Comparative politics Books

Book SynopsisChallenging dominant assumptions in international relations, Altered States demonstrates that national political institutions change more frequentlyand less dramaticallythan is commonly thought and with important consequences for the political landscape. Combining theory with solid empirical researchincluding archival evidence and interviewsthe contributors explore the causes and consequences of institutional transformation in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Republics, and Cuba. Altered States highlights the dynamic and interactive relationship between national political institutions and reform-minded policy entrepreneurs, a perspective that will interest scholars and policy makers alike.Trade ReviewAltered States is an important study of the sources of institutional change. It rightly focuses on advancing our understanding of incremental change and intentional design. The rich variety of empirical examples highlight the important consequences of institutional reforms. -- Elizabeth Kier, University of Washington[This book] will open many avenues for conducting new research into a field of international relations and comparative politics, and will further sharpen our understanding of the politics of this world in which institutions clearly "matter." * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *Over the years scholars of international and comparative politics have made great progress in understanding the impact of state structures and institutions on foreign and domestic policy. They often associated dramatic changes in policy with prior institutional changes, yet left open the key question of when and why instituttions themselves change. In this pathbreaking volume, Andrew Cortell and Susan Peterson have assembled a collection of high-quality essays addressing this question in a wide range of issue-areas and with a geographical scope that encompasses the European Union, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Cuba, the United States, Britain, and Japan. The chapters are theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and the volume as a whole constitutes an important advance in our understanding of institutional change. -- Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, editor of Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsChapter 1 Agents, Structures, and Domestic Institutional Change Chapter 2 European Judicial Review and National Institutional Change Chapter 3 Explaining the Lack of Institutional Change in Cuba Chapter 4 Altering the U.S. State: Post-Vietnam Changes in Foreign Policy Authority Chapter 5 Institutional Change and Post-Communist States: The Transformation of Civilian Control in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia Chapter 6 Institutional Dynamics in Collapsing Empires: Domestic Structural Change in the USSR, Post-Soviet Russia, and Independent Ukraine Chapter 7 Institutionalizing the Regulation of Inward Foreign Direct Investment Chapter 8 Breaking the Policy Bias: Windows of Opportunity and the Realignment of Structural Constraints in Three Government Departments Chapter 9 The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Change

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Book SynopsisThere is a widening range of organizations that are being called upon to do conflict prevention. These actors range from the corporate sector and NGOs to regional and multilateral economic and political organizations, with diverse mandates, leadership, funding, and operational activities. Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality, Volume 2: Opportunities and Innovations offers a critical evaluation of existing and emerging approaches to applied conflict prevention. An international team of practitioners and researchers with rich theoretical and field experience examine the analytical requirements to understand the causes of conflict and link these causes to a range of response options by a variety of relevant actors. They also discuss the newest frontiers of conflict prevention, including the threat of terrorism and the role of the private sector. While development practitioners, the corporate sector, foreign policy makers, and NGOs are coming to conflict prevention from different dTrade ReviewThese two volumes form an encyclopedic study of the means of conflict prevention The first volume examines agents and institutions, the second causes and capacities. The choice of chapters to encompass the components of the subject is careful and comprehensive, and there is much breadth and wisdom in the chapters themselves. The volumes deserve a wide and bifocal audience. For analysts, the two volumes push back the frontiers into new aspects to study; for practitioners, they show that the challenge is in applying what we know aplenty, not in hiding behind claims of ignorance. -- I. William Zartman, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins UniversityIt is always a pleasure to come across volumes with the breadth and scope as the ones edited so perceptively by David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel. Their gumption illuminates the patterns of mainstreaming conflict prevention in the post-Cold War period. In this respect, these tomes are not simply a reassessment of extant analytical frameworks, but an inspiring mapping of politics and policy of conflict prevention. Thence, the two parts of Conflict Prevention are a lasting testimony of the encyclopedic endeavor to chart the gist of different conflict prevention approaches, while presenting a cornucopia of insight and best-practice. * Panorama *The scholarship is first-rate, thorough, and comprehensive. This work will be a significant contribution to the study, training and practice of conflict prevention.... I regard the theoretical discussion in the second volume among its greatest strengths' overall the original evidence, comprehensiveness, and integrative nature of the work are its best features. -- Franke Wilmer, Director and Professor, Political Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, , Director and Professor, Political Science, Montana State University, BozemanTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Into the Mainstream: Applied Conflict Prevention Part 3 Analytical Requirements Chapter 3 Natural Resource Endowment and Conflicts in Developing Countries: From Causes to Possible Solutions Chapter 4 Sources of Violent Conflict Chapter 4 Introducing Gender in Conflict and Conflict Prevention: Conceptual and Policy Implications Chapter 7 Anticipating State Failure Chapter 7 "Mainstreaming" Conflict Prevention Policies of Third-party Actors: Building an In-house Capacity for Preventive Action Chapter 8 Generating the Means to an End: Political Will and Integrated Responses to Early Warning Chapter 8 Human Security and Conflict Prevention Part 9 Response Strategies and Capacity Building Chapter 9 Non-governmental Organizations and Conflict Prevention: Roles, Capabilities, Limitations Chapter 11 Training as a Means to Build Capacity in Conflict Prevention: The UNITAR Approach Chapter 12 Building Capacity within the United Nations: Cooperation of the Prevention of Violent Conflicts Chapter 13 Conflict Prevention through Peace Education: A Debate Part 16 The Frontiers of Applied Conflict Prevention Chapter 17 The Centrality of Confidence Building Measures: Lessons from the Middle East Chapter 18 Preventing Terrorism? Direct Measures First—Intrusive, Nomrative, and Personal Chapter 19 Conflict Prevention and Financial Capacity Building Chapter 20 Assessing the Corporate Sector's Role in Conflict Prevention Chapter 21 The Private Sector and Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA courageous look at the inadequacies of the international humanitarian system and the creative, bold solutions needed to fix them. Based on extensive fieldwork, this study innovatively proposes a High Commissioner for Forced Migrants to address comprehensively the needs of refugees and displaced persons. Its recommendations are a must for policymakers and practitioners interested in filling the legal, institutional, resource and security gaps in the international response to humanitarian emergencies. -- Roberta Cohen, codirector of The Brookings Institution; University of Bern Project on Internal DisplacementThe Uprooted provides a compelling and comprehensive account of the international response to refugee crises and offers a series of valuable suggestions with regard to the way that response might be strengthened. It is essential reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars with an interest in humanitarian action. -- Jeff Crisp, Director of Policy and Research, Global Commission on International MigrationA solid account of current practices of protection offered to forced migrants. * Journal Of Intervention and Statebuilding, April 2009 *Rather than parse legal or institutional distinctions about kinds of war victims, The Uprooted documents the inadequacy of the current international regime for forced migrants. In making sensible proposals to better address the needs of all war-affected populations, this book prods donors, scholars, and aid personnel to think creatively about addressing the problems of people rather than bureaucrats. -- Thomas G. WeissTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Improving Legal Frameworks Chapter 3 Evolving Institutional Responses: Towards a UN High Commissioner for Forced Migrants Chapter 4 Funding Humanitarian Operations Chapter 5 Providing Security to Forced Migrants and Humanitarian Operations Chapter 6 Challenge of Finding Solutions For A Growing Population of Forced Migrants

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis diverse and innovative collection of studies demonstrates that researchers engaged in the systematic study of international politics are continuing, after forty years of effort, to develop new approaches and to address contemporary issues. -- Philip A. Schrodt, University of KansasAn importnat contribution to International Relations scholarship.... will therefore be a useful and welcome addition to courses on methodology in international relations. * Millennium: Journal of International Studies *International relations scholars continue to produce inconsistent findings that impede scientific progress and have limited impact on policy makers. This volume provides a superb diagnosis of the problems involved and useful recommendations for overcoming them, along with some highly innovative and multi-method approaches to both new and old issues in the study of international relations. -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Method-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations Chapter 3 Four Methods and Five Revolutions Part 4 New Directions Chapter 5 International Relations: A Network Approach Chapter 6 Visualization in International Relations Chapter 7 The Postwar Public Health Effects of Civil Conflict Chapter 8 Alliances and the Expansion and Escalation of Militarized Interstate Disputes Chapter 9 Separation of Powers, Lawmaking, and the Use of Military Force Chapter 10 Democracies Prefer to Negotiate: Institutionalized Democracy, Diversion, and Statecraft during International Crises Chapter 11 When Likely Losers Choose War Chapter 12 Enforcing Peace: Suppressing Extremists without Losing the Moderates Chapter 13 Are Leaders Susceptible to Negative Political Advice? An Experimental Study of High-Ranking Military Officers

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Book SynopsisWhy does the academic study of international relations have limited impact on the policy community? When research results are inconsistent, inconclusive, and contradictory, a lack of scholarly consensus discourages policy makers, the business community, and other citizens from trusting findings and conclusions from IR research. In New Directions for International Relations, Alex Mintz and Bruce Russett identify differences in methods of analysis as one cause of these problematic results. They discuss the problem and set the stage for nine chapters by diverse scholars to demonstrate innovative new developments in IR theory and creative new methods that can lay the basis for greater consensus. Looking at areas of concern such as the relationship between lawmaking and the use of military force, the challenge of suppressing extremists without losing moderates, and the public health effects of civil conflict, contributors show how international relations research can generate reliable resulTrade ReviewThis diverse and innovative collection of studies demonstrates that researchers engaged in the systematic study of international politics are continuing, after forty years of effort, to develop new approaches and to address contemporary issues. -- Philip A. Schrodt, University of KansasAn importnat contribution to International Relations scholarship.... will therefore be a useful and welcome addition to courses on methodology in international relations. * Millennium: Journal of International Studies *International relations scholars continue to produce inconsistent findings that impede scientific progress and have limited impact on policy makers. This volume provides a superb diagnosis of the problems involved and useful recommendations for overcoming them, along with some highly innovative and multi-method approaches to both new and old issues in the study of international relations. -- Jack S. Levy, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Method-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations Chapter 3 Four Methods and Five Revolutions Part 4 New Directions Chapter 5 International Relations: A Network Approach Chapter 6 Visualization in International Relations Chapter 7 The Postwar Public Health Effects of Civil Conflict Chapter 8 Alliances and the Expansion and Escalation of Militarized Interstate Disputes Chapter 9 Separation of Powers, Lawmaking, and the Use of Military Force Chapter 10 Democracies Prefer to Negotiate: Institutionalized Democracy, Diversion, and Statecraft during International Crises Chapter 11 When Likely Losers Choose War Chapter 12 Enforcing Peace: Suppressing Extremists without Losing the Moderates Chapter 13 Are Leaders Susceptible to Negative Political Advice? An Experimental Study of High-Ranking Military Officers

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Book SynopsisIn Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular, they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or intentionally overlooked: What do all-embracing terms like ''global citizenship'' really mean? What does democracy mean internationally? A timely work, Democracy at the Crossroads provides a necessary examination and re-interpretation of international perspectives on democracy and global citizenship as they apply to social education.Trade ReviewDemocracy at the Crossroads plumbs the core issues of citizenship education, namely, what constitutes the “good citizen” in today’s globalized society and how individuals come to understand and act on their world. White, Openshaw, and Keller have brought together an impressive group of scholars from around the world in their efforts to unpack the history, assumptions, and practices of citizenship education while critically examining influence of globalization and neoliberalism on the curriculum and aims of social studies education in the 21st century. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested moving beyond the platitudes and passivity that have hitherto marked the dominant strains of education for democracy. -- E. Wayne Ross, University of British ColumbiaDemocracy at the Crossroads will serve as a global benchmark for citizenship education in the early 21st century. -- Merry M. Merryfield, Ohio State UniversityFrom a variety of theoretical and national perspectives, this collection provides an interrogation of unexamined meanings, assumptions, and socio-political dynamics implicated in the programs and rhetorics promoting education for "global citizenship." The need for such work in our world today could hardly be more critical! -- Tony Whitson, University of DelawareTable of Contents1 Preface 2 Part I: Tensions 3 Democracy at the Crossroads? 4 Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Education for Citizenship in New Zealand 5 Freedom or French Fries: Packaged Democracy for World Consumption 6 Towards a Model of Citizenship Education: Coping with Differences in Definition 7 Critical Democratic Education for Social Efficacy 8 Entwined Ideals: Connecting Democracy to Peace 9 Part II: Unpacking Approaches 10 Developing a Global Dimension in Dutch Education 11 The Social Construction of a Curriculum for Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom 12 Reexamining Competing Views of Citizenship Education and Their Influence On Social Studies 13 Developing Global Citizens: The Rhetoric and the Reality in the New Zealand Curriculum 14 Citizenship Education and the Crick Report in England and Wales 15 Part III: National Exemplars 16 Suffering from Enthusiasts? Some Relevant National Case Studies for Global Citizenship Advocates 17 Perceptions of Citizenship in Australia 18 Whose Civics, Whose Citizen: Reconceptualizing U.S. Democracy In the Post Industrial Era 19 Locating Democracy: Meanings and Intersections in the Czech Republic 20 Part IV: School-Based Studies 21 Dealing with Discourses: U.S. Teaching about the Pacific War and Shifting Locations of "American" Identities 22 Jefferson County Open School: Voices of Global Citizenship

