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University of California Press Saving the Children Humanitarianism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This exceptionally comprehensive, beautifully written and ambitious book provides an intellectual history of liberal internationalism, British humanitarianism, empire and welfare in the first half of the twentieth century." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Baughan tells this story compellingly, skillfully weaving a wealth of archival sources, from over thirty archives from many different countries, while never losing a sense of the bigger picture and relevance of the research for the wider world. The result is thought-provoking and will surely be influential." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"A joy to read. . . .essential…for those interested in the history of child welfare, the history of childhood during wartime, and children’s evacuation processes in the early twentieth century." * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"Emily Baughan’s dense and fascinating Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire is an outstanding contribution…for its thorough research, its critical approach, and its geographical and chronological reach." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • British Internationalisms and Humanitarianism 2 • The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child and Stateless Children 3 • Empire, Humanitarianism, and the African Child 4 • Protecting Children in a Time of War 5 • Hearts and Minds Humanitarianism 6 • War, Development, and Decolonization Conclusion: One Hundred Years of Saving Children Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Nepal
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University of California Press Rivers of Iron
Book SynopsisWhat China's infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping's New Era: China's effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China's wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond? Trade Review"Rivers of Iron tactfully deals with China’s power from the perspectives of China and seven Southeast Asian countries. . . . The book’s on-the-ground illuminations of the three major misconceptions about China’s overseas rail projects are highly valuable. They clear the smokescreen for both academic researchers and policy makers in understanding China’s power and the neighboring countries’ capacities to react." * The China Journal *"Rivers of Iron shines a lot of new light on today’s China, and it should be required reading for all China-watchers and scholars." * Australian Outlook *"Insightful and readable." * Perspectives on Politics *“Rivers of Iron makes an important contribution to the study of China’s exercise of its power and interaction with its southern neighbours. . . . An important book for academics and policymakers interested in Chinese power and its implications.” * China Quarterly *"The book provides a useful overview and discussion of the complexity of China’s expansion in infrastructure abroad and could appeal to a wide readership interested in current development in Southeast Asia." * Connections *"A vivid account and a comprehensive comparative analysis of the rail projects development between China and Southeast Asia, with rich empirical details and analytical insights." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Setting the Stage Acknowledgments 1. Chinese Power Is as Chinese Power Does 2. The Grand Vision 3. China’s Debates 4. Diverse Southeast Asian Responses 5. The Negotiating Tables: China and Southeast Asia 6. Project Implementation: “The Devil Is in the Details” 7. Geopolitics and Geoeconomics 8. Implications for China, Asia, and the World Notes Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cold War
Book SynopsisThis book provides a concise analysis of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the whole period of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. It explains the rise of the two superpowers immediately after World War II. The author describes the growing confrontation between East and West in Europe dating from the announcement of the Truman Doctrine in 1949 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Full attention is paid to the extension of the conflict beyond Europe. The analysis covers superpower relations in the 1970s and the developments of the 1980s that led to the end of the Cold War.Table of ContentsPreface. Outline Chronology. 1. Beginning of the Cold War. 2. Stalemate in Europe. 3. Conflict in Asia. 4. Revolution in the Third World. 5. Detente. 6. End of the Cold War. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography. Abbreviations. Index.
£30.35
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Political Theory Modernity and Postmodernity
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the modernity debate and an analysis of its implications for political theory. This book identifies two broad senses of modernity: modernity as mood and modernity as socio-cultural form.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Political Philosophy Agonistes. Part I: The Modernity Debate:. 1. Two Senses of Modernity. 2. Defenders of the Faith, Disturbers of the Peace. Part II: Living With/In Modernities. 3. An Ethico-Political Imperative. 4. Towards a Political Theory?. Bibliography.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Northern Ireland Since 1968
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a thematic overview of the Northern Ireland conflict and its proposed solutions, from the beginnings of the "Troubles" up to the present day. This updated and expanded edition includes coverage of recent developments.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface. Preface to Second Edition. List of Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 2 The Northern Ireland Political Landscape. 3 A Place Apart. 4 Unionist Politics. 5 Nationalist Politics. 6 Keeping the Peace. 7 The International Dimension. 8 Politics as Process. 9 Conclusion. Appendix: Deaths Caused by the Violence in Northern Ireland, 1969-1994. Outline Chronology. Dramatis Personae. Further Reading. Index.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Appeasement
Book SynopsisExamines appeasement in the context of both Britain's domestic policies and her international commitments, within Europe and beyond. This book includes a discussion of the historiography surrounding appeasement, and analysis of changing public opinion and of the 'appeasers' themselves.Table of Contents1. Historiography. 2. Policy and Party Politics. 3. Public Opinion: War and Peace. 4. Appeasers. 5. Economic Appeasement. 6. Appeasement and Power. 7. Appeasement in Action. 8. Conclusion. References. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cold War
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together the most influential and commonly-studied articles on the Cold War. Together with an introduction and concise headnotes, this book provides students with easy access to seminal work and an analytical framework with which to approach their studies.Trade Review"The Cold War is valuable for specialists, students, and general readers. The level of scholarship is high, and the writing is blessedly jargon-free." History: Reviews of New Books "This ... is one of the finest guides available" Frontline "This collection brings together the most influential and commonly-studied articles on the Cold War. The combination of articles and editorial material provides students with easy access to seminal work and an analytical framework with which to approach their studies." History OnlineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction: The Cold War as History Ann Lane. Part I: Cold War Origins. 2. 'Introduction' from Preponderance of Power. M. Leffler. 3. 'Dividing the World' from We Now Know. (J. L. Gaddis). Part II: First Attempts at Conflict Management. 4. 'Integrating Europe or Ending the Cold War? Churchill's Post-war Foreign Policy' from The Journal of European Integration History. (K. Larres). 5. 'Khrushchev and Kennedy: The Taming of the Cold War' from Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. (V. Zubok and K. Pleshakov). Part III: War and Détente. 6. 'The Vietnam War and the Superpower Triangle' from The Fifty Years' War. (R. Crockatt). 7. 'The Failure of the Détente of the 1970's from Detente and Confrontation. (R. L. Garthoff). Part IV: The End of the Cold War. 8. 'Who Won the Cold War? 1984-1991' from The Devil We Knew. (H. W. Brands). 9. 'Some Lessons from the Cold War' from The End of the Cold War. (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Transnational Capitalist Class
Book SynopsisThe Transnational Capitalist Class provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain the process of globalization from the viewpoint of the corporations themselves. Through personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. Sklair''s unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.Trade Review"It will henceforth be difficult to theorize globalization without this rich storehouse of information about the global corporations and their role in the current world system." Fredric Jameson, Duke University "This is a pioneering and innovative study of an aspect of globalization that is rarely treated in any systematic way. Through a judicious mix of conceptual argument and empirical analysis, Leslie Sklair's stimulating and highly readable book lays bare the anatomy of the increasingly significant transnational capitalist class. Highly recommended." Peter Dicken, University of Manchester "This book provides a stocktaking of the drivers of globalization worldwide, emphasizing the coherence of the process but also its contradictions, particularly those associated with economic inequality and environmental stress." Journal of Australian Political Economy "The entire process of globalization is fraught with conflicts and new alliances between groups, be they based in corporations, government or social movements. In the end, Sklair does a superb job of depicting which group is dominant in this process and how it vigorously defends its interests from attacks against the culture-ideology of consumerism." International Sociology "In making his case, Sklair takes a strong position to critique TNC and he pulls no punches. For this reason, he has given us a very important standpoint, along with abundant evidence to sustain his position. But whatever one's position, this book will have a major place in the academic debates." Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago, Theory and Society 31, 2002Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction:. Global System Theory. Four Propositions on the Transnational Capitalist Class. Structure of the Book. 2. Globalizing Class Theory:. Theorizing the Dominant Class. Structure and Dynamics of the Transnational Capitalist Class. Dominant Classes and Dominated Groups. 'National' Interest and the 'National' Economy. 3. Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy:. The Global Economy and the Fortune Global 500. Consumer Goods and Services. Financial Services. Heavy Industries. Infrastructure. Electronics. From 'National Companies with Units Abroad' to Globalizing Corporations. Global 500 Consumer Goods and Services Corporations. Global 500 Financial Services Corporations. Global 500 Heavy Industries Corporations. Global 500 Infrastructure Corporations. Global 500 Electronics Corporations. The Non-respondents. Conclusions. 4. Corporate Elites and the Transformation of Foreign Investment:. The Transformation of Foreign Investment. Global Brands. The Regulatory Climate. Phases of Foreign Investment. The Home Base and Foreign Investment: The Case of NAFTA. Disinvestment. Foreign Investment as a Globalizing Practice. 5. World Best Practice, Benchmarking and National Competitiveness:. World Best Practice, Benchmarking, and Globalization. Industry Benchmarking. Global Programme Benchmarking: Six Sigma and the Quest for Perfection. Politicians, Professionals and the 'Competitiveness of Nations'. World Best Practice as a Globalizing Practice. 6. Global Corporate Citizenship:. Regulating the Corporations: History and Theory. Employee Relations. Corporate Philanthropy and Community Development. Safety and Health of Consumers and Citizens. Corporate Citizenship as a Globalizing Practice: Deconstructing Shell. 7. The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Struggle for the Environment:. History and Theory of Corporate Environmentalism. Corporate Capture of the Environmental Movement or Constructive Dialogue: the Creation of a Sustainable Development Historical Bloc. Environmental Policies and Practices of Major Corporations. Procter and Gamble. Mitsubishi. Monsanto. Intel. Dow. RTZ (Rio Tinto). BHP. BP (BP Amoco). Sustainable Development as a Globalizing Ideology. 8. Global Vision and the Culture-Ideology of Consumerism:. Consumer-Oriented Global Visions for Humanity. Industry-Oriented Global Visions. Organization-Oriented Global Visions. The Visionary Executive. Global Vision as a Globalizing Practice. 9. Conclusion:. Appendix 1: Fortune Global 500 Corporations (and Subsidiaries) Interviewed, by Business Sector. Appendix 2: Other Corporations and Organizations Interviewed. References. General Index. Author Index.
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Harvard University Press Adventures in Chaos
Book SynopsisThe question: can - or should - the United States try to promote reform in client states in the Third World is at the heart of this book. The book focuses on three case studies of reformist intervention in Asia: China 1946-1948; the Philippines 1950-1953; and Vietnam 1961-1963.
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Harvard University Press The Cold War and the Color Line
Book SynopsisThe Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths—Southern Africa and the American South—as the primary sites of white authority’s last stand.Trade Review[Borstelmann traces] the constellation of racial challenges each administration faced (focusing particularly on African affairs abroad and African American civil rights at home), rather than highlighting the crises that made headlines… By avoiding the crutch of ‘turning points’ for storytelling convenience, he makes a convincing case that no single event can be untied from a constantly thickening web of connections among civil rights, American foreign policy, and world affairs. -- Jesse Berrett * Village Voice *Borstelmann…analyzes the history of white supremacy in relation to the history of the Cold War, with particular emphasis on both African Americans and Africa. In a book that makes a good supplement to Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights, he dissects the history of U.S. domestic race relations and foreign relations over the past half-century… This book provides new insights into the dynamics of American foreign policy and international affairs and will undoubtedly be a useful and welcome addition to the literature on U.S. foreign policy and race relations. Recommended. -- Edward G. McCormack * Library Journal *In rich, informing detail enlivened with telling anecdote, Cornell historian Borstelmann unites under one umbrella two commonly separated strains of the U.S. post-WWII experience: our domestic political and cultural history, where the Civil Rights movement holds center stage, and our foreign policy, where the Cold War looms largest… No history could be more timely or more cogent. This densely detailed book, wide ranging in its sources, contains lessons that could play a vital role in reshaping American foreign and domestic policy. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. Race and Foreign Relations before 1945 2. Jim Crow's Coming Out 3. The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line 4. Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa 5. The Perilous Path to Equality 6. The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Archives and Manuscript Collections Index
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Harvard University Press The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S.
Book SynopsisKaplan shows how U.S. imperialism—from “Manifest Destiny” to the “American Century”—has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order.Trade ReviewKaplan does a beautiful job of reintegrating the "domestic" with the "foreign" in American history, and of demonstrating the persistent, ubiquitous imperialist logic which has informed, inflected, or sometimes fully shaped "domestic" social relations, cultural productions, and utterances of all sorts. In moving from Beecher to Twain to Theodore Roosevelt to Griffith to Du Bois, Kaplan not only offers up original and provocative readings of some very familiar texts (across a number of genres), but she highlights an important thread which runs through the entire period from Manifest Destiny to the WWI years. Texts like Huckleberry Finn and Citizen Kane will never look quite the same. -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, Professor of American Studies at Yale UniveristyOver the past decade, Amy Kaplan has led the way in integrating the field of empire into our understanding of American literature and culture. The contributions of this superb book are many. It compels us to reexamine dominant paradigms and topics in American Studies--from sentimental domesticity, to Twain's stature as a national icon, to the "splendid little war" of 1898, to the rise of modern film--all in the light of empire. Each and every chapter has an eye-opening prospect, but the cumulative view is breathtaking. -- Christopher P. Wilson, Professor of English at Boston CollegeIn six carefully crafted case studies--ranging from American notions of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s through Mark Twain's international travels to late-19th-century popular romances like Charles Major's "When Knighthood Was in Flower" and Mark Johnson's "To Have and To Hold"; journalistic accounts of the Spanish-American War; and a concluding account of Du Bois's incisive remapping of the imperial world in his 1920 book "Darkwater"--Kaplan travels freely over a wide swath of American cultural history. Along the way she casts a theoretically sophisticated eye on disparate texts--some familiar to American readers, many not...The result is a challenging, provocative work that makes a persuasive case for the inextricable--and complicated--connections between American notions of national identity and US foreign policy. -- James A. Miller * Boston Globe *[Kaplan] has a big important idea: the outside world mattered intensely and intimately to Americans from the nineteenth century onward. Through writings such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing for housewives, Mark Twain's dispatches fm Hawaii, and W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction, Kaplan traces how America's foreign relations shaped popular consciousness at a time when conventional wisdom has Americans slumbering in isolation and ignorance of the wider world. Kaplan is rightly fascinated with the contradictory impulses in American culture: we want the whole world to be like us, but being different and unique is part of who we are. We cannot have it both ways, but we endlessly try, and Kaplan provides real insight into the ways this conflicted agenda continues to shape American identity. -- Walter Russell Mead * Foreign Affairs *Through insightful readings of texts from film to fiction, travelogue to memoir, Kaplan writes empire into the cultural history of the U.S., and America into the transnational history of empire. With a keen eye for contradiction, Kaplan shows how the endeavour to maintain boundaries--between U.S. and world, domestic and foreign--works constantly against its own undoing. -- Susan Carruthers * Times Higher Education Supplement *Amy Kaplan’s groundbreaking The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture reveals in all sorts of subtle ways how modern American overseas imperial expansion and rule are tied directly to domestic issues like segregation, domesticity, the attack on Reconstruction, and the gender ideals of manhood. With great refinement and an impressive command of legal, political, and military history, she explores cultural documents whose contributions to American national identity are as profound as they are usually overlooked. This is a book of exceptional interest for all scholars of imperialism and its cultural correlatives at home. -- Edward W. SaidKaplan pulls back the curtain on the imperial spectacle. In doing so, however, she shows the the ‘real’ nature of events is often not what is at stake: the problem is as much how imperialism gets imbedded in our heads. Few scholars in the last decade have done more than Kaplan has to advance critical reading practices that cultivate anti-imperialist intellectual reflexes. The publication of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture affirms Kaplan's reputation as one of the most insightful readers of the violent lineaments and effects of that culture. -- Nikhil Pal Singh * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Manifest Domesticity 2. The Imperial Routes of Mark Twain 3. Romancing the Empire 4. Black and Blue on San Juan Hill 5. Birth of an Empire 6. The Imperial Cartography of W. E. B. Du Bois Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Freedom on Fire
Book SynopsisAs the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice.Trade ReviewThis is an inspiring report from the front lines of the worldwide battle for human rights. Unsparing of those in government who failed to measure up to human rights emergencies, John Shattuck tells a grim story the way it, unfortunately, is. This is also - rare among do-good books - masterfully written and easy to read. -- Daniel SchorrJohn Shattuck has given us a gripping account of how American politicians and diplomats act-or as often refuse to act-when people are slaughtered for their race, their religion, or their politics. His stories from inside the machine dramatize the hard questions: When should we intervene? Is Iraq the same as Bosnia? Is concern for human rights at odds with national security? His insights are vitally important. -- Anthony LewisThis book deserves to be widely read and debated. John Shattuck weaves together an engrossing account of a career in the service of human rights, an illuminating critique of US responses to crises such as those in Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia, and thoughtful proposals for policies to combat human rights abuses abroad and at home. -- Sissela Bok, author of Mayhem: Violence as Public EntertainmentThis principled and sobering account by an insider of U.S. experience in addressing human rights violations in the difficult contexts of Rwanda, Haiti, the Balkans and China should be compulsory reading for policy makers and commentators in the aftermath of a war on Iraq, which the U.S. administration has argued was justified on human rights grounds. -- Mary Robinson, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human RightsJohn Shattuck's outstanding volume on human rights is a gift to the nation and must reading for every American who cares about our ideals and security in today's changing world. Shattuck vividly describes key achievements and setbacks for U.S. human rights policy in the past decade. He draws timely lessons for the future, and makes painfully clear that when violations of human rights are not addressed effectively, terrorism thrives. -- Senator Edward M. KennedyIn that complicated decade after the end of the Cold War and before 9-11, when most Americans wanted to disengage from the world, John Shattuck stood tall for a foreign policy that would advance our national security interests by promoting our values and the cause of human rights overseas. As a close colleague, I can attest to the significance of his achievement, which he recounts vividly in this invaluable look at how policy is forged in the crucible of Washington's cut-throat politics. -- Ambassador Richard HolbrookeShattuck combines morality and pragmatism, arguing that even before September 11, the costs to the U.S. of not intervening quickly and decisively in developing human rights crises outweighed the advantages of remaining on the sidelines. Without assistance, states collapse, and failed states become centers of disorder and loci of terrorism. Shattuck correspondingly calls for a redefinition of international security, based on early warning of human rights crises followed by preventive measures, and, where necessary, direct intervention, including military force. * Publishers Weekly *Shattuck deserves some credit for helping to bring [about longer U.S. involvement in Bosnia]. At real risk to himself, he journeyed to Bosnia in 1995 to interview Muslim victims of Serbian 'ethnic cleansing.' He was one of the first to report on the massacre at Srebrenica, which finally galvanized an apathetic United States government into imposing a peace settlement after four years of fighting that left more than 200,000 dead ... [The] reader is...left admiring Shattuck's willingness to fight for his ideals. -- Max Boot * New York Times *What he has provided us is a quite readable account of the travails of a highly placed US official on behalf of human rights. -- Peter R. Baehr * Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rwanda: The Genocide That Might Have Been Prevented 2. Rwanda: The Struggle for Justice 3. Haiti: A Tale of Two Presidents 4. Bosnia: The Pariah Problem 5. Bosnia: Facing Reality 6. Bosnia and Kosovo: Breaking the Cycle 7. The China Syndrome 8. China: Collision Course 9. Strategies for Peace Chronology State Department Organizational Chart Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Globalizing Sport
Book SynopsisKeys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the 1930s. Focusing on the U.S., Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympics and the World Cup from small-scale events to the expensive, political, global extravaganzas of today.Trade ReviewA meticulously researched and tightly argued study of a historical trajectory intertwining the dissemination of sport, the rise of an ‘imagined’ global community, and transnational cultural formation in the early 20th century. The book is truly remarkable in its analytical sophistication, breathtaking in the depth and breadth of its multinational archival foundation, and eye-opening in its elucidation of previously overlooked connections between disparate historical forces breaching the boundaries of national history. -- Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu * H-Diplo *International history rewards ambition, and if such reach produces lacunae, it is more than compensated for by the new insights such work brings. Globalizing Sport is such an ambitious work. It is an exemplary example of the ‘new diplomatic history,’ and will provide inspiration for scholars seeking to incorporate cultural history into the study of international affairs. -- Daniel Gorman * Canadian Journal of History *Keys notes that the growth of international sport occured despite the Depression, ideological conflicts, and chauvinism. Sport grew in that seemingly hostile setting through its mass appeal and ability to consolidate group identity at local and national levels, and by providing a means to mediate between national and international identities, which involved acceptance and adoption of such values as competition, hierarchy, high achievement, individualism, and universalism… Keys presents a smartly argued, innovative theory. The book is an important contribution to the history of sport and the history of international relations. -- Steven A. Riess * Journal of American History *Through accessible, crisp writing and impressive research in U.S., German, Russian, and Swiss archives, Keys…details the rapid growth of international sport despite the inhospitable nationalistic environment of the 1930s. In order to elucidate sport’s peculiar potency as the means of mediating between national and international identities, Keys analyzes the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles (whose publicity was practically hijacked by the Hollywood glitterati), Adolf Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics, and Josef Stalin’s early sovietization of soccer as examples of how nation-states joined the global sport system to promote nationalist—if not chauvinistic—objectives and, yet, fomented internationalism. Although clearly demonstrating that sport tends toward indigenization and xenophobia (best illustrated by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn’s German gymnastics movement in the early 19th century), the author emphasizes the transnational origins and connections of modern sport. -- E. A. Sanabria * Choice *This fascinating book charts the development of international sport as a key component of the rapidly evolving cultural contacts between nations in the early twentieth century. Keys examines how the United States, Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany attempted to use international sporting events both to cement their standing in the world community and to send important global messages about their governments and policies. An important, potentially groundbreaking study. -- Michael L. Krenn, author of Fall-Out Shelters for the Human Spirit: American Art and the Cold WarWith deep research in American, German, and Russian sources as well as those of international organizations, accompanied by very wide reading in cultural history, Barbara Keys has written an engaging account of the evolution of international sports in the 1930s. The writing is always clear, even arresting. Globalizing Sport is a tour de force. -- Ernest R. May, Harvard UniversityWhat an original and exciting book! Other scholars have treated sport seriously, but this fascinating new study elevates our understanding of the place of international sport to a level of importance far higher than the purely symbolic plane to which it is typically consigned. Besides telling the fascinating story of internationalism in sport in the 1930s, Barbara Keys also provides fresh insights into the functioning of modern international relations in general. As she makes wonderfully clear, sport is a striking example of the autonomous power exerted by the non-political aspects of global society. No doubt about it: this work is destined to become a model for other scholars in the burgeoning new field of international history. -- Frank Ninkovich, St. John’s University
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Harvard University Press The Constitutions Text in Foreign Affairs
Book SynopsisRamsey describes the constitutional law of foreign affairs derived from an historical understanding of the Constitution’s text. Examining recurring foreign affairs controversies such as the power to enter armed conflict, the author shows how the words, structure, and context of the Constitution can resolve pivotal court cases and modern disputes.Trade ReviewThe Constitution's Text in Foreign Affairs is impressive. Ramsey defies conventional wisdom that the words of the Constitution do not speak to most contemporary foreign relations law problems, showing instead how these words, as originally understood, can provide a nearly complete answer to fundamental modern questions of foreign relations law. This book is a real contribution to the field. -- Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law SchoolIn this valuable book, Ramsey evaluates the debate concerning presidential and congressional powers in foreign affairs. While many scholars on both sides of this debate argue that the Constitution itself is little help in defining the relationships between the legislative and executive branch in this area, Ramsey argues that the Constitution's text is the crucial guide to explaining how the founders saw the separate and shared powers of the two branches...In a discussion with important ramifications, Ramsey also explores the meaning of the phrase "executive power" in the 18th-century context. Ramsey argues that in foreign policy and in U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the powers of the president and Congress, the text of the Constitution, and therefore the intentions of the framers, has been misinterpreted. -- W. W. Newmann * Choice *Ramsey approaches the foreign affairs text of the Constitution with high expectations. He places the words of the document front and center in his analysis, and argues that past scholars have failed to mine the text and structure of the Constitution for every insight into foreign affairs power...Writing with grace and clarity, Ramsey has produced a benchmark study that will illuminate future research but also will provide an accessible, lucid, and nicely opinionated Introduction to a set of too-long, neglected constitutional issues. -- Aziz Huq * New York Law Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Textual Theory of Foreign Affairs Law Part I: Sources of National Power 1. Do Foreign Affairs Powers Come from the Constitution? Curtiss--Wright and the Myth of Inherent Powers 2. Foreign Affairs and the Articles of Confederation: The Constitution in Context Part II: Presidential Power in Foreign Affairs 3. The Steel Seizure Case and the Executive Power over Foreign Affairs 4. Executive Foreign Affairs Power and the Washington Administration 5. Steel Seizure Revisited: The Limits of Executive Power 6. Executive Power and Its Critics Part III: Shared Powers of the Senate 7. The Executive Senate: Treaties and Appointments 8. Goldwater v. Carter: Do Treaties Bind the President? 9. The Non-Treaty Power: Executive Agreements and United States v. Belmont Part IV: Congress's Foreign Affairs Powers 10. Legislative Power in Foreign Affairs: Why NAFTA Is (Sort of) Unconstitutional 11. The Meanings of Declaring War 12. Beyond Declaring War: War Powers of Congress and the President Part V: States and Foreign Affairs 13. Can States Have Foreign Policies? Zschernig v. Miller and the Limits of Framers' Intent 14. States versus the President: The Holocaust Insurance Case 15. Missouri v. Holland and the Seventeenth Amendment Part VI: Courts and Foreign Affairs 16. Judging Foreign Affairs: Goldwater v. Carter Revisited 17. The Paquete Habana: Is International Law Part of Our Law? 18. Courts and Presidents in Foreign Affairs Conclusion: Text as Law in Foreign Affairs Notes Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Normalization of U.S.China Relations
Book SynopsisRelations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s.
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Harvard University Press Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy
Book SynopsisIn 1918, Wilson's image as leader of the free world and the image of America as dispenser of democracy spread through Italy, filling an ideological void. Rossini sets the Italian-American political confrontation in the context of the countries' cultural perceptions of each other, different war experiences, and ideas about participatory democracy.Trade ReviewThe result of almost twenty years of research, this study of Italian-American relations at the moment of the first direct political impact gives us an exhaustive and stimulating analysis of two incompatible worlds, forced to collaborate in order to reach a peace for Southern Europe after the great catastrophe. So wide was the chasm between the two countries in terms of political culture, grasp of on-going developments, mentality and morality, that the failure of their projects was inevitable... Authoritative, original, lucid, the book is unique in its genre in Western European historiography. -- David W. Ellwood * Il Mestiere di Storico *Rossini's reconstruction of the American eruption into Italy during the Great War is accurate and full of nuances: it embraces the relief work of the American Red Cross and of the Young Men's Christian Association, which was also precious to propaganda owing to their material abundance, and the activity of the "propaganda professionals" of the Committee on Public Information, who spread Wilsonian idealism at home and abroad through advertising and moving pictures, which were completely new to the Italian public...Daniela Rossini's book is a stimulating example of international history. In synthesis, it is a history essay on international relations whose scope has been widened to include non-governmental subjects--individuals, private associations, companies--in order to obtain a firmer grasp of the cultural roots of international politics. -- Marco Mariano * L'Indice *Seldom are well-researched history books engaging. The critical apparatus employed and the analytical mode of exposition can make heavy reading, especially when the subject is not well known. But Daniela Rossini's book on Italy and the United States during World War I succeeds in combining a solid scientific approach with a pleasing narration of events. This is the result of both the author's fluent writing style and, especially, her strong grasp of the events of the time, the fruit of long study and reflection. Particularly interesting are the pages describing the differences and similarities between Italy and the United States (already an economic giant with an industrial production equal to that of the UK and Germany) at the beginning of the twentieth century, and those outlining the images Italy and the USA had of each other. Her portrait of Fiorello LaGuardia vividly evokes the impulsive temperament of the first Italian to play a significant role in American political life, while the analysis of Woodrow Wilson's policy and personality reveals the author's familiarity with the most representative President of his generation. Rossini's analysis of American policy towards Italy during and after World War I has a lot to tell anyone interested in understanding the ideological and procedural aspects of American diplomacy, also today. -- Roberto Morozzo della Rocca * Scaffale *A remarkable book...A comprehensive picture which sheds light on previously unknown aspects of Italian-American relations. -- Sandro Gerbi * Il Corriere della Sera *Culture matters in diplomacy. Daniela Rossini certainly confirms the validity of that premise for Italian-American relations during World War I and at the Paris Peace Conference. Taking inspiration from the historian Akira Iriye, the author adds a much welcome international perspective to the recent European trend of studies on culture and national identities...Rossini provides an illuminating example of how diplomatic and cultural history can be usefully merged. -- Alessandro Brogi * Journal of American History *A compelling study of nationalist arrogance misrepresented as selfless idealism. Rossini's edifying study concerns the impact of Wilsonian idealism on U.S.-Italian relations and the disastrous unintended consequences of the United States' first war to remake the world in its own image. Her book should have the effect of a fire bell in the night. -- Richard Drake, author of Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary TraditionA thoroughly researched and brilliantly presented study of the impact of Woodrow Wilson on Italy during the First World War. Rossini shows that this was the first instance when massive propaganda became a tool of U.S. foreign policy and that it succeeded in creating a sense of mass nationalism in a country where people's identities had been more fragmented. What Wilson and the emissaries of the 'American myth' tried out in Italy would be repeated on many future occasions. Thus the book provides a superb examination of American exceptionalism in the service of the world. -- Akira Iriye, Harvard UniversityIn a well-written and judicious book, Rossini demonstrates how the Italian public constructed a distorted, idealized image of the American president and his foreign policy goals, owing to the skillful spinning of his image by the U.S. propaganda machine--the Committee on Public Information--and to wishful thinking on the part of an Italian public aching for a savior from across the Atlantic. This is a valuable addition to the literature on Wilsonianism, the First World War, and the Paris Peace Conference. -- William R. Keylor, Boston UniversityThis engaging, thought--provoking work argues that the cultural differences between Italy and the U.S. contributed to the Italian public being more responsive to U.S. propaganda. -- J. B. Cook * Choice *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Reciprocal Images before the Great War * Two Parallel Wars * Woodrow Wilson, World Leader * Propaganda in Uniform * The Arrival of the Professional Propagandists * Wilson's Diplomacy toward Italy * The Paradox of the Fiume Dispute * Notes * Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Defining Engagement
Book SynopsisPresenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Table of ContentsFigures, Maps, and Tables Conventions Introduction 1. Interdependent Partners: The Shogunate, Satsuma, and Tsushima 2. The Reaction against Globalization 3. Guarded Engagement 4. Domestic Demand and Foreign Trade 5. Local Japan Encounters the West 6. The Transition in Foreign Trade 7. Defending the Domain and the Realm Conclusion: The End of Domain Agency and the Adoption of International Relations Works Cited Index
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Harvard University Press Fateful Ties
Book SynopsisAmericans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether it is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in their future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China.Trade ReviewA rich narrative populated by often-familiar characters and events seen through the parallax perspective of their thoughts on, or relationship to, China. -- Sheila Melvin * Caixin *Chang’s interest lies in the preconceptions and fond assumptions about China that would lead, at times, to far-reaching policies and actions by the U.S. -- Eva Shan Chou * Times Higher Education *Gordon Chang, in Fateful Ties, fully acknowledges the U.S. preoccupation with China… Well aware of the risks inherent in the relationship, Chang casts a wide net as he focuses on the role cultural, educational, business, and political connections play in the relationship… Chang’s work deserves a broad audience and will more [than] likely stand the test of time. -- D. L. Wilson * Choice *[A] thought-provoking history of our 400-year preoccupation with China. * Kirkus Reviews *Whether discussing mutually beneficial trade and discourse or souring relations leading to conflict, Chang argues that ties between [China and the United States] are not predestined but that the futures of both nations are nonetheless deeply intertwined. -- Casey Watters * Library Journal *Chang analyzes the past 300 years of Sino-American relations, as the world’s most populous nation is poised to regain economic supremacy. It’s a succinct, sharply focused analysis, and Chang underlines America’s status as a fledgling nation while China was an ancient empire. * Publishers Weekly *Chang’s elegant analysis of America's long cultural obsession with China spans such diverse issues as the nation’s early mania for tea and porcelain through the outpouring of ‘yellow peril’ literature in both the late-nineteenth and again in the early-twenty-first centuries. His many insights add a much needed depth and scope to understanding this often troubled but always important relationship. -- Michael Schaller, author of The U.S. and China: Into the Twenty-First CenturyFateful Ties is a brilliant narrative of America’s obsession with China from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Chang’s eloquently written history takes this country’s ongoing mythmaking about China seriously and subjects it to a richly detailed critical analysis. An essential book for anyone interested in going behind the ‘rise of China’ headlines. -- Marilyn B. Young, Professor of History, New York University
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Harvard University Press American Umpire
Book SynopsisCommentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.Trade Review[A] wholly engaging analysis of U.S. history… One of the book’s underlying themes is a convincing critique of the depiction of the U.S. as an empire. In doing this, Cobbs Hoffman lends the long lens of history to contemporary debates on U.S. foreign policymaking… A key strength of this book is that it successfully embeds the founding and unfolding history of the U.S. into these broader global trends. In doing so, American Umpire engages in debates in the fields of global and international histories on the place of the U.S. in world affairs. -- J. Simon Rofe * Times Higher Education *A useful, cogent examination of why, despite some folly and ill judgment, America continues to be the one country the world looks to when in crisis or need of support. * Kirkus Reviews *In this bold revision of the history of American foreign policy, Stanford historian Cobbs Hoffman upends the notion that the U.S. was ever an empire, arguing instead that democratic capitalism, in which the people are sovereign and individuals own and generate wealth, essentially sells (and is selling) itself. * Publishers Weekly *American Umpire is the most persuasive and sensible one-volume interpretation of the whole history of American foreign policy to appear in at least a generation. -- Philip Zelikow, University of VirginiaAmerican Umpire is startlingly original, a fascinating interpretation of the history of the United States in the world. -- Erez Manela, coeditor of The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in PerspectiveAre we really exceptional? Have we really improved the world through our foreign activities? Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman offers a resounding yes to both questions. With insight and wit, she explains how Americans have helped to build more open, accountable, and peaceful societies across the globe. -- Jeremi Suri, author of Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to ObamaFew ideas about world politics seem more popular than the notion that the United States, still the world’s great superpower, has formed its own form of empire. This is the notion that Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges in this fast-paced, always provocative, and certainly controversial interpretation of America’s global role. -- Jack N. Rakove, author of Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
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Harvard University Press Long Wars and the Constitution
Book SynopsisExtension of presidential leadership in foreign affairs to war powers has destabilized our constitutional order and deranged our foreign policy. Stephen M. Griffin shows unexpected connections between the imperial presidency and constitutional crises, and argues for accountability by restoring Congress to a meaningful role in decisions for war.Trade ReviewIn this troubling book, Stephen Griffin persuasively demonstrates the inadequacy of the Constitution as a basis for exercising militarized global leadership. More troubling still, he shows that in pretending otherwise, successive administrations, in collaboration with Congress, have done untold damage to our political system while forging national security policies that are deeply defective. -- Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent WarLong Wars and the Constitution is one of the most important books on constitutional theory in a long time and should fundamentally reshape the debate about presidential authority to embark on wars without Congressional approval. -- Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of GovernanceStephen Griffin weaves legal, historical, and political analysis together to cast the constitutional order from 1945 to the present in a new and deeply informative light. His discussion of why Presidents have come to dominate war-making, and how that produces recurrent constitutional crises, is a major contribution to understanding how the Constitution works today. -- Mark Tushnet, author of Why the Constitution MattersIn presenting a legal and constitutional understanding of war powers, Griffin challenges the assumptions and perspectives of presidential and congressional scholars when it comes to post-9/11 war efforts and the struggle over war powers. In evaluating post-9/11 military decisions, Griffin presents a critical reevaluation of the pre-9/11 era, shaped by the Cold War. In going back to 1945 and demonstrating the decision-making processes of both presidents and legislators, Griffin convincingly contends that Cold War events reshaped the way that military actions were conducted, challenging previous ideas about military engagements. In the end, Griffin presents a well-developed argument for envisioning the Constitution’s role in military operations, and how the executive and legislative branches react and engage with each other over military engagements. In reimagining the Constitution’s role and the balance between presidential decision making and legislative accountability, Griffin critiques the post-Cold War approach to American military engagement and contends that a new ‘cycle of accountability’ would regain some constitutional balance between the two branches that oversee the nation's war activities. In doing so, Griffin brings a credible approach that will generate debate among scholars of presidential, congressional, and diplomatic/foreign policy studies. -- J. Michael Bitzer * Choice *
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Harvard University, Asia Center An Imperial Path to Modernity
Book SynopsisJung-Sun N. Han examines the role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into national values and imperial ambitions in early twentieth-century Japan. Han’s focus is on the ideas and activities of Yoshino Sakuzo (1878–1933), who was a champion of prewar Japanese liberalism and Taisho democracy.
