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Book SynopsisSince the global financial crisis of 2008/09, international cooperation has failed to curb volatile financial markets. Changes in the global rules of finance discussed in the G20 during the last decade remain limited, and it is uncertain whether they are suitable to help mitigate and manage future crises to come. This book offers an alternative to the popular notion that this failure is the result of the ''nature'' of the international system, the clash of national egoisms, or lack of leadership. It instead investigates problems of international cooperation by looking at their deeper structural origins in the competition of different models of capitalism.US finance-led, EU integration-led, and East Asian state-led capitalism complement each other globally but have conflicting preferences on how to regulate international finance. This interdependence of capitalist models is relatively stable but also prone to crises caused by volatile financial flows, global economic imbalances, and ''currency wars''. By bringing together approaches from International Political Economy and Comparative Capitalism, this book shows that regulating international finance is not a technocratic exercise of fine-tuning the machinery of international institutions, but rather a political process. International cooperation can only be successful if it goes hand in hand with deep domestic changes in each of these capitalist models.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Problem in Detail: The Clash of Capitalisms and the Rules of International Finance 3: Finance-Led Capitalism in the US, the Globalization of Finance and the Quest for Global Neoliberal Hegemony 4: Integration-Led Capitalism in the EU, the Rise of Euro Corporatism and the Quest for Regional Stability 5: State-Led Capitalism in East Asia, Export Orientation and the Quest for National Sovereignty 6: Conclusions: Second Image IPE and the International Regulation of Finance

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - has emerged as a challenge to the international status quo. But what is its capacity as a transformative force? And can it provide a significant counter-narrative to the Western dominated global order? In this Very Short Introduction Andrew Cooper explores the emergence of the BRICS as a concept. Drawing on historical precedent, Cooper provides a contemporary analysis of the BRICS'' practice and influence as as a forum and a lobby group in advancing a distinctive but amorphous agenda amongst global politics.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewCooper's very short introduction on the BRICS grouping indeed fills an important niche, providing a solid overview which can be read in a few hours and includes all the basic information. * Post-Western World *Table of Contents1. Framing the BRICS ; 2. A contested invention: The BRIC, BRICs, and the BRICS ; 3. A historical departure ; 4. Hanging together ; 5. Building the new development bank ; 6. BRICS as the recognition of states, not societies ; 7. The staying power of the BRICS ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This event, also known as the Stockholm Conference, was the first of its kind and it reflected mounting concerns with the transboundary environmental problems caused by modern industrial society. Fifty years later, we find ourselves in a world marked by profound, accelerating, and possibly irreversible environmental change. Today, there is simply no place on earth untouched by human influence. The Anthropocene is a concept that has been advanced to capture this novel environmental condition. It refers to an unpredictable and fragile era in planetary history when humanity is dangerously disrupting the earth''s biosphere and life-upholding systems. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars and policy experts to examine what security means in this new world of humanity''s own making. It asks how global institutions can respond to the systemic production of environmental risks and insecurities, and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come. The 50-year anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment offers an important backdrop to the volume and an opportunity to imagine constructive ways ahead.Table of ContentsJan Eliasson: Foreword 1: Eva Lövbrand, Malin Mobjörk, and Rickard Söder: One Earth, Multiple Worlds: Securing Collective Survival on a Human-Dominated Planet Part I: Governing the Environment and Security Nexus: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead 2: Björn-Ola Linnér and Henrik Selin: Geopolitics and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment 3: Lucile Maertens and Judith Nora Hardt: Climate Change and Security within the United Nations: Insights from the UN Environment Programme and the UN Security Council 4: Marcus D. King, Caitlin Werrell, and Francesco Femia: The Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent: Closing the Climate Security Governance Gaps 5: Dan Smith: The Security Space in the Anthropocene Speech Part II: Reimagining Security in an Entangled World 6: Simon Dalby: To Build a Better World: Securing Global Life After Fossil Fuels 7: Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel: From Human Environment to Post-Human Earth: Troubling the Nature/Culture Divide in the Stockholm Declaration 8: Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos and Sebastián Granda Henao: Whose Security/Security For Whom? Rethinking the Anthropocene Through Ontological Security Afterword

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Book SynopsisRefugees are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting, and the international community struggles to provide adequate responses to refugee needs. Gil Loescher explores the causes and consequences of the contemporary refugee crisis for both sending and receiving states, for global order, and for refugees themselves.Trade ReviewA perfect example of what this series should be * Mayte Martin, Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of illustrations 1: Refugees: a brief history 2: Who are refugees and how do they differ from other migrants? 3: How critical is today's refugee crisis? 4: Root causes of forced migration 5: Strengths and limitations of present legal, institutional, political and local responses to refugees 6: The global refugee situation today 7: Understanding current realities and present and future challengesFurther readingIndex

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Book SynopsisFuture War and the Defence of Europe offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe: a continent that has suffered two cataclysmic conflicts since 1914. Taking as its starting point the COVID-19 pandemic and way it will inevitably accelerate some key global dynamics already in play, the book goes on to weave history, strategy, policy, and technology into a compelling analytical narrative. It lays out in forensic detail the scale of the challenge Europeans and their allies face if Europe''s peace is to be upheld in a transformative century. The book upends foundational assumptions about how Europe''s defence is organised, the role of a fast-changing transatlantic relationship, NATO, the EU, and their constituent nation-states. At the heart of the book is a radical vision of a technology-enabling future European defence, built around a new kind of Atlantic Alliance, an innovative strategic public-private partnership, and the future hyper-electronic European force, E-Force, it must spawn. Europeans should be under no illusion: unless they do far more for their own defence, and very differently, all that they now take for granted could be lost in the maze of hybrid war, cyber war, and hyper war they must face.Trade ReviewIt is a must-read for those entrusted with the weighty responsibility of making such decisions, international security specialists, and concerned citizens everywhere. * J. P. Smaldone, CHOICE *The authors have provided a valuable collection of the history and a snapshot of Europe's vulnerability. * Ching Wah Chin, The NYMAS Review *Future War and the Defence of Europe is a hard-hitting, compelling analysis that relentlessly hammers home its central message: contrary to what the vast majority of European elites and citizens seem to think, war in Europe is no longer inconceivable, and will become even less so if Europe and the United States continue to sleepwalk away from NATO's commitment to collective defence in Europe ... an important wake-up call for Europeans that should be read widely and closely. * Hanns W. Maull, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *... everyone concerned about transatlantic relations should read this book... * Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs *... a hard-hitting, compelling analysis that relentlessly hammers home its central message... an important wake-up call for Europeans that should be read widely and closely. * Hans W. Maul, Survival *Strategic plans rarely withstand crises, much less wars. But Future War passes the test... * Carsten Schmiedl, CEPA *... a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe... a radical vision of a technology enabling future European defence. * Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation *It is an interesting and wide-ranging exploration of a complicated, but often droll topic, brought to life by the eagerness of its writing and the passion of the authors. * Joshua Huminski, Diplomatic Courier *... the lessons offered by the authors are no less relevant today than before Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The authors have provided a valuable collection of the history and a snapshot of Europe's vulnerability. Whether the current crisis will fade that snapshot will be decided in the months ahead... one day provide valuable insight into the current debate for future historians. * Ching Wah Chin, Strategypage.com *Every now and then a book is written that makes a difference. Future War and the Defence of Europe is one such book. Critically, it reminds us not only of the complex strategic challenges Americans, Canadians and Europeans must face, but the vital importance of facing them together. * Michèle Flournoy, former US Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy and Co-founder, The Center for a New American Security *Latvians well understand the value of freedom. This excellent book is a blunt message to future leaders. If our hard won peace and freedom are to be preserved we must have the collective courage to look threat in the face. These eminent authors do just that. We ignore their message at our peril! * Ambassador Imants Liegis, former Minister of Defence of the Republic of Latvia *The Transatlantic Alliance is a key pillar in the defense of U.S. interests and in the promotion of our values. Future War and the Defense of Europe is a significant contribution to understanding the strategic landscape in Europe and how our forces might operate with European allies in a multi-domain and digital environment. General Allen and his colleagues have written a must-read book for any student or practitioner of national security decision-making. * The Honorable Leon E. Panetta, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, CIA Director, White House Chief of Staff, and Member of Congress *Keynes said that when confronting the new the difficulty is to abandon the old. This important book tells us that to retain our freedom and values in a post Covid future a paradigm shift is needed. It is a wake-up call for both Europeans and Americans, and a must read. * Admiral Giampaolo di Paola, former Italian Minister of Defence, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and Chief of the Italian Defence Staff *Well-trained forces matter! This is a central thesis in this great new book. Yes, the role of new technologies in Europe's twenty-first century defence will be vital, but the hard yards of peace will only be preserved by having enough young men and women in uniform - Americans, Canadians and Europeans. * General the Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, former Chief of the British Defence Staff *Europe's peace rests on a new transatlantic relationship and on Europeans doing far more together for their own defence, but above all a modern, democratic Germany willing to lead European defence. Fail and all could be lost. * Volker Ruehe, former German Minister of Defence *This authoritative book offers a radical and timely new vision for the transatlantic defense relationship. The authors call upon Europeans to more fully share the burdens of NATO, for only then can the United States continue to underwrite Europe's peace while meeting the growing array of challenges beyond Europe. Americans and Europeans must move beyond narrow debates and together consider the fast changing character of war and peace. * Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, former NATO Deputy Secretary-General and US Assistant Secretary of Defense *

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that a conceptual and methodological shift is required in the way that border security is understood, and that a new approach is urgently required. It examines vernacular narratives of the 'crisis' and how they offer insight into citizens' knowledge of the 'crisis', and actually-existing alternatives to fantasies of control.Trade ReviewVernacular Border Security represents a major contribution to the burgeoning field of vernacular security studies and will be of immense interest to scholars looking for alternative conceptualizations to understand the contemporary politics of migration, borders, and security. * Peter Nyers, Perspectives on Politics *Vernacular Border Security is arguably the most conceptually and empirically ambitious contribution to the recent vernacular turn in critical security studies to date. It is not only an accomplished piece of research which should be of immense value to policymakers, but an agenda setting piece for critical border, security, and citizenship studies. * Ben Rosher, E-International Relations *Vaughan-Williams poses the important question, why has the recent frenzy of border fortification—especially but not only in the EU—intensified rather than reduced popular anxieties about borders and migrants? To answer it, Vaughan-Williams listens closely to the people churned by such anxieties. This essential, original, and extraordinarily well-researched contribution to border and migration studies arrives at conclusions that should stop both policy makers and critical theorists in their tracks. * Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Walled States, Waning Sovereignty *In foregrounding the vernacular, Nick Vaughan-Williams makes a powerful and highly significant interference in contemporary understandings of the politics of security, borders, and migration. Vernacular Border Security takes the extensive literature on the importance of language for securitization and desecuritization in a new direction by foregrounding conversations rather than speech acts, claims, or discourses. In doing so, Vaughan-Williams has given us a rich resource for critically engaging contemporary framings of security, borders, and migration through a democratic analytics that values the reflective and critical engagement of ordinary people in the politics of insecurity. * Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London *Vernacular Border Security is a must-read for all political geographers concerned with questions of borderings, wallings, and the contemporary political imaginations of migrations in Europe. Beautifully written and conceptually innovative, this book brilliantly connects the grand narratives of border security promoted by institutions at the most diverse scales with a set of vernacular perspectives on the experience of border security in specific European settings. The rich and original empirical material matched by the sophisticated theoretical analysis proposed here by Nick Vaughan-Williams makes this book a path-breaking intervention in the fields of border and migration studies. * Claudio Minca, Professor, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna *Coming from cultural studies and gender studies, I found Nick Vaughan-Williams' vernacular approach to be an illustrative perspective on security. Besides deconstructing the 'migration crisis' narrative, Vaughan-Williams explains theories of populism and ontological (in)security in a reader-friendly manner. I particularly enjoyed the author's take on affect and processes of gendering and racializing the figure of 'the migrant'. Reading this eloquent and important book gave me tools to analyze critically the perpetual debate about migration, borders, and securitization. * Tuija Saresma, Senior Researcher, University of Jyväskylä *European governments adopted inhuman, unlawful, and ineffective border security measures in the name of citizens allegedly frightened by migrants. Yet the empirical evidence offered by Nick Vaughan-Williams suggests that anti-migrant narratives originated at the top rather than at the bottom of societal ladders, aggravating anxieties among European citizens. The book points to counter-narratives embracing cultures of hospitality, rebuffing fantasies of walls and wired borders. These findings are not likely to deter populist politicians, but they should offer food for thought to moderate ones and to mass-media gurus eager to talk on behalf of 'ordinary people' without engaging in genuine conversation with them. I strongly recommend this book to all concerned citizens. * Jan Zielonka, Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and the University of Venice, Ca Foscari *Table of Contents1: Towards a Vernacular Study of Border Security 2: Exceptional Times, Emergency Borders: (De)Constructing Europe's 'Migration Crisis' 3: Populist and 'Post-Truth' Border Politics: The Securitization of Public Opinion on Migration 4: Dangerous Aliens, Crisis Constellations, and Information Gaps: Vernacular Narratives of Migration 5: Border Anxieties: Vernacular Narratives of Ontological (In)Security 6: Desecuritizing Strangeness: Vernacular Counter-Narratives of Border Security Appendix 1: Moderators' Discussion Guide Appendix 2: List of Focus Groups

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Book SynopsisJapan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture.Trade ReviewA wonderfully engaging narrative of a complicated history, which from the beginning to end sheds light on the meaning of modernity in Japan as it changed over time. An exemplary text. * Carol Gluck, Columbia University *With remarkable clarity and breadth of coverage, Goto-Jones introduces the major topics and themes of the modern history of Japan, giving particularly thoughtful attention to the complex and tortured efforts of figures seeking to define and defend a properly Japanese modernity, and those striving to come to grips with the trauma and shadow of World War II. * Andrew Gordon, Harvard University *Lively, lucid, and full of insight, this is an outstanding exploration of Japan's troubled modern past. * Stephen S. Large, Wolfson College, Cambridge University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is Modern Japan? ; 1. Japan's Encounter with the Modern World ; 2. Overcoming Modernity in Imperial Japan ; 3. Overcome by the Modern: the US Occupation ; 4. Japan's Miraculous Modern Economy ; 5. Towards a Post-Modern Society ; 6. Normalcy and Japan's Place in the Modern World ; Further reading

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A few treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, succeed. Most, however, fail to alter the state behaviour appreciably. This book develops a theory that explains both the successes and the failures. In particular, the book explains when treaties are needed, why some work better than others, and how treaty design can be improved. The best treaties strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the environment, and the theory developed in this book shows how treaties can do this. The theory integrates a number of disciplines, including economics, political science, international law, negotiation analysis, and game Trade Review... a truly important contribution to the literature on international environmental cooperation. * Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty and the Theory of International Cooperation ; 3. Transnational Cooperation Dilemmas ; 4. Games with Multiple Equilibria ; 5. Customary Rights and Responsibilities ; 6. International Environmental Agreements ; 7. The Treaty Participation Game ; 8. The Montreal Protocol ; 9. Tipping Treaties ; 10. Compliance and the Strategy of Reciprocity ; 11. The Depth and Breadth of International Cooperation ; 12. Trade Leakage and Trade Linkage ; 13. The Side Payments Game ; 14. Summary ; 15. Global Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

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Book SynopsisPost-Conflict Peacebuilding comes at a critical time for post-conflict peacebuilding. Its rapid move towards the top of the international political agenda has been accompanied by added scrutiny, as the international community seeks to meet the multi-dimensional challenges of building a just and sustainable peace in societies ravaged by war. Beyond the strictly operational dimension, there is considerable ambiguity in the concepts and terminology used to discuss post-conflict peacebuilding. This ambiguity undermines efforts to agree on common understandings of how peace can be most effectively ''built'', thereby impeding swift, coherent action. Accordingly, this lexicon aims to clarify and illuminate the multiple facets of post-conflict peacebuilding, by presenting its major themes and trends from an analytical perspective. To this end, the book opens with a general introduction on the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding, followed by twenty-six essays on its key elements (including cTrade ReviewThere is no question that the volume will help address a serious gap in peacebuilding research. The coverage of this book is impressive and many distinguished scholars involved in peacebuilding, particularly those who work on the legal aspects of peacemaking around the world, have contributed articles...The Lexicon provides a useful introduction to a complex and changing subject area in a lucid and engaging way. The book should be read widely. * Nana K. Poku, International Peacekeeping Journal 16 (4), 2009 *...a critical, clear-sighted work of research...the book deserves a wide readership among all sorts of peacebuilders in order to enable them to balance the sensitive elements of peacebuilding * Ursula Blanke-Kießling, German Yearbook of International Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding- Ambiguity and Identity ; Capacity-building ; Civil-military Interface ; Civil Society ; Conflict Economies ; Conflict Transformation ; Democratic Governance ; Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration ; Free and Fair Elections ; Human Security ; International Crimes ; Local Ownership ; Mine Action ; Non-state Actors ; Peace Operations ; Peace Process ; Private Sector ; Reconciliation ; Recovery ; Reparation ; Responsibility to Protect ; Return and Reintegration ; Rule of Law ; Security Sector Reform ; State-building ; Transitional Administration ; Transitional Justice

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Book SynopsisAn account of congressional responses to foreign policy over the last 30 years. Hinckley argues that congressional assertiveness is as much a myth as the struggle between the elected branches, and proposes reforms that might result in real congressional participation.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the connection between economic and strategic developments in Asia with several, interrelated arguments. India is close behind, and warns that while many observers are proceeding as if current U.S. treaties will continue indefinitely, Asia is already preparing for changing patrons.Trade Review"A marvelously rich, important, original book on the rise of the 'mega-countries,' China and India, who are casting a long shadow on the rest of the world." - Paul Bracken, Professor of Management & Political Science, Yale University "Thisboth sweepingand detailed study contributessignificantly to our understanding of the combination of economic and strategic developments in Asia since the financial crisis of 1997. The economic-growth driven, sustained, phenomenal rise of China and India is a dominant event of the 21st century. In his analysis, Professor Denoon considers how these new, evolving strategic realignments and balances in Asia will have significant, though not yet well appreciated, implications for U.S. foreign policy." - Hugh T. Patrick, Co-Director, APEC Study Center, Columbia University and R.D. Calkins Professor Emeritus"David Denoon has given us a major book which will help refocus our attention away from the post-9/11 preoccupation with the Middle East and Gulf to fundamental strategic realignments underway in South and East Asia. Denoon is a unique Asia specialist in his ability to assess the economic as well as the political trends that are transforming the Asia-Pacific region. He documents in detail how the continental powers of Asia India and China as well as Japan emerged unscathed from the financial crisis of 1997 to reshape the economic structure of the region, and how institutions like ASEAN and APEC have failed to give voice to the concerns of smaller regional states. This is an analysis much broader than the 'rise of China'.It will help us understand why Asia will be the world's power center of the 21st Century." - Richard H. Solomon,President, U.S. Institute of PeaceTable of ContentsOverview Why Was the 1997 Crisis So Severe? Is the Current Recovery Sustainable? The Mixed Record on Integration in East Asia Strategic Realignments in Asia United States Policy and Asian Realignments

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Book SynopsisNeorealism is the school of international relations that emphasizes the role of inter-state power struggles in world affairs.This volume features essays by both its most prominent exponents and its principal critics.Table of Contents1. Realism, Neorealism and the Study of World Politics, by Robert O. Keohane 2. Laws and Theories, by Kenneth N. Waltz 3. Reductionist and Systemic Theories, by Kenneth N. Waltz 4. Political Structures, by Kenneth N. Waltz 5. Anarchic Orders and Balances of Power, by Kenneth N. Waltz 6. Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis, by John Gerard Ruggie 7. Theory of World Politics: Structural Realism and Beyond, by Robert O. Keohane 8. Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory, by Robert W. Cox 9. The Poverty of Neorealism, by Richard K. Ashley 10. The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism, by Robert G. Gilpin 11. Reflections on Theory of International Politics: A Response to My Critics, by Kenneth N. Waltz

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Book SynopsisMaking the best of cooperation with unreliable partners is fundamental to the success of counterterrorism. Stephen Tankel examines the ways partners aid international efforts as well as impede effective action. With Us and Against Us offers a theoretically rich and policy-relevant tool kit for assessing and improving counterterrorism cooperation.Trade ReviewWorking with international partners in the fight against terrorism can be demanding and frustrating. Yet as Stephen Tankel demonstrates in reviewing some of the United States’ most important partnerships, they are also vital. He warns that attempts to combat terrorism without them risks trouble. -- Lawrence Freedman, author of The Future of War: A HistoryWith Us and Against Us shines a bright light on a notoriously shadowy subject: the cooperation between states and terrorist groups. If there’s anyone qualified to write about the conflicting interests that drive these relationships and the tough trade-offs they entail for U.S. policy makers, it’s Tankel. -- Will McCants, author of The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic StateThis book provides the most thorough description and analysis of interstate counterterrorist cooperation, and everything that affects it, from a U.S. point of view. It will serve as a standard reference point in the literature whenever the subject of such cooperation comes up. Tankel convincingly demonstrates that many of the states in question are simultaneously both part of the problem and part of the solution. With Us and Against Us is a serious, careful, and informed treatment of a timely and important topic. -- Paul R. Pillar, author of Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of MisperceptionWorking with partners is a vital part of US counterterrorism strategy. Stephen Tankel's book is a major contribution to our understanding of these partnerships, why their record of is often mixed, and how to get more out of them. -- Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad: Who are America's Homegrown Terrorists and How do We Stop Them?Tankel’s case studies are accessible and comprehensive and succeed in highlighting the challenge of counterterrorism cooperation since 9/11. * H-Diplo *The findings explored in With Us and Against Us highlight the need for collaboration in order to tackle international terror threats. Current policy-makers would do well to take heed of the lessons on tackling terrorism that are explored in this book. -- Gavin Hart * Critical Studies On Terrorism *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Counterterrorism Partnerships in Context2. America and Its Partners in the War on Terror3. The Elements of Counterterrorism Cooperation4. Pakistan: The Paradox5. Saudi Arabia: Arsonist and Firefighter6. Yemen: An Unstable Partner7. Mali: The Weakest Link8. Egypt and Algeria: The Revolutionary HeartlandConclusion: Making the Most of CooperationAppendix: List of U.S. Counterterror ProgramsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates todayfrom film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions. Consideringfilm, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television,RemaTrade ReviewIn some ways, the volume reminds me of a thoughtfully organized musical album in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and an end. Despite having multiple authors, the story develops logically from one chapter to the next—quite an accomplishment. -- Patryk Babiracki, author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957Wide-ranging in its Cold War geography, rigorously internationalist, and focused on the concept of media over a variety of forms and methods, Lovejoy and Pajala's volume will set the standard for any future scholarship on the topic. -- Rossen Djagalov, author of From Internationalism to PostcolonialismBallasted by primary sources in all relevant languages, together these meticulously researched essays complicate, through the fluid logic of media, the conventional epochal and geopolitical fault lines of post-WWII cultures. An indispensable volume. -- Nataša Ďurovičová, coeditor of World Cinemas, Transnational PerspectivesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari PajalaPart I: Mobile Forms2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener3. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston4. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s Finnish Television, by Anu KoivunenPart II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist Affinities, by Masha Salazkina6. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja Simonyi7. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav Švelch8. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish Audience in November 1989, by Marie CronqvistPart III: Translation9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova10. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone11. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel12. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s Television Diplomacy, by Laura SaarenmaaPart IV: Infrastructure and Production13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik14. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu15. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures during the Cold War, by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren16. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó ImreIndex

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Book SynopsisModern historian Ove Korsgaard focuses on the crucial struggles over who has (or has not) belonged to the people in the past 175 years and looks at its implications for state- and nation-building in Denmark and other Nordic countries.

