in the wars and war aid of our century. Hugo Slim first surveys the current landscape: the tech, politics, law a...
"Pare, Olhe, Escute!"
O conflito perpassa a comunidade Porto do Capim, na cidade de João Pessoa, PB, Brasil, ao ocupar uma área por mais de 70 anos e ter que ser realocada para a construção de uma praça de eventos com a justificativa da prefeitura de revitalizar a área das margens do rio Sanhauá, que está invadida. Mas essa não é uma história única, é de todas as comunidades tradicionais. As comunidades tradicionais buscam o reconhecimento como comunidade tradicional para ter o direito de escolher onde viver, de acordo com o que preceitua a Convenção 169 da OIT. Este livro analisa as dimensões jurídico-institucional socioambiental do conflito. Os resultados encontrados mostram que os mapas oficia...
The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy
Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.
Factfulness (edició en català)
FACTFULNESS: redueix l'estrès opinant només quan tinguis clar que els fets et donen la raó. Estimulant i revelador, ple d'anècdotes divertides i d'històries commovedores, Factfulness és un llibre urgent i essencial que canviarà la teva manera de veure el món. Quan ens fan preguntes molt senzilles sobre tendències globals -quin percentatge de la població mundial viu en la pobresa extrema; per què està augmentant la població mundial; quantes nenes acaben l'escolaritat...- triem sistemàticament la pitjor resposta. Tan incorrecta que un ximpanzé que elegís qualsevol opció a l'atzar ho faria molt millor que periodistes, banquers d'inversió i premis Nobel. A Factfulness el profes...
Food Governance in India
This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of sociopolitical, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in food production. Based on field research conducted across India and an in-depth study on government agencies and multilateral fora, this book connects and juxtaposes global, national and local narratives on food security and policy. It analyses issues ranging from climate change to gaps in the nation-wide public food distribution systems. Through interdisciplinary narratives on food insecurity and poverty, the book exposes the underlying problems within policy frameworks and offers solutions for greater accessibility and distribution of food supplies while combating climate variability and agrarian distress. The volume explores global food governance norms and India’s role in further shaping them. It will be of interest to students and researchers of public policy and governance, development studies, sociology, agriculture studies, public health and nutrition and economics.