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Harvard University Press Health and Human Rights
Book SynopsisHealth and Human Rights: Basic International Documents assembles in one book the basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. Topics include ethics; biotechnology; right to health; freedom from torture; women and reproductive health; children; right to a clean environment; and more.
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Harvard University Press In Their Own Best Interest
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe insightful historical narrative of the interplay between altruism and realism over the 20th century, the case studies, the trenchant analysis, and the clear, jargon-free exposition make this a highly recommended read. * Choice *In this subtle and searing critique of U.S. efforts to ‘uplift’ Latin America, Lars Schoultz challenges us to question the fundamental tenets of the development industry that became entrenched in the U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy over the last century. Deeply researched and beautifully written, In Their Own Best Interest is a sobering and thought-provoking meditation on U.S. relations with Latin America. -- Piero Gleijeses, author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991Schoultz’s outstanding book does a monumental job of tracing Washington’s compulsion to improve our Latin American neighbors, whether they like it or not. Schoultz’s extraordinary account of U.S. policymaking over the last one hundred years is compelling, with a richness of detail and characters that bring the history alive. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of our relations with our neighbors to the south. -- William M. LeoGrande, coauthor of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
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Harvard University, Asia Center One Belt One Road
Book SynopsisOne Belt One Road argues that the largest global infrastructure development program in history is not the centralized and systematic project that many assume. Rather, Eyck Freymann suggests, the campaign aims to build the cult of Chinese President Xi Jinping while exporting an ancient model of patronage and tribute.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in great power competition should read One Belt One Road, as Freymann combines extensive research with rigorous analysis to elucidate the PRC’s true intentions for global economic expansion. …Would be a welcome addition to syllabi for undergraduate curricula in political science, professional military education, and Chinese foreign relations disciplines. -- Thomas Lee * H-Net Reviews *Freymann cuts through the Western narrative about One Belt One Road to show that China is more often successfully attracting willing partners than preying on victims—a provocative conclusion that requires Western policymakers to think again. -- Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolFreymann’s expertly researched and accessible work helps clarify misconceptions and provides a coherent set of recommendations for policymakers. Required reading. -- Paul Haenle, former Director for China, United States National Security CouncilWhen is an overland road a ‘belt?’ Where is a maritime sea lane a ‘road?’ Answer: in the sloganeering ambition of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. But what is it? Is it ‘China’s Marshall Plan’? Is it a scheme for ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Is it really new, or does it build on older aims and ideas? Eyck Freymann is our guide, and his beautifully written book escorts us by land and sea to Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Greece, and beyond to answer these questions and more. As the Michelin Guide notes when it awards three stars: this book ‘is worth a special journey.’ -- William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard UniversityA brilliant book—lucid, sober, and thoughtful in its conclusions, it deserves to be read widely. Eyck Freymann cuts through the hype and brings light, not heat, to understanding how China combines diplomacy and economics. With a huge range of sources, he shows that One Belt One Road is likely to be neither a new Chinese empire nor simply a trade network. Essential reading. -- Rana Mitter OBE FBA, Director, University of Oxford China CentreThe most sophisticated and illuminating piece of work on the Belt and Road. -- Tom Miller, author of China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk RoadEyck Freymann sheds fresh light and understanding on the most important competition of the this century. With One Belt One Road, the author has earned his place as one of the foremost experts on the economic strategies of the Chinese Communist Party. In this impeccably researched and well-written book, Freymann corrects misunderstandings and provides coherent recommendations that, if implemented, with preserve America’s and the free world’s competitive advantages. -- H. R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
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Harvard University Press One Belt One Road
Book SynopsisOne Belt One Road argues that the largest global infrastructure development program in history is not the centralized and systematic project that many assume. Rather, Eyck Freymann suggests, the campaign aims to build the cult of Chinese President Xi Jinping while exporting an ancient model of patronage and tribute.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in great power competition should read One Belt One Road, as Freymann combines extensive research with rigorous analysis to elucidate the PRC’s true intentions for global economic expansion. …Would be a welcome addition to syllabi for undergraduate curricula in political science, professional military education, and Chinese foreign relations disciplines. -- Thomas Lee * H-Net Reviews *Freymann cuts through the Western narrative about One Belt One Road to show that China is more often successfully attracting willing partners than preying on victims—a provocative conclusion that requires Western policymakers to think again. -- Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolFreymann’s expertly researched and accessible work helps clarify misconceptions and provides a coherent set of recommendations for policymakers. Required reading. -- Paul Haenle, former Director for China, United States National Security CouncilWhen is an overland road a ‘belt?’ Where is a maritime sea lane a ‘road?’ Answer: in the sloganeering ambition of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. But what is it? Is it ‘China’s Marshall Plan’? Is it a scheme for ‘debt-trap diplomacy’? Is it really new, or does it build on older aims and ideas? Eyck Freymann is our guide, and his beautifully written book escorts us by land and sea to Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Greece, and beyond to answer these questions and more. As the Michelin Guide notes when it awards three stars: this book ‘is worth a special journey.’ -- William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard UniversityA brilliant book—lucid, sober, and thoughtful in its conclusions, it deserves to be read widely. Eyck Freymann cuts through the hype and brings light, not heat, to understanding how China combines diplomacy and economics. With a huge range of sources, he shows that One Belt One Road is likely to be neither a new Chinese empire nor simply a trade network. Essential reading. -- Rana Mitter OBE FBA, Director, University of Oxford China CentreThe most sophisticated and illuminating piece of work on the Belt and Road. -- Tom Miller, author of China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk RoadEyck Freymann sheds fresh light and understanding on the most important competition of the this century. With One Belt One Road, the author has earned his place as one of the foremost experts on the economic strategies of the Chinese Communist Party. In this impeccably researched and well-written book, Freymann corrects misunderstandings and provides coherent recommendations that, if implemented, with preserve America’s and the free world’s competitive advantages. -- H. R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
£21.56
Harvard University Press Leviathan 2.0
Book SynopsisThomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.Trade ReviewMaier is particularly good on the ways that improved communications and transportation could facilitate new forms of state power, but also help to provoke revolution everywhere from Mexico to China to Russia. -- David A. Bell * New Republic *
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Harvard University Press Shields of the Republic
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War, the United States shook off its traditional aversion to alliances and built the most impressive peacetime treaty structure in history. Yet today politicians argue that the country is so secure it gains nothing paying the cost of mutual defense. In doing so, they threaten a key source of that security: the alliances themselves.Trade ReviewA learned rationale and blueprint for that reinvigoration of alliances. Rapp-Hooper takes on directly and convincingly the Trumpian critique that alliances are not worth the investment and have led the nation to fight other people’s battles for them…Her deep erudition, crisp prose style, and innate brilliance shine through on most every page. -- Jeremy Shapiro * Boston Review *Despite enduring support among the U.S. public for the alliance system, President Donald Trump seems determined to upend it, as Mira Rapp-Hooper observes in her astute new book defending U.S. alliances…The threat of COVID-19 has bolstered her argument, making plain both the importance of the alliance system and the imperative to adapt alliances to new ends. -- Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani * Foreign Policy *Rapp-Hooper argues persuasively that the complex alliance system instituted after the devastation of World War II has proven remarkably successful…With Donald Trump's active animosity toward our traditional allies, the author cautions about a glaring blind spot: rising nonmilitary coercion from China and Russia. * Kirkus Reviews *For seventy years, alliances have been central to American foreign policy. Where did they come from and where are they going? Mira Rapp-Hooper gives smart answers to both the historical and future questions about our alliances. -- Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to TrumpShields of the Republic will stand as the definitive study of US alliances, filling a scholarly gap at a time when America cannot afford to go it alone in an increasingly dangerous world. -- Michael J. Green, former Senior Director for Asia, National Security CouncilThe precarity of America’s alliances is one of the central political issues confronting the United States today. Mira Rapp-Hooper has delivered the essential guide for understanding these complex partnerships. This is a masterful exposition of how alliances can both extend and restrain American power in these transformative times. -- Kurt Campbell, cofounder and CEO of The Asia Group and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific AffairsShields of the Republic is a must-read—an invaluable resource for exploring timely and thorny questions about the role of alliances in American foreign policy. -- Elizabeth N. Saunders, author of Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military InterventionsRapp-Hooper musters rock-solid evidence to demonstrate what policymakers have long believed: that America’s alliances are a remarkably effective foreign policy tool. Just as importantly, she gives an unambiguous account of why this system must be preserved and lays out a compelling plan for how to do so. -- Stephen Hadley, Principal at RiceHadleyGates and former National Security Advisor[A] perceptive look at America’s alliance system since World War II…Rapp-Hooper aims to counter the ignorant America First narrative by proving the value of alliances to the United States itself…She shows that defensive pacts served their intended objectives. The alliances, most importantly, also put American security first. Not only did they provide an adequate bang for a well-invested buck, but without them, America’s safety would have been at grave risk. -- Thomas Zeiler * E-International Relations *
£16.10
Harvard University Press Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis
Book SynopsisUsing documents only recently available, this pioneering book explores the interaction of German, British, French, and American policy at a time when the great depression and the growing political power of the Nazis had created a European crisisâthe only such crisis between 1910 and 1941 in which the United States played a leading role. The author uses contemporary records to rectify the later accounts of such participants as Herbert Hoover, Julius Curtius, and Paul Schmidt. He describes the negotiations of the major powers arising out of the Austro-German plans for a customs union, and relates this problem to the question of terminating reparations and war debts. He shows how the Governor of the Bank of England directed British foreign policy into bitter opposition to France and how the German government sought to exploit the German private debt to Wall Street. Edward Bennett comes to the conclusion that the BrÃning government, contrary to widely held opinion, received fully as much
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Harvard University Press Raising the World
Book SynopsisSara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the prism of familial love after World War II. These well-meaning institutions shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations, and helped to expand American hegemony around the globe.Trade ReviewFieldston should be commended for providing a long overdue synthesis of U.S. voluntary child-saving agencies during the Cold War. Her book is a very successful contextualization of how U.S. charities such as the Christian Children’s Fund, fueled by the desire to care for wartime dependents and participate in the larger narrative of containment through emulation of the U.S., used foster parenting by sponsorship to export U.S. ideas about democracy and the family. -- M. E. Birk * Choice *This remarkable book brings private humanitarianism into the story of American global power during the Cold War. Moved to relieve suffering and express their commitment to love, peace, and international friendship, ordinary Americans and child welfare professionals ran headlong into the controversies of U.S. foreign and military policy. From postwar Europe and Japan to Korea and Vietnam, Fieldston shows us what happened when Americans and their government agreed that saving the world’s children was the foundation of reconstructing nations and remaking the world. -- Ellen Herman, author of Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United StatesRaising the World is a major contribution, showing us the affective side of Cold War–era modernization theory. To inoculate poorer nations from communism, Americans embarked on a host of programs overseas. Sound emotional development and individual happy childhoods, these liberal reformers believed, were essential to world peace. A fascinating, nuanced study, Fieldston’s book is essential reading for those who want a better understanding of how ordinary Americans become invested in the project of American hegemony. -- Naoko Shibusawa, author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
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Harvard University Press Mapping the End of Empire
Book SynopsisBy 1945 Washington and London envisioned a new era in which the U.S. shouldered global responsibilities while Britain focused its regional interests narrowly. Mapping the End of Empire reveals how Anglo–American perceptions of geography and perspectives on the Muslim world shaped postcolonial futures from the Middle East to South Asia.Trade Review[Husain] presents a convincing case in arguing that Britain, exhausted and virtually bankrupted by World War II, was more than happy to try to exchange its actual empire for an ‘informal empire’ based on the British Commonwealth—if only it could persuade the richer, fresher, more ambitious United States to take up new global responsibilities… Having spent a quarter of its national wealth fighting fascism, an exhausted Great Britain handed on the baton to the United States in democracy’s great relay race, and America caught it deftly despite communist threats in Turkey, Greece, Italy and even France. By the 1990s, it had destroyed European communism. Today, America may be exhausted, but there’s no other nation capable of picking up the baton in the struggles with state-capitalist China and expansionist Russia… Mapping the End of Empire shows us how anarchy was—with some horrific exceptions, such as in the Punjab and Northwest Frontier of India in 1947–48—generally avoided the last time around. -- Andrew Roberts * Wall Street Journal *Mapping the End of Empire is a valuable contribution to the literature on international history of the post-war period—one that brings out the strategic impact of perceptions of geography and their value for comparative historical analysis. -- Suparna Banerjee * The Hindu *This is an original and provocative book… Husain has given us a subtle and persuasive examination of how geographical knowledge and geographically based perceptions of interests fostered different and conflicting world views in Washington and London as the East–West conflict deepened and the process of European imperial retreat began in earnest… Husain’s study provides a sophisticated template for those seeking to explore further the signal roles of geography and mental maps in shaping modern international history. -- W. Taylor Fain * American Historical Review *Aiyaz Husain’s Mapping the End of Empire marks an original point in the literature on British and American territorial aims during and after the Second World War… [Husain’s] strength lies in elucidating American assumptions about the postwar world, and he provides a useful account of the power of geographic thinking when reaching political solutions. Mapping the End of Empire is a worthy and valuable reassessment of the archival records of the Second World War—above all by integrating the geographic dimension into the political settlement of 1945. -- William Roger Louis * Journal of British Studies *A significant and original history that illuminates the divergences between British and American foreign policy in the early years after the Second World War, when these two powers’ ‘competitive cooperation’ was a crucial influence on the emerging world order. Husain makes a powerful and convincing case for integrating the crisis over Kashmir in 1948 and 1949 into our larger examination of Anglo-American policy in the Middle East. -- John Darwin, author of Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of BritainHusain intervenes powerfully in the literature on the European empires’ end with a careful and attentive reconstruction of the different American and British mental maps that shaped U.S. and British policies toward the ‘Muslim world.’ Deeply conceived and beautifully composed, this book is a vital contribution to our understanding of the roots of the modern-day atlas, and of the ways that many of the lines drawn on it after World War II created more vexing and intractable problems than they solved. -- Jason C. Parker, author of Brother’s Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937–1962
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Harvard University Press The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas
Book SynopsisAs the United States aggressively expands its exports of liquefied natural gas, it stands poised to become an energy superpower. This unanticipated reality is rewriting the conventional rules of intercontinental gas trade and realigning strategic relations among the United States, the European Union, Russia, China and beyond, as Agnia Grigas shows.Trade ReviewAgnia Grigas, an expert on global energy markets and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, masterfully explains the geopolitical underpinnings of this gas triangle between Europe, Russia, and the United States in her latest book…Grigas details the major gas players, infrastructure, and the geopolitical tensions over energy supplies. Her book tackles dense issues with clarity and is written in a compelling manner…The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas should be required reading for those policymakers hoping to understand its implications on policy and the international order. -- Maria Dugas * Newsweek *As Grigas’ book ably explains, fracking has had economic and environmental effects that will become more profound over time. So, too, will the geopolitical consequences, as the increasing supply of LNG puts pressure on Qatar, Russia, and other gas exporters and makes it less costly for countries such as China and India to reduce their dependence on coal to meet their growing needs for electricity. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *Thorough and well-cited, this book is a must-read for any student of global energy security, yet it is digestible to readers interested in understanding shifting geopolitics and international affairs. -- Joel Hicks * Globe Post *Grigas’s book reveals many insights into the often murky world of international natural gas trade. A real contribution to understanding this industry. -- Guy F. Caruso, Senior Advisor, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International StudiesThis book describes with convincing clarity the important changes taking place in the natural gas markets. Readers will welcome Grigas’s comprehensive analysis of the geopolitical linkages and the transformation of the balance of economic power between supplier and consuming countries that are currently much to the advantage of the United States. -- John Deutch, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyA thoroughly persuasive and penetrating investigation of the key political and market forces that transform the global gas sector. -- Suedeen Kelly, former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionAt a time when the natural gas business is experiencing fundamental changes and becoming increasingly a global industry, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of all the relationships that have driven the business to where it is today. It also provides the foundation for understanding the future evolution of the industry. -- Charif Souki, Chairman, Tellurian InvestmentsA penetrating exposition of how globalisation and geopolitical change are transforming the former playbook that allowed monopolists to dominate the gas industry. -- Jonathan Stern, Distinguished Research Fellow, Natural Gas Research Programme, Oxford Institute for Energy StudiesThe New Geopolitics of Natural Gas is a compelling and well-written study of the multiple revolutions that are transforming the global gas business. With every aspect of natural gas—supply, markets, demand, and technology—in motion worldwide, Agnia Grigas’s book is a timely guide to the geopolitical and strategic consequences. -- Thane Gustafson, author of Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
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Harvard University Press Lord Cornwallis Is Dead
Book SynopsisDo democracies bring about greater equality among their citizens? India embraced universal suffrage in 1947 and yet its citizens are far from realizing equality. The U.S. struggles with intolerance and inequality well into the twenty-first century. Nico Slate offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two former British colonies.Trade ReviewFor most of their histories, India and the United States have been distant lands. And yet, these two countries—both subcontinental in size, both colonized by Britain, both struggling to achieve the promise of democracy—have gazed at each other from afar, entranced by their family resemblance. Nico Slate tells the fascinating, delightful tale of these separated siblings, one that begins with Indians meeting ‘Indians’ and ends with civil disobedience and California yoga studios. -- Daniel Immerwahr, author of Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community DevelopmentNico Slate’s game-changing book on India and the United States invites us to probe anew the meanings of freedom and democracy. Elegantly traversing the boundaries of comparative, transnational, and cultural history, Lord Cornwallis Is Dead is sure to attract a wide range of readers from different disciplines. -- Sandhya Shukla, author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and EnglandAn eloquently written, deeply consequential, and engaging account that recognizes the achievements of the struggle for freedom in the two countries without shying away from the many shortcomings of their particular styles of democracy and their unending struggles for political, social, and economic freedom. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Thinking Small The United States and the Lure of
Book SynopsisDaniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. He also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, alongside grander moderization schemes with often disastrous consequences as self-help gave way to crushing local oppression.
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Harvard University Press News from Germany The Competition to Control
Book SynopsisHeidi Tworek’s innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.Trade ReviewTworek reveals how officials in the Weimar government, believing they were acting in the best interests of democracy, created structures to oversee and regulate news supply. This led to policies, such as restricting political advocacy from the radio, intended to forestall inflaming partisan passions. Ironically, it was the state’s tight control over the news supply that allowed the Nazis to swiftly take over the country’s communications channels and remake them to serve their interests. * Washington Post *A timely book: if we are concerned about governments manipulating the news across borders in the present, we need to understand how they did this in the past…News From Germany provides much-needed historical depth to the current debate about media power and the age of ‘surveillance capitalism.’ No one would suspect today’s media and internet giants of following anything like the Third Reich’s murderous, totalitarian strategies. Yet Tworek’s well-researched analysis has contemporary resonance. The Nazis’ priority, Goebbels explained, was not to indoctrinate, but to entertain the masses—and gain as much information about them as possible. -- Jan Rüger * Financial Times *Riveting…From 1900 to 1945, reveals historian Heidi Tworek, Germany strove mightily to achieve world power through news agencies, spoken radio and wireless, urged on by figures from Weimar Republic foreign minister Gustav Stresemann to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. A chillingly timely cautionary tale, demonstrating that once elites destroy democratic institutions, a free press cannot prevent further disintegration. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *A masterpiece of erudition, it represents a major contribution to both our understanding of the role of the media in history and to the history of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. -- Daniel R. Headrick * Journal of Modern History *A major contribution to our understanding of modern European—and indeed global—history. Tworek underscores the dangers that democratic regimes confront when elites lose faith in democratic institutions—a lesson for our own troubled times. -- Richard John, author of Network Nation: Inventing American TelecommunicationsAs Professor Tworek shows us in this brilliant new book, battles over ‘fake news’—or, as she rightly terms it, information warfare—have a long history. By illuminating earlier attempts to turn words into weapons, she helps us better understand the challenges that we face today. -- Mary Elise Sarotte, author of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin WallTo help us understand the media, Tworek employs some strikingly apt distinctions: between published and public opinion, between the news system and the news vehicle, between the production of news and the art and science of its control. At the end she points out something so simple and brilliant: ‘It’s surprisingly hard to make money from news.’ True! Those trying to understand our crisis in journalism today should start with this book. -- Jay Rosen, New York University and pressthink.orgA riveting and beautifully written account replete with fascinating vignettes of the key figures. Combining history of technology with media history and political narrative, this book reveals the largely unknown story of the centrality of communications in Germany’s grasp for world power in the first half of the twentieth century. -- Harold James, author of Making the European Monetary UnionInformation War, the weaponization of Information, Putin, Trolls, ISIS, Trump... the vast spread of today's malign influence campaigns can seem dizzying and confusingly new. However it's not the first time this has happened, and to understand the underlying issues one needs to see how the competition over the communications space has played out before. Tworek's book is an expert and readable guide to the wars of information hegemony in the early twentieth century, and one reads it not only to understand the past, but to grasp the present. -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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Princeton University Press How Far the Promised Land World Affairs and the
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. This book argues that civil rights leaders were interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program.Trade Review"Jonathan Rosenberg, describing 'color-conscious internationalism', demonstrated how the men and women who struggled to win equality for black Americans used world affairs--and especially wars--to advance their cause... Rosenberg does a superb job of analyzing the interplay of world affairs and the quest for racial justice in the United States from 1914 to the 1960s."--Warren I. Cohen, International History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle 1 PART I: World War I and the Peace Settlement PRELUDE: "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris 15 CHAPTER ONE: "Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War 19 CHAPTER TWO: "The Morning Cometh": The Signi .cance of the Peace 51 PART II: Between the Wars CHAPTER THREE: "From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s 75 CHAPTER FOUR: "Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s 101 PART III: From World War II to Vietnam CHAPTER FIVE: "Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War 131 CHAPTER SIX: "To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform,1945 -1950 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s 185 CHAPTER EIGHT: "I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s 214 POSTLUDE: World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade 229 Notes 235 Index 311
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Princeton University Press War and Moral Responsibility
Book SynopsisA collection of articles that focuses on moral questions about war. It covers a range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law.
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Princeton University Press The China Diary of George H. W. Bush
Book SynopsisAs head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975, George H W Bush witnessed high-level policy deliberations and daily social interactions between the two Cold War superpowers. This book offers a look at this fundamental period of international history.Trade Review"These diary entries--describing a cheerful round of visits, meals, tennis games, and efforts to strike up personal relationships with Chinese officials and the Beijing diplomatic corps--are nonetheless compulsive reading. They convey the local color of a quaint Beijing that is now lost to history, as well as reveal much about the gregarious character and social skills of the man who became the 41st U.S. president. Engel's exemplary notes and interpretative essay add to the volume's readability and scholarly value."--Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs "[B]ush's year in China laid the foundations for the pragmatic, prudent, personal foreign policy that would characterize his presidency. With superb annotations and analysis by Jeffrey Engel, a professor of history and public policy at Texas A&M, Bush's daily diary sheds light not only on 'the making of a global president' but on two nations in transition: late Maoist China, as it moved, tentatively, toward engagement with the international community; and the United States, as it absorbed the implications of defeat in Vietnam."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Baltimore Sun "As a president-to-be at a career crossroads and the second permanent representative of the U.S. in China, his frank thoughts recorded each night and now transcribed and expertly footnoted make for fascinating reading. Mr. Bush's official position and his lack of knowledge about China ensure that his diary offers little historically new. But in place of that, his day-by-day thoughts give something as valuable, a much-needed reminder of the diplomatic reality on the ground when the Sino-U.S. relationship was in its infancy... In many ways, his time in China helped him to usher in a new world order with relatively little turbulence, regardless of how fragile that order is subsequently proving to be."--Paul Mozur, Far Eastern Economic Review "In 1974, George H.W. Bush left his post as chair of the Republican National Committee to head the US legation in China. The assignment afforded him the opportunity to enrich his global vision and build on President Richard Nixon's 1972 opening to the communist regime there. Bush made the most of his ten months in Beijing. As edited and annotated in impressive detail by Jeffrey Engel, Bush's diary represents a treasure-trove of observations about the diplomatic climate, Chinese leaders, and the US notables who visited during his tenure."--M.J. Birkner, Choice "Engaging, insightful, and accessible, this is a fascinating book, and certainly one of the most interesting published about the 41st President. Very highly recommended."--Stefan Fergus, Civilian Reader "Although Sinologists will appreciate the details Bush offers of daily life for a U.S. diplomat in China in this era, political scientists might very well find the book's most useful offering to be its insights into his thinking."--May-Lee Chai, Asian Affairs "The book is of unique historic, theoretical and practical value. Its ideal readership consists of international studies scholars and students of various disciplinary backgrounds, with particular interest in China studies as well as diplomatic and international business practioners... I highly recommend it."--Wenshan Jia, Journal of Chinese Political ScienceTable of ContentsPreface by George H. W. Bush xiii Introduction: Bush's China Diary--What You Are About to Read xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Cast of Primary Characters xxvii CHAPTER ONE: "Everybody in the United States Wants to Go to China" 1 October 21 to November 1, 1974 CHAPTER TWO: "Public Posture versus Private Understanding" 49 November 2 to November 21, 1974 CHAPTER THREE: "We Must Not Capitulate on Matters This Fundamental" 88 November 22, 1974, to January 15, 1975 CHAPTER FOUR: "Much of the World Depends on the United States" 145 February 6 to March 9, 1975 CHAPTER FIVE: "When It Is a Matter of Principle It Really Means Do It Their Way" 193 March 10 to April 15, 1975 CHAPTER SIX: "We Do Have Principles and It Is Time We Stood Up for Them" 253 April 16 to June 2, 1975 CHAPTER SEVEN: "There Is No Credit in This Work" 308 June 3 to July 4, 1975 CHAPTER EIGHT: "I Have Studied Chinese" 348 July 5 to August 22, 1975 Bush in China: The Making of a Global President 397 Notes 465 An Essay on Sources 485 Index 495 Photographs follow page 192
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Princeton University Press Designs on Nature
Book SynopsisCompares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. This book shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety.Trade Review"The book is worth reading... Jasanoff's fascinating descriptions and explanations of the different interpretations and understandings of biotechnology regulation ... provide an interesting perspective on the decisions for patenting higher life forms that have been made in each of the jurisdictions during the last 25 years."--Julian Kinderlerer, Science "Sheila Jasanoff has written a carefully structured, ambitious and timely book ... about the evolution of public policy on biotechnology over the past three decades in the United States, Germany, Britain and the European Union (EU)... She marshals her information carefully, using a comparative approach to illustrate how similar challenges to public policy-makers in these countries were handled differently, in ways that reflect long-standing differences in their political cultures."--Mark Cantley, Nature "Sheila Jasanoff provides a refined and subtle comparative analysis of the ways in which policy decisions about red and green biotechnologies have been made in the United States, the EU, the United Kingdom, and Germany. She shows, with her mastery of detail and structure that the ways in which decisions are made about the pursuit of particular scientific research agendas and the development of types of technologies depend profoundly on the political cultures within which those decisions are made... The analysis provided by Jasanoff in this scholarly and lucid study suggests that whatever the eventual outcome of the WTO dispute, the probability of institutional and policy convergence is slight, and that diversity may well be sustainable or even unavoidable."--Erik Millstone, Issues in Science & Technology "Designs on Nature manages to communicate the results of sustained scholarship in a lively and engaging style, and should be required reading for anyone interested in the social dynamics of innovation."--James Wilsdon, Financial Times "In Designs on Nature, Sheila Jasanoff presents an erudite challenge to the usual attempts to separate science from politics... Scientists, as well as political decision makers, will find Designs on Nature an excellent introduction to the politics of science and technology... The old idea that science and politics can be kept apart may still linger, but Jasanoff's account has removed any academic credibility for such a claim."--Alan Irwin and Kevin Jones, Nature Cell Biology "Jasanoff offers her latest opus, a timely and welcome study that examines how the US, British, and German governments and people are struggling with several high-profile biotechnological innovations... An engaging, well-referenced work."--Choice "Jasanoff's book is well worth reading for any scientist involved in the emerging fields of biotechnology."--Elof Axel Carlson, Quarterly Review of Biology "Jasonoff's book is an important and timely work, both substantively and theoretically. Those interested in biotechnology policies in any of the countries examined in this book will find an engaging and complete account of how they emerged and developed."--Betsi Beem, Australian Review of Public Affairs "What makes the book worthwhile reading is ... its diverse, comparative, and analytical viewpoint, elaborately and deeply embedded in an STS context... Jasanoff's particular ability to establish comprehensive ties and link multiple levels and sites of science, technology, politics, and culture using strong argumentation might elevate Designs on Nature to a classic."--Monika Kurath, Science Studies "Overall this book provides a generally readable, interesting account of the divergent ways in which the three countries considered have responded to developments in biotechnology."--Anne Chapman, Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter "[Jasanoff's] contribution to the science and technology studies literature is undeniable... Designs on Nature will be key reading for anyone interested in the geographies of science, a burgeoning area of study that has much to offer our understanding of international political and knowledge regimes."--Kerry Holden, Environment and Planning "Readers interested in the concept of framing and its effects on international public debate and biotechnology regulation should read Sheila Jasanoff's Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States."--Carol Auer, BioScienceTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xi Prologue 1 Chapter 1: Why Compare? 13 Chapter 2: Controlling Narratives 42 Chapter 3: A Question of Europe 68 Chapter 4: Unsettled Settlements 94 Chapter 5: Food for Thought 119 Chapter 6: Natural Mothers and Other Kinds 146 Chapter 7: Ethical Sense and Sensibility 171 Chapter 8: Making Something of Life 203 Chapter 9: The New Social Contract 225 Chapter 10: Civic Epistemology 247 Chapter 11: Republics of Science 272 APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY 293 NOTES 295 REFERENCES 339 INDEX 361
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Princeton University Press Forbidden Fruit
Book SynopsisDevelops protocols for conducting counterfactual thought experiments and uses them to probe the causes and contingency of transformative international developments like World War I and the end of the Cold War.Trade Review"If nothing else, Forbidden Fruit shows how, through counterfactual, alternative thinking, a resounding acknowledgement of the arts can be achieved."--David Marx, David Marx Reviews "I have benefited enormously from Ned Lebow's learning, imagination and intellectual effort, and am sure that many readers will feel the same way towards this judicious, yet daring, scholarly contribution to the study of history and international relations."--Hidemi Suganami, International AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix PART ONE Chapter One: Making Sense of the World 3 Chapter Two: Counterfactual Thought Experiments 29 PART TWO Chapter Three: Franz Ferdinand Found Alive: World War I Unnecessary 69 Chapter Four: Leadership and the End of the Cold War: Did It Have to End This Way? 103 Coauthored with George W. Breslauer PART THREE Chapter Five: Scholars and Causation 1 137 Coauthored with Philip E. Tetlock Chapter Six: Scholars and Causation 2 166 APPENDIX Experiment 4, Instrument 1: Unmaking American Tragedies 196 Chapter Seven: If Mozart Had Died at Your Age: Psycho-logic versus Statistical Inference 205 Chapter Eight: Heil to the Chief: Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth, and Fascism 222 Conclusions 259 Notes 287 Index 329
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Princeton University Press Political Power and Corporate Control
Book SynopsisExplaining how politics shapes corporate governance, this book combines a theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and narratives of country cases.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally important book, meticulously researched and persuasively argued. It puts today's most pressing questions of corporate credibility and accountability in context, both historical and global. It is filled with information and insights of vital importance to anyone in the corporate world."--Nell Minow, The Corporate Library "Gourevitch and Shinn conduct comparative analysis at its best, introducing cross-country quantitative analysis where that is possible and appropriate, but also offering analytical narratives on corporate governance, its likely origins, and the political and legal structures that support it in thirteen countries (mostly in Asia and Europe, but also including Chile and the United States). They combine superb conceptual clarity with informative detail."--Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs "A comprehensive examination of corporate governance."--ChoiceTable of ContentsLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS vii PREFACE xiii CHAPTER ONE: Introduction and Summary Argument 1 Why Fight about Corporate Governance? 3 Great Variance and the "Great Reversals" 4 Putting the Pieces Together: In Search of a Political Explanation 10 Policy Consequences 12 Plan of Attack 14 CHAPTER TWO: Governance Patterns: What Causes What? 15 Outcomes: Dependent Variables and Patterns of Control 16 Capitalist Economic Policies, Minority Shareholder Protections, and Degrees of Coordination 20 Politics: Preferences and Institutions 22 Conclusion 26 CHAPTER THREE: Framing Incentives: The Economics and Law Tradition 27 Origins of the Debate 28 Incomplete Contracts and Private Order 30 Law and Regulation: Minority Shareholder Protections--Information, Oversight, Control, and Incentives 39 Varieties of Capitalism: Degrees of Coordination in Market Economies 51 Conclusion 55 CHAPTER FOUR: Politics: Preferences and Institutions 57 Mapping Financial Interests on Political Processes: A Causal Model 57 Preferences and Coalitions among Owners, Managers, and Workers 59 Political Institutions: Majoritarian and Consensus Mechanisms 67 Alternative Arguments: Legal Family and Economic Sociology 83 Conclusion 93 CHAPTER FIVE: Preference Cleavages 1: Class Conflict 95 Section 1: Owners and Managers Dominate Workers 96 The Investor Model 96 Analytic Narrative 123 Korea: Changing Institutions, Shifting Preferences 123 Section 2: Workers Dominate Owners and Managers 132 The Labor Power Model 132 Analytic Narrative 140 Sweden: The Exemplar of the Labor Power Model? 140 Conclusion 147 CHAPTER SIX: Preference Cleavages 2: Sectoral Conflict 149 Section 1: Cross-Class Coalitions 149 The Corporatist Model: Workers and Managers Dominate Owners 150 Analytic Narrative 159 Germany: From Corporatist Bargain to a Transparency Coalition 160 Japan: Concentration without Owners 167 The Netherlands: The Evolution of "Poldermodel" Corporatism 177 Section 2: Building Coalitions in Authoritarian Systems 187 The Oligarchy Model: Owners Dominate Workers and Managers 187 Analytic Narratives 189 Russia: Oligarchs and Politics 190 China: "Selectorate-Electorate" Coalition 192 Singapore: Shareholder Protections with "Guided" Democracy 199 Conclusion 203 CHAPTER SEVEN: Preference Cleavages 3: Transparency, Voice, and Pensions 205 Section 1: Workers and Owners Dominate Managers 205 From Class Conflict to Corporatist Compromise 206 Analytic Narratives 228 Chile: Authoritarian Roots of the Transparency Coalition 228 Malaysia: Ethnicity and Democracy in Governance Politics 232 Section 2: Managers Dominate Owners and Workers 237 "Managerism" 237 Analytic Narratives 241 The United States: A Contested Path from Oligarchy to MSP 241 United Kingdom: The Power of Majoritarian Political Institutions? 259 France: Without the State, Who Is in Control? 262 Conclusion 273 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion: Going Forward 277 Questions and Answers: What Explains Variance? 277 Shortcomings and Guideposts for Future Research 285 Conclusion: Fighting over the Governance Debate 287 DATA APPENDIX 297 BIBLIOGRAPHY 313 INDEX 333
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Princeton University Press Embattled Garrisons
Book SynopsisThe overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II - and a controversial one. This book provides a historical and comparative context needed to understand what is at stake in overseas basing. It gives case studies of American bases in Japan, Italy, Turkey, the Philippines, and Spain.Trade Review"The United States' military dominance is built on a worldwide system of bases. This important book provides a much-needed survey of the history and politics of these 'global guardians.'...Calder's argument suggests that the U.S. system of bases has generally played a stabilizing role and worked to the advantage of all parties. But the amount of political support for these far-flung security partnerships varies widely--and Calder's chief concern is to identify the factors that generate stability and those that create conflict."--G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "Calder's conclusions are derived from and supported by the logic and evidence he marshaled for this study. Embattled Garrisons will appeal to historians, military planners, and specialists in international relations and should be required reading in both the departments of State and Defense."--Mark J. Conversino, Journal of Military History "Embattled Garrisons is a useful source book on American military history as far as U.S. foreign policy regarding overseas bases is concerned. It also provides an informative glimpse at the ways in which American expansionism is legitimized."--Selin M. Bolme, Insight Turkey "Embattled Garrisons is an extremely valuable book that provides readers with a variety of angles with which to examine base politics. This is a must-read for scholars interested in interactions between the host nation and the basing nation, as well as policymakers who are keen on sustaining a US presence around the globe in the future."--Takafumi Ohtomo, International Relations of the Asia-PacificTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables x Foreword xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Heritage of History 4 Chapter Two: Deepening Vulnerability Changing Profiles of Forward Deployment and Implications for Policy 36 Chapter Three: Base Politics A Conceptual Introduction 64 Chapter Four: The Nature of the Contest 79 Chapter Five: The Base Politics Environment Comparative Perspectives 97 Chapter Six: Base Politics Deconstructed Four Paradigms 126 Chapter Seven: Base Politics Management The Micro-Dimension 164 Chapter Eight: The Financial Equations Local Equities, Base Stability, and Burden-Sharing 188 Chapter Nine: Bases and American Strategy Emerging Options 209 Chapter Ten: Implications for Policy and Theory 225 Appendix: Base Politics Paradigms: Specific Cases through 2006 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 295 Index 309
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Princeton University Press Nuclear Logics
Book SynopsisExamines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, this book finds two distinct regional patterns. It shows how, in East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and in the Middle East, the opposite is the case.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association Co-Winner of the 2008 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award for the Best Book on International History and Politics, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "Nuclear Logics is a ground-breaking work demonstrating how theory-oriented studies in political science should be conducted. Nuclear Logics is an admirable undertaking which makes an indispensable contribution to IR theory development."--Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review "The most comprehensive, theoretical, and systematic challenge [to system-level imperatives] in years... This is an impressive work ... of primary value to experts and graduate students."--International Studies Review "Solingen's argument is cogent and well researched ... convincing and intuitive ... demolishes the structural realist account... It deserves a wide readership."--International Affairs "A serious, scholarly piece of work ... reinvigorating the already rich theoretical debate on this issue... Her methodological tools could prove useful in determining which Middle Eastern countries are more likely to go nuclear in reaction to Iran's programme."--Survival "Proliferation theory steps outside the ivory tower in Etel Solingen's recent book, Nuclear Logics."--The Nonproliferation Review "The cutting edge of nonproliferation research ... should be of great interest to both policy practitioners and scholars. [This book] display(s) a combination of theoretical sophistication, methodological rigor, focused comparative analysis involving original field research, and attention to hypothesis testing rarely found in the nonproliferation literature."--International Security "Nuclear Logics is a timely study with important theoretical and practical implications. At the theoretical level, it encourages us to set aside monocausal explanations in favour of a more sophisticated but still transportable approach. At the practical level, the message that endogenous forces are vital to explaining the origins of nuclear behaviour can be incredibly valuable to policymakers who too often see proliferation as a simple action-reaction phenomenon driven by monolithic political forces. It deserves a wide readership."--Michael Vance, International Affairs "[A]mbitious, insightful, and informative... The book is most impressive ... in its deliberate and judicious assessment of explanations drawn from relevant realist, neoliberal, constructivist, and democracy literatures. Indeed, the reasoned assault on realist arguments gives this book considerable punch."--James H. Lebovic, Political Science Quarterly "Debates about the relevance of systematic political science theory for the maker of concrete policy decisions will perhaps never end. Solingen is to be congratulated for creating an interesting vehicle for such debate."--George H. Quester, International History Review "In addition to her innovative argument, Solingen's research design and the way she carries it out are impressive. Solingen does a carefully focused comparison of nine states in East Asia and the Middle East and, in doing so, provides an excellent example of rigorous qualitative research that should appear on graduate method course syllabi."--Victor Asal,Journal of Peace Research "As a work about International Relations theories of nuclear decisions, there should be little, if any, to be added to this remarkable achievement by Solingen."--Matake Kamiya, International Relations of the Asia-PacificTable of ContentsPreface ix Part One: Introduction and Conceptual Framework 1 Chapter One: Introduction 3 Chapter Two: Alternative Logics on Denuclearization 23 Part Two: East Asia: Denuclearization as the Norm, Nuclearization as the Anomaly 55 Chapter Three: Japan 57 Chapter Four: South Korea 82 Chapter Five: Taiwan (Republic of China) 100 Chapter Six: North Korea 118 Part Three: The Middle East: Nuclearization as the Norm, Denuclearization as the Anomaly 141 Chapter Seven: Iraq 143 Chapter Eight: Iran 164 Chapter Nine: Israel 187 Chapter Ten: Libya 213 Chapter Eleven: Egypt 229 Part Four: Conclusions 247 Chapter Twelve: Findings, Futures, and Policy Implications 249 Notes 301 References 351 Index 385
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Princeton University Press The Global Commonwealth of Citizens Toward