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Book SynopsisBy conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today''s migrants include the internally displaced, a category that has only recently entered the international lexicon. But the legal and institutional system created in the aftermath of World War II to address refugee movements is now proving inadequate to provide appropriate assistance and protection to the full range of forced migrants needing attention today. The Uprooted is the first volume to methodically examine the progress and persistent shortcomings of the current humanitarian regime. The authors, all experts in the field of forced migration, describe the organizational, political, and conceptual shortcominTrade ReviewA courageous look at the inadequacies of the international humanitarian system and the creative, bold solutions needed to fix them. Based on extensive fieldwork, this study innovatively proposes a High Commissioner for Forced Migrants to address comprehensively the needs of refugees and displaced persons. Its recommendations are a must for policymakers and practitioners interested in filling the legal, institutional, resource and security gaps in the international response to humanitarian emergencies. -- Roberta Cohen, codirector of The Brookings Institution; University of Bern Project on Internal DisplacementThe Uprooted provides a compelling and comprehensive account of the international response to refugee crises and offers a series of valuable suggestions with regard to the way that response might be strengthened. It is essential reading for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars with an interest in humanitarian action. -- Jeff Crisp, Director of Policy and Research, Global Commission on International MigrationA solid account of current practices of protection offered to forced migrants. * Journal Of Intervention and Statebuilding, April 2009 *Rather than parse legal or institutional distinctions about kinds of war victims, The Uprooted documents the inadequacy of the current international regime for forced migrants. In making sensible proposals to better address the needs of all war-affected populations, this book prods donors, scholars, and aid personnel to think creatively about addressing the problems of people rather than bureaucrats. -- Thomas G. WeissTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Improving Legal Frameworks Chapter 3 Evolving Institutional Responses: Towards a UN High Commissioner for Forced Migrants Chapter 4 Funding Humanitarian Operations Chapter 5 Providing Security to Forced Migrants and Humanitarian Operations Chapter 6 Challenge of Finding Solutions For A Growing Population of Forced Migrants

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Book SynopsisClass Voting in Western Europe provides a rare, systematic, longitudinal, and cross-national study of social class and party choice in eight Western European, democratic countries: Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, (West) Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands. This highly accessible and engaging work is based on data from the Eurobarometer surveys, conducted from 1975-1997. Class Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in class voting and provides and empirical analysis of class voting. This study differentiates between traditional class voting, total class voting, and overall left-right voting. Knutsen''s thorough study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex relationship between modern society and politics.Trade ReviewThis book is a 'must-read' for scholars wanting to understand class voting in comparative perspective. Knutsen clearly demonstrates that class vote is on the decline in eight major European democracies since the early seventies — no matter what measures are used. The analysis is a major contribution to the social cleavage literature inspired by Lipset and Rokkan, and to comparative politics literature in general. -- Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum fuer Sozialforschung, Berlin, and Sciences Po, ParisTable of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Theories and explanations for the decline in class voting Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Social mobility Chapter 4 New social divisions Chapter 5 Cognitive mobilization Chapter 6 The embourgeoisement thesis Chapter 7 New Politics and middle class radicalism Chapter 8 The debate about the political orientations of the service class Chapter 9 Party strategy, class appeal and changes in class structure Chapter 10 The debate about the persistence or decline of class voting Part 11 Part II: Class schema and operationalizations of social class Chapter 12 The Erikson/Goldthorpe class schema Chapter 13 Operationalization of social class: Occupation variables and construction of class variables in the Eurobarometer data set. Part 14 Part III: Party systems, party families and the party choice variable Chapter 15 Voting intention in the Eurobarometer data Chapter 16 Party families and trends in support for the various parties Chapter 17 Socialist/non-socialist party choice Part 18 Part IV: Total class voting Chapter 19 Introduction Chapter 20 The strength of the correlation Chapter 21 Statistical measures for tapping class voting Chapter 22 Party families Chapter 23 Patterns within countries and changes over time Chapter 24 Conclusions: Main patterns regarding changes over time Part 25 Part V: Overall left-right (socialist/non-socialist) class voting Chapter 26 Overall left-right voting for the whole period Chapter 27 Trends in overall left-right class voting Part 28 Part VI: Traditional class voting: Socialist/non-socialist party choiceand the two class variables Chapter 29 Introduction: The relevance of traditional class voting in advances industrial democracies and how it is measured Chapter 30 Empirical analysis: Trends in traditional class voting Chapter 31 Class voting according to a different treatment of the routinenon-manual group Part 32 Part VII: Explanations for changes in class voting Chapter 33 Introduction Chapter 34 Hypotheses about trends and cross-national patterns of class voting Chapter 35 Explaining trends in class voting within countries over time Chapter 36 Explaining the cross-national variations in level of class voting Chapter 37 Pooled time-series cross sectional analyses Chapter 38 Part VIII: Conclusions Part 39 Part IX: Literature

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Book SynopsisGermany and Britain are two major European economies that have been trying to confront the challenges of globalisation in very different ways. Britain has favoured market liberal strategies; Germany has endeavoured to retain its tradition of consensualism and the strong welfare state. Focusing on the period since 1997/8, this book explores the controversies and struggles surrounding the agendas of social, economic, and political modernisation in the two countries. The New Labour governments in Britain and the Social Democratic coalition governments in Germany have been introducing a range of reform policies designed to reform the welfare state and increase the respective country''s competitiveness in the global market. In both countries, however, these policies have triggered societal resistance. The governing parties had to confront electoral setbacks, an exodus of party members, strains on the relationship with traditional political allies, and an increasingly alienated public. WithTable of ContentsChapter 1 Reform-Gridlock and Hyper-Innovation: Germany, Britain and the Project of Societal Modernisation (Ingolfur Blühdorn/Uwe Jun) Chapter 2 Radical Reformers—Defiant Electorates? Reform Policy and International Competitiveness under Schroeder And Blair (Uwe Jun) Chapter 3 Democracy, Efficiency, Futurity: Contested Objectives of Societal Reform (Ingolfur Blühdorn) Chapter 4 Democratic Deficits—Democratic Renewal: Political Detachment, Constitutional Reform and the Politics of Re-engagement in the UK (Lewis Baston) Chapter 5 Misguided Consensualism: Prospects for Reform of the Party-Dominated Federal System in Germany (Frank Decker) Chapter 6 From Corporatist Consensualism to the Politics of Commissions: German Welfare Reform and the Inefficiency of theAlliance for Jobs (Sven Jochem) Chapter 7 Efficiency versus Accountability? Modernizing Governance and Democratic Renewal in Britain, 1997-2005 (Matthew Flinders) Chapter 8 Efficiency in Political Communication and Public Management: A Comparative Analysis of New Labour and the SPD (Uwe Jun) Chapter 9 Efficiency versus Party Democracy? Political Parties and Societal Modernisation in Germany (Elmar Wiesendahl) Chapter 10 German Trade Unions: Partners for Reform or Trapped in Nested Games? (Josef Schmid and Christian Steffen) Chapter 11 Participation, Innovation and Efficiency: Social Movements and the New Genetics in Germany and the UK (Ian Welsh) Chapter 12 The Third Transformation of Democracy: On the Efficient Management of Late-modern Complexity (Ingolfur Blühdorn)

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewVincent Ostrom is well known as a profound and philosophical student of American government. This revised version of his basic book will be welcomed by almost everyone. People who are already familiar with his work and people who are not, but who should be will learn a good deal from reading this improved version. Not only will they learn, but they will probably enjoy it. It is not only profound but also very well written. -- Gordon Tullock, George Mason UniversityThose who teach and write about the founding of the United State have generally come to regard the Federalist Papers as the best commentary for understanding the meaning and intent underlying the U.S. Constitution. I suspect that, over time, many of those same people will come to regard Vincent Ostrom's The Political Theory of a Compound Republic as the best guide for understanding the coherent theory that underlies and ties together the Federalist Papers. It is already one of the four of five indispensible works in publc choice theory along with such works as James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock's The Calculus of Consent. This new revision by Ostrom and Allen will also, I predict, become a classic in public choice theory. -- Donald S. Lutz, University of HoustonThis update of a classic exposition of the Federalist and its contemporary relevance is a welcome relief from narrow notions of administrative federalism and hierarchical intergovernmental relations.Vincent Ostrom is a preeminent champion of multiple centers of power and overlapping jurisdictions as constituting key elements of a republic of liberty and constitutional choice for democratic citizens. -- John Kincaid, Lafayette CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Two Different Approaches to the Design of Public Order Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Introduction: Seeking to Understand Principles of Governance Part 5 Part I. A Political Theory of a Compound Republic Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Point of Departure, Basic Assumptions, and First Principles Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Constitutional Choice Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Some Rudiments of Political Design Chapter 9 Chapter 5. A Republican Remedy for the Republican Disease Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Federal Structures and Their Implications Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Distribution of Authority in the Organization of the National Government Part 12 Part II. More Than Two Centuries Later: Reflections on the American Experiments in Constitutional Choice Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Constitutional Choice and Constitutional Development Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The Twentieth-Century Break withThe Federalist Tradition Chapter 15 Chapter 10. The Constitutional Level of Analysis: A Challenge

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Book SynopsisThe Political Theory of a Compound Republic examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in theFederalist. Through meticulous textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism_the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton_are revealed as thirteen propositions broadly applicable to any effort to design the institutions of a self-governing polity. The final chapters, expanded and revised by Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen, turn to the American experiment in constitutional choice at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In this revised edition, Ostrom and Allen consider the continuing story of federal institutional development by focusing on two current concerns: the ''imperial presidency'' and the ideal of universal human rights. This third, revised and expanded edition of The Political Theory of a Compound Republic continues to be of interest to scholars of federalism, institutional analysis and development, political economy and public choice, and students of the American founding. It is also useful in undergraduate and graduate courses on American government and political thought.Trade ReviewVincent Ostrom is well known as a profound and philosophical student of American government. This revised version of his basic book will be welcomed by almost everyone. People who are already familiar with his work and people who are not, but who should be will learn a good deal from reading this improved version. Not only will they learn, but they will probably enjoy it. It is not only profound but also very well written. -- Gordon Tullock, George Mason UniversityThose who teach and write about the founding of the United State have generally come to regard the Federalist Papers as the best commentary for understanding the meaning and intent underlying the U.S. Constitution. I suspect that, over time, many of those same people will come to regard Vincent Ostrom's The Political Theory of a Compound Republic as the best guide for understanding the coherent theory that underlies and ties together the Federalist Papers. It is already one of the four of five indispensible works in publc choice theory along with such works as James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock's The Calculus of Consent. This new revision by Ostrom and Allen will also, I predict, become a classic in public choice theory. -- Donald S. Lutz, University of HoustonThis update of a classic exposition of the Federalist and its contemporary relevance is a welcome relief from narrow notions of administrative federalism and hierarchical intergovernmental relations.Vincent Ostrom is a preeminent champion of multiple centers of power and overlapping jurisdictions as constituting key elements of a republic of liberty and constitutional choice for democratic citizens. -- John Kincaid, Lafayette CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Two Different Approaches to the Design of Public Order Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Introduction: Seeking to Understand Principles of Governance Part 5 Part I. A Political Theory of a Compound Republic Chapter 6 Chapter 2. Point of Departure, Basic Assumptions, and First Principles Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Constitutional Choice Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Some Rudiments of Political Design Chapter 9 Chapter 5. A Republican Remedy for the Republican Disease Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Federal Structures and Their Implications Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Distribution of Authority in the Organization of the National Government Part 12 Part II. More Than Two Centuries Later: Reflections on the American Experiments in Constitutional Choice Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Constitutional Choice and Constitutional Development Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The Twentieth-Century Break withThe Federalist Tradition Chapter 15 Chapter 10. The Constitutional Level of Analysis: A Challenge

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Book SynopsisAs the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections of the population can become breeding grounds for dissatisfaction, disenchantment, and eventually, targets for terrorist groups. Throughout the cold war period, South Asia served as a strategic region in the bilateral rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union, coupled with China''s careful scrutiny. In the post cold war period, several bilateral conflicts, the nuclear tests of 1998, the post 9/11 world in which South Asia has become a breeding ground for terrorists, entwined with an embattled, albeit a shared history, continue to make India and Pakistan a pivotal region to study. A timely analysis which starts with traditional approaches and combines them with new thinkTrade ReviewRekha Datta's book is an important, theoretically grounded and empirically rich attempt to deal with the nascent concept of human security in India and Pakistan. Even those who work outside this emergent area of international relations will find this book to be thoughtful and provocative. -- Sumit Ganguly, Indiana UniversityThe book will be of interest primarily to the general reader. * CHOICE, December 2008 *Human security is a powerful analytical lens through which to frame the security needs of citizens independently of the military threats to one country from another. India and Pakistan represent a mere one-hundredth of the number of countries in the system of states today. Yet their people comprise one-sixth of the world’s total population, a truer indication of their weight in world affairs. Human security, in addition to enabling us to frame threats differently and more realistically in terms of the daily lives of human beings, also provides a different and more people-friendly policy template for the authoritative allocation of scarce resources. It is a strength of Dr. Datta’s book that, even while delinking security from the state and attaching it to people instead, she highlights the importance of the state in ensuring human security through public policy choices. -- Ramesh Thakur, distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, professor of political science at University of WateTable of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Foreword Chapter 4 1 Through the Looking Glass: Security Imperatives in India and Pakistan Chapter 5 2 From State Security to Human Security: Bringing the State Back In Chapter 6 3 The Kashmir Quagmire Chapter 7 4 The Nuclear Nexus Chapter 8 5 Beyond War to Making Money Chapter 9 6 Human Security, Millennium Development Goals, and Education Chapter 10 7 Public Health and Human Security Chapter 11 8 Security Through Dignity: Addressing Violence Against Women Chapter 12 9 Conclusion: Toward a New Paradigm—Will Human Security Guarantee Safety? Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 About the Author

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Book SynopsisAs the world is changing, many scholars, analysts, and policy makers agree that even as governments need to confront external threats, creating sustainable domestic environments is imperative as a policy priority. As events surrounding September 11, 2001 continue to remind us, marginalized sections of the population can become breeding grounds for dissatisfaction, disenchantment, and eventually, targets for terrorist groups. Throughout the cold war period, South Asia served as a strategic region in the bilateral rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union, coupled with China''s careful scrutiny. In the post cold war period, several bilateral conflicts, the nuclear tests of 1998, the post 9/11 world in which South Asia has become a breeding ground for terrorists, entwined with an embattled, albeit a shared history, continue to make India and Pakistan a pivotal region to study. A timely analysis which starts with traditional approaches and combines them with new thinkTrade ReviewRekha Datta's book is an important, theoretically grounded and empirically rich attempt to deal with the nascent concept of human security in India and Pakistan. Even those who work outside this emergent area of international relations will find this book to be thoughtful and provocative. -- Sumit Ganguly, Indiana UniversityThe book will be of interest primarily to the general reader. * CHOICE, December 2008 *Human security is a powerful analytical lens through which to frame the security needs of citizens independently of the military threats to one country from another. India and Pakistan represent a mere one-hundredth of the number of countries in the system of states today. Yet their people comprise one-sixth of the world’s total population, a truer indication of their weight in world affairs. Human security, in addition to enabling us to frame threats differently and more realistically in terms of the daily lives of human beings, also provides a different and more people-friendly policy template for the authoritative allocation of scarce resources. It is a strength of Dr. Datta’s book that, even while delinking security from the state and attaching it to people instead, she highlights the importance of the state in ensuring human security through public policy choices. -- Ramesh Thakur, distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, professor of political science at University of WateTable of ContentsChapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Foreword Chapter 4 1 Through the Looking Glass: Security Imperatives in India and Pakistan Chapter 5 2 From State Security to Human Security: Bringing the State Back In Chapter 6 3 The Kashmir Quagmire Chapter 7 4 The Nuclear Nexus Chapter 8 5 Beyond War to Making Money Chapter 9 6 Human Security, Millennium Development Goals, and Education Chapter 10 7 Public Health and Human Security Chapter 11 8 Security Through Dignity: Addressing Violence Against Women Chapter 12 9 Conclusion: Toward a New Paradigm—Will Human Security Guarantee Safety? Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis careful study is one of a handful that truly takes an 'unbiased' empirical approach to measuring bias in national news outlets. It persuasively refutes simplistic accusations of journalistic bias and points the way toward greater understanding of the media's role in shaping public opinion. -- Robert Entman, Shapiro Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs, The George Washington UniversityTable of Contents1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. The Media Bias Debate Chapter 4 2. Mainstream and Partisan Newsmagazines Chapter 5 3. Measuring Media Bias Chapter 6 4. Comparing Time, Newsweek, the National Review, and the Progressive Coverage of Selected Social Issues, 1975-2000 Chapter 7 5. The Use of Information Sources in Partisan Publications Chapter 8 6. Does Historical Context Influence Media Bias? Chapter 9 7. Have our Media Been Serving Democracy in their Coverage of Domestic Social Issues? Chapter 10 Bibliography 11 Index 12 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisMedia Bias? addresses the question: To what extent can mainstream news media be characterized as ''conservative'' or ''liberal''? The study involves a systematic comparative analysis of the coverage given to major domestic social issues from 1975 to 2000 by two mainstream newsmagazines, Newsweek and Time, and two explicitly partisan publications, the conservative National Review and the liberal Progressive. Working from the idea that some biased accounts of social issues can perform several positive functions for the maintenance and vitality of political democracy, Adkins Covert and Wasburn offer a new methodology for analyzing bias empirically, one that is capable of producing valid and reliable findings. They begin by defining the meaning of ''bias'' and discuss possible methods of measuring media bias empirically and systematically. By comparing each publication''s coverage on poverty, crime, the environment, and gender-issues in which the line between the conservative and liberal positions are clearly delineated-the authors consider both the positive and negative consequences of media bias and how the bias plays out within a media-conscious democratic society.Trade ReviewThis careful study is one of a handful that truly takes an 'unbiased' empirical approach to measuring bias in national news outlets. It persuasively refutes simplistic accusations of journalistic bias and points the way toward greater understanding of the media's role in shaping public opinion. -- Robert Entman, Shapiro Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs, The George Washington UniversityTable of Contents1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. The Media Bias Debate Chapter 4 2. Mainstream and Partisan Newsmagazines Chapter 5 3. Measuring Media Bias Chapter 6 4. Comparing Time, Newsweek, the National Review, and the Progressive Coverage of Selected Social Issues, 1975-2000 Chapter 7 5. The Use of Information Sources in Partisan Publications Chapter 8 6. Does Historical Context Influence Media Bias? Chapter 9 7. Have our Media Been Serving Democracy in their Coverage of Domestic Social Issues? Chapter 10 Bibliography 11 Index 12 About the Authors

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Book SynopsisAfrican Renaissance in the Millennium frames a critical debate for the essential and necessary transformation of Africa in this epoch. E. Ike Udogu highlights how the political, social, and economic development enterprises are to be vigorously pursued in order to advance the continent''s renewal. Bringing into focus the discourses that are significant to move the continent forward, the author provides possible strategies that might lead to peaceful coexistence, development, and generation of wealth for the area''s recovery. After several decades of policy missteps, inadequate government, ethnic and religious conflicts, and civil war, Africa is in need of this resurgence.African Renaissance in the Millennium is a book appropriate to all levels of students and researchers with an interest in Africa''s future.Trade ReviewSince independence, African countries have struggled to adopt political and economic systems that would enhance peaceful coexistence of population groups and promote genuine development. In African Renaissance in the New Millennium: The Political, Social and Economic Discourses on the Way Forward, E. Ike Udogu, a veteran student of African studies, provides a rigorous, multidisciplinary analysis of the failure of the postcolonial state in Africa to guarantee peaceful coexistence and enhance genuine economic development. The analysis is refreshing, highly compelling, informative, and provides very useful suggestions for moving the continent forward in the twenty-first century. -- John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 2 From Past to Present: A Concise Overview of Political and Economic Development Chapter 3 Transition to and Consolidation of Democracy: Which Way Forward? Chapter 4 Ethnic Conflict and Politics: The Economic and Social Implications for Africa's Rebirth Chapter 5 Underdevelopment and the Immigration of African Intelligentsia: What is to be done? Chapter 6 Conclusion: The State, Civil Society and the Development Enterprise Chapter 7 Appendix A: The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World. South Africa Deputy President Thabo Mbeki Speaks at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, April 9, 1998. Chapter 8 Appendix B: USA-African Dialogue Series, Nigeria: Corruption and Democracy Remarks made at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Quarterly Seminar/Colloquium, University of Ibadan, on January 31, 2007. Delivered by Nuhu Ribadu, Executive Chairm

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Book SynopsisWhen Worlds Elide responds to the various incarnations of "the Greek" legacy that continues to mark our politics, our society, and our education. It offers both an elaboration of these incarnations and a critique of how they are understood and used politically, culturally, theoretically, and pedagogically.Trade ReviewAnyone who has doubted the value of antiquity for the twenty-first century will come away from this book a true believer in the relevance of classics to the most pressing contemporary concerns. Far from offering easy solutions or facile analogies, When Worlds Elide boldly critiques classics itself in relation to nationalism, elites, material culture, and the structure of the university. This is a must-read resource—lucid, complex and exciting—for those interested in abiding questions: What makes a community? Who should lead? What is ethical? How do we reconcile money and political ambition? -- Richard P. Martin, Stanford UniversityThis exciting collection, with its stellar list of contributors, sets a bold agenda for the interdisciplinary study of classics and politics in the twenty-first century. It proves that it is indeed possible to conjoin theoretical insight with erudition and a passionate commitment to the enduring significance of Greek antiquity. -- Josiah Ober, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Classics Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Origins, Culture, and Identity in Classical Antiquity Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Greece of the East: Philhellenism in Imperial Japan Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism Chapter 6 Chapter 4.The Materiality of Classical Studies Part 7 Part Two: Politics Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Making Prometheus Speak: Dialogue, Torture, and the Power of Secrets in Prometheus Bound Chapter 9 Chapter 6. For Love of the Impossible: Antigone, Memory, and the Politics of Possibility Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Athens' Tale of Two Cities: Themistocles, Theseus, and the Construction of "Place" in Fifth-Century Athens Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Thucydides in Baghdad Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Before Race: Theorizing Athenian Citizen Identity Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Comedy, the Ordinary Citizen, and the Salvation of the City Part 14 Part Three: Culture Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back Chapter 16 Chapter 12. The Comparative Politics of Travel: Theôria, Talab al-'Ilm and the Search for Knowledge Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Socrates, Palamedes, and the Trials of Philosophy Chapter 18 Chapter 14. Body, Soul, and Medical Analogy in Plato Chapter 19 Chapter 15. Men completely wild in appearance and way oflife: Fauns, Satyrs, Androgynes, Ichtyophages, Hippopodes, Sciopodes, Himantipodes, [and] Cyclopes Chapter 20 Chapter 16. Suppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men

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Book SynopsisWhen Worlds Elide responds to the various incarnations of 'the Greek' legacy that continues to mark our politics, our society, and our education. It offers both an elaboration of these incarnations and a critique of how they are understood and used politically, culturally, theoretically, and pedagogically.Trade ReviewAnyone who has doubted the value of antiquity for the twenty-first century will come away from this book a true believer in the relevance of classics to the most pressing contemporary concerns. Far from offering easy solutions or facile analogies, When Worlds Elide boldly critiques classics itself in relation to nationalism, elites, material culture, and the structure of the university. This is a must-read resource—lucid, complex and exciting—for those interested in abiding questions: What makes a community? Who should lead? What is ethical? How do we reconcile money and political ambition? -- Richard P. Martin, Stanford UniversityThis exciting collection, with its stellar list of contributors, sets a bold agenda for the interdisciplinary study of classics and politics in the twenty-first century. It proves that it is indeed possible to conjoin theoretical insight with erudition and a passionate commitment to the enduring significance of Greek antiquity. -- Josiah Ober, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Classics Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Origins, Culture, and Identity in Classical Antiquity Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Greece of the East: Philhellenism in Imperial Japan Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism Chapter 6 Chapter 4.The Materiality of Classical Studies Part 7 Part Two: Politics Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Making Prometheus Speak: Dialogue, Torture, and the Power of Secrets in Prometheus Bound Chapter 9 Chapter 6. For Love of the Impossible: Antigone, Memory, and the Politics of Possibility Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Athens' Tale of Two Cities: Themistocles, Theseus, and the Construction of "Place" in Fifth-Century Athens Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Thucydides in Baghdad Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Before Race: Theorizing Athenian Citizen Identity Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Comedy, the Ordinary Citizen, and the Salvation of the City Part 14 Part Three: Culture Chapter 15 Chapter 11. Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back Chapter 16 Chapter 12. The Comparative Politics of Travel: Theôria, Talab al-'Ilm and the Search for Knowledge Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Socrates, Palamedes, and the Trials of Philosophy Chapter 18 Chapter 14. Body, Soul, and Medical Analogy in Plato Chapter 19 Chapter 15. Men completely wild in appearance and way oflife: Fauns, Satyrs, Androgynes, Ichtyophages, Hippopodes, Sciopodes, Himantipodes, [and] Cyclopes Chapter 20 Chapter 16. Suppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men

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Book SynopsisThe questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville''s contributions to the development of modern social sciences. Among the questions addressed by Tocqueville were: How does the weight of the past affect the evolution of political institutions and political behavior? What impact do differences in physical environment have on the organization of society? What are the relationships between social equality, freedom, and democracy? To what extent does centralization destroy the capacity for local initiative and self-governance? What conditions are needed to nurture the flourishing of self-governing communities? What safeguards are needed to preserve freedom and to prevent incipient democracies from becoming dictatorships? Why has democracy had such a problem taking holTrade ReviewConversations with Tocqueville is a stimulating book, full of powerful and provocative ideas. Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar have produced a first-rate collection that significantly enhances our understanding of Tocqueville as a social scientist and shows how his mode of analysis, faithfully recast in the form of Tocquevillian analytics, can be used to uncover and assess the rich diversity of contemporary efforts to achieve democracy in different regions of the world. A masterful blend of political theory and comparative analysis. -- Filippo Sabetti, McGill UniversityIn the introduction to Democracy in America, Tocqueville famously observed that a great 'democratic revolution' was in the process of radically transforming the entire civilized world. That 'revolution' might bring with it liberty or new and unprecedented forms of despotism, but it would surely bring an end—sooner in some cases, later in others—to all the 'old regimes' in the world. This splendid collection deepens our understanding of Tocqueville’s thought and allows us to better understand the 'democratic revolution' as it has unfolded over the last century and a half from Paris and Moscow to Tokyo and beyond. It will be of interest to students of political theory and comparative politics and to thoughtful citizens as such. -- Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption CollegeCompellingly coherent...an audacious engagement with Tocqueville's notion of democracy and its semantic frontiers. * Journal of Democracy *The variety of methodological and ideological perspectives mirrors Tocqueville's own multifaceted approach.Such a reactualization of Tocqueville's analytics, especially in light of today's global economic and financial crisis, can both prompt a broad audience to reconsider its perspectives on the challenges currently facing democracy, and challenge any scholars still hanging on to the pernicious ideal of a value-free social science. -- Alin Fumurescu * Perspectives on Political Science, Summer 2009 *Conversations with Tocqueville is a masterly demonstration that Tocqueville's analysis of democracy remains not only relevant in the twenty-first century, but essential. Tocqueville wrote of democracy in America to instruct democracies everywhere, and fittingly the essays of this volume ably adapt Tocqueville's central themes and questions to a variety of nations and circumstances. It is a rich and thoughtful collection informed by Tocqueville's capacious hopes for, and fears about, democracy, and will be of benefit to anyone interested in our diverse democratic future. -- Patrick Deneen, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and Us Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution Part 4 Part I. Tocquevillian Analytics Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution Chapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville? Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970 Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala? Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the Left Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian Democracy Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in Burma Chapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan

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Book SynopsisThe questions and issues raised by Tocqueville in his monumental studies of France and America are just as crucial for understanding the evolution of democracy in the West and the development of democracy in the non-western world. They clearly show the breadth of Tocqueville''s contributions to the development of modern social sciences. Among the questions addressed by Tocqueville were: How does the weight of the past affect the evolution of political institutions and political behavior? What impact do differences in physical environment have on the organization of society? What are the relationships between social equality, freedom, and democracy? To what extent does centralization destroy the capacity for local initiative and self-governance? What conditions are needed to nurture the flourishing of self-governing communities? What safeguards are needed to preserve freedom and to prevent incipient democracies from becoming dictatorships? Why has democracy had such a problem taking holTrade ReviewConversations with Tocqueville is a stimulating book, full of powerful and provocative ideas. Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar have produced a first-rate collection that significantly enhances our understanding of Tocqueville as a social scientist and shows how his mode of analysis, faithfully recast in the form of Tocquevillian analytics, can be used to uncover and assess the rich diversity of contemporary efforts to achieve democracy in different regions of the world. A masterful blend of political theory and comparative analysis. -- Filippo Sabetti, McGill UniversityIn the introduction to Democracy in America, Tocqueville famously observed that a great 'democratic revolution' was in the process of radically transforming the entire civilized world. That 'revolution' might bring with it liberty or new and unprecedented forms of despotism, but it would surely bring an end—sooner in some cases, later in others—to all the 'old regimes' in the world. This splendid collection deepens our understanding of Tocqueville’s thought and allows us to better understand the 'democratic revolution' as it has unfolded over the last century and a half from Paris and Moscow to Tokyo and beyond. It will be of interest to students of political theory and comparative politics and to thoughtful citizens as such. -- Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption CollegeCompellingly coherent...an audacious engagement with Tocqueville's notion of democracy and its semantic frontiers. * Journal of Democracy *The variety of methodological and ideological perspectives mirrors Tocqueville's own multifaceted approach.Such a reactualization of Tocqueville's analytics, especially in light of today's global economic and financial crisis, can both prompt a broad audience to reconsider its perspectives on the challenges currently facing democracy, and challenge any scholars still hanging on to the pernicious ideal of a value-free social science. -- Alin Fumurescu * Perspectives on Political Science, Summer 2009 *Conversations with Tocqueville is a masterly demonstration that Tocqueville's analysis of democracy remains not only relevant in the twenty-first century, but essential. Tocqueville wrote of democracy in America to instruct democracies everywhere, and fittingly the essays of this volume ably adapt Tocqueville's central themes and questions to a variety of nations and circumstances. It is a rich and thoughtful collection informed by Tocqueville's capacious hopes for, and fears about, democracy, and will be of benefit to anyone interested in our diverse democratic future. -- Patrick Deneen, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Tocqueville and Us Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Citizen Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton's Query and Tocqueville's Conjecture about the Democratic Revolution Part 4 Part I. Tocquevillian Analytics Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Global Democratic Revolution Chapter 6 Chapter 4. What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville? Part 7 Part II. Tocquevillian Analytics and the Contemporary World Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Racial Equality and Social Equality: Understanding Tocqueville’s Democratic Revolution and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1970 Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Democracy? In Guatemala? Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Grafting the Head of Liberty? Latin America’s Move to the Left Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Th e Peril of Democratic Despotism in West European Egalitarian Democracy Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Democracy in Russia: A Tocquevillian Perspective Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Tocqueville in Africa: Analyzing African Local Governance Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Roots of Democracy in Burma Chapter 15 Chapter 12. The Road to Democracy in China: A Tocquevillian Analysis Chapter 16 Chapter 13. Tocqueville and Japan

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 1. Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: Is There Still Anything to Explore? Part 3 I. Questioning Conceptions of Nationalism Chapter 4 2. Civic Nationalism and the Nation-State: Towards a Dynamic Model of Convergence Chapter 5 4. The Unbearable Lightness of British “Liberal Nationalism” Part 6 II. Three Perspectives on Nationalism in Europe Chapter 7 4. European Nationalism and European Identity Chapter 8 5. Globalization and Nationalism in Europe: Demolishing Walls and Building Boundaries Chapter 9 6. Theorizing Regional Minority Nationalism Part 10 III. Old Nationalism in Western Europe? Chapter 11 7. "Back to the Future" with the Vlaams Belang? Flemish Nationalism as a Modernizing Project in a Post-Modern European Union Chapter 12 8. National Pride and Prejudice: The Case of Germany Chapter 13 9. Nationalism in Italy Part 14 IV. New Nationalism in Eastern Europe? Chapter 15 10. Marginalized Radicalism: The Recent Trends in Latvian Nationalism Chapter 16 11. The Grass Was Always Greener in the Past: Re-Nationalizing Bulgaria’s Return to Europe Chapter 17 12. The Importance of Being European: Narratives of East and West in Serbian and Croatian Nationalism Chapter 18 13. Nationalism in Contemporary Europe: Multiplicity and West-East Similarity 19 Index 20 About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Democracy at the Crossroads, the editors argue that there have been too few scholarly attempts to provide a comprehensive critique of the assumptions behind citizenship education. In particular, they ask the distinguished contributors to this volume to address difficult but essential questions that are often avoided or intentionally overlooked: What do all-embracing terms like ''global citizenship'' really mean? What does democracy mean internationally? A timely work, Democracy at the Crossroads provides a necessary examination and re-interpretation of international perspectives on democracy and global citizenship as they apply to social education.Trade ReviewDemocracy at the Crossroads plumbs the core issues of citizenship education, namely, what constitutes the “good citizen” in today’s globalized society and how individuals come to understand and act on their world. White, Openshaw, and Keller have brought together an impressive group of scholars from around the world in their efforts to unpack the history, assumptions, and practices of citizenship education while critically examining influence of globalization and neoliberalism on the curriculum and aims of social studies education in the 21st century. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested moving beyond the platitudes and passivity that have hitherto marked the dominant strains of education for democracy. -- E. Wayne Ross, University of British ColumbiaDemocracy at the Crossroads will serve as a global benchmark for citizenship education in the early 21st century. -- Merry M. Merryfield, Ohio State UniversityFrom a variety of theoretical and national perspectives, this collection provides an interrogation of unexamined meanings, assumptions, and socio-political dynamics implicated in the programs and rhetorics promoting education for "global citizenship." The need for such work in our world today could hardly be more critical! -- Tony Whitson, University of DelawareTable of Contents1 Preface 2 Part I: Tensions 3 Democracy at the Crossroads? 4 Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Education for Citizenship in New Zealand 5 Freedom or French Fries: Packaged Democracy for World Consumption 6 Towards a Model of Citizenship Education: Coping with Differences in Definition 7 Critical Democratic Education for Social Efficacy 8 Entwined Ideals: Connecting Democracy to Peace 9 Part II: Unpacking Approaches 10 Developing a Global Dimension in Dutch Education 11 The Social Construction of a Curriculum for Citizenship Education in the United Kingdom 12 Reexamining Competing Views of Citizenship Education and Their Influence On Social Studies 13 Developing Global Citizens: The Rhetoric and the Reality in the New Zealand Curriculum 14 Citizenship Education and the Crick Report in England and Wales 15 Part III: National Exemplars 16 Suffering from Enthusiasts? Some Relevant National Case Studies for Global Citizenship Advocates 17 Perceptions of Citizenship in Australia 18 Whose Civics, Whose Citizen: Reconceptualizing U.S. Democracy In the Post Industrial Era 19 Locating Democracy: Meanings and Intersections in the Czech Republic 20 Part IV: School-Based Studies 21 Dealing with Discourses: U.S. Teaching about the Pacific War and Shifting Locations of "American" Identities 22 Jefferson County Open School: Voices of Global Citizenship

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on public opinion on issues related to the theory of meritocracy. It employs survey data from a variety of sources in an attempt to understand public sentiments, highlighting the contradictory nature of American public opinion and questioning the belief that Americans fully embrace the meritocratic ethos.Trade ReviewHow can Americans "tolerate such unmeritocratic reality," given that they claim to value meritocracy? In Meritocracy and Americans' Views on Distributive Justice , Richard T. Longoria sets out to analyze Americans' contradictory relationship to the meritocratic ethos.... the project Longoria undertakes does succeed in calling attention to Americans' contradictory sentiments about meritocratic ideals. * Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2009-10 *In this a very readable and compelling book, Richard Longoria vividly exposes the dilemma of the contradictory public attitudes and beliefs about meritocracy that Americans hold and what this means for 'public' policy and the prospect for American democracy. -- Stephen J. McNamee, professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina WilmingtonTable of Contents1 Table of Contents 2 List of Tables 3 Preface 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 1. What is Meritocracy? Chapter 6 2. Understanding Public Opinion and the Philosophical Debate Chapter 7 3. Popular Ideas Concerning Meritocracy Chapter 8 4. Meritocracy Revealed: The Case of Inheritance and Its Taxation Chapter 9 5. Meritocracy Revealed: The Case of Affirmative Action Chapter 10 6. The Consequences for American Democracy Chapter 11 7. Conclusions 12 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book aims at uncovering the main obstacles and challenges to the Turkish accession to the European Union. Turkey's membership is one of the most important steps for the future of the European Union in terms of its integration and identity. The book provides a succinct analysis of the process and its future implications.Trade ReviewThis volume provides a collection of incisive analyses of EU-Turkey relations. Each of the chapter contributions offers critical interrogation of a relationship that is both under-studied and frequently misunderstood. The analysis contained within Turkey-European Union Relations deserves to be widely read and will receive ready appreciation. -- Richard G. Whitman, University of BathThis book takes the debate about Turkey-EU relations to a new level–a splendid collection of essays between detailed analyses and challenging provocations across theoretical and political divides. -- Thomas Diez, University of BirminghamThis edited book by Meltem Muftuler-Bac and Yannis Stivachtis is a timely volume that offers insights into complex issues covering EU-Turkey relations. The contributors meticulously cover past, present, and future topics in a comparative perspective and present important conclusions that have significant theoretical and policy implications not only for this case but also for regional integration in Europe. This book is a must read for scholars and policy makers alike. -- Birol Yesilada, Portland State UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Dilemmas in EU-Turkey Relations Chapter 3 1. Europe and the 'Turk': An English School Approach to the Study of EU-Turkish Relations Chapter 4 2. Turkish Accession and the Quest for a European Polity: Discursive Strategies and Organized Hypocrisy Chapter 5 3. European Strategic Vision and Turkey's EU Bid Chapter 6 4. The Strategic Implications of Turkey's EU Membership Part 7 Part II: Opportunities and Constraints in Turkey-European Union Relations Chapter 8 5. Turkey's Accession Negotiations with the European Union: The Long Path Ahead Chapter 9 6. Turkey and the 'New Europe': Challenges and Opportunities during the Accession Negotiations Chapter 10 7. Greek and Greek Cypriot Views of Turkey's Accession to the European Union: On the Endurance of a Spectacular Paradigmatic Shift Chapter 11 8. The Cyprus Question in the Programs of the Turkish Governments and the Turkish Political Parties, 1980-2005 Chapter 12 9. Turkey's Changing Perceptions of the EU: From Partnership to Patronship—The Ever Changing Nature of EU Conditionality in an Ever Distanced Europe Chapter 13 10. Redefining State and Society in the March Toward Europe: The Radicalization of Turkey Chapter 14 11. Current Turkish Economic Policies and the Target of EU Membership Part 15 Part III: EU-Turkey Accession Negotiations: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 16 12. A Promising Comparison: Greek and Turkish Elite Attitudes to European Integration Chapter 17 13. Fulfilling the Copenhagen Political Criteria: A Comparison between Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania Chapter 18 14. Civil-Military Relations as a Component of Democratic Consolidation in Turkey: A Comparison with Greece

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Book SynopsisDemocracy (Made in Taiwan) argues that post-colonialism and Confucianism met at the historical moment when democratization and liberalization occurred in Taiwan. The familiar political science standards take little note of either Confucianism or postcolonialism. In fact, these standards are unbalanced, wishful, and Washington-centric, and result in a misunderstanding of Taiwan''s performance. The liberal bias blinds international observers to the hybrid characteristics embedded in Taiwan''s postcolonial history. Although this book is not about failing states per se, its criticism of the standards of success alludes to the problematic nature of the mainstream view of failing states. In many aspects, Taiwan is a disguised failure, or even a fake, in the sense that its democratization adopts a populist identity strategy rather than a liberal one. In addition, its foreign policy compliance to hegemonic leadership is characterized by anti-China determination, instead of a realist approach iTrade ReviewShih is an outstanding scholar. This book will further consolidate this reputation. More specifically, the book speaks directly to hotly contested terrain (both in the realm of Taiwanese politics and the discipline of political science). In it, Shih presses his readers to reconsider what we think we already know about both Taiwanese democratization and democratic theory. In so doing, he proposes a series of challenging questions regarding recent developments on the island (and in the international sphere). This is no small accomplishment, especially as the vast majority of books written about Taiwan fall well short of such a goal. -- Allen Carlson, Cornell UniversityChih-yu Shih has established himself as one of the most original thinkers in the field of Chinese politics and foreign policy. In Democracy (Made in Taiwan), Shih sets his sights on democracy in Taiwan today, which he finds to be a Potemkin village, a 'disguised failure.' Western Liberalism, furthermore, is complicit in this deceit. Democracy (Made in Taiwan) is sure to provoke debate among those brave enough to confront Shih’s arguments. -- Peter H. Gries, Institute for U.S.-China Issues, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: Political Theory and Taiwan Part 2 Part I: The Taiwan Success Revisited Chapter 3 Not about Human Rights Chapter 4 Not about Liberalism Part 5 Part II: The "Rational Actor" Backfire Chapter 6 The Loss of the Median Voter Chapter 7 The Loss of an Ally Part 8 Part III: Political Theory in Practice Chapter 9 Back from the Future Chapter 10 The World Timing of Un-Chinese Consciousness Part 11 Part IV: Two Theses on Confucian Democracy Chapter 12 Parenting Personality Chapter 13 Beyond the State-Society Divide Part 14 Conclusion: Political Theory for Democratic Ontology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Harmonious World" and China’s New Foreign Policy offers a comprehensive and well-researched examination of the important elements of contemporary Chinese foreign policy, including policy toward the great powers, its increasing presence in Africa, and the implications of its growing demand for imported energy resources. It is a valuable resource for both students and for specialists in Chinese foreign policy. -- Robert Ross, Boston CollegeThis timely volume provides insightful, multidimensional analysis of the new development in Chinese foreign policy. It deepens our understanding of Chinese thinking and behavior by addressing multiple challenges in China's search for a 'harmonious world' in uncertain circumstances. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand China's rapidly growing role in a changing world. -- Guoli Liu, College of CharlestonThe editors' well-written introduction and the subsequent five chapters by Jianwei Wang, Zhongqi Pan, Kai He, Jing Men, and Sheng Ding respectively, take stock of the deeper cultural and philosophical roots while discussing examples of contemporary foreign policy concerns, and therefore exude a more timeless quality, the sort that will prove valuable for other's seeking a good citation or two for their own works. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: "Harmonious World" and China's New Foreign Policy Chapter 2 1. China's New Frontier Diplomacy Chapter 3 2. China's Changing Image of and Engagement in World Order Chapter 4 3. China's Peaceful Rise and Multilateral Institutions: In Search of a Harmonious World Chapter 5 4. China's Rise and Its Relations with Other Major Powers: Competitors or Partners? Chapter 6 5. To Build a "Harmonious World": China's Soft Power Wielding in the Global South Chapter 7 6. "Harmonious World" and China's Foreign Economic Policy: Features, Implications, and Challenges Chapter 8 7. New Africa Policy: China's Quest for Oil and Influence Chapter 9 8. China's Energy Security and Its Strategic Implications Chapter 10 9. "Harmonious World" and Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy Chapter 11 10. The Future of Sino-American Military Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHarmonious World and China’s New Foreign Policy offers a comprehensive and well-researched examination of the important elements of contemporary Chinese foreign policy, including policy toward the great powers, its increasing presence in Africa, and the implications of its growing demand for imported energy resources. It is a valuable resource for both students and for specialists in Chinese foreign policy. -- Robert Ross, Boston CollegeThis timely volume provides insightful, multidimensional analysis of the new development in Chinese foreign policy. It deepens our understanding of Chinese thinking and behavior by addressing multiple challenges in China's search for a 'harmonious world' in uncertain circumstances. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand China's rapidly growing role in a changing world. -- Guoli Liu, College of CharlestonThe editors' well-written introduction and the subsequent five chapters by Jianwei Wang, Zhongqi Pan, Kai He, Jing Men, and Sheng Ding respectively, take stock of the deeper cultural and philosophical roots while discussing examples of contemporary foreign policy concerns, and therefore exude a more timeless quality, the sort that will prove valuable for other's seeking a good citation or two for their own works. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: "Harmonious World" and China's New Foreign Policy Chapter 2 1. China's New Frontier Diplomacy Chapter 3 2. China's Changing Image of and Engagement in World Order Chapter 4 3. China's Peaceful Rise and Multilateral Institutions: In Search of a Harmonious World Chapter 5 4. China's Rise and Its Relations with Other Major Powers: Competitors or Partners? Chapter 6 5. To Build a "Harmonious World": China's Soft Power Wielding in the Global South Chapter 7 6. "Harmonious World" and China's Foreign Economic Policy: Features, Implications, and Challenges Chapter 8 7. New Africa Policy: China's Quest for Oil and Influence Chapter 9 8. China's Energy Security and Its Strategic Implications Chapter 10 9. "Harmonious World" and Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy Chapter 11 10. The Future of Sino-American Military Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Harel-Shalev analyzes public policy and governmental features in procedurally democratic states that govern deeply divided societies. The book traces the political formula that enables such states to survive while sustaining a democratic process in the face of religious, ethnic, and national conflicts. It investigates citizenship discourses, analyzes the mechanisms political regimes use to give rights to minorities while simultaneously limiting their power, and illustrates how this unique political formula can be applied in two case studies of vastly different countries-Israel and India. The analogous conflicts in India and Israel that threaten the survival of democracy-the ethno-religious conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India and the ethno-national conflict between Jews and Arab-Palestinians in Israel-are analyzed in depth. In addition, the core cases of India and Israel, states in which democracy has survived for over sixty years, are compared with two additionalTrade ReviewHarel-Shalev is offering a path-breaking, genuine, and astute comparison between two highly divided societies- India and Israel, examining how they could have survived with democratic structures for about sixty years heretofore. While harnessing an impressive bulk of original primary sources, this book is offering some remarkable and vital arguments. It is a must read and an enjoyable book. -- Gad Barzilai, University of WashingtonHarel-Shalev's study is outstanding. Finally, a cogent, and intelligent analysis of the myriad ways deeply divided societies maintain and negotiate democratic practices. This book will prove to be essential reading for anyone interested in the topics of identity politics, public policy and democracy. -- Rebecca Kook, Ben Gurion UniversityHarel-Shalev's surprising choice of comparative case studies offers original insight into the way by which public policies that aim at legal institutionalization of rights may provide both political stability and gradual counter-hegemonic transformation.Her analysis is of particular significance for those interested in learning new ways of thinking about the interplay between democratic political processes and majority-minority relations in deeply divided societiessss -- Dan Avnon, The Hebrew University of JerusalemHarel-Shalev's surprising choice of comparative case studies offers original insight into the way by which public policies that aim at legal institutionalization of rights may provide both political stability and gradual counter-hegemonic transformation. Her analysis is of particular significance for those interested in learning new ways of thinking about the interplay between democratic political processes and majority-minority relations in deeply divided societies -- Dan Avnon, The Hebrew University of JerusalemAyelet Harel-Shalev has produced an important, comprehensive study of an especially pertinent issue. The depth of material provided is remarkable….This book is plainly worthy of scholarly attention by all students of comparative politics, especially those concerned about the future of democracies in pluralistic societies. * Law and Politics Book Review *This book lays a strong foundation for dealing with several issues. Its conceptualization of them is useful and creative. It sets a comprehensive agenda for future research. * Nationalism and Ethnic Politics *Table of Contents1 Preface 2 Acknowledgements Part 3 I. A Conceptual Framework Chapter 4 1.Democracy in deeply divided societies: Theoretical and comparative aspects Part 5 II. Disaggregating Citizenship in Deeply Divided Societies—Empirical and Analytical findings Chapter 6 2.The Formative Years—A Base to Majority-Minority Relations in Deeply Divided Societies Chapter 7 3.Public and Judicial Policy toward the Minority Throughout 60 years of Independence Chapter 8 4.Placing the Comparison in a Broader Context-Democracies That Did Not Survive Part 9 III. Comparative and Theoretical Findings Chapter 10 5.Conclusions—he Fate of Democracy In Deeply Divided Societies 11 Bibliography 13 About the Author

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Book SynopsisClass Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in class voting and provides an empirical analysis of class voting. Knutsen's thorough study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex relationship between modern society and politics.Trade ReviewThis book is a 'must-read' for scholars wanting to understand class voting in comparative perspective. Knutsen clearly demonstrates that class vote is on the decline in eight major European democracies since the early seventies — no matter what measures are used. The analysis is a major contribution to the social cleavage literature inspired by Lipset and Rokkan, and to comparative politics literature in general. -- Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wissenschaftszentrum fuer Sozialforschung, Berlin, and Sciences Po, ParisTable of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Theories and explanations for the decline in class voting Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Social mobility Chapter 4 New social divisions Chapter 5 Cognitive mobilization Chapter 6 The embourgeoisement thesis Chapter 7 New Politics and middle class radicalism Chapter 8 The debate about the political orientations of the service class Chapter 9 Party strategy, class appeal and changes in class structure Chapter 10 The debate about the persistence or decline of class voting Part 11 Part II: Class schema and operationalizations of social class Chapter 12 The Erikson/Goldthorpe class schema Chapter 13 Operationalization of social class: Occupation variables and construction of class variables in the Eurobarometer data set. Part 14 Part III: Party systems, party families and the party choice variable Chapter 15 Voting intention in the Eurobarometer data Chapter 16 Party families and trends in support for the various parties Chapter 17 Socialist/non-socialist party choice Part 18 Part IV: Total class voting Chapter 19 Introduction Chapter 20 The strength of the correlation Chapter 21 Statistical measures for tapping class voting Chapter 22 Party families Chapter 23 Patterns within countries and changes over time Chapter 24 Conclusions: Main patterns regarding changes over time Part 25 Part V: Overall left-right (socialist/non-socialist) class voting Chapter 26 Overall left-right voting for the whole period Chapter 27 Trends in overall left-right class voting Part 28 Part VI: Traditional class voting: Socialist/non-socialist party choiceand the two class variables Chapter 29 Introduction: The relevance of traditional class voting in advances industrial democracies and how it is measured Chapter 30 Empirical analysis: Trends in traditional class voting Chapter 31 Class voting according to a different treatment of the routinenon-manual group Part 32 Part VII: Explanations for changes in class voting Chapter 33 Introduction Chapter 34 Hypotheses about trends and cross-national patterns of class voting Chapter 35 Explaining trends in class voting within countries over time Chapter 36 Explaining the cross-national variations in level of class voting Chapter 37 Pooled time-series cross sectional analyses Chapter 38 Part VIII: Conclusions Part 39 Part IX: Literature

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Book SynopsisThis study examines Russian politics in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras using sociologist Robert Mertonâs middle-range theory. It analyzes ideology, decision making, political culture, public opinion, and democratization and offers an innovative approach to the study of Russian politics in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThe book serves as a valuable reminder of how the study of Russian politics can benefit from and contribute to cumulative knowledge, and it should be a worthwhile addition to seminars on the conduct of inquiry and comparative politics. * Slavic Review *Nobody has done more over the years than Frederic J. Fleron Jr. to close the methodological gap between information-rich Soviet/Russian Studies and the theory-driven field of comparative politics, and to facilitate learned communication between the study of the Soviet Union and Russia and the mainstream discipline of political science. Many of his key contributions to the discussion are revisited in this latest volume along with new chapters reframing the issues in terms of progress made and the distance yet to be traveled. In this study, Fleron has successfully provided a well-crafted portal into the possibilities and opportunities for the application of middle-range theory in the field of Russian studies. This fine book closes with a tour-de-force conclusion which is at once sophisticated, insightful, historically grounded, and clearly expressed. -- Robert Sharlet, Union CollegeFrederic J. Fleron Jr. has long been at the forefront of efforts to foster methodological rigor in Soviet and post-Soviet studies and to integrate work in this area more fully into the mainstream of the discipline of comparative politics. This book marks a suitable capstone for these missions. It will be of interest to area specialists and comparativists alike. -- Munroe Eagles, State University of New York at BuffaloTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction Chapter 1: The View from Middle-Range Part II: Metatheory Chapter 2: The Logic of Inquiry in Sovietology: Soviet Area Studies and the Social Sciences Chapter 3: Silver Anniversary of the Publication of Communist Studies and the Social Sciences Chapter 4: The Logic of Inquiry in Post-Sovietology: Russian Studies and the Social Sciences Part III: Middle-Range Theories Chapter 5: Co-optation as a Mechanism of Adaptation to Change Chapter 6: Motivation, Methodology and Communist Ideology Chapter 7: The Western Connection: Technical Rationality and Soviet Politics Chapter 8: Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia: Recent Empirical Investigations Chapter 9: Does the Public Matter for Democratization in Russia? Chapter 10: Congruence Theory Applied: Democratization in Russia Part IV: Conclusion Chapter 11: Conclusion: Thinking Theoretically about Russian & Soviet Politics: Carnivals, Cockfights, and Epistemic Communities

