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Book SynopsisWithout nation-states Covid-19, climate change, international cyberattacks, and other threats would go unchecked. In The World of States, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall challenge the view that nation-states have lost their relevance in the context of globalization and rising nationalism. The book traces how states evolved historically, how contemporary states differ from one another, and the interactions between them. States today confront a host of challenges, but two features make some states more effective than others: institutional arrangement and national identity. The second edition has been updated to discuss why the BRICS countries (with the exception of China) are no longer the rising powers they were once thought to be; the effects of Brexit on the European Union; the legacy of the Trump administration for US politics and hegemony; and how the coronavirus may upset the world of states going forward.Trade Review'A surefooted, well-written, and highly intelligent survey of states across the world. It is easily the best account of modern states because it is fully aware of both the great diversity of states and their inter-relations in a global system of states.' Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles'Two maestros of political sociology with global reach, John Campbell and John A. Hall, have written the best available and highly accessible account of the state, in the course of which they courteously dispose of many of the clichés of our time.' Brendan O'Leary, University of Pennsylvania'Full of original insights, evidence, and wisdom, this second edition of The World of States offers us the most definitive account of today's world order and disorder. Campbell and Hall convincingly show that, while nation states continue to be centers of power and social cohesion, our future will depend on their abilities to manage growing internal tensions and shifts in the international balance of power. Ambitious and convincing, this is social and political writing at its best.' Francesco Duina, Bates College'John Campbell and John Hall have written an audaciously provocative and compelling book. Their argument is deceptively simple – states matter as much as ever, despite intensifying economic globalization and European integration. This book is a must read for specialists and general readers who are interested in understanding the contours of global politics.' Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The past; 2. Conditions of existence, old and new; 3. Challengers?; 4. States of the Global South; 5. The North; 6. Still the strongest power on Earth?; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age of primacy, air wars have been contests between unequals and characterized by asymmetries of power, interest, and technology. This volume examines ten contemporary wars where air power played a major and at times decisive role. Its chapters explore the evolving use of unmanned aircraft against global terrorist organizations as well as more conventional air conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS. Air superiority could be assumed in this unique and brief period where the international system was largely absent great power competition. However, the reliable and unchallenged employment of a spectrum of manned and unmanned technologies permitted in the age of primacy may not prove effective in future conflicts.Trade Review'Good writing about recent history is hard ... and hard to find. The authors have done an admirable job of analyzing the actions of both airmen and statesmen as they adjusted the theory, systems, and tools they developed for war against great powers and combined them with new tools in this age of air power primacy. The result both examines the results of recent conflicts while they are still fresh and projects lessons to help the airmen and statesmen who must lead the transition back to major power conflict. I gained a better understanding of 'my wars'. You will, too.' James M. 'Mike' Holmes, General, United States Air Force (retired.)'Someday historians may regard the period following the breakup of the Soviet as an 'interwar era' – a relatively brief lull in outbreaks of great power conflict. The editors of this volume have assembled an outstanding compendium of analyses of airpower employment during this era. Some chapters are topical (e.g., the general rise in the importance of remotely operated air vehicles); others document airpower's application in specific regional conflicts. Each chapter includes a penetrating and well-balanced narrative; together they form a must read for military professionals studying the lessons of airpower in the post-Cold War era, and their potential application to larger-scale conflicts.' Allen G. Peck, Lieutenant General, United States Air Force (retired.)'Air Power in the Age of Primacy rigorously examines all the major air campaigns since the end of the Cold War as no other book has. Analytically sharp and empirically rich, this terrific volume is a must read for anyone seeking to understand modern warfare.' Caitlin Talmadge, Associate Professor of Security Studies, The Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University'This is a splendid collection, unusually useful for practitioners of joint warfare and historians, that fills a painful literature gap. Each case study provides useful historical and operational background, compactly presented, and each poses analytical dilemmas that can facilitate academic and operational educational learning opportunities. While there is much we do not know about these conflicts, the authors have done yeoman's work in carefully sifting what we do know, starting the conversation for what it might mean for combat and deterrence.' Brian R. Price, Journal of Military HistoryTable of Contents1. Air Power in the Age of Primacy Phil Haun; 2. Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Air Power Timothy P. Schultz; 3. Deliberate Force: Ambivalent Success Thomas Alexander Hughes; 4. Hoping for Victory: Coercive Air Power and NATO's Strategy in Kosovo Andrew L. Stigler; 5. Operation Enduring Freedom Nicholas Blanchette; 6. The Result is Never Final: Operation Iraqi Freedom Heather Venable; 7. Israeli Air Force Effectiveness during the Second Lebanon War (2006) Nimrod Hagiladi; 8. Libya 2011: Hollow Victory in Low-Cost Air War Jahara Matisek; 9. Coercing a Chaos State: The Saudi-Led Air War in Yemen Ralph Shield; 10. Russia's Air War Win in Syria Ralph Shield; 11. Air Power in the Battle of Mosul Stephen Renner; 12. Retrospect and Prospect: Air Power in the Age of Primacy and Beyond Colin Jackson.

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Book SynopsisModern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out affective dynamics, but to create them. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork - both during the trial of former Lord''s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court''s headquarters in The Netherlands and in rural northern Uganda at the scenes of violence - this book is an in-depth investigation of the affective life of legalized transitional justice interventions in Africa. Jonas Bens argues that the law purposefully creates, mobilizes, shapes, and transforms atmospheres and sentiments, and further discusses how we should think about the future of law and justice in our colonial present by focusing on the politics of atmosphere and sentiment in which they are entangled.Trade Review'This book constitutes a major work in the study of legal anthropology and, at the same time, a key contribution to current debates in the interrelated fields of affective politics and the anthropological study of emotions … Bens offers an original and innovative approach that reverses common assumptions, and it reforms and transforms our possibilities of thinking about law and legal processes differently, in a promising and productive manner – as emotionally charged, affectively framed, and contested. This is a thoroughly worked, wide-ranging, and impressive piece of scholarship that weaves together ethnography, legal theory, and a condensed re-reading of the history of legal anthropology, while navigating with deep knowledge and brilliant lucidity the current and recent debates in related fields.' Kai Kresse, S-Professor and Vice Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Freie Universität Berlin'In The Sentimental Court, Jonas Bens shines an entirely new light on the ICC and its trials. He shows how aspects of trials that have felt awkward or out of place, strategies of transitional justice at odds with the law's supposed dispassion, and even our feelings as researchers, witnesses, or spectators – all of these are, in fact, fundamental to the workings of international criminal justice. A revelatory book.' Adam Branch, Professor in International Politics and the Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge'The Sentimental Court is a thoughtful deliberation on the emotional dimensions of international criminal justice, with special emphasis on Northern Uganda and the trial of Dominic Ongwen. Affect, while officially abjured in the adjudication of international crimes, is at the heart of the legal endeavor. By paying close attention to sentiment, Jonas Bens provides crucial insights into why transitional justice succeeds or fails.' Richard Ashby Wilson, Associate Dean of Research, University of Connecticut School of Law'In The Sentimental Court, Jonas Bens offers a brilliantly eloquent detailing of the affective life of international criminal justice through this innovative ethnography about the Court and its connections to other sites of justice making. From a person entering the ICC and clearing the security check, to the examination of the constructed narratives of the prosecutor, the victim's representative, and the feelings that such encounters conjure, he offers a deterritorialized mapping of the International Criminal Court's Dominic Ongwen case to show the way that justice atmospheres are sentimentalized in mass-atrocity violence contexts. Not only is the ethnography a wonderful must-read, but it offers precious insights into the wildly complex and unfinished results of the postcolonial condition. With passionate insights about the complexities of justice, Bens clarifies the affective spaces and the fierce stronghold of transnational globalized legal processes in the contemporary period.' Kamari Maxine Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies at the University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Affect, emotion and the law; Part I. Atmospheres: 1. Courtroom atmospheres: The courtroom of the ICC as an affective arrangement; 2. Transitional justice atmospheres: The ICC's outreach work in northern Uganda; Part II. Sentiments: 3. The sentiment of plausibility: Affective framing and the production of legal truth; 4. The sentiment of objectivity: Arranging objects and subjects in the ICC courtroom; 5. The sentiment of justice: Navigating normative pluralism in northern Uganda; Part III. Politics: 6. The politics of atmosphere and sentiment: International criminal justice in Africa and competing indignation regimes; 7. We have never been rational: The emotions of liberal legalism and the affective politics of modernity; Epilogue: Affect and colonialism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book will be of interest to international lawyers, UN officials, policymakers, and scholars. It urges a critical examination of the UN's handling of the question of Palestine and how the organization can discharge its functions more effectively, in line with international law and justice.Table of ContentsList of maps; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Cases; Table of Treaties and International Instruments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Interwar Period; 3. 1947: The UN Plan of Partition for Palestine; 4. 1948 and After: The UN and the Palestinian Refugees; 5. 1967 and After: The UN and the Occupied Palestinian Territory; 6. 2011 and After: Membership of Palestine in the UN; 7. Conclusion; Postscript.

