International relations Books

Trade ReviewAn outstanding and up to date reference work, both for teaching and studying. * Edith Drieskens, KU Leuven, Belgium *Extremely comprehensive in its scope, the new edition of International Relations Theory constitutes an excellent and original introduction to the broad field of IR theory, and will be of general use for students across the social sciences. * Michal Natorski, Maastritcht University, The Netherlands *Table of Contents1. Why Theorize International Relations? 2. The International Political Theory Tradition 3. The Liberal International Theory Tradition 4. The Realist Tradition 5. The International Society Tradition 6. The International Political Economy Tradition 7. The Post-Positivist Tradition 8. The Human-Nature Tradition 9. Contemporary Inter-Tradition Debates 10. A Guide to Creative Theorizing 11. Conclusion and Perspectives.

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Book SynopsisChallenging the daily clamour of US sabre rattling, this title argues that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran - just as Nixon revolutionized US foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. It states that America must "go to Tehran" if it is to avert strategic catastrophe.

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Book SynopsisA Street Divided offers a more intimate look at one road at the heart of the conflict. This one-time shepherd's path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for decades. The barbed wire came down in 1967. But it was soon supplanted by evermore formidable cultural, emotional and political barriers separating Arab and Jew.

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Book SynopsisBy the end of the 1980s, many Americans looked at the state of the nation with a renewed optimism, which was personified by an enduring American president - Ronald Wilson Reagan. The essays in this volume revisit the 1980s in order to examine the factors that contributed to his political and cultural triumphs and assess his legacy.Trade Review"The essays in this splendid collection offer a nuanced, up-to-date understanding not only of Ronald Reagan but also of larger social, economic, and political trends of the 1980s - and of their legacies." - James T. Patterson, author of Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. GoreTable of ContentsIntroduction; C.Hudson& G. Davies PART I: PERCEPTIONS Ronald Reagan: Communicating the America Within; D.Rather Only an Actor: Memories of a Reagan Biopic; G.Hodgson 'Just Say No': Drug Abuse Policy in the Reagan Administration; P.G.Bourne Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War; J.F.Matlock, Jr. PART II: POLITICS AND POLICIES Reagan, Nuclear Weapons, and the End of the Cold War; S.Head Reaganomics and its Legacy; I.Morgan African American Protest during the Reagan Years: Forging New Agendas, Defending Old Victories; S.Tuck Reagan's Religious Right: The Unlikely Alliance between Southern Evangelicals and a California Conservative; D.K.Williams Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party: Responses to Realignment; R.Mason PART III: LEGACIES The Baptist and the Messiah: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher; D.Sandbrook Transforming the Presidency: The Administration of Ronald Reagan; J.D.Aberbach The Road to Mount Rushmore: The Conservative Commemoration Crusade for Ronald Reagan; N.Bjerre-Poulsen Toward a Historiography of Reagan and the 1980s: Why Have We Done Such a Lousy Job?; G.Troy Epilogue: Ronald Reagan and the Historians; M.J.Heale

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Book SynopsisThis book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions.Trade Review"This book is both an advocacy for better burden-sharing peacekeeping efforts and to take better into consideration military expertise. It is indeed high time that we reconcile political commitment with military efficiency." - Dr Alexandra Novosseloff, Senior Researcher at the Centre Thucydide of the University 2, Paris "Political Aspirations and Perils of Security provides a significant contribution to the study of strategic art. It breaks new ground by examining UN peace operations from a military strategic analytical context. The book's case study approach works well and sets up the background for the final discussion of how the UN processes address the fundamentals of strategy [...] This is a valuable work in gathering and synthesizing key thoughts and analysis on UN peacekeeping operations and presenting them in a clear and coherent manner." - Professor William J. Flavin, US Army War College, Carlisle, USATable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Is there Utility in Applying Military Strategy? The Evolution of UN Peace Operations Mission in Southern Europe – UNFICYP Mission in the Middle East – UNDOF Mission in the Middle East – UNIFIL Mission in Northern Africa – MINURSO Mission in Central Africa – MONUC/MONUSCO Mission in Western Africa – UNMIL Mission in Western Africa – UNOCI Mission in the Caribbean – MINUSTAH Mission in Eastern Africa – UNMIS/UNMISS Mission in Eastern Africa – UNAMID Linking Political Goals with Military Objectives

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Book SynopsisTaking issue with the convenient views that the Middle East is an irrational and exceptional region of world politics, and that the long and bloody history of the Palestine conflict is proof, the authors combine theoretical reflection and empirical investigation, marrying International Relations theory and Middle East area studies.Table of ContentsGlobal Conditions and Global Constraints: The International Paternity of the Palestine Conflict; D.Jung PART I: GLOBAL DISCOURSES AND REGIONAL POLITICS Culture Blind and Culture Blinded: Images of Middle Eastern Conflicts in International Relations; M.Valbjørn Re-interpreting History: Perceptions of Nazism in Egyptian Media Discourses, G.Nordbruch Internationalization of Anti-Islamist Discourse and Creation of a Regional Anti-Terrorism Mechanism: The Initiative of Mubarak's Egypt; J-M.Seo PART II: GLOBAL SCHEMES AND LOCAL REALITIES: TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM AND THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM Official Islam, Transnational Islam and Regional Politics: The Case of Syria; A.Bötcher Religious Mobilizations in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: The Case of Ayn el-Helweh; B.Rougier Resolving the Palestinian Refugee Problem Today: E.A. Norman's Unintended Contribution; D.Tschirgi Epilogue: September 11 - Arab Reactions; W.Kazziha

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Trade ReviewI use the current edition in my International Relations theory course and highly recommend it to my political science students because of its conversation between history and political science. This book works well in a variety of political science and history courses. * Kristin Shockley, Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA *It is extremely well-written, readable, and provides valuable insight into the evolution of International Relations as a discipline and how history fits in to that evolution. I see this text as… the best, most accessible source there is out there at the moment. * David J. Proctor, Senior Lecturer of History, Tufts University, USA *[This book is] very concise and comprehensive and extremely well organized. There are a number of introductory International Relations texts but this one is unique in its broadly historical approach to the discipline. * Joseph A. Maiolo, Professor of International History, King’s College London, United Kingdom *Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and the Discipline(s) of International Relations I. The History of a Discipline: Origins, Theory, and Tools 1. From the First World War to the Early Cold War 2. After Morgenthau: Scientific Realism and Its Critics 3. IR, the Other Social Sciences, and the State II. IR and International History 4. The Ancient World: Thucydides and the Search for Origins 5. Toward the Machiavellian Moment: IR's Middle Ages 6. The Sovereign State and the “Westphalian System” in Early- Modern Europe 7. Nation, State, and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century 8. The Failure of the New (and Old) Diplomacy and the End of European Hegemony 9. Cold War and Post-Cold War III. Contemporary IR and the Uses of History 10. Civilizations, the Myth of Sovereignty, and the Democratic Peace: The End of IR (As We Know It)? Afterword: tbc History of International Relations: A timeline Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Laqua is Lecturer in Modern European History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations – vii Acknowledgements – ix Preface (Daniel Laqua) – xi Introduction: Conceptualising Transnational Thought and Action between the Wars (Patricia Clavin) – 1 Part A: Infrastructures and Ideas of Internationalism - 15 1. Liberal Internationalist Approaches to Science and Technology in Interwar Britain and the US (Waqar Zaidi) – 17 2. Experts for Peace: Structures and Motivations of Philanthropic Internationalism in the Interwar Years (Katharina Rietzler) – 45 3. In between ‘Vague Theory’ and ‘Sound Practical Lines’: Transnational Municipalism in Interwar Europe (Stefan Couperus) – 67 Part B: The League of Nations and the Efforts of Non-State Actors – 91 4. ‘The Breath of a New Life’? : British Anti-Slavery Activism and the League of Nations (Amalia Ribi) – 93 5. Internationalism in the Economic and Financial Organisation of the League of Nations (Yann Decorzant) – 115 1. ‘Credit or Chaos?’: The Austrian Stabilisation Programme of 1923 and the League of Nations (Frank Beyersdorf) – 134 Part C: The Transnational and National Contexts of Advocacy – 159 2. ‘A Real Meeting of the Women of the East and West’: Women and Internationalism in the Interwar Period (Marie Sandell) – 161 3. The Lifeblood of the League? Voluntary Associations and League of Nations Activism in Britain (Helen McCarthy ) – 187 4. Reconciliation and the Post-War Order: The Place of the Deutsche Liga für Menschenrechte in Interwar Pacifist (Daniel Laqua) – 209 Notes on the Contributors – 239 Index – 243

