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Book SynopsisThirteen essays exploring state-sponsored terrorism in Latin America and its connection to the U.S.Trade ReviewThe combination of a regional framework and original case studies makes this volume an important addition to research on the nature of U.S. involvement in state violence and human rights violations in Latin America. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. State Terror in the U.S.-Latin American Interstate Regime by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez Chapter 2. Operation Condor as a Hemispheric "Counterterror" Organization by J. Patrice McSherry Part II. Central America and Mexico Chapter 3. "The Blood of the People": The Guardia Nacional's Fifty-year War against the People of Nicaragua, 1927-1979 by Richard Grossman Chapter 4. The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador by Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago Chapter 5. Caught in the Crossfire: Militarization, Paramilitarization, and State Violence in Oaxaca, Mexico by Kristin Norget Chapter 6. Bloody Deeds/Hechos Sangrientos: Reading Guatemala's Record of Political Violence in Cadaver Reports by M. Gabriela Torres Chapter 7. U.S. Militarization of Honduras in the 1980s and the Creation of CIA-backed Death Squads by Joan Kruckewitt Chapter 8. "No Hay Rosas Sin Espinas": Statecraft in Costa Rica by Annamarie Oliverio and Pat Lauderdale Part III. South America Chapter 9. The Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy by John C. Dugas Chapter 10. The Path of State Terror in Peru by Abderrahman Beggar Chapter 11. Turning on Their Masters: State Terrorism and Unlearning Democracy in Uruguay by Jeffrey J. Ryan Chapter 12. Producing and Exporting State Terror: The Case of Argentina by Ariel C. Armony Part IV. Conclusion Chapter 13. New Responses to State Terror by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling ethnographic examination of global capitalism's impact, colonial and post-colonial, in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. Sixteenth-Century Conquests (1521-1598) and their Postcolonial Border Legacies Chapter 2. The Invention of Borderlands Geography: What Do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán Have to Do with Ciudad Juárez/Paso del Norte? Chapter 3. The Problem of Color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Subjectivities Part II. Culture, Class, and Gender in Late-Twentieth-Century Ciudad Juárez Chapter 4. Maquiladoras, Gender, and Culture Change Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Tropes, Culture, and Masculinity Inside an Electronics Factory Chapter 6. Border Inspections: Inspecting the Working-Class Life of Maquiladora Workers on the U.S-Mexico Border Chapter 7. Culture, Class, and Union Politics: The Daily Struggle for Chairs inside a Sewing Factory in the Larger Context of the Working Day Chapter 8. Women, Men, and "Gender" in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from Northern Mexico's Maquiladoras Part III. Alternating Imaginings Chapter 9. Reimagining Culture and Power against Late Industrial Capitalism and Other Forms of Conquest through Border Theory and Analysis Epilogue Notes Bibliography Permissions Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of a crucial phase in Cuban history and the effects of U.S. intervention.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Struggle for Independence 2. The Impact of U.S. Intervention 3. The Liberators As a Political Force 4. The Disbandment of the Liberating Army 5. The Estrada Palma Interlude 6. The Beginnings of Factionalism: The 1906 Uprising 7. “Keeping Cuba Quiet”: The Second Intervention 8. The Republic under Its Liberators Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy.Trade Review... Eckes has explored how natural resource issues have shaped U.S. foreign relations since Wilson's presidency. Eckes fills a gap in the understanding of the current non-renewable-resource crisis by providing a historical perspective that illuminates the political roots of the present conundrum. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. World War I and the Global Scramble for Resources 2. Dependent America and the Quest for Mineral Self-Sufficiency 3. Minerals and the Origins of World War II 4. Resources for Victory 5. “Have-Not” America and the Debate over Postwar Minerals Policy 6. Minerals and the Cold War 7. The Paley Report: A Mid-Century Minerals Survey 8. From Scarcity to Plenty—President Eisenhower and Cold War Minerals Policy, 1953–1963 9. The Scramble for Resources Renewed Epilogue Appendix 1. Average Annual U.S. Producer Price Appendix 2. Net U.S. Imports of Selected Metals and Minerals as a Percentage of Apparent Consumption Notes Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the 20th century, the US Army swiftly occupied Manila and then plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign with striking parallels to war in Iraq. This book shows how this imperial panopticon slowly crushed the Filipino revolutionary movement with a lethal mix of firepower, surveillance, and incriminating information.Trade ReviewThis forceful book lays the Philippine body politic on the examination table to reveal the disease that lies within - crime, clandestine policing, and political scandal. But McCoy also draws a clear line from Manila to Baghdad. - Sheila S. Coronel, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University ""In this stunning book, McCoy reveals how empire shapes the intertwined destinies of all involved in its creation. Written with deft strokes, this is an instant classic of historical writing."" - Lloyd Gardner, author of The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lintner shines a bright light on one of the most obscure corners of Asia.”