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Book SynopsisBy uncovering new sources of research and applying innovative analysis, Reassessing the Rogue Tory challenges standard interpretations of Canadian foreign policy during the controversial Diefenbaker years.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent collection of essays, which make a significant contribution to the field. The book is also very readable. Therefore, I wholeheartedly recommend it to readers, both expert and general. -- Jatinder Mann, Hong Kong Baptist University * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 33.1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Janice CavellPart 1: The Commonwealth1 A New Vision for the Commonwealth: Diefenbaker’s Commonwealth Tour of 1958 / Francine McKenzie2 Different Leader, Different Paths: Diefenbaker and the British, 1957–63 / Norman HillmerPart 2: Canadian-American Relations3 The Spirit of ’56: The Suez Crisis, Anti-Americanism, and Diefenbaker’s 1957 and 1958 Election Victories / Janice Cavell4 When the Chips Are Down: Eisenhower, Diefenbaker, and the Lebanon Crisis, 1958 / Greg Donaghy5 The Problem Child: Diefenbaker and Canada in the Language of the Kennedy Administration / Stephen AzziPart 3: Nuclear Weapons6 The Defence Dilemma, 1957–63: Reconsidering the Strategic, Technological, and Operational Contexts / Isabel Campbell7 “I Would Rather Be Right”: Diefenbaker and Canadian Disarmament Movements / Nicole MarionPart 4: The Developing World8 A Limited Engagement: Diefenbaker, Canada, and Latin America’s Cold War, 1957–63 / Asa McKercher9 The Diefenbaker Government and Foreign Policy in Africa / Kevin A. Spooner10 Tilting the Balance: Diefenbaker and Asia, 1957–63 / Jill Campbell-Miller, Michael Carroll, and Greg Donaghy11 The Winds of Change: Ellen Fairclough and the Removal of Discriminatory Immigration Barriers / Robert VinebergPart 5: The Role of the Foreign Minister12 Sidney Smith, Howard Green, and the Conduct of Canadian Foreign Policy during the Diefenbaker Government, 1957–63 / Michael D. StevensonPart 6: The End of the Diefenbaker Era13 A Complex Reckoning: A Personal Reflection on the 1963 Election / Hugh SegalConclusion / Ryan M. TouheyIndex

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Book SynopsisCanadian Foreign Policy brings together leading scholars in a lively, engaging meditation on the current state and future direction of the Canadian foreign policy discipline, and on how we see Canada in the world.Table of ContentsForeword / John English and Robert BothwellIntroduction1 Rethinking Canadian Foreign Policy / Brian Bow and Andrea LaneThe State of the Field2 F-f-fading Away: The Evanescent Canadian Foreign PolicyProfessor / Kim Richard Nossal3 Historical Reflections on Canadian Foreign Policy as an Academic Experience / Adam Chapnick4 Life and Times of Critical Studies of Canadian Foreign Policy / Lana Wylie5 Canadian Foreign Policy Networks: Scholarship Collaborations, 2006–16 / Jean-Christophe Boucher6 The Policy Influence of Canadian Foreign Policy Scholars / John KirtonExploring Adjacent Fields7 Canadian Defence Studies: A Personal Perspective / Philippe Lagassé8 Defending the Arctic and Three Other Canadian Narratives / Andrea Charron9 Solidarity Scholarship and the Study of Canada in Africa and International Development / David R. Black10 Thinking about My Generation: Canadian Foreign Policy and Critical IPE in Canada / Laura Macdonald11 Becoming Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Canadian Foreign Policy and Indigenous Global Politics / Leah SarsonThe Future of CFP12 The Personal Is International: Reimagining Canadian Foreign Policy from Below / Maya Eichler13 Teaching and the Future of Canadian Foreign Policy: Rejuvenating the Discipline from the Classroom Out / Aaron Ettinger14 Beyond the Classroom: Millennials and Canadian Foreign Policy Education / Rebecca Tiessen15 Women and Gender Dynamics in Canadian Foreign Policy / Stéfanie von HlatkyConclusion16 Reflecting on the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future / Brian Bow and Andrea LaneContributors; Index

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Book SynopsisRejecting conventional explanations for Syrian foreign policy, which emphasize the personalities and attitudes of leaders, cultural factors peculiar to Arab societies, or the machinations of the great powers, Fred H. Lawson describes key shifts in...Trade ReviewLawson has written a book with extremely interesting connections. And if the most stimulating scholarly exercises are those which broaden our frames of reference and deepen our understanding of events, then Why Syria Goes to War is a gem. * DOMES (Digest of Middle East Studies) *The author focuses on domestic political factors that have influenced Syria's military and foreign policies; the book covers the period 1967 to 1994. * Shofar *

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Book SynopsisBy approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for.Trade ReviewA book full of fascinating and suggestive insights into the cognitive processes relevant to international relations. -- Steve Rosen * American Political Science Review *Mercer's argument is a welcome addition to the theoretical literature because it represents the first clear statement of a non-rational, choice-based theory of reputations. -- Paul Huth * Security Studies *Mercer's startling challenge to accepted wisdom deserves wide attention. -- Patrick Morgan * The Mershon Review *This imaginative and provocative book is an important contribution to a long-neglected question and is essential reading for any historian or international relations theorist interested in the role of reputation in international politics. -- Jack Levy * International History Review *This excellent book is well written, detailed, and thought-provoking. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns.Trade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *

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Book SynopsisRevolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so.Trade ReviewAcademic tradition separates revolution and war.... Walt defies that tradition in his sober, well-reasoned new book. The result is a worthy exploration of these two most important, and most dangerous, political events—and particularly of how revolution can lead to war. * New Leader *Walt finds balance-of-threat theory the most plausible explanation for the wars that follow... large-scale upheavals.... In his concluding policy recommendations, Walt argues that with revolution, neither appeasement nor intervention is appropriate for foreign leaders. Revolutions are practically impossible to export and very difficult to reverse. Optimism that liberal capitalism means an end to revolution is unwarranted, Walt observes, given religious fundamentalism, cultural diversity, and the emergence of protest movements. A detailed, valuable work. * Choice *Walt has written a book to ponder, and to value. It enriches our understanding of the causes of war, and suggests how—in conditions still relevant to us—we might hope to avoid it. * Security Studies *

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Book SynopsisThis book examines regional dynamics in contemporary east and southeast Asia, scrutinizing the effects of Japanese dominance on the politics, economics, and cultures of the area. The contributors ask whether Japan has now attained, through sheer...Trade ReviewRemarkably coherent and thoughtful.... Intellectually solid and lively essays.... Begins and ends with a bang.... Network Power contributes enormously to the field of Japanese studies.... It is must-reading for those interested not only in area studies of Japan and Asia, but also in the diverse, complex processes of regionalization and regionalism. * Journal of Japanese Studies *A crucial issue in the nature of regional integration is the terms under which the integration process takes place. This edited volume explores this issue by focusing on the character of Asian regionalism and the economic, security, political and cultural aspects of Japanese power and leadership roles in Asian regionalism... The result is an excellent book that extends our empirical knowledge of network-style integration and power, and provides an exceptionally valuable springboard for further debate on this important topic. * Asian Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisOran R. Young is a key participant in recent debates among international relations scholars about the dynamics of rule-making and rule-following in international society. In this book, he weaves together theoretical issues relating to the formation of...Trade ReviewCreating Regimes is a highly persuasive and perceptive work about two international regimes that have become central to nonmilitary cooperation in the Arctic in recent years.... Provides helpful insights into current policy and legal issue at the poles. -- Even T. Bloom * American Journal of International Law *This book is to my knowledge the first to account for the emergence of Arctic cooperation explicitly employing concepts from the literature on regimes, and it reinforces the author's longstanding efforts to draw attention to the Arctic as a test-bed for examining various aspects of regime analysis. The fact that Oran Young has at times himself been a 'player' in Arctic cooperation adds to the validity of his insights. * Environmental Politics *Young's latest volume is in many ways a logical extension of his Polar Politics; it builds on his experience as a theorist of international organization and his experience with regime-building in the circumpolar north.... Young is not presenting another grand theory of regime formation but a needed corrective to the tendency to find single-factor explanations. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisComrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective—that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing...Trade ReviewAndrew Rotter has written an original and thoughtful book on United States-Indian relations during the cold war.... This book should be read widely by diplomatic historians; it offers a model for future research and analysis and breakes important new ground in the study of international history. * International Journal *An agreeable read, Rotter's book provides a great many probing observations on such varying matters as smell, space, family, and truth, along with assessments of their effect on the way policy was conceived and carried out.... What Rotter's fascinating work amounts to is really less a causal account than.... a myriad of vignettes, snapshots, details, and striking insights that forces one precisely not to conclude but to think. -- Anders Stephanson, Columbia University * American Historical Review *In this original, imaginative and informative study, Rotter argues that cultural perceptions, perhaps more than any other factor, have affected policy makers in both America and the subcontinent when formulating policy toward each other. The result is a fascinating book.... Virtually every facet of culture is discussed and explained in masterly detail. * Choice *Comrades at Odds illustrates both the virtues and the shortcomings of the new history. Rotter offers a subtle reading of heretofore-neglected source materials, and he adds to our understanding of the cultural side of this difficult relationship.... This book provides valuable insights. -- Robert M. Hathaway * Wilson Quarterly *Rotter's study is as sophisticated and, at the same time, as commonsensical as the new approach gets. He dons theory but wears it lightly.... He interrogates such usual suspects as race and gender but adds religion, family, and folkways of economy and governance.... He has a good ear for anecdote and a good eye for the detail that illuminates the landscape. -- H.W. Brands, Texas A&M University * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisAfter the Tiananmen Square massacre, a vigorous international debate erupted, not only about human rights in China, but also about the role of multinational firms. Should corporations do business in China at all? Should corporations take a stand on...Trade ReviewSantoro proposes a framework for understanding the extent and limits of corporate moral responsibility for human rights, focusing primarily on the case of U.S. business in China.... He constructs a fair-share theory of moral responsibility for human rights and applies the fair-share theory of human rights to the sweatshop problem and to the issue of corporate responsibility for government repression of political and religious dissidents. * Journal of Economic Literature *Santoro has made a first effort to address an intractable and increasingly salient cause of human rights violations in developing countries, including China—inhumane business practices—and on this account alone his work is to be appreciated. -- Peter Harris * The China Journal *This book merits much credit for its even-handed, comprehensive approach. Santoro's theoretical investigation is matched and buttressed by his empirical analysis. While an urgent moral call, the book also considers what is and is not a realistic appeal. Finally, while focusing on MNCs, the author also delineates the larger moral web that connects all of human society—CEOs, workers, and consumers alike. -- Donna E. Chung * Journal of East Asian Studies *The book's common-sense, pragmatic tone serves well to open up a complex and important topic for several communities of readers—policy makers, business people, and the nongovenrmental organization community. Even if few settle for his conclusions, he will have helped by setting out some terms for future debate. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Political Science Quarterly *Lines have been drawn in the sand, with choices reduced to stark either-ors: human rights or expanded commerce, worker protection or globalization. But to anyone looking for reasoned discussion instead of rhetorical posturing, Santoro's book is a fine place to start. His solidly grounded analysis deserves a wide audience. -- Barry Gewen * New York Times Book Review *This timely study, which combines rigorous economic analysis with sharp moral reasoning, spells out what can and cannot be expected.... As sensitive to the bottom line as he is to human rights, Santoro also has useful things to say about the issues that vex CEOs dealing with China.... He has produced a book of interest not just to the concerned citizen but also to those engaged in business in China or contemplating becoming involved there. -- Lucien W. Pye * Foreign Affairs *What are the moral obligations of corporate executives with regard to human rights? Assuming that one can settle on a definition of human rights and agree that such obligations exist, then how can such obligations be balanced against executives' responsibility to corporate shareholders to maximize profits? Santoro has produced a provocative work in business ethics that attempts to answer, or at least provide the basis for an answer, to these questions.... The issues Santoro covers are of increasing importance in global economic policy arrangement, and deserve attention. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe traditional assumption holds that the territory of money coincides precisely with the political frontiers of each nation state: France has the franc, the United Kingdom has the pound, the United States has the dollar. But the disparity between...Trade ReviewThe Geography of Money ventures far beyond economics and concerns itself with much more than American public policy. It is a sustained engagement with the literature devoted to monetary relations from the disciplines of economics, politics, international relations, and geography, and it does so on a genuinely world scaled. For this alone it must be applauded.... An ambitious book.... Benjamin Cohen has provided a valuable service by alerting us to the need to sketch a new mental map of monetary geography. * International Affairs *Cohen explosively challenges the conventional wisdom of our time.... Cohen's new road map provides a fresh explanation for the existence of... tensions between the currency interest groups, and more importantly, it indicates where the opportunities for cooperation are to be found.... The book is clearly written and tells a story well. The relatively minimal use of 'jargon' makes it eminently readable, even by those with no formal training in economics. * Monash MT Eliza Business Review *I found The Geography of Money enjoyable and would recommend it to both general readers and economists, with the caveat to the former that its treatment of the topics is not the typical treatment of an economist. -- Omotunde E.G. Johnson * Finance and Development *This book is refreshing in its approach, which steadfastly refuses to see the globalization of finance as either cancer or panacea.... Scholars and policy makers will need a 'new mental map,' according to Cohen, if they are to understand money today, and this book is a good beginning. The excellent bibliography is the icing on the cake. * Choice *Cohen shows how the widespread use of the U.S. dollar outside its borders, the push for a common European currency, and growing cross-border competition worldwide require a new consideration of 'the role that money plays in today's world. He looks at the historical antecedents for monetary sovereignty and at the alternatives that might arise when currency domains are no longer defined by territorial frontiers, and he provides a complex analysis of the political and economic implications of any changes that might take place. * Booklist *This original and exciting book by Benjamin Cohen is devoted to exposing the bankruptcy of orthodox views and to laying outh a new intellectual framework for the geography of money that directly addresses the new reality of cross-border currency flows and competition... Cohen synthesizes a vast literature... into eight meaty but readily comprehensible chapters that are nothing like the typical grim writing of the average exponent of the dismal science. By using relevant examples and telling anecdotes, Cohen makes the world of money positively explode with interest and meaning for anyone minimally concerned about current trends in the world economy. -- John Agnew, UCLA * The Annals of the American Academy *

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Book SynopsisIn March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a troubling episode in U.S.-British relations. His confidential report—intended for a single reader, JFK himself, and classified for thirty years—is reproduced in its entirety...Trade ReviewFor anyone interested in Anglo-American relations in the early 1960s, this is a gem. Detailed and well-nuanced narrative combined with a penetrating analysis make for essential and absorbing reading. Once begun, it will not easily be put down. -- Alan P. Dobson, University of Dundee * The International History Review *Neustadt's report will remain a vital primary source for students of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in nuclear weapons and a superb case study of decision making from top to bottom.... Students of statecraft will forever remain in Professor Neustadt's debt. -- Myron A. Greenberg * Naval War College Review *Neustadt has written a fascinating book for students of the presidency, national security, and bureaucratic politics. * Choice *Neustadt's scholarship is well known, and this book will only enhance his already exceptional reputation among serious students of the presidency. But this work goes beyond and takes pains to clarify characters and events for the more casual student of history and international politics. -- Jay Avella, Capella University * Rhetoric and Public Affairs *Now declassified, Report to JFK offers a marvelous introduction to the personalities and the arcane issues involved, supplemented by Neustadt's new research in the now-opened British archives. His report is both a microstudy of the details that animate real issues in government and a masterpiece of writing.... It also offers a very timely lesson. -- Philip Zelikow * Foreign Affairs *Report to JFK is a unique and brilliant study of decision-making in Washington and London. Now available more than a third of a century after it was written, it deserves to become a classic. * The Economist *

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Book SynopsisFortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation created in 1987, "the most successful cross-border merger since Royal Dutch linked up with Britain's Shell in 1907." The coming together of two longtime national champions in the...Trade ReviewBeing Local Worldwide is a timely volume, to be applauded for its critical and empirally-grounded analysis of an intriguing and prominent corporation. In the main, the comparative, qualitative nature of the study succeeds admirably, and does much to lay bare the complex and subtle issues of control and autonomy between the subsidiaries and the centre. In short, industrial relations needs more studies like this one. -- Martyn Wright, University of Warwick * The Journal of Industrial Relations *This rich and fascinating study... 'highlights the actual workings of the geocentric and multidomestic principles' enshrined in the slogan of 'being local worldwide'. -- Anthony Ferner, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK * Industrial Relations *This is an important work for scholars of industrial organisation, sociology and management.... From my reading of the book and experience working with (but not for) ABB in a number of countries, the authors have presented a more realistic image of the contours and contradictions of this company than much of the media would have us believe. -- Lee Pegler, Cardiff University * Work, Employment, and Society *

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Book SynopsisIt is often said economics has become as important as security in international relations, yet we work with much less than full understanding of what goes on when government negotiators bargain over trade, finance, and the rules of international...Trade ReviewIt has the merit to illuminate the key elements which any negotiator or scholar should consider and to help us to understand basic relations among them. As such, it should definitely contribute to a better knowledge and practice of international negotiation. * World Trade Review *With this book, John Odell confirms his place as one of the most eminent scholars of international political economy at work today. There is much to learn from this nuanced and clearly conceived study about the often black box of economic negotiation.... This work, drawing on twenty-five years of first-rate scholarship, should be read by all graduate students, scholars, and more reflective practitioners who want to develop understanding of the processes that give rise to the often unexpected outcomes of international economic negotiation. * International Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisMost international historians present the outbreak of World War II as the result of an irreconcilable conflict between Great Britain and Germany. This ubiquitous Anglo-German perspective fails to recognize complex causes and repercussions of...Trade ReviewIt is full of thoughtful asides and provocative conclusions, and offers the basis for an important debate about appeasement... Salerno's emphasis on the importance of the Mediterranean and of the ambiguities of policy towards Italy is salutary. -- Jeremy Black * Journal of European Studies *

