Preface -- Understanding underdevelopment -- The explosion of third world democracy -- Religion and politics -- The politics of cultural pluralism and ethnic conflict -- Women and development -- The politics of the rural and urban poor -- Revolutionary change -- Soldiers and politics -- The...

Understanding underdevelopment -- The surge and partial retreat of democracy -- Religion and politics -- The politics of cultural pluralism and ethnic conflict -- Women and development -- The politics of the rural and urban poor -- Revolutionary change -- Soldiers and politics -- The political...

Prologue: Global drama, Greek tragedy -- Crisis of debt and dignity -- The city and its people -- Assault without warning -- Days of reckoning -- Solidarity to the rescue -- The leisurely in spite of themselves -- Theory of crisis as liminality -- Epilogue: Resilience and praxis.