—Foreign Affairs * Foreign Affairs *“This book is as authoritative as it is intriguing.”—Literary Review * Literary Review *“This is a timely and important work that sheds light on the important geopolitical developments occurring in South Asia. . . . If indeed we are in the Asian century, Lintner’s Great Game East will be an important guide to our understanding of how this came about and what to expect in the immediate future.”—Asian Review of Books * Asian Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisAn urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion of cyberspace in society brings both promise and peril. It promotes new modes of political cooperation, but it also disrupts interstate dealings and empowers subversive actors who may instigate diplomatic and military crises. Despite significant experience with cyber incidents, the conceptual apparatus to analyze, understand, and address their effects on international order remains primitive. Here, Lucas Kello adapts and applies international relations theory to create new ways of thinking about cyber strategy. Kello draws on a broad range of case studies - including the Stuxnet operation against Iran, the cyberattacks against Sony Pictures, and the disruption of the 2016 U.S. presidential election - to make sense of the contemporary technological revolution. Synthesizing data from government documents, forensic reports of major events, and interviews with senior decision-makers,this important work establishes new theoreticalbenchmarks to help security experts revise strategy and policy for the unprecedented challenges of our era.Trade Review"[Kello’s] work represents an important step toward bridging the gap between academic thinking about international relations and the cyber revolution in the real world. We can hope his courage, audacity and clarion call will inspire others to follow."—The Wall Street Journal“The cyber revolution clearly constitutes an ever-growing challenge to international order. Lucas Kello reflects on technology’s role in political revolution, and the importance of aligning international-relations studies with the unruly expansion of cyberspace.”—Nature“Displays an enviable grasp of the technical issues, as well as of the academic landscape . . . Readers of all kinds will find Mr. Kello’s book informative and thought-provoking.”—Economist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A sophisticated yet accessible primer on how communications technologies, devices, and services work; the threats to them; and the tools, including encryption, that . . . can protect our privacy and secure our data.”—Glenn C. Altschuler, HuffPost“[Landau’s] clean knowledgeable writing reflects the depth of her expertise as she traces the tug of war that has played out between law enforcement and cryptographers in recent decades.” —Kadhim Shubber, Financial Times “The book is a very good introduction to the practical issues that arise from the topic. It offers a rational approach to dealing with encryption, but more importantly, provides lawyers and law students with an insight into the world in which they deal every day.”—Stephen Mason, Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review"Susan Landau manages to harness the sprint of our online era and provides a lasting framework for how to manage, protect, and even master our digital footprint."—Juliette Kayyem, former Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security"Encryption is essential to our online security, but it also makes the job of law enforcement harder. In Listening In, Landau gives us an authoritative and unflinching look at this challenge and confronts the urgent question of security in the digital age."—Matt Olsen, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center"Susan Landau has performed a remarkable feat of public service with Listening In: she simplifies the complex contemporary debate around privacy and security trade-offs in a way that welcomes anyone with an interest in these topics to engage with them -- and she demonstrates why everyone should."—Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It“An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner.”—Ben Rothke, author of Computer Security, on Landau's previous book Surveillance or Security?"Susan Landau is eminently qualified to guide readers to deeper understanding of risks and threats that accompany an increasingly connected world. Our online appetites are growing and our presence attracts hacking and surveillance among other uses we may not have authorized or even anticipated. Must read."—Vint Cerf, internet pioneer