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Book SynopsisChina began opening to the outside world in 1978. This process was designed to remain under the state's control. But the relative value of goods and services inside and outside China drove cities, enterprises, local governments, and individuals with...Trade ReviewIn... his helpfully organized, largely plain-speaking and enlightening book, Mr. Zweig calls for far-sighted leaders and public-spirited citizens to struggle against the 'crony capitalism' that can undermine China's growth. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Bookshelf *Zweig has brought intellectual order to the chaotic process of China's opening to the world. * Foreign Affairs *Internationalizing China will appeal heavily to scholars and social scientists bent on dissecting the complex phenomena that swept over the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s. And for businesspeople who lived and worked their way through these transformations.... Zweig's book will offer valuable insights and perspectives. -- Robert A. Kapp * The China Business Review *Zweig shows how China avoided the disruptive Big Bang reforms that have proved so damaging in Russia and Eastern Europe. Zweig's study is also a warning to those in the West who naively imagine that China's market opening is going to lead inevitably to political reform. -- Mark L. Clifford * BusinessWeek *Zweig's goal is 'to explain the how and why of China's internationalization over the last two decades of the twentieth century' (p. 22). His efforts result in both a wealth of factual data and a model of internationalization that is suitable for use by other China scholars as well as by those studying other liberalizing societies. -- Norton Wheeler * H-Net Reviews *Zweig's study provides a helpful analysis and documentation of China's gaige kaifeng policies of the last quarter century, offering useful insights into the pull-push dynamics of local and external forces in the fields of local economic development, education, and development aid. -- Peter Harris * The China Journal *

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Book SynopsisFinancial markets are given to instability, but some financial systems are more crisis-prone than others. Natasha Hamilton-Hart's historically grounded investigation of central banks, governments, and private bankers in Southeast Asia helps explain...Trade ReviewExamines central banks, governments, and private bankers in a group of Southeast Asian countries, focusing on the regulatory functions of government with regard to money and finance. * Journal of Economic Literature *This is a well-researched and nuanced study of central banks in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It traces the historical evolution of the central banks in these countries, the resulting organizational culture, and the governance capacity, which in turn are linked to financial sector outcomes. All social scientists can benefit from the careful research and the many interesting and pertinent observations made throughout Hamilton-Hart's book. -- Mukul Asher, National University of Singapore * Pacific Affairs *Hamilton-Hart's thought-provoking book is a very valuable contribution to the literature on states and the financial sector more broadly, and on Southeast Asian comparative political economy more specifically. It offers us new insights into a little-studied phenomenon in political economy, namely the manner in which policies are implemented and the institutional factors that influence that process. -- Helen E. S. Nesadurai * ASEAN Economic Bulletin *This is an analysis of the highest quality as well as a highly engaging study. The dramatic events of the Asian economic crisis are used to provide a unique window into the inner workings of the financial and political systems of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and into the power relations in which they are embedded.... It is a study not only of banks and financial systems but also of theories of institutional change and reform well anchored in broader theoretical debates about the nature of institutions and power.... One of the strengths of Asian States, Asian Bankers is the author's exploration of how institutions might change in her nuanced and thoughtful consideration of the postcrisis debate about convergence. -- Richard Robison, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague * Perspectives in Politics *The author argues the policy merits neither of financial regulation and open capital markets nor of their alternatives, but of states that do what they say they will do.... This study of the impact of institutional development, organizational capacities, and administrative styles in pleasingly old-fashioned in its use of comparative case methods to interrogate complex questions.... The studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore are very helpful. -- Danny Unger, Northern Illinois University * Journal of Asian Business *Asian States, Asian Bankers is well written and will certainly provide interesting reading to scholars keen on international monetary and financial issues in Southeast Asia. -- Ramkishen S. Rajan * Asian-Pacific Economic Literature *

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Book SynopsisThe atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable...Trade Review"What is the offshore world? When and why did it develop? Who supported its development? Where and how does it operate? How important is it in international commerce and finance today? To find answers to those questions, Palan (International relations and politics, Univ. of Sussex, UK) examines the offshore phenomenon in a broad sense of social and economic change. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and Research Collections."—Choice, Dec. 2003."This practice of sovereign bifurcation, by which states divide their sovereign space into heavily and lightly regulated realms, suggests a radical redrawing of state boundaries and an important transformation in the nature of sovereignty and the relationship between state and capitalism. Offshore may be at the very heart of the transformation of modern politics: is it the beginning of 'postglobalization?'"—Future Survey 26:1, January 2004"Ronen Palan asks bold, provocative questions regarding the relationship between sovereignty and the offshore economy and its relevance to state formation, globalization, and the fate of the nation-state. The 'commercialization of sovereignty' is a very effective underlying theme."—Peter Andreas, Brown University"The Offshore World explores the important concept of 'offshore' with a high level of detail and theoretical sophistication. Ronen Palan illuminates aspects of state sovereignty that have not been fully described elsewhere. This book will extend our understanding of how contemporary international society emerged over the last century, while providing insight into how concepts like 'offshore' reshape our thinking about economic phenomena."—Peter Dombrowski, The Naval War College"The Offshore World is a subtle and intriguing look at one of the global economy's most prominent features."—Debora Spar, Harvard Business SchoolTable of ContentsThe offshore economy in its contemporary settings; State, capital, and the production of offshore; The emergence of embryonic forms of offshore; The growth of an offshore economy; Offshore and the internationalization of the state; Offshore and the demise of the nation-state.

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Book SynopsisThe United States today is the most powerful nation in the world, perhaps even stronger than Rome was during its heyday. It is likely to remain the world''s preeminent power for at least several decades to come. What behavior is appropriate for such a powerful state?To answer this question, Robert J. Art concentrates on grand strategythe deployment of military power in both peace and war to support foreign policy goals. He first defines America''s contemporary national interests and the specific threats they face, then identifies seven grand strategies that the United States might contemplate, examining each in relation to America''s interests. The seven are:* dominionforcibly trying to remake the world in America''s own image;* global collective securityattempting to keep the peace everywhere;* regional collective securityconfining peacekeeping efforts to Europe;* cooperative securityseeking to reduce the occurrence of war by limiting other states'' Trade ReviewA brilliant distillation and synthesis of some of the best contemporary scholarship on American grand strategy, Art's new book offers a clear exposition of U.S. national interests and how to defend them. * Foreign Affairs *"Art believes the U.S. should maintain its military deployments in Europe, East Asia, and the Persian Gulf, and wage war when vital or highly important interests are threatened and occasionally to head off a Rwanda-style genocide, but deplores the unilateralismism and 'arrogance,' and feels the U.S. should pay attention to world opinion, help combat global warming, and eschew missile defense."—Publishers Weekly, 15 July 2003"Art sees six major national interests for the US in the world: preventing an attack on the homeland, preventing major Eurasian arms races and wars, preserving access to foreign oil, preserving an open economic system, promoting democracy and human rights, and protecting the environment, with special attention to global warming... Art's preference for a grand strategy of selective engagement with the world is generally well argued.... Highly recommended. All levels."—ChoiceArt, a senior and seasoned scholar, deploys his craft masterfully. In A Grand Strategy for America he presents a clearheaded, classical, national-interest analysis that starts with a ranking of America's basic interests.... Art then dissects eight grand strategies to promote American interests against these threats.... Art's analysis is a sober reminder to European and American multilateralists that the use of force remains essential for managing world peace beyond the Atlantic region. -- Henry R. Nau * Perspectives on Politics *For this American-led international system to continue to be effective, some version of Art's military strategy is an essential component. No clever political or economic scheme, for example, the 'democratic peace' or 'globalization', can compensate for it. Art has given us a first-rate and very useful book. -- William E. Odom * Political Science Quarterly *This is a truly excellent book, destined to become a classic in the genre. Political leaders would benefit greatly reading it. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. * Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard C. Leone, President of The Century FoundationIntroduction1. The International Setting2. America's National Interests3. Dominion, Collective Security, and Containment4. Selective Engagement5. Isolationism and Offshore Balancing6. Selective Engagement and the Free Hand Strategies7. Implementing Selective EngagementAppendix A. Civil Wars Active between 1991 and 2000 Appendix B. International Wars Active between 1991 and 2000Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart. But in all these attempts to make sense of the wars and ethnic violence, one crucial factor has been overlooked—the fundamental roles...Trade ReviewAlthough the Balkan wars of the 1990s were homegrown, diasporas from Australia to North America played more than a cameo role. Hockenos is the first person with enough curiosity and drive to unravel systematically the connections between the Croat, Serb, and Albanian emigre populations and Franjo Tudjman, Slobodan Milosevic, and others who presided over the Balkan calamity. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *For almost twenty years Hockenos has reported extensively on Eastern European life and times, including the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. He also works for a European think tank focused on the future of the Balkans. Homeland Calling... documents the impact of exile activists on their homelands of Croatia, Serbia, and Albania. Tracking how the émigr's raised large amounts of money for weapons, political campaigns, and the lobbying of Western governments, Hockenos concludes that exile leaders didn't cause the wars, but they effectively turbocharged them by supporting radically nationalistic policies and actions. -- Barbara A. Melville * Skidmore Scope *

