BOOKS

Development and Humanitarianism: Practical Issues
Deborah Eade and Tony Vaux, editors

Humanitarian intervention invariably rubs shoulders with politics—awkwardly, and sometimes with tragic results.  Development and Humanitarianism draws from the contents of the    More >

Twinning Faith and Development: Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and Haiti
Tara Hefferan

Twinning Faith and Development documents the operation of a project in which two Catholic churches— one in the US and one in Haiti—partner to spur development in Haiti. Hefferan    More >

Everywhere/Nowhere: Gender Mainstreaming in Development Agencies
Rebecca Tiessen

Everywhere/Nowhere presents a timely reflection on the challenges and opportunities development agencies have faced as they attempt to translate gender mainstreaming policies into    More >

CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society, Volume1: Country Profiles
V. Finn Heinrich, editor

How can something as vast and contested as civil society be measured? Answering that question, the hundreds of members and partners that contribute to the CIVICUS Civil Society Index    More >

Complex Political Victims
Erica Bouris

Looking beyond the standard discourse about political victims, with its dichotomies of good and evil—and believing that more can be done to effectively recognize and respond to    More >

Zones of Peace
Landon Hancock and Christopher Mitchell, editors

Examining sanctuary as it relates to both historical and modern conflicts—and proposing a theory of sanctuary that might allow for useful new peacebuilding strategies—the authors    More >

Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics
John Mathiason

John Mathiason, a member of the UN Secretariat for 25 years, offers a behind-the-scenes view of the work of a core, but often "invisible," element of world politics. Drawing on    More >

Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulf
edited and translated by Deborah S. Akers and Abubaker A. Bagader

The stories in Oranges in the Sun capture a distinctly unique vision of the world, embodying the range of emotional and material concerns of the peoples of the Arab Gulf region. The    More >

On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search
Sandra L. Barnes

Sandra Barnes presents both big-picture strategic thinking and nuts-and-bolts suggestions to help junior scholars obtain satisfying academic employment in today's highly competitive    More >

Europe at Bay: In the Shadow of US Hegemony
Alan W. Cafruny and J. Magnus Ryner

Europe at Bay was completed just before the onset of the financial crisis, and two years before the Eurozone crisis emerged. In contrast to mainstream European integration scholarship that    More >

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