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Book SynopsisTrusteeship and the civilizing mission never ended with the self-determination entitlement that led to decolonization: international organizations took on this role in the post-colonial era, internationalizing trusteeship and re-legitimizing it as a feature of international policy. Through analysis of the history of and purposes associated with the involvement of international organizations in territorial administration, a comparison between this activity and colonial trusteeship, occupation, the Mandate and Trusteeship arrangements, and an exploration of the modern ideas of international law and public policy that underpin and legitimize contemporary interventions, this book relates a new history of the concept of international trusteeship. From British colonialist Lord Lugard''s dual mandate to the state building agenda of the then High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lord Ashdown, wide-ranging links between the complex peace operations of today and the civilizing mission of the colonial era are established, offering a historical, political and legal framework within which the legitimacy of and challenges faced by complex interventions can be appraised. This new history of international trusteeship raises important questions about the role of international law and organizations in facilitating relations of domination and tutelage, and suggests that the contemporary significance of the self-determination entitlement needs to be re-evaluated.Trade Review...this book is a wonderful contribution to an underexplored area of international law. The book carefully chronicles the history of the concept of international trusteeship, and provides a political and legal framework by which to appraise the legitimacy of these interventions. The book presents an impressive blend of comprehensive empirical research and insightful incorporation of legal theory. The book is extremely well-written, utilizing precise yet accessible language. This book promises to be a tremendous resource for both newcomers and experts in the field. * ASIL Book Prize Committee 2009 *Although the sweep of the activity under evaluation is very broad, Wilde does immense justice to it. Wilde's book is an elegant, provocative, and highly inspiring work. It is a major scholarly contribution to the fields of history, international law, and international relations...a must read. * Vijayashri Sripati, Human Rights Quarterly *Dr. Wilde's review of the nature and purposes of international territorial administration is definitely a must read. * NATO Legal Gazette *The book's nine chapters are divided in to numbered subsections. This convenient approach facilitates ease of access to content, and convenient cross-referencing, for the many users likely to rely on Professor Wilde's well-written and documented discourse...Wilde has masterfully penned a rather disquieting account of the ITA device. It has arguably failed to merge word and deed, in terms of the equality guaranteed all nations under applicable UN Charter principles. The publication of his riveting discourse focuses on the downside risk of quick-fix approaches to managing the complexities of the governed entity. * William Slomanson *Wilde's book manages to do two things excellently, when even doing an excellent job at one would be notable...On one hand his book presents a careful theoretical expositition of his proposition, that international administration has become not only an international institution but one with continuing, unified policy objectives. It's a syndrome, a chronic condition or effort that has developed over decades, not an ad hoc, disunited band aid policy as it is presented. His case is clear and his presentation balanced and careful. On the other hand the book is a thorough empirical study of a) the universe of cases! b) over time! To document this condition as well as assess and qualify his thesis. There are great books on theory and great empirical books but when they are combined, one side almost always dominates. Wilde's book doesn't have that sort of imbalance, and the two sides complement rather than undermine each other. * Cheryl Shanks *... an admirably thorough analysis of ITA, which takes account of all the major scholarship on the subject, together with a highly original though not entirely uncontentious interpretation of this intriguing historical phenomenonit endeavours-and succeeds-in shifting our perspective on a familiar topic. It is an important book that deserves wide readership * Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, The British Yearbook of International Law, issue 79 *Wilde's focus on the broader issues relating to international territorial administration gives a young field a great deal of depth. His thought-provoking work, which identifies ITA as a policy institution and argues that it is part of a broader family of 'foreign territorial administration' (including colonialism), incites refelection and discourages lawyers from having a purely technocratic approach to what can be a highly technical field of law. * Lindsey Cameron, Research assistant and PhD Candidate, University of Geneva, and Rebecca Everly, PhD, currently a visiting scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Global Law Books *Wilde's account offers valuable insights into the nature of international territorial administration. * Anne Orford, University Of Melbourne, ICLQ Vol 59 *Wilde argues that his aim is not to discern the 'real' reasons for the projects that he considers, but 'to identify a justificatory framework to explain how the projects are understood in international policy discourse'(p.39). This broadly constructivist approach is pursued in refreshingly clear language * Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore, Leiden Journal of International Law, 23 *Table of Contents1. A New Field of Analysis ; 2. The Institution of International Territorial Administration ; 3. The Idea of International Territorial Sovereignty ; 4. Host Territories - States and State Territories ; 5. Host Territories - Self-Determination Units ; 6. Establishing the Policy Institution: Purposive Analysis ; 7. Implementing International Law and Policy ; 8. Colonialism and Trusteeship Redux? Imperial Connections, Historical Evolution, and Legitimation in the 'Post-Colonial' Era ; 9. Analysing International Territorial Administration

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Book SynopsisPeople around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference does it make that neo-conservatives rather than neo-liberals are now in power? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics?These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. Closely argued but clearly written, ''The New Imperialism'' builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a ''new imperialism'' are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see.This new paperback edition contains Trade ReviewReview from previous edition 'The New Imperialism' merits the widest possible public. David Harvey is a social theorist known for a cool, analytical style born of interdisciplinary inquiry, coupled with a keen feeling for political significance. This book showcases his talent.' * The Boston Phoenix *'Harvey makes an important theoretical contribution to understanding contemporary empire's vicissitudes.' * The Times Higher Education Supplement *'This book is beautifully crafted, its prose accessible, its narrative one of mounting intensity and urgency. 'The New Imperialism' mounts a stunning indictment of our present institutions of power, while offering hopeful insights about how these institutions could be changed.' * Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics *'Navigating effortlessly between history, economics, geography and politics, with persuasive argument and lucid prose, David Harvey places today's headlines in context and makes sense of the early twenty-first century maelstrom we're all caught up in. His concept of accumulation by dispossession will go far. 'The New Imperialism' is a truly useful book.' * Susan George, Associate Director, The Transnational Institute, Amsterdam *Table of Contents1. All about Oil ; 2. How America's Power Grew ; 3. Capital Bondage ; 4. Accumulation by Dispossession ; 5. Consent to Coercion ; AFTERWORD ; Further Reading ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisBased on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945.The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been crucial and recent events dictate that it is becoming ever more so. In this important new work, Geir Lundestad analyses the balance between the cooperation and conflict which has characterized this relationship in the post-war period. He examines talk of transatlantic drift, and the strain now apparent between the USA and the nation states of Western Europe. In the concluding section, Lundestad offers a topical view of the future of transatlantic interaction.Throughout the work Lundestad''s much cited ''empire by invitation'' thesis is both put into practice and extended in time and scope. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most important and enduring international relationships of the last sixtyTrade ReviewThis book is a must read for political scientists, historians, and anyone interested in the transmutations of international relations and issues of hegemony and coherence in alliance systems. It is written in a concise, jargon-free style that makes it appealing to a larger audience. The unpolemical character of the prose and the balanced judgements add to the many virtues of this book, which offers a powerful argument, presents a sophisticated narrative, and is a magisterial, and, indeed, the best synthesis available of transatlantic relations since 194? * a massive achievement.Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Historical Setting: The United States and Western Europe Before 1945 ; 2. Cooperation Established: "Empire" by Invitation 1945-1950 ; 3. The Atlantic Community, Germany's Role, and Western Europe's Integration 1950-1962 ; 4. De Gaulle's Challenge to America's Hegemony 1962-1969 ; 5. The United States, Western Europe, and Out-of-Area Disputes 1945-1975 ; 6. Conflict and Cooperation: American-Western European Relations (Not) Redefined 1969-1977 ; 7. From Bad to Worse: The United States and Western Europe 1977-1984 ; 8. The End of the Cold War and Cooperation in the End 1984-1993 ; 9. America's New Strong Role in Europe 1993-2001 ; 10. Transatlantic Drift: The Present and the Future ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRealism remains the most important and controversial vision of international politics. But what does it mean to be a realist? This collection addresses this key question by returning to the thinking of perhaps the most influential realist of modern times: Hans J. Morgenthau. In analyses of issues ranging from political philosophy, to international law, to the impact of nuclear weapons and the challenges of American foreign policy, the authors demonstrate that Morgenthau''s thinking exemplifies a rich realist tradition that is often lacking in contemporary analyses of international relations and foreign policy. At a time when realism is once again at the centre of both scholarly and political debates, this book shows that the legacy of classical realism can enrich our understanding of world politics and contribute to its future direction.Trade ReviewWilliams and his contributors make an exciting and innovative contribution to Morgenthau scholarship. The authors use interesting and lesser-known sources, and vivid examples, to show or speculate about Morgenthau's positions on a range of topics. * Jonathan Cristol, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Morgenthau, Agency and Aristotle ; 2. 'The Twilight of International Morality'? Hans J. Morgenthau and Carl Schmitt on the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum ; 3. Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond ; 4. The Image of Law in Politics Among Nations ; 5. Realism, Tragedy and the Anti-Pelagian Imagination in International Political Thought. ; 6. The balance of power in Politics Among Nations ; 7. Hans Morgenthau and the Cold War ; 8. Hans Morgenthau and the World State Revisited ; 9. Morgenthau Now: Neoconservatism, National Greatness and Realism ; 10. Texts, Paradigms, and Political Change

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Book SynopsisThe struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original great game. But in the past quarter century, a new great game has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching from Iran through Pakistan to Kashmir. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America''s most respected international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new competition for control of the region since 9/11. All three great powers have crafted strategies to increase their power in the area, which includes Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Each nation is pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political influence for the Russians. However, overlooked in all of the talk about this new great game is fact that the Central Asian governments have proven themselves critical agents in their own right, establishing local rules for external power involvement that serve to fend off foreign interest. As a result, despite a decade of intense interest from the United States, Russia, and China, Central Asia remains a collection of segmented states, and the external competition has merely reinforced the sovereign authority of the individual Central Asian governments. A careful and surprising analysis of how small states interact with great powers in a vital region, Great Games, Local Rules greatly advances our understanding of how global politics actually works in the contemporary era.Trade ReviewGreat Games, Local Rules is a timely contribution ... this concise book (under 200 pages) with handy subheadings every two pages or so is recommended reading for journalists and students who want to brush up on the developments of the last ten years. In turn, Cooley has brought Central Asia to a wider academic audience. * Annabelle Chapman, LSE Review of Books *a highly readable, richly researched and insightful book that explores the increasingly intensifying interaction between China, Russia and the USA. ...Cooley has produced an excellent study of the region that should be required reading for scholars, policy makers, and interested students. * Johannes Olschner, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The New Multipolar Politics of Influence in Central Asia ; Chapter 2: Local Rules: The Origins and Politics of Central Asian Regime Survival ; Chapter 3: Washington's Strategy: Juggling Interests and Values on the Road to Afghanistan ; Chapter 4: Moscow's Strategy: The Quest for a Privileged Role ; Chapter 5: Beijing's Strategy: The SCO, Xinjiang and China's Great Leap Westward ; Chapter 6: Anti-Terrorism, Democratization and Human Rights ; Chapter 7: Geopolitical Competition and Political Stability: The Case of Kyrgyzstan ; Chapter 8: Corruption and Governance: Competition and Collusion in Contracting ; Chapter 9: Regional Integration: So Many Proposals, So Little Cooperation ; Chapter 10: Conclusion: Central Asia's Multipolar Politics in Comparative Perspective ; Appendix 1: Laws Passed after Color Revolutions that Introduced New Restrictions on NGOs ; and the Media ; Appendix 2: Election Monitor Assessments, ODIHR/SCO/CIS

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Book SynopsisFailings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. Even though the legal instrument that establishes the Court provides that its judgments have no formal precedential value, those judgments are treated as authoritative by international lawyers throughout the world. In this book, A. Mark Weisburd argues that the Court''s decisions are, in a large minority of cases, poorly reasoned and doubtful as a matter of law, and therefore ought not to be accorded the deference they receive.The book seeks to demonstrate its thesis by a careful review of the Court''s errors. It begins with an examination of the law that created and empowered the Court. It then describes the body of law upon which the Court was intended to base its decisions, and the mistakes in the arguments supporting the Court''s drawing legal rules from other sources. The book goes on to analyze in detail cases in which the Court has made serious legal errors, first addressing procedural errors, then turning to mistakes in the application of substantive international law. The book closes with a quantitative summing up of the Court''s performance, and a tentative explanation for its relatively disappointing record.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 1 - THE FORMAL AUTHORITY OF THE COURT ; CHAPTER 2 - THE LAW THE COURT MAY APPLY ; CHAPTER 3 - ERRORS OF PROCEDURE ; CHAPTER 4 - ERRORS OF SUBSTANCE ; CHAPTER 5 - THE COURT'S PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE SUMMARY AND SUGGESTED EXPLANATIONS ; FINAL THOUGHTS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ; INDEX

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Book SynopsisThere have been remarkable developments in the field of human rights in the past few decades. Still, millions of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants continue to find it challenging to access human rights. In this book, Ayten Gündogdu builds on Hannah Arendt''s analysis of statelessness and argues that these challenges reveal the perplexities of human rights. Human rights promise equal personhood regardless of citizenship status, yet their existing formulations are tied to the principle of territorial sovereignty. This situation leaves various categories of migrants in a condition of rightlessness, with a very precarious legal, political, and human standing. Gündogdu examines this problem in the context of immigration detention, deportation, and refugee camps. Critical of the existing system of human rights without seeing it as a dead end, she argues for the need to pay closer attention to the political practices of migrants who challenge their condition of rightlessneTrade ReviewIn her bold and erudite book on human rights, Ayten Gundogdu has achieved two results: a critical reading of Hannah Arendt, using her 'perplexities' to reveal her thought about statelessness and the right to have rights, and a deconstruction of paradoxes affecting 'universal rights' in our post-totalitarian age, as illustrated by the situation of migrants. The 'undecided struggle' that she describes is grim, but also an eloquent plea for the capacity of victims to become agents of their own history. * Etienne Balibar, author of Equaliberty *Ayten Gundogdu knows she cannot rest content with asking what Hannah Arendt would say about human rights now, which have risen and transformed so substantially over the past half-century. In this marvelous book, Gundogdu reinterprets Arendt's critique, and revises it where necessary, in order to vindicate a promising new approach for the field. Rejecting their deployment as a rhetoric of compassionate aid or even military intervention, Gundogdu shows a truly political vision of human rights will engage the social realm and prompt the reinvention of claims and movements beyond their contemporary limitations. The result is an exemplary lesson in how to connect past thinking with present realities. * Samuel Moyn, Harvard University *Bristling with insights into the plight of migrants in today's global economy, Gundogdu's book offers a creative rereading of Hannah Arendt's controversial critique of human rights. She perceptively grasps that the key insight in Arendt's difficult notion of a 'right to have rights' is not to ground rights in a normative foundation but to reanimate them as quotidian political practices of founding. In this way, Gundogdu offers a fresh response to the tenacious problems of rightlessness which at once includes and goes well beyond juridical appeals to the sovereign state. * Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Human Rights across Borders ; Chapter 1: Perplexities of Human Rights ; Chapter 2: Human Rights as Politics and Anti-politics ; Chapter 3: Borders of Personhood ; Chapter 4: Expulsion from Politics and Humanity ; Chapter 5: Declarations of A Right to Have Rights ; Conclusion: The Struggle Remains Undecided ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe term ''Fertile Crescent'' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which were taken from the Ottoman empire after 1918 and became Mandates under the League of Nations. For the most part the histories of these countries have been handled either individually or as part of the history of Britain or France. In the first instance the emphasis has normally been on the development of nationalism and local resistance to alien control in a particular territory, leading to the modern successor state. In the second most studies have concentrated separately on how either France or Britain handled the great problems they inherited, seldom comparing their strategies. The aim of this book is to see the region as a whole and from both the European and indigenous points of view. The central argument iTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Fieldhouse's strength lies in his detailed and extensive knowledge of British imperial and general history. * Jan Zouplna, Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies, vol 74 *...the value of this work lies in its exceptional clarity and the succinctness of its synthesis, which make it ideal for students and the uninitiated. The slim, but judiciously chosen, select bibliography and the detailed index add to its usefulness. * Jennifer M. Dueck, French Studies *'As one would expect from Fieldhouse, the style is brisk and efficient, the writing lucid and the substance fair-minded. In a subject of daunting complexity, and on which much that is written has a polemical purpose, even well-informed readers will find its balance and clarity exceptionally useful. * John Darwin, TLS *Its comparative approach helps fill a huge gap in Middle East scholarship. * H-Soz-u-Kult *Table of ContentsPART I: BEFORE THE MANDATES 1900-1922 ; 1. The Decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the 'Arab Awakening' before 1914 ; 2. War and the Partition of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1922 ; PART II: ALIEN RULE AND NATIONALIST REACTIONS 1918-1958 ; 3. Britain in Mesopotamia/Iraq 1918-1958 ; 4. Palestine: The Genesis of the Mandate ; 5. Palestine: The British Mandate 1918-1948 ; 6. Transjordan 1918-1956 ; 7. Syria and the French 1918-1946 ; 8. Lebanon and the French 1918-1946 ; PART III ; 9. Conclusions ; Select Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisForeign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 percent is provided as emergency assistance. In this first-ever attempt to provide an overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell presents a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all. Does Foreign Aid Really Work? sets out the evidence and exposes the instances where aid has failed and explains why. The book also examines the way that politics distorts aid, and disentangles the moral and ethical assumptions that lie behind the belief that aid does good. The book concludes by detailing the practical ways that aid needs to change if it is to be the effective force for good that itTrade Review'...[an] excellent and significant book...' * Alex De Waal, Times Literary Supplement *'...essential reading for anyone interested in the subject of aid and wishing to be informed about the issues involved.' * Nigel Grimwade, Times Higher Education Supplement *'Roger Riddell's text provides the single best introduction to the history and range of contemporary debates associated with foreign aid, including the rise of international NGOs as major actors and the centrality of domestic politics to shaping aid practice.' * John Gershman, Foreign Affairs *'Riddell provides a compelling and thorough account of the intricacies of foreign aid. The strength of this book is that it establishes the positive attributes of aid without avoiding the need to critically assess its failures. Through a combination of personal experience, conceptual insight and empirical substance, Riddell demonstrates that investigating whether foreign aid works could ensure its future, rather than undermining it.' * Sara E. Davis, International Affairs *'For anyone who wants to know more about development assistance, this is a 'must- read'. Roger Riddell provides us with a nuanced and honest outline of past and current aid-flows, their complexities, trends and possible impact. Does aid really work? His answer is a conditional, cautious - yes. And he presents some bold proposals to address some of the systemic weaknesses. It was strong international leadership that delivered the aid-reforms of the 90's. The question is whether the current leaders in development are ready for this debate?' * Hilde Frafjord Johnson, former Minister of International Development of Norway *'This book is a heroic achievement. Not only has Roger Riddell mapped out with great clarity the arcane world of international aid, in a way that will help the practitioner as much as the general reader, he has also produced visionary and challenging recommendations for reform of the system.' * Sir Michael Aaronson, former Director General of Save the Children UK *'In this impressive new study, Riddell has surpassed even his distinguished Foreign Aid Reconsidered. It includes a rare and much-needed analysis of emergency and voluntary assistance. Complete and authoritative, the book will have a long life as the definitive account of its important subject.' * Professor Robert Cassen, London School of Economics *Table of Contents1. 'A Good Thing?' ; PART I: THE COMPLEX WORLDS OF FOREIGN AID ; 2. The origins and early decades of aid-giving ; 3. Aid-giving from the 1970s to the present ; 4. The growing web of bilateral aid donors ; 5. The complexities of multilateral aid ; PART II: WHY IS AID GIVEN? ; 6. The political and commercial dimensions of aid ; 7. Public support for aid ; 8. Charity or duty? The moral case for aid ; 9. The moral case for governments and individuals to provide aid ; PART III: DOES AID REALLY WORK? ; 10. Assessing and measuring the impact of aid ; 11. The impact of official development aid projects ; 12. The impact of programme aid, technical assistance and aid for capacity development ; 13. The impact of aid at the country and cross-country level ; 14. Assesing the impact of aid conditionality ; 15. Does official development aid really work? A summing up ; 16. NGOs in development and the impact of discrete NGO development interventions ; 17. The wider impact of non-governmental and civil society organizations ; 18. The growth of emergencies and the humanitarian response ; 19. The impact of emergency and humanitarian aid ; PART IV: TOWARDS A DIFFERENT FUTURE FOR AID ; 20. Why aid isn't working ; 21. Making aid work better by implementing agreed reforms ; 22. Making aid work better by recasting aid relationships

