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Canada and the Challenges of International Development and Globalization by Lauchlan Munro (Editor); Mahmoud Masaeli (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018

This multi-disciplinary and multi-author textbook, designed for first- or second-year students, introduces the main concepts, theories, and perspectives that have shaped Canada's interactions with developing countries in a globalizing world.
COVID-19 and International Development by Elissaios Papyrakis (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022

This book provides an in-depth critical discussion on how the current pandemic influences several development outcomes (in the domains of poverty/inequality, health, education, migration, formal/informal employment, (de)globalisation, the extractive sector, climate change, water and the global financial system).
Violent Neoliberalism by S. Springer
Publication Date: 2015

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice.

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