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Book SynopsisThis book will appeal to academics and students studying law, transitional justice, political science and international relations as well as to policymakers, diplomats, journalists and civil society professionals working on conflict related injustices and are interested in the role of law and justice in political transitions and peacebuilding.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Human Rights and Democracy in Deeply Divided Places: 2. The politics of ethno-national conflicts; 3. The limits of partition; 4. Limitations of human rights; Part II. Revisiting Assumptions: 5. Rethinking democracy; 6. Human rights versus power-sharing; Part III. Collective Equality: 7. Collective equality: theoretical foundations for the law of peace; 8. Collective equality and sustaining peace; 9. Collective equality and international law; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisErin Pobjie offers an original framework to identify prohibited 'uses of force' under article 2(4) UN Charter and customary international law. With a range of illustrative case studies, Pobjie demonstrates the validity and usefulness of this theoretical framework in real-world practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for: anyone interested in apocalyptic thinking in politics, who will find examples of how this thinking shapes contemporary discourse; scholars of the history of political thought, who will find new interpretations of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Morgenthau; and scholars of international relations, who will find a novel account of the political realist tradition.Trade Review'This is an excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on political realism. Straddling political theory and international relations (IR) in a fresh and creative fashion, McQueen offers us a strikingly original portrait of realist responses to apocalypse. Moving seamlessly from Machiavelli to Hobbes to Morgenthau, from early modern debates about the nature of God to modern fears of nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change, she tells a fascinating story that raises profound questions about the dangers and the possibilities of political theology. Combining acute textual interpretation, felicitous historical contextualisation, and subtle normative analysis, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times makes a major contribution to political theory and international relations.' Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge'Richard Hofstadter famously coined the term 'the paranoid style' to describe a certain histrionic strand within American politics. In Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, McQueen audaciously outdoes Hofstadter by demonstrating the more widely pervasive 'apocalyptic' style characteristic not only of American political theorizing and practice but also of modern political thought more generally. McQueen shows how and explains why the rhetoric of doomsday, visions of tribulation and redemption, and 'end times' ideologies not only persist but actually pervade the supposedly secular age. She meticulously and ingeniously traces the apocalyptic quality of the contexts in which political authors/actors such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Morgenthau wrote, and how this apocalypticism infiltrated their writings. The book is certain to make an enormous impact in the fields of political thought, intellectual history, and American studies, especially given the now fashionable 'theological' turn in political theory and the dramatic surge in apocalyptic politics throughout the world.' John P. McCormick, University of Chicago'Alison McQueen uses the common, apocalyptic context of their thinking to give us a novel perspective on the unlikely trio of Machiavelli, Hobbes and Morgenthau. The perspective unifies and illuminates, revealing aspects of their writings, and connections between their concerns, that are unseen in other treatments.' Philip Pettit, Princeton University, New Jersey and Australian National University, Canberra'The most important achievement of Alison McQueen's fascinating new book is that she launches an overdue conversation between and among different versions of 'realism', past and present. Shedding fresh light on Machiavelli, Hobbes, Hans Morgenthau, and other 'realists', McQueen ignores the usual disciplinary boundaries between and among competing realist brands. Hers is an indispensable contribution not only to a growing body of realist scholarship but to political science and philosophy.' William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University'The heart of the book is four case studies that attempt to contextualize the apocalyptic thinking of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the efforts to contain it by Paul and Augustine, followed by a case study each on Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Hans Morgenthau. The strength of the book is in the detailed, well-researched reconstruction of the apocalyptic historical context that animated the thought of each, including Augustine.' W. J. Coats, Choice'McQueen's interpretations are compelling, and it is no mean feat to offer fresh and original readings of such well-studied thinkers, in turn asking us to ponder more carefully what it means to be a 'realist', and what the limits of such an outlook are. Furthermore, her identification of two main 'realist' responses to apocalypticism - the 'tragic worldview' and fighting apocalypse with apocalypse - are persuasive, both as matters of historical record