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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert picciotto”
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  • Making Development Work

    Development Learning in a World of Poverty and Wealth

    by Robert Picciotto ...
    Series series Advances in Evaluation & Development
    Worldwide, the number of poor people increased during the past decade, despite technological improvements, more open trade, and improved policy frameworks in developing countries. Regional conflicts, adverse shifts in terms of trade, and marginalization of poor countries in the new global economy explain this outcome. This highlights the need to reform development assistance and improve its ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Global Development and Human Security

    by Robert Picciotto ...
    Global Development and Human Security explores the possibility of connecting all countries to the global economy while defusing the social tensions and managing the security risks that can result from exposure to a turbulent international system. The complex intersection between security and development policies has not been adequately mapped or explored. Frail and failing states that lack sound ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Security and Development

    Investing in Peace and Prosperity

    Edited by Robert Picciotto, Rachel Weaving ...
    The new contributions in this book, by acknowledged leaders in the field, examine the delivery of effective aid under fire, and securing the peace in environments where governance is fragile.They bridge the cultural divide between the security and development professions at a time of unprecedented global economic integration, geopolitical turbulence, and novel threats to international peace and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Evaluation for an Equitable Society

    Edited by Stewart I. Donaldson, Robert Picciotto ...
    Series series Evaluation and Society
    Governments and organizations of all shapes and sizes espouse values of equity and social justice. Yet, there are many examples of unfair social arrangements and employment conditions, dysfunctional government practices, and growing income inequality in both developed and developing countries worldwide. The profession and transdiscipline of evaluation is well equipped to address issues of ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Straight Talk on Trade

    Ideas for a Sane World Economy

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken ... Read more

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century

    Principles, Methods, and Approaches

    by Jacob Bercovitch, Prof. Richard Dean Wells Jackson ...
    In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however, the conflict resolution tool kit must include preventive diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, regional ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Reclaiming Populism

    How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

    by Eric Protzer, Paul Summerville ...
    Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.This forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Exodus

    How Migration is Changing Our World

    by Paul Collier ...
    It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our policies reflect deep anxieties and the quirks of short-term self-interest, with effective ... Read more

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