Zed Books: 608 books
Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta
Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers...
Push Back
Sri Lanka's Dance with Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 2009, after decades of conflict, the Sri Lankan government proclaimed the decisive defeat of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam. Subsequently, the state proved resistant to attempts by the UN and other international bodies to promote post-war reconciliation or reform.
In this incisive new...
Living by the Gun in Chad
Combatants, Impunity and State Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle...
Bipolar Orders
The Two Koreas since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s. North Korea has experienced severe...
The Millennium Development Goals
Raising the Resources to Tackle World Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to halve...
by Prosper B. Matondi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe has emerged as a highly contested reform process both nationally and internationally. The image of it has all too often been that of the widespread displacement and subsequent replacement of various people, agricultural-related production systems, facets...
Kenya
The Struggle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study...
Making Poverty
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty. He explains the mechanisms of markets and supply chains, charting their impact on agricultural trade in the world's poorest countries. A desperate situation is...
Global Trade
Past Mistakes, Future Choices
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. In this book, Greg Buckman details possible future directions in global energy supplies and balance-of-payments imbalances. He...
by Roland Marchal, Ned Dalby, Faouzi Kilembe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Lying at the centre of a tumultuous region, the Central African Republic and its turbulent history have often been overlooked. Democracy, in any kind of a meaningful sense, has eluded the country. Since the mid-1990s, army mutinies and serial rebellion in CAR have resulted in two major successful...
Governance for Development in Africa
Solving Collective Action Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially...
The Economist's Tale
A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider‘s view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this ruthlessly honest, day by day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone, he uses his...
Rocks and Hard Places
The Globalization of Mining
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating...