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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Settlers in Contested Lands represents a significant contribution to the literature on ethnic and communal conflicts. The outstanding introduction by the editors should be required reading for anyone examining the resolution of conflicts with a settlement dimension. The multitude of forms these conflicts take is very well illustrated in the volume's case studies."—Adrian Guelke, Queen's University of Belfast"This is an invaluable collection. The volume is a very important contribution to understanding a highly significant but understudied phenomenon in the world of ethnic conflict."—Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Settlers and Conflict over Contested Territories chapter abstractThis chapter introduces an innovative theoretical framework for investigating settlers in contested territories. Defining settlements as political action involving the organized movement of a population belonging to one national group into a territory to create a permanent presence and influence patterns of sovereignty, the theory explores diverse trajectories relating to how demographic engineering is used in state-building and state-expansion endeavors. A number of observations are made about the relationship between the principle of "right-peopling," sovereignty, and territorial boundaries. The diverse contours of conflict that emerge with pre-existing populations who make claims on the settled territory are then explored, with particular attention paid to the accentuated ethnonational dimension, the time factor, international constraints, and the variable agency of the settlers as a consequential factor for conflict resolution. 2The Decisive Path of State Indecisiveness: Israeli Settlers in the West Bank in Comparative Perspective chapter abstractIn contrast to common perceptions that view this case as sui generis, Israeli settlements exhibit important familiar patterns observed in other cases. First, settlement activity is a means to influence territorial boundaries through demography. Additionally, bureaucratic institutions accompany population movements. Furthermore, settler identity is consequential, thus highlighting the relationship between "right-peopling" a territory and sovereignty. But the Israeli experience also has distinctive characteristics. Israeli governments have not adopted a consistent policy regarding settlements. This lack of coherence stems partly from the dynamic interplay of variable international and regional conditions, the attributes of Israeli domestic politics, and contested notions about the relationship between territorial and socio-national boundaries. Furthermore, Israeli settlers have proven to be a consequential agent that influences practices beyond what is observed in most other cases. Ultimately, political outcomes have been influenced by the dynamic and mutually constitutive interaction between state (and central government) and settlers. 3Moroccan Settlers in Western Sahara: Colonists or Fifth Column? chapter abstractSince occupying the former Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco has pursued active and passive settlement policies resulting in significant changes in the territory's population, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Though the territory now boasts a large Moroccan population (perhaps outnumbering the indigenous Sahrawis by as much as three-to-one), very little is known about the demographic composition of these settlers and their relationship to the broader political question of Western Saharan independence. Not only are there strong reasons to question many of the assumptions about the politics of settlers and of natives in Western Sahara but there are also unique dynamics at play in this conflict that hold insights for understanding the politics of settlement in contested territories more broadly. 4Settlement, Sovereignty, and Social Engineering. Fascist Settlement Policy between Nation and Empire chapter abstractWas Mussolini's settlement program in Libya in the 1930s merely a further installment of European settler colonialism? The chapter explores the program in light of broader demographic policies implemented by the Fascist regime, not only on the North African shore but also in the newly annexed territories in northern Italy. Rooting Italian families in contested soil, the Fascist state became the primary motor: initiating, organizing, and financing the settlements with the stated aim of nationalizing contested lands. While resembling strategies of colonial settlement, these programs aimed at consolidating and expanding the Italian nation, thus marking a transition to the use of population settlement as a tool of nation- rather than empire-building. 5The Indonesian Settlement Project in East Timor chapter abstractOn December 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, and controlled the region for the next twenty-four years. Alongside military control, Jakarta transferred into the territory tens of thousands of Indonesian nationals. This chapter analyzes the Indonesian population transfer into East Timor. Placing the settlement project in the broader context of the Indonesian claim to East Timor, it explores the fundamental aspects of the population transfer. It also explains why the Indonesian settlement project was initiated and pursed, including an investigation of the manner in which Indonesia used the settlers as part of its effort to subdue local resistance and deflect international opposition to its rule in the area. 6Settlers and State-Building: The Kirkuk Case chapter abstractThis chapter examines the migrations of Arab settlers to Iraqi Kurdistan after 1963 and their impact on negotiating the disputed territory of Kirkuk. It argues that demographic shifts and the actual numbers of Arab settlers have played a key role in framing Kurdish claims to Kirkuk, particularly as they have affected population percentages and distribution of resources. However, while the presence of settler communities may have played a key role in the early phase of the Kurdish authorities making claims to Kirkuk, their influence has weakened over time as the Kirkuk issue has taken on a life of its own. Changes in the nature of the Kirkuk problem and the framing processes linked to it will provide the basis for conflict resolution strategies.These will include issues of power sharing between Kurds and Arabs, as well as with other minority groups, governance issues, and revenue sharing. 7Settlers, Immigrants, Colonists: The Three Layers of Settler-Induced Conflict in Sri Lanka chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the role of settlers and settler-related rhetoric in ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, illustrating the different layers and shades that such conflicts can involve. It distinguishes between a discursive element (rhetoric and accusations of "settlers" and "settlement"), a temporal element (the historical time frame in which population movements took place) and a structural/situational element (whether this movement was driven by market forces or whether it was state-sponsored, as well as the material condition of the people introduced to the land). Sinhalese agitation against the Indian Tamil plantation workers and the policy of expelling them to India (which was halted in the 1980s) is compared with Sri Lankan Tamil agitation against Sinhalese irrigation and settlement projects in the so-called dry zone which significantly contributed to inter-communal violence before and during the civil war. 8Settlers, Mobilization, and Displacement in Cyprus: Antinomies of Ethnic Conflict and Immigration Politics chapter abstractThe post-1974 Turkish colonization of Cyprus is seen as a violation of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949 and an obstacle to the future reunification of the island. Yet settlers in Cyprus are not monolithically attached to expansionist nationalism and often share comparable concerns about and vulnerabilities to migrant populations. This chapter examines the causes of non-politicization among the Turkish settlers and sets the Cypriot experience apart from the current literature on colonization and displacement in contested territories. It also presents a set of novel institutional arrangements aiming to balance humanitarian and justice considerations focusing on the territorial and human rights aspects of peace settlements. 9Conclusion: The Political Dynamics of Settlement Projects: The Central State–Settler-Native Triangle chapter abstractThe studies in this volume explore the complex legacies of state-sponsored settlement of outlying and not-fully-absorbed territories. The starting point was the expectation flowing from Lustick's work that effective settler mobilization combined with clumsy state policies and antagonistic reactions by natives would produce long-term problems of oppression by the settlers, violent reaction by the natives, and destabilization of the central state. On the whole, the authors show that the Israeli-Palestinian case, however similar in detailed dynamics to the British-Irish and French-Algerian relationships, is in important ways misleading as a framework for anticipating the impact of settlement elsewhere. Although the settler-native-central state triangle does appear in each episode, the emphasis in each case is mainly on one side.