Publications

All SID publications are available by sending an e-mail to Wilma Bakker with your request. Books and other publications are also available during SID Lectures at the VU in Amsterdam, once a month on Mondays. Quoted prices exclude the postage fee of €2,30 for the Netherlands, €6,32 within Europe and €10,45 for the rest of the world. 

BOOKS

Common Goods in a Divided World. Challenges and Opportunities for International Cooperation

Common Goods in a Divided World, the title of the lecture series organized by the Netherlands Chapter of the Society of International Development (SID) and also title of this publication  underlined the necessity to safeguard common interests through institutional facilities and arrangements. The financial crisis has shown the disastrous shortcomings of supervision and regulation; international security has been undermined by fragile states; the structural reform of the United Nations did not come to much; the discussion of the adaptation of the Bretton Woods system is stagnating and non-Western nations should be given a greater role in the management of interdependence and international security. In this volume, international experts, scientists, politicians and activists give their views and recommendations on these issues.

The volume is edited by Bernard Berendsen, and contributors include: Inge Kaul (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin), Andrew Mack (Human Security Report Project, Canada), Yvo de Boer (KPMG and former Executive Secretary (UNFCCC), Seth Kaplan (Alpha International Consulting), Ruud Lubbers (founding member of Worldconnectors and Earth Charter Council) and Franz-Josef Radermacher (Ulm University).

ISBN 9789460221644 | 245 pages | 2011 | € 26.50 (excl. postage costs) | English | to order please e-mail Wilma Bakker with your request

Economic Growth and the Common Good. From Crisis to Sustainable Development

Twenty years ago, economic planning and protectionism were held responsible for poverty and stagnation. Nowadays it is the market that is blamed, not only for increased poverty and income inequality, but also for the dismantling of public services and ecological destruction. Yesterday’s solutions have become today’s problems. Liberalisation and privatisation have left people and environment at the mercy of the free market. The mightiest are reaping the benefits, the weakest are footing the bill. Meanwhile the global economy is being hit by one crisis after another: financial crises, an energy crisis, a food crisis – and of course the poorest countries and people are affected the most. In this volume current insights and sticky policy dilemmas will be identified, and their implications assessed for the policies of organisations and institutions in the field of international cooperation.

Edited by Bernard Berendsen and contributions by politicians and academics, such as: Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford), Frank den Butter (Commission on Growth and Development), Diane Elson (University of Essex), Martin Wolf (Financial Times), José Edgardo Campos (World Bank), Luc Soete (UNU-MERIT), Vijay Paranjpye (University of Pune), Ad Melkert (UNDP), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development).

ISBN 9789460221026 | 308 pages | 2010 | € 26.50 (excl. postage costs) | English | to order please e-mail Wilma Bakker with your request

Emerging Global Scarcities and Power Shifts

This SID publication deals with the emerging global scarcities on food, energy and water; on how these are interrelated and affected by considerations and policies dealing with climate change and on how they affect the relative position of indicidual countries, groups of countries and the development prospects of developing countries.
Experts in the field give their views on the matter. On the growing relationships and growing competition between food and bio-fuels; the consequence of rising energy prices and the geopolitical consequences of a likely further expansion of global demand for energy; Europe’s (over)dependence on oil and gas from external resources; on climate change and the growing scarcity of water in relation to increasing demand for the prodcution of food and bio-fuels. They finally shed their light on the shifts brought about in international power relations.

The book was edited by Bernard Berendsen and contributions were given by politicians and academics. Among others: Rudy Rabbinge (Wageningen University), André Fraaij (Copernicus Institute), Michael Klare (Amherst College), Jonathan Stern (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies), Jan Lundquist (Stockholm International Water Institute), Jan Pronk (Institute of Social Studies), Pier Vellinga (Wageningen University) and Gerda Verburg (Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality).

ISBN 9789460221026 | 400 pages | 2009 | € 26.50 (excl. postage costs)| English | to order please e-mail Wilma Bakker with your request

Democracy and Development

The title of this publication suggests there is a positive relationship between democracy and development: more democracy implies more openness and checks and balances, more accountability and less corruption and all this would be conducive to sustainable development. Experts in the field give their views on the matter. They all address questions like: what comes first, democracy or development; is there a choice between democracy and stability; can democracy be promoted from outside and are different cultures equally compatible with democratic systems of government?

Contributions by William Easterley (New York University and Brookings Institution, author of White men’s burden), Michael Edwards (Ford Foundation), Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment for international Peace), Paul Collier (Oxford University), David Beetham (University of Leeds), Kumi Naidoo (the World Alliance for Citizen Participation), , Nico Schrijver (Leiden University), Kim Campbell (former Prime Minister of Canada and co-founder of the Club de Madrid) and others.

ISBN 9789068326116 | 360 pages | 2008 | € 26.50 (excl. postage costs)| English | to order please e-mail Wilma Bakker with your request

Religion, International Relations and Development Cooperation

This book poses one of the most important challenges to foreign policy and development cooperation in the 21st century: to critically reflect new forms of religious identification. It also deals with the practical and policy-related consequences of the debate for development organisations and their views on poverty, religion and conflict.

The Society for International Development (SID) has brought together eminent international writers and leading authorities in the field of religion, coming from different backgrounds and regions. Among the contributors are Peter Berger, Leonardo Boff, Abdullahi An-Naim, Riffat Hassan, Thomas Pogge, Scott M. Thomas and Jonathan Fox.

ISBN 9789086860357 | 356 pages | 2007 | € 48.00 | English | Hardback | to order please e-mailWilma Bakker with your request