Special Issues as Books

Speaking With a Single Voice

The EU as an effective actor in global governance?

Edited by Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Sophie Meunier

Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage? This book asks this question, investigating the frequent political assumption that the more cohesive the EU presents itself to the world, the more effective it is in...

To Be Published January 26th 2015 by Routledge

HIV Scale-Up and the Politics of Global Health

Edited by Nora J Kenworthy, Richard Parker

The global expansion of HIV programming (HIV "scale-up") and the growth of global health in the past decade reshaped politics, power, civic relations, and citizen subjectivities in countries across the globe. This book draws on interdisciplinary research from numerous sites in the Global South to...

Published January 23rd 2015 by Routledge

Space, Place and Gendered Identities

Feminist History and the Spatial Turn

Edited by Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis

In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ‘built’ and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The...

Published January 22nd 2015 by Routledge

Intellectual dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Ewan Stein

More than three years after the beginning of the wave of Arab uprisings, an understanding of the role of intellectuals in political change across the region has never been more important. This timely volume on Intellectuals in the Modern Middle East combines geographical and chronological breadth...

Published January 21st 2015 by Routledge

Land Grabbing in Africa

The Race for Africa’s Rich Farmland

Edited by Fassil Demissie

The sign that ‘Africa is on Sale’ has been appearing with regular frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating that large amounts/expanses of Africa’s rich farmlands are being sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen in decades – indeed...

Published January 21st 2015 by Routledge

Measuring African Development

Past and Present

Edited by Morten Jerven

The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so, it becomes...

Published January 7th 2015 by Routledge