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Contested Embrace sets a new standard in the study of migration and the state. Kim's theoretically agile and ethnographically vivid account shows how ordinary people and governments across Northeast Asia have wrestled over the question of who is Korean, and what that means in practice." -- David Scott Fitzgerald * University of California, San Diego *"Contested Embrace is a brilliant and bracing analysis of transborder membership politics. Exhaustively researched and meticulously argued, Jaeeun Kim's book is required reading for anyone interested in modern Northeast Asia, comparative ethnicity and nationalism, and transnational and global studies. It is a great book to think with." -- John Lie * University of California, Berkeley *"This impressive work shows that neither instrumentalist nor culturalist views do justice to how states deal with their diaspora communities abroad and brings rare nuance to the vexed "transnationalism" problematic. Allergic to false binaries of many sorts, not least the one of micro v. macro, Contested Embrace is simply good sociology." -- Christian Joppke * University of Bern *"Kim'sContested Embrace presents a commanding account of the long-term macrohistorical and regional interstate dynamics of the Korean transborder membership, mapping twentieth- and twenty-first-century Korean migration and repatriation across East Asia." -- Journal of Asian Studies"An impressive study, with in-depth historical narratives, engaging theoretical discussions, rich archival and ethnographic data, and nuanced analysis. Contested Embraceis the first extensive study that examines all the Korean transborder populations in Northeast Asia." -- American Journal of Sociology"The contributions of Contested Embrace to the literature on nationalism, transnationality, citizenship, and migration are manifold and impressive. In terms of research ambition, scope, and quality of research, this book is a tour de force." -- Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review"A groundbreaking work that reshapes the field of international migration with rich, unusual ethnography, a convincing historical account, and a broader theoretical appeal to the study of nationalism, citizenship, and globalization." -- Contemporary Sociology"Invoking such concepts as 'the presentation of self' (Goffman) and 'weapons of the weak'(Scott), Kim provides a vivid analysis of migrants' involvement in document forgeries, sham marriages, and other forms of identity fraud, contributing an especially agentic portrayal of the politics of 'who is what.'" -- Han'guk Munhwa (Korean Culture)"Contested Embrace uniquely and thoroughly connects the structural changes in the nation-building process, changes in geopolitical orders, and political and economic shifts in East Asia to the micro-analysis of individuals' experiences and negotiations with top-down policies." -- Sociological Forum"Kim has meticulously utilized both historiographic and ethnographic approaches to dissect and analyze the discourse of belonging on the part of ethnic Koreans caught up in the violent and divisive historical developments in twentieth-century East Asia. Contested Embrace is a seminal work that integrates the historical, political, social, and economic experiences of diasporic Koreans in Japan and China vis-à-vis North and South Korea." -- Arnel E. Joven * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties chapter abstractThis chapter begins with three ethnographic vignettes that reveal the common experiences of colonial-era ethnic Korean migrants and their descendants in Japan and northeast China: forcible separation from and neglect by their state of origin; shifting sense of loyalty and belonging to multiple states involved; efforts to maintain, rebuild, or take advantage of cross-border family ties; and complex dealings with various documentation practices in attempts to reclaim membership in their putative "homeland." The chapter situates the book in the literature on transborder membership politics and discusses its distinctive contributions. Building on a wide range of literature on official classification practices, modern identification techniques, the symbolic power of the state, and the control of cross-border migration, this chapter proposes a set of theoretical arguments about how states' registration and documentation practices contribute to the making, unmaking, and remaking of the "homeland state" and the "transborder nation." Chapter 1: Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move: Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood chapter abstractChapter 1 analyzes the construction of the legal, bureaucratic, and semantic infrastructures of Korean nation-building, which emerged amidst the dramatic transformation of the regional interstate system and the massive intraregional migration in the beginning of the twentieth century. By comparatively examining the colonial state's engagement with Korean migrants in Japan and Manchuria, Chapter 1 shows how these infrastructures helped the colonial state claim migrants of peninsular origin uniformly as "its own"—if with varying degrees of success—despite differences among these migrants, their resistance to this compulsory incorporation, and the competing claims made by other states. The colonial state's transborder engagement contributed to the formation of the Korean nation as a legally codified, pervasively institutionalized, and enduringly documented community both inside and outside the colony, providing a critical institutional scaffolding for the diasporic imagination of Korean nationalism and laying the ground for transborder membership politics for decades to come. Chapter 2: "Who Owns the Nation?" Cold War Competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan chapter abstractChapter 2 examines the prolonged and vehement competition between North and South Korea over the allegiance of colonial-era Korean migrants who remained in Japan in the context of decolonization and the Cold War. The divergent transborder nation-building strategies that the two postcolonial states employed to make their own docile citizens out of this opaque and recalcitrant population are identified. North Korea launched a successful repatriation campaign and heavily invested in Korean enclaves, presenting itself as a safe haven in which marginalized Koreans could find an escape. South Korea instead fashioned itself as a broker that could facilitate their integration into the Japanese mainstream, and a gatekeeper that could control their engagement with families and home communities in South Korea. The control of the bureaucratic persona of Koreans in Japan, buttressed by the consensual practices of other states, was critical for South Korea's eventual ascendancy in this competition. Chapter 3: Beyond "Bamboo Curtain" and "Hermit Kingdom": Korean Chinese between Two Socialist Fatherlands chapter abstractThe successful incorporation of Koreans who remained in Manchuria into communist China led to their disownment by South Korea, yet this incorporation was not necessarily seen as incompatible with their special tie to North Korea. Chapter 3 examines how China, North Korea, and the Korean Chinese embraced or challenged varying interpretations of this transborder tie, and how they reconfigured the boundary and the meaning of the Korean nation. Beyond the realm of ethnic minority policies, it examines the changing management of several cross-border migration flows (both authorized and unauthorized) as a lens with which to explore the unfolding of this relationship. It shows how various forms of cross-border transactions profoundly shaped the war-making, state-making, and nation-making (or unmaking) processes in both countries, as well as the life trajectories of Korean Chinese who straddled their two fatherlands to navigate the turbulent socialist transition in both countries. Chapter 4: Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion: Korean Chinese "Return" Migration to Post-Cold War South Korea chapter abstractPost Cold-War transborder membership politics gained momentum from the influx of Korean Chinese into South Korea. Chapter 4 highlight the protracted confusion, uncertainty, and indeterminacy that both state and non-state actors in South Korea experienced in trying to "properly" classify the long forgotten ethnonational kin, substantiate their belated claim to membership, and regulate their access to the affluent "homeland." It also reveals the porosity of the walls within which South Korea enclosed itself to exclude the Korean Chinese from transborder membership. On the one hand, Korean Chinese migrants struggled to redefine their collective identity in the legal, political, and public spheres by presenting themselves as an integral part of the Korean nation. But equally importantly, Korean Chinese migrants challenged the state's monopolistic truth claim about their individual identities by engaging in micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, mobilizing alternative genres of identification and creating false paper identities for themselves. Conclusion: Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics chapter abstractThe conclusion recapitulates the book's five main theoretical arguments. It shows how each chapter highlights the fundamentally political, performative, and constitutive nature of transborder nation-building; examines the bureaucratic underpinning of transborder membership politics; reveals its historical nature; demonstrates the importance of the broader interstate system in determining the efficacy of the state's transborder claims-making; and offers a deeply agentic portrayal of transborder membership politics by attending not only to the macropolitics but also to the micropolitics of identity. It also demonstrates the values and the limitations of ethnic nationalism as an analytic category by identifying the historical genesis of the bureaucratic and semantic infrastructures of ethnic nationalism, its variable manifestations (or lack thereof) in different policy domains and repertoires of contention, and its persistence as well as metamorphosis over time. A discussion on the future of transborder membership politics in the contemporary phase of globalization follows.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This excellent volume identifies the principal obstacles that have restrained reform in Ukraine over the past twenty-five years. It offers smart recommendations for overcoming those barriers and, using a comparative approach, suggests models from other countries that could help put Ukraine on the path endorsed by the Maidan Revolution—to become a normal European state."—Steven Pifer, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine"Beyond the Euromaidan is a fantastic collection of essays from some of the world's best experts on Ukraine on one of the most pressing issues of our time: prospects for reform in Ukraine. You cannot understand, evaluate, or support Ukraine's current political and economic reform agenda without first reading this book."—Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; former U.S. Ambassador to RussiaTable of Contents1. Establishing Ukraine's Fourth Republic: Reform after Revolution 2. No Way Out? Post-Soviet Ukraine's Memory Wars in Comparative Perspective 3. Democracy and Governance in Divided Societies 4. Corruption in Ukraine: Perpetuum Mobile or the Endplay of Post-Soviet Elites? 5. Corruption in Ukraine in Comparative Perspective 6. Ukrainian Constitutional Politics: Neopatrimonialism, Rent-seeking, and Regime Change 7. Constitutional Performance after Communism: Implications for Ukraine 8. Ukraine's Politicized Courts 9. Judicial Reform in Comparative Perspective: Assessing the Prospects for Ukraine 10. Oligarchs, the Partial Reform Equilibrium and the Euromaidan Revolution 11. Missing the China Exit: A World-Systems Perspective on the Ukrainian State 12. Stuck in Transition: Successes and Failures of Economic Reform in Ukraine 13. Economic Reforms in Ukraine in Comparative Perspective: Formal and Informal Dimensions 14. Conclusion: The Comparative Politics of Reform and Lessons for Ukraine

