BOOKS

Creating a Better World: Interpreting Global Civil Society
Rupert Taylor, editor

The term "global civil society" has become a catchphrase of our times. But efforts to define and interpret what global civil society actually is have led to ambiguity and dispute.    More >

The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World
Ian Smillie and Larry Minear

Ian Smillie and Larry Minear probe the reasons behind governmental and nongovernmental responses to urgent human need. They explain why some crises got the lion's share of attention and    More >

Global Civil Society, Volume Two: Dimensions of the Nonprofit Sector
Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski, editors

In Volume Two of Global Civil Society, the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project continues the comprehensive overview of the scope, size, composition, and financing of the    More >

Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from Sixteen Developing Countries
Goran Hyden, Julius Court, and Kenneth Mease

Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been    More >

Ethics and Global Politics: The Active Learning Sourcebook
April Morgan, Lucinda Joy Peach, and Colette Mazzucelli, editors

Who should take moral and ethical responsibility for the world's critical issues? What obligations do individuals and multinational corporations have to the rest of the world, and whose    More >

Human Rights and Development
Peter Uvin

Peter Uvin links human rights with development theory and practice to show how practitioners can surmount tough obstacles to successfully effect strategies for reducing conflict and    More >

First Amendment, First Principles: Verbal Acts and Freedom of Speech, Revised Edition
John F. Wirenius

In First Amendment, First Principles, attorney John F. Wirenius explores challenges to freedom of speech and examines the evolution of how the First Amendment has come to the meaning it    More >

Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World
Mohammed M. Hafez, with a foreword by Fred Halliday

Now available in paperback! Rejecting theories of economic deprivation and psychological alienation, Mohammed Hafez offers a provocative analysis of the factors that contribute to    More >

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