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POLITIcS AND INTErNATIONAL STuDIES
Gun Policy in the
United States and
Canada
The Impact of Mass Murders and
Assassinations on gun control
Anthony K.
Fleming
• Original research
that will
contribute to the
policy-making
literature
• Timely topic
that reveals the
differences
between parliamentary vs. presidential
systems and between political cultures
The book explores the different
reactions of the American and canadian
governments following a mass shooting
or assassination. It examines the impact
of such key events as the assassinations
of J.F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
georgina Leimonis and shootings that
occurred at columbine, Stockton, and
vernon.
ANTHONy K. FLEMINg is visiting Professor of
Political Science at the university of west
georgia, uSA.
uK June 2012 uS April 2012
176 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441106506 - £65.00 / $120.00
continuum
Illuminating the Dark
Arts of War
Terrorism, Sabotage, and
Subversion in Homeland Security
and the New conflict
David Tucker
• covers a range
of domestic and
foreign threats
• challenges the
conventional
views of the ‘new
conflict’ era of
u.S. homeland
security
• Historical, analytical critique of the
theorists who claim that the u.S. faces
unprecedented threats
This unique work studies a range of
threats to challenge the ‘new conflict’
argument and expose its underlying
exaggerations and misunderstandings.
DAvID TucKEr is co-Director of the center on
Terrorism and Irregular warfare at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, uSA.
uK May 2012 uS March 2012
280 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441129550 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441170699 - £18.99 / $32.95
continuum
The Art of War in an
Asymmetric World
Strategy for the Post-cold war Era
Barry S. Zellen
• reframes the gwOT as a struggle for/
against technological modernization
and globalization
• connects anti-technology and antimodernization
movements, from the
Zapatista rebellion to the unabomber
and Al-Qaeda
• Examines counterterrorism tactics and
theories and the u.S.’s adaptation to
the new strategic environment
This book examines the post cold war
security environment and how the u.S.
has learned to wage war in this complex
assymetrical world of conflict.
BArry S. ZELLEN is a researcher at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, uSA.
uK August 2012 uS June 2012
352 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441195555 - £75.00 / $140.00
continuum
Climate Protection and
Development
Edited by Frank
Ackerman,
Richard Kozul-
Wright and
Rob Vos
• Explains the
need to solve
development and
climate issues
together
• Throws open the debate on how to
tackle climate change in developing
countries on a truly global scale
The central claim of the book is that
climate and development crises will be
solved together, or not at all. The faster
we begin, the more possible the solutions
will be.
FrANK AcKErMAN is the Director of the climate
Economics group, uS center of the Stockholm
Environmental Institute, Tufts university, uSA.
rIcHArD KOZuL-wrIgHT is chief of the unit for
Economic cooperation and Integration among
Developing countries at uNcTAD, Switzerland,
and chief of the Development Policy and
Analysis Division of uN-DESA.
rOB vOS is Director of the Development Policy
and Analysis Division of uN-DESA, uSA, and
Affiliated Professor of Finance and Development
at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus
university, The Netherlands.
uK July 2012 uS September 2012
240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780931739 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781780931692 - £24.99 / $44.95
The united Nations Series on Development
Bloomsbury Academic
Development
Financing and
Economic Insecurity
Edited by
Rob Vos and
Nazrul Islam
• Distinguished
contributors
• Draws from latest
research with
new approaches
to questions of
human security
Despite the rise in the average income
level in recent decades economic
insecurity has also increased. This stateof-the-art
collection by leading experts
illuminates the causes of economic
insecurity.
rOB vOS is Director of the Development Policy
and Analysis Division of uN-DESA, uSA, and
Affiliated Professor of Finance and Development
at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus
university, The Netherlands.
NAZruL ISLAM is a Senior Economic Affairs
Officer at the Development Policy and Analysis
Division of the uN-DESA, uK.
uK August 2012 uS October 2012
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781849665339 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781849665346 - £24.99 / $44.95
The united Nations Series on Development
Bloomsbury Academic
Good Governance
Edited by Jomo
Kwame
Sundaram
and Anis
Chowdhury
• Expert analysis
from
humanitarian aid
workers and
policy makers
• First hand accounts of the successes
and failures of development policy
• valuable material for a wide range of
students, academic researchers and
policy makers
Good Governance critically evaluates
conventional ideas about governance and
development.
JOMO KwAME SuNDArAM is Assistant Secretarygeneral
for Economic Development, uN-DESA,
uSA.
ANISuZZMAN (ANIS) cHOwDHury is Professor of
Economics, university of western Sydney, and
Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Office of the
under Secretary general, uN-DESA, uSA.
uK July 2012 uS September 2012
240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780932217 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781780932224 - £24.99 / $44.95
The united Nations Series on Development
Bloomsbury Academic