Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

by Harry G. West

Book Overview

Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions-courts, corporations, nation-states-according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the "mutual veil dropping" of the post-Cold War era, many have asserted that power in our contemporary world is more transparent than ever. Yet from the perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330245
• ISBN13: 9780822330240
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"