Books from CAS faculty
Anne Firth Murray, From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice(Common Courage Press, 2007)
From Prologue: Darkness and Light
"Being born female is dangerous to your health. This reality may not be true for many readers, but for most women living in poorer countries around the globe, it is devastating..."
Find out more at www.outragetocourage.org
Larry Diamond, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Times Books, 2008)
"Diamond is a meticulous social scientist who, in “Squandered Victory,” took on the task of studying America’s bungled effort to bring democracy to Iraq. “The Spirit of Democracy” takes on the world, with Diamond leaping from Malawi to Singapore to Venezuela...."
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Edited by Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner
The State of India’s Democracy (John’s Hopkins University Press, 2007)
Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz; With essays by Stephen Banfield, Kenneth Bilby, Catherine Hall, Stuart Hall, Kay Dian Kriz, Verene A. Shepherd, Holly Snyder, and Robert Farris Thompson Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds (Yale University Press, 2007)
James Ferguson Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Duke University Press, 2006)
Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2007)
Reviewed by Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2007
"Most of the increasingly voluminous literature on civil wars in Africa has ignored the organization of insurgencies, focusing instead on the broad reasons for the outbreak of violent conflict or on the difficulties of ending it. Weinstein begins to restore the balance by arguing that how rebels are organized -- in particular their sources of funding -- largely determines the degree to which they countenance civilian casualties....."