Book SynopsisExamines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization. This book looks at various aspects of cosmopolitan democracy in theory and practice.Trade Review"Archibugi has been a leading proponent of new forms of cosmopolitan political community in which citizens have opportunities to participate directly in making global choices. In this book, he provides a grand summation of a decade of thinking about cosmopolitan democracy... Archibugi's claim that democracy must be reinvented for a global era leads to extended discussions of the ways in which transnational democracy might operate. It is easy for such discussions to become abstract statements of political dreams, but Archibugi, to his credit, rolls up his sleeves and grapples with the specific ways in which citizen groups can get directly involved."--Foreign Affairs "In applying cosmopolitan logic to concrete issues such as humanitarian intervention, institutional reform at the UN, and democratic transitions, Archibugi has provided an indispensable contribution."--Choice "This work is a much awaited book length exposition of the project of global democracy from one of its leading proponents and represents the culmination of two decades of reflection on this topic. This shows in the richness, thoughtfulness and depth of the arguments the author puts forward in his contribution to a debate that is fundamental for contemporary politics."--Tiziana Torresi, Global Justice Network "Archibugi offers a morally appealing vision of cosmopolitan democracy, and thus anyone who has yet to give up on modernity's humanitarian impulses should read this book."--William E. Scheuerman, Perspectives on Politics "Archibugi outlines his cosmopolitan project in a simple and readable style. Anyone interested in problems of global governance will find the book stimulating and instructive."--Faruk Yalvac, Spectrum "His erudition and command of the salient literature are evident throughout this work, and he moves with ease through a range of debates about suprastate accountability, while engaging convincingly with numerous possible critiques of cosmopolitan democracy... The Global Commonwealth of Citizens provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy but the most detailed statement to date of how some form of cosmopolitandemocracy could be realized."--Luis Cabrera, Ethics & International Affairs "This engaging book ... deserves to be read by all who are interested in international institutions and democracy."--Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research "Archibugi's book ... should be applauded and paid attention to."--Jack Crittenden, Journal of Politics "[I]nnovative, thorough and brilliant book."--Stefan Hojelid, European Legacy "The torch has passed from Kant to Archibugi, and if political theorists had a team of optimists, Archibugi would be one of the captains. But I do not think that that optimism, utopian or otherwise, is anything that needs to be excused or explained away. It should be applauded and paid attention to, as should Archibugi's book."--Jack Crittenden, Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsTables and Figures ix Acronyms and Abbreviations xi Preface and Ac know ledg ments xiii Chapter 1: Introduction: A Queen for the World? 1 PART ONE: THE THEORY OF COSMOPOLITAN DEMOCRACY 15 Chapter 2: The Conception of Democracy 17 Chapter 3: Democracy and the Global System 53 Chapter 4: The Architecture of Cosmopolitan Democracy 85 Chapter 5: Critical Debate on Cosmopolitan Democracy 123 PART TWO: THE PRACTICE OF COSMOPOLITAN DEMOCRACY 151 Chapter 6: The Central Importance of the United Nations 153 Chapter 7: Cosmopolitanism and Humanitarian Intervention 184 Chapter 8: Can Democracy Be Exported? 206 Chapter 9: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Self-Determination of Peoples 226 Chapter 10: Is a Multi lingual Democracy Possible? 249 Chapter 11: Conclusions: The Prospects for Cosmopolitan Democracy 274 Index 289
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Princeton University Press Boundaries of Contagion
Book SynopsisExplores the political challenges of responding to a stigmatized condition, and identifies ethnic boundaries - the formal and informal institutions that divide societies - as a central influence on politics and policymaking.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "Lieberman's methodologically eclectic study constitutes the most thorough cross-national examination of the politics of AIDS to date. It should be essential reading for people interested in the politics of AIDS, public health, and public policy making more generally."--Choice "Lieberman's book has the great merit of casting peremptory conclusions about HIV/AIDS implementation in national contexts, and, as such, it constitutes a landmark in the political analysis of epidemic response. Though being a scholarly book, it appeals to wider audience interested in major international social and development policy ... since it proposes thoroughly argued explanations for specific policy behaviors."--Ricardo Pereira, CEU Political Science JournalTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Chapter One: Introduction 1 The Puzzle Of Explaining Government Policy 5 AIDS as a Laboratory for Comparison: Politics in Really Hard Times 10 Outline of the Book 18 Chapter Two: A Theory of Boundary Politics and Alternative Explanations 25 Ethnic Boundaries 28 The Effect of Boundaries on Policymaking 35 Implications for AIDS Policy 42 Additional and Alternative Explanations 50 Conclusion 59 Chapter Three: Globalization and Global Governance of AIDS: The Geneva Consensus 61 The Rise of Asymmetric Global Health Governance 65 The Emergence of the Global Response to AIDS 72 The Content of the Geneva Consensus 86 The Limits of Consensus 106 Conclusion 107 Chapter Four: Partial and Alternative Explanations of Policy Divergence 125 The Effect of Boundary Institutions 142 Conclusion 171 Chapter Five: A Model-Testing Case Study of Strong Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policy in India 173 India's AIDS Epidemic 177 The Government's Response: Weak and Delayed 181 Explanation: The Role of Boundary Politics 193 Explaining Policy Variation across Indian States 220 Conclusions and Alternative Explanations 234 Chapter Six: Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policies around the World 239 The Data 240 Analysis and Discussion: Estimates of the Effect of Boundaries on AIDS Policy 261 Conclusion 288 Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Ethnic Boundaries or Cosmopolitanism? 292 Implications 295 Future Research 303 References 307 Index 331
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Princeton University Press Changes of State Nature and the Limits of the
Book SynopsisA book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. It takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them.Trade Review"Annabel S. Brett has amassed a great deal of information and delivers it and, as importantly, original insights of great value, with elegance, impressively, memorably... Highly recommended. What the Renaissance coped with in terms of balance between tradition and modernity, between mankind and nature, between freedom and order ... and a new relationship between God and His creation, proves a worthy topic for an exceptionally talented scholar and a good read for the rest of us."--Bibliothe'que d'Humanisme et Renaissance "The book's achievements are at several levels: as an impressively detailed intellectual history of some of the wide-ranging controversies preoccupying natural law theorists in sixteenth- to mid-seventeenth-century Europe; as a cogent analysis of what is at stake in Grotius's and above all Hobbes's significant developments of natural law theory; and as an innovative approach to the study of political thought."--Simon Kow, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsA Note on the Text ix Acknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION: On the threshold of the state 1 CHAPTER ONE: Travelling the borderline 11 CHAPTER TWO: Constructing human agency 37 CHAPTER THREE: Natural law 62 CHAPTER FOUR: Natural liberty 90 CHAPTER FIVE: Kingdoms founded 115 CHAPTER SIX: The lives of subjects 142 CHAPTER SEVEN: Locality 169 CHAPTER EIGHT: Re-placing the state 195 Bibliography of works cited 225 Index 237
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Princeton University Press The Diffusion of Military Power
Book SynopsisExamines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting the methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. This title argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess the financial resources to buy or build the technology and the internal organizational capacity.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Winner of the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association Winner of the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy ScientistsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface ix Chapter 1; Introduction 1 Chapter 2: A Theory of the Diffusion of Military Power 18 Chapter 3: Carrier Warfare 65 Chapter 4: The Nuclear Revolution 98 Chapter 5: Battlefleet Warfare 134 Chapter 6: Suicide Terrorism 166 Chapter 7: Conclusion 208 Appendix 1: Suicide Terrorism Group Linkages 227 Appendix 2: Nuclear Diffusion Survival Model 232 Bibliography 237 Index 265
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Happiness What Government Can
Book SynopsisExamines how governments could use research data on what makes people happy - in a variety of policy areas to increase well-being and improve the quality of life for their citizens. This title looks at the policy implications for economic growth, equality, retirement, unemployment, health care, family programs, education, and government quality.Trade ReviewOne of Fiscal Times Best Books for 2010 "Compelling."--David Brooks, New York Times "With his clear analysis and outside-the-box ideas, Bok encourages thoughtful consideration of what we should want for ourselves and expect from our government."--Sarah Halzack, Washington Post "Careful and cogent... Bok believes ... that the American government, which is in no danger of tranquilizing its citizens, can and should design policies to enhance their happiness."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Boston Globe "Delving into the burgeoning field of happiness research, former president of Harvard University Bok (The State of the Nation) sifts through scientific studies on how societal well-being indications can and should be used to shape social and political policy... Bok's arguments on how good government, access to education, and adequate child care make for a pleasanter society are incontrovertible, and he initiates an important, jargon-free discussion of American public policy, especially when its aims contradict or diminish the public weal."--Publisher's Weekly "Bok addresses how happiness research could inform US policy. The first three chapters unpack the claims of happiness psychologists, evaluate reliability and discuss policy application. The remainder address happiness in relation to economic growth, inequality, financial hardship (retirement, healthcare and job loss), suffering (chronic pain, sleep disorder and depression), marriages and families, education and the quality of government. The debate on happiness, Bok concludes, 'will be an accomplishment of enduring importance to humankind'."--Paul Stenner, Times Higher Education "Mr. Bok's rich, challenging, remarkable new book is remarkably solid. For it is based not on the empty aphorisms so beloved by lazy and second-rate pseudo-philosophers. There is a surprisingly massive quantity of serious statistical and sociological research that has been done on the subject of happiness in both prosperous and developing societies, and Mr. Bok draws liberally and impressively upon it. His conclusions are remarkable and well worth heeding... This is a remarkable, original, provocative and brilliant book. Anyone who wants to be happy, or to share their happiness with others, should snap it up at once."--Martin Sieff, Washington Times "Bok reviews a wide range of surveys that consistently associate levels of happiness or satisfaction with several demographic and social variables... Bok concludes that the scientific evidence on well-being is now robust enough for politicians to start taking action."--Felicia Huppert, Nature "[Bok asks] whether governments should really try to maker their citizens happier. Answer: yes, not through promoting economic growth, but through environmental policies, healthcare, and strengthening marriage and the family."--Glenda Cooper, Prospect Magazine "Provides insights into the mysteries of happiness."--Phillip Longman, Washington Monthly "Bok, former president of Harvard, outlines the work of 'happiness scholars' and suggests that their findings would be an 'eminently defensible way' of informing public policy, at least as valuable as opinion polls or economic indexes. Among the most significant findings he cites is that an increase in wealth does not correlate with an increase in happiness and that rising inequality has not caused a decrease. From these and other points, Bok argues for many general and specific policy measures that, he believes, would add to the sum of happiness in the United States... Readers will find him in turn provocative and quixotic."--Bob Nardini, Library Journal "[A] sweeping study of behavioural research and public policy... This is a book that leaders of developing nations obsessed with economic growth will find puzzling and troubling, but not as much as market economists will."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "Okay, I hear your protests, your gut telling you that Bok is a naive professor with his head in the clouds. Skeptical myself, I found his book full of surprises. Example: The growing inequality of incomes in the United States has not made Americans more dissatisfied than in previous times. Only one group is upset by this growing disparity--wealthy Americans! See what I mean? Counterintuitive conclusions, like this one, abound."--Mandy Twaddell, Providence Journal "Relatively light and accessible... Although Bok is partisan, his is a good introduction to the subject. He accurately outlines the findings of the research while questioning its shortcomings."--Daniel Ben-Ami, Spiked Review of Books "[This] is a careful, helpful book. It brings together the key findings in the area of happiness research--a relatively new discipline of the social sciences that uses surveys and polls to measure well-being... The Politics of Happiness is not a complete answer... It does however, add the methodology and reasoning of modern social science to the profound insights of ancient moral and political philosophy."--Nitin Pai, Pragati, Indian National Interest Review "Bok explores a number of new studies related to the concept of happiness and then painstakingly asks whether and how government can do much to increase human happiness... The Politics of Happiness raises a number of challenges to our assumptions."--Debbie Bruno, Roll Call "This book is clear and nicely written and provides a fascinating overview of what does--and doesn't--contribute to the wellbeing of people in the Western world."--Miriam Cosic, Australian "Bok's summary of the available research is skillful and to the point."--Tevi Troy, Claremont Review of Books "A book policymakers and people in governance should read. So that there can be more happiness all around."--Vaidehi Nathan, Organiser "This book offers a fresh look at the surprisingly not-so-elusive quality of happiness and why economic policy can make a difference where it counts. Bok has a smooth and convincing narrative style, and he weighs his arguments carefully."--Maureen Mackey, Fiscal TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 CHAPTER 1: What Investigators Have Discovered 9 CHAPTER 2: The Reliability of Research on Happiness 32 CHAPTER 3: Should Policy-Makers Use Happiness Research? 45 CHAPTER 4: The Question of Growth 63 CHAPTER 5: What to Do about Inequality 79 CHAPTER 6: The Threat of Financial Hardship 99 CHAPTER 7: Relieving Suffering 124 CHAPTER 8: Marriages and Families 139 CHAPTER 9: Education 156 CHAPTER 10: The Quality of Government 179 CHAPTER 11: The Significance of Happiness Research 204 Notes 213 Index 247
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