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1. People Power in an Era of Global Crisis

   Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

   Edited by Barry Gills, Kevin Gray

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. The mass movement known as the "People Power Revolution" was not only pivotal to the democratic transition within the Philippines, but it also...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Transformation of Tajikistan

   The Sources of Statehood

   Edited by John Heathershaw, Edmund Herzig

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics. The birth of the new state in 1991 was followed closely by a civil war which killed more than 50,000 people and displaced many tens of thousands more. While a peace agreement was signed in 1997,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century

   Development, Violence and Insecurity

   Edited by Mark Berger, Heloise Weber

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The history of development is one marked by insecurities, violence, and persistent conflict. It is not surprising, therefore, that development is now thought of as one of the central challenges of world politics. However, its complexities are often overlooked in scholarly analysis and among policy...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. EU Strategies on Governance Reform

   Between Development and State-building

   Edited by Wil Hout

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major...

   Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia and Beyond

   Contested Trajectories

   Edited by Madeleine Reeves

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Central Asia is a region singularly marked by attempts to transform social life by transforming place. Drawing together established scholars and a new generation of historians, geographers and anthropologists, this volume brings empirical specificity and theoretical depth to debates about the...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
6. War and Revolution in the Caucasus

   Georgia Ablaze

   Edited by Stephen F. Jones

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   The South Caucasus has traditionally been a playground of contesting empires. This region, on the edge of Europe, is associated in Western minds with ethnic conflict and geopolitical struggles in August 2008. Yet, another war broke out in this distant European periphery as Russia and Georgia...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Political Civility in the Middle East

   Edited by Frederic Volpi

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Contemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states. For contemporary scholars and policy makers, the challenge is to insert meaningfully the political evolution of the Middle East in the dominant...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Youth in the Former Soviet South

   Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation

   Edited by Stefan Kirmse

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of youth...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Market-Led Agrarian Reform

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Cristóbal Kay, Edward Lahiff

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   Three-fourths of the world’s poor are rural poor. Most of the rural poor remain dependent on land-based livelihoods for their incomes and reproduction despite significant livelihood diversification in recent years. Land issue remains critical to any development discourse today. Market-led agrarian...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. Renewing International Labour Studies

    Edited by Marcus Taylor

    Series: ThirdWorlds

    This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of...

    Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge