The two main arguments in the book are to contest the reduction of African civil wars to ethnic conflicts, and to point out the emergence of civil wars as the result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the "other" has entailed that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book aims at bringing the political power struggle as it evolves around the state to the forefront in analyses of civil wars and societal conflict.

The past several decades have seen dramatic changes in global poverty the most important of which has been a shift that has seen nearly three-quarters of the world s poor living not in the most impoverished areas of the world, but in middle income nations. This relatively rapid transformation has forced a rethinking of anti-poverty strategies, as many of the long-established frameworks for such policies no longer apply to this altered situation.
This book gathers experts in anti-poverty work to answer many of the key questions that now face development policy. With contributions covering...

The past several decades have seen dramatic changes in global poverty the most important of which has been a shift that has seen nearly three-quarters of the world s poor living not in the most impoverished areas of the world, but in middle income nations. This relatively rapid transformation has forced a rethinking of anti-poverty strategies, as many of the long-established frameworks for such policies no longer apply to this altered situation.
This book gathers experts in anti-poverty work to answer many of the key questions that now face development policy. With contributions covering...