Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations
Marion (Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science Laurence
Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations
Marion (Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science Laurence
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Despite a nominal commitment to creating a classless society, the People's Republic of China is a deeply unequal one. And the reproduction of inequality begins early in the life cycle: schools. In Unequal Learning, Xin Xiang analyzes the different kinds of learning that goes on in four very different schools in locales ranging from an impoverished rural region to a prosperous city.
In Democracy and Impunity, Alexander Lee examines the politics of law enforcement in India and why the police perform so poorly across multiple dimensions. Lee shows that high levels of impunity in India are the result of two interdependent policy choices--the Indian police are severely under-resourced and have very low autonomy in relation to senior members of the political elite.
The Philosophy of Force presents a highly original, republican theory of just war. Taking its inspiration from historic wars against slavery and colonialism, it offers an account of the ethics of defensive violence shaped around the perspective of those oppressed by empire and other forms of social and political domination.