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Book SynopsisOne of Britain''s defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to the growth of a democratic culture in Britain - and how it fell apart. Far from the cold economic doctrine of today, in an earlier battle over globalization Free Trade was a passionately held ideal, central to public life and national identity. Free Trade inspired popular entertainment and advertising, in seaside resorts, shows, and shopping streets. It mobilized an alliance of elites and the people, businessmen and working-class women, imperialists and internationalists. Free Trade Nation follows the creation of this culture in nineteenth-century Britain, and its subsequent unravelling in the First World War and the depression of the 1930s, when consumers and internationalists, labour and business now attacked it for sacrificing international stability and domestic Trade ReviewTrentmann has produced a valuable guide to free trade. * Journal of Liberal History *Here we have 'a human history of Free Trade' that is at once a delight to read and a cause of profound intellectual stimulation. It graphically brings alive - with splendid colour reproductions of propaganda posters too - the popular passions and prejudices of a world that suddenly ended during the First World War...This is a book imbued with fine scholarship, but one that deserves a wide readership * Peter Clarke, Times Literary Supplement *brilliant * Sunday Telegraph *This is terrific history that will inspire economists to remember their subject really can arouse passion. * Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor *...an inspired history...Trentmann's book unfolds a dramatic story...gripping * Neue Zuercher Zeitung *Thoughtful and well-researched. * Christopher Harvie, The Independent *[A] lucid history of free trade in Britain * David Connett, Sunday Express *a landmark in economic history and the history of ideas * La Vie des Idées *fascinating * Il Riformista *...paints a vivid picture of the ideological controversy over Free Trade that remains relevant to this day. * Luxemburger Wort *offers a fresh look at a chapter in British and world history, while at the same time providing a historical perspective on today's debate about globalisation, challenging the ways we have come to think about trade, justice and democracy. * Society Now *Frank Trentmann...has not only added a great deal to our knowledge through painstaking research but has written about it with verve and energy and produced a most readable volume. * Reviews in Economic and Business History *Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far-reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely-held belief marked by justice, fairness, and peace provocatively refashions the history of early-twentieth-century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality. * Professor John Brewer, California Institute of Technology *Absorbing * History Today *a fascinating book, wide ranging, detailed, well organized, and written in an engaging style * American Historical Review *Frank Trentmann's book will be the point of departure for any future scholarship on free trade... It is a ground-breaking study * European Review of History *...original and thought provoking...Trentmann's reconstruction of consumer politics is both persuasive and authoritative * History *...this impressive study...shows how liberalism turned into social democracy and how the arguments for and against Free Trade both shaped national life and embodied current views regarding man, government and society. After this book, no study of Victorian liberalism can be conducted in quite the same way. * Contemporary Review *In writing Free Trade Nation, Trentmann set out to tell the personal histories of free trade and also to write a new political history. He succeeds admirably on both accounts...Free Trade Nation should be read by anyone interested in the history of modern Britain. * British Scholar, 'Book of the Month' (December 2008) *...a major scholarly work [that] forces the reader to grapple with basic questions relating economics to politics, consumption to democracy, and offers the tools for doing so in a comparative, global frame...deserves to be read as much by citizens...as by scholars... Trentmann offers an important contribution, both to the history of Great Britain and to political history more generally. * Journal of Consumer Policy *immensely ambitious...an important and exciting book, whose arguments will need to be seriously addressed and assessed by students of both economic and political history. * Economic History Review *a brilliant book...rich and multi-faceted...full of unexpected insights...Not only a product of wonderful scholarship but also great fun... It is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of modern Britain. * English Historical Review *[a] brilliant achievement * Judges' citation for the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society *an important contribution to the cultural and social history of economic controversies. * Revue d'histoire du XIX siècle *Trentmann has written an excellent book, extensively and meticulously researched, thoughtful, nuanced, and eloquent...a book of enduring importance * Journal of British Studies *the novelty of this account lies in its pioneering attempt to turn the attention of political historians away from elections and parties towards an understanding of consumption and citizenship as central to the nature of political culture ...carefully constructed, engagingly written, finely illustrated, and suitably well-marketed. * H-Albion *Extremely timely * Nikkei (Japan) *Table of ContentsPART ONE: BUILDING A FREE TRADE NATION; PART TWO: UNRAVELLING

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Book SynopsisTony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, although realism has many serious faults, it has lessons to teach us: in particular, it cautions us against the dangers of moralism in thinking about politics and particularly foreign affairs. Morality must not be confused with moralism: Coady characterizes various forms of moralism and sketches their distorting influence on a realistic political morality. He seeks to restore the concept of ideals to an important place in philosophical discussion, and to give it a particular pertinence in the discussion of politics. He deals with the fashionable idea of ''dirty hands'', according to which good politics will necessarily involve some degree of moral taint or corruption. Finally, he examines the controversial issue of the role of lying and deceptionTrade ReviewThose who know Tony Coady's writing will find its customary qualities on display pellucid prose, philosophical intelligence, wit, and a fierce and impatient disdain for those who abuse the privileges of power or the requirements of rational argument... this elegant essay is a worthy addition to the literature * David Archard, Contemporary Political Theory *Table of Contents1. Morality, moralism, and realism ; 2. Moralistic strictures and political reality-further quandaries ; 3. Concerning ideals ; 4. Engagement in evil: politics, dirty hands, and corruption ; 5. Politics and lying

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Book SynopsisBroadly defined as the grey area between strategy and tactics, operational art spans the theory and practice of planning and conducting campaigns and major operations aimed at accomplishing strategic and operational objectives in a given theatre of operations. An intermediate link between strategy and tactics has always existed, but a distinct concept that encompasses a systematic and deliberate plan of campaign for major operations is a mere two hundred years old. Based on country specific case-studies, this book describes how the concepts that underpin operational art originated, how they received practical expression in various campaigns, and how they developed over time. The point of departure is the campaigns of ''the God of War'', Napoleon Bonaparte. The book then proceeds with chapters on the evolution of operational art in Prussia / Germany, the Soviet Union / Russia, the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and China. The final chapter deals with the future of operational arTable of ContentsContents ; List of Abbreviations ; Preface ; Prologue ; Introduction ; 1. Napoleon and the Dawn of Operational Warfare ; 2. Prussian-German Operational Art, 1740-1943 ; 3. The Tsarist and Soviet Operational Art, 1853-1991 ; 4. Operational Art and Britain, 1909-2009 ; 5. American Operational Art, 1917-2008 ; 6. The Rise and Fall of Israeli Operational Art, 1948-2008 ; 7. Operational Art in China ; 8. Conclusion ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index ; Biographical Notes

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Book SynopsisUnlike many other trans-boundary policy areas, international migration lacks coherent global governance. There is no UN migration organization and states have signed relatively few multilateral treaties on migration. Instead sovereign states generally decide their own immigration policies. However, given the growing politicisation of migration and the recognition that states cannot always address migration in isolation from one another, a debate has emerged about what type of international institutions and cooperation are required to meet the challenges of international migration. Until now, though, that emerging debate on global migration governance has lacked a clear analytical understanding of what global migration governance actually is, the politics underlying it, and the basis on which we can make claims about what ''better'' migration governance might look like. In order to address this gap, the book brings together a group of the world''s leading experts on migration to consider the global governance of different aspects of migration. The chapters offer an accessible introduction to the global governance of low-skilled labour migration, high-skilled labour migration, irregular migration, lifestyle migration, international travel, refugees, internally displaced persons, human trafficking and smuggling, diaspora, remittances, and root causes. Each of the chapters explores the three same broad questions: What, institutionally, is the global governance of migration in that area? Why, politically, does that type of governance exist? How, normatively, can we ground claims about the type of global governance that should exist in that area? Collectively, the chapters enhance our understanding of the international politics of migration and set out a vision for international cooperation on migration.Trade ReviewThe book provides significant insights into three aspects of global migration governance: the institutions, the politics, and the possible evolution. * Benoît Mayer, International Journal of Refugee Law *Alexander Betts is one of a handful of scholars who have mastered the complex field of Global Migration Governance. This large and impressive volume covers the topic from every conceivable angle, and it gets the difficult mix of empirical analysis and policy recommendation right. As the global conversation about migration governance continues over the coming years, this work will remain the standard reference. * Randall Hansen, Canada Research Chair in Political Science, University of Toronto *Global Migration Governance is an invaluable contribution to migration research and studies of global governance more broadly. Drawing on useful concepts derived from International Relations, the excellent contributions draw a picture of a multilayered, fragmented and yet quite encompassing set of formal and informal governance arrangements that mirror the diversity of challenges associated with global population flows. * Sandra Lavenex, Professor of International Politics, University of Lucerne *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Global Migration Governance ; 2. Low-Skilled Migration ; 3. High-Skilled Labour Migration ; 4. Irregular Migration ; 5. International Travel ; 6. Lifestyle Migration ; 7. Environmental Migration ; 8. UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees ; 9. Internally Displaced Persons ; 10. Human Trafficking and Smuggling ; 11. Remittances ; 12. Diasporas ; 13. Root Causes ; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisJourneying through the writings and activism of anti-colonial thinkers, anti-globalization protesters, and queer activists, Rao demonstrates that important currents of Third World protest have long battled against both the international and the domestic, in a manner that combines nationalist and cosmopolitan sensibilities.Trade ReviewThis is a perspicacious and wonderfully engaging book. * Musab Younis, Millenium- Journal of International Studies *Rao displays impressive empirical range and theoretical nuance ... This timely, nuanced and beautifully written book ... should be widely read by historians and theorists of nations and nationalism and all those concerned with the problems of identity, solidarity and political action in the contemporary world. * Michael Collins, University College London *Table of ContentsPART I; PART II