and as analyses of the conceptual issues in play … The richness of this book stands beyond doubt, and deserves all of the attention it will surely garner.' Paul Sagar, Political Theory'At a time when the study of the theological underpinnings of political thought is gaining ground, Alison McQueen's new book is good news. As McQueen reminds us, political theorists often pass over the fact that half of Hobbes' Leviathan is a treatise on eschatology and ecclesiastical governance, or that Machiavelli concludes the Prince with a prophetic exhortation for the salvation of Italy from the 'barbarians' who periodically invaded it. Even a secularist like Morgenthau could not escape the allure of religious imagery in his most existentialist moments. McQueen's fascinating book is due credit both for bringing these associations to the fore, thus joining the chorus of the 'theological turn' in political theory, and for forensically excavating the complex engagement of some of the doyens of realist thought with the symbolic resources provided by theological ideas and texts.' Vassilios Paipais, Contemporary Political Theory'This is a book of many virtues. The central chapters combine the intellectual historian's deep sensitivity to context with the political theorist's sharp eye for conceptualizing different theoretical positions that can then be abstracted from their particular historical origins. Indeed, it is rare to read a book that combines these attributes so successfully and which answers potential objections to such an approach less by abstract methodological discussion and more by handling the texts with the care, detail and circumspection they deserve. McQueen has produced an erudite, thought-provoking and enjoyable study … a deeply impressive study of how some of the finest thinkers in the realist tradition struggled with apocalypticism in their own times, which proves to be a rewarding place to start when thinking through how we might respond to similar problems today.' Robin Douglass, Perspectives on Politics'McQueen does an excellent job at bringing together diverse thinkers and new interpretations under the aegis of the realist tradition. For those who see a sharp line between religion and politics, McQueen has offered a work that uses certain religious ideas to explain political philosophy. In fact, a fair reading of McQueen suggests that the line between religion and politics is actually quite blurry, with ideas traversing back and forth. With Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times, McQueen has done a service to the fields of international affairs, political theology, and all those interested in the use of political rhetoric.' Steven Lane, Reading ReligionTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Understanding the apocalypse; 3. Machiavelli's Savonarolan moment; 4. Hobbes 'At the Edge of Promises and Prophecies'; 5. Morgenthau and the postwar apocalypse; 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisUnder what conditions do the governments of developing countries manage to reform their way out of political and economic instability? When are they instead overwhelmed by the forces of social conflict? What role can great powers play in shaping one outcome or the other? This book is among the first to show in detail how the United States has used foreign economic policy, including foreign aid, as a tool for intervening in the developing world. Specifically, it traces how the United States promoted land reform as a vehicle for producing political stability. By showing where that policy proved stabilizing, and where it failed, a nuanced account is provided of how the local structure of the political economy plays a decisive role in shaping outcomes on the ground.Trade Review'Kapstein's ambitious study represents a landmark contribution to the study of US post-war intervention in the developing world. Focusing on economic reform - and especially land reform - Kapstein shows through meticulous archival work and riveting case studies that the US sought to promote reform in an effort stabilize friendly governments and stem peasant uprisings. The book is a must-read for students of foreign policy, diplomacy, development, and land reform.' Michael Albertus, University of Chicago'The study of peasant rebellion is back. Ethan B. Kapstein rewrites the history of the Cold War in this fascinating book on the causes and consequences of US foreign-assistance policy. With communism on the march, US policymakers promoted land reform as a way to shore up political stability. Seeds of Stability tells us why they did so and why they were only sometimes successful.' Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin, Madison'... this book certainly makes a valuable contribution to understanding the mechanisms when such reformist strategies might be effective, the demand and appetite for such interventions on Washington's part in the coming future are likely to be very limited.' Ionut C. Popescu, International RelationsTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. From Grievance Theory to Reformist Intervention: 2. Grievance theory and US foreign policy; 3. The strategy of reformist intervention; Part II. Promoting Land Reform: Success and Failure: 4. Land to the tiller in the early Cold War: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Italy; 5. Land reform as counterinsurgency policy: the Philippines and South Vietnam; 6. Land reform and social revolution in Latin America: 1952–90; 7. Iran: did land reform backfire?; Part III. Looking Ahead: 8. Land and conflict in the twenty-first century; 9. The future of reformist intervention.