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is always 'the North Korean nuclear problem' to our media, taking all of its cues from Washington, not North Korea as a country of twenty-three million human beings with whom we have been at war since 1950, not North Korea and American relations with it as a subject worthy of serious investigative journalism, not a North Korea that Washington might get many things wrong about, much as it did Iraq. In this volume readers will find a number of absorbing essays that depart from this opaque, uninformative, and ultimately uninterested consensus. North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding is a timely and courageous book that offers an alternative view of this isolated nation that is simultaneously so distant and unknown, and so close to an enemy that has been just across its southern border for 60 years: us. -- Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago; author of The Origins of the Korean WarTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: North Korea: Going Beyond Security and Enemy Rhetoric Chapter 2 Chapter 1. North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Socialism, Sovereignty, and the North Korean Exception Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Biopolitics, or, the Logic of Sovereign Love—Love's Whereabouts in North Korea Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Split Screen: Sin Sang-ok in North Korea Chapter 6 Chapter 5. The Politics of Unification and Neoliberal Democracy Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Refugees, Abductees, "Returnees": Human Rights in Japan-North Korea Relations

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Book SynopsisWe are told, time and again, that North Koreans are loyal to their leader, that they would do anything, even die for him, and that they are fiercely proud and nationalistic. But to an equal extent, we are told that they are oppressed, suffering, and ready to rise against the evil dictator. What do we know beyond or between these opposing assumptions? We are not well equipped with the conceptual tools that could lead us beyond the current securitization of our discourses on North Korea, while undercurrents of regarding North Koreans as less human continue in these discourses. This volume attempts to multiply the angles from which we can look at North Korea by reassessing the international environment in which it is placed, the process of production of its culture, and the historical paths it has followed. Due to the new approach the volume takes, reading these pages will be an eye-opening experience not only for experts, but also for lay readers and anyone interested in peace keeping in Korea, Northeast Asia, and beyond.Trade ReviewIt is always 'the North Korean nuclear problem' to our media, taking all of its cues from Washington, not North Korea as a country of twenty-three million human beings with whom we have been at war since 1950, not North Korea and American relations with it as a subject worthy of serious investigative journalism, not a North Korea that Washington might get many things wrong about, much as it did Iraq. In this volume readers will find a number of absorbing essays that depart from this opaque, uninformative, and ultimately uninterested consensus. North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding is a timely and courageous book that offers an alternative view of this isolated nation that is simultaneously so distant and unknown, and so close to an enemy that has been just across its southern border for 60 years: us. -- Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago; author of The Origins of the Korean WarTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: North Korea: Going Beyond Security and Enemy Rhetoric Chapter 2 Chapter 1. North Korea and the Birth Pangs of a New Northeast Asian Order Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Socialism, Sovereignty, and the North Korean Exception Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Biopolitics, or, the Logic of Sovereign Love—Love's Whereabouts in North Korea Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Split Screen: Sin Sang-ok in North Korea Chapter 6 Chapter 5. The Politics of Unification and Neoliberal Democracy Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Refugees, Abductees, "Returnees": Human Rights in Japan-North Korea Relations

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Book SynopsisMost recognize the importance of public opinion in foreign policy decisions in democracies. However, despite its importance to American security, the question of how American foreign policy has affected the views of foreign publics about the United States is seldom asked. Throughout American Image in Turkey: U.S. Foreign Policy Dimensions, Giray Sadik explores the relationship between American foreign policy and Turkish public opinion about the United States since 9/11. In the post-9/11 era, Turkey was one of the earliest states to join the global coalition against terrorism, but American and Turkish cooperation in Afghanistan contrasts with their differences about Iraq, which destabilizes their strategic partnership. Sadik examines the effects of American military and economic aid, foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as bilateral trade between the United States and Turkey on Turkish public opinion about the United States, addressing how these tools can increase levels of favorablTrade ReviewIn recognition that relations between the United States and Turkey have been badly strained, especially by the Iraq war, President Obama's first trip to Europe included a major speech to the Turkish parliament. American Image in Turkey is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Turkish public disaffection with the United States. Moreover, Dr. Sadik's careful analysis of the links between Turkish public opinion and aspects of American policy—military assistance, economic assistance, foreign direct investments, and bilateral trade—provides some useful guidelines for future policy. -- Ole R. Holsti, Duke UniversityDr. Giray Sadik has brought together in this interesting volume useful data and analysis on the state of U.S.-Turkey relations in recent years. His insights into this subject help us understand the successes and the failures that have occurred as America attempts to improve its diplomatic ties with one of the most important nations in the world. -- Loch K. Johnson, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Military Assistance Chapter 3. Economic Assistance Chapter 4. Foreign Direct Assistance Chapter 5. Bilateral Trade Chapter 6. Findings and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisIs it possible to rearticulate the relationship between Europe and its others in non-colonizing ways? Europe and Its Boundaries reflects upon this question, first by exploring several philosophical approaches to Europe''s relation to non-Europe, then by examining that relationship in specific intellectual and material contexts of European domination. The philosophical approaches are explored through the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Departing from the routine recognition of Europe''s hegemonic role in constituting global political modernity, the authors examine fundamental political and ethical questions of coloniality, anti-coloniality, post-coloniality, mutual recognition, hospitality, responsibility, justice, and democracy. Regarding the intellectual and material contexts, the book explores the production of Europe and its relation to others in highly significant moments and sites of meaning making in European history and politics, from battles and monuments on its western and eastern territorial boundaries to museum exhibitions and immigrant detention centers, that is, new forms of borders at its very core. Europe and Its Boundaries thus reconsiders historical and contempoarary understandings of Europe, border politics, and global encounters more broadly. This book will find an audience among scholars of political theory, international relations, geography, cultural studies, history, and post-colonial studies.Trade ReviewPursuing Dipesh Chakrabarty's argument in Provincializing Europe, this volume explores the intrinsic ambivalence of Europe: its 'indispensable' status as a source of universal horizons and its simultaneous 'inadequacy' due to its hegemonic policies and agendas. Probing the continent's intimate connection with colonialism, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism, the authors show that Europe can only find itself by losing itself in robust dialogue with other cultures and traditions. An important contribution to cross-cultural and post-colonial studies. -- Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre DameThis collection of original, thoughtful, and sometimes absolutely brilliant essays questions and extends the project of 'provincializing Europe' in novel and unanticipated ways. By discussing in depth both European ideas and identities and their entanglement in the histories of peoples once dominated by European empires, the essays assembled here manage to insert the question of colonialism right at the heart of today's discussions about the boundaries of Europe. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoThe essays in Europe and its Boundaries explore with great imagination and intelligence the project of provincializing Europe, illuminating the possibilities for a more ethical and more critical scholarly and pedagogical practice. -- Timothy Mitchell, Columbia UniversityEurope and Its Boundaries offers a timely caution as political and social theorists aim to produce global theory. If political and social theory is to be global (or at least comparative), it needs to slow down and cultivate the skills necessary for thinking beyond Europe’s colonial relationship to others. These compelling essays are a wonderful place to begin, confronting us with the interpretive problems and possibilities of thinking “Europe” and “European thought” as a moment in a dialogical process. -- David Blaney, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College, USATable of ContentsChapter 1 Openings Part 2 Part One. Philosophical (Re)Considerations Chapter 3 Chapter One. Teaching Continually: Beginning with Lévinas Chapter 4 Chapter Two. Hegel as a Colonial, Anti-Colonial, and Post-Colonial Thinker Chapter 5 Chapter Three. Jacques Derrida, The Last European Chapter 6 Chapter Four. Europe and Its Boundaries: Toward a Global Hermeneutic Political Theory Part 7 Part Two. Other Words and Worlds Chapter 8 Chapter Five. Interpreting Europe through the Parthenon Marbles Chapter 9 Chapter Six. The Mapping of Empire: Evolving Notions of Christendom and Europe in the Poetry of Fernando de Herrera Commemorating the Battle of Lepanto Chapter 10 Chapter Seven. Valley of the Fallen: Tales from the Crypt Chapter 11 Chapter Eight. Orhan Pamuk'sSnow: Re-imagining the Boundaries between East and West, Art and Politics Chapter 12 Chapter Nine. Zoological Relations Chapter 13 Chapter Ten. Borders, Power, and Resistance: Bounding and Challenging Europe Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven. Securing the Absent Nation: Colonial Governance in the New World Order

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Book SynopsisThe Caliphate Question combines the disciplines of theology, history, and international relations in order to approach the complex and sensitive issue of how Western governmentsin this case the Britishhave historically engaged with foreign policy issues that have centered around questions of theology or faith. The British government''s approach to policy-making in the field of Islamic governance from the First World War through to the early Cold War is the case study for this book, both because of the extensive documentation that exists on the period and because of its relevance to the current geo-political world. While the book is not a critique of current British foreign policy, it does seek to furnish policy-makers and commentators with a framework within which such increasingly necessary policy-making can be created.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Section 1. The Concept and Execution of "Authority" in Islam: Theology and Political Theory Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Caliphate in Political Theory Part 4 Section 2. The British Government Files and the Approach to Pan-Islamic Governance Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Cairo High Command and the Caliphate, 1914—1918 Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Post War Part 1: Professor Arnold's 1918 Letter Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Post War Part 2: The Khilafat Delegation Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Post War Part 3: Government of India—India Office Correspondence, 1920—1922 Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Caliphate Policy: Post-Abolition—Cold War Part 10 Conclusions Chapter 11 Appendix A. Religio-Political Authority in Islam Chapter 12 Appendix B. Q4:59 Table of Translations Chapter 13 Appendix C. Reporting the Caliphate Chapter 14 Appendix D. Shiite Theory of the Imamate Chapter 15 Appendix E. Theology in International Relations Chapter 16 Appendix F. Comparison Between the Caliphate and the Papacy

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People's Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of the non-governmental groups which established a partnership with the state in the rescue operations, and the process and politics of reconstruction. The book is rich in materials, including comparative case studies of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Myanmar, and the contrasts with the Japanese earthquake tsunami in 2011. Researchers, government officials, policy analysts, seismic specialists, journalists and students will find this book extremely useful, conceptually insightful and practically policy-relevant.Trade ReviewThis book offers a systematic and well-textured case study with keen analytical insights in a comparative framework of the key dimensions of China’s regime responses and crisis management efforts in the aftermath of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Its focus on the rescue-relief-rehabilitation processes should render this book a much welcomed contribution to the Chinese governance, comparative politics, and Asian public administration fields as well as being a highly relevant and directly useful reference work on natural disasters relief and humanitarian aid for international bodies, national regimes and NGOs around the globe. Readers in the academic world and in the public sector will enjoy the rich details and refreshing findings of this illuminating volume that highlights the realpolitik implications with domestic consequences and external impacts of a rising China as a global soft power player with a huge crisis management capacity. The book’s detailed coverage of the PLA’s leading role in post-quake rescue-relief operations have yielded valuable appreciation of the Chinese military’s other vital domestic functions. This has direct bearings on the elevation of natural disaster crisis management capacity into becoming a high priority concern on the China’s national security and societal harmony agenda as well as 21st century developmental strategies. -- Ming K. Chan, Stanford UniversityThe unprecedented response by the Chinese public to the tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake has long called for scholarly treatment and analysis. The field is indebted to Professor Lo for this path-breaking initial study which comprehensively explores both the governmental and popular response to the crisis, usefully framing it as a comparative study of crisis management in China, insightfully juxtaposing it to the management of recent other crises as well as the events surrounding the Tangshan earthquake of 1976. -- Victor C. Falkenheim, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Crisis Management and Earthquake Chapter 1: The Critical 72 Hours After the Sichuan Earthquake Chapter 2: The Response of Interest Groups, Citizens and Tibetan Activists Chapter 3: The Role of the People’s Liberation Army Chapter 4: Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Work and Policy Learning Chapter 5: Crisis Management in Comparative Perspective Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPrisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of incarceration for 21 countries. Also reported are the demographic characteristics of the prisoners.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 North America Chapter 3 1. Canada Chapter 4 2. United States Part 5 Latin America Chapter 6 3. Argentina Chapter 7 4. Brazil Part 8 Western Europe Chapter 9 5. Great Britain Chapter 10 6. France Chapter 11 7. Germany Chapter 12 8. Italy Chapter 13 9. Sweden Part 14 Eatern Europe Chapter 15 10. Poland Chapter 16 11. Russian Federation Chapter 17 12. Hungary Part 18 Middle East Chapter 19 13. Iran Chapter 20 14. Israel Chapter 21 15. Egypt Part 22 Africa Chapter 23 16. Nigeria Chapter 24 17. South Africa Part 25 Asia Chapter 26 18. India Chapter 27 19. China Chapter 28 20. Japan Part 29 Oceania Chapter 30 21. Australia Chapter 31 Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisPrisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of incarceration for 21 countries. Also reported are the demographic characteristics of the prisoners.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 North America Chapter 3 1. Canada Chapter 4 2. United States Part 5 Latin America Chapter 6 3. Argentina Chapter 7 4. Brazil Part 8 Western Europe Chapter 9 5. Great Britain Chapter 10 6. France Chapter 11 7. Germany Chapter 12 8. Italy Chapter 13 9. Sweden Part 14 Eatern Europe Chapter 15 10. Poland Chapter 16 11. Russian Federation Chapter 17 12. Hungary Part 18 Middle East Chapter 19 13. Iran Chapter 20 14. Israel Chapter 21 15. Egypt Part 22 Africa Chapter 23 16. Nigeria Chapter 24 17. South Africa Part 25 Asia Chapter 26 18. India Chapter 27 19. China Chapter 28 20. Japan Part 29 Oceania Chapter 30 21. Australia Chapter 31 Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisToward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government continues to play down expectations about political reform, many small-scale reform experiments have been quietly undertaken by Chinese leaders at various levels in recent years, including the new round of administrative reform centered on the creation of super ministries, the enlargement of inner-party democracy within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the strengthening of local legislative bodies, and judicial reform designed to promote judicial independence and rule of law. This strategy calls for strengthening governing capacity and changing government functions. One of the advantages in placing the improvement of governance first is that it is less risky than embarking upon a full-scaled electoral reform. Electoral democracy is undoubtedly an important element in a functional democracy. But equally important is the effectiveness, transparency, accountability, and openness of the governing process. Better governance implies greater transparency, open deliberation and participation, and less adversarial political confrontation and conflict. If constructed properly, China may become the sort of democratic administration or administrative democracy that Robert Dahl discussed in 1947. Clearly, political reform of this kind does not follow the conventional wisdom of a democratic transition which places heavy emphasis on electoral reform or the precedence of the electoral reform to the government reform. This book is intended to shed some new light on the ongoing debate about the direction of China''s political development.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction. From Good Governance To Better Governance Chapter 2 Chapter 1. To Build a Government of Better Transparency and More Accountability: the CCP's Governance Performance in the Hu Era Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Super Ministry System Reform in China: Bureaucratic Politics or Administrative Reform toward a Public Service Government? Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Generalized vs. Particularized Social Capital: Social Capital and Local Governance in Urban China Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The State's Rubber Stamp or Independent Agent: A Study on the Development of Municipal People's Congress in China Chapter 6 Chapter 5. China's Healthcare System Reform: Development, Issues, and Prospects Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Norms, Laws, political Accountability and China's Legal Reform-the Cases of ALL and Xinfang (L & V) Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Policy Experimentation and China's Labor Market Regulation: The Case of the Labor Contract Law Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Changing Bottom Line: Broadcasting Regulation in China Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Why is Xinjiang Still a New Dominion? Chapter 11 Chapter 10. The Road to Ethnic Harmony: An Analysis of Internal Causes to the Ethnic Issues in Xinjiang

