"Knowledge and rigorous evidence around the role of external development partners in situations of conflict and fragility is still lacking. There is little accountability for the billions in aid being spent in places like Afghanistan, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.This book analyses...

"Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the 'Arab Spring', embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media, youth unemployment and citizens' agitations to regain dignity in societies humiliated by oppressive regimes. This book illustrates that...

Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines...

1. An alchemy of economic and political action -- 2. State-building and state-society relations -- 3. Elements of resource challenges? -- 4. Politics of resource conflicts -- 5. Quiescence : regime type and government expenditure -- 6. Paradigm error : unemployment, poverty and food insecurity...

1. The contemporary foreign aid debate and emerging powers -- 2. International relations perspectives : emerging powers and the contemporary geopolitics of Asia -- 3. Geopolitics and Asian donors : China, Japan and South Korea in Africa -- 4. Asian ODA : assessing emerging donors in the Asian...

1. The shadow of an epidemic : an introduction -- 2. Learning to live with HIV : the background to an epidemic -- 3. Loss and grief -- 4. Progress and growth -- 5. Crises and change -- 6. The changing epidemic : treatment and care -- 7. Managing loss and forgetting pain?

1. Introduction : development and welfare policy in South Asia / Gabriele Koehler and Deepta Chopra -- 2. Some preliminary reflections on development, public policy and welfare states / Gabriele Koehler -- 3. Approaching developmental welfare states : a 'welfare geography' of South Asia /...