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking new study of Anglo-American relations during the Cold War, Diplomacy at the Brink argues for a reevaluation of Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign policy toward allies and enemies alike.

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Book SynopsisExploring the many complexities of transatlantic politics and culture, Peter O'Connor examines developing British ideas about US sectionalism, from the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina to the Civil War.

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Book SynopsisMapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity.Trade Review“Diaspora studies will never be the same again: Figueroa-VÁsquez’s book turns our attention to ties between the Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea and the Caribbean, and its insights will reverberate across Latinx, Black, American and African studies. Reading work that circulates and resonates in multiple ways across the Atlantic, this is a book that brings together decolonial, critical race, and multilingual approaches to propose a wholly new cartography for the Black Atlantic, bringing timely new attention on the Hispanophone world.” —Tsitsi Jaji, author of Mother Tongues: Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2019)“Decolonizing Diasporas is a tour-de-force: it realigns how we think of Latinx literary studies so that the field includes the literature of Equatorial Guinea, thereby necessarily confronting the anti-blackness and, more specifically, anti-Africanness, that has historically been foundational to our discipline. Yomaira C. Figueroa-VÁsquez provides for us a prototype by which to question, interrogate, reconsider, and reconfigure Afro-Atlantic Hispanophone subjectivity; everyone who studies the African continent and its diasporas should read this book.” —Vanessa K. ValdÉs, author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso SchomburgTable of Contents Acknowledgements Note on Language and Translation Epigraph Preface Introduction: Relations Chapter 1: Intimacies Chapter 2: Witnessing Chapter 3: Destierro Chapter 4: Reparations Chapter 5: Apocalypso Coda: Sea Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPolitics makes for strange bedfellows, the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making of politics, viewing its practitioners as self-serving and without principle or conviction.Because of these perspectives, the scholarly and popular narrative of American politics has come to focus on ideology over all else. But as Donald T. Critchlow demonstrates in his riveting new book, this obsession obscures the important role of temperament, character, and leadership ability in political success. Critchlow looks at four leading Republican presidential contenders—Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan—to show that, behind the scenes, ideology mattered less than principled pragmatism and the ability to build coalitions toward electoral and legislaTrade Review"Donald Critchlow has written a book called Republican Character at a time when the phrase sounds almost loaded. A year into Donald Trump's presidency, the topic of his perceived character defects and what voters ought to make of them has been endlessly canvassed. Happily, Critchlow, a professor at Arizona State University, is a political historian, not a pundit, and his slim volume is not an entry in that debate (though it is far from irrelevant to it). It is a compact and illuminating history of four Republicans who pursued the presidency in the latter half of the 20th century: Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan . . . [Critchlow] wants to show, through the intertwined biographies of these four men, that character is critically important to political success (or failure)." * The American Prospect *"An original, evenhanded character study of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller, four political rivals who dominated the Republican Party in the late 20th century. . . . While acknowledging that ideological litmus tests often count more than character and temperament in the current political climate, this readable history offers shrewd insights into the disposition of national leaders then and now." * Publishers Weekly *"Given the lack of civility and of political flexibility in Washington today, readers interested in the nature of political character and its relation to American democracy would do well to pick up Republican Character." * Origins *"Through tightly drawn, sharply observed biographies of four Republican statesmen-Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan-Donald T. Critchlow makes the case that character and temperament count for more than ideology. The argument is engagingly wrought, persuasive, and highly relevant to today's political scene." * Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon and Ike's Bluff *"Donald T. Critchlow has written an insightful, provocative volume about how the clashes-and sometime cooperation-between Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan shaped the modern Republican Party. The figures who emerge from this fine work are constantly maneuvering, adjusting to fresh political realities, and dealing with new issues thrown their way. By making these competitors human beings, driven by ambition and pragmatic instincts informed by principled convictions, Critchlow reveals these leaders as more nuanced and hence more interesting." * Karl Rove, author of The Triumph of William McKinley *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Presidential Character, Politics, and Power Chapter 1. Richard Nixon: The Disillusioned Idealist Chapter 2. Nelson Rockefeller: Ambition and Appetite Chapter 3. Idealism Betrayed, Opportunity Denied: Nixon and Rockefeller Compared Chapter 4. Barry Goldwater: Undisciplined Individualist Chapter 5. Ronald Reagan: Principled Pragmatist Chapter 6. Uneasy Allies: Goldwater and Reagan Compared Epilogue. Voters and Leaders in Disarray Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA historical analysis of doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. This book reveals the various facets of the constitutional struggles that permeated German legal and political culture during the Weimar Republic. This book will be useful for all those interested in the continuing problems of democracy and constitutionalism.Trade Review“A searching examination and critical analysis of the debates in Germany over the meaning and interpretation of the constitution during the Weimar years. No other book in English, so far as I know, treats Weimar constitutionalism with the depth and analytical power of this study. What an admirable study of intellectual history this book is!”