Wars, guns, and votes : democracy in dangerous places
by
Collier, Paul.
Title
:
Wars, guns, and votes : democracy in dangerous places
Author
:
Collier, Paul.
ISBN
:
9780061479649
Personal Author
:
Collier, Paul.
Edition
:
First Harper Perennial ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.
Physical Description
:
viii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Votes and violence -- Ethnic politics -- Inside the cauldron : post-conflict settlements -- Guns : fuelling the fire -- Wars : the political economy of destruction -- Coups : the unguided missile -- Meltdown in Cote d'Ivoire -- State-building and nation-building -- Better dead than fed? -- On changing reality.
Abstract
:
Investigates violence and poverty in developing countries to argue that the spread of elections and peace settlements may lead to a better, democratic world but shares a cautionary warning about the prevalence of ethnic divisions and policy failures.
Subject Term
:
Political violence -- Developing countries.
Power (Social sciences) -- Developing countries.
Democracy -- Developing countries.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025449873 | 306.2091724 C699W 2010 | 1 |