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Book SynopsisAmy Austin Holmes argues that the relationship between US military presence in foreign countries and the non-US citizens under its security umbrella is inherently contradictory. She suggests that while the host population may be fully enfranchised citizens of their own government, they are at the same time disenfranchised vis-à-vis the US presence.Trade Review'This important excursion into America's Cold War 'empire of bases' is concisely written, thoroughly documented, and rich with insight. Amy Holmes has written a first-rate book.' Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University, Massachusetts'Amy Austin Holmes has written a timely and important book. In it, she addresses a pressing issue in international relations - the rise of America's 'empire of bases' in the postwar era. Holmes offers a compelling account of the anti-base social movements, their roots, and their impact on the American presence, showing the importance of social mobilization for restricting the US ambition to house its bases in Europe as well as illustrating how the anti-base movement became a great deal more effective once it harnessed the power of the labor movement. This study will be judged a signal contribution not just to the study of American military history, but also to the study of social movements.' Vivek Chibber, New York University'This book addresses the politics of American military bases within a comparative analysis of Germany and Turkey. Through this, Amy Austin Holmes convincingly argues about the relevance of these cases in order to understand the development of the United States as a global power, pointing at the number of American bases outside the continental United States, as well as their peculiar forms. This book is well researched, utilizing archival materials on the US appreciation of and reaction to the peace movements in a very interesting manner.' Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute'This is a well-written book on an understudied subject, especially in Turkey. Its rich archival data is complemented by an impressive number of interviews conducted in Turkey, Germany, and United States.' Ömer Aslan, Insight Turkey'In arguably one of the best scholarly treatments on the subject since Alexander Cooley's Base Politics, Holmes broadens her notion of anti-base opposition beyond protests to include different forms of contentious politics. This includes non-violent civil disobedience, labor disputes, parliamentary opposition, and acts of violence and terrorism. Holmes also explores the security relationship between the United States and host governments and the difficulty in sustaining political legitimacy over US bases in the long run.” Andrew I. Yeo, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of Contents1. Introduction: the global American military presence in comparative perspective; 2. Social unrest and the American military presence in Turkey during the Cold War; 3. Social unrest and the American military presence in Germany during the Cold War; 4. From shield to sword: the end of the Cold War to the invasion of Iraq; 5. Conclusion: losing ground.

