Social Science Research Council
Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan
de Waal, Alex. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Twenty years before being described as the “world’s greatest humanitarian crisis,” Darfur, Sudan, was also the site of a . . .
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Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
Flint, Julie, and Alex de Waal. London: Zed Books, 2005.
The Darfur region of Sudan earned sudden notoriety in early 2004 as it became embroiled in a war dubbed "the world’s worst . . .
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
Latham, Robert, and Saskia Sassen, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
This book is the end product of a research working group in the SSRC’s Information Technology and International Cooperation Program . . .
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
Elkins, Caroline. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. (Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize)
In a groundbreaking and Pulitzer winning debut, Harvard historian and 1998 IDRF Fellow Caroline Elkins has recovered the lost history . . .
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Jelin, Elizabeth and Ana Longoni, eds. Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 2005.
The ninth volume in a series of publications resulting from the SSRC program on Collective Memory of Repression, this volume compiles . . .
Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region
Pempel, T. J., ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
An assessment of recent developments in East Asia by a number of top scholars suggesting that the region is ripe for cooperation . . .
Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America
Leonard, Karen I., Alex Stepick, Manuel A. Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway, eds. New York: AltaMira, 2005.
Recent immigration is changing American religion. The United States is increasingly home to religious traditions . . .
The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach
Hershberg, Eric, and Christy Thornton, eds. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2005.
This volume emerges from the first annual International Forum for Development (IFD), held in New York City on . . .
Makers & Breakers: Children & Youth in Postcolonial Africa
Honwana, Alcinda and Filip De Boeck, eds. Oxford: James Currey, Trenton: Africa World Press, Dakar: CODESRIA, 2005.
The "problem" of youth is presented as one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. In Africa youth are portrayed as . . .
The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
Jacoby, Sanford M. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
What is the best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance shareholders, managers . . .
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