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Book SynopsisHe has selectively annotated 12,645 cross-referenced entries and organized them into 27 sub-regional and country chapters including two particularly extensive chapters on Japan and China and two further chapters on relations between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and on U.S. and Soviet policy.Table of ContentsPreface East Asia and the Pacific: Regional Overview The Superpowers, 1980-1991 Canada Northeast Asia and the North Pacific Ocean: Regional Overview The Korean Peninsula North Korea South Korea Japan China Taiwan Hong Kong Southeast Asia: Regional Overview ASEAN Overview Burma (Myanmar) Indochina Overview Vietnam Laos Cambodia Thailand The Philippines Brunei Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Oceania Papua New Guinea The Pacific Islands Australia Australia, New Zealand, and the United States New Zealand Appendix: Publishers, Periodicals, and Research Institutions Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThe prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. Ethnonational Identities breaks significant new ground by exploring the complex dimensions of ethnonational identity claims, their political mobilisation, and a wide variety of comparative contexts in which they are found.Table of ContentsEthnicity, Nation and 'Race': Connections and Disjunctures; S.Fenton & S.May Recognition and National Justice for Québec: A Canadian Conundrum; C.H.Williams Late Arrivals at the Nationalist Games: Romani Mobilisation in the Czech Lands and Slovakia; W.Guy Indigenous Rights and the Politics of Self-Determination: The Case of Aotearoa/New Zealand; S.May Identity Politics and Nationalisms in Colonial India; J.Zavos An Area of Darkness, Still? The Political Evolution of Ethnic Identities in Jammu and Kashmir 1947-2001; V.Hewitt Nationalism in South Asia and its Transnational Impact of the Indian Diaspora in Britain; R.Barot Identitiy in an Ethnically Bifurcated State: Trinidad and Tobago; R.R.Premdas Ethnicity, Malay Nationalism and the Question of Bangsa Malaysia; K.Mariappan Terms of Inclusion: Citizenship and the Shaping of Ethnonational Identities; J.Squires

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Book SynopsisMICHAEL NICHOLSON was sometime Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex.

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Book SynopsisChina has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security in Asia by investigating how shared water resources affect Chinaâs relationships with neighbouring countries in South, East, Southeast and Central Asia. Since China is an upstream state on most of its shared transboundary rivers, the countryâs international water policy is at the core of Asiaâs water security. These water disputes have had strong implications for Chinaâs interstate relations, and also influenced its international water policy alongside domestic concerns over water resource management.This book investigates Chinaâs policy responses to domestic water crises and examines Chinaâs international water policy as well as its strategy in dealing with international coopTrade Review"Lei Xie and Shaofeng Jia’s book makes a robust contribution to the discussion of international fresh watercourses by combining the Chinese perspective on national interests with the Global South narrative of riparian neighbouring states, all of which are developing countries. Xie and Jia examine and link research areas such as human security, diplomacy, intergovernmental relations, and policies, and the authors contribute insights to the current debate on fresh water management in relation to sustainability and the reduction of tension and conflict." - Francisco José Leandro in China Information (2018) Table of Contents1. China’s transboundary rivers: politics, diplomacy and security: an introduction 2. The governance of water resources in China 3. China’s policy over international rivers: Perception and diplomatic practices 4. Theoretical debate: water diplomacy 5. Southeast Asia: China’s water diplomacy on the Mekong River 6. South Asia: China’s evolving attitude over the GBM 7. Central Asia: Sino-Kazakh water diplomacy on Ili and Irtysh Rivers 8. Northeast Asia: Sino-Russian cooperation over the Amur River 9. Comparison and conclusions 10. Policy recommendations

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents in a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview, the emerging field of international political sociology. It summarizes and synthesizes existing knowledge in the field while presenting central themes and methodologies that have been at the centre of its development, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of international political sociology as a field of study. A wide range of topics covered include: International political sociology and its cognate disciplines and fields of study; Key themes including security, mobility, finance, development, gender, religion, health, global elites and the environment; Methodologies on how to engage with international political sociology including fieldwork, archives, discourse, ethnography, assemblage, materiality, social spaces and visuality; Current and future challenges of international political sociology addressed by three key scholars. Providing a synthetic reference point, summarizing key achievements and engagements while putting forward future developments and potential fruitful lines of inquiry, it is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly international relations, political science, sociology, political geography, international law, international political economy, security studies and gender studies.Trade Review'"Handbook" scarcely captures the excitement that this lively volume engenders. Guillaume, Bilgin and their innovative contributors have given us a proverbial diving board from which we all - in all fields - can launch our own plunges into an ocean of intellectual explorations. Reading this book makes clear that international political sociology is not a disciplinary fortress; it is a world of investigatory possibilities.' - Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism (new updated edition, 2016)'International political sociology represents the most intellectually dynamic field of study within international relations today, and this handbook provides a definitive overview. An essential point of reference for students and scholars alike.' - Peter Mandaville, George Mason University, UK'This handbook is an excellent introduction to the burgeoning study field of international political sociology. Combining theoretical lineages with introducing key matters of concern, it captures the intellectual diversity and dynamism of international political sociology. Guillaume and Bilgin avoid disciplinary boundary drawing and focus instead on the pluriverse of works challenging familiar conceptual repertoires of IR, giving us an excellent view of the creativity with which international political sociology engages theoretical, methodological and political challenges of our times.' - Jef Huysmans, Queen Mary, University of London, UK‘Handbooks generally summarize, consolidate, and synthesize. That is, they serve as reference material: their quality depends on the comprehensiveness and accessibility of their collections; experts in their subject matter have no call to consult them. Guilaume’s and Bilgin’s handbook is definitely comprehensive and accessible, but it otherwise breaks the mold. It genuinely advances the international political sociology agenda. Both together, and in their individual chapters, the contributors build a case for new ways of understanding the ’state of the art’ and where to take it.’ – Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction to the Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology Part I: International Political Sociology and its Cognate Fields of Study 2. Feminist Theory/Gender Studies 3. Historical Sociology 4. International Law 5. International Political Economy 6. International Political Theory 7. Postcolonialism and International Political Sociology 8. The International Political Strategy of Security Studies 9. Sociology 10. World Society Part II: Key Themes of International Political Sociology 11. Citizenship and an International Political Sociology 12. Advancing "Development" through an International Political Sociology 13. The Environment 14. Finance 15. Feminist International Political Sociology - International Political Sociology Feminism 16. Global Elites 17. Global Governance 18. Health, Medecine and the Bio-Sciences 19. Mobilisation 20. Mobility 21. Straddling National and International Politics: Revisiting the Secular Assumptions 22. Reflexive Sociology and International Political Economy 23. Security Studies Part III: Methodologies of International Political Sociology 24. Archival Methods 25. Assemblage 26. Discourse and Narrative 27. Ethnography/Autoethnography/Autobiography 28. Learning From the Field 29. History 30. Learning How To See 31. Materiality 32. Multidisciplinarity 33. Practice 34. Social Spaces Parti IV: Transversal Reflections 35. Afterword: Transversal Politics 36. Afterword : International Political Sociology, or: The Social Ontology and Power Politics of Process 37. Afterword: The Commercial In/For International Political Sociology

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations, the issues that they raise and analysis of how responses to these issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an informed appreciTable of ContentsIntroduction Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan and Patrick F. Walsh Part I: The Just Intelligence Model 1. Intelligence and the Just War Tradition: The Need for a Flexible Ethical Framework Ross Bellaby 2. Truth-Seeking and the Principles of Discrimination, Necessity, Proportionality and Reciprocity in National Security Intelligence Activity Seumas Miller 3. The Technoethics of Contemporary Intelligence Practice: A Framework for Analysis David Omand and Mark Phythian Part II: Espionage 4. Ethics in the Recruiting and Handling of Espionage Agents David Perry 5. The Rights of Foreign Intelligence Targets Michael Skerker 6. Digital Sleeper Cells and the Ethics of Risk Management Kevin Macnish 7. Intelligence Sharing Among Coalition Forces: Some Legal and Ethical Challenges and Potential Solutions David Letts Part III: Bulk Data Collection and Analysis 8. Privacy, Bulk Collection and "Operational Utility" Tom Sorell 9. Surveillance, Intelligence and Ethics in a COVID19 World Jessica Davis Part IV: Covert Operations 10. Ethics and Covert Action: The "Third Option" in American Foreign Policy Loch Johnson 11. Jus ad Vim: War, Peace and the Ethical Status of the In-between Nicholas Melgaard and David Whetham Part V: Accountability 12. Reaching the Inflection Point: The Hughes-Ryan Amendment and Intelligence Oversight Genevieve Lester and Frank Jones 13. Congressional Oversight of US Intelligence Activities Mary DeRosa 14. Accountability for Covert Action in the United States and the United Kingdom Mitt Regan and Michele Poole Part VI: Future Directions 15. GEOINT and the Post-Secret World: Who Guards the Guards? Robert Cardillo 16. Evolving Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism: Intelligence Community Response and Ethical Challenges Patrick F. Walsh 17. Reflections on the Future of Intelligence Gregory F. Treverton

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Book SynopsisIn Brazilâs International Activism Monika Sawicka questions how Brazilâs deep-rooted craving for greatness has led to the quest for status in the twenty-first century and contends that the categorization of Brazil as an âœemerging middle powerâ enriches the understanding of modern Brazilian foreign policy.Drawing on the rich vocabulary of role theory, Sawicka sets out to establish an original theoretical framework that comprises the structural (status), the behavioral (role), and the cognitive-ideational (identity) to assess whether Brazil has performed roles distinguishing a middle power and how the state has reconceptualized them. The model is applied to scrutinize how ideational and material drivers impacted Brazilâs engagement as an integrator in Latin America, donor in Africa, mediator in the Middle East, and coalition-builder of developing states in global fora. Despite recent criticism of the concept of âœemerging middle powersâ, Sawicka argues that Brazilâs international activism stands as a precise embodiment of such a power.With an aim of theory development and contributing to the debate on Brazilâs international standing, Brazilâs International Activism provides a much-required reinterpretation of Brazilian foreign policy which will be of interest to scholars and students of Foreign Policy Analysis, International Relations and Latin-American Studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to understand the complex ways in which the Foreign Office adapted to the rise of identity politics in Britain as it administered British foreign policy during the Cold War and the end of the British Empire. After the Second World War, cultural changes in British society forced a reconsideration of erstwhile diplomatic archetypes, as restricting recruitment to white, heterosexual, upper- or middle-class men gradually became less socially acceptable and less politically expedient.After the advent of the tripartite school system and then mass university education, the Foreign Office had to consider recruiting candidates who were qualified but had not been socialized' in the public schools and Oxbridge. Similarly, the passage of the 1948 Nationality Act technically meant nonwhites were eligible to join. The rise of the gay rights movement and postwar women's liberation both generated further, unique dilemmas for Foreign Office recruiters. Diplomatic Identity iTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Member of' 1. Sir Percival Waterfield and the Civil Service Selection Board Experiment, 1945–1960 2. The Foreign Office and the Grammar School Revolution, 1945–1980 3. Redbrick, Whitehall: The Diplomatic Service 'Image' and University Expansion, 1960–1970 4. 'The Mystic Link between Colour and Security': Ethnicity and Recruitment to the Diplomatic Service, 1948–1993 5. 'No Homosexuals Allowed': The Diplomatic Service Bar on Homosexuality, 1965–1995 6. 'Safety First'?: Gender and the Lifting of the Foreign Office Marriage Bar, 1945–1975. Conclusion: 'Larger-than-Life Graham Greeneness'

