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Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
Paul Collier
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Description for Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
Paperback. The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream. But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JPB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream.
But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them. Award-winning academic Paul Collier's vision for the future of the developing world is eye-opening, provocative and refreshingly unequivocal.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523512
SKU
V9780099523512
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About Paul Collier
Paul Collier is a professor of economics at Oxford University. The author of The Bottom Billion, which won the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for the world's best book on international affairs, he has lectured widely on the subjects of economics and international relations.
Reviews for Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
Very important ideas based on extremely thorough empirical research...put him in the same camp as real heavyweights such as the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Misha Glenny
Guardian
Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions
The Times
Collier knows Africa intimately... It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the ... Read more
Misha Glenny
Guardian
Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions
The Times
Collier knows Africa intimately... It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the ... Read more