BOOKS

State-Committed Mass Atrocities in Civil Wars: When ... and Why?
Gary Uzonyi

What causes governments to commit mass atrocities—including genocide—during times of civil war? Gary Uzonyi tackles this discomforting question, focusing on uncertainty as a key    More >

Poverty and Inequality in African Cities: Reflections on Challenges and Causes
Nicasius Achu Check and Adebayo O. Olukoshi, editors

Rapid population growth, poor infrastructure, and inadequate housing markets, all combined with haphazard urban planning, have created unprecedented levels of poverty and inequality in    More >

Digital Copyright Wars: US Copyright in the Global Political Economy, from Betamax to ChatGPT
Madison Cartwright

The past five decades have seen both a prioritization of copyright in US foreign economic policies and a head-spinning disruption to copyright law caused by the digital revolution—all    More >

Above the Law?: The Evolution of Emergency Presidential Power
Chris Edelson

In the current US political climate, the appropriate use of and constraints on emergency presidential powers have become the topic of much heated debate. How did the framers of the    More >

Mathematics Teacher Development in South Africa Through Professional Learning Communities
Karin Brodie, editor

The authors take a deep dive into South Africa's Data-Informed Practice Improvement Project (DIPIP), an innovative program designed to support the professional development of mathematics    More >

Biko's Edge: Reimaging Black Critique
Tendayi Sithole

Tendayi Sithole shows just how original and radical Steve Biko's (1946–1977) thinking really was. Sithole's Black Critique approach highlights how Biko's work tears    More >

Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent
Brooks Marmon, editor

Born in Southern Rhodesia, self-made intellectual Edson Sithole (1935–1975?) was a lawyer (the first Black person in southern Africa to earn a doctorate in law), an anticolonial    More >

Putin's Rise: The Evolution of an Authoritarian Modernizer
Donald R. Kelley

Understanding any political leader is a challenging task, and this is perhaps especially true when it comes to Vladimir Putin. Donald Kelley meets the challenge as he traces the Russian    More >

The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire
Richard Sakwa

The number of casualties in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is rapidly approaching 1.5 million, with no resolution in sight … a staggering reality. Seeking to make what sense is    More >

Aid for Just Development: A Report on the Future of Foreign Assistance
Stephen Hellinger, Douglas Hellinger, and Fred M. O'Regan

World Hunger Media Award Winner (Best Book, 1988)! Decades after Aid for Just Development launched a citizen's initiative and formed part of a Congressional effort to reform US    More >

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