How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China
With case studies from the technology, natural resource, security, manufacturing, and financial sectors, the volume shows not only how African realities shape Chinese actions, but also how African governments and entrepreneurs are learning to leverage their competitive advantages and to negotiate the growing Chinese presence across the continent.
How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China
With case studies from the technology, natural resource, security, manufacturing, and financial sectors, the volume shows not only how African realities shape Chinese actions, but also how African governments and entrepreneurs are learning to leverage their competitive advantages and to negotiate the growing Chinese presence across the continent.
Fernando Gentilini served nearly two years as the civilian representative of NATO in Afghanistan, running a counterinsurgency campaign in the wartorn nation. Afghan Lessons is the fascinating story of his mission. He explores Afghan history, literature, tradition, and culture to understand some of the most basic questions of Western involvement.
This book explores what becomes visible if we look at peripheral, deprived rural regions through the lens of a complex adaptive assemblage and how we can better support these communities.
John E. Hill's Adam Smith's Sociability and the American Dream seeks to correct the three misunderstandings that have hindered the pursuit of the American dream and contributed to excessive individualism at the expense of community. Market fundamentalists ignore the importance of Adam Smith's impartial spectator for capitalism; his ideal economy ......
Offers new insights from law, public administration, political science, sociology, and policy sciences on what regulators need to improve their performance. It provides guidance about how regulators can set appropriate priorities and make sound, evidence-based decisions through processes that are transparent and participatory.
Thinkers From Many Countries Address the Political, Economic, and Social
In this book, intellectuals from around the world make specific recommendations for a wide range of political, economic and cultural concerns. Discussion topics include the links among democracy, development and the market economy; collapsing global development visions; and more.
The book aims at contributing to that debate by offering a new conceptual approach to the core ideas of European integration process (sovereignty, diversity, common challenges, etc).
In this book, O'Hanlon and Graham analyse US official development assistance (ODA) to poor countries. The authors place US ODA in a broad historical, international, and economic perspective. They then recommend an alternative approach to ODA for the United States as well as other donors.