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Edited Book | 2020
Humanitarianism: Keywords
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current...
Leiden: Brill

Book | 2020
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam, co-published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press (Paperback February 2021)
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as...
NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press

Edited Book | 2020
Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective
London: Routledge (Gender and Comparative Politics) 178 p.

Book | 2020
(In Press/October 2020) Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam
Copenhagen: NIAS Press 288 p.

Edited Book | 2019
The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America
Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that...
New York: Routledge

Edited Book | 2019
Governing Petroleum Resources: Prospects and Challenges for Tanzania
Over the last decade, large deposits of natural gas have been discovered off the southern coast of Tanzania. This book analyzes the long-term process of how a country develops the...
Bergen: CMI and REPOA 186 p.

Edited Book | 2019
Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in...
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd. c 200 p.

Book | 2019
Corruption, évitement fiscal, blanchiment dans le secteur extractif: de l'art de jouer avec le droit
Le pétrole, le gaz et les minerais sont des ressources indispensables pour le bon fonctionnement de nos économies et sont très convoitées. Elles sont ainsi particulièrement propices à l’émergence de...
Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (L'univers des normes)

Book | 2019
Interaction between Health Institutions in Knowledge and Medical Practices in South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains
This research thesis addresses the challenges confronting the establishment of stable and sufficient health care provision in Heiban Locality in South Kordofan / Nuba Mountains in the aftermath (2002–2011) of...
Bergen: Chr.Michelsen Institute

Edited Book | 2019
Children's Rights in Norway
Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention of the Rights of Child. This book is the first...
Children's Rights in Norway: An Implementation Paradox?, Universitetsforlaget

Book | 2019
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty basis and scope of application under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
Under what circumstances can a state refuse refugee status to a person whose risk of persecution exists in only part of her country of origin? This book is the first...
Brill Nijhoff (International Refugee Law Series no. 14)

Book | 2018
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
It has long been debated whether Africa's lack of growth is best explained by the continent's exploitation by the global system, or by internal failures of domestic political leadership, and...
London/New York: Zed Books (African Arguments Book Series,) 216 p.

Book | 2018
Manipulating political decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats
Can autocrats establish representative subnational governments? And which strategies of manipulation are available if they would like to reduce the uncertainty caused by introducing political decentralisation? In the wake of...
New York: Routledge (Conceptualising Comparative Politics) 176 p.

Book | 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press 264 p.

Edited Book | 2018
The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America: Decades of Change
This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch...
Palgrave Macmillan (Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference) 289 p.

Book | 2017
Just Faaland – en verdensborger i Bergen
Denne boken er en hyllest til Just Faaland som døde i februar 2017.
Just Faaland bygget opp det som i dag er Chr. Michelsens Institutt i Bergen. Han var leder...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 160 p.

Edited Book | 2017
Lifting the veil of secrecy: Perspectives on international taxation and capital flight from Africa
Several African countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world. However, capital flows to tax havens are one factor limiting the benefits of economic growth for ordinary Africans....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute

Edited Book | 2017
Civil-military relations in Lebanon: Conflict, cohesion and confessionalism in a divided society
First book to examine civil-military relations in post-Arab Spring Lebanon
This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed...
Palgrave Macmillan 155 p.

Edited Book | 2017
Demanding justice and security: Indigenous women and legal pluralities in Latin America
Across Latin America, indigenous women are organizing to challenge racial, gender, and class discrimination through the courts. Collectively, by engaging with various forms of law, they are forging new definitions...
Rutgers University Press 310 p.

Book | 2017
The Pitfalls of protection. Gender, violence and power in Afghanistan
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based...
University of California Press