Politics in the developing world
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Politics in the developing world
Oxford University Press, 2008
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-541) and index
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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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