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Book SynopsisExplains the international agreements President Obama can be championing in the last few months of his term, including the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Law of the Child Treaty, and the International Criminal Court Treaty. This book offers a concrete plan to push back against the formation of world government-ideas.

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, Nepal''s history has been marked by tumultuous events and transformations, and its relations with India by sharp fluctuations. From the Maoist insurgency to the hijacking of IC 814, from the Palace Massacre that wiped out King Birendra and his entire family to the coup by King Gyanendra against democracy, among others, the much-vaunted IndiaNepal ''special relationship'' has repeatedly experienced setbacks, some of them with long-term implications.

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Book SynopsisIn Killer High, Peter Andreas tells the story of war from antiquity to the modern age through the lens of six psychoactive drugs: alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines, and cocaine. Armed conflict has become progressively more "drugged" with the global spread of these mind-altering substances. From ancient brews and battles to meth and modern warfare, drugs and war have grown up together and become addicted to each other. By looking back not justyears and decades but centuries, Andreas reveals that the drugs-conflict nexus is actually an old story, and that powerful states have been its biggest beneficiaries.Trade ReviewKiller High, well-written and extensively researched, shows how the drugs-war relationship has served state interests and ambitions. * Katharine Neill-Harris, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Since time immemorial, soldiers have consumed mind-altering substances; Andreas (International Studies/Brown Univ.; Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, 2013, etc.) delivers an impressive, often unsettling history of six. * Kirkus *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: How Drugs Made War and War Made Drugs 1: Drunk on the Front 2: Where there's Smoke there's War 3: Caffeinated Conflict 4: Opium, Empire, and Geopolitics 5: Speed Warfare 6: Cocaine Wars Conclusion: The Drugged Battlefields of the 21st Century Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present.Since their mutual independence in 1947, India and Pakistan have been engaged in a fierce rivalry. Even today, both rivals continue to devote enormous resources to their military competition even as they face other pressing challenges at home and abroad. Why and when do rival states pursue conflict or cooperation? In The Difficult Politics of Peace, Christopher Clary provides a systematic examination of war-making and peace-building in the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Drawing upon new evidence from recently declassified documents and policymaker interviews, the book traces India and Pakistan''s complex history to explain patterns in their enduring rivalry and argues that domestic politics have often overshadowed strategic interests. It shows that Pakistan''s dangerous civil-military relationship and India''s fractious coalition politics have frequently stymied leaders that attempted to build a more durable peace between the South Asian rivals. In so doing, Clary offers a revised understanding of the causes of war and peace that brings difficult and sometimes dangerous domestic politics to the forefront.Trade ReviewThis book is written chronologically across eight chapters, spanning the creation of the partition in 1947 to the recent Modi and Khan leadership pairing...Clary's detailed focus on the impact of these factors throughout the entire history of the two nations makes this book a useful addition to any collection on South Asian conflict studies. * Choice *Clary's provocative new theory to explain the oscillations in India-Pakistan ties between peacebuilding and warmaking is a remarkable contribution to the field of international relations. Grounded in the history, domestic politics and geopolitics of South Asia over the past seven decades, this forensic examination is bound to challenge conventional wisdom and traditional arguments about the subcontinent. * Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research & visiting lecturer, Yale University *By focusing on domestic politics and developing a theory of leader primacy—how leaders control foreign policy authority—The Difficult Politics of Peace sheds new light on when rivalries are more peaceful, and when they are more conflictual. This book deserves to be widely read, for its illuminating, careful study of the India-Pakistan rivalry, and for its insights into the domestic politics of war and peace. * Elizabeth N. Saunders, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University *Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, The Difficult Politics of Peace is an outstanding analysis of the long rivalry between India and Pakistan. This carefully and closely argued account challenges and revises much of the received wisdom on the sources of cooperation as well as conflict in the subcontinent. * Srinath Raghavan, author of Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia *This is a spectacular book. It is empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated. Clary successfully debunks the age-old typification of the India-Pakistan rivalry as an 'unending' conflict. He clearly shows how and why leaders in both South Asian countries made choices about peace-making efforts, not just as a temporary measure between wars, but those with unique motivational characteristics. This excellent book will appeal to not only those interested in the history and politics of South Asia, but to any reader of war and peace in the modern world. * Rudra Chaudhuri, Director, Carnegie India *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Rivals, Leaders, and Change Chapter 2: Partition, the First Kashmir War, and the Origins of the Rivalry Chapter 3: War Scares and the Failure of Kashmir Talks, 1948-1954 Chapter 4: Nehru, Ayub, and the Indus Waters Treaty Chapter 5: The Rise of Bhutto, Sino-Indian Conflict, and the Second Kashmir War Chapter 6: Dhaka, Simla, and an Incomplete Peace Chapter 7: Dictatorship, Democracy, and the Bomb in South Asia Chapter 8: From Musharraf to Modi Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisUnrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, featuring a new chapter that reflects on the historic marginalisation of global IR and a wide range of case studies that show readers how theory can be applied to address concrete political problems.Trade ReviewChapter 17 on Global International Relations is very well-written and informative. The author not only makes the compelling case that the future of IR is global, but that IR has always been global. * Dr Dimitrios Stroikos, Department of Politics, University of York *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory Steve SmithInternational Relations and Social Science Colin Wight and Milja KurkiClassical Realism Richard Ned LebowStructural Realism John J. MearsheimerLiberalism Bruce RussettNeoliberalism Jennifer Sterling-FolkerThe English School Tim DunneMarxism Mark RupertCritical Theory Steven RoachConstructivism Karin FierkeFeminism Ann Tickner and Laura SjobergPoststructuralism Roland Bleiker and David CampbellPostcolonialism Shampa BiswasNormative IR Theory Toni ErskineGreen Theory Robyn EckersleyInternational Relations Theory and Globalization Colin HayGlobal International Relations Amitav AcharyaStill a Discipline After All These Debates? Ole Waever

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Book SynopsisHow states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. In this book, the author argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments among states to address problems together.Trade Review"Power in Concert offers a sophisticated theoretical argument about the origins of international cooperation and speaks to some of the liveliest and most important debates in the field-debates about sources of international cooperation and changing state interests and strategies. Jennifer Mitzen has written an important book that will have far-reaching implications in international relations and the study of global governance." (Martha Finnemore, George Washington University)"

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Book SynopsisHow can the world's most powerful nations cooperate despite their conflicting interests? In Three-Way Street, Joshua S. Goldstein and John R. Freeman analyze the complex intersection defined by relations among the United States, the Soviet Union, and China over the past forty years. The authors demonstrate that three major schools of international relations theoryall game-theoretic, psychological, and quantitative-empirical approacheshave all advocated a strategy that employs cooperative initiatives and reciprocal responses in order to elicit cooperation from other countries. Critics have questioned whether such approaches can model how countries actually behave, but Goldstein and Freeman provide a wealth of detailed empirical evidence showing the existence and effectiveness of strategic reciprocity among the three countries between 1948 and 1989. Specifically, they establish that relations among the three countries have improved in recent decades through a two steps forward, one step

