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Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 22.95"Examines the state of governance in the countries of the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, and Yemen--and discusses strategies to combat the transnational threat of terrorism, including suggestions for more effective U.S. engagement in the region"--Provided by publisher. more...
Building a New Afghanistan
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 20.95Given resumed Taliban power and attacks, Afghanistan must tackle a host of serious problems before it can emerge as a confident, independent nation. Security in this battered state continues to deteriorate; suicide bombings, convoy ambushes, and insurgent attacks are still all too common. Effective state building depends upon eliminating the national... more...
Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 19.95"An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.... Anyone dedicated to the fullest possible understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will want to read this volume cover to cover." -- ... more...
Worst of the Worst
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 26.95Offers a transparent way to decide which states are deserving of strong policy attention. more...
China into Africa
Brookings Institution Press 2008; US$ 29.95Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation movements and leaders, and the PRC then assisted new... more...
Corruption, Global Security, and World Order
Brookings Institution Press 2009; US$ 39.95Corruption is a human condition and an ancient phenomenon. From the beginnings of civilization, public notables have abused their offices for personal gain while citizens havesought advantage by corrupting those holding power. Today, global security is threatened as never before by fiscal uncertainty, competition and mutual suspicion among world powers,... more...
Mass Atrocity Crimes
Brookings Institution Press 2010; US$ 28.95Millions of people, particularly in Africa, face daily the prospect of death at the hands of state or state-linked forces. Although officially both the United Nations and the African Union have adopted Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principles, atrocities continue. The tenets of R2P, recently cited in a UN Outcomes Document, make it clear... more...
When States Fail
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 35.00Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done... more...
Patterns of Social Capital
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00Examines voluntary associations, comparatively and cross-culturally, as indicators of citizen readiness for civic engagement. more...
The Founder
Oxford University Press, USA 1988; US$ 14.99A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial... more...