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Book SynopsisRonald P. Bobroff is Professor of History at Oglethorpe University, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Stolypin and a policy of avoiding confrontation, 1908 to March 1911 2. Policy drift and the Italo-Turkish War, March 1911 to October 1912 3. The Balkan Wars: Choosing between the Balkan States and the Straits, 1912-1913 4. Turkish naval expansion and the Liman von Sanders Crisis, March 1912 to July 1914 5. War deferred: Diplomacy dominant during Turkish neutrality, July 1914 to October 1914 6. War engaged: Allied and domestic disputes over the fate of Constantinople and the Straits, November 1914 to July 1916 Conclusion: A Russian Tragedy

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Book SynopsisFederico M. Federici is an Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK.Christophe Declercq is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK and a Lecturer in Translation at KU Leuven, Belgium.Trade ReviewIn a globalized world rocked by perpetual crisis, few structures are as fragile as those of communication and few issues are as pressing as the mediation of understanding. This book offers a richly documented and persuasive case for innovative approaches in this domain, and in so doing provides a compelling critique of prevailing approaches to this issue. * Jan Blommaert, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization, Tilburg University, The Netherlands *Federici and Declercq offer a comprehensive, research-driven call to action for the recognition of adequate intercultural and language mediation in disaster relief. The interdisciplinary insights cast human, transmigratory, political, natural, and environmental crises in a critical and fresh light, with profound implications for researchers, policy makers, and frontline international humanitarian workers. A timely and acutely necessary contribution. * Melissa Wallace, Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA *Even as the concept of ‘crisis translation’ is still emerging in Translation Studies, this volume demonstrates the breadth of the topic and its potential for enriching the field. Aside from the valuable insights into diverse, local scenarios, many of the case studies here are expanding the concerns of the discipline simply by reporting on situations and language pairs rarely, if ever, accounted for in translation theory. * Dr. Sue-Ann Harding, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Words of Empathy, Access, and Relief, Christophe Declercq (University College London, UK) and Federico M. Federici (University College London, UK) Part I: Integrating People in Movement in Regional Crises 1. The Counter Narratives of Migrants and Cultural Mediators, Stefania Taviano (University of Messina, Italy) 2. Language Mediation in Emergency Migration Contexts: a Case Study of the Migrant Crisis 2015 in Croatia Vedrana Cemerin (University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, Croatia) 3. The Role of the Translator and Interpreter in Terrorist Conflicts, Carmen Pena-Díaz (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain) 4. Language, Culture and Perceived Ethnic Homeland Integration: Syrian Armenian Forced Migrants in Armenia (2011-2016) Daria Vorobyeva (University of St Andrews, UK) Part II: Integrating Intercultural Communication in Crisis-affected Health Settings 5. Medical Translations in Crisis Situations, Vicent Montalt (Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain) 6. Intercultural Mediation in Healthcare: Thematic Analysis, from the Interpreters’ Perspective, Izabel Emilia Telles de Vasconcelos Souza (Osaka University, Japan) 7. Interpreting for Refugees: Empathy and Activism, Marija Todorova (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) 8. Voices of Refugee Doctors in the United Kingdom: An Exploration of their Linguistic and Cultural Needs and Aspirations, Ceri Butler (Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK) and Khetam Al Sharou (University College London, UK) Part III: Integrating Cross-National Representations of Local Crises 9. On France, Terrorism, and the English Press: Examining the Impact of Style in the News, Ashley Riggs, (University of Geneva, Switzerland and University College London, UK) 10. Re-narrating Crisis: A Translation Perspective, Maria Sidiropoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 11. Emergenza migranti: From Metaphor to Policy, Federico M. Federici (University College London, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisAndreas Fulda is Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. His recent books include The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (2020) and he is a frequent commentator on China for international media such as the BBC, Washington Post and Al Jazeera.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Grieco is Professor of Political Science at Duke University, USA.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, USA.Michael Mastanduno is Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, USA.

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Book SynopsisHerman Mark Schwartz is Professor of Politics, University of Virgnia, USA.

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Book SynopsisMatthew Ayton holds a PhD in International Relations and is a former Middle East correspondent for international news outlets. His work has been published by The Atlantic Council, Al-Jazeera, The National and Middle East Eye.

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Book SynopsisBRIAN WHITE is Professor of International Relations, University of Warwick, UK and Associate Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, University of Toulouse, France.RICHARD LITTLE is Professor of Politics, University of Bristol.MICHAEL SMITH is Professor of European Studies, Loughborough University.

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Book SynopsisPreface Introduction; R.C.Snyder Decision-Making as an Approach to the Study of International Politics; R.C.Snyder, H.W.Bruck & B.Sapin The Influence of 'Foreign Policy Decision Making'; V.Hudson Whither Foreign Policy Analysis; D.Chollett & J.GoldgeierTrade Review'This republication is an exceptionally good idea, one long overdue.' - Donald A. Sylvan, The Ohio State University 'Snyder/Bruck/Sapin are the 'grand old men' of comparative foreign policy research. Having them back in print is wonderful.' - Marijke Breuning, Associate Professor, Truman State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction; R.C.Snyder Decision-Making as an Approach to the Study of International Politics; R.C.Snyder, H.W.Bruck & B.Sapin The Influence of 'Foreign Policy Decision Making'; V.Hudson Whither Foreign Policy Analysis; D.Chollett & J.Goldgeier

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Book SynopsisPART I: NAPOLEAN AND THE CONCERT 'Napoleon's Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise' 'Did the Vienna Settlement Rest on a Balance of Power?' 'Bruck Versus Buol: The Dispute Over Austria's Eastern Policy, 1853-1855' 'The Lost Intermediaries: The Impact of 1870 on the European System' The 19th Century Balance of Power' PART II: WORLD WAR I 'World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak' 'Embedded Counterfactual and World Was I as an Unavoidable War' PART III: TOOLS OF INTERNATIONAL STATECRAFT 'Alliances, 1815-1945: Weapons of Power and Tools of Management' 'Containment' 'Failed Bargaining Crises PART IV: TRENDS AND IMPLICATIONS 'The Cold War and its Ending' 'Does the History of International Politics Go Anywhere?' 'International History: Why Historians Do It Differently than Political Scientists' 'Iraq: The Case Against Preventive War'Trade Review"This invaluable collection of brilliant essays by the greatest international historian of our age is essential reading for all interested in international history and politics." - T.C.W. Blanning, University of Cambridge "These essays are provocative, wonderfully written, drawing on an unrivalled storehouse of historical knowledge and bridging history and social science. Agree or disagree with them, they evoke unstinting admiration. Paul Schroeder is a national scholarly treasure." - Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College "Paul Schroeder is perhaps the most important living North American historian of European diplomacy. His reflections on theory and history are unsurpassed; they have challenged conventional interpretations and have provided original insights about the deeper forces underlying world politics. Scholars and students of history and political science will find in this collection the best of Schroeder's articles from the famous 'Galloping Gertie' thesis and his work on the balance of power and the Vienna Settlement to his most recent essay on counterfactuals and World War I. No college or personal library with a focus on international relations should be without it." - John Vasquez, Picker Chair in International Relations, Colgate University "Paul Schroeder's scholarship provocatively re-examines the critical assumptions and decisions that have preserved peace or squandered it from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Reading Schroeder's work is like playing chess against a grand master who, even as he inexorably moves to defeat you, patiently explains why each of your moves has been deficient. These essays will be fundamental for historians and theorists alike, and invaluable for teaching in the field." - Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPART I: NAPOLEAN AND THE CONCERT 'Napoleon's Foreign Policy: A Criminal Enterprise' 'Did the Vienna Settlement Rest on a Balance of Power?' 'Bruck Versus Buol: The Dispute Over Austria's Eastern Policy, 1853-1855' 'The Lost Intermediaries: The Impact of 1870 on the European System' The 19th Century Balance of Power' PART II: WORLD WAR I 'World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak' 'Embedded Counterfactual and World Was I as an Unavoidable War' PART III: TOOLS OF INTERNATIONAL STATECRAFT 'Alliances, 1815-1945: Weapons of Power and Tools of Management' 'Containment' 'Failed Bargaining Crises PART IV: TRENDS AND IMPLICATIONS 'The Cold War and its Ending' 'Does the History of International Politics Go Anywhere?' 'International History: Why Historians Do It Differently than Political Scientists' 'Iraq: The Case Against Preventive War'