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Book SynopsisIn 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconiccomparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Both images serve as microcosms for their respective conflicts. Afterimages looks at the work of war photographers like Hondros and Ut to understand how photojournalism interacts with the American worldview. Liam Kennedy here maps the evolving relations between the American way of war and photographic coverage of it. Organized in its first section around key US military actions over the last fifty years, the book then moves on to examine how photographers engaged with these conflicts on wider ethical and political grounds, and finally on to the genre of photojournalism itself. Illustrated throughout with examples of the photographs being considered, Afterimages argues that photographs a

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGilady shows through fascinating case studies how states desire for prestige can explain important events in international relations. The Price of Prestige is a major contribution an insightful, creatively argued, and well-written book that addresses better than anyone so far the elusive role of prestige. The book will challenge how most theorists think about international politics. --Jonathan Mercer, University of Washington"

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Book SynopsisGeorges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, andby extensionhumans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority. Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of Frenchmen who have built a history of anti-Americanism in that country, a progressive history that is alternately ludicrous and trenchant. The American Enemy is Roger's bestselling and widely acclaimed history of French anti-Americanism, presented here in English translation for the first time. With elegance and good humor, Roger goes back 200 years to unear

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Book SynopsisFredrik Söderbaum is Professor of Peace and Development Research in the School of Global Studies (SGS), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium. He has been published widely in the areas of Comparative Regionalism, African Politics, Interregionalism and the European Union as a global player.Trade ReviewThe book is an excellent guide for newcomers to regionalism as well as established scholars or researchers … Rethinking Regionalism is a persuasive intellectual piece, as well as being a good guide for established and early career researchers in the field of regionalism or global politics. * Oluwabamidele Kogbe, University of Dundee UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Learning from History 3. Learning from Theory 4. The Richness of Comparative Regionalism 5. Obviating the Gap Between Formal and Informal Regionalism 6. Organizing Regional Space 7. Multidimensional Regionalism 8. Civil Society in Regionalism 9. External Actors in Regionalism 10. Regionness: The Solidification of Regions 11. Regions in Interregionalism 12. Regions in Global Governance 13. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisTraces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This title penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.Trade ReviewReceived an honorable mention for the Book Award in History from the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2012. "A remarkable collection that shows the dedication, diligence, and accomplishments of Him Mark Lai, an amateur historian who devoted himself to researching and writing the history of Chinese American communities. Lai's command of the sources and his commitment to a faithful recording of Chinese American history are extraordinary."--Renqiu Yu, author of To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York"A remarkable account of the history of Chinese American communities."--The Journal of Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A distinctive and imaginative account of the peculiar and often mystified enclaves or ‘fragmented territories’ on the border between India and Bangladesh. . . . Cons offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of multiple dimensions of everyday struggles, contestations, and opportunities in Dahagram. . . . Sensitive Space opens new conceptual avenues for analyses on the Indo-Bangladeshi border as well as border studies more generally." -- Prithvi Hirani * Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography *"Cons . . . allows his rich ethnographic material to reveal the complexities of postcolonial sovereignty, insecurity, and precarity. The result is a highly readable, theoretically acute, and sharply insightful work." -- Sankaran Krishna * Journal of Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisIn February 2011, Hooman Majd disembarked at the Tehran airport, a place he had passed through many times to visit family or accompany a news crew. But this time he had his wife, Karri; his infant son, Khash; and an oversize stroller in tow—and plans to stay for a year. Few American journalists gain entry to Iran; for Majd, the son of a diplomat under the shah and the grandson of an ayatollah, it would be the first time he had lived in his homeland since childhood. In The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay, he recounts both his family’s domestic adventures and a tumultuous year in Iranian politics. The result is an unforgettable portrait of an elusive country whose government, in the more than thirty years since its Islamic revolution, has been the United States’ most intractable nemesis.

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Book SynopsisA provocative blueprint for how the United States can successfully disengage from failing wars without compromising its core values or interests.

