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Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention (2020)
Book
Rivas, A.-M. (2020). Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315306438

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 e... Read More about Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention.

The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019)
Book
Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501

Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist... Read More about The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa.

Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted (2018)
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Rivas, A.-M., & Browne, B. C. (Eds.). (2018). Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337683.001.0001

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as... Read More about Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence: Fieldwork Interrupted.

Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey (2016)
Journal Article
Marois, T., & Muñoz-Martínez, H. (2016). Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey. Research in political economy, 31, 165-194. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020160000031010

This article aims to expose the economic and political relations of power disguised in the concept of financial risk as institutionalized in post-crisis economic policies and practices. We do so by examining, from a historical materialist approach, t... Read More about Navigating the Aftermath of Crisis and Risk in Mexico and Turkey.

A Decade of Ghana: Politics, Economy and Society 2004-2013 (2015)
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Amoah, M., Aning, K., Annan, N., & Nugent, P. (2015). A Decade of Ghana: Politics, Economy and Society 2004-2013. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004310940

This chronology for 2004 to 2013 compiles the chapters on Ghana previously published in the Africa Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. Political stability in Ghana in the last few years contrasted with dramatic developments i... Read More about A Decade of Ghana: Politics, Economy and Society 2004-2013.

War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central (2008)
Book Chapter
Goodhand, J. (2008). War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central. In M. Pugh, N. Cooper, & M. Turner (Eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (225-244). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_14

Wherever there is violent conflict, boundaries and borders are taken seriously. As the quote above implies, boundaries play an ambiguous role, acting simultaneously as source of security and antagonism, inclusion and exclusion. Which boundaries becom... Read More about War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central.

Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict (2006)
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Goodhand, J. (2006). Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict. Lynne Rienner. https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780441467

While NGOs’ role in advocacy and agendasetting is fairly widely accepted, their peacebuilding activities are more controversial and have come under increasing scrutiny—not least from the NGOs themselves. As the number of NGOs, and their role in confl... Read More about Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict.