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Focuses on non-violence and peace by analysing a broad sample of indigenous societies, including the Mehinaku of the Brazilian Amazon, the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories, the Semai of Malaysia and the Kinga of southwestern Tanzania.

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Contributors to this anthology give us a close look at how Mexico's rural reforms of the early 1990s have operated, and how the approximately 25 million Mexicans still living in the countryside are responding to the ending of Mexico's 50-year experiment with communal land.

This work provides a case study of the deleterious effects of patriarchy among Palestinians living in rural villages and refugee camps of the West Bank: its negative consequences for men as well as women, for democratization and for progress toward the creation of a more just society.

This text explores the response of the military to the changing strategic landscape and shifting US domestic and international priorities. It looks at the roots of that response in the perceptions, attitudes, capabilities and self-images of the military profession.

This work examines three potential options for increasing state security in contemporary Africa: regional military groupings, private security companies, and a continent-wide, professional peacekeeping force. It includes assessments of ECOMOG and the Africa Crisis Response Initiative.

This analysis of notions of subject and identity in international relations goes beyond discussions of identity politics to argue that sovereignty and subjectivity implicate each other, together constituting the political.

This bibliography covers about 3000 English-language books and articles, published in the 1990-1995 period, on women in the Muslim world. Works are listed alphabetically by author, with an index including both geographical and topical headings. It includes an annotated "Top 50" list.

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This book provides a detailed quantitative characterization of the household and community responses to the rural reforms already in progress. De Janvry, Gordillo, and Sadoulet present and analyze data from two nationwide surveys of Mexican ejidos conducted in 1990 and 1994.

This volume examines three key questions arising from the economic and political transformations during the 1980s and early 1990s. What is the relationship between economic liberalization and political democratization? What is the significance of the Mexican case for the comparative analysis? What has been the impact of economic restructuring?

The only child of the last chief of Makawana village, Maiba struggles to hold her people together in face of the polarizing forces of convention and modernization. Both protective and painfully aware of the weaknesses of her own community, Maiba acquires the wisdom she needs to face the future.

This collection of critical essays covers a range of literary forms and discusses the political, historical and ethnic contexts of lusophone writings. The book features general essays about national literatures, as well as articles devoted to writers including Luandino Vieira and Agostinho Neto.

Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, this title explores systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. The authors highlight the intersecting roles of gender and race, and demonstrate how women encounter circumstances that are qualitatively different than those of men.

What is sustainable peacebuilding? And what is the relationship between empirical realities and theoretical approaches to the subject? The authors of this title present a series of case studies from around the world to explore how various peacebuilding theories engage and interact with lived experiences, and also to elaborate useful new theoretical perspectives.

While analysts may agree that Hollywood movies have always both mirrored and helped to shape the tenor of their times, the question remains: Just how do they do it? And how do we identify the political/ideological content of any film? This volume explores how Hollywood movies have functioned to propagate, or to debate, or sometimes to contest the evolving US national security state since 1945.

The prospects for Thailand's emergence as a democracy seemed strong in the 1990s. Yet that hasn't happened. Why not? Why have factors typically considered advantageous for democratization turned into barriers? Is there a uniquely Thai reason that democratization efforts have failed? Daniel Unger and Chandra Mahakanjana explore the intersecting forces that are shaping the nature of Thai politics today.

This book is a serious challenge to those who believe that only broad-based, state funded mega-projects constitute genuine preventive initiatives.