—Donald P. Kommers, University of Notre Dame“An outstanding contribution to the literature on 20th-century Germany and its political/legal theory.”—Ellen Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisPresents significant advances in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race.Trade Review“In assembling this collection of essays, Michael Hanchard moves us beyond the traditional academic boundaries to underscore the relationship between theories and practices in Brazilian race relations.”—Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University“This volume is the most important collection of essays on contemporary Brazilian racial politics available to English readers since Pierre-Michel Fontaine’s Race, Class, and Power in Brazil. Specialists and general readers alike will profit from the scholarly essays and the testimonials from veteran Brazilian activists.”—Robert Anderson, North Carolina A&T State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction / Michael Hanchard Free African Brazilians and the State in Slavery Times / Richard Graham Black Cinderella? Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the U.S. Case / Edward E. Telles Racial Democracy and Racial Identity: Comparing the United States and Brazil / Howard Winant Miguel Reale and the Impact of Conservative Modernization on Brazilian Race Relations / Michael Mitchell Women and Racial Inequality at Work in Brazil / Peggy A. Lovell Notes on Racial and Political Inequality in Brazil / Carlos Hasenbalg and Nelson do Valle Silva The Black Movement and Political Parties: A Challenging Alliance / Benedita da Silva My Conscience, My Struggle / Thereza Santos Blacks and Political Power / Ivanir dos Santos Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race.Trade Review“In assembling this collection of essays, Michael Hanchard moves us beyond the traditional academic boundaries to underscore the relationship between theories and practices in Brazilian race relations.”—Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University“This volume is the most important collection of essays on contemporary Brazilian racial politics available to English readers since Pierre-Michel Fontaine’s Race, Class, and Power in Brazil. Specialists and general readers alike will profit from the scholarly essays and the testimonials from veteran Brazilian activists.”—Robert Anderson, North Carolina A&T State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction / Michael Hanchard Free African Brazilians and the State in Slavery Times / Richard Graham Black Cinderella? Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the U.S. Case / Edward E. Telles Racial Democracy and Racial Identity: Comparing the United States and Brazil / Howard Winant Miguel Reale and the Impact of Conservative Modernization on Brazilian Race Relations / Michael Mitchell Women and Racial Inequality at Work in Brazil / Peggy A. Lovell Notes on Racial and Political Inequality in Brazil / Carlos Hasenbalg and Nelson do Valle Silva The Black Movement and Political Parties: A Challenging Alliance / Benedita da Silva My Conscience, My Struggle / Thereza Santos Blacks and Political Power / Ivanir dos Santos Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisShows how the Indian peasants played a crucial role in the battle against colonialism and in the political clashes of the early republican period. With its focus on Cuzco, the former capital of the Inca Empire, this book highlights the promises and frustrations of a critical period whose long shadow remains cast on modern Peru.Trade Review“An innovative, eloquent, and thoroughly researched study on the political culture of an important Andean region during the transition from colonial to republican order.”—Nils Jacobsen, University of Illinois“This pioneering study of the changing links between the state and its Indian subjects during the transition to the Republic is not only a truly brilliant reconstruction of a complex and enigmatic process but a vital contribution to the current effort to make sense of the painful birth of modern Spanish America.”—Tulio Halperín Donghi, University of California, Berkeley“This is a very good book, and may even come to be a classic in this cutting-edge sub-field of Latin American history. The research is impressively deep, the writing clear, engaging, and rising at points to lyricism.”—Eric Van Young, University of California, San Diego

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Book SynopsisPresents ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path. This book chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation of the rondas, the social and geographical expansion of the movement, and its gradual decline in the 1990s.Trade Review“A wonderful tool. This volume offers a wealth of resources from a range of critical perspectives.”—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine“Nightwatch is an engaging, elegant, and enlightening account of one of the most important rural movements to emerge from Latin America since the 1960s. Orin Starn writes in direct and artfully crafted prose informed at the same time by the most up to date theoretical debates. This book will be of great interest not just to those who care about Peru and Latin America but also to scholars across anthropology, cultural studies, political science, and history.”—Arturo Escobar, author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third WorldTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Origin Stories 2. Nightwatch 3. Nightcourt 4. Women and the Rondas 5. The Rondas in the Age of the NGO 6. Leaders and Followers Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review“An impressive and important piece of work. This book will significantly enhance the literature on the subject of postcommunist transition and facilitate the understanding of a process that is often misunderstood, especially in the very unique circumstance of the former GDR. To my knowledge there is no analogous study in the English language.”—Ilya Prizel, Johns Hopkins University“Much of the recent literature on postcommunist ‘transitions to democracy’ simply ignores the East German experience, apparently assuming that reunification provided East Germans with an easy and ready-made route to democratic capitalism and that little may be learned about transitions from the German experience. Yoder rejects this simplistic notion, filling a serious gap in the transition literature and doing so with intelligence, insight, and style.”—Jane Dawson, University of Oregon

