Wars, Guns and Votes

It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier's latest thoughts...always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it's gripping stuff

Allister Heath, Literary Review

Collier knows Africa intimately... It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the world's blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better

Max Hastings, Sunday Times

His recent Book Wars, Guns and Votes, is all the more remarkable in that it is based on impeccable scholarship and statistical analysis but remains highly readable and accessible

Bruno Tertrais, Survival

furthering an understanding of the pragmatics of democracy's failures

Amreeta Mathai, The Oxonian Review

Very important ideas based on extremely thorough empirical research...put him in the same camp as real heavyweights such as the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz

Misha Glenny, Guardian

The author challenges a lot of lazy thinking about the trajectory that poor countries should take to improve their lot ... Mr Collier is thinking about these urgent and very difficult issues, something that not many people are willing to tackle head-on

The Economist

Collier adopts an upbeat, indeed breezy style

Stephen Howe, Independent

Realpolitik at its best

Prospect

Unlike many academics Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions.

Richard Beeston, The Times

Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions

The Times

With its verve, wit and lateral thinking, this is a book that changes its readers' horizons

Observer