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Book SynopsisAn accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relationsTrade Review“Ideal for undergraduate courses, “Our Hemisphere”? is a balanced and nuanced portrayal of the history of U.S.–Latin American relations. The attention given to more recent episodes on immigration, the drug war and U.S. policy toward Cuba and Venezuela is especially welcome.”—Allen Wells, author of Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR and the Jews of Sosúa“Britta and Russell Crandall’s deeply researched and engaging book illuminates the complexities in US–Latin American relations that are too often overlooked. ‘Our Hemisphere’? is a magisterial and insightful account that should provoke rethinking of inter-American relations.”—Michael Shifter, president, Inter-American Dialogue

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Book SynopsisA strong antidote to the growing sinophobia in the U.S.Wall Street Journal

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Book Synopsis“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, NewsweekTrade Review"When a brilliant, lucid historian such as Michael B. Oren ... brings the past back to life ... it is a shaft of light in a dark sky." -- Robert Kagan "Hugely ambitious, drawing on hundreds of original sources to create a finely balanced overview of this enormously complex subject." -- Max Rodenbeck "Elegant and engaging... Had George W. Bush been abled to read this magnificent book before he launched Operation Iraqi Freedom... he might well have realized just how dangerous it has been to shoot first and ask questions later in the Middle East over the past 200 years." -- Douglas Little "A tour de force, brilliantly researched and written, and extremely interesting as well as informative." -- Henry Kissinger "A landmark achievement." -- Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the Cold War, as the international community struggles to accommodate change, the author of this study directs our attention to the classic theorists, Thucydides, Rousseau, Locke and others.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century. Edited by two of the field s leading scholars, the volume embraces a broad new definition of security, and examines the risks and challenges posed by new forms of violence.Trade Review“The changing nature of security has been breathtaking in its speed and unexpected turns since the end of the Cold War. Mary Kaldor's consistent accuracy in mapping those changes has been an invaluable and reliable guide as we enter into ever more uncertain territory. The Handbook should lie at the ready on any policy maker's desk.” (Expofairs, 1 October 2015) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Global Security Policy in the Twenty-First Century 1 Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov Part I Key Concepts 9 1 Global Security 11 Ken Booth 2 Security and Social Critique 31 David Mutimer 3 Gender and Security 51 Natasha Marhia 4 Security Policy and (Global) Risk(s) 68 Sabine Selchow 5 Human Security 85 Mary Kaldor Part II Policy Arenas 103 6 Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation 105 Maria Rost Rublee 7 Terrorism and Antiterrorism 126 Ekaterina Stepanova 8 Genocide and Large-Scale Human Rights Violations 145 Martin Shaw 9 Transnational Crime 160 John P. Sullivan 10 Natural Resources and Insecurity 175 Anouk S. Rigterink 11 The Web of Water Security 190 Mark Zeitoun Part III Policy Tools 209 12 Civilian Protection 211 Sarah Sewall 13 Humanitarian Assistance 232 Henry Radice 14 The Evolution of International Peacekeeping 247 Renata Dwan 15 State-Building, Nation-Building, and Reconstruction 265 Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, and David Rampton 16 Strengthening Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: The Unfulfilled Promise of Security Sector Reform 282 Nicole Ball 17 Diplomacy and Mediation 300 Àlvaro de Soto 18 Global Security and International Law 320 Richard Falk 19 Transitional Justice 338 Iavor Rangelov and Ruti Teitel Part IV Global Security Actors 353 20 Reframing the Use of Force: The European Union as a Security Actor 355 Mary Martin 21 China 371 May-Britt U. Stumbaum and Sun Xuefeng 22 India as a Global Security Actor 388 Jivanta Sch¨ ottli and Markus Pauli 23 Security Agenda in Russia: Academic Concepts, Political Discourses, and Institutional Practices 408 Andrey Makarychev 24 Contextualizing Global Security: The Case of Turkey 426 Aslý C¸ alkývik 25 The United States 446 Adam Quinn 26 Civil Society in Fragile Contexts 463 Willemijn Verkoren and Mathijs van Leeuwen 27 Protest and Politics: How Peace Movements Shape History 482 David Cortright 28 Corporate Actors 505 Shantanu Chakrabarti Index 525

