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  • Darfur's Political Economy

    A quest for development

    by Hamid Ali ...
    Series series Europa Country Perspectives
    Darfur is a vast region endowed with limited and unexplored natural resources, poor infrastructure, and lack of major development projects, and identifying its economic and human development needs brings us closer to finding ways to alleviate its human suffering and environmental stress. This book presents a broad spectrum of analytical perspectives from prominent academics, professionals, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Twilight in the Desert

    The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

    by Matthew R. Simmons ...
    Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Desert

    My Journey From Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil

    by Ali Al-Naimi ...
    The extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central bankerAli Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016. In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets. But it wasn't always that way.Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oman Under Qaboos

    From Coup to Constitution, 1970-1996

    by Calvin H. Allen, W. Lynn Rigsbee II ...
    This is an examination of the political, economic and social development of Oman from the accession Sultan Qaboos in a palace coup in 1970 to the promulation of the basic law of 1996. The book argues that the sultanate does not follow the "rentier" model but the patriarchal tradition. ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Traumatic Past and Uncertain Future of South Sudan

    Perspective from Social Responsibility on Local and Global Issues & the Relentless Struggle for Education.

    by Nhial Thiwat Ruach ...
    This book examines post-colonial and post-independence challenges facing South Sudan, both external and internal factors as it transitions into becoming a nation state. Other focuses are issues that hinder the implementation of good governance, delivery of services to the people, preservation of the environment and natural resources, and the unity among South Sudans multiple ethnicities. The book ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa

    Interests, influences and instability

    Edited by Robert Mason, Simon Mabon ...
    Series series Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East
    The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa takes a deep dive into the complexities of power projection, political rivalry and conflict across the Red Sea and beyond. Focusing on the nature of interregional connections between the Gulf and the Horn, it explores the multifaceted nature of relations between states and the two increasingly important subregions. Bringing together scholars working on and in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Disrupting Territories

    Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan

    Edited by Jörg Gertel, Richard Rottenburg, Sandra Calkins ...
    Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading"A timely contribution to an important set of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • OPEC and the World’s Energy Future

    Its Legacy and Promise

    by Mohammed A. Alsahlawi ...
    OPEC and the World’s Energy Future offers a complete account of OPEC’s past, present, and possible future in relation to economic, political, and technological changes. It focuses on the impacts of recent international political and economic developments and analyzes the factors affecting OPEC as well as the world oil market.Offers readers a thorough understanding of the interplay among ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Energy Kingdoms

    Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf

    by Jim Krane ...
    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain—went from being among the world’s poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To maintain support, the ruling sheikhs provide their subjects with boundless cheap energy, unwittingly leading to some of the highest consumption rates on ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • After the Taliban

    Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan

    by Neamatollah Nojumi, Elizabeth Stites, Dyan Mazurana ...
    To access the maps mentioned in this book, Click Here.Despite the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains a country in dire need of strong international support. Only with an understanding of the conditions in both urban and rural areas will the international community be able to offer aid and remain committed to long-term development.This fascinating and clearly written book mines a rich and ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Modernity and Tradition

    The Saudi Equation

    by Fouad Al-Farsy ...
    First published in 1990. A country’s development does not take place in a vacuum and it was therefore essential in this earlier work that the main subject (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s development) should be set into an historical, political and social context. The original edition includes a summary of this background information, starting with the Kingdom’s geographical location and proceeding ... Read more

    $68.99 USD