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Book SynopsisThe interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq.Trade Review"It is the unfortunate case that policymakers engaged in nation-building have time and again failed to tap existing knowledge about the countries that are the object of their efforts, and lessons from other nation-building exercises. Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan begins to correct this deficit by providing invaluable background to the problem of reconstructing one of the world's most troubled countries." - Francis Fukuyama, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University "This is the best place to start for increasing understanding of the challenges facing those who would engage in 'nation building.' Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan provides dispassionate and richly informed analysis of the troubled attempts to reconstruct and restore a devastated land. While every country is unique, the lessons drawn from Afghanistan and other, previous, attempts at nation building clearly have import for Iraq and any other potential cases. And one lesson surely is that caution is wisdom." - Alex Inkeles, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Reconstruction in Afghanistan Introduction; J.D.Montgomery PART I: HOPES BEYOND RECONSTRUCTION International Goals and Strategies for Afghanistan'sDevelopment: Reconstruction and Beyond; D.A.Rondinelli Supporting Postwar Aspirations in an Islamic Society; J.D.Montgomery Between Reconstruction and Restoration: Three Historical Case Studies; J.M.Heffron The Afghan Experience with International Assistance; Y.V.Bossin Lessons from Post-Aid Conflict Experience; R.J.Muscat PART II: TOWARD A STABLE CIVIL SOCIETY The Rule of Law as a Goal in Afghanistan; C.H.Norchi Economic Growth and Development Policy in Afghanistan: Lessons from Experience in Developing Countries; D.A.Rondinelli Ethnic Diversity and the Structure of Government; M.J.Esman Warlordism and Development in Afghanistan; K.N.Abdullaev Health, Human Security, and Social Reconstruction in Afghanistan; P.Gutlove , G.Thompson & J.Hale Russell PART III: REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF RECONSTRUCTION The Afghan Neighborhood and Future Stability: A Regional Approach to Reconstruction and Development; E.Naby & R.N.Frye Reconstruction, Development, and Nation-Building: Prospects for Afghanistan; D.A.Rondinelli & J.D.Montgomery

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Book SynopsisTamara Chalabi highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community in a time of great change. It also explores how Arab nationalism was transformed from an ideology of opposition and empowerment of marginal communities, into a tool for the assertion of political domination.Trade Review"This is a very well-researched and well-written monograph on how the Shi a of South Lebanon negotiated a Lebanese Shi i identity for themselves amid two dominant ideologies - Libanism and Arabism - in both of which Shi a were marginalized . . .the book will be required reading for scholars generally interested in sectarian politics in the Middle East and scholars specifically interested in Lebanese Shi i history and politics because the rich account it offers is also helpful for positioning Shi i activism in Lebanon since the 1960s." - International Journal Middle East Studies "This path- breaking contribution to the changing role of the Shi'i community in Lebanon brings it into the Lebanese picture in a way never done before. Based on extensive use of new private sources, it is a model of scholarship and enhances our understanding of an increasingly prominent community." - Roger Owen, Professor of Middle East History, Harvard "This book sheds new light on the history of the Shi`is of Jabal`Amil in their formative years and therefore it contributes significantly to the literature on Shi`is and Shi`ism in the Arab world." - Marius Deeb, Middle East Politics, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University"Chalabi masterfully brings this missing history to life ...required reading for any scholar or policy practitioner working on modern Lebanon." - Middle East Quarterly "Tamara Chalabi has written an accessible but learned account of the Shiite community of Lebanon. In view of the important role of this community in recent history, this book is strongly recommended for all intelligent readers interested in the Middle East." - Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: WITH THE NEW LEBANON: POLITICAL EVOLUTION In the Beirut Vilayet: A Description of Jabal 'Amil Jabal 'Amil and the Arab Awakening Turmoil and New Order: Jabal 'Amil in 1920 PART II: IN THE NEW LEBANON: SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION Jabal 'Amil Redefined Out of the Margin Venues for Integration History and Culture

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Book SynopsisThe Future of Iraq provides a primer on the history and political dynamics of this pivotal state divided by ethnic, religious, and political antagonisms, and provocatively argues that the least discussed future of Iraq might be the best: managed partition. Anderson and Stansfield incisively analyze the dilemmas of American policy. They suggest that even a significant American presence will not stabilize Iraq because it is an artificial state and its people have never shared a common identity. In addition to the legacy of tyrannical rule and the primacy of political violence are eroded social bonds and entrenched tribal allegiances, fallow ground for democracy. In the new afterward they consider the events of the last two years, especially the elections in Iraq, and their conclusion is that little has changed for the better and much has changed for the worse, adding further support to their original argument.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction National Interests and Military Alliances: The Cold War NATO NATO's Post-Cold War Transition and the Transatlantic Divide September 11, 2001: A New Life for NATO? An Alliance in Name Only: NATO and Iraq Afghanistan: NATO's Last Hurrah? Reinventing NATO: Scenarios and Hurdles ConclusionsTrade Review'NATO after 9/11: An Alliance in Continuing Decline is the most important book on the transatlantic relationship to appear in the past decade. Richard Rupp builds a compelling case that the expanded version of NATO, focused on missions outside of Europe, exhibits only superficial health. The underlying reality is an alliance that lacks cohesion and increasingly lacks the capability to act effectively even when there is general agreement on a policy initiative.This meticulously researched, clearly written book is must reading for anyone interested in the future of NATO.' - Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute 'Since the end of the Cold War, endless editorials and journal articles have superficially fuelled the 'NATO is dead' thesis. With Rupp's important work, we finally have a scholarly and densely argued book which submits that thesis to a rigorous scrutiny. Rupp's analysis is searching and sophisticated, comprehensive and coherent. This is not the loaded logic of the isolationist, the pacifist or the neo-conservative. Nor is it an autopsy. It is the honest and reluctant, but nevertheless categorical, conclusion of a NATO insider who does not balk at making an unwelcome case: put simply, that NATO is increasingly peripheral to the security requirements of its member states. For all those interested in transatlantic relations, international security and Alliance transformation, Rupp's book must be required reading.' - Jolyon Howorth, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction National Interests and Military Alliances: The Cold War NATO NATO's Post-Cold War Transition and the Transatlantic Divide September 11, 2001: A New Life for NATO? An Alliance in Name Only: NATO and Iraq Afghanistan: NATO's Last Hurrah? Reinventing NATO: Scenarios and Hurdles Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there.Trade Review"Rob Aitken's work will leave readers in little doubt that 'finance capital' is not some coherent and extra-ordinary force that occupies a unique place outside of 'real' political-economic life, but is precariously assembled and visualised through the mundane performances of saving and self-government. Conceptually incisive and empirically rich, Performing Capital is essential reading for political economists and for all who are concerned with financial markets and the power of Wall Street" - Paul Langley, author of World Financial Orders and The Everyday Life of Global Finance"This is a wonderful account of the constitution of global finance in diverse spaces of everyday life. It is perhaps the first volume to take seriously the importance of visual culture to the history of finance. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the interdisciplinary study of financial practice - and a good read!" - Dr Marieke de Goede, Department of European Studies, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsPART I: PERFORMING CAPITAL Performing Capital: An Introduction Culture, Government, Capital PART II: POPULAR FINANCE AND THE NATIONAL BODY Geopolitics, Nation and Beyond: Performances of Security 'A Vital Force': Popular Finance and the National Economy PART III: POPULAR FINANCE, OWNERSHIP AND ECONOMICS OF INVESTMENT 'A Direct Personal Stake': Mass Investment and the New York Stock Exchange * 'An Owner's Sense of Interest': The Ethics of Socially Responsible Investing 'In Free-Enterprise...Free Is a Verb': Enterprise, Saving and Asset-Based Social Policy Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance