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, Wolff and de-Shalit show how taking theory and practice together is essential if the theory is to be rich enough to be applied to the real world, and policy systematic enough to have purpose and justification.The book is in three parts. Part 1 presents a pluralist analysis of disadvantage, modifying the capability theory of Sen and Nussbaum to produce the ''genuine opportunity for secure functioning'' view. This emphasises risk and insecurity as a central component of disadvantage. Part 2 shows how to identify the least advantaged in society even on a pluralist view. The authors suggest that disadvantage 'Trade ReviewReview from previous edition A book for those who ask what we should do about the gross injustices that face us here and now * Serena Olsaretti, Times Literary Supplement *an extremely engaging book ... their aim of providing a link between philosophy and public policy is one of the most attractive features of this volume. Without a doubt, Disadvantage constitutes an important contribution to the egalitarian debate about social justice. * Cristian Perez Muñoz, Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsPART 1: THE SECURE FUNCTIONINGS APPROACH ; 1. The pluralism of disadvantage ; 2. Functionings ; 3. Risk ; 4. Opportunity and responsibility ; PART 2: APPLYING THEORY TO PRACTICE ; 5. The indexing problem ; 6. Measuring functionings ; 7. Clustering of disadvantage and empirical research ; PART 3: PUBLIC POLICY ; 8. Declustering disadvantage ; 9. Priority to the least advantaged ; 10. Addressing disadvantage while respecting people ; Appendix 1: Details of the interviews ; Index

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Book SynopsisLatin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique, comprehensive, and up to date view of Latin America economic development over the two centuries since Independence. It considers Latin American economies within the wider context of the international economy, and covers economic growth, international trade, capital flows, and trends in inequality and human development. With chapters that cover different eras, it traces the major developments of Latin American countries and offers a novel and coherent interpretation of the economic history of the region. It combines a wealth of original research, new perspectives, and empirical information to provide a synthesis of the growing literature that both complements and extends previous studies.Trade ReviewThe development failures and challenges of Latin America today are deeply rooted in its past. This lucid and authoritative book by two of the continents leading scholars is the place to start to understand how that past was formed and has evolved to shape the present in all its complexity. Indispensable. * James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University *A superb study of two centuries of Latin American economic history, bringing together fresh data and modern development thinking. For the first time we can track the shifts in inequality over time, while the global context and the instability it causes are brilliantly handled. The country variations are delicately traced but never at the expense of the overall pattern. * Rosemary Thorp, Oxford University *Bértola and Ocampo have written the most up-to-date synthesis of the economic history of Latin America. The authors write with vigor and clarity on the leading issues that dominate current debates on the long-run development of Latin America, including convergence and divergence, income distribution, the institutional framework and instability. They base their findings on an impressive set of historical data covering all countries in different time periods. This book is destined to become not only the basic textbook on Latin American economic history but also an excellent platform for intellectual discussions on the challenges for development in historical perspective. * Carlos Marichal, El Colegio de México *Bértola and Ocampo have produced a penetrating, original, and clear-headed economic history of Latin America from Independence to 21st century globalization. Indispensable reading for understanding Latin Americas late development, historic inequalities, evolving institutions, and contemporary economic challenges, all brilliantly compressed into a single volume. * John Coatsworth, Provost, Columbia University *This is a welcome addition to our understanding of Latin America's economic history since independence. ... this book demonstrates how much progress has been made in the last few decades in terms of our understanding. * Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Journal of Latin American Studies *Table of ContentsForeword ; 1. Latin America in the World Economy, 1810-2010 ; 2. The Economic History of the Young Independent Republics, 1810-1870 ; 3. Globalization, Institution-building, and Commodity-export-led Growth, c. 1870-1929 ; 4. State-led Industrialization ; 5. Turning Back to the Market ; 6. By Way of Conclusion: The History and Challenges of Latin American Development

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Book SynopsisClimate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of human security and social justice, obligations to future generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and governance at local, regional, national, international, and global levels.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION; PART II: THE CHALLENGE AND ITS HISTORY; PART III: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND PUBLIC OPINION; PART IV: SOCIAL IMPACTS; PART V: SECURITY; PART VI: JUSTICE; PART VII: PUBLICS AND MOVEMENTS; PART VIII: GOVERNMENT RESPONSES; PART IX: POLICY INSTRUMENTS; PART X: PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS; PART XI: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; PART XII: RECONSTRUCTION

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Book SynopsisThere are many histories of how wars have begun, but very few which discuss how they have ended. This book fills that gap. Beginning with the Stone Age and ending with globalized terrorism, it addresses the specific issue of surrender, rather than the subsequent establishment of peace. At its heart is the individual warrior or soldier, and his or her decision to lay down arms. In the ancient world surrender led in most cases to slavery, but a slave still lived rather than died. In the modern world international law gives the soldiers rights as prisoners of war, and those rights include the prospect of their eventual return home. But individuals can surrender at any point in a war, and without having such an effect that they end the war. The termination of hostilities depends on a collective act for its consequences to be decisive. It also requires the enemy to accept the offer to surrender in the midst of combat. In other words, like so much else in war, surrender depends on reciprocitTrade Review[the] accumulation of research remains admirably comprehensive and it can serve as a highly valuable reference work as well as a volume of stimulating and thought-provoking essays. It certainly demands to be widely cited. Thus with some twenty-seven leading scholars covering the period from prehistoric tribal societies to modern-day terrorism, this impressive volume clearly fills an important gap. Sean McGlynn, HistoryTable of ContentsPART I: NO QUARTER? THE BEGINNINGS OF SURRENDER; PART II: LEARNING TO SURRENDER? THE MIDDLE AGES; PART III: THE DEVELOPMENTS OF RULES AND REGULATIONS: SURRENDER IN EARLY MODERN TIMES; III.A. SURRENDER IN INTERCULTURAL WARS; III.B.: SURRENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; PART IV: A QUESTION OF HONOUR: SURRENDER IN SEA WARFARE; PART V: THE TIMES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: SURRENDER IN MODERN WARS; V.A. THE 19TH CENTURY; V.B. SURRENDER IN WORLD WAR I; PART VI: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER? WORLD WAR II; VI A. 'CONVENTIONAL' SURRENDERS; VI B. GERMANY AND JAPAN IN WORLD WAR II; PART VII: OUR TIMES: ASYMMETRIC WARS - ENDLESS WARS AND NO SURRENDER?

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Book SynopsisTwo decades ago, the idea that a radical right could capture and drive Israeli politics seemed highly improbable. While it was a boisterous faction and received heavy media coverage, it constituted a fringe element. Yet by 2009, Israel''s radical right had not only entrenched itself in mainstream Israeli politics, it was dictating policy in a wide range of areas. The government has essentially caved to the settlers on the West Bank, and restrictions on non-Jews in Israel have increased in the past few years. Members of the radical right have assumed prominent positions in Israel''s elite security forces. The possibility of a two state solution seems more remote than ever, and the emergence of ethnonationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman suggests that its power is increasing. Quite simply, if we want to understand the seemingly intractable situation in Israel today, we need a comprehensive account of the radical right. In The Triumph of Israel''s Radical Right, acclaimed scholar Ami PeTrade ReviewThe Triumph of Israel's Radical Right is a bold and personable book that establishes Ami Pedahzur as the late Ehud Sprinzak's successor as the premier scholar of political extremism in Israel. * Cas Mudde, University of Georgia, author of Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 1 - THE ANTECEDENTS OF ISRAEL'S CONTEMPORARY RADICAL RIGHT ; CHAPTER 2 - THE OLD RADICAL RIGHT ; CHAPTER 3 - THE NEW RADICAL RIGHT ; CHAPTER 4 - ISRAEL'S RADICAL RIGHT NETWORK (1987-1992) ; CHAPTER 5 - ISRAEL'S PATH TO PEACE? (1992-1995) ; CHAPTER 6 - A TIME FOR HATE (1996-1999) ; CHAPTER 7 - THE DEMISE OF THE PEACE PROCESS (2000-2003) ; CHAPTER 8: THE RADICAL RIGHT AT A CROSSROADS (2004-2009)

