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Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations
Drawing together international experts on research methods in International Relations (IR), this Handbook answers the complex practical questions for those approaching a new research topic for the first time. Innovative in its approach, it considers the art of IR research as well as the science, offering diverse perspectives on current research methods and emerging developments in the field.
Microfinance in Developing Countries
Microfinance in developing countries is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces, and offers interesting views and analysis of topical matters concerning the microfinance realm.
Macrocriminology and Freedom
How can power over others be transformed to ‘power with’? It is possible to transform many institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from families and institutions of gender to the United Nations. Some societies, times and places have crime rates a hundred times higher than others. Some police forces kill at a hundred times the rate of others. Some criminal corporations kill thousands more than others. Micro variables fail to explain these patterns. Prevention principles for that challenge are macrocriminological. Freedom is conceived in a republican way as non-domination. Tempering domination prevents crime; crime prevention reduces domination. ...
Mining Law and Governance in Africa
This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations. Although there is a massive literature on the subject, some issues have been neglected, including the crucial role of digitalisation and technological advancement in resolving the environmental and social challenges faced in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), deep-sea mining, mining contract negotiations and modernising mining laws to reflect the increasing role of critical minerals, to mention but a few. Therefore, the book unpacks the critical issues associated with the mining sector, explicitly reflecting on the practical sol...
Traveling Models and Practical Norms
Public policies, development projects, and NGO interventions often have large gaps between the planning and execution. Standardized public policies, especially development ones, ignore the multiple contexts in which they are implemented. Local actors (those targeted by public policies or responsible for implementing them) play a major role in the implementation of planning and execution. Their many strategies for circumventing official directives and protocols follow implicit "practical norms" that are ignored by international experts. This book examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines, in Africa and beyond.
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Finance
This handbook provides an engaging and comprehensive analysis of social finance, a developing and important topic. In five sections, it presents social finance through a broad lens, encompassing both theoretical and practical content. Section I provides background material on social finance. Section II examines the various tools and mechanisms of social finance, providing numerous examples of its implementation. Section III examines social finance in various countries and economies, presenting specific examples of social finance, including both successes and failures. Section IV explores several ongoing issues and debates related to social finance. Section V identifies major obstacles and opportunities facing social finance and contemplates its future. Of interest to researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers, this handbook fills a gap by demonstrating how social finance is a growing and dynamic force in finance worldwide.
La brutalisation du monde
L’émergence des États au sortir du Moyen Âge a progressivement conduit à une réduction des violences privées. Ce tournant civilisationnel s’est traduit par un refoulement de la pulsion de mort qui a pris la forme d’un monopole de l’État sur les guerres et d’une pacification diplomatique. Mais, désormais, avec la mondialisation des violences non-étatiques et des communautarismes, les sociétés doivent faire face à la brutalisation du monde, caractérisée par des affrontements identitaires, une destruction du lien social et un affaiblissement des solidarités.
Passage au crible de la scène mondiale
Réunissant des contributions sur l'actualité internationale de ces dernières années, cet ouvrage éclaire le lecteur sur les lignes de forces parcourant la scène mondiale, notamment la subversion des diplomaties non-étatiques face aux Etats, comme l'enchevêtrement des normes publiques et privées. Il analyse aussi le processus de privatisation de la sécurité, et met en perspective les Biens Publics Mondiaux.
Les marxistes dans la théorie des conflits internationaux
Cet ouvrage est consacré aux principaux théoriciens marxistes. Il s'attache à montrer, dans une première partie, comment les pères fondateurs et les premiers théoriciens marxistes (Marx, Engels, Lénine, Trotsky, Kautsky, Luxembourg, Liebknecht, Jaurès, Bernstein, Bauer) ont abordé la domination mondiale du capitalisme, et quelles approches ils ont élaborées sur la paix et la guerre. Dans une seconde partie, l'auteur traite de l'Ecole de la dépendance (Celso Furtado, André Gunder Frank, Fermando Henrique Cardoso) et des néomarxistes (Immanuel Wallerstein, Robert Cox, Stephen Gill, Eric Hobsbawm) pour évaluer les travaux critiques qu'ils ont menés sur les partages violents du monde.
