NGO Game
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There is nothing new in this. It's particularly sad to miss reference to the work by Michael Foley, for example, or Paul Stubbs on Bosnia, and her apparent misunderstanding of why Haitians label their country, devastingly, as The Republic of NGOs.... McMahon's evidence is largely from interviews, building in the biases of her interviewees and nothing systematic.
» Slavic Review
In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 238
- ISBN
- 9781501709241
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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There is nothing new in this. It's particularly sad to miss reference to the work by Michael Foley, for example, or Paul Stubbs on Bosnia, and her apparent misunderstanding of why Haitians label their country, devastingly, as The Republic of NGOs.... McMahon's evidence is largely from interviews, building in the biases of her interviewees and nothing systematic.
» Slavic Review
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One would say that this book contributes an enormous amount to our understanding of the role and activities of NGOs in post-Cold War international peacebuilding efforts, especially in the Western Balkans.
» European Review of International Studies
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The NGO Game....addresses the broader audience of those studying the specific conditions under which most NGOs operate: democratising societies suffering from particular identity-based divisions that are often perceived by external donors as the root cause of social inequalities, competition and, ultimately, conflict.
» Europe-Asia Studies
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A detailed, tough-minded study of what happened when a swarm of nongovernmental organizations rushed into Bosnia and Kosovo in the wake of conflicts during the 1990s.
» Foreign Affairs