Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

Neoclassical economic theories of violent conflict have proliferated in recent years and, with
their application to contemporary wars, have influenced donors and policy makers. This …

The purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mechanisms that connect climate
change-induced disasters, inequality and vulnerability by accounting for both directions of …

Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and
policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this …

The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

Security matters. It is impossible to make sense of world politics without reference to it. Every
day, people somewhere in the world are killed, starved, tortured, raped, impoverished …

Current thinking about development places individuals firmly at the centre of concern, the
basic building block for analysis and policy. This is as true of the innovations led by Amartya …

The paper reviews the ways that human security has been defined, provides a working
definition and shows how this can form the basis of operational responses by many different …

This paper uses differences in regional and temporal exposure to the 1992–1998 armed
conflict in Tajikistan to study the effect of violent conflict on schooling outcomes. Data on the …

The paper suggests that groups should be given a more central role than they generally are
in the capability approach. Being a member of a group or groups is an intrinsic aspect of …