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Book Synopsis"Post is a pioneer in the field of political-personality profiling. He may be the only psychiatrist who has specialized in the self-esteem problems of both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."—The New Yorker "Policy specialists and academic...Trade Review"It is no surprise to Jerrold M. Post, the founder of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior at the C.I.A., that Saddam Hussein grew up to be one of the world's most dangerous dictators and a member of President Bush's axis of evil. . . . As Dr. Post recounts in his new book, Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World, Mr. Hussein's father died, probably of cancer, in the fourth month of his mother's pregnancy with Saddam. Mr. Hussein's 12-year-old brother died, also of cancer, a few months later. The trauma left Saddam's mother, Sabha, so desperately depressed that she tried and failed to abort Saddam and kill herself. When Saddam was born, she would have nothing to do with him and sent him away to an uncle. . . . 'Most people with that kind of background would be highly ineffective as adults and be faltering, insecure human beings.' But there is, Dr. Post said, an alternative path that a minority of wounded selves take: 'malignant narcissism,' the personality disorder that Dr. Post believes fueled Mr. Hussein's rise in Iraq. Perhaps most important, Dr. Post says, is that Mr. Hussein is a 'judicious political calculator,' not a madman."—The New York Times, May 15, 2004"The crucial role of personality in shaping the political behavior of leaders of states and movements has been amply demonstrated in recent events, ranging from the Soviet demise to the 9/11 cataclysm and the Iraq war. In this seminal book, Post presents a variety of psychological theories, models, and methods to explain the behavior of leaders in times of crisis. . . . Clearly, these essays are pioneering contributions and essential reading for leaders, policy makers, intelligence analysts, academic specialists, and the thinking public."—Choice, March 2005"A study of the effects of the ways in which social background, childhood trauma, illness, cultural conditioning, and more influence the behavior of leaders. The author draws upon a broad variety of largely modern examples."—The NYMAS Review, No. 30 Spring 2004"Understanding our opponents is vitally important in a world of terrorism. Jerrold M. Post has done many psychological profiles of foreign leaders for our presidents. In this book, he gives us valuable insights as to what we should be looking for."—Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (ret.), Former Director of Central Intelligence"Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World is a highly sophisticated psychoanalytic exploration of famous political leaders as well as lowly assassins and terrorists. The rich collection of examples makes extraordinarily stimulating reading, illustrating the variety of psychic factors that drive the people who shape history."—Fred C. Iklé, Distinguished Scholar, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy"At a time of urgent need to understand the motivations of bad as well as good leaders around the world, Jerrold M. Post offers acute insights and sophisticated analysis drawn from his mastery of leadership theory and his extensive experience in government. Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World is a must-read in the age of Hussein, Kim Jong Il, bin Laden, and Milosevic, whom he analyzes among others."—James MacGregor Burns, Williams College"This is an extremely important book that all top U.S. national-security decision makers and students of international relations ought to read closely. Post's chapters on Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il and the mind of the terrorist are each worth the price of the book alone. Post is a singular talent who shows why this very important forgotten art needs to be brought back to full strength in the U.S. government."—Barry R. Schneider, Director, USAF Counterproliferation Center"In today's world, where high-tech industry and weaponry give individuals enormous power, it is more important than ever to understand the purposes and dynamics of leading personalities. We are fortunate that Jerrold Post has led the way in assessing the personalities of those who have shaped contemporary history. Post's insightful psychological profiles have informed a generation of policymakers. They should also inspire political scientists to advance the techniques of analyzing the psychodynamics of leaders who shape the lives of millions."—Richard H. Solomon, President, United States Institute of Peace"This book is an important and timely reminder of the complex interweave between personality and politics. Jerrold M. Post sheds light on how some leaders and their followers develop the capacity to gravely injure the common good."—Barbara Kellerman, Research Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisOn August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia and for an end to a brutal military occupation. Upon the announcement of the result, Indonesian troops and their paramilitary proxies launched a wave of terror that, over three weeks, resulted in the murder of more than 1,000 people, the rape of untold numbers of women and girls, the razing of 70 percent of the country''s buildings and infrastructure, and the forcible deportation of 250,000 people. In recounting these horrible acts and the preceding events, Joseph Nevins shows that what took place was only the final scene in more than two decades of atrocities. More than 200,000 people, about a third of the population, lost their lives due to Indonesia''s 1975 invasion and subsequent occupation, making the East Timorese case proportionately one of the worst episodes of genocide since World War II. In A Not-So-Distant Horror, Nevins reveals the international compliTrade ReviewA Not-So-Distant Horror is essential for understanding the broader context of Washington's latest support for Jakarta's military. The book provides a thorough overview of 'international community' backing for the twenty-four-year Indonesian military occupation of East Timor, and shows the blatant power calculations that went into the sell-out of the East Timorese. As Nevins quotes then-U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Stapleton Roy saying in 1999, 'Indonesia matters and East Timor doesn't.'. -- Ben Terrall * Counterpunch.org *In an account described by Noam Chomsky as 'searingly honest,' Joe Nevins analyzes how Western nations conspired to back Indonesia and keep the East Timor issue out of the spotlight. The price paid by the East Timorese was a loss of life estimated at close to two hundred thousand, or a third of its population, proportionally one of the worst cases of genocide since World War II. -- Maire Leadbeater * The New Zealand Herald *Nevins's account of the period from Indonesia's unlawful invasion of East Timor on 7 December 1975 to the withdrawal of its forces in September 2001 is factual, accurate, and spare.... There is much to reflect on in Nevins's book, not least the mute acceptance in Australia of many U.S. policies as our own. -- Richard Broinowski * Australian Book Review *This book identifies many villains and even more numerous accomplices, not only in East Timor but in 'painful events' around the world. It will raise the reader's righteous indignation as well as awareness. Implicit is the hope that awareness and indignation will stimulate deeper, more truthful accounts of 'painful events', leading to justice, restitution and moral closure. -- Stephen Hoadley * New Zealand International Review *Rarely do contemporary histories address foreign policy making from the perspective of human rights and justice. Even rarer is a book like Joseph Nevins's A Not-So-Distant Horror, which compellingly makes the case that failure to give such concerns adequate weight in policy formulation has produced ruinous results.... This book should be read by all those concerned that Washington's eager embrace and empowerment of rogue militaries in the so-called 'war on terror'—as we did during the Cold War—will again strengthen regimes characterized by their corruption and hostility to democracy and human rights. -- Edmund McWilliams * Foreign Service Journal *This is a gripping and powerful saga rooted in the horrible atrocities and deprivation endured by the East Timorese following Indonesia's invasion in 1975. Indonesian security forces ruled ruthlessly until 1999, causing nearly 200,000 conflict-related deaths, imprisoning and torturing thousands more, while raping and plundering with abandon. A generation of East Timorese grew up where the rule of law was a distant rumor and human rights were routinely violated. Joseph Nevins briefly recapitulates this history, focusing on international complicity in these crimes against humanity, but mostly dwells on the troubling failure to secure justice. -- Jeff Kingston * The Japan Times *

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Book SynopsisCalculating Credibility examines—and ultimately rejects—a fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility. Fear of diminished...Trade ReviewScholars have long been trying to drive a stake through the heart of one of the last century's most enduring legacies—Munich. The latest to grip the hammer is Daryl Press, and his well-argued (and commendably concise) book should be required reading for historians and policy wonks alike. Calculating Credibility compares two principal theories of crisis decisionmaking: 'past actions' (i.e., Munich), and 'current calculus.'. -- Ralph Hitchens * The Journal of Military History *

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Book SynopsisSmall states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful...Trade Review"In this highly informative, nuanced, and balanced book, J. C. Sharman narrates the fascinating story of how the Davids of the modern world, the small tax havens, have managed to beat the modern Goliath represented by the OECD campaign against harmful tax competition. Without losing sight of the theoretical underpinnings of his narrative, Sharman weaves a tale of complex political maneuvering on par with the best detective stories This has resulted in one of the most important recent contributions to international relations scholarship." -- Ronen Palan, University of Sussex, author of The Offshore World"Tax havens and attempts at their regulation have increasingly become—an issue of intense public debate and some academic analysis. J. C. Sharman is in a unique position due to the very extensive empirical research he has conducted. He has personally visited a large number of countries, both developed OECD states and a substantial number of havens, interviewing many key players and collecting much documentation. Havens in a Storm provides a fascinating overview of recent developments and cogent analysis of the political dynamics of the issue." -- Sol Picciotto, Lancaster University Law School

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Book SynopsisCooley examines how domestic politics in different host countries, especially in periods of democratic transition, affect the status of U.S. bases and the degree to which the U.S. military has become a part of their local and national landscapes.Trade ReviewOffers feasible pros and cons for both sides of the debate on U.S. basing in allied nations. -- Col. Gordon W. Keiser * Proceedings (USNI) *