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Book SynopsisPareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher's importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value relativism vs. moral absolutism. Joseph V. Femia shows that although Pareto is considered a founding father' of both sociology and mathematical economics, his contribution to political theory is neither fully recognised nor properly explored. This is also the only book to examine Pareto's critique of Kantianism and natural law and also includes the first comparison of Pareto's thought with postmodernism and a detailed refutation of the familiar charge that Pareto was a defender of fascism.This critical, but sympathetic analysis refutes the familiar charge that Pareto was some sort of proto-fascist and instead locates him in the Machiavellian tradition of sceptical liberalism', which scornsTable of Contents1. Introduction and Preview 2. Metaphysics vs. the Logico-experimental Method 3. The Science of Politics 4. The Deconstruction of Political Philosophy 5. The Critique of ‘Demagogic Plutocracy’ 6. The Sceptical Liberal

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the causes and purposes of 'post-conflict' violence.Trade Review'Postwar peace is never easy and only rarely fully consolidated. In this important new collection of wide-ranging case studies, editors Astri Suhrke and Mats Berdal demonstrate the added-value of disaggregating peaces into four distinct categories -- peace imposed by victors, challenged by losers, accepted by parties and divided among factions. They show how each has its own challenges and why confusing them can be fatal to mitigating conflict.' - Michael Doyle, Columbia University'This book has been sorely needed and will be widely read. It is commonplace to cite examples like El Salvador where post-war levels of violence have been high. But we have not had anything remotely approaching the systematic bringing together of evidence, historical and more recent, confirming how generalised is the phenomenon of post-war violence.’ - Christopher Cramer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'This volume does a superb job of investigating a question that is critically important both to scholars and policy practitioners: what causes the violence that often continues, in various forms, after the formal termination of wars?' - Roland Paris, University of Ottawa"[S]uccessfully analyses different forms of peace and provides a nuanced picture of the nature of peace in between. The book provides a good overview of the state of the art, as well as several interesting case studies. It should be of great interest to both students of peace and conflict students, as well as policy makers." - Anna K. Jarstad, Uppsala University, Sweden"The book is well constructed and logical. The reference list is extensive and is of direct benefit to students of international relations, strategic studies and political science. It is also of benefit to lecturers, seeking to provide students with a broader perspective on post-war conflict and violence." - Jack Newnham and Peter Bell, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of Contents1. The Peace in Between Astri Suhrke Echoes from History 2. Violence and the Post-Conflict State in Historical Perspective: Spain 1936-1948 Michael Richards 3. Reconstruction and Violence Post-Bellum American South 1865-77 Michael Beaton Europe and the Middle East 4. Post-War Violence in Bosnia Mats Berdal, Gemma Collantes-Celador and Merima Zupcevic Buzadzic 5. Revenge and Reprisal in Kosovo Michael J. Boyle 6. Political Violence in Post-Civil War Lebanon Are Knudsen and Nasser Yassin 7. From Regime Change to Civil War: Violence in post-invasion Iraq Toby Dodge Asia 8. Armed Politics in Afghanistan Antonio Giustozzi 9. Warlordism: Three Biographies from Southeastern Afghanistan Kristian Berg Harpviken 10. Violence in Post-War Cambodia Sorpong Peu 11. Conflict and Violence in Post-Independence in East Timor Dionisio Babo-Soares Africa 12. Sexual Violence: The Case of Eastern Congo Ingrid Samset 13. The Political Economies of Violence in Post-war Liberia Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary 14. Violence, Denial and Fear in Post-Genocide Rwanda Trine Eide Latin America 15. The Multiple Forms of Violence in Post-War Guatemala John-Andrew McNeish and Oscar López Rivera Conclusions 16. Reflections on Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding Mats Berdal

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation.Trade Review“Many books have explored the actual and the ideal relationship between states and markets. This book asks a new question: How should the state organize itself in order to be an effective market participant, through improved management of its assets. It should be mandatory reading for all those concerned with public policy.”- Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University“Capital Choices is an insightful and informative analysis of the origins of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Braunstein convincingly emphasizes the role of different types of policy networks on the political economy of decisions to establish funds to explain variations in their objectives and structures.”- Edwin Truman, Peterson Institute for International Economics“Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly important actors on the global investment stage. But these organizations are poorly understood, in part because their incentives and behavior—as organizations that are both return-maximizing investors and state bodies—are complex. This book, through a series of thoughtful case studies, shed fresh light on these funds and their implications.”- Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School“When the label ‘Sovereign Wealth Funds’ was applied to a set of government-owned asset funds, it fostered the impression that we were talking about a single well-defined animal. Capital Choices shows that SWFs in fact vary widely and explores the nature and origins of the differences.”- Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University“Capital Choices breaks new ground, providing a convincing explanation for the wide variations we observe in the characteristics of sovereign wealth funds around the world. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, the book is a must read for anyone interested in the domestic politics of international finance.”- Benjamin Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara“This is a major work not just about the increasingly important sovereign wealth funds but also about how non-Western states pursue industrial policies. It combines theory, non-Western cases and new empirical material to tell a story of why states create sovereign wealth funds and their scope for choosing distinct paths of economic development.”- Mark Thatcher, London School of Economics and Political Science“In Capital Choices, Juergen Braunstein provides an illuminating original account of the emergence and divergence of sovereign wealth funds. Explaining how different interests and coalitions shape varying SWF paths, this compelling argument finally places politics where it belongs—at the centre of analysis. A decisive intervention in the debate.”- Garry Rodan, Murdoch University“Dr. Braunstein fills an important niche in the sovereign wealth fund literature by providing a meticulously researched and skillfully executed description of the different domestic and international actors, networks, and forces at work in the development of modern SWFs. This book is an excellent example of the kind of detailed research needed to fully understand the crucial impact of these funds.”- Paul Rose, The Ohio State UniversityTable of Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Global Review Chapter 3: Bringing Domestic Politics In: A Policy Network Analysis of Sovereign Wealth Funds Chapter 4. Capital Choices in Industrial Policy: Asian city-economies and the emergence of Temasek Chapter 5: Capital Choices in Saving's and Financial Policy: Asian City States and the emergence of the GIC Chapter 6: Capital Choices in Small Open Economies of the Middle East Chapter 7: Capital Choices in OECD and BRIC countries Chapter 8. Conclusion: Domestic Politics and Capital Choices Afterword Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRevolutionary volume demonstrates how crossing the positivist and post-positivist divide improves political science researchTrade ReviewInterpretive Quantification offers a timely, much-needed transgression of a major theoretical-methodological boundary limiting the possibilities of IR: with high-quality contributions organized in a systematic way, it demonstrates how quantitative methods can and should enrich constructivist and critical approaches, thereby opening up fascinating new research avenues."" - Stephane Baele, University of Exeter""...deserves a place on the short list of books and articles that change, not what we know about the world, but how we think about it. Very highly recommended for graduate students and faculty alike."" - Bear Braumoeller, The Ohio State University""This truly path-breaking volume opens up productive lines of scholarship that have been sorely neglected."" - Andrew Bennett, Georgetown University

