Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to
countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to …

In our world of fractured truths, unparalleled disparities and technological wizardry, it is vital
that we interrogate the largely unquestioned political axioms that have brought us to the …

This article surveys the history of primitive accumulation in China, from the early 1980s to the
mid 2000s. It observes that the principal means of primitive accumulation have been the …

This book examines the ways in which poverty in the Global South is created and
reproduced. More than a billion people, one in five, live on less than US $1 a day. Poverty is …

This book examines the limits to cosmopolitan liberal peacebuilding caused by its
preoccupation with the values and assumptions of neoliberal global governance. The peace …

Post-conflict peacebuilding is failing, according to both its critics and its advocates. By way of
solutions, proponents seek more of the same, whereas opponents argue for a radical shift …

Statebuilding as a panacea for post-conflict societies is a largely uncriticised notion, like the
liberal democracy it articulates. But, according to some, the policy framework of large-scale …

This article seeks to explore the relationship between the growing phenomenon of
globalization and the field of housing rights. I begin with a general description of …

This article considers whether there should be a separate international Covenant to
elaborate on the human right to own property. Citing two contemporary cases—namely, he …

Unlike water, land is usually conceived of as motionless and fixed in place. Because of
these characteristics, land lends itself to the delineation of boundaries and spatial …