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Book SynopsisA comparative study of state formation in 19th-century Latin America that examines the different social and political paths that have led to democracy or military rule.Trade Review“[An] exceptional book . . . . Highly recommended. . . .” - J. Rosenthal, Choice“López-Alves has written an exhaustive comparison of democratic development in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Paraguay during the nineteenth century. . . . What he shows, in a masterly but humble manner, is that the examined societies are different, whatever their similarities, and need to be studied as autochthonous. . . . The notes and references are well written and well edited, revealing further breadth and scope of scholarship. Further work on state formation and democracy from 1810 to 1900 in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, and Venezuela will be footnotes to López-Alves.” - Sheldon Avenius, Perspectives on Political Science“This is an ambitious comparative work . . . . Commendable as a work of synthesis and as an industrious and creative comparative exercise . . . . [I]t is a valuable addition to the academic literature and an indispensable work for any research library, certain to provide debate-provoking material for graduate seminars in the social sciences. It offers useful points for comparative researchers interested in furthering our understanding of state-building in the Americas.” - Victor M. Uribe-Uran, The Americas"This foray into the chaos of the nineteenth century is to be welcomed. . . . [T]eachers and students of nineteenth-century Latin American political history . . . will learn a lot from its theoretical rigour, its singularity of focus, and its original and revealing comparisons between a selection of Latin American states which are rarely compared." - Guy Thomson, The Americas"López-Alves’s argument provides important insights into the relationship between party development and democratization in Latin America. . . . López-Alves’s work is a welcome contribution to the underdeveloped field of comparative historical sociology in Latin American studies. It will undoubtedly become a standard reference for anyone interested in political development and democracy in Latin America." - Gabriel L. Negretto, The Journal of Latin American Studies“An extraordinary contribution to the literature on state formation and the origins of democracy in Latin America. López-Alves’s argument is extremely provocative, persuasive, and intelligently grounded in important historiographical debates on nineteenth-century developments in these countries.”—Charles W. Bergquist, University of Washington“Instead of wringing his hands about failures of nineteenth-century Latin American states to match European models or retreating into mysteries of their culture, Fernando López-Alves boldly places Latin American state formation in historical and comparative perspective. The result is a fresh, informed view of political change during a struggle-filled century.”—Charles Tilly, Columbia University“[An] exceptional book . . . . Highly recommended. . . .” -- J. Rosenthal * Choice *“López-Alves has written an exhaustive comparison of democratic development in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Paraguay during the nineteenth century. . . . What he shows, in a masterly but humble manner, is that the examined societies are different, whatever their similarities, and need to be studied as autochthonous. . . . The notes and references are well written and well edited, revealing further breadth and scope of scholarship. Further work on state formation and democracy from 1810 to 1900 in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, and Venezuela will be footnotes to López-Alves.” -- Sheldon Avenius * Perspectives on Political Science *“This is an ambitious comparative work . . . . Commendable as a work of synthesis and as an industrious and creative comparative exercise . . . . [I]t is a valuable addition to the academic literature and an indispensable work for any research library, certain to provide debate-provoking material for graduate seminars in the social sciences. It offers useful points for comparative researchers interested in furthering our understanding of state-building in the Americas.” -- Victor M. Uribe-Uran * The Americas *"López-Alves’s argument provides important insights into the relationship between party development and democratization in Latin America. . . . López-Alves’s work is a welcome contribution to the underdeveloped field of comparative historical sociology in Latin American studies. It will undoubtedly become a standard reference for anyone interested in political development and democracy in Latin America." -- Gabriel L. Negretto * The Journal of Latin American Studies *"This foray into the chaos of the nineteenth century is to be welcomed. . . . [T]eachers and students of nineteenth-century Latin American political history . . . will learn a lot from its theoretical rigour, its singularity of focus, and its original and revealing comparisons between a selection of Latin American states which are rarely compared." -- Guy Thomson * The Americas *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 The Argument: War, Polities, and the Rural Poor 15 2 Gauchos, Ranchers, and State Autonomy in Uruguay, 1811-1890 49 3 A Weak Army and Restrictive Democracy: Columbia, 1810-1886 96 4 A Stronger State and Urban Military: Argentina, 1810-1890 140 5 Two Alternative Paths of State Making: Venezuela and Paraguay 193 Conclusions 212 Notes 221 References 225 Index 285

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Book SynopsisExplores the creation of the Pacific Rim in the American imagination and how the concept has been adapted and resisted in Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. This title draws on theories of postmodernism, transnationality, and post-Marxist geography to contribute to the discussion of what constitutes 'global' and 'local'.Trade Review“At ease with the interface of the local and global, Rob Wilson flies in and out of Asia and the Pacific. As he rediscovers and redefines the continent, islands and waters, he constantly rereads America. Such a geographic venture is also an exercise in de-disciplining. Circulating freely among literature, culture, economics, politics, history, and media, Wilson’s imagination and judgment are shrewd, sardonic, zestful, zany, and delightful. Reimagining the American Pacific is a thoroughly rewarding book.”—Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego“Lyrical and disruptive, Wilson's book masterfully dismantles multiple and contradictory imaginings of "the Pacific" and recovers the psychic longings, material histories, and politics that have variously produced the modern "Asia Pacific." This book wrenches American studies out of any lingering continent-bound complacency, gives a much needed broader scope to Asian American studies, and discloses crucial blind-spots in Asian area studies. Highly recommended for scholars in all these areas, as well as cultural studies in general.”—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial FrontierTable of ContentsPreface: Searching for “the Local”: Hawai‘i as Miss Universe? Introduction: “How Did You Find America?”: On Becoming Asia/Pacific 1. Imagining “Asia-Pacific” Today: Forgetting Colonialisms in the Magical Waters of the Pacific 2. American Trajectories into Hawai‘i and the Pacific: Imperial Mappings, Postcolonial Contestations 3. Megatrends and Micropolitics in the American Pacific: Tracing Some “Local Motions” from Mark Twain to Bamboo Ridge 4. Blue Hawai‘i: Bamboo Ridge as “Critical Regionalism” 5. Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond 6. Shark God on Trial: Invoking Chief Ka-lani-o‘pu‘u in the Local/Indigenous/American Struggle for Place 7. Good-Bye Paradise: Theorizing Place, Poetics, and Cultural Production in the American Pacific 8. Becoming Global and Local in the U.S. Transnational Imaginary of the Pacific 9. Postmodern X: Honolulu Traces Coda: Part Italian, Part Many Things Else: Creating “Asia/Pacific” along a Honolulu-Taipei Line of Flight

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Book SynopsisThis special issue seeks to examine the effect of postmodernism on Chinese intellectual and creative activity.Trade Review"Several articles offer unique insights into the chaotic and contradictory world of Chinese culture." -- Bonnie S. McDougall, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Postmodernism and China / Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang 1 I. Mapping the Postmodern 1. The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity / Wang Ning 21 2. On Be(ij)ing in the World: "Postmodernism," "Globalization," and the Making of Transnational Space in China / Anthony D. King and Abidin Kusno 41 3. Postmodern Literary Discourse and Contemporary Public Culture in Taiwan / Ping-hiu Liao 68 4. Hong Kong, China, and the Question of Postcoloniality / Xiaoying Wang 89 II. Cultural Politics 5. Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China / Liu Kang 123 6. Global POSTmoderniIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China's Condition / Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu 145 7. Becoming Cyborgian: Postmodernism and Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao 175 III. Cultural Studies 8. Imagined Nostalgia / Dai Jinhua 205 9. The Mysterious Other: Postpolitics in Chinese Film / Chen Xiaoming 222 10. "Let Him Fucking See the Green Smoke Beneath My Groin": The Mythology of Chinese Rock / Jeroen de Kloet 239 11. Borrowed Modernity: History and the Subject in A Borrowed Life / Chao-yang Liao 275 12. Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema / Evans Chan 294 IV. Literary Interventions 13. Postmodernism and Chinese Novels of the Nineties / Zhang Yiwu 325 14. Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran / Wendy Larson 337 15. Melancholy against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow / Xiaobing Tang 358 16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China / Xiaobin Yang 379 Epilogue: Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society—Historicizing the Present / Xudong Zhang 399 Selected Glossary of Terms and Titles 443 Contributors 445 Index 447