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Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the ``south''''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the ``north''''. Prospects for future research on refugees by geographers and social scientists as well as its rising significance for economic development and social welfare in both poor and rich nations are discussed in the final section.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: Geography and Refugees: Current Issues (R. Black). RECEPTION, SETTLEMENT, AND REPATRIATION OF REFUGEES IN THE THIRDWORLD. `Internal Refugees': The Case of the Displaced in Khartoum (J.Bascom). Mass Flight in the Middle East: Involuntary Migration and the GulfConflict, 1990-91 (N. Van Hear). REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. The `Sweden-wide Strategy' of Refugee Dispersal (T. Hammar). North and South: Resettling Vietnamese Refugees in Australia andthe UK (V. Robinson). NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW DEVELOPMENTS. Repatriation and Information: A Theoretical Model (K. Koser). Forced Migration and Ethnic Processes in the Former Soviet Union(Z. Zayonchkovskaya, et al.). CONCLUSION. Retrospect and Prospect: Where Next for Geography and RefugeeStudies? (V. Robinson). Index.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed the most substantial changes in the world system of states and their boundaries since World War II. The key division between the states in the world system the former deep ideological divide between East and West has disappeared. The border between Finland and Russia was a frontier between East and West and had a long history as a fundamental dividing line between contrasting cultural and political systems. Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness is the first geographical analysis of how this critical border evolved. This original and well-illustrated book is much more than a local study. It presents both a theoretically informed analysis of the construction of territories and their boundaries and a richly detailed geohistory of the changing geography of Finland. It traces the nature of the nation-building process, the rise of the nation state and the changing position of this emerging new state in the world geopolitical landscape. The history of the constTable of ContentsTERRITORIES AND BOUNDARIES IN REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION. Regional Transformation and the Other. Territories, Boundaries and the Discourse on PoliticalGeography. Time, Space and Consciousness: Constructing Nationalism andCommunicating Boundaries. Methodological Contexts. THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FINNISH TERRITORY. Nationalism, Geopolitics and Changing Territories: The Case ofFinland. The Changing Socio-Spatial Consciousness. Signifying Territoriality: The Changing Roles of theFinnish-Russian Boundary. TOWARDS LOCAL EXPERIENCE. Place, Boundary and the Construction of Local Experience. Regional Transformation on the Local Scale: TheInstitutionalization of Vartsila. Back to Karelia. Epilogue: Towards a Global Sense of Place. Appendix. References. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisIs it America s historic destiny to be the last of the hegemons ? Hegemonic states are very special countries that have simultaneously dominated the world both economically and politically and it seems increasingly likely that no country can follow the USA in this role. In this intellectual and creative tour de force, Peter Taylor, famous as the creator of world-systems political geography, examines hegemony as a concept in social practices and by using the experience of the three classic hegemonies, 17th-century Holland, 19th-century Britain and 20th-century America to provide a breathtaking new perspective on world history, political ideas and the nature of modernity. Professor Taylor weaves a rich tapestry of historical insight with arresting detail and innovative synthesis to show how for each hegemon political and economic dominance led to cultural power which shaped the entire world system. But in a fin de siecle world with little prospect of a new hegemonic order, are we perhapsTable of ContentsWorld Hegemony. Creating Modern Politics. Universalism: What's Good for the Hegemon is Good for theWorld. To See the Future: Emulation as the Sincerest Form ofFlattery. Post-Hegemonic Trauma. World Impasse. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisUses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible—craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.Trade ReviewA thoroughly new and original approach to a subject that most historians (myself included) believed to be very well-trod ground; as such, it offers a fresh look at what was then (and remains) the crisis that brought the world closest to nuclear war." - Gregg Herken, University of California, Merced"Is there more to say about the Berlin and Cuban missile crises of 1961-62? Absolutely yes. Based on a mastery of the latest sources, Ted Vorhees's Silent Guns of Two Octobers takes a fresh look at this key period in the history of US foreign relations. Scrutinizing several angles--the strategic balance, the secret back-channel diplomacy between the superpowers, and domestic US politics among them--Vorhees argues that John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev defused the 1961 and 1962 crises in similar ways, and concludes, contrary to the scholarly consensus, that the risk of war was actually minimal. This provocative work forces us to rethink much of what we thought we knew about the ‘crisis years,’ and it deserves the widest possible readership." - Philip Nash, Associate Professor of History, Penn State Shenango and author of The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957-1963

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Book SynopsisHow American human rights lawyers fight for justice in U.S. Courts for international victims of violence

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Book SynopsisTraces discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. The authors focus on how dominant states and international organisations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states.Trade Review“A searing exploration of the variety of ways that ‘normalcy’ functions in contemporary international affairs to justify and sustain a particular vision of acceptable politics. The authors’ critical mapping of normalization practices provides ample food for thought for anyone interested in the current condition and future prospects of liberal international order.”- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University“Normalization through normative manipulation is liberalism in action, much in evidence as the global liberal order implodes. In this conceptually innovative book, Visoka and Lemay-Hébert identify three distinctive situations in which dominant states set rules for ‘helping’ outlier states become normal and meticulously document interventionary normalization in state practice.”- Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University"It is an excellent book: sophisticated in the argument, elegant in presentation and style. The authors convincingly present international interventions as complex governmentality arrangements where discourses and practices are deployed to normalize and discipline states. Usually, studies tend to focus solely on approaches to state-building or resilience or development or disaster-management, but the stakes here are higher.”- Pol Bargués, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)“This book is well-written and innovative in its conceptual contribution to the discipline of International Relations. As the notion of ‘normalization’ captures a vast number of political phenomena, it resonates with the scholarship that investigates the discursive and lived effects of wars, oppression, and disasters.”- Stefanie Kappler, Durham UniversityTable of Contents List of Tables Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mapping Normalization in World Politics Chapter 3: Imposing Normalcy Chapter 4: Restoring Normalcy Chapter 5: Accepting Normalcy Chapter 6: Towards a Society of Docile States References Index

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Book SynopsisA New Political Theory of Welfare in the Global SouthTable of Contents Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Theoretical Explanations for Changes in Welfare Systems The Transformation of the Turkish Welfare System Contentious Politics in Turkey: 1970-2017 The Politics of the Turkish Welfare System’s Transformation Welfare Policies and The Kurdish Conflict Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisDevelops the author's collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Trade Review“Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a masterfully written and meticulously researched monograph about the Serb-run concertation camps during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. This groundbreaking book represents both a tribute to the victims and an essential reference for understanding the genocidal intent of the systematic violence by the Serb military against the Bosniak population.”—Hariz Halilovich, RMIT University“Hikmet Karcic’s Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System is a must read for anyone concerned about genocide and/or keen to gain critical insights to the nightmare that engulfed Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. It is research-based, detailed, nuanced, and revelatory. The facts are horrific, and the analysis is incisive.”—Samuel Totten, Author of Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan, and co-author of The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction“This is an authoritative, meticulously researched study that breaks new ground in its analysis of the concentration camp system run by the Serb extremists in Bosnia in the 1990s. Essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of genocidal violence.”—Marko Hoare, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology“Hikmet Karcic has produced a vivid, moving, and sensitive account of Bosnian Serb camp system, shedding light on how the camps were not only instruments of death, but thoroughly genocidal instruments of social-psychological terror. Placing Bosnian Serb camps in their local historical and global context, Torture, Humiliate, Kill significantly advances our critical knowledge of the Bosnian Genocide.”—Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor and Director of the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

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Book SynopsisThe proliferation of foreign direct investment has raised questions about its impact upon local economies and politics. Here, seven scholars bring together their wide-ranging expertise to investigate the factors that determine the attractiveness of a locale to investors and the extent of their political power.

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Book SynopsisChallenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Creatively bringing together constitutional, political, and aesthetic theory, Stacy Douglas argues that museums and constitutions invite visitors to identify with a prescribed set of political constituencies based on national, ethnic, or anthropocentric premises.Trade ReviewCurating Community makes a really significant and exciting contribution to existing literatures. Douglas is at her best when engaging in critiques of other thinkers such as Christodoulidis and Cornell. The unexpected link that Douglas makes between constitutions and museums is critically important because it directly links law and culture in ways that are not usually noted or thought about, but which have vital effects on our political and aesthetic lives."" - James Martel, San Francisco State University

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Book SynopsisAnalyses uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative.Trade Review “The concept of ‘performance constellations’ lends itself to novel forms of materialist analyses that trace the movements of activist actions as they respond to local and transnational economic and political conditions. Fuentes draws dexterously from current theory in performance and digital media studies as well as recent scholarship on neoliberalism, and her firsthand interviews with art-activists offer new insights into performance actions as powerful forms of interventionist art.” –Natalie Alvarez, Ryerson University|“Timely and important . . . explores how the combination of online and offline activism, in their interdependence, have helped counter many of the most predatory practices of Neoliberalism. Focusing on instances from the 1990s to the present in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, the book explores the many different ways in which performance—and particularly performance as/is event—frames these interventions.” –Patricia Ybarra, Brown University

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Book SynopsisMigration, borders, cybersecurity, natural disasters, and terrorism: Homeland security is constantly in the news. Ben Rohrbaugh, a former border security director at the National Security Council, cuts through the noise to provide an accessible framework to understand both homeland security and the thinking around how to keep civilians safe.

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Book SynopsisMultilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EUTable of Contents Chapter 1 – The Language(s) of Politics: Multilingual Policy-Making in the European Union Chapter 2 – Multilingualism in the EU: How it Works Chapter 3 – The EU’s Language Regime: Institutional Stability and Change Chapter 4 – Foreign Language Use and Depoliticization Chapter 5 – “EU English” and Depoliticization Chapter 6 – Translation, Interpretation, and Depoliticization Chapter 7 – Conclusion Appendix – Multilingual Law-Making under the Ordinary Legislative Procedure Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIdentifies the mechanisms that explicitly link radical religious beliefs and radical actions. The book describes its nature, singles out the mechanisms that enable radicalism to produce its effects, and develops a conceptual architecture to help scholars and policy-makers to address and evaluate radicalism - or what often passes as such.Trade ReviewThis important book offers a clear contribution to the literature through its focus on multi-faceted and non-linear explanations for radicalization. The collection emphasizes the importance of local and social contexts in understanding how radicalization is made possible." —Christopher Baker-Beall, Bournemouth UniversityTable of Contents List of illustrations Radicalization and Religious Violence in Western Europe: An Introduction, Thierry Balzacq and Elyamine Settoul Part I. Theories 1. Economic Perspectives, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierricks 2. Social Movement Research, Daniela I. Pisoiu 3. Islamic Doctrines, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui 4. Conversion Models, Juliette Galonnier 5. Social Psychology, John Morrison Part II. Patterns of Radicalization in Western Europe 6. Belgium, Sarah Teich 7. France, Elyamine Settoul 8. Germany, Robert Pelzer and Mika Moeller 9. Spain, Rut Bermejo 10. United Kingdom, Tahir Abbas Conclusion, Valérie Amiraux Contributors

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Book SynopsisProposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered ‘secondary’ in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced by these metropolises.Trade Review“. . . fills an important gap in the literature and offers a novel and comparative vision of a process that is currently in full development.”— Rafael Martín Rodríguez, Fudan UniversityTable of Contents Introduction by the editor PART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITY Chapter 1 Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition Raffaele Pernice Chapter 2 The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach Gang Hong Chapter 3 The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and Mexico Miguel Hidalgo Martinez Chapter 4 Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – Singapore Liangni Sally Liu Chapter 5 City-regions reconsidered Allen J. Scott PART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS Chapter 6 Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division Ulises Girolimo, and Patricio Feldman Chapter 7 Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile Region Brian Roberts, JosÉ TomÁs Videla, and Marcela AlluÉ Nualart Chapter 8 Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization process Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari Chapter 9 Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities John P. Sullivan Chapter 10 The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - BajÍo Region, Mexico AdriÁn Moreno Mata Chapter 11 Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin America Pablo Baisotti Conclusion Contributors

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Book SynopsisDr Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China’s top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States during World War II. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih’s most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics.Table of Contents Introduction I: A Chinese Diplomat in the Cold War: Hu Shih’s View on International Politics Carlos Yu-Kai Lin Introduction II: Hu Shih’s Anti-Communist Thought Chih-ping Chou Chapter 1: “Do We Need or Want Dictatorship?” Chapter 2: “Family of Nations” Chapter 3: “The New Disorder in East Asia and the World at Large” Chapter 4: “China and the World War” Chapter 5: “Historical Foundations for a Democratic China” Chapter 6: “Ambassador Hu Shih Describes China’s Ten-Year Fight for Freedom, Struggle Against Aggression” Chapter 7: “The Conflict of Ideologies” Chapter 8: “The Chinese Revolution” Chapter 9: “China in Stalin’s Grand Strategy” Chapter 10: “The Free World Needs a Free China” Chapter 11: “Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, CA. in The Commonwealth, 1950” Chapter 12: “Why the Main War Will Be Fought in Asia-Not Europe” Chapter 13: “Communism in China” Chapter 14: “My Former Student, Mao Tse-tung” Chapter 15: Book review of John deFrancis’s Nationalism and Language Reform in China Chapter 16: “How to Understand a Decade of Rapidly Deteriorated Sino-American Relations” Chapter 17: “Communism, Democracy, and Culture Pattern” Chapter 18: “China Seven Years after Yalta” Chapter 19: “Suffering Chinese Intellectuals Behind the Iron Curtain” Chapter 20: “China in Distress” Chapter 21: “The Three Stages of the Campaign for Thought Reform in Communist China” Chapter 22: “‘Introduction’ to Liu Shaw-tong’s Out of Red China” Chapter 23: “‘Introduction’ to John Leighton Stuart’s Fifty Years in China” Chapter 24: “Communist Propaganda and the Fall of China” Chapter 25: “How Free is Formosa?” Chapter 26: “The Right to Doubt in Ancient Chinese Thought” Chapter 27: “The Importance of a Free China” Chapter 28: “Intellectual China Still Resistant to Communist Dictatorship: The Suffering Intellectuals in Red China” Chapter 29: “The Communist Regime in China is Unstable and Shaky” Chapter 30: “A Sum-up and a Warning” Chapter 31: “John Dewey in China” Chapter 32: “China’s Lesson for Freedom” Chapter 33: “The Conflict Between Man’s Right to Knowledge and the Security of the Community” Chapter 34: “The Chinese Tradition and the Future”

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Book SynopsisHow the UN's right to inclusive education has resulted in school segregation for disabled students

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Book SynopsisHistorically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central states in security and the regulation of trade. This book explores Canada-US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Foreword 01: Introduction 02: British Columbia and the Pacific NorthwestBenjamin Muller, Laurie Trautman, and Nicole Bates-Eamer 03: Alberta and the Northwest Jamie Ferrill, Geoffrey Hale, and Kelly Sundberg 04: The Prairies and the MidwestTodd Hataley, Christian Leuprecht, and Alexandra Green 05: Ontario and the Great LakesTodd Hataley, Christian Leuprecht, and Alexandra Green 06: QuÉbec and the Eastern SeaboardDavid Morin, StÉphane Roussel, and Carolina Reyes Marquez 07: Atlantic Canada and New EnglandKevin Quigley and Stephen Williams 08: The Territorial NorthHeather Nicol, Adam Lajeunesse, Whitney Lackenbauer, and Karen Everett 09: Conclusion Contributors

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Book SynopsisArgues that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space.Trade Review“This is an illuminating collection that challenges us to take seriously who legal arguments speak to and how. This book brims with doctrinal and historical sophistication and shows just how central Vietnam and Palestine were, and are, to the conceptual battles of the law of war.”—Naz K. Modirzadeh, Harvard Law School “Contestation over international law rages in our day, and juxtaposing its relevance in two pivotal conflicts is an inspired way to illuminate how law is transforming politics and vice versa. This collection deserves to be widely read across multiple fields.” —Samuel Moyn, Yale University "Making Endless War provides a powerful statement on how episodes of violence, however specific they might appear, cannot be understood independent of greater forces – including (and perhaps especially) the principles and institutions that present their mission as an effort to constrain armed conflict. As such, Cuddy and Kattan’s collection can be viewed as a major innovation in building a greater genealogy of global violence."--LSE Review of BooksTable of Contents Foreword: How International Law Evolves: Norms, Precedents, and Geopolitics Richard Falk 1: The Transformation of International Law and War between the Middle East and Vietnam Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan 2: From Retaliation to Anticipation: Reconciling Reprisals and Self-Defense in the Middle East and Vietnam, 1949–1965 Brian Cuddy 3: Public Discourses of International Law: US Debates on Military Intervention in Vietnam, 1965–1967 Madelaine Chiam and Brian Cuddy 4: Legality of Military Action by Egypt and Syria in October 1973 John Quigley 5: Revolutionary War and the Development of International Humanitarian Law Amanda Alexander 6: The War Against the People and the People’s War: Palestine and the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions Ihab Shalbak and Jessica Whyte 7: “The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon Victor Kattan 8: Operationalizing International Law: From Vietnam to Gaza Craig Jones 9: From Vietnam to Palestine: Peoples’ Tribunals and the Juridification of Resistance Tor Krever 10: War and the Shaping of International Law: From the Cold War to the War on Terror Brian Cuddy and Victor Kattan Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA unique and timely publication, for advocates, academics, and practitioners, providing invaluable insight into the plight of the disappearedTable of Contents Acknowledgements Artwork Introduction JENNIFER HEATH and ASRAF ZAHEDI Interlude: Index of the Disappeared CHITRA GANESH and MARIAM GHANI 1 ─ Latin America's Contributions to the Development of Institutional Responses to Enforced Disappearances ARIEL E. DULITZKY 2 ─ The Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women AMRITA KAPUR Interlude: Between Two Rivers SAMA ALSHAIBI 3 ─ Iraq: Enforced Disappearance as a Tool of War DIRK ADRIAENSENS 4 ─ Extraordinary Rendition: A Human Rights Analysis DAVID WEISSBRODT Interlude: Abu Ghraib NANCY MARON 5 ─ Lives in Limbo: Afghanistan’s Epidemic of Disappearances DALAS MAZOORI and STEFAN SCHMITT 6 ─ Vanishing Nation: Enforced Disappearances in Syria SARETA ASHRAPH and NICOLETTE WALDMAN Interlude: Do Not Forget Us: La Tanssana HELEN ZUGHAIB 7 ─ Politics of Silence and Denial: 1988 Enforced Disappearances and Executions in Iran ASHRAF ZAHEDI Interlude: The Eyes YASSI GOLSHANI 8 ─ The Legacy of Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina EDINA BEĆIREVIĆ and MAJDA HALIOVIĆ 9 ─ Genocide of the Rohingya AKILA RADHAKEISHNAN and ELENA SARVER Interlude: The Elephant and the Pond of Blood LEANG SECKON 10 ─ The Khmer Rouge Bureaucrats: Counting the Missing JAMES A. TYNER Interlude: Lynch Fragments MELVIN EDWARDS 11 ─ Our Resilient Bodies: The Role of Forensic Science and Medicine in Restoring the Disappeared to History SOREN BLAU Interlude: In Between/Underneath (Entremedio/Por Debajo) JONATHAN HERRERA SOTO 12 ─ Retributive or Restorative Justice: Gacaca Courts’ Contribution to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in poet-Genocide Rwanda HILMI ZAWATI 13 ─ MIA: Disappearing Political Analysis in Transnational Justice VASUKI NESIAH Interlude: Stolen MORGAN C. PAGE 14 ─ Story as Portal: Healing, Regeneration, and Possibility After Genocide KAYHAN IRANI 15 ─ The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers ERVIN STAUB About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFrom subsea cables to server halls, data infrastructures underpin new forms of governance, shaping subjects and their lives. This book moves from protestors in Hong Kong to sand miners in Singapore and asylum-seekers in Christmas Island, exploring how these territories are political and visceral, altering the experience of their inhabitants.Trade ReviewTechnical Territories makes a strong case that we cannot ignore how developments in the data infrastructure arena are shaping geopolitics and international relations. This is an important contribution—one that focuses attention on the influence of material developments for how we think about and understand the changing political geography of the planet." - Alexander B. Murphy, University of OregonTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Part I: Technical Territory 1. Introduction 2. Assembling Technical Territory Part II: How to Do Things with Territory 3. Countering the Protestor in Hong Kong 4. Filtering the Migrant on Christmas Island 5. Constructing the Nation in Singapore Part III: The Future of Territory 6. From the Cloud to the Edge 7. Unmaking and Remaking Territory References

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Book SynopsisFrom selected Port Authority of New York and New Jersey successes and failures, Philip Mark Plotch and Jen Nelles produce a significant and engaging account of a powerful governmental entity that offers durable lessons on collaboration, leadership, and the challenge of overcoming complex political challenges in modern America.Trade Review“Plotch and Nelles offer a novel framework that identifies several factors that explain both the Port Authority’s successes and failures. Anyone who is interested in urban politics, regionalism, urban planning, state and local government, or more specifically in the New York metro area, will find this a fascinating book.” —Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University“This book provides a detailed economic history of the Port Authority of NY and NJ. Yet it is also a work that addresses a number of key questions concerning the political economy of large public organizations. Given the economic and cultural significance of the Port Authority and the key infrastructures for which it is responsible, this is an important contribution with international relevance.” —Iain Docherty, University of StirlingTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Creation and First Triumphs 3. Grappling with Capacity Problems at the Airports 4. Competing on a Global Scale 5. Fostering Regional Mobility Through Enduring Partnerships 6. Turning Point: A Strike at Autonomy and a Blow to the Culture 7. Moving Three Bridges from the Periphery to Center Stage 8. Building and Rebuilding the World Trade Center 9. The Rhetoric and Reality of Political Independence 10. Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExperts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history in this volume. The book demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea.

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Book SynopsisExamines how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women’s everyday behaviour.Trade Review“Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon offers an engaging and provocative analysis that is attractive and accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. It is clear, lively, nicely spiced with humor, and seasoned with a good mix of clear-eyed analysis and warm empathy. Good cookery for the mind.”- Judith Van Allen, Cornell University“Mougoue makes significant contributions to the history of Cameroon, to our understanding of the potential emergence of secessionist movements in Africa, to the way in which gender relations play a role in such historical developments, and to the history of women and girls in Anglophone Africa. Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon is excellent; it is a joy to read.”- Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware

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