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Book SynopsisList of Boxes Acknowledgements Introduction Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge Economic Globalization Globalization and Politics Cultural Globalization Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement Bibliography IndexTrade Review'El-Ojeili and Hayden provide an engaging treatment of a subject worn to death by staid, conventional accounts. Using an accessible version of critical theory, they explore the interconnected sinews of globalization and consider its many tensions and contradictions. Their insights and reflections will be of use to students for many years.' - Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada '...this volume is an insightful repository on how theoretical frameworks tend to foreclose certain perspectives on global interactions while favouring others.' - Emilian Kavalski, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Boxes Acknowledgements Introduction Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge Economic Globalization Globalization and Politics Cultural Globalization Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did news from the Eastcarried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and correspondenceshape early Americans' understanding of the world as a map of dangerous and incoherent sites?Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFreed from restrictions of British mercantilism in the years following the War of Independence, Yankee merchants embarked on numerous voyages of commerce and discovery into distant seas. Through the news from the East, carried in mariners' reports, ship logs, journals, and correspondence, Americans at home imagined the world as a map of dangerous and deranged places. This was a world that was profoundly disordered, hobbled by tyranny and oppression or steeped in chaos and anarchy, often deadly, always uncertain, unpredictable, and unstable, yet amenable to American influence. Focusing on four representative arenasthe Ottoman Empire, China, India, and the Great South Sea (collectively, the East Indies, Oceana, and tTrade Review...[A] fascinating study of the US's emerging self-identity during the Early Republic combines global history with an analysis of print culture.—D.M. Corlett, Arizona State University, ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Coffeehouse ChatterChapter 2. Unholy LandsChapter 3. "Unfeeling Mandarins" in Canton and MacauChapter 4. Hindoos and Fakirs in IndiaChapter 5. Cannibal IslesChapter 6. EchoesNotesIndex

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Trade ReviewRecommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Table of ContentsNotes on Language and Usage Cast of Characters Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The Reign of Big Oil Chapter 2 Signs of Trouble Chapter 3 Intrigue on the Riviera Chapter 4 Onassis in the Dock Chapter 5 The Shot Heard 'Round the World of Oil Chapter 6 Oil and the Cold War Chapter 7 The CIA Is on the Case Chapter 8 A Two-Tier Strategy Chapter 9 The World vs. Onassis Chapter 10 Too Many Moving Parts Chapter 11 Onassis "in the Doghouse" Chapter 12 Power Struggle in the Kingdom Chapter 13 Don't Embarrass the King Chapter 14 The Revenge of Spyridon Catapodis Chapter 15 The Power of the Press Chapter 16 Impasse Chapter 17 Dark Days for Onassis Chapter 18 New Issues Emerge Chapter 19 New Crisis, Old Cases Chapter 20 The Suez Crisis Chapter 21 The End of the Affair Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn today's information age, the coexistence of nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons and information-based concepts of warfare is a military contradiction. This is a study of how the information age in modern warfare coexists with the persistent appeal of nuclear weapons and its impact on crisis management.Trade Review"In this well written and insightful study, Steve Cimbala demonstrates that even after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons still have a critical impact on peace and security. A must read for analysts and policymakers dealing with arms control and nuclear proliferation." -- Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress. "No author since Bernard Brodie and Henry Kissinger has done more to advance our understanding of nuclear weapons issues than has Stephen J. Cimbala. His latest foray into this intellectual thicket, Nuclear Weapons in the Information Age, continues in the same tradition. His discussion of the uneasy coexistence between nuclear and information-based weapons is path breaking and takes account of the importance of long range precision strike and cyber warfare issues. He breathes new life into the old topic of the interdependence of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and missile defense, and considers both their conceptual structures and policy implications. Well-written and insightful, this book will be interesting to both professional and lay audiences focused on these issues. It should be required reading for policy makers, yet will also be useful as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate classes in national security policy." -- John Allen Williams, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago, USA, and Chair and President, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS).Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter One. Alternative Nuclear Regimes; Chapter Two. Cyberwar and Nuclear Crisis Management; Chapter Three. Geography and Nuclear Arms Control; Chapter Four. Nuclear Abolition: Holy Grail or Dangerous Temptation?; Chapter Five. After the Loving: New START and Beyond; Chapter Six. Nuclear Threat and North Korea: Dangers and Options; Chapter Seven. Nuclear "First Use" and European Peace: A Risky Bargain?; Chapter Eight. Minimum Deterrence and Missile Defenses: Congruent Paths or Competitive Designs?; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisDonald Holbrook is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.Trade ReviewThe 2011 rampage killing by Anders Brevik in Norway has stimulated broad interest in scholarship focusing on the radical right. Max Taylor has brought together a group of established and younger scholars in an anthology which approaches the topic from a uniquely global perspective.Extreme Right Wing Violence and Political Terrorismboth illuminates the changing nature of the radical right and provides a balanced analysis of the threat emanating from this milieu. This text is both timely and highly recommended. -- Jeffrey Kaplan, Book Review Editor, Terrorism and Political Violence and Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USThis anthology provides a fascinating overview of the threat of right-wing terrorism and political violence in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Its unique contribution is to use specific cases that illustrate the nuance of the movement’s ideology, organizational structure, targets of violence, historical milieus and local forces to place its political violence in context. It is a welcome addition for readers interested in terrorism, extremism and political violence. -- Joshua D. Freilich, Professor and Executive Officer (Director) Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, John Jay College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, USThis book is intended to serve as an introduction to and conversation between five distinctively Christian approaches to social justice. Each author did a fair job presenting their position and the main chapters thus serve as a good introduction to these different approaches to social justice. The result is a highly engaging book sure to stimulate and challenge one’s Christian approach to social justice. I greatly enjoyed reading Christian Faith and Social Justice and would recommend it -- Mike Skinner * cataclysmicblog.com *Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Donald Holbrook and Max Taylor 2 Violence by the Far Right: The American Experience Leonard Weinberg 3 Anti-Muslim Violence in the UK: Extremist Nationalist Involvement and Influence Robert Lambert 4 Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League: Discourse and Public (Dis)order Joel Busher 5 Ulster Loyalism and Extreme Right Wing Politics James W. McAuley 6 The Dutch Far Right: From ‘Classical Outsiders’ to ‘Modern Insiders’ Rob Witte 7 Youth Engagement in Right Wing Extremism: Comparative Cases from the Netherlands Ineke van der Valk 8 Right Wing Political Violence in France: Stock Take and Perspectives Michel Gandilhon 9 Breivik’s Mindset: The Counterjihad and the New Transatlantic Anti-Muslim Right Toby Archer 10 Still Blind in the Right Eye? A Comparison of German Responses to Political Violence from the Extreme Left and the Extreme Right Peter Lehr 11 Far Right and Islamist Extremist Discourses: Shifting Patterns of Enmity Donald Holbrook 12 Conclusion PM Currie Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMany major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis. This is an opportune moment to bring together a group of major international experts who will offer a series of new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Each chapter is based on original archival research and written by scholars who are all leading experts in their fields. This is a truly international collection of articles, with wide breadth and scope, which includes contributions from historians, and also political scientists, gender theorists, and international relations experts. This is an important contribution to scholarly debate on one of the most important events of the 20th century and a subject of major interest to the general reader, historians, students and researchers, policy makers and conTrade ReviewHere is modern history-writing at its very best. Frank McDonough has brought together no fewer than 30 other leading scholars to examine that most vital of historical moments - the outbreak of the Second World War - from every conceivable international aspect. Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist and always highly readable; this sets the mark for all collaborative history from now on -- Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World WarThis is the perfect companion for the scholar and student of the origins of the Second World War. Accessible and extraordinarily comprehensive, it raises a raft of new scholarly questions, while its breadth and the standing of its contributors will without doubt make it a standard work -- Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney, Australia.An international history of the origins of the Second World War at its best...Internationalizing the study of history, obviously an important objective, is easier said than carried out, but this volume shows that the ideal can become a reality when a leading scholar brings together a number of scholars from various countries who share his vision and cooperate with him in producing an insightful new volume -- Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Harvard University, USFrank McDonough has managed a tour de force with this splendid collection on the origins of the Second World War. The gathering together in one volume of twenty-eight distinguished historians from half a dozen countries is itself a remarkable achievement. The exhaustively researched, lucid essays addressing the long-term causes of the war from a wide variety of perspectives represent a model of what international history should be. The book is the most comprehensive treatment of this complicated historical topic and will be of interest not only to scholarly specialists but to the reading public as well -- William R. Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University, USProfessor Frank McDonough has edited an important book of essays by no fewer than 30 distinguished historians... which sheds fresh light on that fascinating and febrile period. -- The Sunday Telegraph: One of the historian Andrew Roberts' selections for his 'books of the year'‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine Table of Contents1. The origins of the Second World War: the historical debate - Professor Anthony Adamthwaite; 2. Italy and the origins of the Second World War - Professor Richard Bosworth; 3. Neville Chamberlain: guilty or innocent - a critical assessment - Professor John Charmley; 4. A war mentality? Public opinion and foreign policy in the Third Reich - Professor Thomas Childers; 5. The war that Hitler won: the Wehrmacht, military operations and the German way of war - Robert Citino.; 6. The role of the USA in the international relations of the inter-war period - Professor Patrick O.Cohrs. 7. Guilty men? Three British Foreign Secretaries of the 1930s - David Dutton.; 8. The failure of detente? German foreign policy from Locarno to German rearmament - Professor Conan Fischer; 9. The role of the Middle East in the global crisis of the inter-war years - Professor Thomas G. Fraser; 10. The Czech crisis of 1938 - Professor Milan Hauner; 11. German foreign policy, military strategy and the coming of war - Professor Jurgen Forster; 12. The League of Nations: why did it fail? - Baroness Dr Ruth Henig; 13. Japanese foreign policy and the road to the Asia-Pacific war - Professor Haruo Iguchi; 14. Politics, strategy and economics: a comparative analysis of British and French 'appeasement' - Dr Talbot Imlay; 15. The role of US isolationism - Professor Manfred Jonas; 16. The role of the neutral European powers - Professor Efraim Karsh; 17. The role of the 'Jewish Question' in international affairs in the inter-war years - Dr Mark Levene; 18. Was Chamberlain's appeasement a viable policy to cope with the Nazi threat in the 1930s? - Frank McDonough.; 19. The international implications of the Spanish Civil War - Professor Enrique Moradiellos; 20. The role of economic factors in the origins of the Second World War - Professor Richard Overy; 21. Poland, the 'Danzig Question' and the outbreak of war - Professor Anita Prazmowska; 22. Appeasement reconsidered: reflections on the road to war - Professor Jeffrey Record; 23. The Soviet Union and the road to war - Professor Geoffrey Roberts; 24. The Versailles settlement: a critical assessment - Professor Alan Sharp; 25. An ideological genealogy of Imperial Japanese-era militarism - M.G.Sheftall.; 26. The missing dimension? The role of British intelligence - Dr Calder Watson; 27.Poland and the road to war - Professor Piotyr Wandycz; 28. Neutral Europe and the road to war - Dr Neville Wylie; 29. French foreign policy and the road to war - Professor Robert J. Young.

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism and friendship have become key themes for understanding ethnicity and nationalism. In this deeply original study of the Mongols, leading scholar Uradyn E. Bulag draws on these themes to develop a new concept he terms collaborative nationalism. He uses this concept to explore the paradoxical dilemma of minorities in China as they fight not against being excluded but against being embraced too tightly in the bonds of friendship. Going beyond traditional binary relationships, he offers a unique triangular perspective that illuminates the complexity of regional interaction. Thus, Collaborative Nationalism traces the regional and global significance of the Mongols in the fierce competition among China, Japan, Mongolia, and Russia to appropriate the Mongol heritage to buttress their own national identities. The book considers a rich array of case studies that range from Chinggis Khan to reincarnate lamas, from cadres to minority revolutionary history, and from building the Trade ReviewBulag's brilliant new book examines China's 'culture of intimacy,' in which minorities like the Mongolians and Tibetans are embraced in a suffocating hug. In a theoretical tour-de-force, Bulag overturns old conceptions of majority-minority relations, replacing them with a notion of society as a triadic space of possibilities. This is an essential book for understanding China, seeing it not as a unity but as a field of collaboration and contention. -- Caroline Humphrey, University of CambridgeUradyn Bulag, a distinguished ethnographer of Mongolia, explores emotional and political ties between Mongols and Chinese in this intriguing new book. Mongolia, as a former great empire that divided into an independent nation and a subordinated ethnic group within China, offers an unusual and fascinating case study that will interest students of nationalism and of Chinese history, as well as theorists of contemporary identities in the age of globalization. -- Peter Perdue, Yale UniversityBulag has succeeded in capturing—or recapturing—the significance of Inner Mongolia to the geopolitics of East Asia. In showing how virtually all twentieth-century regimes in Northeast Asia competed to appropriate the world-conquering symbolism of Chinggis Khan, and, paradoxically, the spiritual power of Lamaism, Collaborative Nationalism makes a case for Mongol agency in this exemplary study of the 'new’ political history. -- Prasenjit Duara, National University of SingaporeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Triangulating China's Ethnopolitics Part I: Subimperial Desires Chapter 1: Hunting Chinggis Khan's Skull and Soul Chapter 2: Lamas to the Rescue: Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism and Imperial Nationalisms Part II: Collaborative Nationalism Chapter 3: Friendship, Treason, and Collaborative Nationalism Chapter 4: Yearning for Friendship: The Political in Minority Revolutionary History Part III: Interethnic Intimacy Chapter 5: The Flight of the Golden Pony: Socialism and the Stillbirth of the Mongolian Working Class Chapter 6: Interethnic Adoption and the Regime of Affection Conclusion: The Specter of Interethnic Friendship Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNow thoroughly updated, this widely praised book provides a thoughtful and balanced examination of the development of Russian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. This edition also places developments of the past two decades into the broader sweep of Russian history. Jeffrey Mankoff argues that Russia''s more assertive behavior since Vladimir Putin became president in 2000 has resulted from both a deep-seated consensus among its elite about Russia''s identity and interests as well as a favorable convergence of eventsincluding the persistence of high energy prices and the check on U.S. power resulting from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because these factors are the result of long-term trends, the author argues that there is little reason to expect that the election of Dmitry Medvedev will fundamentally alter Russian foreign policy behavior.Presenting an evenhanded treatment of controversial issues, Mankoff analyzes Russia''s interactions with major global actors, including Trade ReviewRussian foreign policy has never been explicitly anti-American and Russian leaders have always sought good relations with the United States to the extent that it was compatible with their main goal: Russia is a great power. With this second edition, revised and enlarged, the author hopes to show how this hypothesis remains relevant and shapes the behavior of Russia on the international scene. According J.Mankoff, the statement of Russian foreign policy is the culmination of a process begun under President Yeltsin when the majority of the Russian political elite considered that the integration of Russia in the West was neither possible nor desirable. Despite the presence of some stereotypes widespread in the place of Russia, the richness of the analyzes presented in the book helps in any case to understand the ambitions and aspirations of post-Soviet Russia on the international scene. * The French Journal of Political Science *Mankoff argues convincingly that there is little reason to believe that Russia will challenge the West or start a confrontation; they are so highly interdependent that any attempt at open confrontation would be reduced to a senseless zero-sum game. Hence—and despite its sometimes-biased overtones—Mankoff’s book is thoroughly researched and provides in-depth knowledge and expertise regarding the contours of Russian foreign-policy thinking. Furthermore, Mankoff has successfully found a balance that makes the book valuable for both informed and uninformed audiences. Anyone with an interest in the thorny issue of Russia’s foreign policy should read this book. * Review of Central and East European Law *Very well-written. . . . After a lucid analysis of the main forces driving Russian foreign policy, the book turns to the relationship between Russia and some of the major global powers, namely the US, the EU and China. . . . The way in which the book combines rigorous and thorough research work, a clear-cut argumentation and structure, and a very dense but accessible style makes it one of the best available on the subject. Consequently, it should be read by scholars of Russian foreign policy as well as all those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the topic, all too often treated in a conventional or, worse, partisan way, either justifying or condemning Russia’s foreign policy without explaining it. * The International Spectator *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Guns of August Chapter 1: Contours of Russian Foreign Policy Chapter 2: Bulldogs Fighting Under the Rug: The Making of Russian Foreign Policy Chapter 3: Resetting Expectations: Russia and the United States Chapter 4: Europe: Between Integration and Confrontation Chapter 5: Rising China and Russia's Asian Vector Chapter 6: Playing with Home Field Advantage? Russia and its Post-Soviet Neighbors Conclusion: Dealing with Russia's Foreign Policy Reawakening

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Book SynopsisNow in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden deep state that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott begins by tracing America's increasing militarization, restrictions on constitutional rights, and income disparity since World War II. With the start of the Cold War, he argues, the U.S. government changed immensely in both function and scope, from protecting and nurturing a relatively isolated country to assuming ever-greater responsibility for controlling world politics in the name of freedom and democracy. This has resulted in both secretive new institutions and a slow but radical change in the American state itself. He argues that central to this historic reversal were seismic national events, ranging from the assassination of President Kennedy to 9/11. Scott marshals compelling evidence that the deep state is now partly instituTrade ReviewWe are living under a government that in certain respects is increasingly lawless and out of control' Scott writes in his latest examination of the alleged underbelly of the U.S. Government. The milieu he shows is rife with shady business deals with the Mafia, as well as terrorists and the countries that harbor them, while encouraging war and eroding personal liberties, all with the stated goal of protecting the country. Scott argues for the existence of what are essentially two governments—the one we’re familiar with and the 'deep state,' actually running things. In this telling, the latter has been in the works for some time, under the auspices of the need to keep the government running in the event of a major attack or national disaster. Skeptics will be quick to dismiss Scott as a tinfoil-hatted loon looking for conspiracies and collusion under every rock, but the volume of his cited sources begs to differ, suggesting that our current political climate truly is a toxic one in dire need of fixing. He offers a handful of suggestions for doing exactly this in the closing pages of this alarming and thought-provoking work. * Publishers Weekly *Scott makes some cautiously positive noises at the end of this terrific book about the possibilities of mass action to affect the changes. * Lobster *Peter Dale Scott unveils the hidden springs of American politics in his book . . . a disturbing investigation [that] revisits the history of the war against terrorism. . . . [He] explains the development, in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, of ‘projects envisaged long before by a restricted circle of senior American authorities’—intervention in Iraq, a new zone of influence in Central Asia, the Patriot Act. . . . Scott explains why the Bush Administration classified the section of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on 9/11 dealing with Saudi officials, the same who today would play with the sorcerer’s apprentices in Iraq and Syria. * Paris Match *Once again Peter Dale Scott illuminates the workings of the American deep state in this fascinating and seminal study of how and why the country's foreign policy has gone off the rails and is even destroying democracy at home. This indispensable book is brilliantly researched and reasoned, persuading us that we cannot hope to save the republic unless we look far enough beneath the surface to observe the hidden dark forces that have been long calling the shots, most dramatically and dangerously since 9/11. -- Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton UniversityWhen the authentic intellectual history of our era is written, Peter Dale Scott will be honored for his insight and honesty. In The American Deep State, Scott again sees reality precisely, brilliantly, and with courageous integrity, warning us once more against lethal illusions. This is one of the most important books of our time. -- Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American PoliticianThe American Deep State encapsulates Peter Dale Scott’s decades-long research into the hidden aspects of American deep politics. The result is an unparalleled perspective on the real system of U.S. governance. His analysis is meticulous, masterful, and brilliant. -- Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon PapersPeter Dale Scott is our most provocative scholar of American power. Scott picks up where the pioneering C. Wright Mills left off, shining a light on the dark labyrinth of power—a shadow world that has only grown more arrogant and wedded to state violence since the days of the ‘power elite’ and the ‘military-industrial complex.’ There is no way to understand how power really operates without daring to follow Scott’s illuminating path through The American Deep State. -- David Talbot, Founder of SalonPeter Dale Scott has pioneered the systematic study of the national security state and its hidden impacts on all areas of foreign and domestic policy. With this new book, Scott outdoes himself with a truly comprehensive birds-eye analysis of the increasing encroachment of the unaccountable 'deep state' into democratic politics through the postwar period until today, offering a window into a grim future if business-as-usual continues. This is a brilliant, incisive, must-read work for anyone who wants to understand the interplay between global capitalism, national security, and the dubious agendas of the most powerful yet secretive agencies of national governments and the complex network of vested criminal and corporate interests that drive them. -- Nafeez Ahmed, investigative journalist, the GuardianPeter Dale Scott digs deep into every aspect of Orwellian homeland security—from warrantless surveillance to warrantless detention and martial law, showing how the US government and military have become permanently involved in law enforcement. This system of secrecy—or secret government—is essentially the ‘deep state,’ the real, powerful layer that overshadows an open government. Yet public institutions account for just one level of the deep state. They also derive their power from key connections outside government—as in the case of the CIA, very much rooted in Wall Street. Scott also shows how their power has expanded as the deep state went more and more multinational, in parallel to the expansion of major multinational corporations. Orwellian? No: more like political realism. It's all here. An absolute must read. -- Pepe Escobar, roving correspondent for Asia Times and author of Empire of ChaosIn this excellent book, Peter Dale Scott shows how U.S. restrictions on its intelligence services made the American deep state fuse with a foreign service to operate from outside the United States. Saudi oil and U.S. weapons deals formed a special relationship. Scott argues that the American deep state has always been linked to Wall Street bankers and Big Oil with former CIA Director Allan Dulles as the archetype, who looked at the elected political leaders as narrow-minded nationalists unable to run global politics. -- Ola Tunander, Peace Research Institute OsloFascinating and important. . . . An astonishing book and very well documented (with thousands of footnotes to corroborate and prove everything that the author describes and analyzes). . . . Fundamental for understanding what is happening around us, our political disempowerment . . . and the more and more inevitable imperialist wars. -- Étienne Chouard, French author and activistTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Doomsday Project, Deep Events, and the Shrinking of American Democracy Chapter 2: The Deep State, the Wall Street Overworld, and Big Oil Chapter 3: The Doomsday Project: How COG on 9/11 Subordinated the U.S. Constitution Chapter 4: The Falsified War on Terror: The Deep History of U.S. Protection for al-Qaeda Terrorist Ali Mohamed Chapter 5: The Falsified War on Terror II: How the Deep State Has Protected Gulf Arab States Rather than the American People Chapter 6: Deep State Uses and Protection of al-Qaeda Terrorists Chapter 7: The U.S. Terror War: The CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia Chapter 8: The Fates of the Presidents Who Challenged the Deep State, 1963–1980 Chapter 9: The Doomsday Project and Deep Events: JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and 9/11 Chapter 10: The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing Chapter 11: America’s Unchecked Security State: The Continuity of COG Planning, 1936–2001 Chapter 12: America’s Unchecked Security State and Lawlessness Chapter 13: Why Americans Must End America’s Self-Generating Wars Epilogue: Greek Theater—Mario Savio and the Socratic Quest Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDuring the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities. Scholars have long been fascinated by so-called global cities, world cities, and the urban engines of the global economy. James H. Spencer argues, however, that such an emphasis misses the central fact that urbanization goes well beyond the usual suspects of New York, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. The author charts urbanization across the Global South and North, resulting in what he describes as a planetary global urban ecosystem. This concept that challenges us to realize that in daily life, their similar physical and social ecosystems that make cities more understandable to each other than to their own rural hinterlands. Spencer's vivid case studies of Addis Ababa, Ho Chi Minh City, Honolulu, and New York draw out the commonalities of our intertwined built and social environmTrade ReviewFueled by advances in electronic communication and transportation technology, the globe is becoming more and more urbanized. Over the past two decades the expanding megacities of the Global South have had and continue to have a profound effect on the character of globalization at this critical historical juncture. Spencer’s book is a path-breaking contribution to our understanding of this process. -- Edmond J. Keller, University of California, Los AngelesThis book illuminates and excites with its fresh approach to globalization and urbanization. Spencer argues for a new approach to understanding contemporary cities, highlighting four cities that are connected to world processes of long-distance interaction. Offering an innovative lens for interpreting and understanding cities in the new century, his work will appeal to new and seasoned students alike. -- Yue-man Yeung, Chinese University of Hong KongJames Spencer’s superb new study points us in a different direction as we struggle to understand the rapid urban transformation sweeping the planet. Spencer argues that an overly heavy emphasis on the change occurring in such 'global cities' as New York, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai is causing us to miss the most important panorama, the urban transformation of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He takes us on a grand tour to shift our perspective. He does not want us to miss what is perhaps the most important transformation in world history. -- Elliott Sclar, Columbia UniversityWhether from the perspective of supporters/critics or specialists/nonspecialists, the related processes of globalization and urbanization are two of the defining trends of the 21st century. Spencer utilizes secondary scholarly literature, life stories, popular media, and personal experiences to make sense out of the diversity of the ‘global urban ecosystem.’ While each city has its own history, culture, and physical environment, the attractive ones benefit from three characteristics: economic and productivity efficiencies, differences and diversities, and a global connectivity. In order to provide a picture of what this ecosystem looks like, Spencer devotes four of his seven chapters to a tour of cities that illustrate each of his three types. Two of these cities are from the Global South and represent ‘Do-Your-Timers’ (Saigon and Addis Ababa), and two are from the Global North and represent ‘Old-Timers’ (Honolulu) and ‘For-All-Timers’ (New York). However, ‘every city has elements of each, but it is the particular combination and concentrations that give individuality to any case.’ This well-written, insightful, and informative book should appeal to all professionals and nonprofessionals interested in acquiring a new lens through which to make sense of the interrelated processes of globalization and urbanization. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Urbanization and the Construction of the Global Urban Ecosystem Chapter 2: Urban Histories: Arriving at the Global Urban Ecosystem Chapter 3: Saigon’s “Do-Your-Timers”: Rural Transformation and the Urban Transition in Saigon Chapter 4: “Do-Your-Timers” African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa Chapter 5: The Indigenous City? Reconciling an Old-Timers' Honolulu with a Global Society Chapter 6: “For-All-Timers”: New York City’s Empire State of Mind Chapter 7: The Global Urban Ecosystem: A Globally Integrated Ecology of Everyday Life Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNow in a thoroughly updated edition, Resistant Islands offers the first comprehensive overview of Okinawan history from earliest times to the present, focusing especially on the recent period of colonization by Japan, its disastrous fate during World War II, and its current status as a glorified US military base. The base is a hot-button issue in Japan and has become more widely known in the wake of Japan's 2011 natural disasters and the US military role in emergency relief. Okinawa rejects the base-dominated role allocated it by the US and Japanese governments under which priority attaches to its military functions, as a kind of stationary aircraft carrier. The result has been to throw US-Japan relations into crisis, bringing down one prime minister who tried to stop construction of yet another base on the island and threatening the incumbent if he is unable to deliver Okinawan approval of the new base. Okinawa thus has become a template for reassessing the troubled US-Japan relationsTrade ReviewIn recent years, the main source of friction in the US–Japanese defense relationship has been local opposition to the basing of U.S. marines on the Japanese island of Okinawa. . . . McCormack and Norimatsu lay bare the resentment’s deeper historical roots. . . . The larger frame for McCormack and Norimatsu’s analysis is their sharply worded indictment of the US–Japanese relationship, which they believe is constructed not so much to defend Japan as to serve a US forward deployment strategy aimed at Southeast Asia and China. -- Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University * Foreign Affairs *The U.S. bases in Okinawa continue to be an irritant in bilateral relations. This book shifts our focus from Tokyo and Washington to the perceptions and grievances of Okinawans and why they oppose the US presence. The authors help readers understand a grassroots democratic movement challenging the garrison island status quo. * Japan Times *Resistant Islands draws a wide picture around the efforts by the people of the Okinawa island chain, Japan's southernmost prefecture, to throw off the enormous US military presence lodged on their limited land area since the horrific battles of early 1945, when a quarter of the Okinawan population died as drafted civilian pawns in the defense. * Interpreter *Deeply informed and rich in insight, this study brings to light the conquest of the peaceful and prosperous territory of Okinawa, its brutal integration into the nation-state/imperial system of East Asia, and after the murderous slaughter of World War II its conversion to a U.S. military base under the administration of America’s Japanese client state. And finally the courageous resistance of a proud people determined to regain what has been lost in centuries of oppression and to lead the way to an Asian community of justice and hope. It is a tale of horror and inspiration, with lessons of large and enduring significance. -- Noam Chomsky, MITYou may pick up this book because you think you ought to read an "Okinawan-centered" view of modern Japanese history, but you will find yourself riveted and wanting to recommend it to friends with no particular ties to Japan or Okinawa. The peculiar and noxious US-Japan dance designed to defer, preferably forever, respect for sovereignty, constitutionality, and democracy, in Japan as a whole and in Okinawa especially, makes for sober reading for citizens of the United States and the world. The outlines may be familiar to those who’ve had US interests reign paramount in their own societies, but the painstakingly researched details will find all readers catching their breath. The whole is written with the graceful clarity of principled commitment. The penultimate chapter, devoted to transmitting the voices of Okinawan activists spanning several generations, an enactment of such principle, is a gift to all readers. -- Norma Field, University of ChicagoResistant Islands is a tour de force—not only a stunning introduction to the resilience and vision of the people of Okinawa but also a devastating critique of official Tokyo’s obsequiousness to dictates emanating from Washington. -- John Dower, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Okinawa problem is a key pivot of modern Japan. It condenses the internal tensions between East Asia and the West, between war and peace; within it the most basic contradictions of the contemporary world are concentrated. This book possesses keen and spirited insight, revealing that these deep contradictions belong to Okinawa and to human kind. -- Sun Ge, Chinese Academy of Social Science, BeijingWhy, despite the end of the Cold War and the end of Liberal Democratic Party predominant party rule, does Okinawa still host 75 percent of US military installations in a prefecture making up no more than 0.6 percent of the land mass of the Japanese archipelago? Placing the base issue in the historical context of Japan's incorporation of the Ryukyu Islands into the Japanese state in the 1870s and the 'smoke and mirrors' reversion of Okinawa from US control to formal Japanese sovereignty in 1972, Gavan McCormack and Satoko Oka Norimatsu offer a trenchant analysis of the fate of the islands as a military outpost of the American eagle. With chapters on the current battle over the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko in the face of local resistance, along with a penetrating analysis of the alliance under Prime Ministers Hatoyama and Kan, this book should be read by everyone interested in understanding the true nature of the US-Japan alliance from the perspective of the inhabitants of Okinawa. -- Glenn D. Hook, University of SheffieldEssential reading for all those interested in Pacific politics, even if they do not share the authors' passionate sympathy for the underdog. Apart from the book's readability, its historical depth and accuracy explains why the possibility that the Okinawan public might opt for Chinese rather than Japanese sovereignty—which is already agitating Japan's right-wing—will play a crucial role in the coming US-Chinese Cold War. The Japanese government is caught between a rock and a hard place. The hard place is Okinawa, but the rock, the deep military alliance with the United States, is of the Japanese governmental elite's own choosing. -- Ronald Dore, Grizzana, ItalyResistant Islands offers unique perspectives on the island’s tragic history and current plight. * Asian Studies Review *This book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary US-Japan relations. It draws on public statements and 'confidential' communications by officials of both governments . . . They reveal, in graphic detail and colorful language, the unrelieved condescension of US officials and the shameless subservience of their Japanese counterparts in this decidedly '[un]equal partnership.' The messages include 'secret accords' to maintain extraterritorial status for U.S. forces in Japan and to perpetuate the disproportionate US military presence in Okinawa with the option to introduce nuclear weapons even after its reversion to Japanese administration in 1972. . . .The most moving portions of this book are the personal statements by individuals who have resisted US and Japanese oppression through their public protests, their writings, and their policies as elected officials. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *Frankly speaking, there are things here that I myself [as Prime Minister of Japan, 2009-2010] was unaware of, including the documents published by Wikileaks. I am impressed at what a thorough job the authors have done. -- Hatoyama Yukio, Former Prime Minister of JapanAt last the indispensable book has appeared. These two non-Okinawan authors have a sensitivity to Okinawa greater than that of many Okinawans. They dig deeply to give us an extremely persuasive account of the problems facing Okinawa, For scholars who would seek the truth about Okinawa. For scholars who would seek the truth about Okinawa, this is a must-have book. -- Ota Masahide, Former Governor of OkinawaTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Notes on Names Chronology Chapter 1: Ryukyu/Okinawa: From Disposal to Resistance Chapter 2: War, Memory, and Commemoration Chapter 3: Japan’s American Embrace and the “Partnership” for Peace and Prosperity Chapter 4: Okinawa: Separation and Reversion Chapter 5: Henoko: The Unwanted Base Chapter 6: The Hatoyama Revolt Chapter 7: Post–Cold War: Elections and Democracy Chapter 8: Environment: The “Nonassessment” Chapter 9: “Deepening” the Alliance: The Kan Agenda Chapter 10: “Deepening” the Alliance: Washington Agendas Chapter 11: Senkaku/Diaoyu: Okinawa as Militarized Outpost or as Bridge of Nations? Chapter 12: Turning History Around: History as Lived Experience Chapter 13: Prospect Chapter 14: The All-Okinawa Movement since 2013 Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social movements over the past fifteen years. Assessing both the continuities in social movement dynamics and important new tendencies, this book will be essential reading for all students of Latin American politics and society.Trade ReviewWith engaging essays documenting grassroots resistance to neoliberalism across Latin America, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in how ordinary people are challenging and changing the meaning of democracy in the region. -- Susan Eckstein, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker Part I: Changing Contexts, Changing Responses Chapter 2: Reinventing Revolutions in Latin America: An “Other” Politics in Practice and Theory, Sara Motta Part II: Movement Dynamics, Strategies, and Identities Chapter 3: Challenges and Difficulties of Urban Territories in Resistance, Raúl Zibechi Chapter 4: Building Horizontal Political Cultures: Youth Activism and the Legacy of the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006, Maurice Rafael Magaña Chapter 5: Praxis of Empowerment: Mística and Mobilization in Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, Daniela Issa Chapter 6: Network Politics in the Mesoamerican Movement against the Plan Puebla-Panamá, Alicia Swords Chapter 7: Por la refundación de Honduras: Building a New Kind of Social Movement, Suyapa Portillo Villeda Chapter 8: Popular Feminism in Contemporary Brazil: Lineage and Alliances, Nathalie Lebon Chapter 9: The Contradictions of Black Cultural Politics in Salvador da Bahia: 1970s to the Present, Kwame Dixon Part III: Dealing with the (Reconstituted) State Chapter 10: Autonomy, Collective Identity, and Social Movement Strategies: The Zapatistas and Beyond, Richard Stahler-Sholk Chapter 11: Argentina: Against and Beyond the State, Marina A. Sitrin Chapter 12: Taking the Streets, Swarming Public Spaces: The 2013 Popular Protests and Social Movements in Brazil, Harry E. Vanden Chapter 13: Bolivarianism and the Venezuelan Commune, George Ciccariello-Maher Chapter 14: Correa, Indigenous Movements, and the Writing of a New Constitution in Ecuador, Marc Becker Chapter 15: Bolivia’s MAS and Its Relation with the Movements That Brought It to State Power, Leonidas Oikonomakis and Fran Espinoza Part IV: Transnational Organizing Chapter 16: Horizontalism and the Anti-Mining Movement in El Salvador, Rose J. Spalding Chapter 17: Horizontal Dialogue in the Construction of Agroecology by CLOC/Vía Campesina, María Elena Martínez and Peter M. Rosset Chapter 18: Conclusion, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Marc Becker

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Book SynopsisThis new and final edition is a follow-up to the author's first book, Anticipating Surprise (University Press of America, 2002) and the Handbook of Warning Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2010). The first book was an abridged version of Grabo's 1972 manuscript, of which only 200 pages were allowed to be published by the government. The second book was published after it was agreed that the last 10 chapters would remain classified. These final 10 chapters have recently been released by the government and complete the manuscript as it was originally intended to be published by the author in 1972.The Handbook of Warning Intelligence was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. Originally written as a manual for training intelligence analysts, it explains the fundamentals of intelligence analysis and forecasting, discusses military analysis, as well as the difficulties in understanding political, civil, and economic analysis and assessing what it means for analysts to haTrade ReviewCynthia Grabo’s original Handbook of Warning Intelligence, written in the aftermath of the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia has, at long last, been fully declassified. The hitherto secret Part III of her study is now accessible for a public readership in this definitive volume. Professionals, scholars of Intelligence and Security Studies, students of International Affairs, and readers sharing an interest in Conflict and Crisis Management generally will all gain valuable historical and analytical insights from this most valuable—and greatly valued—manual. The focal points on the hitherto classified Part III are on intelligence analysis relating to particular types of warfare, and the provision of relevant, actionable warning intelligence to policy makers. Although the original time frame of the Handbook preceded the contemporary threat of Militant Jihadism, Cynthia Grabo’s risk assessments should provide important insights into current, all the more complex intelligence challenges facing analysts and policy makers. The issues addressed in the concluding chapters dealing with the making of analytical judgments regarding imminent threats, and with conveying these threat warnings upwards to managers and policy maker, are all the more telling and pertinent in today’s very volatile global security environment. This is a “need to know” Handbook of Warning Intelligence, a Complete and Declassified Work of Cynthina Grabo. -- Martin Rudner, distinguished research professor emeritus at Carleton University, Ottawa. Prior to his retirement he was a professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, and founding director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at CarletonTable of ContentsForeword to the new edition Foreword to the previous edition Author’s note to the original edition Part I: Why Warning Intelligence And What Is It? Some Fundamentals Chapter 1: General Nature of the Problem Chapter 2: Definitions of Terms and Their Usage Chapter 3: What Warning Is and Is Not Chapter 4: Warning and Collection Chapter 5: Intentions versus Capabilities Part II: Organization and Tools of the Trade Chapter 6: Problems of Organization and Management Chapter 7: Indicator lists Chapter 8: The Compiling of Indications Chapter 9: Can Computers 'Hel p? Part III: Introduction to the Analytical Method Chapter 10: Some Fundamentals of Indications Analysis Chapter 11: Some Specifics of the Analytical Method. Chapter 12: What Makes a Good Warning Analyst? Part IV: Specific Problems of Military Analysis Chapter 13: Importance of Military Indications Chapter 14: Order of Bottle Analysis in Crisis Situations Chapter 15: Analysis of Mobilization Chapter 16: Logistics is the Queen of Battles Chapter 17: Other Factors in Combat Preparations Chapter 18: Coping with Extraordinary Military Developments Part V: Specific Problems of Political, Civil and Economic Analysis Chapter 19: Importance of Political Factors for Warning Chapter 20: Basic Political Warning -- A Problem of Perception Chapter 21: Some Specific Factors in Political Warning Chapter 22: Economic Indicators Chapter 23: Civil Defense Chapter 24: Security, Counter-Intelligence and Agent Preparations Part VI: Some Major Analytical Problems Chapter 25: Warning from the Totality of Evidence Chapter 26: The Impact on Warning of Circumstances Leading to War Chapter 27: Reconstructing the Enemy’s Decision Making Process Chapter 28: Assessing the Timing of Attack Chapter 29: Deception: Can We Cope With It? The following chapters are new to this edition. Part VII: Problems of Particular Types Of Warfare Chapter 30: Analysis with Hostilities Already in Progress Chapter 31: Problems Peculiar to Guerrilla Warfare and “Wars of Liberation” Chapter 32: Hypothetical Problems of the Coming of World War III Part VIII: Reaching And Reporting The Warning Judgment Chapter 33: Vital Importance of the Judgment Chapter 34: What Does the Policy Maker Need, and Want to Know? Chapter 35: How to Write Indications or Warning Items Chapter 36: Assessing Probabilities Chapter 37: Some Major Factors Influencing Judgments and Reporting Chapter 38: Most Frequent Errors in the Judgment and Reporting Process Part IX: Conclusions Chapter 39: A Summing Up, With Some Do’s and Don'ts for Analysts and Supervisors About the Authors

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