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Book SynopsisFor the past several decades, China has been transforming itself from an isolated and backward agrarian society into an economic superpower with global interests and responsibilities. Over 300 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty and China now enjoys the fastest growing and third largest economy on earth. Not surprisingly, numerous changes in China''s foreign relations have accompanied the astounding transformations in the country''s domestic politics and society. Perhaps most surprising to some observers is Beijing''s aggressive foray into the so-called developing world. This co-edited book focuses on China''s increasing engagement with many of the less developed countries-particularly those in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East-and explores the current and future trends in Beijing''s foreign relations. The old and hackneyed call for revolutionary struggle and world revolution has been consigned to the dustbin of history. In its place isTrade ReviewChina's surging political, economic, and social relations with the developing world have sparked considerable attention and even generated alarm in some national capitals. The chapters in this volume, written by an international ensemble of scholars from Europe, Taiwan, and the United States, provide generally balanced and invaluable historical and current background on China's exploding relations with Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and other regions, simultaneously illuminating the causes and consequences of these ties and correcting some of the distortions present in the contemporary academic, journalistic, and policymaking communities' treatment of these topics. -- Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, San Francisco State UniversityDancing with the Dragon offers valuable perspectives on China's interactions with the developing world. -- Dali Yang, University of ChicagoThis book brings together leading experts from three continents-Asia, Europe and North America-to examine China's emergence as a major player in the developing world. This comprehensive overview text, with multifaceted analysis based on new scholarship, will interest scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, energy politics, and regional area studies. -- Sujian GuoChapters provide valuable insights, and are expertly written and cited….Dennis Hickey and Baogang Guo's brief historical introduction is one of the highlights of the volume and makes a superb primer for any student of China's contemporary relations with the developing world….Dancing with the Dragon's strengths are that it is a collection of papers by both American and Chinese authors and, as such, provides a fascinating juxtaposition of optimistic and skeptical perceptions of China's emergence in the developing world. * Public Affairs, June 2011 *Dancing with the Dragon provides relatively comprehensive coverage on China’s Third World relations and offers some latest materials on this topic, students of Chinese foreign policy and the Third World can benefit from reading this informative work. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Dancing with the Dragon: China's Emergence in the Developing World Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Chinese One World View and Foreign Policy Chapter 3 Chapter 2: China's Foreign Policy After the 17th Party Congress Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Matching Words with Deeds: China's Embracement of East Asian Regionalism Chapter 5 Chapter 4: When Soft Power Meets Nationalism: An Analysis of China's Charm Offensive in South Korea Chapter 6 Chapter 5: A Triangular Relationship: China, Russia and the US in Central Asia Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Democracy, Development and China's Acquisition of Oil in the Third World Chapter 8 Chapter 7: China and Africa: Old Friends and New Partners Chapter 9 Chapter 8: China's New Burden in Africa Chapter 10 Chapter 9: China and the Middle East Chapter 11 Chapter 10: China and Southeast Asia: The Clouds Behind the Light

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLorella Cedroni's book offers an excellent opportunity for English-speaking readers to follow the dialog between Italian intellectuals about the relationship (positive or negative) between capitalism and democracy. Cedroni has skillfully drawn out the main themes and positions in this debate, illustrating them with essays by such writers as Pareto, Gramsci, and Bobbio. -- Martin Staniland, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionTheories of Democracy and Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Italy Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Transformation of Democracy and the Plutocratic Cycle Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Mystification of Capitalism Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Economy of Competition and Historical Capitalism Chapter 5 Chapter 4: The Revolution Against Capital and the Crisis of the Capitalist System Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Liberal Socialism and Modern Capitalist Society Chapter 7 Chapter 6: The Reform of Society in the European Perspective Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Capital Chapter 9 Chapter 8: The Autonomous Order of Economy Chapter 10 Chapter 9: The Economic and Political Powers in the Capitalistic System Chapter 11 Chapter 10: The Future of Democracy and Capitalism Chapter 12 Chapter 11: The Capitalist Actors and Their Social Role Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Toward a New Critique of Capitalism Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Rethinking Democracy in the Age of Globalization

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLorella Cedroni's book offers an excellent opportunity for English-speaking readers to follow the dialog between Italian intellectuals about the relationship (positive or negative) between capitalism and democracy. Cedroni has skillfully drawn out the main themes and positions in this debate, illustrating them with essays by such writers as Pareto, Gramsci, and Bobbio. -- Martin Staniland, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionTheories of Democracy and Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Italy Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Transformation of Democracy and the Plutocratic Cycle Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Mystification of Capitalism Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Economy of Competition and Historical Capitalism Chapter 5 Chapter 4: The Revolution Against Capital and the Crisis of the Capitalist System Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Liberal Socialism and Modern Capitalist Society Chapter 7 Chapter 6: The Reform of Society in the European Perspective Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Capital Chapter 9 Chapter 8: The Autonomous Order of Economy Chapter 10 Chapter 9: The Economic and Political Powers in the Capitalistic System Chapter 11 Chapter 10: The Future of Democracy and Capitalism Chapter 12 Chapter 11: The Capitalist Actors and Their Social Role Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Toward a New Critique of Capitalism Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Rethinking Democracy in the Age of Globalization

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a superb volume on postwar France, well written, thoroughly researched, and based in part on new archival material. It is centered on the person of Charles de Gaulle, whose aims and moves, though sometimes based on an effect of surprise, seem less mysterious in retrospective than they appeared to be at the time to Anglo-American leaders largely unable to comprehend, or accept,a resurrection of France that bore the ineluctable stamp of the General. -- Charles G. Cogan, Harvard UniversityThis volume is a welcome addition to the literature on the diplomacy of President Charles de Gaulle. Its contributors explore de Gaulle’s foreign policies throughout the 1960s in their various international ramifications. Based on recent historiography, the book appropriately seeks to move beyond the 'Gaullist' orthodoxy (or mythology) as well as the systematic rejection (or denunciation) that has long characterized 'Anglo-Saxon' appraisals. -- Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne (University of Paris III)This book presents some of the best work from a new generation of historians seeking to understand the tensions between rhetoric and reality in this enigmatic statesman. * Foreign Affairs *Fourteen essays by scholars from four continents evaluate de Gaulle's foreign policy during his decade as president. The more useful essays track his diplomacy during the U.S. era of the Vietnam war; his role in the 1958 Middle East crisis involving the civil war in Lebanon and the coup d'état in Iraq, which brought Saddam Hussein to power; his negotiations with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and his subsequent role in decolonizing French sub-Saharan Africa and his development efforts there on behalf of French enterprises. A chapter on Franco-German relationships makes clear that de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer worked well together, but the 1963-66 Ludwig Erhard chancellorship was disastrous. Joaquin Fermandois provides an excellent essay on de Gaulle's triumphal, ten-country tour of Latin America in 1964, concentrating mostly on his visit to Chile and President Eduardo Frei's return visit to Paris the next year. The theme that unites these disparate foreign policy adventures was de Gaulle's perceived anti-Americanism. This had appeal for the USSR, PRC, Mexico, Vietnam, and many of the Arab states. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: What's New? Part 2 PART I: Europe Chapter 3 Chapter 1: De Gaulle, French Diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet Relations as Seen from Moscow Chapter 4 Chapter 2: A "Cordial Potentiality?" De Gaulle and the Franco-German Partnership Chapter 5 Chapter 3: From Words to Action: Reinterpreting de Gaulle's European Policy Part 6 PART II: Transatlantia Chapter 7 Chapter 4: NATO Strategies toward de Gaulle's France: Learning to Cope Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Dealing with de Gaulle: The United States and France Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Britain, de Gaulle's NATO Policies, and Anglo-French Rivalry, 1963-1967 Part 10 PART III: ASIA Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The U.S. Escalation in Vietnam and de Gaulle's Secret Search for Peace, 1964-1966 Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Seeking a Multipolar World: China and de Gaulle's France Chapter 13 Chapter 9: A Hot Summer: France, Israel, and the Middle East Crisis in 1958 Part 14 PART IV: Africa and Latin America Chapter 15 Chapter 10: "Je ne vous ai pas compris": De Gaulle's Decade of Negotiation with the Algerian FLN Chapter 16 Chapter 11: De Gaulle and Sub-Saharan Africa: From Decolonization to French Development Policy, 1958-63 Chapter 17 Chapter 12: The Hero on the Latin American Scene Chapter 18 Conclusion: A Gaullist Grant Strategy?

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Book SynopsisFrench President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His visionconceived out of national interestof uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle''s towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle''s global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France''s approach to the world during de Gaulle''s presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General''s international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.Trade ReviewThis volume is a welcome addition to the literature on the diplomacy of President Charles de Gaulle. Its contributors explore de Gaulle’s foreign policies throughout the 1960s in their various international ramifications. Based on recent historiography, the book appropriately seeks to move beyond the 'Gaullist' orthodoxy (or mythology) as well as the systematic rejection (or denunciation) that has long characterized 'Anglo-Saxon' appraisals. -- Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne (University of Paris III)This is a superb volume on postwar France, well written, thoroughly researched, and based in part on new archival material. It is centered on the person of Charles de Gaulle, whose aims and moves, though sometimes based on an effect of surprise, seem less mysterious in retrospective than they appeared to be at the time to Anglo-American leaders largely unable to comprehend, or accept,a resurrection of France that bore the ineluctable stamp of the General. -- Charles G. Cogan, Harvard UniversityThis book presents some of the best work from a new generation of historians seeking to understand the tensions between rhetoric and reality in this enigmatic statesman. * Foreign Affairs *Fourteen essays by scholars from four continents evaluate de Gaulle's foreign policy during his decade as president. The more useful essays track his diplomacy during the US era of the Vietnam war; his role in the 1958 Middle East crisis involving the civil war in Lebanon and the coup d'état in Iraq, which brought Saddam Hussein to power; his negotiations with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and his subsequent role in decolonizing French sub-Saharan Africa and his development efforts there on behalf of French enterprises. A chapter on Franco-German relationships makes clear that de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer worked well together, but the 1963-66 Ludwig Erhard chancellorship was disastrous. Joaquin Fermandois provides an excellent essay on de Gaulle's triumphal, ten-country tour of Latin America in 1964, concentrating mostly on his visit to Chile and President Eduardo Frei's return visit to Paris the next year. The theme that unites these disparate foreign policy adventures was de Gaulle's perceived anti-Americanism. This had appeal for the USSR, PRC, Mexico, Vietnam, and many of the Arab states. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: What's New? Part 2 PART I: Europe Chapter 3 Chapter 1: De Gaulle, French Diplomacy, and Franco-Soviet Relations as Seen from Moscow Chapter 4 Chapter 2: A "Cordial Potentiality?" De Gaulle and the Franco-German Partnership Chapter 5 Chapter 3: From Words to Action: Reinterpreting de Gaulle's European Policy Part 6 PART II: Transatlantia Chapter 7 Chapter 4: NATO Strategies toward de Gaulle's France: Learning to Cope Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Dealing with de Gaulle: The United States and France Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Britain, de Gaulle's NATO Policies, and Anglo-French Rivalry, 1963-1967 Part 10 PART III: ASIA Chapter 11 Chapter 7: The U.S. Escalation in Vietnam and de Gaulle's Secret Search for Peace, 1964-1966 Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Seeking a Multipolar World: China and de Gaulle's France Chapter 13 Chapter 9: A Hot Summer: France, Israel, and the Middle East Crisis in 1958 Part 14 PART IV: Africa and Latin America Chapter 15 Chapter 10: "Je ne vous ai pas compris": De Gaulle's Decade of Negotiation with the Algerian FLN Chapter 16 Chapter 11: De Gaulle and Sub-Saharan Africa: From Decolonization to French Development Policy, 1958-63 Chapter 17 Chapter 12: The Hero on the Latin American Scene Chapter 18 Conclusion: A Gaullist Grant Strategy?

