How Change Happens

Duncan Green is Oxfam GB's Senior Strategic Adviser. He also teaches on international development at the London School of Economics, where he is a Professor in Practice. His blog is one of the most widely read on international development, and is named after his book From Poverty to Power (2nd ed., 2012). How Change Happens contains the accumulated experience of years spent engaged in the field, researching and writing about reducing poverty and combating injustice and, as the author says, trying to, "do justice to the complexity of the world, while still believing there is a story about how it can be changed for the better."

• Ha-Joon Chang: ForewordIntroductionPart I: A Power and Systems Approach1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change3: Shifts in Social Norms often Underpin ChangeCase Study: The Chiquitanos of BoliviaPart II: Institutions and the Importance of History4: How States Evolve5: The Machinery of Law6: Accountability, Political Parties, and the Media7: How the International System Shapes Change8: Transnational Transnational Corporations as Drivers and Targets of ChangeCase Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate ChangePart III: What Activists Can (and Can't) Do9: Citizen Activism and Civil Society10: Leaders and Leadership11: The Power of AdvocacyPart IV: Pulling it All Together12: A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change HappenConclusionIndex

I can see How Change Happens being a book I come back to over the years and that's where the value will be for me.