Politics in the developing world
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Politics in the developing world
Oxford University Press, 2008
2nd ed
Available at 5 libraries
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-541) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This textbook deals with the central political themes and issues in the developing world, such as globalization, inequality, and democracy. Leading experts in the field provide up-to-date and systematic coverage. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre. Student resources: Three additional case studies, including one on China Web links from the book Flashcard glossary
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART 1: APPROACHES AND GLOBAL CONTEXT
- 1. Analytical approaches to the study of politics in the developing world
- 2. Colonialism and post-colonial development
- 3. The developing world in the global economy
- 4. The developing world in international politics
- PART 2: SOCIETY AND STATE
- 5. Inequality
- 6. Ethnopolitics and nationalism
- 7. Religion
- 8. Women and gender
- 9. Civil society
- 10. 'People power' and 'alternative' politics
- PART 3: STATE AND SOCIETY
- 11. Theorizing the state
- 12. State-building
- 13. State collapse, civil conflict, and external intervention
- 14. Democratization
- PART 4: POLICY ISSUES
- 15. Development
- 16. Governance and conditionality in a globalizing world
- 17. Environment
- 18. Human rights
- 19. Security
- PART 5: CASE STUDIES: EXPERIENCES COMPARED
- 20. Disintegration or nation-building?
- Indonesia: coping with fragmentation
- South Africa: from divided society to new nation
- 21. Civil society: active or passive?
- India: associational life and its discontents
- Saudi Arabia: between tradition and modernity
- 22. Military in politics versus democratic advance
- Pakistan: the military as political fixture
- Nigeria: building political stability with democracy
- Mexico: democratic transition and beyond
- 23. Underdevelopment and development
- Guatemala: enduring underdevelopment
- South Korea: from development to new challenges
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