Chapter 10 Further Resources

Web Links

• Debt and Development (www.globalissues.org/issue/28/third-world-debt-undermines-development); Poverty (www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty); UN Human Development Index (hdr.undp.org/en/statistics). Three sites that provide information about global debt, poverty and development.

• Human Rights Watch (www.hrw.org). Site documents human rights abuses and concerns worldwide.

• Transparency International (www.transparency.org). Information about corruption around the world.

• UNCTAD (www.unctad.org); World Bank (www.worldbank.org). Home pages for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Band. Good information on development issues—trade and finance—in the developing world.

Podcasts

• “How to Respond to China’s Rise?”, Asia Rising, November 3, 2016. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6MTEzNzI2NDE0L3NvdW5kcy5yc3M&episode=dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMjkxMzk5MzU2&hl=en-CA&ved=2ahUKEwjjkOyF-qjlAhWxHzQIHVftDUAQjrkEegQIABAE&ep=6&at=1571509882188
  
  This podcast episode explores how China’s rise is transforming the world and what are the significant consequences of China’s dramatic growth in wealth and power. How should the world respond to this increasingly powerful, wealthy and ambitious china? The speakers argue that the American response to China’s rise will determine the consequences.

• “India’s Rise?”, BBC, May 22, 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08qxfgg
  
  This podcast episode explores the consequences of British colonization for India and how this colonial exploitation has an impact on this country. The discussants do see great potential for India’s economic and political rise but disagree on the role of current Prime Minister Modi in elevating India’s status at the regional and international level.

• “Roots of a Quagmire”, Foreign Policy, September 13, 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/first-person/roots-of-a-quagmire/
  
  In this podcast James Dobbins, America’s first post-9/11 envoy to Afghanistan, recounts the early months of war there. This episode gives first knowledge of the early phase of the war and what are the hurdles in a peace settlement in Afghanistan.

Further Readings

• Balaam, David N., & Michael Veseth (2001). Introduction to International Political Economy. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

• Cohn, Theodore H. (2008). Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice. New York: Pearson Longman.

• Dominguez, Jorge, & Michael Shifter (2003). Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University.

• Eisenstadt, Todd (2004). Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Heywood, Andrew (1994). Political Ideas and Concepts: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

• Lusting, Nora (1992). Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

• Miar, Peter (1990). The West European Party System. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Middlebrook, Kevin (2004). Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico. Center for US–Mexican Studies USCD.

• Mingst, Karen A. (2004). Essentials of International Relations. New York: W.W. Norton.

• Norris, Pippa (2004). Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Rueschemeyer, Dietrich (1992). Capitalist Development and Democracy. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

• Smith, Brian C. (2007). Good Governance and Development. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Lipset, Seymour M., & Stein Rokkan (1990). “Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voters Alignment.” In Peter Miar (Ed.), The West European Party System. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Shambaugh, David (2008). China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

• Jones, G. Seth (2009). In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

• Ahmed, Rashid (2008). Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. New York: Penguin.

• Isby, David (2011). Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: A New History of the Borderland. New York: Pegasus.