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Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart

Explaining Successes in Africa: Things Don’t Always Fall Apart

Erin Accampo Hern

What does it take for African countries to achieve political and economic successes? Scholarship on Africa tends to focus on the barriers to reaching desired outcomes. While recognizing that these barriers are very real, Erin Hern takes a contrary, unabashedly optimistic approach: rather than treating countries that perform well as "miracles," she seeks to normalize their success,    More >

Politics and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Concise Introduction

Politics and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Concise Introduction

Stephen Wright

What constitutes Europe today? Is there an identifiable European culture that transcends state boundaries? How do the various national political, economic, and social structures and institutions work? To what extent does the European Union influence policy in the region for members and nonmembers alike? Stephen Wright's comprehensive discussion of contemporary European politics addresses these    More >

The United Nations: Policy and Practice

The United Nations: Policy and Practice

Jean E. Krasno, editor

The United Nations has a vast outreach through its many agencies, funds, and programs—but that very fact can make it difficult for "outsiders" to understand. Among the questions that arise: How can the UN promote human rights when its charter prohibits its intervention in the domestic affairs of sovereign states? Why do the five permanent members of the Security Council have    More >

Latino Political Power, 2nd edition

Latino Political Power, 2nd edition

Sharon A. Navarro and Kim Geron

This new, fully revised edition of Latino Political Power reflects a diverse community evolving in its ethnic, racial, and sexual identities, as well as in its voting behavior and party affiliations. Sharon Navarro and Kim Geron map the transformation of Latino political power from the 1960s to the present. Comprehensive and accessible, their analysis of the complex processes of political    More >

Comparative Politics of the Global South: Linking Concepts and Cases, 5th ed.

Comparative Politics of the Global South: Linking Concepts and Cases, 5th ed.

December Green and Laura Luehrmann

December Green and Laura Luehrmann show how history, economics, and politics converge to create the realities of life in the Global South. In this new edition, the authors continue to offer an innovative blend of theory and empirical material as they introduce the politics of what was once called the "third world." They consistently link theoretical concepts to a set of eight    More >

Understanding Contemporary Latin America, 5th ed.

Understanding Contemporary Latin America, 5th ed.

Henry (Chip) Carey, editor

This new edition of Understanding Contemporary Latin America, the first under the editorship of Henry (Chip) Carey, reflects the many changes that have occurred in the region in the decade since the previous edition was published. An entirely new chapter on crime and security, along with new treatments of such classic subjects as geography, history, politics, economics, international relations,    More >

US National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 6th ed.

US National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 6th ed.

John Allen Williams, Stephen J. Cimbala, and Sam C. Sarkesian

The main focus of US national security policy has shifted dramatically since the years of the Obama administration, moving away from nation building and counterinsurgency efforts and toward preparing for traditional state-on-state conflict with powerful peers. The sixth edition of US National Security reflects that change. It also addresses such current issues as the impact of an increasingly    More >

 

NEWS AND NOTES

Congratulations to LRP author Thomas Bruneau for winning LASA’s Defense, Public Security, and Democracy Section’s Alfred Stepan Lifetime Achievement Award! His newest book with us is Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors Are Providing Public Services.
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