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Book SynopsisExplores the debates about reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.Trade Review“This is a deeply compelling and timely book situating Israeli debates about the use of reproductive technology within the context of kinship theory.”—Sarah Franklin, author of Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception"Susan Kahn has given us a first class example of how contemporary ethnography can illuminate the cultural dimensions of the brave new world of new reproductive technologies. Reproducing Jews offers a very different way of conceiving of the relationship between technological change and social life. Sophisticated and well-written, it will be welcomed not only by scholars in a number of fields—anthropology, sociology, feminist studies, Jewish studies, medical anthropology, bioethics—but by those who are curious as to how science, religion, and the desire for children intersect within a particular context."—Faye Ginsburg, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 "The time arrived but the father didn't": A New Continuum of Israeli Conception 9 2 Not Mamzers: The Legislation of Reproduction and the "Issue" of Unmarried Women 64 3 Jewish and Gentile Sperm: Rabbinic Discourse on Sperm and Paternal Relatedness 87 4 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of jewishness 112 5 Multiple Mothers: Surrogacy and the Location of Maternity 140 6 Consequences for Kinship 159 Conclusion: Reproducing Jews and Beyond 172 Appendixes 176 Notes 197 Bibliography 217 Index 223

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Book SynopsisAs a nineteenth-century think-tank that sought answers to France's pressing "social question," the Musee Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. This book presents the story of this institution.Trade Review“[An] elegantly presented book . . . . “ - Maurice Larkin, Times Literary Supplement"This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent job of widening the scope of social welfare history, giving us all a whole new range of actors and issues to contemplate." - Steve M. Beaudoin, Journal of Social History"[An] accomplished book." - Elizabeth Sage, Journal of Modern History"Horne's excellent book is a welcome addition to a growing body of historical works on the late nineteenth-century origins of the French welfare state." - Joshua Cole, Social History“Janet Horne’s book provides not only an excellent history of the Musée Social but also an important new perspective on the activities of turn-of-the-twentieth-century reform networks. It demonstrates that the Musée Social constituted a unique French institution, free from Jacobin, centralizing pressures,where experts, intellectuals, and administrators could interact among themselves. Her work reveals the misunderstood but essential role played by independent reformers in the modernization of France.”—Pierre Rosanvallon, directeur d'études à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales“This book is far more than the history of a single institution. It is also a thoughtful examination of political ideology and social discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an important and convincing argument about the origins of social policy in the Third Republic.”—Don Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“[An] elegantly presented book . . . . “ -- Maurice Larkin * TLS *"[An] accomplished book." -- Elizabeth Sage * Journal of Modern History *"Horne's excellent book is a welcome addition to a growing body of historical works on the late nineteenth-century origins of the French welfare state." -- Joshua Cole * Social History *"This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent job of widening the scope of social welfare history, giving us all a whole new range of actors and issues to contemplate." -- Steve M. Beaudoin * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One. Rhetoric of Reform 1. The Modern Sphinx: Debating the Social Question in Nineteenth- Century France 2. Inventing a Social Museum Part Two. Networking for Reform 3. A Genealogy of Republican Reform 4. A Laboratory for Social Reform Part Three. Implementing Reform 5. Voluntary Associations and the Republican Ideal 6. The Modernity of Hygiene: Interventions in the City Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConnects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated "like cattle and horses" (a line from an anonymous worker's poem on poor working conditions) derived from a fresh but powerfully felt sense of dignity.Trade Review“Like Cattle and Horses stands out as an important and original contribution to debates within Chinese studies about labor and nationalism and a significant addition to the comparative literature on class identities and their political implications.”—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University“Specialists and general readers alike will delight in the stories that Smith tells. This perceptive and original book abounds in good ideas and gems of scholarship and draws on a formidable range of theories. Few historians of China could match this range of expertise.”—Gregor Benton, University of Wales, CardiffTable of ContentsContents: Traditional social networks and identities Nationalist and labor protest at the end of the Qing dynasty The 1911 revolution in Shanghai Nationalist and labor protest, 1913-19 The May Fourth Movement of 1919 The discourse of class The Communists attempt to organize labor. 1920-23 Workers and the nation: Left versus Right, 1923-25 The May Thirtieth Movement, 1925 National and class identities, 1925-27 The surge in labor organization, 1927 Climax of the National Revolution, March-April 1927

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Book SynopsisWhat's Left of the Left offers studies comparing how center-left political parties and movements have fared since the 1970s throughout Europe and in the United States.Trade Review“[D]istinguished scholars offer reflections on the past struggles and accomplishments of left-leaning parties in Europe and the United States and speculate about their future. . . . The book makes the important point that as advanced societies navigate the current moment of global economic uncertainty, liberals and social democrats have a new opportunity to regroup and rethink policies that promote economic security and social justice.” -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *“This book provides a timely update of much of this literature… that will be of particular use to students seeking to get up to speed with the empirical and historical development of social democracy in these particular concrete contexts. Most of the chapters also bring this concrete discussion further up to date than it currently is in most other existing literature on social democratic parties.” -- David Bailey * West European Politics *"In addition to its historical scope, What’s Left sets itself apart from the rest of its genre by including three chapters on the U.S. (regarding the Democratic Party’s evolving coalition, the American welfare state, and U.S. trade policy), making the point that the experiences of the American and European lefts are similar enough that the 'Democrats and social democrats' of the book’s subtitle have much to learn from one another." -- Geoffrey Kurtz * Logos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The New World of the Center-Left / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch 1 Part I: Ideas, Projects, and Electoral Realities Social Democracy's Past and Potential Future / Sheri Berman 29 Historical Decline or Change of Scale? The Electoral Dynamics of European Social Democratic Parties, 1950–2009 / Gerassimos Moschonas 50 Part II: Varieties of Social Democracy and Liberalism Once Again a Model: Nordic Social Democracy in a Globalized World / Jonas Pontusson 89 Embracing Markets, Bonding with America, Trying to Do Good: The Ironies of New Labour / James Cronin 116 Reluctantly Center-Left? The French Case / Arthur Goldhammer and George Ross 141 The Evolving Democratic Coalition: Prospects and Problems / Ruy Teixeira 162 Party Politics and the American Welfare State / Christopher Howard 188 Grappling with Globalization: The Democratic Party's Struggles over International Market Integration / James Shoch 210 Part III: New Risks, New Challenges, New Possibilities European Center-Left Parties and New Social Risks: Facing Up to New Policy Challenges / Jane Jenson 241 Immigration and the European Left / Sofía Pérez 265 The Central and Eastern European Left: A Political Family under Construction / Jean-Michel De Waele and Sorina Soare 290 European Center-Lefts and the Mazes of European Integration / George Ross 319 Conclusion: Progressive Politics in Tough Times / James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch 343 Bibliography 363 About the Contributors 395 Index 399

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Book SynopsisDistinguished scholars detail the extent to which the US Congress has influenced democractic legislatures around the world, and the myriad factors involved in the diffusion of influence. Includes the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Parliament, plus new democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisA compelling study of the divergent political courses taken by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan in the wake of Soviet rule. McGlinchey examines economics, religion, political legacies, foreign investment, and the ethnicity of these countries to evaluate the relative success of political structures in each nation.