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, this book tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part I—Introduction The Subjunctivity of Hope Hoping for the Future Part II—Infrastructural Citizenship 1. The Making of a Model Community 2. The Machine of Worthiness 3. Waiting and Hoping 4. Cartographies of Wellbeing Part III—Middle-Class Sensorial 5. Topographies of Consumption 6. Democracies of Hope 7. Infrastructuring Class Conclusion. Post-Neoliberal Hopescapes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUtilizing data from the World Values Survey, the contributors to this collection explore the potential soft power of China by examining its residents’ social values. A study of changes and continuities in the values of Chinese citizens, the book examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernization theory and cross-national comparison.Trade ReviewThis is a very timely study of changing political values in China based on the most recent wave of the World Values Survey in 2018. With Ronald F. Inglehart’s recent passing, it is a fitting tribute to him." - Bruce J. Dickson, George Washington University"China as Number One? is firmly set in a prominent and influential theoretical frame of modernization theory, or evolutionary modernization theory, and makes important theoretical contributions to the ongoing debate on the relationship among economic development, cultural change, and democratization. The volume provides very rich contextual information and in-depth discussions about Chinese culture, politics, and society, which are not easily available in other works on China." - Jie Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology and James Madison University"This book examines the changes and continuities in mass political and cultural values in a rising/modernizing China using various waves of the World Value Surveys, and in the process addresses the important question of whether China can become the world’s leading nation from the perspective of soft power. The book will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese politics, political culture, and public opinion, as well as journalists and the general public." - Haifeng Huang, University of California, MercedTable of Contents List of Tables and Figures Preface, Mary E. Gallagher and Yang Zhong Chapter 1. Introduction, Ronald Inglehart and Yang Zhong Chapter 2. Democratic Authoritarianism: A Study of Chinese Political Orientations. Wenfang Tang Chapter 3. Political Participation in China, Lingnan He and Dali L. Yang Chapter 4 Postmaterialism in China, Yu Yan Chapter 5. Contained Emancipative Values: Waves of Conservative and Liberal Trends in China, John James Chapter 6. The Rise and Fall of Trust in Transitional China, Alfred M. Wu, Eduardo Araral, and Biao Huang Chapter 7. Attitudes toward Religion, Science and Technology in China, Yang Zhong Chapter 8. Conclusions, Yang Zhong and Ronald Inglehart Contributors’ Biographies Bibliography

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Book SynopsisUtilizing Japanese and South Korean newspaper databases to review discussion of the two countries' disputed historical perceptions from the end of World War II to the present, this book provides readers with the historical framework and the major players involved, offering much-needed clarity on polarizing issues.

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Book SynopsisNations with credible monetary regimes borrow at lower interest rates and are less likely to suffer speculative attacks and currency crises. While scholars typically attribute credibility to domestic institutions or international agreements, Jana Grittersová argues that when reputable multinational banks open branches within a nation, they enhance that nation's monetary credibility.Trade ReviewThe rigorous and detailed qualitative and quantitative evidence that Grittersová presents ensures that Borrowing Credibility will become the definitive treatment of monetary reform and financial integration in Eastern Europe." - Thomas Oatley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"In Borrowing Credibility, Jana Grittersová makes an important contribution to international political economy by showing that global banks provide previously unrecognized benefits to developing countries’ creditworthiness and financial stability. This book will definitely shape how both scholars and policymakers approach the role of international banks." - J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego"Grittersová’s argument raises a host of interesting research questions, not least about the impact of the recent economic and financial crisis." — Survival, 60.5 (2018)

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Book SynopsisA book about agency. About how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles - political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical - a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One – Lawyers Beyond Borders: Introduction and Overview Chapter Two – The Seeds of a Rights Revolution Chapter Three – Litigation as Recovery: The Birth of the CJA Chapter Four – The Burmese Connection Chapter Five – Rights and Redress in a “War on Terror” Chapter Six – Private Military Profits and the Search for Justice Chapter Seven – The New Impunity Chapter Eight – The Globalization of Justice Chapter Nine – European Collaborations for Justice in Syria Chapter Ten – Re-trauma and Resilience: The Dynamics of Clients and Counsel Chapter Eleven – The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Rights Revolution Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAfter centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan's immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official delegation to China by sea. This title deals with this topic.Trade Review"Fogel's masterful scholarship provides insight into the historian's craft as he tracks evidence, openly interrogates documents, and asks questions that may not be directly answerable but can be puzzled out." -- Catherine L. Phipps Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review "Thoroughly researched and engagingly written." -- Matthew D. Johnson H-Net "This informative and incredibly well researched book is a pleasure to read." -- Robert Hellyer American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Situating 1862 in History and Shanghai in 1862 1. The Armistice, Shanghai, and the Facilitator 2. Japanese Plans and the Scene in Nagasaki 3. Getting to Nagasaki, Loading Cargo, and the Voyage to Shanghai 4. Coming to Terms with the City of Shanghai and Its Inhabitants 5. Westerners in Shanghai: The Chinese Malaise 6. Opium, Christianity, and the Taipings 7. Dealings with the Chinese Authorities 8. Preparing for the Trip Home 9. Subsequent Missions to China in the Late Edo Period 10. The Senzaimaru in Fiction and Film Conclusion: The Senzaimaru in History Appendix: Japanese and Chinese Texts Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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