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Book SynopsisGovernments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful healing effects when they are offered, and poisonous effects when withheld. West Germany made extensive efforts to atone for wartime crimes-formal apologies, monuments to victims of the Nazis, and candid history textbooks; Bonn successfully reconciled with its wartime enemies. By contrast, Tokyo has made few and unsatisfying apologies and approves school textbooks that whitewash wartime atrocities. Japanese leaders worship at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals among Japan''s war dead. Relations between Japan and its neighbors remain tense.Examining the cases of South Korean relations with Japan and of French relations with Germany, Jennifer Lind demonsTrade ReviewAt a time when nations and societies around the world are engaging in remarkable new means to restore comity in the aftermath of violence and brutality, detailed and comparative studies of national successes and failures in reconciliation are sorely needed. Jennifer Lind's work will stand as a valued contribution in this humane project. * Journal of Japanese Studies *States victimized by aggression often harbor resentment against the perpetrator, but can apologies by the latter lead to reconciliation and harmonious relations' Jennifer Lind focuses on political rather than cultural factors in her cogent analysis of remembrance and remorse. She finds that the issue is whether apologies by the aggressor can reduce the perception of threat by former victims. She concludes that this is possible, but recognizes that bilateral ties may also be improved in the absence of apologies, and that apologies can produce jingoistic backlashes in their own countries. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThomas Risse evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres, arguing that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries.Trade Review"A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception." -- Thomas Banchoff, Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University"In a book that will become a classic, Thomas Risse provides a fascinating, comprehensive, and wise analysis of European identity. This book is a model of conceptual clarity, empirical richness, and theoretical acuity that is certain to shape both the field of European studies and debate about the future of Europe." -- Gary Marks, Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU Amsterdam, and Burton Craige Professor, UNC–Chapel Hill"This timely and important book spans sociology, comparative politics, and international relations. Thomas Risse was one of the first to write about European identity issues as well as about the European public sphere; he combines sophisticated quantitative methodology with careful qualitative analysis." -- Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University"Thomas Risse has taken up the hard question of whether or not a European public sphere exists. He has tentatively answered 'yes.' But, he also has a realistic view of the limits of that sphere and the political forces that affect the possibility of that sphere expanding, contracting or leading to bad outcomes. His perspective marks a clear position in this important debate about the future of Europe. This makes the book well worth reading." -- Neil Fligstein, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Europeanization of Identities and Public SpheresPart I. An Emerging European Identity? 1. Collective Identities: Conceptual and Methodological Questions 2. Multiple Europes: The Europeanization of Citizens' Identities 3. Modern Europe and Its Discontents: The Europeanization of Elite Identities 4. Europeanization of National Identities: ExplanationsPart II: An Emerging European Public Sphere? 5. Transnational Public Spheres: Conceptual Questions 6. The Gradual Europeanization of Public Spheres 7. A European Community of Communication?Part III: Consequences 8. "Deepening": European Institution-Building 9. "Widening": EU Enlargement and Contested Identities 10. European Democracy and PoliticizationConclusions: Defending Modern EuropeReferences Index

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Book SynopsisThompson surveys U.S. policy toward Iraq, starting with the Gulf War, continuing through the interwar years of sanctions and coercive disarmament, and concluding with the 2003 invasion and its long aftermath.Trade ReviewThompson's books adds to the small but growing body of work addressing why powerful countries would channel foreign policies through IOs. A major strength of Channels of Power is that it pays serious attention to theory development, generating falsifiable hypotheses about state behavior and international reaction to activity at the Security Council. Channels of Power is very well written and researched and its an important contribution to the literature on international organizations and security policy. -- Terrence Chapman * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. The Power of International Organizations IOs and Information Transmission Statecraft and IOs The United Nations and the Legitimation of Force Case Selection and OutlineChapter 2. Coercion, Institutions, and Information The Politics and Costs of Coercion Institutions and Information Coercion through IOs Two Pathways of Information Transmission Institutional Variation and the Security Council Alternative Arguments Observable Implications and Research DesignChapter 3. The Security Council in the Gulf War, 1990–1991 Background and Events Choosing (How) to Intervene Signaling Intentions to State Leaders Transmitting Policy Information to Foreign Publics Assessing the Role of LegitimacyChapter 4. Coercive Disarmament: The Interwar Years Channeling Power between the Wars The Postwar Honeymoon Cracks in the Coalition The Decline of UN Inspections Desert Fox and Its Aftermath The Evolution of U.S. Coercive Strategy Reviving Inspections: A Divided CouncilChapter 5. The Second Iraq War: Down the UN Path, 2002–2003 From September 11 to Iraq Appealing to the General Assembly Back to the Council: Resolution 1441 Renewed Inspections A Second Resolution? Explaining U.S. MotivationsChapter 6. The Second Iraq War: Bypassing the Security Council Was It a "Unilateral" Policy? The Costs of Working through the UN Sensitivity to IO Constraints Regional Options: Constrained Forum Shopping International Reactions to Iraq 2003 The International Political Costs of the WarChapter 7. Conclusion: How the Security Council Matters Multilateralism in U.S. Foreign Policy Beyond the Superpower The Security Council as a Political InstitutionAppendix: Selected Security Council ResolutionsBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMario Del Pero questions the depiction of Kissinger as the foreign policy realist par excellence, revealing him to have been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized.Trade Review"Mario Del Pero brings a fresh and vivid intelligence to his analysis of American foreign and domestic policy as shaped and practiced by Henry Kissinger. The Eccentric Realist is a brilliant discussion of the decidedly unrealistic nature of Kissinger's realism, the circularity of his bipolar view of the world, and his ultimate defeat at the hands of newly powerful neoconservative forces. The timeliness of Del Pero's work is daily evident in the return, perhaps only temporary, of ostensible realism to the conduct of American foreign policy."—Marilyn B. Young, New York University, author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990"The Eccentric Realist is a remarkable piece of scholarship. By viewing Henry Kissinger both as a realist in the European tradition and as an American attuned to U.S. moral absolutism, Del Pero lays bare the inherent contradictions in the détente project and the causes for its ultimate failure."—Odd Arne Westad, author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Crisis of Containment 2. Kissinger and Kissingerism 3. Kissingerism in Action 4. The Domestic Critique of Kissinger ConclusionNotes Index

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Book SynopsisJelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars.Trade ReviewSubotic argues that... international and national courts and truth commissions... have been used... to dispose of political opponents, secure economic assistance, or grease the way into the European Union. How this has happened and what those committed to making the new norms stick should do about it drive this book. Subotic goes about her study in an exceedingly clearheaded fashion; not only is she in full command of the relevant theoretical literature, but she deploys and then extends it in compact, crystal-clear paragraphs. The writing and argumentation are a model of what social science should be. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *

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Book SynopsisJonathan Kirshner explains how the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics.Trade Review...[H]ighly recommended especially for those interested in understanding the paradigm shifts that happened in the 1970s and 1980s....[E]ssential reading. -- Mehment Kerem Coban * Asian Journal of Public Affairs *It is always a pleasure to read somethign by Jonathan Kirshner. His style is lucid, informed, and replete with a wry sense of humor. Above all, he is emphatic. Not for Kirshner are the meek caveats of classical scholarship. His intention is to tell us what he really thinks, in as unvarnished a fashion as possible. -- Benjamin J. Cohen * Political Science Quarterly *It is sometimes said that nobody saw the global financial crisis of 2008 coming. But that is not entirely accurate. There were analysts who predicted trouble ahead, and few did so with the uncanny clarity of Jonathan Kirshner.... It is worth taking note of what Kirshner has to say about the financial system today. His views are not reassuring. He argues that 'the fundamental causes' of the 2008 crisis have not been addressed. On the contrary, critical elements—banks that are too big to fail and risky financial practices—are still in place. As Kirshner puts it, the fire of the financial crisis was extinguished at great cost, but 'the firetrap remained.'... Kirshner's record suggests that he is better than most at looking beyond the transient moment and identifying the underlying trends. His latest book is provocative, interesting and well worth reading. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *Jonathan Kirshner contributes a timely and incisive analysis to the debate on American relative decline. While American Power after the Financial Crisis comprehensively deals with the fallout from the great recession in 2008, its real contribution is its placement of the crisis within its braoder historical context. -- Kit Waterman * H-Diplo *Jonathan Kirshner's American Power After the Financial Crisis is a fascinating account of the origins of the crisis, the historical lessons that should have, but didn’t, prevent it, and most important, what long-term effects the crisis will have on American power and influence in world politics, particularly in Asia.... Kirshner begins his exceedingly well-written analysis by looking at 'the great teacher' of economics, the Great Depression, and explains how flawed ideas about global trade and finance led political leaders to adopt policies in response to the 1929 financial crisis that pushed the world economy into a downward spiral, ultimately exacerbating tensions that contributed to the Second World War.... In Kirshner’s excellent account, there is a bright side yet. One of the effects of the crisis is that it 'has brought about what I term "a new heterogeneity of thinking" with regard to ideas about how to best manage domestic and international money and finance.' That may be just the opening policy-makers in China and the rest of the world need. -- David Plott * Global Asia *The heart of Kirshner's argument is that America's failure to respond to the crash of 2007–08 with meaningful reforms is eroding our economic and political influence, and heralding a more diverse world economic order.... While much of American Power after the Financial Crisis focuses on what happens next, as the world rejects America's 'financialized' market model and different countries try different approaches, there is no question about what the author believes could halt our slide: reregulating the financial sector. 'Letting 'the market rule in finance,' Kirshner argues, 'makes as much sense as letting the market decide where and how nuclear waste will be disposed of.'. -- Courtney McBride * National Journal *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Global Financial Crisis as World Politics2. Learning from the Great Depression3. From the First to the Second US Postwar Order4. Seeds of Discord: The Asian Financial Crisis5. The New American Model and the Financial Crisis6. The Crisis and World Politics7. The Crisis and the International Balance of Power8. Conclusions, Expectations, and SpeculationsNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy, as well as its strengths: rapid and flexible responses, generally pragmatic decision-making, and effective planning.Trade ReviewZion's Dilemmas is the most detailed analysis to date of the inner workings of Israel's national security establishment. It presents seven case studies: the two Lebanon wars (1982 and 2006); the peace processes with Egypt and the Palestinians; the unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon, in 2000, and Gaza, in 2005; and the failed Lavi fighter jet project, an ambitious attempt to build an indigenous warplane with U.S. funding, which was canceled in 1987. -- Aluf Benn * Foreign Affairs *Freilich's book, which furnishes a unique glimpse into the Israeli national security decision-making process, is sure to become the 'go to' work on the subject. It is a must read for anyone interested in how and why Israeli governments have made—and continue to make—the national security decisions that they do. -- David Rodman * Israel Affairs *How often is a reviewer assigned a book he or she can confidently predict will become not only an indispensable reference work but the essential reference point for future research on a given subject? Zion's Dilemmas is one such instance, and its author is to be congratulated for his outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of contemporary Israel studies writ large, and more specifically to the analysis of the country’s internal policymaking processes and status as a highly controversial yet formidable Middle Eastern and global state actor. * Israeli Journal of Foreign Affairs *The author... presents a very informative account of how Israel formulates its national security policy.... The book also presents an in-depth analysis of the DMP in several major case studies in Israel's national security history. -- Efraim Inbar * Political Science Quarterly *This volume is by one of the foremost analysts of Israel's national security policy (NSP).... It analyzes seven case studies dealing with NSP toward the Palestinians, Gaza, and Lebanon, and the building of the Lavi jet fighter.... Freilich argues that it is imperative for Israel to correct its NSP failures in order to meet expected strong challenges in the future. Those interested in Israel's NSP and its foreign policies will benefit greatly from this study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. The Setting1. Constraints and Players: The External Environment, Proportional Representation System, and National Security Establishment Israel's National Security Environment The Proportional Representation System The National Security Establishment2. The Decision-Making Process: How the System Actually Works Pathology 1: An Unplanned Process Pathology 2: A Highly Politicized Process Pathology 3: Semi-organized Anarchy; or, Is Anyone at the Helm? Pathology 4: An Uninstitutionalized Process Pathology 5: Primacy of the Defense Establishment Something Must Be Good: Strengths of the Israeli SystemPart II. The Case Studies3. Camp David I: Making Peace with Egypt, 1977–19794. The Makings of a Young Lion: The Lavi Combat Aircraft, 1980–19875. The Invasion of Lebanon, 19826. Leaving Lebanon: The Unilateral Withdrawal, 20007. Camp David II: The Israeli- Palestinian Negotiations, 1999–20008. Disengaging from Gaza, 20059. Back Again: The Second Lebanon War, 2006Part III. Final ThoughtsConclusions and Recommendations The Case Studies in Comparative Perspective Key Findings Past Attempts at Reform Failings Tolerable No Longer Future ReformsAppendix 1: The INSC Law, 2008 Appendix 2: Recommendations of the Winograd Commission and the Shahak CommitteeList of Interviews Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA passionate and provocative argument that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive.Trade Review[R]eadable and brilliantly written, as well as... [rich] in information... and... controversial but challenging ideas. -- Pierre Hassner * Survival *Christian Imperialism is a very welcome addition to the field of both missionary history and the history of the early American republic... For historians of missionsit shows that Americans were deeply involved in global missionary work well before they had officially crafted an overseas empire. For scholars of the early American republicit challenges that customary periodization of empire and demands that we look both within and beyond borders to recognize that the American past was never exclusively American. -- Edward E. Andrews * Journal of Church and State *According to Hopgood, we are witnessing the last gasp of human rights as the prospect of one world under secular human law is receding and thefoundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling (p. 1). It is from this vantage point that Stephen Hopgood launches into a nuanced and powerful demolition of the normalising metanarrative of the Human Rights agenda.... [T]his is a compelling text as Hopgood grapples with issues of 'who gets to decide global rules' and who gets to define "legitimate exceptions to them" (p. 2). Further, we see Human Rights are not, and never have been, above the fray of national sovereignty as organisations and states have always sought to set the parameters of the political sphere and define who would be excluded from the outset. -- Brian R. Gilbert * Critical Race and Whiteness Studies *Hopgood's point of view, sure to be controversial, is argued with clarity, passion, and verve. Hopgood challenges those concerned with humanitarianism to look beyond Western-led human rights organizations, especially to activists working within their own communities, for hope. It seems certain that this book will cause both celebration and discomfort, even outrage, within the human rights community. Readers with an interest in human rights policy, humanitarianism, and even cultural history more broadly will find much to like in Hopgood's brisk, witty prose, even if they are discomfited by his arguments. * Library Journal *In this scathing indictment of the human rights movement, Stephen Hopgood contends that it has sold out its moral clarity for an alliance with interventionist liberal states.... Hopgood's provocation is powerful, and his privileging of locally and nationally inspired activism rings true. He does an excellent job of drawing together specific incidents to support his controversial views.... The Endtimes of Human Rights is a bracing alert for human rights professionals and all who care about global ethics. Scholars, practitioners, and NGO contributors will need to reckon with this important book. -- Clifford Bob * Ethics & International Affairs *This is a provocative, angry book–and an important one.... The book is particularly good on the link between human rights and liberalism, and how the larger the human rights non-governmental organization is, the greater the likelihood that it has been tamed by capital, existing to raise money rather than raising money to exist.... This is a disturbing read, the anger driving the narrative, the passion evident in every paragraph. -- Conor Gearty * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface1. Moral Authority in a Godless World2. The Church of Human Rights3. The Holocaust Metanarrative4. The Moral Architecture of Suffering5. Human Rights and American Power6. Human Rights Empire7. Of Gods and Nations8. The Neo-Westphalian World

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Book SynopsisRecchia draws on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders to illuminate little-known aspects of U.S. decision making in the run-up to interventions in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq.Trade Review"In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses an important question: Why does the United States pursue multilateral military interventions when it ostensibly has the military capabilities to carry out these interventions on its own? Recchia's original answer to the question is an important contribution to the more general literature on military intervention and U.S. foreign policy in the post–Cold War era. Recchia conducted an impressive number of interviews with many of the key decision makers involved in the post–Cold War interventions about which he writes." -- David M. Edelstein, Georgetown University, author of Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation"Like a skilled forensic scientist, Stefano Recchia dissects and refutes the conventional wisdom about how national security decisions are made in the U.S. By doing so, he contributes greatly not only to an understanding of 'How did it happen?' but even more importantly to how to create a mature national security process in the future." -- Gregory S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC, Ret."The United States often seeks support from multilateral bodies like the UN Security Council and NATO before launching humanitarian interventions or using military force to change the political institutions of foreign nations. Why? Stefano Recchia in Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors puts forward an original answer to this enduring question. He shows that pro-force civilian policymakers often seek international authorization in order to mollify the government's chief reluctant warriors, for example, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service chiefs, who for their part look to such external authorization as insurance that U.S. forces will enjoy foreign burden-sharing and sustained domestic political support. In exploring this subject Recchia is persuasive in presenting his own arguments; he is judicious in his engagement of alternative explanations; and he is rigorous in his deployment of a wide range of cases spanning the entire post-Cold War period. Scholars of international relations and specialists in foreign policy alike will welcome and build upon this book for years to come." -- Joseph M. Grieco, Duke University"Stefano Recchia has done a masterful job documenting and analyzing the formulation of National Security Policy by the Principals of the National Security Council. His analysis is sound and he provides clear insight into all the arguments for the various courses of action advanced by the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others involved in making recommendations to the Commander-in-Chief." -- Joseph Ralston, General (Ret), USAF, Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of StaffTable of ContentsIntroduction: Multilateralism and the Generals1. The Value of Multilateral Legitimacy2. Institutions, Burden Sharing, and the American Military3. Haiti, 1993–94: Multilateral Approval to Ensure a UN Handoff4. Bosnia, 1992–95: Keeping the United States from "Owning" It5. Kosovo, 1998–99: Reassuring the Generals With NATO's Buy-In6. Iraq, 2002–3: Silence from the GeneralsConclusionAppendix: List of Officials Interviewed References Index

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Book SynopsisAs an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the renminbi (RMB) raises critical questions in international policy circles: What kinds of power is China acquiring in international monetary relations? What are the priorities of the Chinese government? What explains its preferences? In The Great Wall of Money, a distinguished group of contributors addresses these questions from distinct perspectives, revealing the extent to which China's choices, and global monetary affairs, will be shaped by internal political factors and affect world politics. The RMB is a likely competitor for the dollar in the next couple of decades; its emergence as an important international currency would have substantial effects on the balance of powerTrade ReviewAs Helleiner (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) and Kirshner (Cornell Univ.) affirm, discussions of China's contemporary and potential future roles in global monetary relations have usually been framedthrough the narrow lens of economic analysis. By stressing power and politics as essential determinants of Chinese monetary policies, the contributors to this timely volume's eight chapters seek to redress this deficiency, approaching the subject from a wide range of perspectives. The essayists include both China scholars and international monetary specialists, and they focus widely on the various types of international monetary power the People's Republic of China (PRC) party-state is acquiring. These include financing payment imbalances; steadily gaining greater influence in key institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund; and fostering the global status of China's currency (renminbi). At issue is whether China will basically accept the existing rules of the international monetary game, demand significant changes in those rules, or breakcompletely with the current system. The divergent explanations in these essays of the PRC's priorities and preferencesmirror Beijing's own policy ambivalence. They suggest that although China has cautiously accepted but frequently critiqued the status quo, it has thus far conspicuously failed to offer any grand scheme to replace it. -- R.P. Gardella * Choice *Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner's edited volume, which examines the role, rationale, and impact of decisionmaking in China’s monetary and financial sectors, represents an important contribution to the literature on Chinese political economy. Offering readers an accessible examination of the nexus of political economy and power politics in China, this is a valuable addition to a rather under-researched field (though published material on business and management is quite extensive). While industry stakeholders and commentators have written extensively on China’s currency reform, exchange rate policy, and IMF’s Special Drawing Rights Basket, they offer little insight into the why—the motivations, players, andpriorities—behind China’s approach to monetary policy and relations. In this volume, each chapter blends an impressive combination of research methods, expertise, and critical insights, filling this gap effectively. -- Winnie King * H-Diplo *This excellent collection of essays, derived from a conference held in 2012, centres on the question posed by its editors, Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner, in the introduction: broadly speaking, will the world's second largest economy prove to be a 'taker', ‘maker’ or ‘breaker’? -- Kerry Brown * International Affairs *The Great Wall of Money is a timely and rigorous study on the role that power and politics play in forging China's international monetary relations.... [It] is highly recommended for scholars of international political economy of money and China specialists. As the book examines both international and domestic sources of China's international monetary policy, it will leave the reader with a deep sense of carefulness when it comes to the temptation to make sweeping judgements about China's rising monetary power. -- Zhaohui Wang * China Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of China's International Monetary Relations by Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner1. The China Question: Can Its Rise Be Accommodated? by Benjamin J. Cohen2. The Hidden History of China and the IMF by Eric Helleiner and Bessma Momani3. Why Has China Accumulated Such Large Foreign Reserves? by David A. Steinberg4. Global Imbalances and the Limits of the Exchange Rate Weapon by Hongying Wang5. China's Engagement with International Macroeconomic Policy Surveillance by Andrew Walter6. The Limits of China’s Monetary Diplomacy by Yang Jiang7. China’s Rising Monetary Power by Gregory Chin8. Regional Hegemony and an Emerging RMB Zone by Jonathan KirshnerReferences Index

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Book SynopsisAndrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression.Trade ReviewAgainst Immediate Evil is an important contribution to the historiography of the formation of the foundations of American foreign policy as the United States asserted its role in the mid-twentieth century as not just a great power, but as an emerging global superpower.... Andrew Johnstone's book is a concise and readable chronological narrative of the development of the American internationalist before the entrance of the United States in the Second World War. -- Grant Harward * H-War *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Four Freedoms1. The Sino-Japanese War and the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression2. The Coming of War and the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts3. The Phony War and the Non-Partisan Committee for Peace through Revision of the Neutrality Law4. Blitzkrieg and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies5. The Destroyer-Bases Agreement and the Century Group6. Maximum Aid and the Battle for Lend-Lease7. Deliver the Goods and Fight for Freedom8. The Battle of the Atlantic from Barbarossa to Pearl HarborEpilogue: War and BeyondNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do insurgents and governments select their targets? Which ideological discourses and organizational policies do they adopt to win civilian loyalties and control territory? Aysegul Aydin and Cem Emrence suggest that both insurgents and governments adopt a wide variety of coercive strategies in war environments. In Zones of Rebellion, they integrate Turkish-Ottoman history with social science theory to unveil the long-term policies that continue to inform the distribution of violence in Anatolia. The authors show the astonishing similarity in combatants' practices over time and their resulting inability to consolidate Kurdish people and territory around their respective political agendas. The Kurdish insurgency in Turkey is one of the longest-running civil wars in the Middle East. Zones of Rebellion demonstrates for the first time how violence in this conflict has varied geographically. Identifying distinct zones of violence, Aydin and Emrence show why Kurds and KurTrade ReviewZones of Rebellion is a slim book, but it manages to fit plenty in. It is determinedly wonkish and non-ideological, divided into sections examining the origins and tactics of both the PKK and the Turkish military. It shows how decisions taken in response to particular circumstances set the future direction of the conflict and limited the options of both players. Ultimately, this path dependence led to political stalemate. At critical junctures each side pursued policies that might seem inefficient to an outside observer. -- William Armstrong * Hurriyet Daily News *Table of ContentsIntroduction Zone Making Midfield Wars Origins of Violence Looking AheadPart I. InsurgencyChapter 1. Organization Competitive Origins Building Trust Extracting Resources The Weberian Experiment Failed Organizational InertiaChapter 2. Ideology A Fight for Independence Inviting Pressure from Abroad Bargaining with the StateChapter 3. Strategy A Border Specialist Reaching Out Paying the Price Back to BotanPart II. CounterinsurgencyChapter 4. Organization Administrative Solutions Special Rule Redistricting Abandoning the CountrysideChapter 5. Ideology Rural Bias Blaming Foreign Sponsors A Developmentalist Response The Backup Plan: Co-optationChapter 6. Strategy Locating Insurgents Sweep and Strike Curbing Civilian Unrest The No-Entry ZoneConclusion Forging Identities Path-Dependent Origins Room for ContingencyAppendix Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in the long and sinuous diplomatic relationship between the United States and Burma/Myanmar, which Kenton Clymer examines in A Delicate Relationship. From the challenges of decolonization and heightened nationalist activities that emerged in the wake of World War II to the Cold War concern with domino states to the rise of human rights policy in the 1980s and beyond, Clymer demonstrates how Burma/Myanmar has fit into the broad patterns of U.S. foreign policy and yet has never been fully integrated into diplomatic efforts in the region of Southeast Asia.When Burma, a British colony since the nineteenth century, achieved independence in 1948, the United States feared that the country might be the first Southeast Asian nation to fall to the communists, and it embarked on a series of efforts to prevent this. In 1962, General NeTrade ReviewClymer has trolled deeply in the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland, among the old monsoon-scented boxes from the Rangoon/Yangon embassy, among former presidents' papers, and in archives in Australia and Britain. His footnotes alone are a gold mine for scholars. He must have chosen many boxes to search, and he must have been selective in the sources he included, but I can see little ground for a protest that x is missing or that y should have been treated. He also held background conversations with important informants. It is important to recall how troubled and static the American-Myanmar relationship has been at times since 1948, restricted by the scarcity of Americans who had knowledge of and interest in the country, and restricted by the stone wall built up by various military governments. This important book provides an excellent account of this delicate relationship, using both confidential sources (including in the Myanmar National Archives) and Clymer’s on-the-ground sensitivity. There appears to be no book with a historic sweep comparable to Clymer’s. Clymer’s fine book is not simply an archive-in-our-hands. It offers evidence and insight into one of the world’s incongruous relationships. As the radius of the new Myanmar’s influence grows and its peoples search for a more inclusive economy and more just society, Clymer’s work will be the basis of a renewed understanding of this delicate relationship, enabling others to build upon it. -- Robert Anderson * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *With this rich and dense monograph, Clymer.... has probably produced the most meticulous archival research on the relationship the United States has attempted to build with Burma/Myanmar since 1945.[A]n enormously well-researched, clear, and cogent study of postwar American relations with Burma/Myanmar.... Clymer’s work is free of the theoretic approaches (such as Orientalism) that underpin so much recent international history. By revealing, through painstaking multiarchival research and excellent narrative skills, the layered intricacies coloring this "delicate" relationship, Clymer also demonstrates the limits of any such broad essentializing. -- Edmund F. Wehrle * Journal of American History *Despite the fact that Myanmar occupies an important geographical space, it is understudied, little understood, and challenging to write about. It has been relevant to U.S. foreign policy, but the relationship between the two countries has hardly been explored. Kenton Clymer's A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945 aptly addresses this void.... All told, A Delicate Relationship is an impressive work that will enable scholars to better understand the complex and changing relationships between Myanmar and the U.S. -- Stephen L. Keck, Emirates Diplomatic Academy * American Historical Review *Clymer provides a strong analysis with a well-constructed historical narrative that pauses to give deeply insightful attention to particularly important episodes in the U.S.-Myanmar relationship. This important book is essential reading for everyone interested in Myanmar, from researchers, NGO workers, and members of the diplomatic service to the lay public. -- Michael Charney * Diplomatic History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Burmese Nationalism and the Path to Independence2. The Leaky Derelict3. High Treason: The Trial of the "Burma Surgeon"4. The Kuomintang Embarrassment5. China, Communists, and Other Insurgents6. Changing Course on the Kuomintang7. The Neutrality Conundrum8. The China Border, a “Polite Coup,” and Return to Democratic Government9. The U Nu Interregnum: To the Hard Coup of 196210. Ne Win's Way to Socialism11. The Relationship Stabilizes12. The Narcotics Era13. Revolt14. The ThawAppendix: US Ambassadors and Chargés d’Affaires Appointed to Burma

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Book SynopsisThe quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture...Trade ReviewA Certain Idea of Europe is a political journey, from the immediate post-war period to the European Union of the late 1990s that follows the place of French ideas in the establishment and development of the European Union we know today.... Parsons succeeds in piercing the strategic skin of the French political approach to Europe for most of the 20th century and analysing the ideas beneath. -- Claire Herbert * Journal of European Affairs *Parsons provides a full and intricate history of French diplomacy on the question of European Community building. It stands in its own right as a new and scholarly contribution to French postwar history and politics up to the end of the 1970s. * International History Review *Parsons's book is a welcome addition to the study of the European Union.... Parsons provides a vivid discussion on the early dynamics of French efforts to influence the evolution of European institutions from their inception after World War Two.... The book is both substantively and theoretically rich, and provides a wealth of bibliographic resources, analytical footnotes, and a well-organized index.... Highly recommended. General readers and upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIn a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belief that U.S. foreign policy has been consistent in its aims for more than sixty years and that the current Bush administration clings to mid-twentieth-century tactics—to...Trade Review"Anyone who believes U.S. foreign policy has been mainly defensive since World War II, or thinks that this policy became transformed after the 9/11 attacks, should read this superb analysis of the Bush administration's diplomacy, the central roots of which run back nearly a century to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. With a sure grasp of both the historical facts and the theories that have driven the U.S. quest for global hegemony, Christopher Layne has made a masterful contribution to the intensifying post-Iraq-invasion debate over the course Americans are taking in their foreign policies." -- Walter LaFeber, Tisch University Professor, Cornell University"As an historical study and theoretical analysis, The Peace of Illusions succeeds in demonstrating that America's extraregional hegemony is not driven by security considerations but by economic and political interests and by a powerful ideology. U.S. global military power provided the United States with the opportunity and means to seek hegemony in Western Europe and other parts of Eurasia. But the real motivations that animated the hegemonic grand strategy are found at the domestic level.... Layne's ideas are an intellectual breath of fresh air.... As an offshore balancer, the United States could maximize its relative power effortlessly by standing on the sidelines while other great powers enter into security competition with each other." -- Leon Hadar, The American Conservative, June 5, 2006"Editor's Choice—Christopher Layne's 'The Peace of Illusion,' the most penetrating, intellectually daring work I've read on post-Cold War foreign policy." -- Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2009"For over a decade, through a series of influential articles, Layne has been the leading advocate within the academy of an entirely new and much more detached foreign policy strategy he calls 'offshore balancing.' In The Peace of Illusions, he puts his argument in book form, addressing conceptual as well as historical and policy issues.... It combines deep historical reading with rigorous theory-building and bold policy prescriptions. It is undoubtedly the most serious scholarly argument in many years for a U.S. policy of strategic disengagement, and should be considered required reading for students of international relations." -- Colin Dueck, Perspectives on Politics, March 2007"In Layne's telling, confronting the war-weakened Soviet Union was almost an afterthought. Stalin, he claims, actually wanted to persue detente with the United States and was only dissuaded when the Marshall Plan revealed U.S. intentions to force open Eastern Europe and achieve hegemony on the continent. Layne unconvincingly asserts that Harry Truman could have struck a deal with Stalin to set up Germany as an independant state, thereby reestablishing a balence of power in Eurasia and allowing the United States to withdraw across the Atlantic." -- Jack Snyder, Foreign Affairs"The Peace of Illusions is the clearest and most sophisticated argument for a radical alternative to the last sixty years of grand-strategy orthodoxy. It also signals a significant fluidity of ideological labels in the new debates on the direction of U.S. policy, itself a symptom of the widespread disorientation among American intellectuals on the world-political role of their state. In that sense, Layne's book can also be read as a product of the crisis in American realist thought, which its unorthodox conclusions may serve to deepen." -- Peter Gowan, New Left Review, September/October 2006Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Theory, History, and U.S. Grand Strategy2. World War II and the Foundations of American Global Hegemony3. U.S. Grand Strategy and the Soviet Union, 1945-19534. The Open Door and American Hegemony in Western Europe5. The Containment of Europe: American Hegemony and European Responses6. Liberal Ideology and U.S. Grand Strategy7. The End of the Unipolar Era8. The Strategy of Offshore BalancingConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCalculating Credibility examinesand ultimately rejectsa fundamental belief held by laypeople and the makers of American foreign policy: the notion that backing down during a crisis reduces a country''s future credibility. Fear of diminished credibility motivated America''s costly participation in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and, since the end of the Cold War, this concern has continued to guide American policy decisions. Daryl G. Press uses historical evidence, including declassified documents, to answer two crucial questions: When a country backs down in a crisis, does its credibility suffer? How do leaders assess their adversaries'' credibility? Press illuminates the decision-making processes behind events such as the crises in Europe that preceded World War II, the superpower showdowns over Berlin in the 1950s and 60s, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. When leaders face the prospect of high-stakes military conflicts, Press shows, they do not assess their adversaries'' credibility byTrade ReviewScholars have long been trying to drive a stake through the heart of one of the last century's most enduring legacies—Munich. The latest to grip the hammer is Daryl Press, and his well-argued (and commendably concise) book should be required reading for historians and policy wonks alike. Calculating Credibility compares two principal theories of crisis decisionmaking: 'past actions' (i.e., Munich), and 'current calculus.'. -- Ralph Hitchens * The Journal of Military History *

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Book Synopsis"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity—human rights and anticommunism—come more in conflict with each other than they did in Latin America. To refocus U.S. policy on human rights and democracy required a rethinking of U.S. policy as a whole...Trade ReviewFew scholars have argued as persuasively for the power of principled ideas and global civil society in shaping world politics as Kathryn Sikkink. This excellent book provides yet another sophisticated and cogent analysis of how global networks of principled individuals and groups have changed the world. It demonstrates convincingly that the human rights transnational advocacy network played a crucial role in changing the foreign policy of the world's most powerful state and the human rights practices of states throughout the Americas. * Latin American Politics and Society *Mixed Signals is an excellent account of the development of U.S. human rights policy, with a special emphasis on Latin America. It is impressive in its empirical scope, careful documentation, and analytic subtlety. It will prove useful to scholars and students. * Perspectives on Politics *Sikkink adds to her important work on nongovernmental organizations and advocacy networks with this illuminating account of how persistent policy entrepreneurs armed with fresh ideas inserted and then institutionalized human rights promotion into inter-American relations. The stakes in their 60-year-long struggle have been high, in terms of both American self-identity and Latin American lives, and Sikkink supplements recently released U.S. government documents with interviews of lower-level officials to condemn Henry Kissinger for signaling 'green lights' to vicious repression in Chile and Argentina and Ronald Reagan and Jeanne Kirkpatrick for their careless embrace of bloody Central American dictators. * Foreign Affairs *Sikkink's work is an original and significant contribution to the literature. It is superbly organized, clear, concise, yet filled with the detail, authority, theoretical grasp, and practical understanding of the legislative and international agendas on the subject. Mixed Signals will stand as a benchmark in the field for some time. * International History Review *

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Book SynopsisAssessments of China''s importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China''s increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China''s rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectivesconstructivist, liberal, neorealiston the significance of the many dimensions of China''s regional and global influence.Distinguished authors consider the likelihood of conflict and peaceful accommodation as China grows ever stronger. They look at the changing position of China from the inside: How do Chinese policymakers evaluate the contemporary international order and what are the regional and global implications of that worldview? The authors also address the implications of China''s increasing power for Chinese policymaking and for the foreign policies of Korea, Japan, and the United States.Trade ReviewA focused and cohesive book.... Careful consideration is given to a wide range of international relations theories as they apply to China's growing power in the 21st century. The theories are so well explored that the book goes beyond being a China study; it can be recommended... more broadly as a political and international relations theory book.... In addition to the US scholars, four contributing authors are Chinese, one is Korean, and one Japanese. Thus, a range of perspectives is provided. This reviewer has not seen a more sophisticated book on China's rise to power. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Robert S. Ross and Zhu FengPart I: Structure, Power Transitions, and the Rise of ChinaChapter1: Power Transition Theory and the Rise of China by Jack S. LevyChapter 2: China's Rise Will Be Peaceful: How Unipolarity Matters by Zhu FengChapter 3: Parsing China's Rise: International Circumstances and National Attributes by Avery GoldsteinPart II: International Institutions and the Rise of ChinaChapter 4: The Rise of China: Power, Institutions, and the Western Order by G. John IkenberryChapter 5: Structures, Processes, and the Socialization of Power: East Asian Community- building and the Rise of China by Qin Yaqing and Wei LingPart III: Chinese Policymaking and the Rise of ChinaChapter 6: From Offensive to Defensive Realism: A Social Evolutionary Interpretation of China's Security Strategy by Tang ShipingChapter 7: Purpose Transitions: China's Rise and the American Response by Jeffrey W. LegroPart IV: Responding to the Rise of ChinaChapter 8: Between China, America, and North Korea: South Korea’s Hedging by Byung- Kook KimChapter 9: A Japanese Perspective on China’s Rise and the East Asian Order by Akio TakaharaChapter 10: The Consequences of China’s Economic Rise for Sino-U.S. Relations: Rivalry, Political Conflict, and (Not) War by Jonathan KirshnerChapter 11: The United States and the Rise of China: Implications for the Long Haul by Robert J. ArtPart V: ConclusionChapter 12: The Rise of China: Theoretical and Policy Perspectives by Robert S. Ross and Zhu FengIndex

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