For sale in CIS only! In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is...

Analyzes a highly successful participatory development programme in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.

In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

For sale in CIS only! The introduction of the secret ballot is thought to be an essential prerequisite of a genuine political transition and many donor countries and NGOs assure us that it leads inexorably to democracy and transparency. But the soci...

Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among disabled Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of this...

For sale in CIS only! The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashm...