Development, Democracy and the State/ Utveckling, demokrati och stat

• Articles
• Bigsten, Arne, Utvecklingens ekonomi och politik., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2003 (Lund, tur) (OBS! Icke obligatorisk litteratur (rekommenderas som bakgrund till kursen), ssk s 1–138, 173–76.)
• Human development report 2002, deepening democracy in a fragmented world., New York, N. Y., Oxford University Press for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2002 (Chapter 1: The state and progress of human development Chapter 2: Democratic Governance for Human Development)
• Krishna, Anirudh, Active social capital: tracing the roots of development and democracy., New York, Columbia University Press, 2002
• Payne, Richard J.; Nassar, Jamal R., Politics and culture in the developing world :the impact of globalization, 3rd ed., New York ;a London, Longman, cop. 2008 [dvs. 2007]
• Sen, Amartya, Development as freedom., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001 (Finns även i svensk översättning, Utveckling som frihet, Daidalos.)
• Gemensamt ansvar: Sveriges politik för global utveckling: regeringens proposition 2002/03:122, Stockholm, Utrikesdepartementet, 2003 (Pages 1–2, 6–31, 58–79)

Utvecklingsteori och det koloniala arvet/ Development theory and colonial legacies

• Artiklar
• Cooper, Frederick, Africa since 1940: the past of the present., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (sid. 1–204)
• Hoogvelt, Ankie M. M., Globalization and the postcolonial world: the new political economy of development., 2. ed., Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001 (sid. 1–60)
• Larson, Brooke., Trials of nation making: liberalism, race, and ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910., New York, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (sid. 1–253)
• The new Cambridge history of India.: 3 [The Indian empire and the beginnings of modern society], 4 Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996

Development Economics/ Utvecklingsekonomi

• Articles (Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S.,Robinson, J. (2001). "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation." American Economic Review 91(5): 1369–1401.Dollar, D., Kraay, A. (2002). "Growth is good for the Poor." Journal of Economic Growth 7(3): 195–225.P.Edward (2006). 'Examining Inequality: Who really benefits from Global Growth.' World DevelopmentM.Nissanke-E.Thorbecke (2006). 'Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus.' World DevelopmentA. Banerjee and E.Duflo. (2006) 'Addressing Absence' Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, pp. 117–132.Nancy Birsall, Dani Rodrik and Arvind Dubramaniam. 2005. How to help Poor Countries, from Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005.)
• Todaro, Michael P.; Smith, Stephen C., Economic development, 9. ed., Harlow, 2006
• World development report.: 2004 Making services work for poor people, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2003 (Overview chapter.)
• World development report.: 2008 Agriculture for development, Washington, D.C., World Bank, cop. 2007 (Overview chapter only.)
• World development report: 2003 Sustainable development in a dynamic world: transforming institutions, growth, and quality of life, Washington, DC, World Bank and Oxford University Press, cop. 2003 [2002] (Overview chapter.)

Development and Armed Conflict/ Utveckling och väpnad konflikt

• Anderson, Mary B., Do no harm: how aid can support peace - or war, Boulder, Colo., Lynne Rienner, 1999 (Read chapters 4, 5 & 6.)
• Articles (Fjelde, Hanne, 2009. Forthcoming. 'Buying Peace? Oil Wealth, Corruption and Civil War 1985–1999', Journal of Peace Research.Harbom, Lotta; Erik Melander & Peter Wallensteen, 2008. "Dyadic dimensions of armed conflict, 1946–2007", Journal of Peace Research 45 (5): 697–710.Hussein, Karim; James Sumberg & David Seddon, 1999. 'Increasing Violent Conflict between Herders and Farmers in Africa: Claims and Evidence', Development Policy Review 17: 397–418. (Optional reading)Kostic, Roland. 2008. "Nationbuilding as an Instrument of Peace? Exploring Local Attitudes towards International Nationbuilding and Recinciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina", Civil Wars, 10 (4), in press.Ross, Michael L., 2004. 'What Do We Know About Natural Resources and Civil War?' Journal of Peace Research 41: 337–356.Turner, Matthew D., 2004. 'Political Ecology and the Moral Dimensions of "Resource Conflicts": The Case of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in the Sahel', Political Geography 23(7): 863–889.Book ChaptersBrounéus, Karen (2009). "Reconciliation and Development". In K.Ambos et al (eds), Building a Future on Peace and Justice: Studies on Transitional Justice, Peace and Development. The Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.Gleditsch, Nils Petter, (2008). 'Environmental Change, Security, and Conflict'. In Crocker, Hampson & Aall (eds), Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace.Further readings of interest (optional)Borer, Tristan Anne (ed) (2006). Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Brosché, Johan (2008). Darfur: Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation. UCDP paper no.2. Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.Brounéus, Karen (2008). Truth Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts. Security Dialogue 39(1): 55–76.'Conflict potential in a world of climate change', speech by Gareth Evans, International Crisis Group, August 29, 2008:http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5648&l=1)
• Breaking the conflict trap: civil war and development policy, Washington, DC, World Bank, 2003
• Brounéus, Karen, Rethinking reconciliation: concepts, methods, and an empirical study of truth telling and psychological health in Rwanda, Uppsala, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2008 (http://www.pcr.uu.se/pcr_doc/brouneus_dissertation.pdf)
• How to conduct a conflict analysis: conflict-sensitive development co-operation, Stockholm, Department for Cooperation with NGOs, Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict Management, Sida, 2004
• From war to democracy: dilemmas of peacebuilding, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (Read:Wallensteen, Peter. "International responses to crises of democratization in war-torn societies".)
• Nadler, Arie.; Malloy, Thomas E.; Fisher, Jeffrey D., The social psychology of intergroup reconciliation: from violent conflict to peaceful co-existence, New York ;a Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 (Read:Pratto, Felicia & Glasford, Demis E. "How Needs Can Motivate Intergroup Reconciliation in the Face of Intergroup Conflict".)
• Helping prevent violent conflict, Paris, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2001 (Optional reading.)
• Rethinking the nature of war, 1. ed., London ;a New York, Frank Cass, 2005 (Read:Duyvesteyn, Isabelle. "The Concept of Conventional War and Armed Conflict in Collapsed States".)
• Rotberg, Robert I. edt; Thompson, Dennis edt, Truth v. justice: the morality of truth commissions, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, cop. 2000 (Optional reading.)
• Telling the truths: truth telling and peace building in post-conflict societies, Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 2006 (Read:Borer, Tristan Anne. "Truth Telling as a Peace-Building Activity: A Theoretical Overview".)
• World Bank & Human Security Centre, eds., Miniatlas of Human Security, World Bank Publications, 2008