BOOKS

The Young Black Leader's Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs: What the Giants Want You to Know
Aaron S. Williams, Taylor A. Jack, and Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Young people of color confront a myriad of challenges that deter them from considering, pursuing, and succeeding at careers in international affairs. The authors of The Young Black    More >

Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice
Stacy Burns and Mark Peyrot

Today's headlines are rife with reports of hate crimes, domestic terrorism, drug abuse, police malfeasance, and many other profound social problems. Equally, there are discussions, often    More >

Isolating Qatar: The Gulf Rift, 2017–2021
Edward A. Lynch

In June 2017, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE announced a comprehensive boycott of Qatar. Diplomatic ties were severed, trade was banned, and airspace was closed. Qatari nationals    More >

Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the Practice of Freedom
Barbara Boswell, editor

When Lauretta Ngcobo died in 2015, Africa lost a significant literary talent, freedom fighter, and feminist voice. Ngcobo was one of the pioneering writers who first published novels in    More >

Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals
Paula Caballero with Patti Londoño

This extraordinary first-person story of what can be achieved through informal diplomacy traces the improbably successful struggle to achieve acceptance of the Sustainable Development Goals    More >

Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d'État
Moses Khisa and Christopher Day, editors

Though Africa historically has been the site of countless military coups d’état, civil-military relations across the continent have changed dramatically in recent years. What do    More >

Copycat Crime and Copycat Criminals
Ray Surette

How prevalent is copycat crime? Can we accurately identify it? What role does the media play in encouraging it? These are among the questions that Ray Surette addresses in his comprehensive    More >

Granting Justice: Cash, Care, and the Child Support Grant
Tessa Hochfeld

Inspired by the scholarship of US critical theorist and feminist Nancy Fraser, Granting Justice draws on the stories of six South African women who rely on financial assistance programs for    More >

The Political Economy of Contract Farming in Zimbabwe
Freedom Mazwi

Freedom Mazwi examines patterns of agricultural finance in Zimbabwe since the radical Fast Track Land Resettlement Programme (FTLRP) was implemented in 2000—and, especially, the    More >

Hands Off Our Grants: Defending the Constitutional Right to Social Protection
Black Sash

In 2012, South Africa's social welfare system came under attack. Enormous sums of money were siphoned from South African Social Security Agency accounts—allegedly with the    More >

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