BOOKS

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan

Makau Mutua

Tracing the trajectory of postcolonial politics, Makau Mutua maps the political forces that have shaped contemporary Kenya. He also critically explores efforts on the part of both civil society and the political opposition to reform the state. Analyzing the tortuous efforts since independence to create a sustainable, democratic state, he uses the struggle over constitutional reform as a window for    More >

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan

Key to an Enigma: British Sources Disprove British Claims to theFalkland/Malvinas

Angel M. Oliveri López

This unusual analysis of the Falkland/Malvinas dispute relies almost entirely on British sources to refute British claims to the islands. Oliveri López draws on official government documents, speeches, works of scholarship, and statements by residents of the islands themselves to substantiate his conclusion of "admission" by the U.K. of Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas.    More >

Key to an Enigma: British Sources Disprove British Claims to theFalkland/Malvinas

Khrushchev in Power: Unfinished Reforms, 1961-1964

Sergei Khrushchev, translated by George Shriver

A full reckoning of Nikita Khrushchev's accomplishments and failures cannot be complete without looking beyond his foreign policy initiatives to assess his efforts to introduce domestic policy reforms in the Soviet Union. Sergei Khrushchev tells the full story of those efforts during the years immediately before his father's ouster—and of the intrigues and struggles for power that    More >

Khrushchev in Power: Unfinished Reforms, 1961-1964

Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence

Jürgen Brandsch

Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet, the indiscriminate violence continues. Why? To tackle this vexing question, Jürgen Brandsch looks closely at the on-the-ground impact of indiscriminate violence—and what he finds shows that there often is, in fact, a method to the madness. Making the provocative argument    More >

Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate Violence

Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassination in International Politics

Luca Trenta and Kiril Avramov, editors

How do governments approach, understand, and even justify assassination? What methods have been used historically, and how do they differ from current practice? What are the consequences of assassination for international politics, diplomacy, and international law? These are the fundamental questions animating this ground-breaking exploration of the adoption and deployment of assassination as an    More >

Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassination in International Politics

Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy

Renée Marlin-Bennett

Knowledge Power introduces the interconnected roles of intellectual property, information, and privacy and explores the evolution of the domestic and international rules that govern them.   What roles are played by governments, individuals, firms, and others in shaping our knowledge world? How will the rules that we create—or unquestioningly accept—affect the contours of global    More >

Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy

Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Devleopment Cooperation

Edward T. Jackson and Yusuf Kassam

This book examines an approach to evaluation that enables citizens and professionals alike to jointly assess the extent to which the benefits of development are shared—and by whom. It presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. As the most comprehensive book on participatory evaluation currently available, this volume is a highly    More >

Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Devleopment Cooperation

Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace

William G. O'Neill

Despite the deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo and the UN's direct involvement in governing the province, such terrors as murder, disappearances, bombings, and arson have become routine occurrences. William O'Neill analyzes the nature of the violence that continues to plague Kosovo's residents and assesses efforts to guarantee public security. O'Neill considers how the particular    More >

Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace

Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union

David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien, and Lucien van der Walt, editors

The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU)—the largest black political organization in southern Africa before the 1940s—was active in six African colonies, as well as in global trade union networks. Labour Struggles in Southern Africa provides fresh perspectives on the ICU, exploring its record in the 1920s and 1930s and assessing its achievements and failures in relation    More >

Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union

Land Wars: The Politics of Property and Community

John G. Francis and Leslie Pickering Francis

"It's my land, I can do whatever I want with it." "This is our neighborhood (or city, or park), and we should be the ones deciding how it's used." These are two strongly held—and diametrically opposed—views of appropriate land use. As John G. and Leslie Pickering Francis demonstrate, the debate about what to do with land is messy, complex, and often based on    More >

Land Wars: The Politics of Property and Community