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Book SynopsisActing Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual presidents have made the ''wrong'' decision to act alone, the author lays out a president''s behavior, during a crisis, as a two-step decision process. Acting Alone reviews the well-studied first decision, deciding to use force, based on international conflict literature and organized along traditional lines. The author then details the second decision, deciding to use unilateral force, with an explanation of the criticisms of multilateralism and the reasons for unilateralism. To test a new theory of unilateral use of force decision making, Acting Alone devises a definition and coding rules for unilateral use of force, develops a sequential model of presidential use of force decision making, and constructs a new, alternative measure of military power, a Composite Indicator of Military Revolutions (CIMR). It then uses three methods - a statistical test with a heckman probit model, an experiment, and case studies - to test U.S. crisis behavior since 1937. By applying these three methods, the author finds that presidents are realists and make expected utility calculations to act unilaterally or multilaterally after their decision to use force. The unilateral decision, in particular, positively correlates with a wide military gap with an opponent, an opponent located in the Western hemisphere, and a national security threat.Trade ReviewActing Alone is a major contribution to the study of foreign policy analysis and security studies. Rare is the book that combines theory, case work and statistical analysis so well to make its point. The book includes many specific contributions, such as introduction of expected value modeling into this area of research and a new measure of military power linked to military revolutions. This book is essential reading for specialists in international relations and foreign policy analysis as well as those with a general interest in the US's activities in the world abroad. -- Patrick James, University of Southern CaliforniaA welcome reality check on the American way of war. Acting Alone acts as an antidote to soft-headed soft-power thinking with a clear-eyed analytical assessment of presidential decision making. A must read for understanding the power of statistical analysis to enrich our comprehension of modern statecraft. -- James Jay Carafano, Deputy Director for The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, and Director of the Douglas and SarThe decision to use force is always charged with emotion, particularly in the American political setting. In Acting Alone, Bradley Podliska cuts through this to dissect such decisions with an innovative combination of analytical techniques. His book helps explain why the United States normally opts for unilateral force and undoubtedly will pave the way for future scholarship on this important topic. -- Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies InstituteTable of ContentsChapter 1 1 Introduction Chapter 2 2 Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making Chapter 3 3 Statistical Tests: U.S. Unilateral Uses of Force Since 1937 Chapter 4 4 Does the Type of Crisis Matter? An Experimental Test Chapter 5 5 Opening Up the "Black Box" of a President's Unilateral Decision: Case Studies of the 1991 Gulf War, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, and 1989 Panama Invasion Chapter 6 6 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good designed to insure greater equality of opportunities. This book explores the impact of diminishing government resources and expanding market forces in developing and developed countries to either foster or lessen equality of opportunities in higher education for different racial, ethnic, religious and gender groupings. What are the consequences of a market-driven higher education for student access, teaching and scholarship? Through case studies, this book explores issues such as access of minority groups within the larger societies, the place of foreign students in a national system, and acceTrade ReviewSuccinct and immensely readable, this is required reading for university leaders. Examples from a dozen lands illustrate the altruism and the avarice characterizing expansion of global education. No recent title covers the waterfront as well as this study does. Tussling with strangled budgets and unremitting admissions pressure, we need the insights offered here with wit and wisdom. Just occasionally we get a volume as good as this. -- Paul Rich, President, Policy Studies OrganizationThis collection of twenty chapters, written by experts from various countries, offers an insightful and informative debate on higher education and equality of opportunities in the global economy. The authors employ diverse theoretical perspectives and mixed methodologies, both qualitative and qualitative, and the comparative aspects of their analysis add to the overall richness of discourses employed. What is indeed innovative is both the book’s focus on current cross national dilemmas in higher education, and the comparative analysis of current developments in higher education globally. As such, this volume is a must-read and is warmly recommended to higher education analysts, policy makers, graduate students and the professoriate interested in globalisation and higher education reforms, equity, access, cultural and economic capital and social stratification of higher education. * International Review of Education *Table of ContentsChapter 1 1.Introduction: Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity Chapter 2 2.The Earth is Flattening: The Globalization of Higher Education and its Implications for Equal Opportunity Part 3 One: America Chapter 4 3.Challenges and Opportunities of Community Colleges Chapter 5 4.Minority Access to Higher Education in the United States and the White-Minority Credentials Gap Chapter 6 5.Prestige and Quality in American Colleges and Universities Chapter 7 6.From Open Admissions to the Honors College: Equal Opportunities at the City University of New York Chapter 8 7.The Changing American College Experience: A View from the City University of New York, Hunter College Part 9 Two: Asia, The Middle East and Africa Chapter 10 8.Promoting Access of the Poor through Student Loans in Asia: Prerequisites for Success Chapter 11 9.The Quest for World-Class Status: Globalization and Higher Education in East Asia Chapter 12 10. The Korean Passage to Tertiary Education for All: Over-Privatization Chapter 13 11.Disparities in Access to Higher Education in India: Persistent Issues and the Changing Context Chapter 14 12.Educational Policy toward "Homeland Minorities" in Deeply Divided Societies: India and Israel Chapter 15 13.Improving Access to Higher Education for Students from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds in Israel Chapter 16 14.Higher Education in Africa: Challenges of Development and Gender Chapter 17 15.Development of Corporate and Private Universities in Ghana: Effects on Curriculum, Faculty, Access and Equity Part 18 Three: Europe and Oceana Chapter 19 16.Access to Higher Education in France: Between Equality of Rights and Meritocracy, a Long Walk to Equality of Opportunities? Chapter 20 17.Equal Opportunity in a Public System: Experiences of Ethnic Minority Students in Dutch Higher Education Chapter 21 18.Access to Higher Education for Students with Mental Health difficulties: An Equal Opportunities Issue Chapter 22 19.Altruism and Avarice: The Place of Foreign Students in Australian Universities Chapter 23 20.A Dual Admission Policy: Enhancing Equal Opportunities in Higher Education in New Zealand through Merit-based Admission Policy

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Book SynopsisEuropean identity has always been in a state of construction. With the creation of the European Union, however, this construction now takes place within an institutional framework, introducing a number of new variables. Selcen Öner''s Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European Identity is an in-depth analysis of the influence of these two entities on each others'' identity as Europeans in a society of increasing social, political, and cultural connectedness. The mutual influence between Turks and Europeans gained significant momentum in 1999, when the European Union granted official candidate status to Turkey at that year''s Helsinki Summit. Turkey''s Europeanness is still being debated, despite the official stance that fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria and adopting the EU acquis are enough for being a full member of the EU. These debates have even lead to arguments between political elites of the European Union about their privileged partnership with Turkey. When comparing the attitudes of the European Union towards Turkey versus those towards Central and Eastern Europe, one could argue that that return to Europe discourse has accelerated the membership of the latter, but not the former. Currently Turkey is neither considered an other, nor a member of the family. Rather, Turkey is commonly relegated to the role of crucial neighbor or strategic partner by the political elites of the EU. Öner''s study analyzes a series of interviews conducted with several members of the European Parliament and sheds serious light on the fact that discussions on Turkey''s membership in terms of her Europeanness reveal countless ambiguities in defining European identity. It is clear that there is no common understanding or definition of European identity, even amongst political leaders in the EU who challenge Turkey''s authenticity as a member of European society. Thus, Selcen Öner''s Turkey and the European Union: The Question of European Identity argues that the position of Turkey vis-à-viTrade ReviewÖner's book provides a valuable insight into the role of political elites and the question of European identity focusing on Turkey and the EU. The analysis of elite interviews with members of the European Commission and European Parliament reveals the lack of consensus of the EU elites about whether to define European identity on a civic or cultural basis. It shows that most respondents find Turkish membership to be a challenge to European identity, because there is still skepticism about the strength of European identity. The book thus raises important normative questions about the boundaries of Europe, post-national identity constructions and the construction of 'Europeanized national identities.' -- Birte Siim, Aalborg University, DenmarkA timely and balanced book that addresses vital questions about the future of Europe. As rightly grasped by the author, the question of Turkey's membership to the EU cannot be divorced from the idea of Europe and European identity. Selcen Öner's argument incorporates sections on different aspects of European identity and links this issue with the current debates on Turkey's membership to the EU. Both theoretical and field research on the issue provide the reader with a precious insight into how the future of Europe is being shaped on the basis of a process of identity construction. -- Nas, Yildiz Technical University, TurkeyÖner is ideally qualified to write this perceptive work on one of the major issues in European, indeed world, politics. She faces the difficult issues about Turkey's entry into the European Union and points towards how they can best be handled. She not only knows both the EU and Turkey well, she also gives solid content to the idea of a future-oriented European identity for which Turkish membership would be good for both sides. -- David F. Ford, University of CambridgeÖner provides a comprehensive overview of how the issue of European identity has been a key aspect in the process of Turkey’s EU membership and how Turkey has been a key influencer of what it means to be European. While other factors, such as the economic troubles of the Eurozone or questions about the incorporation of a such a large population may eventually be the cause for Turkey joining or not joining the EU, the issue of identity will certainly be a part of the story. One of the key features of this process has been that the question of Turkey joining the EU has been the catalyst to expose what being “European” means. This is a concept that is under continual construction and Turkey is both a challenge and a contributor to that process. * E-International Relations *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 PART I. EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Construction of the Idea of 'Europe' Throughout History and the Attempts for Unification Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Ambiguous Boundaries of Europe and the European Union Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Construction of 'European Identity' and Its 'Other's Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Social Constructivism and European Identity Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Comparison between Social Constructivism and Essentialism in Terms of Analysing European Identity Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Analysing Construction of European Identity on the Basis of Social Constructivism Part 10 PART II. CONSTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION Chapter 11 Chapter 7. 'European Identity' and 'EU Identity' Chapter 12 Chapter 8. Civic and Cultural European Identity Chapter 13 Chapter 9.The Construction Process of European Identity within the European Union Chapter 14 Chapter 10. The Role of the Political Elites in Construction of European Identity Chapter 15 Chapter 11. The Role of the Institutions of the European Union in Construction of European Identity Chapter 16 Chapter 12. The Gap between the Elites and the General Public Part 17 PART III. TURKEY'S MEMBERSHIP TO THE EUROPEAN UNION AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY Chapter 18 Chapter 13. The Interactions between Turks and Europe Chapter 19 Chapter 14. The Role of European Identity in Turkey-EU Relations Chapter 20 Chapter 15. The Comparison between the Membership of Turkey and the Central and Eastern European Countries Chapter 21 Chapter 16. The Perceptions of the Elites of the European Union about Turkey's Membership in Terms of European Identity Chapter 22 Chapter 17. Public Opinions in the Member States of the European Union about Turkey's Membership Chapter 23 Chapter 18. Discussions on Turkey's Membership in Terms of Compatibility of Islam and European Identity Chapter 24 Chapter 19. The Influence of the Interactions between Turkey and the European Union on the Construction of European Identity Chapter 25 CONCLUSION Chapter 26 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating—and frightening—analysis of the drivers of North Korean foreign policy since 1979. Through close analysis of Pyongyang's words and actions, Kim shows that regime survival is the primary goal in a cold-eyed calculus of provocation and threats. Only reliable guarantees of the regime's security or—more likely—regime collapse will produce the conditions for a multilateral solution to the Korean problem. -- Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia UniversityThis volume presents a timely, up-to-date, balanced, and in-depth analysis of succession politics, security dilemma, and foreign policy of North Korea. This is a must-read for all those who are interested in North Korean affairs. -- Chung-in Moon, Distinguished University Professor, Yonsei UniversityFor any specialist in North Korean studies the book will provide very useful background knowledge, so it clearly should be read and, occasionally, re-read. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Part 2 Part 1: Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Security Dilemma & the Succession Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Levels of Analysis & the Study of North Korea's Foreign Policy Part 5 Part II. Security Dilemma and the Launch of the Succession Chapter 6 Chapter 3:The Sino-American Normalization & the Official Launch of the Succession from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, 1978–1981 Chapter 7 Chapter 4:Getting Approval for the Succession, 1982–1984 Chapter 8 Chapter 5: North Korea Siding with the Former Soviet Union, 1985–1989 Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Nuclear Program & Kim Il Sung's Death Part 10 Part III. North Korea's Nuclear Diplomacy & the Surrounding Countries Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Provocations & Signals: Variations between Verbal & Actual Provocations Chapter 12 Chapter 8:Risk-Taking vis-à-vis the United States: The Second Nuclear Crisis Chapter 13 Chapter 9:China in the North Korean Nuclear Quagmire: Is China Influential? Chapter 14 Chapter 10:Russia in North Korea's Foreign Policy Chapter 15 Chapter 11:Japan in North Korea's Foreign Policy Chapter 16 Chapter 12:South Korea in North Korea's Foreign Policy Part 17 Part IV. Prospect Chapter 18 Chapter 13:The Future of North Korea's Foreign Policy Chapter 19 Bibliography

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