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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 world's blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Max Hastings
Sunday Times
With its verve, wit and lateral thinking, this is a book that changes its readers' horizons
Observer
It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier's latest thoughts...always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it's gripping stuff
Allister Heath
Literary Review
The author challenges a lot of lazy thinking about the trajectory that poor countries should take to improve their lot ... Mr Collier is thinking about these urgent and very difficult issues, something that not many people are willing to tackle head-on
The Economist
Unlike many academics Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions.
Richard Beeston
The Times
Collier adopts an upbeat, indeed breezy style
Stephen Howe
Independent
Realpolitik at its best
Prospect
His recent Book Wars, Guns and Votes, is all the more remarkable in that it is based on impeccable scholarship and statistical analysis but remains highly readable and accessible
Bruno Tertrais
Survival
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 world's blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Max Hastings
Sunday Times
With its verve, wit and lateral thinking, this is a book that changes its readers' horizons
Observer
It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier's latest thoughts...always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it's gripping stuff
Allister Heath
Literary Review
The author challenges a lot of lazy thinking about the trajectory that poor countries should take to improve their lot ... Mr Collier is thinking about these urgent and very difficult issues, something that not many people are willing to tackle head-on
The Economist
Unlike many academics Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions.
Richard Beeston
The Times
Collier adopts an upbeat, indeed breezy style
Stephen Howe
Independent
Realpolitik at its best
Prospect
His recent Book Wars, Guns and Votes, is all the more remarkable in that it is based on impeccable scholarship and statistical analysis but remains highly readable and accessible
Bruno Tertrais
Survival