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Book SynopsisAn iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance—a revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War.Trade Review"Starred review. This is excellent revisionist history, giving another slant to the interaction of two political icons on the world stage." -- Publishers Weekly"An interesting revisionist history, Aldous’ study should attract the foreign policy audience." -- Gilbert Taylor - Booklist"Vivid, fast-paced and immensely readable, Richard Aldous' new book challenges conventional wisdom and prods us to rethink the 1980s." -- Prof. David Reynolds (Cambridge), author of America, Empire of Liberty"An important study, based on a wealth of recently-released documents, which puts the Thatcher-Reagan friendship in a wholy new (and more somber) light. It should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, the health and the future of the Anglo-American 'special relationship'." -- David Cannadine, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Mellon: An American Life"I can’t speak for President Reagan, but I’ve been both praised and pulverized by Margaret Thatcher and Richard Aldous seems to me to have captured the force of her personality. She did have an emotional understanding of Reagan and her of her that in its essence, in my judgement, was warmer than between Churchill and Roosevelt. But her fury was incandescent over the invasion of Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth, as was the wimpiness of the initial American reaction to the seizure of the Falkland Islands. This is a valuable look behind the looking glass of public-relations politics of the special relationship." -- Harold Evans, author of The American Century

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Book SynopsisA bold reexamination of U.S. influence in the Middle East during the Cold War.Trade Review"An insightful, comprehensive account." -- Rajan Menon - The New York Times Book Review"A singular take on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East." -- Kirkus Reviews"The authors puncture entrenched myths. . . . Lucid and accessible." -- Publisher's Weekly"Takeyh and Simon, both preeminent scholars of the Middle East, have written a lively and provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about U.S. policy toward this tumultuous region during the Cold War. They argue that by excluding the Soviet Union, supporting conservative Arab allies, and exploiting the emergence of Israel as a major power, American policymakers secured their Cold War interests in the region. Their study is a must-read for policymakers and students of American policy, a major contribution to our ongoing debate about the role of the United States in the Middle East." -- Robert Kagan, author of The World America Made"A fascinating tale of America’s tangled involvement in the Middle East, told by two of Washington’s sharpest and most seasoned regional experts. Eerie echoes of today’s headlines resound throughout this gripping look at the history of a crucial theater of the Cold War. Faulkner said the past is never dead; in fact, it’s not even past. Nowhere is this truer than the Middle East, and Takeyh and Simon’s excellent book shows you why." -- Gideon Rose, editor, Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisContains unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time.The EconomistTrade Review"Magisterial... a fascinating tour of foreign policy." Moscow Times "Deeply researched... indispensable for anyone hoping to understand the Cold War's most dangerous phase, and how the world managed to survive it." The New York Times Book Review "[Contains] unsettling insights into some of the most dangerous geopolitical crises of the time." The Economist "...enthralling... I find this book instructive and very dispiriting." Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator"

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Book Synopsis"One of America's most astute revealers of Iranian culture and identity."-Reza Aslan, The AtlanticTrade Review"Its insights may startle Americans who think of Iran purely as a fundamentalist Islamic state." -- Time"Like a nonfiction novel, going beyond hard facts to enter people's consciousness." -- Marc Tracy - The New York Times Book Review"Regardless what you happen to think of Majd's political analysis (I happen to mostly agree with it), he has the most detailed and gripping reporting of the Iranian elections to date…. I encourage the White House to get a copy of Majd's book. And for Dish readers to pre-order it." -- Patrick Appel - The Atlantic.com"No writer knows more about modern Iran than Hooman Majd. Nor does any other commentator write more cogently, or more beautifully, about this complex and sometimes opaque culture. The Ayatollahs’ Democracy establishes Majd as the go-to guy for understanding Iran and Iranian politics." -- Reza Aslan, author of No god but God"The first fifty pages of this book would make a Sundance-winning film, but the meat of the book explores, in vividly readable style, the evolving concept of Islamic democracy, the widespread support for nuclear power, and the historical pride and resistance to western intervention. A well-connected insider with the eye of a master psychologist, Majd gives us a nuanced, in-depth portrait of a country both far more sophisticated and far less rigid than western policymakers have yet appreciated." -- Lesley Hazleton, author of After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split"Hooman Majd’s penetrating new book, The Ayatollahs’ Democracy, exposes Iran's innermost political machinations. Combining analytical agility, journalistic talent, the prose of a seasoned writer, Majd draws deft analogies between events in Iran and events in American history, and untangles the many factions and alliances that run Iran's enigmatic government. Best of all, Majd breaks down complex issues into understandable pieces, without sacrificing complexity. A must read." -- Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent

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