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  • Promoting Good Governance, Development and Accountabilityby Susan Brown-Shafii

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature. Brown-Shafii does this by investigating whether a WTO Agreement can be used to promote good governance, development and accountability. more...

  • A Kind of Geniusby Sam Roberts

    PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 27.95

    A renowned New York Times journalist tells the inspirational story of one of America?s most imaginative and effective social entrepreneurs. more...

  • Development beyond Politicsby Thomas Yarrow

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted. more...

  • Making Peaceby Guillaume Devin; Roger Leverdier

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Do international institutions really contribute to building a lasting peace? As diplomats, practitioners with these institutions, and experts on their processes, the authors underline the strengths and weaknesses that international actors have created and won't abandon. more...

  • The Myth about Global Civil Societyby Daniela Tepe

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    In order to help the understanding of international campaigning activities of Non-Governmental Organisations, Tepe analyses the domestic politics of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and provides a theoretical framework through which to access these. more...

  • A Critical Evaluation of Conservation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africaby Paul Andre DeGeorges; Brian Kevin Reilly

    The Edwin Mellen Press 2008; US$ 169.95

    This book will serve as a historical reference, a technical document and as a basis for policy formulation. It is one of the first attempts in modern times to look at the big picture, both historically and currently, on the African sub-continent as it applies to conservation, development, human rights and foreign policy. These volumes contain twelve... more...

  • Breakdown in Pakistanby Masooda Bano

    Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 45.00

    Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents... more...

  • World Scoutingby Eduard Vallory

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00

    Explains in a very comprehensible and entertaining way the main findings of the first existing academic research on world scouting, the largest young movement in the planet. Using new data and storytelling, the work revisits how scouting started, showing its informal launching and its historical evolution throughout the twentieth century. more...

  • NGOs in Indiaby Patrick Kilby

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 140.00

    By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000?s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The... more...

  • Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnamby Andrew Wells-Dang

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies. more...