Palgrave Advances in Development Studies [Paperback]

Palgrave Advances in Development Studies aims to provide readers with an understanding of the disparate theories concerning development, their assumptions and the intellectual forces underpinning them. In thirteen specially commissioned essays, leading contributors from the field of Development Studies present the relevant material to analyze and evaluate current debates about development, together with the intellectual tools to judge contemporary arguments concerning development across the world and the ability to relate theories of development to contemporary policy issues.List of Contributors List of Tables PART I: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES Introduction; J.Haynes Discourses on Development; B.Hettne Changing Notions of Development: Bringing the State Back in; P.Calvert PART II: DEVELOPMENT AND DOMESTIC FACTORS Democracy and Democratisation; M.Kamrava The Political Economy of Development; G.Sen The Power of the Gun: Armies and Armed Force; R.Pinkney Religion and Development; J.Haynes Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict; H.Handelman The Natural Environment; P.Eadie & L.Pettiford Human Rights in an Unequal World; J.Chiriyankandath Gender and Development; S.M.Rai PART III: DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION The Global Political Economy; T.M.Shaw Globalization and Development; I.Taylor Regionalism and Regionalization; K.Lambrechts & C.Alden Conclusion; J.Haynes Bibliography

'This is, quite simply, the best thing on development that I have read in many, many years. Its range and depth, both descriptively and theoretically, and its cohesiveness from chapter to chapter, are all truly remarkable. Hettne's chapter on development discourses is a masterpiece of theoretical clarity and insight, as is Kamrava's on democracy and democratization.' - Professor Michael Fleet, Marquette University, USA

CHRIS ALDEN Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKPETER CALVERT Emeritus Professor, Department of Politics, UniversilÓ{