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Book SynopsisDuring the turbulent decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Papua New Guinea gained political independence. It was an exciting time for a diverse group of pioneering musicians who formed a band they named âœSangumaâ. Australian ethnomusicologist Denis Crowdy argues that the Sanguma bandâs music was a vital form of cultural expression in sync with sociopolitical change then taking place in PNG.

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Book SynopsisExplores the way the exigencies of war, the dreams of Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the pressures of the Cold War environment combined with pride and patriotism to drive totalitarian state formation in northern Vietnam.Trade ReviewAlec Holcombe’s groundbreaking and superbly crafted manuscript—Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960—is even broader in scope than its capacious title implies. The book is the first serious English-language history of the policy orientation of the Vietnamese communist state during the critical fifteen-year period following World War II. The odd periodization here, conjoining segments of the pre- and post-1954 eras (when contending northern and southern Vietnamese states were first established), reveals insight into modern Vietnamese history that upsets conventional wisdom about continuity and change. Holcombe’s book advances a set of interesting and important arguments based on a deep reading of archival material. It suggests that communist policy toward "mass mobilization" was a key (perhaps the key) element of the movement’s remarkable success.

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Book SynopsisExamines the intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, activism, and decolonization.

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Book SynopsisHow is colonial history taught in schools? And how do education systems impact power relations between Indigenous people and settlers? This book provides a contribution to discussions about knowledge production and the teaching of colonial history in schools with a comparative analysis of two neighbouring settler-colonial societies.

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Book SynopsisArgues that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward.

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Book SynopsisExplores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations.

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Book SynopsisEnglish-language scholarship all too often dismisses South Vietnam as an American creation, a product of US imperialism. Republican Vietnam boldly upends this depiction, exposing a diverse and dynamic portrait of the Second Republic.

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Book SynopsisInterrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895-1945). Chapters emphasize the plurality and heterogeneity of empire, together with the contradictions and tensions of its ideologies of race, nation, and ethnicity.

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of The Handbook of Political Change in Eastern Europe provides an authoritative and thorough analysis of the political changes, which have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of communism.Trade Review'This Handbook offers a historically informed, systematic account of the political development in Central and Eastern Europe. Two chapters lay out a framework for comparison. 26 specialists provide analyses for 19 countries. In an appendix, each of these country chapters documents election results, government composition, the electoral system, and the constitutional framework. The concluding chapter synthesizes the major results. The Handbook is the most comprehensive source for an up-to-date analysis of all Central and Eastern European countries within the sphere of influence of the European Union. It is a "must have" for students and scholars interested in how to evaluate the state of democracy in this region of the globe.' --Hans-Dieter Klingemann, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE and Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany'Lots has changed in Eastern Europe in the past quarter-century and the new edition of this major study of the region sets out these changes in directions for the better and for the worse.' --Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. The Diversity of Political Regimes Sten Berglund and Joakim Ekman 2. The Resilience of History Sten Berglund, Joakim Ekman, Terje Knutsen and Frank Aarebrot 3. Full and Partial Cleavages Kevin Deegan-Krause 4. Estonia Mikko Lagerspetz and Henri Vogt 5. Latvia Daunis Auers 6. Lithuania Kjetil Duvold and Mindaugas Jurkynas 7. Poland Ben Stanley 8. The Czech Republic Zdenka Mansfeldová 9. Slovakia Kevin Deegan-Krause 10. Hungary Gábor Tóka and Sebastian Popa 11. Slovenia Drago Zajc 12. Romania William Crowther and Oana-Valentina Suciu 13. Bulgaria Georgi Karasimeonov and Milen Lyubenov 14. Croatia Andrija Henjak, Nenad Zakošek and Goran Čular 15. Bosnia Timothy Donais 16. Serbia Bojan Todosijević 17. Montenegro Jan O. Haukaas 18. Macedonia Robert Hislope 19. Albania Arba Murati 20. Ukraine Oleh Protsyk 21. Moldova William Crowther 22. Georgia Christofer Berglund 23. Concluding Remarks Sten Berglund, Kevin Deegan-Krause and Joakim Ekman Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book the authors tackle the concept of `quality of government’ (QoG) both conceptually and empirically and apply their focus to EU countries and regions. In a pioneering empirical effort, they map out regional QoG for the first time for 172 NUTS 1 and 2 regions throughout 18 countries in the EU, and provide a detailed methodology.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I: DEFINING QoG AND WHY IT MATTERS TO EUROPE 1. A Focus on the European Union and the Sub-National Dimension of QoG Lewis Dijkstra 2. Conceptualizing QoG Bo Rothstein PART II: QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF QoG IN THE EU 3. Evaluating EU Countries by QoG: National Level Nicholas Charron 4. QoG at the Sub-National Level and the EQI Nicholas Charron PART III: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS FROM THE REGIONAL QUALITATIVE EXPERT INTERVIEWS 5. Variation in Sub-National QoG in Italy and a Closer Look at QoG in Bolzano and Campania Nicholas Charron 6. Variation in Sub-National QoG in Belgium: Flanders and Wallonia Jonas Håkansson 7. Variation in Sub-National QoG in Romania Oana Borcan 8. Conclusions: How to Improve QoG in Europe Victor Lapuente Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. The book assesses the Commission's influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Completing Confederation: The Necessary Foundation Chapter 2: Twenty Years Later: The RCAP Legacy in Indigenous Health System Governance—What about the Next Twenty? Chapter 3: Address by René Dussault, Co-Chair, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Chapter 4: Video Address by Georges Erasmus, Co-Chair, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Chapter 5: Address by Perry Bellegarde, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations Chapter 6: Address by Natan Obed, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Chapter 7: Address by Clément Chartier, President, Metis National Council Chapter 8: Address by Robert Bertrand, National Chief, Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Chapter 9: Address by Francyne Joe, President, Native Women’s Association of Canada Chapter 10: Address by Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Chapter 11: Thunderbird Is Rising: Indigenizing Education in Canada Chapter 12: Insights into Community Development in First Nations: A Poverty Action Research Chapter 13: Indigenous Economic Development with Tenacity Chapter 14: Powerful Communities, Healthy Communities: A Twenty-Five Year Journey of Healing and Wellness Chapter 15: Cultural Safety Chapter 16: What Will It Take? Ending the Canadian Government’s Chronic Failure to Do Better for First Nations Children and Families Chapter 17: The Art of Healing and Reconciliation: From Time Immemorial through RCAP, the TRC, and Beyond Chapter 18: Engaging Citizens in Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relations Chapter 19: SSHRC and the Conscientious Community: Reflecting and Acting on Indigenous Research and Reconciliation in Response to CTA Chapter 20: Canada’s Aboriginal Policy and the Politics of Ambivalence: A Policy Tools Perspective Chapter 21: Executive Summary, Canadian Public Opinion on Aboriginal PeoplesConclusion: What’s the Way Forward?