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Book SynopsisIn Defending Humanity , internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it has the right to respond with force. But what about preemptive and preventive wars, or crossing another state''s border to stop genocide? Was Israel justified in initiating the Six Day War, and was NATO''s intervention in Kosovo legal? What about the U.S. invasion of Iraq?In their provocative new book, Fletcher and Ohlin offer a groundbreaking theory on the legality of war with clear guidelines for evaluating these interventions. The authors argue that much of the confusion on the subject stems from a persistent misunderstanding of the United Nations Charter. The Charter appears to be very clear on the use of military force: it is only allowed when authorized by the Security Council or in seTrade Review"Defending Humanity may be viewed as a protracted and fascinating effort to show that certain intuitive conclusions regarding the use of international force are justified and reinforced by international law...Fletcher and Ohlin serve up much thoughtful discussion and a number of fascinating historical opinions and observations...Upon completing the book, I felt a bond of kinship with the authors and an appreciation for their willingness to undertake such a worthy exploration."--International Journal of World Peace "With its elegant distinctions and provocative theories, Defending Humanity offers a much needed rethinking of the disparate justifications for war. But at least as importantly, it is methodologically diverse, presenting a rich tapestry of comparative, criminal, and international law. A must read."--Kim Ferzan, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Law and Philosophy, Rutgers University, School of Law, Camden "The publication of this book is an exciting event for those who care about the legal regulation of war. Ranging over diverse legal and philosophical traditions, the authors analyze and evaluate theories of self-defense in criminal law in order to develop a plausible account of legitimate defense. They then extend this account to enhance our understanding of self-defense in the international law of war. Defending Humanity is philosophically informed, erudite yet accessible, and lively and pugnacious without being polemical. I read it with continuous pleasure."--Jeff McMahan, author of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life "Provocative and innovative.... George Fletcher and Jens Ohlin's book, Defending Humanity, presents a remarkable tour through the theoretical, historical, and cultural justifications for the use of force by one country against another.... Defending Humanity is an exellent book, and its probing analysis should help sharpen readers' own views."--Harold J. Krent, Dean and Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law. "The two Columbia professors provide a carefully thought out set of guidelines on what counts as 'defense,' when humanitarian interventions are legitimate, why preemptive and preventive wars are almost always impossible,...and much more. Carefully reasoned from the standpoint of those who still rely on violence to achieve national ends, this book should become a classic for the foreign policy 'realists.'"--Tikkun "A stimulating and provocative book, deserving a wide readership and a central place in debates about the role of military force in international affairs...an excellent, thought-provoking, and, not least, timely book. Its main line of argument concerning the defensive use of military force draws on notions of self-defense found in several traditions of domestic law, and does so in original and insightful ways. The result is a much more fine-grained notion of self-defense in international law than what figures in most current debates."--Ethics & International Affairs "Fletcher and Ohlin present us with a valuable and significant contribution to theories and arguments about the use of force in international law. They formulate a coherent set of principles be which the legitimacy of defensive actions can be tested which bridge the divide between philosophy and legal theory."--Charlotte Peevers, PhD Candidate, London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Murder Among Nations ; 2. How to Talk Self Defense ; 3. A Theory of Legitimate Defense ; 4. The Six Elements of Legitimate Defense ; 5. Excusing International Aggression ; 6. Humanitarian Intervention ; 7. Preemptive and Preventive Wars ; 8. The Collective Dimension of War ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, it examines the influence of Third World actors on the course of the Cold War.Trade Reviewhelps clarify the complex interrelationship of the Soviet-US conflict while addressing many parts of the world that have usually been left out of the discussion of the Cold War. The book contributes much to the understanding of the modern world in the late 20th century ... Recommended. * W.B. Whisenhunt, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 The Cold War and the Middle East- Salim Yaqub ; Chapter 2 What Was Containment?: Short and Long Answers from the Americas- Greg Grandin ; Chapter 3 Southeast Asia in the Cold War- Bradley R. Simpson ; Chapter 4 South Asia and the Cold War- David C. Engerman ; Chapter 5 China, the Third World, and the Cold War- Chen Jian ; Chapter 6 Africa's Cold War- Jeffrey James Byrne ; Chapter 7 Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Post-Columbian Era- Jason C. Parker ; Chapter 8 The Rise and Fall of Non-Alignment- Mark Atwood Lawrence ; Chapter 9 Culture, the Cold War, and the Third World- Andrew J. Rotter ; Chapter 10 The Histories of African Americans' Anti-colonialism during the Cold War- Carol Anderson ; Chapter 11 The War on the Peasant: The United States and the Third World- Nick Cullather ; Epilogue The Cold War and the Third World- Odd Arne Westad

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Book SynopsisIn writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face todayinequality, terrorism, demographic instability, energy dependence, epidemic disease, massive increases in trade and monetary flows, to name just a few examples asserted themselves powerfully during the decade.Beyond the Cold War examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside the geostrategic concerns thaTrade ReviewDistinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on contemporary global issues of the greatest importance - environmental change, energy, poverty and disease, human rights, religion, globalization - and trace them back to their emergence as policy concerns during the Lyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of the best of the new U.S. international history. * Thomas Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color Line *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction, Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence ; Part I: Thinking Beyond East and West ; 1. Lyndon Johnson and the Challenges of Economic Globalization, Daniel Sargent ; 2. Toward a New Deal for the World? Lyndon Johnson's Aspirations to Renew the Twentieth Century's Pax Americana, Patrick O. Cohrs ; 3. Moving Beyond the Cold War: The Johnson Administration, Bridge-Building, and Detente, Thomas A. Schwartz ; Part II: Internationalizing the Great Society ; 4. One Global War on Poverty: The Johnson Administration Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad, 1964-1968, Sheyda Jahanbani ; 5. LBJ's Third War: The War on Hunger, Nick Cullather ; 6. LBJ and World Population: Planning the Greater Society One Family at a Time, Matthew Connelly ; 7. Globalizing the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and the Pursuit of Smallpox Eradication, Erez Manela ; Part III: Adapting to a World of Scarcity ; 8. Thinking Globally: U.S. Foreign Aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the Emergence of Environmentalism in the 1960s, Tom Robertson ; 9. "More a Gun at Our Heads than Theirs": The 1967 Arab Oil Embargo, Third World Raw Materials Sovereignty, and American Diplomacy, Christopher R.W. Dietrich ; Part IV: Shifting Moralities ; 10. The Rise of Human Rights during the Johnson Years, Sarah B. Snyder ; 11. Globalized Faith, Radicalized Religion, and the Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy, Andrew Preston

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Book SynopsisIn many discussions of nations'' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government''s institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America''s leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the pTable of ContentsPreface, Nicolas van de Walle Part I: Major Theories and Intellectual histories 1. Modernization Theory: Does Economic Development Cause Democratization? Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland 2. Dependency Theory James Mahoney and Diana Rodriguez-Franco 3. Structuralism Elliott Green 4. Political Development Robert H. Bates 5. The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Economic Reform Kevin Morrison 6. Penury Traps and Prosperity Tales: Why Some Countries Escape Poverty While Others Do Not M. Steven Fish Part II: Domestic Factors 7. Culture, Politics and Development Michael Woolcock 8. Religion, Politics and Economic Development: Synergies and Disconnects Katherine Marshall 9. Does Inequality Harm Economic Development and Democracy?: Accounting for Missing Values, Noncomparable Observations, and Endogeneity Christian Houle 10. Ethnicity and Development Nic Cheeseman 11. Civil Conflict and Development Håvard Hegre 12. The Politics of The resource Curse: a Review Michael L. Ross 13. Taxation and Development Mick Moore 14. How Do Governments Build Capabilities to Do Great Things?: Ten Cases, Two Competing Explanations, One Large Research Agenda Matt Andrews 15. Leadership and the Politics of Development Adrian Leftwich and Heather Lyne De Ver Part III: International Factors 16. Colonialism and Development in Africa Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson 17. Investment and Debt Layna Mosley 18. The Role of the State in Harnessing Trade-and-Investment for Development Purposes Theodore H. Moran 19. International Financial Institutions and Market Liberalization in the Developing World Stephen C. Nelson 20. Foreign Aid and Democratization in Developing Countries Danielle Resnick Part IV: Political Systems and Structures 21. Organizing for Prosperity: Collective Action, Political Parties, and the Political Economy of Development Philip Keefer 22. Missing Links in the Institutional Chain Anirudh Krishna 23. The Comparative Politics of Service Delivery in Developing Countries Evan S. Lieberman 24. Party systems and the Politics of Development Allen Hicken 25. Populism and Political Representation Kenneth M. Roberts Part V: Regional and Country Perspectives 26. Africa's Political Economy in the Contemporary Era Peter M. Lewis 27. The Politics of Development in Latin America and East Asia James W. McGuire 28. Development and Underdevelopment in the Middle East and North Africa Melani Cammett 29. Rethinking the Institutional Foundations of China's Hypergrowth: Official Incentives, Institutional Constraints, and Local Developmentalism Fubing Su, Ran Tao, and Dali L. Yang 30. The Politics of Growth in South Korea: Miracle, Crisis, and the New Market Economy Stephan Haggard and Myung-Koo Kang

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Book SynopsisPakistan''s army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India''s slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army employs non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. The Pakistan army started three wars with India over Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999 and failed to win any of them. It has sustained a proxy war in Kashmir since 1989 using Islamist militants, some of whom have now turned their guns against the Pakistani state. The Pakistan army has supported non-Islamist insurgencies throughout India as well as a country-wide Islamist terror campaign that have brought the two countries to the brink of war on several occasions. Despite Pakistan''s efforts to coerce India, it has only achieved modest successes. Even though India vivisected Pakistan in 1971, Pakistan continues to see itself as India''s equal and demands thTrade Reviewshe concentrates on the international dimensions of the policies pursued by the Pakistani army and the implications that this has forregional and international security. * Katharine Adeney, Political Studies Review *A provocative but historically justified look at the security narrative scribed and fiercely protected by the Pakistan military since its 1947 inception. * Thomas F. Lynch III, Book of the year 2014, The War on the Rocks *Fairs book, based on a meticulous analysis of literature published by Pakistans military, persuasively demonstrates that the delusions of grandeur which drive the countrys security establishment are rooted in fatal distortions of history. * Kapil Komireddi, Book of the year 2014, New Republic *the book represents a valuable contribution to the literature. It has been deeply and thoroughly researched, with an extensive analysis of the official documents of the Pakistan army previously overlooked by scholarship on the subject. * Filippo Boni, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *a very important work which should be made available to as wide an audience as possible * R. F. Rosner, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs *Christine Fair has produced the definitive intellectual biography of the Pakistan army, which will be necessary reading for anyone interested in the country or South Asia as a whole. * Walter C. Ladwig III, War in History Book *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; The Argument: Explaining Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism In the Face of Repeated Defeats ; Organization of this Volume ; Chapter 2. Can Strategic Culture Explain the Pakistan Army's Persistent Revisionism? ; Pakistan's Enduring and Expanding Revisionism ; Explaining Persistent Revisionism ; Strategic Culture Wars ; Pakistan: An Army with a Country ; Reproducing Culture: Recruitment in the Pakistan Army ; Methods and Sources of this Study ; Chapter 3. Born an Insecure State ; Cracking the Raj ; Imagining Pakistan ; The Problem of the Princely States ; Untangling the Punjab ; Breaking Up the Indian Army ; Historical Legacies: A Punjabi Army ; Building a Modern Army ; Table 2.1: Corps and Locations ; Implications for the Pakistan Army's Strategic Culture ; Chapter 4. The Army's Defense of Pakistan's 'Ideological Frontiers' ; The Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Embrace of the Ideology of Pakistan ; The Army's Methods of Islamization ; The Army's Instrumentalization of Islam ; Implications ; Chapter 5. Pakistan's Quest for Strategic Depth ; British Management of the Frontier: The Great Game ; Pakistan's Army Seeks Strategic Depth: Managing Pakistan's Frontier and Beyond ; The Army Manages the Afghan Threat ; The Rise and Fall of the Taliban ; The Army's and the Internal Threat on the 'Frontier' ; Implications: Is the Past Prologue for Afghanistan and the Frontier? ; Chapter 6. India under the Pakistan Army's Gaze ; Multiple Crises and Four Wars ; India: Through the Eyes of the Pakistan Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 7. Seeking Security through Alliances ; Pursuing the Americans: An Alliance for Survival ; The Pakistan Tilt ; Chasing China: The All-Weather Friend ; The Strains of War ; Pakistan's Relations with the United States and China through the Eyes of the Army ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 8. Seeking Security under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Nuclear Program ; Proliferation Under the Eye of the State ; Nuclear Doctrine and Use ; Risk Taking Under an Expanding Nuclear Umbrella ; As Bad As it Gets? ; Table 8.1 Cross Tabulations of Conflict Months by Nuclear Status ; Table 8.2: Conflict Rate by Nuclear Period ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 9. Jihad under the Nuclear Umbrella ; Origins of Pakistan's Use of Non-state Actors ; From Peoples' War to Low Intensity Conflict under a Nuclear Umbrella ; Pakistan's Militant Assets ; Pakistani Support for the Militants? ; The Internal Jihad: A Case Study of Lashkar-e-Taiba ; Conclusions and Implications ; Chapter 10. Is the Past Prologue ; Endogenous Game Changers ; Democratic Transition? ; Economic Shocks-For Better and for Worse ; Civil and Un-Civil Society: Impetus for Change? ; Change from Within the Army? ; Table 10.5. Punjabis versus Baloch in Balochistan ; Exogenous Sources of Change? ; Conclusions: Prospects for Change from Within and Without? ; Chapter 11. The Army's Strategic Culture and Implications for International Security ; Managing Pakistan's Persistent Revisionism? ; References ; Appendices: Maps

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Book SynopsisSince the surge in Iraq in 2006, counterinsurgency effectively became America''s dominant approach for fighting wars. Yet many of the major controversies and debates surrounding counterinsurgency have turned not on military questions but on legal ones: Who can the military attack with drones? Is the occupation of Iraq legitimate? What tradeoffs should the military make between self-protection and civilian casualties? What is the right framework for negotiating with the Taliban? How can we build the rule of law in Afghanistan? The Counterinsurgent''s Constitution tackles this wide range of legal issues from the vantage point of counterinsurgency strategy. Ganesh Sitaraman explains why law matters in counterinsurgency: how it operates on the ground and how law and counterinsurgency strategy can be better integrated. Counterinsurgency, Sitaraman notes, focuses on winning over the population, providing essential services, building political and legal institutions, and fostering economic development. So, unlike in conventional war, where law places humanitarian restraints on combat, law and counterinsurgency are well aligned and reinforce one another. Indeed, following the law and building the rule of law is not just the right thing to do, it is strategically beneficial. Moreover, reconciliation with enemies can both help to end the conflict and preserve the possibility of justice for war crimes. Following the rule of law is an important element of success. The first book on law and counterinsurgency strategy, The Counterinsurgent''s Constitution seamlessly integrates law and military strategy to illuminate some of the most pressing issues in warfare and the transition from war to peace. Its lessons also apply to conflicts in Libya and other hot-spots in the Middle East.Trade Review"Counterinsurgency has been called 'the graduate level of war' because success requires so much more than just killing the enemy. In The Counterinsurgent's Constitution, Ganesh Sitarman provides an invaluable addition to the counterinsurgency playbook: reflections on the role of law as a powerful tool for defeating insurgencies. Highly recommended."--Dr. John A. Nagl, Minerva Research Professor at the US Naval Academy and author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam "One of the most significant developments in warfare in the last decade is the rejuvenation of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice. The Counterinsurgent's Constitution is an indispensable guide to the legal and theoretical underpinnings of this development. It intelligently explains why counterinsurgency doctrine has become so important and will remain so, and provides its definitive normative account."--Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "The Counterinsurgent's Constitution provides a frame around what is occurring today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Understanding the concept of small wars and the role of international law in those wars is critical to comprehending our country's foreign policy and global strategies." --Reviews of Legal Resources "The book's ambition matches its timeliness. It wields the tools of history, political science, law and other disciplines to analyze counterinsurgency theory and practice, while looking to maintain accessibility for a general readership. The result is both comprehensive and readable ... Recommended." --CHOICETable of ContentsPreface ; Acknowledgements ; Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Part I: Of Law and War ; 1. The Strategic Foundations of the Laws of War ; 2. The Laws of Counterinsurgency Warfare ; Part II: From War to Peace ; 3. Turbulent Transitions ; 4. Transitional Justice as Lawfare ; Part III: The Reconstruction of Order ; 5. Warfighting as Villagebuilding ; 6. The Organic Rule of Law ; 7. Counterinsurgency and Constitutional Design ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe world dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange-even trade not directly involving the United States. Since 1945, the dollar has been the key currency for clearing international payments among banks including interventions by governments to set exchange rates, the dominant currency for invoicing trade in primary commodities, and the principal currency in official exchange reserves. Although the strong network effects of the dollar standard greatly increases the financial efficiency of multilateral trade, nobody loves it. Erratic U.S. monetary and exchange rate policies have continually made foreigners unhappy. A weak and falling dollar led to the worldwide price inflations of the 1970s and contributed to the disastrous asset bubbles and global credit crisis of the noughties -- including the global credit crunch of 2008-09. Dollar weakness aggravated the postwar world''s three great oil shocks in 1973, 1979, and 2007-08. AfterTrade ReviewRonald McKinnon is a seminal figure in the development of modern international monetary economics, but also an iconoclast with a distinctive view. This book is as good a summary statement as any of 'McKinnonomics.' Well worth reading as always. * Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Unloved Dollar Standard ; I. The International Money Machine ; 2. The Dollar's Facilitating Role as International Money Today ; 3. The Dollar as a Worldwide Nominal Anchor: The Federal Reserve's Insular Monetary Policy ; from 1945 to the late 1960s ; 4. The Slipping Anchor 1971 to 2008: The Nixon, Carter, and Greenspan Shocks ; 5. The Bernanke Shock 2008?12: Interest Differentials, Carry Trades, and Hot Money Flows ; II. Trade Imbalances ; 6. The United States' Saving Deficiency, Current Account Deficits, and De-Industrialization ; 7. Exchange Rates and Trade Balances under the Dollar Standard (Helen Qiao) ; 8. Why Exchange Rates Changes Need Not Correct Global Trade Imbalances ; 9. The Transfer Problem in Reducing the U.S. Current Account Deficit ; III. China: Adjusting to the Dollar Standard ; 10. High Wage Growth under Stable Dollar Exchange Rates: Japan 1950-1971, and ; China 1994-2011. ; 11. Currency Mismatches on the Dollar's Periphery: Why China as an Immature ; Creditor Cannot Float Its Exchange Rate ; 12. China and Its Dollar Exchange Rate: A Worldwide Stabilizing Influence? (with ; Gunther Schnabl) ; IV. International Monetary Reform ; 13. Rehabilitating the Dollar Standard and the Role of China

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Book SynopsisThe European and American dimensions of Mikhail Gorbachev''s foreign policy captured the imagination of contemporary observers and, later, historians. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall were the grand events that marked the European finale of the Cold War. The Cold War ended differently in Asia, where there was no easy closure, no great fanfare, and little credit awarded for changing the world. Yet Gorbachev was fascinated by Asia and in his early years in power, he addressed the subject of Asia''s rise and the importance of Soviet engagement with the region. He spent years strategizing his Asian foreign policies and attempting to build Soviet relationships with its regional neighbors, particularly alongside China. In the end, Russia was never accepted by Europe as part of the West, but it also failed in its efforts to become a regional power. With the end of the Cold War, Russia was marginalized in Asia, politically and economically, unable to fit into the changed environment of international affairs while adhering to the basic principles that made it a superpower.In this broad-ranging and deeply researched second book, Sergey Radchenko gracefully narrates and analyzes the end of the Cold War in Asia. Among the relationships he addresses is the Sino-Soviet normalization, which emerged in response to the difficulties both sides had with the United States; the rise and fall of the Soviet-Indian alliance, which Gorbachev envisioned as central to offsetting US alliances in the region; failed Soviet efforts to mend fences with Japan and to tap into Japanese capital to develop Siberia and the Far East; Soviet efforts to influence relations between Vietnam and Cambodia; and the USSR''s decision to normalize relations with South Korea after North Korea provided resistant to political reform. Radchenko sheds new light on the actions of Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Boris Yeltsin, and George H.W. Bush, among others. Based on archival research in Russia, China, Mongolia, India, the United States, Britain, numerous European countries, among other places, and interviews with former policy makers in a dozen countries, Radchenko has crafted a book that will appeal broadly to scholars, students, and general readers. Cold War historians; historians of Japan, Korea, China, and India; international relations scholars and political scientists will comprise the academic market.Trade ReviewAnalytical, objective, and large in scope, Radchenko's study of Soviet politics is essential reading for those seeking a realistic picture of the balance of global power. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Card Player ; 2. Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier ; 3. The Triangle ; 4. Vietnam's Vietnam ; 5. Close the Past, Open the Future ; 6. Tiger's Lair ; 7. A Millimeter of Progress ; 8. There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisA collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.Table of ContentsPART I: EUROPEAN LAW AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations; I.Hunter Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard; D.Ivison PART II: TRANSPOSITIONS OF EMPIRE The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, ca. 1490-1830; C.Tomlins The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century; J.McLaren 'Your Sovereign and Our Father': The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory; M.D.Walters The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss; A.Fitzmaurice PART III: FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE Samuel Marsden's Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia; A.Sharp The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia; M.Finnane The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney; L.Ford William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian and 'Rough Architect' of the New Zealand State; P.G.McHugh PART IV: THE CROWN IN COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; S.Dorsett Imperial Policy, Colonial Government and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; D.Ward Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; M.Hickford

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Book SynopsisThis book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.Trade Review"For those interested in how citizenship and national belonging are being reimagined under neoliberal globalization, Kanishka Chowdhury provides an enormously detailed account of the emerging Indian dispensation. This is an insightful study from a meticulous reader of the cultural landscape." - Arvind Rajagopal, Professor of Media Studies, New York University and author of Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India "The New India deals with a timely subject - the emergence of new forms of subjectivity and citizenship in the context of India's economic policy of liberalization. The book is impressive in the wide ranging issues and questions Chowdhury links and analyzes. The author makes an important contribution to the scholarship on postcolonial studies and contemporary cultural politics in India." - Leela Fernandes, Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan and author of India s New Middle Class "This is a timely and engaging study which provides an historicized account of the relationship between economic 'globalization', attempts to reimagine a New Indian subject and narratives of change, both literary and social. Chowdhury offers a thoughtful contribution to studies of the colonial and postcolonial present which must necessarily now involve questions of global capitalism and its modes of dispossession and disenfranchisement." - Priyamvada Gopal, University Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and Related Literatures at Cambridge University and author of The Indian Novel in English: Nation, History and NarrationTable of ContentsGoing Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen The Prompter's Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land and A Hungry Tide Transnational Transgressions: Reading the New Indian Woman in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra , Deepa Mehta's Fire , and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham 'Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?' Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject

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Book SynopsisPreface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences PART I: SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD ORDER US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism PART III: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL AGENCY Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism The Post-modern Prince Alternatives, Real and ImaginedTrade ReviewEndorsements for the previous edition: 'This impressive volume is a three-part critical analysis of the interactive dynamics involved in the 'new world order' characterized by conditions of intensified globalization. Using a critical historical materialist (Gramscian, and neo-Marxist) framework, Gill combines bottom-up and top-down approaches to understanding political economy while underscoring the ethical issues involved in the social relations that make up the new world order. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences PART I: SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD ORDER US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism PART III: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL AGENCY Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism The Post-modern Prince Alternatives, Real and Imagined

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of legislatures in the budget process? Do powerful assemblies give rise to pro-spending bias? This survey of legislative budgeting tackles these questions using cross-national data and case studies. It highlights the tension between legislative authority and prudent fiscal policy, exploring strategies for reconciliation.Trade Review'Given the importance of the topic, it is a surprise that there is so little truly comparative work on the role of legislatures in budgeting. This book admirably fills this gap in the literature. It combines quantitative approaches with careful case studies that delve into the causal mechanisms at work. We learn that the legislature's ability to amend the budget does change budgetary outcomes. At the same time, the careful case study evidence indicates that quantitative scholars need to pay more attention to the institutional details of how processes like 'top-down budgeting' are introduced and implemented. Scholars and policymakers alike interested in executive legislative relations, institutional design, and budgeting should pay close attention to this book.' Mark Hallerberg, Professor of Public Management and Political Economy, Hertie School of Governance, Germany 'In this insightful book, Joachim Wehner combines systematic cross-national analysis and case studies to assess the budgetary role and predicament of modern legislatures. Armed with growing independence from government, national legislatures are more active in amending the budget, but must also be more disciplined in fiscal policy. This book offers practical guidance, based on the experiences of innovative legislatures, on how to balance these cross pressures.' Allen Schick, Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, USA 'This book makes an important addition to previous work, especially with regard to the relationship between the power of a legislature and public spending. It should be of real value to legislatures and governments alike as fiscal constraints gain more prominence in the years ahead.' Barry Anderson, Former Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, FranceTable of ContentsPerspectives on Legislative Budgeting The Institutional Foundations of Fiscal Control Assessing the Power of the Purse Explaining Cross-national Patterns Legislative Institutions and Fiscal Policy Outcomes The Promise of Top-down Budgeting Beyond the Myth of Fiscal Control

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Book SynopsisRICHARD JACKSON is Deputy Director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. LEE JARVIS is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, UK. JEROEN GUNNING is a Reader in Middle East Politics and Conflict Studies, Durham University, UK. He was founder and deputy director of the Centre for the Study of 'Radicalisation' and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) at Aberyswyth University from 2005-2010. MARIE BREEN-SMYTH is Professor in International Politics, University of Surrey, UK. She was founder and deputy director of the Centre for the Study of 'Radicalisation' and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) at Aberyswyth University from 2005-2010.Trade Review"A fascinating and thought-provoking book on a vital topic." - Richard English, University of St Andrews, UK "Engagingly written and likely to spark a whole new debate, Rethinking Terrorism provides a critical and groundbreaking analysis of the modern terrorist phenomenon." - Douglas Porpora, Drexel University, USA "A thought-provoking addition to the literature which helps us understand better the relationship between terrorism and the state." - Jonathan Powell, author of Talking to TerroristsTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE STUDY OF POLITICAL TERRORISM The Orthodox Study of Terrorism Critical Approaches to Terrorism Studies The Cultural Construction of Terrorism Bringing Gender into the Study of Terrorism PART II: KEY ISSUES Conceptualizing Terrorism Reconsidering the Terrorism Threat Types of Terrorism Understanding State Terrorism The Causes of Non-State Terrorism Responding to Non-State Terrorism Assessing the War on Terror.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Economics The Military Values Facts Theories Power and Money Producing Security Militarism Economic Concepts Uncertainty Economic-Security Interactions Security: Are we Safe? Individual Security National Security Global Security War Oil Arms Races and Arms Control Military Spending: How Much is Enough? Measures of Military Expenditure Motives for Arming Economic Functions of US Military Spending Hard Choices: UK and France An Arms Race: India and Pakistan Military Prices Military Balance Sheets Force Acquisition I, Demand: The Biggest Bang for a Buck? Labour Weapons Procurement Technology Force Acquisition II, Supply: The Merchants of Death? The Arms Industry Evolution of the Arms Trade Regulation Military Capability: How to Win? Force Employment Morale Logistics Peacekeeping Economic Choices: Swords or Plowshares? Budget Constraints Economic Effects Technological Spin-off Economic Warfare Understanding Military Economics Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, References, IndexTrade Review'The mathematical and statistical language of defence and peace economics has long been incomprehensible to many students of security and the military. In Military Economics, Britain's leading defence economist resolves this with an accessible synthesis of the technical literature and provides an authoritative survey of the key interactions between military power and money. This book is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in relationships between the military dimensions of economics and conflict.' - Professor Matt Uttley, King's College London, UK 'This outstanding book makes an original contribution to the economic analysis of the military sector. The author uses his extensive knowledge of the field to present a highly readable, non-technical and scholarly treatment of why money matters to the military. This is a classic text in applied economics.' - Keith Hartley, University of York, UK 'This is an excellent and long needed book on the complex and important issues of military economics. It is comprehensive, accessible, well written and incisive, and will become an essential reference for professionals, politicians, activists, academics and students as well as the informed lay person. A real tour de force by an academic at the peak of his powers.' - J Paul Dunne, Professor of Economics, The British University, Egypt and UWE, BristolTable of ContentsIntroduction Economics The Military Values Facts Theories Power and Money Producing Security Militarism Economic Concepts Uncertainty Economic-Security Interactions Security: Are we Safe? Individual Security National Security Global Security War Oil Arms Races and Arms Control Military Spending: How Much is Enough? Measures of Military Expenditure Motives for Arming Economic Functions of US Military Spending Hard Choices: UK and France An Arms Race: India and Pakistan Military Prices Military Balance Sheets Force Acquisition I, Demand: The Biggest Bang for a Buck? Labour Weapons Procurement Technology Force Acquisition II, Supply: The Merchants of Death? The Arms Industry Evolution of the Arms Trade Regulation Military Capability: How to Win? Force Employment Morale Logistics Peacekeeping Economic Choices: Swords or Plowshares? Budget Constraints Economic Effects Technological Spin-off Economic Warfare Understanding Military Economics Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, References, Index

