Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research at the regional and global scale. Its scope extends to scholarly works that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from junior authors. To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention
1st Edition
By Althea-Maria Rivas
May 31, 2023
Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities. Analysis ...
Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments
1st Edition
Edited
By Ève Chiapello, Anita Engels, Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse
April 20, 2023
Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies. In recent years, the development ...
Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Adami, Dan Plesch
January 09, 2023
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of...
The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?
1st Edition
By Adrian Robert Bazbauers, Susan Engel
September 26, 2022
This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and multilateral cooperation, with the first recognisable MDB being proposed by Latin America in financial cooperation with the US in ...
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Martha Chen, Françoise Carré
May 06, 2022
This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority ...
Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development
1st Edition
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By Jerzy Bański
September 30, 2021
Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development aims to identify, diagnose and evaluate various approaches towards regional and local socio-economic development. Over the course of the book, authors from 12 countries and four continents come together to review experiences and solutions related to ...
Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Samuel K. Andoh, Bernice J. deGannes Scott, Grace Ofori-Abebrese
September 30, 2021
Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic development at one point in time have diverged so substantially.At the time of their independence from the UK in 1957, both Ghana and Malaysia were at roughly the...
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa: Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism
1st Edition
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By Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen
September 30, 2021
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In ...
Political Financing in Developing Countries: A Case from Ghana
1st Edition
By Joseph Luna
June 30, 2021
This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office—and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay.Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses ...
Global Business Cycles and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Eri Ikeda
April 01, 2021
This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles, the wave-like movements of economic expansion followed by contraction in aggregate economic activities, impact all economies comprising the global economy. The patterns being ...
New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads: Eastern Europe and Western Aid
1st Edition
By Tomáš Profant
March 31, 2021
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.' This book aims to problematize this distinction between old and new development donors, applying an ...
The Power of Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa: Peace-building, Change, and Development
1st Edition
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By Ibrahim Natil, Chiara Pierobon, Lilian Tauber
December 18, 2020
This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region. In recent years, local civil society actors have faced significant challenges from social...