by Laurence W. Levine with Kathleen Quinn (2001)
"Inside Argentina From Peron to Menem: 1950-2000 From an American Point of View is an eyewitness narrative of the perilous journey taken by modern Argentina in its search for economic and political stability. It is the fascinating, untold story of the key role played by U.S.-Argentine relations in forging Argentina's destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
Narcisse Dovenon
La dépendance économique vis-à-vis du Nigeria, la baisse du cours du coton, le manque de diversification de son économie, constituent les problèmes majeurs auxquels l'économie du Bénin est confrontée. L'agriculture, l'éducation et les infrastructures routières devraient constituer aujourd'hui des secteurs clés où l'Etat devrait pouvoir investir afin d'espérer dans les années à venir une véritable relance de son économie.
David J. Francis ... [et al
"Tracing the evolution of UN peacekeeping, this volume explores its historical background and, by way of pertinent case studies, focuses on the changing nature of UN peacekeeping with particular reference to Africa, a continent that has been instrumental in shaping theory and practice." "The book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of both the capacity of the African Regional Intergovernmental Organizations in collective security peacekeeping, conflict management and resolution, and the collaboration between the UN and ECOWAS in Liberia and Sierra Leone."--Jacket.
William Crotty
In this volume, the study of legislatures has traditionally been a central preoccupation of political scientists. Legislatures provide good laboratories for testing theories and methodologies of significance in the discipline and, more broadly, for contributing to an understanding of how representative government works.
John R. Bradley
"When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"--