Bøger af Mark Langan

This book examines the implications of Brexit for Africa-UK relations amid a 'new scramble' for the continent. Engaging Nkrumah on neo-colonialism and recent scholarship on global coloniality, Langan here underscores concerns that Brexit was fuelled by an imperial romanticism that now gives rise to a Global Britain project involving the perpetration of 'Empire 2.0' in Africa. In this context, he examines UK elites' pursuit of Brexit trade deals and the 'development' consequences of premature market opening. Throughout its chapters, this work assesses strategic usages of UK aid monies in terms of economic leverage and the externalisation of migration and highlights the impact of UK development finance and corporate activities for the health and wellbeing of workers and host communities. Significantly, Langan explores the UK's pursuit of security interests and human rights criticisms and concludes by highlighting African agency to resist the Global Britain project amid the fragility of the British state itself.

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I'D SEEN IT ALL... In his award-winning book Busting Bad Guys, narcotics sergeant Mark Langan told gripping street stories about bookies, drug dealers, and ladies of the night. Now Langan tells more true-crime stories and those of his fellow Omaha police officers in blue-Sharp-shooting snipers who made a split-second life-and-death decision in Omaha's most infamous hostage standoffThe bust that took down the Hells Angels and their mega-caches of methamphetamine, money, and weaponsA bizarre stakeout to investigate satanic animal sacrifices in a haunted parkCold-blooded serial killers and the case for (and against) the death penaltyFirsthand accounts from meth tweakers who chase the devil's pipe (and the missing suitcase filled with kilos of cocaine)The inside story about brutal blood sports: cockfighting and dogfightingAnd a kindergarten class's best show-and-tell

Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of `development' strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation.