Kicking Away The Ladder

By Ha-Joon Chang Reviewed by Professor Arne Rückert. Ha-Joon Chang’s book Kicking Away the Ladder…


Africa: Why economists get it wrong

Morten Jerven. Reviewed by Katrina Manson. Africa is becoming something of a trend. Analysts have…


ENERGY TRANSITION IN AFRICA

Edited by Thokozani Simelane, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman. The world's demand for energy coupled with a…


The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States

By Terry Lynn Karl. "All in all I wish we had discovered water" Sheik Yamani, Oil Minister of Saudi…


The Terrorism Ahead: Confronting Transnational Violence in the 21st Century

Paul J. Smith. Since the Al Qaeda attacks of 11 September 2001, there have been as many experts as…


US-Africa Energy Summit 2017

The US-Africa Energy Summit 2017 to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, on September 18-19, 2017,…


Africa and the New World Order

By Julius O. Ihonvbere. Reviewed by Gail Gerhart. Another perspective on Africa's economic and…


State collapse, insurgency, and counterinsurgency: Lessons from Somalia

By US Army College, John-Peter Pham, Strategic Studies Institute. For more than 2 decades, Somalia…


Israel's Move to defund the United Nations and the Syrian crises: is this the beginning of the end of the UN?

Simon Adams. For five bloody months, the 250,000 civilians of rebel-held eastern Aleppo were…


Beyond anecdotes: Getting to the heart of human smuggling

Ottilia Anna Maunganidze. As global migration – primarily of people from the Middle East and North…