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Book SynopsisBridging the gap between traditional and contemporary research, Andrea Lippi’s Legitimacy and Legitimation of Political Authorities presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of both legitimacy and legitimation as two theoretical concepts, focusing on their respective roles in political systems today.Trade Review‘Following Machiavelli (in critical times, go to the essential issues), Andrea Lippi revisits originally one of the key traditional concepts of politics (legitimacy) and the related process (legitimation). His theoretical analysis brings innovatively to the fore the multifaceted phenomenon and provides guidelines for empirical analysis.’ -- Leonardo Morlino, LUISS, Rome, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Legitimacy and legitimation of political authorities: why and how? 1 From the crisis of legitimacy to the pursuit of legitimation 2 Political authority 3 . Legitimacy 4 . Legitimation 5 Four dynamics of legitimation: a typology 6 The politics of legitimation References

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Book SynopsisBy revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country''s unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances. Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development Reveals that democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country''s unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances Applies theories and principles relating to the promotion of the development of democracy to the contemporary case studies Table of Contents1 Introduction: Comparative Politics and Democracy. 2 Democracy and Democratization in Historical Perspective. 3 Economics and Political Development. 4 Political Culture and Ethnopolitics. 5 Social Structure and Politics. 6 Democratization and the Global Environment. 7 Electoral Systems. 8 Legislatures and Executives. 9 Comparative Judicial Politics and the Territorial Arrangement of the Political System. 10 Conclusion: Principles in Application. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the Bush era Iran and North Korea were branded rogue states. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call the countries nuclear outliers and has proposed means other than regime change to bring them back into the community of nations. This book raises questions about its feasibility and its possible consequences.Trade ReviewA fine and much recommended read for international studies collections. Midwest Book Review A very insightful book... Litwak is to be congratulated for his impressive contribution. -- Paiso Jamakar Biz India Magazine Nothing has bedeviled U.S. foreign policy more since the end of the Cold War than how to deal with a collection of despotic, hostile, and dangerous middle-tier states, such as Iran and North Korea. In this lucid and thoughtful book, Litwak compares the performances of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations in handling such foes. -- G. John Ikenberry Foreign Affairs Logically organized, conceptually clear, analytically robust and practically useful... Outlier States is destined to become the reference of choice for U.S. officials seeking a clear exposition of the policy dilemmas and options for bringing outlier states in from the cold. -- Stewart Patrick American Interest This is an authoritative, substantive, and well-written account that will be essential reading for students, scholars, and the attentive public who wish to understand the problems of outlier states and the policy changes they represent. -- Robert J. Lieber Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Outlier States and International SocietyPolicy Shifts in WashingtonPower Shifts in the International SystemThe Anarchical Society Revisited2. Pathways into the "Community of Nations"The Assimilation of a Defeated Great PowerThe Evolution of Revolutionary StatesRegime Change from WithoutRegime Change from WithinAssessment and Implications3. Strategies to Contain, Engage, or ChangeSources of Outlier ConductIraq: "Rogue" RollbackLibya: U.S.-Assisted Regime ChangeAssessment and Implications4. Nuclear OutliersProliferation Dynamics and U.S. PolicyNorth Korea: A Failed State with Nuclear WeaponsIran: A Nation or a Cause?Living with Nuclear OutliersConclusionAppendix: Excerpts from National Security Strategy Documents of September 2002 and May 2010NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisContributors: Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Francis Fukuyama, Minxin Pei, Yun-han Chu, Hyug Baeg Im, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Dan Slater, Martin Gainsborough, Don Emmerson, Edward Aspinall, Mark Thompson, Benjamin Reilly, Joseph Wong, Chong-Min Park, Yu-tzung ChangTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Comparative and InstitutionalChapter 1. The Patterns of HistoryChapter 2. Parties, Electoral Systems, and GovernanceChapter 3. From Developmental States to Welfare StatesChapter 4. Regime Performance and Democratic LegitimacyPart II: Northeast AsiaChapter 5. Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?Chapter 6. China and the Taiwan FactorChapter 7. The Two Turnovers in South Korea and TaiwanPart III: Southeast AsiaChapter 8. The Irony of Success in IndonesiaChapter 9. Reviving Reformism in the PhilippinesChapter 10. Thailand's Uneasy PassageChapter 11. Strong-State Democratization in Malaysia and SingaporeChapter 12. Elites vs. Reform in Laos, Cambodia, and VietnamChapter 13. Burma: The Democrats' OpportunityChapter 14. Minding the Gap Between Democracy and GovernanceChapter 15. The Shadow of ChinaIndex

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Book SynopsisIn an era when democracy is increasingly snagged on the age-old practice of patronage, students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, democratization, and international development and economics will be interested in this assessment, which calls for the study of better, more efficient, and just governance.Trade Review... Clarifies its overall claim about clientelism, a distorting and arbitrary distributive pattern that could be improved. Those interested in these issues should thus not miss this highly recommendable book. Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContributors PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Evaluating Political ClientelismPart I: Lessons in Clientelism from Latin AmericaChapter 1. Partisan Linkages and Social Policy Delivery in Argentina and Chile Chapter 2. Chile's Education Transfers, 2001–2009 Chapter 3. The Future of Peru's Brokered Democracy Chapter 4. Teachers, Mayors, and the Transformation of Clientelism in Colombia Chapter 5. Lessons Learned While Studying Clientelistic Politics in the Gray ZoneChapter 6. Political Clientelism and Social Policy in Brazil Part II: Lessons in Clientelism from Other Regions Chapter 7. Patronage, Democracy, and Ethnic Politics in India Chapter 8. Linking Capital and Countryside: Patronage and Clientelism in Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines Chapter 9. Eastern European Postcommunist Variants of Political Clientelism and Social Policy Chapter 10. The Democratization of Clientelism in Sub-Saharan Africa Conclusion: Defining Political Clientelism's Persistence Index

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