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EUROPE AND THE ARAB WORLD Patterns and Prospects for the New Relationship Samir Amin and Ali El Kenz This volume focuses on an initiative, originally launched by the European Union in Barcelona, to put its relations with Arab countries of the Mediterranean (and Gulf) regions on a new footing of equality and mutually beneficial cooperation.  read more August, 2005 / 160 pages. 1-84277-437-9 1-84277-436-0 $32.95 $85.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

ISLAM AND LIBERTY The Historical Misunderstanding Charfi Mohamed Mohammed Charfi tackles the central question facing all Arab-Muslim nations: is Islam compatible with contemporary notions of democracy, legality and the State? A century ago, thinkers like Abdoh and Tahar Haddad called for an approach to religion compatible with modern realities, yet the twenty-first century is witnessing a sad regression in the independence of the law from holy writ.  read more August, 2005 / 224 pages. 1-84277-511-1 1-84277-510-3 $32.95 $104.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

GLOBAL REVOLT A Guide to the Movements against Globalization Amory Starr Direct Action gives a short history of the worldwide anti-globalization movement and provides social activists with all they need to know about the key concepts and manifestos in this richly diverse mobilization of the people.  read more August, 2005 / 192 pages. 1-84277-483-2 1-84277-482-4 $27.95 $75.95 Paperback   Hardcover

THE PORTO ALEGRE EXPERIMENT Learning Lessons for Better Democracy Edited by Marion Gret and Yves Sintomer With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities.  read more July, 2005 / 160 pages. 1-84277-405-0 1-84277-404-2 $32.95 $94.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

THE DECLINE OF CAPITALISM Can the Self-Regulated Profits System Survive? Harry Shutt Should we be more concerned that collapsing share values and widespread corporate failure and fraud beg some serious questions about the viability of the present world economy? Harry Shutt persuasively demonstrates that the present crisis is the culmination of 30 years of deepening stagnation.  read more July, 2005 / 176 pages. 1-84277-401-8 1-84277-400-X $20.95 $63.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

DEGLOBALIZATION Ideas for a New World Economy Walden Bello This is a short and trenchant history of the organizations--the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and Group of Seven--that have promoted economic globalization and which are now trying to manage the unmanageable.  read more July, 2005 / 192 pages. 1-84277-545-6 $20.95 Paperback  Add to Cart

OIL Politics, Poverty and the Planet Toby Shelley This informative survey of the global oil and gas industry covers both its changes and its continuities. The reader is introduced to what is happening in both producer and consumer states, to governments and corporations, to current trends and likely future developments.  read more July, 2005 / 224 pages. 1-84277-521-9 1-84277-520-0 $20.95 $63.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

GENDER AND CASTE Edited by Anupama Rao Most of the essays in this collection have emerged in the context of a renewed national debate about the politics of caste inaugurated by the Mandal decision in 1989--a decision that has renewed demands for social justice by dalits and lower-castes.  read more July, 2005 / 400 pages. 1-84277-600-2 $113.95 Hardcover  Add to Cart

FEMINISM IN INDIA Edited by Maitrayee Chaudhuri This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India.  read more July, 2005 / 416 pages. 1-84277-602-9 $113.95 Hardcover  Add to Cart

THE PATERNALISM OF PARTNERSHIP A Postcolonial Reading of Identity in Development Aid Maria Eriksson Baaz The development industry has been criticized recently from very diverse quarters. This book is a nuanced and original investigation of Northern donor agency personnel as they deliver aid in Tanzania.  read more June, 2005 / 224 pages. 1-84277-415-8 1-84277-414-X $34.95 $94.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

FEMINIST POLITICS, ACTIVISM AND VISION Local and Global Challenges Edited by Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles and Margaret McFadden This volume brings together essays of remarkable variety and fresh insight by leading feminists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America, Europe and Scandinavia.  read more June, 2005 / 320 pages. 1-84277-351-8 1-84277-350-X $34.95 $104.95 Paperback   Hardcover

MUSLIM BRITAIN Communities Under Pressure Edited by Tahir Abbas This edited collection is a cogent exploration of how the events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terror have impacted on the lived experiences of British South Asian Muslims in a number of important spheres, namely, religious and ethnic identity, citizenship, Islamophobia, gender and education, radicalism, media and political representation.  read more June, 2005 / 256 pages. 1-84277-449-2 1-84277-448-4 $34.95 $113.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

A COMMODIFIED WORLD? Mapping the Limits of Capitalism Colin C. Williams This book critiques the notion that in Late Capitalism all economic relations become always ever more commodified, while non-capitalist activities disappear.  read more May, 2005 / 75 pages. 1-84277-355-0 1-84277-354-2 $36.95 $104.95 Paperback   Hardcover

SCIENCE AND CITIZENS Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne This volume brings together authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalization.  read more May, 2005 / 256 pages. 1-84277-551-0 1-84277-550-2 $36.95 $104.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

GLOBAL CITIZENS Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization Marjorie Mayo The dawn of the twenty first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order.  read more May, 2005 / 256 pages. 1-84277-139-6 1-84277-138-8 $34.95 $104.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Atilio A. Boron In 2001, the Harvard scholar Michael Hardt and the independent Italian left wing intellectual Toni Negri published a modern critique of imperialism. The book was widely criticized by left wing intellectuals who felt that the book posed unfortunate implications for political resistance to imperialism, and that it ignored both the experience and intellectual analysis of thinkers from the South.  read more May, 2005 / 160 pages. 1-84277-577-4 1-84277-576-6 $32.95 $94.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

UZBEKISTAN AND THE UNITED STATES Authoritarianism, Islamism and Washington's New Security Agenda Shahram Akbarzadeh Uzbekistan, the most strategically situated Central Asian country, has exhibited the most appalling record on human rights and democratic reforms. Yet, post-September 11, a transformation in US policy has suddenly taken place.  read more May, 2005 / 192 pages. 1-84277-423-9 1-84277-422-0 $34.95 $94.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

RECLAIMING THE LAND The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America Edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros Reclaiming the Land brings together original investigations of the new generation of rural social movements in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers of diverse political and ideological orientation have used land occupations and other tactics systematically to confront the neoliberal state.  read more May, 2005 / 400 pages. 1-84277-425-5 1-84277-424-7 $38.95 $113.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

THE ASIAN FUTURE Dialogues for Change (Volume 2) Edited by Pracha Hutanuwatr and Ramu Manivannan The Asian Future book cover coming soon. For several decades the Western model of development has been criticized forcefully from Asia. But there has been little intellectual articulation of what the alternatives might be--at a micro and macro level--from an Asian perspective.  read more April, 2005 / 304 pages. 1-84277-345-3 1-84277-342-9 $34.95 $104.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover

NORTH KOREA The Paranoid Peninsula, A Modern History Paul French North Korea remains one of the least understood nations on earth; a nuclear enabled "Hermit Kingdom" ravaged by economic mismanagement and reliant on illegal weapons sales, smuggling and counterfeiting for most of its foreign reserves while undergoing a prolonged famine and propped up by aid donations.  read more April, 2005 / 256 pages. 1-84277-473-5 1-84277-472-7 $30.95 $89.95 Paperback  Add to Cart Hardcover