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Internal Affairs
How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influence the norms of human rights? Internal Affairs shows how the organizational structures of human rights NGOs and their campaigns determine their influence...
by James G. March
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
"The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources...
Varietals of Capitalism
A Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itçaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and...
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities...
Exporting the Bomb
Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries...
Atomic Assistance
How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge...
by Kim Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"It must be some kind of experiment or something, to see how long people can live without food, without shelter, without security."—homeless woman, Grand Central Station, winter
"Homelessness is a routine fact of life on the margins. Materially, it emerges out of a tangled but unmysterious...
An Education in Politics
The Origins and Evolution of No Child Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education—exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)—has expanded dramatically. Yet states and localities have retained a central role in education policy, leading to a growing struggle for control over the direction of the nation’s...
Making Immigrant Rights Real
Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits...
Hidden Hunger
Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions:...
Poor Numbers
How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental...
Priests of Prosperity
How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers,...
Prosper or Perish
Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-ops are mandated to support agricultural development among farm households, since 1980 half of RCC loans have gone to small and medium-sized industrial enterprises located in, and managed by,...
Corporate Warriors
The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their...