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Editorial 21.7

This is a good issue. Wahey. Author:  Wardle, Debs Author:  Wardle ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 12:40

Kafka meets Machiavelli: post-war, post-transition Eastern Slavonia

As the agonising over `what next' for Kosovo and Serbia continues, Eastern Slavonia offers a transition experience and timescale from which we may learn. Each case is specific in historical and political terms, and in the nature of international intervent ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Redefining development for national security: implications for civil society

The effects of counter-terrorism legislation on civil society organisations (CSOs) based in the South have received little attention in the wider literature. This article reports on the findings of a series of international workshops to examine the effe ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-12-10 14:53

Editorial (21.7)

At whatever level we are working, or researching, it is probably a truism that development is a slow business. Recently a UN official said to me that there is no appetite for longer term solutions to the socio-political structural issues which maintain ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2011-11-29 14:45

Globalism and nationalism: which one is bad?

The author differentiates between globalism, an ideology, and globalisation, a process that affects us all. He compares globalism and nationalism, considering the positive, negative, and similar, aspects of each, using examples from Eastern Europe where a ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? Western Political Theofy and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe

Author:  Kymlicka, Will and Magda Opalski (eds.) Publisher:  New York, NY: OUP, ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:50

Editorial (21.8)

As we come to an end of 2011, will the year mark a historical turning point for international development as we know it, or will this corner not be reached for a couple of years yet? The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) international summit was held ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-07 13:04

Unethical ethics? Applying research ethics in Uzbekistan

There are a number of serious ethical challenges and problems posed in conducting development research in a poor country. It is argued here that the best way to ensure that research is ethical is to apply three foundation principles. By focusing on self-d ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02

War’s Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan

Author:  Mertus, Julie A. Publisher:  Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000, ISB ...

Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:51

Post-Soviet universities as development in practice: local experience and global lessons

The university holds a privileged place as the site of knowledge production in social development. Simultaneously, traditions of pedagogy drawing from the liberal arts have evolved within Northern/Western post-secondary educational systems which claim t ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-02-07 13:10