Search results for “[Subject: developing-emerging-countries]”

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic Development‘Development’ first emerged as a subject area in the second half of the twentieth century. After World War II, scho...

• Author(s): Robert Rotberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicySub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying signif...

• Author(s): Robert Rotberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicySub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying signif...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyUntil the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas wer...

• Author(s): Stuart Corbridge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: GeneralTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor peo...

• Author(s): Alex J. Bellamy • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of Responsibility to Protect ...

• Author(s): David Keen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: GeneralIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West....

• Author(s): Oliver Stuenkel • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWith the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging pow...

• Author(s): Colin Crouch • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘gl...

• Author(s): David Keen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Peter Wagner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely bel...

• Author(s): Thomas Turner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the world's bloodiest hot spots. 2003 saw the end of a five-year w...

• Author(s): Milton J. Esman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: DiscriminationThroughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record nu...

• Author(s): Judith Shapiro • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - AsianChina's huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very futu...

• Author(s): Tianjie Ma • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: World - AsianThe world cannot address its pressing environmental problems without China. But can China be relied upon as a ...

• Author(s): Achille Mbembe • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlAs we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world is undergoing...

• Author(s): George Philip • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyLatin America has seen a great extension of democratic government over the past twenty years. However democratisation ...

• Author(s): Anthony Heath • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparitySocial mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoreti...

• Author(s): Noha Mellor • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its imp...

• Author(s): Noha Mellor • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its imp...

• Author(s): Ash Amin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Human GeographyIncreasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalizatio...

• Author(s): David M. Ryfe • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: JournalismThe public, James Carey famously wrote, is the ?god-term? of journalism, ?the term without which t...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic Development‘Development’ first emerged as a subject area in the second half of the twentieth century. After World War II, scho...

• Author(s): Henry Tam • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralProgressive politics has been concerned with rolling back prejudices, improving democratic accountabilities, and promoting t...