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Book SynopsisThe nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Transnational Actor Participation in International Institutions: Where, Why, and with What Consequences?; J.Tallberg & C.Jönsson Capturing the Transnational; C.Jönsson Transnational Access to International Institutions: Three Approaches; J.Tallberg Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields; J.Steffek Explaining Varying Degrees of Openness in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); A.Liese WTO and the Environmental Movement: On the Path to Participatory Governance?; Å.Casula Vifell Limits to Transnational Participation: The Global Governance of Migration; S.Kalm Private Authority on the Rise: A Century of Delegation in Multilateral Environmental Treaties; J.F.Green Does Global Democracy Matter? Hypotheses on Famine and War; H.Agné Democracy Counts: Problems of Equality in Global Democracy; S.Näsström Beyond Democratic Legitimacy: Global Governance and the Promotion of Liberty; J.Bartelson Transnational Access: Findings and Future Research; C.Jönsson & J.Tallberg Index

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Book SynopsisDyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.Table of ContentsPART I: CONTEXT: THE CASE FOR CONVERGENCE Europe's Partial and Selective Emulation of the US-led Revolution in Military Affairs Convergence and Divergence in the Institutional Forums of Defence Policy: Functional Complementarity; Spatial and Temporal Differentiation PART II: THEORISING AND TESTING DEFENCE POLICY CONVERGENCE Competing Theoretical Frameworks: Realist and Cultural Approaches PART III: TESTING CULTURAL AND REALIST APPROACHED: DEFENCE POLICIES BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURE AND EXECUTIVE AUTONOMY France: Domestic Incentives and Timely Adaptation to Systemic Imperatives Germany: Domestic Constraint and the Temporal Management of Reform The United Kingdom High Executive Autonomy and Timely Adaptation to Systemic Imperatives Conclusions: The Empirical and Theoretical Implications

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Book SynopsisIn the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.Trade Review'In this impressive and rigorous book, Horn examines the politics, power and paradoxes that are central to the construction and transformation of company law and corporate governance at the European Union level. Horn's lucid analysis makes an important and timely contribution. She not only denaturalises the regulatory developments linked to corporate governance but also maintains focus on the social implications of marketised corporate governance.' Susanne Soederberg, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Global Development Studies & Political Studies, Queen's University, Canada 'This is an important book, not only for those interested in corporate governance issues but also for those concerned with the power of corporations in modern society. It explains how the state actively constructed the framework that supported the rise of shareholder value in the European Union. Given the dominance of the corporate governance field by micro-level econometric studies, the book provides a much-needed historical perspective on one of the most important projects in post-world war II capitalism.' Sigurt Vitols, Senior Research Fellow WZB and Senior Researcher, ETUI, Brussels In this superb book, Laura Horn has given us an incisive, carefully researched, and powerfully argued analysis of European corporate governance reform. Linking national and EU regulatory politics within the broader historical context of financial globalization, her integration of comparative and international political economy strips away the rhetoric of efficiency and 'free' markets to focus on power as the driver and the objective of corporate governance reform. John W. Cioffi, Associate Professor, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsIntroduction Theoretical Framework Global Capitalist Restructuring and Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Political Economy Company Law in the European Union - From Industrial to Shareholder Democracy? Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union - From Harmonisation to Marketisation The Marketisation of Corporate Control as a Political Project Corporate Governance in Crisis? Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLee Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has articles published in a range of top journals including Security Dialogue, Political Studies, Millennium, and International Relations. He is author of Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror, and co-author of Terrorism: A Critical Introduction. The latter was awarded a 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award. Jack Holland is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Surrey, UK. His research is on critical approaches to foreign and security policy, with a focus on the US, UK and Australia after 9/11. He is the author of Selling the War on Terror (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of Obama's Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2014). He has published articles in the European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Critical Studies onTrade Review'A refreshing engagement with the powerful and ubiquitous concept of security from a critical perspective. Managing to remain theoretically sophisticated, empirically detailed and accessible throughout, this book will be a vital resource for students and researchers of security in international relations, from two of the most promising researchers in the area.' - Matt McDonald, University of Queensland, Australia 'Impressively comprehensive, deeply knowledgeable, scrupulously fair, and consistently insightful - this book is one of the very best introductions to security studies.'- Anthony Burke, UNSW, Australia 'This is a thoughtfully conceptualized, carefully argued textbook with a probing quality that competing volumes lack. Students will acquire state-of-the-art knowledge of security studies, and conceptual tools to engage in critical reflection on peace and war, terrorism, human security, and other relevant phenomena.' - Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish National Defence College 'This stimulating text offers a genuinely fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of security. By asking the big questions, it breaks out of the straitjacket of the sectoral approach typical of other recent texts.' - Michael Sheehan, Swansea University, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. What Is Security? 3. What Can We Know About Security? 4. How Can We Study Security? 5. Security For Whom Or For What? 6. Security From Whom Or From What? The Changing Nature Of War 7. Security From Whom Or From What? New Security Challenges 8. Is Security Possible? 9. Is Security Desirable? 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisHEDLEY BULL was sometime Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, UK. He had previously been Professor of International Relations, Australian National University.ANDREW HURRELL Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, UK.Trade ReviewReviews of previous editions: 'A masterful analysis of the problem of international order in contemporary society and of the feasibility of such alternative models as disarmament, global organization, a highly proliferated world, and a radical redistribution of wealth and power.' - Foreign Affairs 'An important book likely to be read with profit for along time to come.' - The Times Literary Supplement 'Bull has written that rarest of books: it is not the last, but the first word on its subject.' - Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword to the Fourth Edition: The Anarchical Society 35 Years On; A.Hurrell Preface Introduction PART I: THE NATURE OF ORDER IN WORLD POLITICS The Concept of Order in World Politics Does Order Exist in World Politics? How is Order Maintained in World Politics? Order versus Justice in World Politics PARTII: ORDER IN THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM The Balance of Power and International Order International Law and International Order Diplomacy and International Order War and International Order The Great Powers and International Order PART III: ALTERNATIVE PATHS TO WORLD ORDER Alternatives to the Contemporary States System The Decline of the States System? The Obsolescence of the States System? The Reform of the States System? Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisOffering a major new interpretation of the transformation of political thought and practice in colonial India, The Domination of Strangers traces the origins of modern ideas about the state and Indian civil society to the practical interaction between the British and their south Asian subjects. Trade Review'Innovative and stimulating...The Domination of Strangers is a remarkably evocative book. Its methodological suggestiveness both in its particular understanding of what marks a 'modern' state as well as its arguments that the history of political thought must attend not just to abstract philosophy or to its reception, but to the ideas produced out of political practice of those in the middle who did the governing - will make it quite stimulating reading both within colonial history and beyond it.' Philip Stern, Reviews in History 'This elegantly written and thought-provoking book opens up new perspectives on changes in colonial governance in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Eastern India. Innovatively applying a reading of Georg Simmel's essay on 'The Stranger' to the colonial context in India, it characterises these changes in terms of ambivalent and contradictory responses to a practical and semantic crisis in the East India Company's relations with Eastern Indian society. This important book also sheds new light on other areas of debate (such as the Anglicist-Orientalist controversy) by relocating these in the context of this crisis of governance. In addition, it brings its conclusions to bear on a wider comparative framework that discusses the differences and similarities between non-colonial regimes in continental Europe and Britain, and the colonial regime in India. As such, its breadth of perspective combined with focussed archival readings will appeal to historians of both modern South Asia and Britain, and to those who are interested in the issue of modern governance as a whole.' - Javed Majeed, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisDoes America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over US foreign policy? And how should America and the West deal with violent Islamist extremists? Traditionally, politicians have sought to downplay the impact of religious beliefs in international affairs. In this illuminating first-hand account, Madeleine Albright examines religion and foreign affairs through the lens of American history as well as her own personal experiences in public office, with a preface and opening chapters specially written for the UK edition. She offers a sharp critique of US policy, condemnation for those who exploit religious fervor for violent ends, and praise for political, cultural, and spiritual leaders who seek to harness the values of faith to bring people together. Albright has written a thought-provoking work that calls for bold leadership to rein in the many religiou

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Book SynopsisA framework for assessing the security risks of emerging dual-use technologies and devising tailored governance strategies is proposed and applied to contemporary case studies.Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a “dual-use dilemma” because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile purposes. The emerging field of synthetic genomics, for example, can produce custom DNA molecules for life-saving drugs but also makes possible the creation of deadly viral agents for biological warfare or terrorism. The challenge for policymakers is to prevent the misuse of these new technologies without forgoing their benefits. Innovation, Dual Use, and Security offers a systematic approach for managing the dual-use dilemma.The book presents a “decision framework” for assessing the security risks of emerging technologies and fashioning governance st

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the promotion of democracy during US military interventions in the 20th century. The work shows this to be one of the central ways in which the US attempts to reconcile the potential contradictions involved in being a liberal great power.Trade Review“Peceny offers us a well-researched, insightful, and systematic analysis of the curiously mixed motives behind U.S. military interventions in Latin America. Security concerns have been foremost, but liberal ideals have also been crucial in legitimating interventions and in shaping whatever good sometimes came out of them.”—Yale H. Ferguson,Rutgers University“Mark Peceny’s book is a welcome contribution to a rather muddy and inconclusive field of inquiry. Peceny’s undertaking is enormously ambitious and wide ranging. . . . He thus restricts the method of democracy promotion to the use of force, and is not concerned with other, ’softer,’ commonly employed techniques, such as assistance programs or even economic sanctions. Limiting the universe in such a way permits rigorous statistical analysis, which, combined with carefully selected, in-depth case studies, sheds considerable light on the dynamics of such interventions.”—Michael Shifter Latin American Politics and Society“The book is clearly written and well organized. By combining both quantitative analysis and case studies, Peceny presents the strengths that each approach can offer. The two quantitative chapters report robust findings of multivariate analysis, and the case studies and footnotes provide a wealth of detailed information. . . . I highly recommend this work to scholars and to advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in U.S. military intervention and democratization.”—Mi Yung Yoon American Political Science Review (APSR)

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