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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Irene L. Gendzier , Robert Vitalis , Thomas FergusonPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.365kg ISBN: 9780745337289ISBN 10: 0745337287 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 20 August 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Thomas Ferguson Introduction by Robert Vitalis 1. The 'New Look' in Development Studies 2. Making Connections 3. Discourse on Development 4. Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development 5. Defining the Parameters of Discourse 6. The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development 7. The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development Epilogue Notes IndexReviewsPathbreaking... a major contribution. -- Marilyn B. Young 'A landmark book' -- Zachary Lockman 'Pathbreaking ... a major contribution' -- Marilyn B. Young Author InformationIrene L. Gendzier is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, an Affiliate in Research at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies. She is also the author of Dying to Forget (Columbia University Press, 2016), Notes From the Minefield (Columbia University Press, 2006) Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017); and co-editor of Crimes of War (Nation Books, 2006). Robert Vitalis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of White World Order, Black Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2015) and a contributor to Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017). Thomas Ferguson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill and Wang, 1986). He contributed the foreword to Irene L. Gendzier's Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |