The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was born out of the need felt by newly emerging post-colonial nations not to be compelled to be part of any single political or military bloc during the Cold War. As the international community finds itself once again in the midst of heightened geo-political...

Beastly politics : Dankwart Rustow and the Turkish model of modernization -- Questions of modernization : empathy and survey research -- Material encounters : experts, reports, and machines -- "It's not yours if you can't get there" : modern roads, mobile subjects -- The innkeepers of peace :...

This paper examines the determinants of bilateral environmental aid to mitigate climate change, using an empirically testable multilateral framework in which both donors and recipient countries compete in world export markets. Potential donors tend to behave strategically, weighing environmental...