International relations Books
Stanford University Press Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Book SynopsisExplanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences haveand answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in Security Studies have advanced a range of different notions of explanation or different criteria of explanatory superiority to show that their positions are better than rival positions. To demonstrate this, the author engages in in-depth content analysis of the generally recognized exemplars of explanation and explanatory superiority in three of the core debates in the disciplines: Why do states pursue policies of nuclear proliferation? Why do states choose to form the alliances they do? And why do liberal democratic states behave the way they do toward other liberal democracies?The book reveals that authors in the debates that have shown the most progress use similar criteria in arguing for and against the key explanations. In thTrade Review"Rigorous theory appraisal within IR is fairly rare; this book sets a new benchmark on how to evaluate research programs. It is the best book on progress within IR since the work of Elman and Elman. I highly recommend it for scholars and students alike." -- John A. Vasquez, Thomas Mackie Scholar in International Relations * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"The main body of the book thoroughly examines three major debates in security studies: nuclear proliferation, alliance formation, and the democratic peace . . . As a theoretical and methodological work that looks inward at the field, this book will appeal primarily to academics in political science and international relations. Those readers, however, will value the comprehensive analysis of these major issues areas and the sophistication and accessibility of the book's overall findings . . . Summing Up: Recommended." -- A. G. Reiter * CHOICE *"Why do theoretical debates in international relations get recycled rather than resolved? Why does the cumulation of evidence fail to generate scholarly consensus, as it does in the natural sciences? How can we enhance scientific progress in international relations? In this wide-ranging, sophisticated, and innovative study, Chernoff offers a persuasive answer to these critical questions." -- Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors' Professor * Rutgers University *"This is an extraordinarily important work that offers an original insight into why the social sciences in general, and the fields of international relations and security studies in particular, have failed to coalesce into a paradigm. It provides an informative addendum to Kuhn's seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." -- James J. Wirtz, Dean, School of International Graduate Studies * Naval Postgraduate School *
£91.80
Stanford University Press Explanation and Progress in Security Studies
Book SynopsisExplanation and Progress in Security Studies asks why Security Studies, as a central area of International Relations, has not experienced scientific progress in the way natural sciences haveand answers by arguing that the underlying reason is that scholars in Security Studies have advanced a range of different notions of explanation or different criteria of explanatory superiority to show that their positions are better than rival positions. To demonstrate this, the author engages in in-depth content analysis of the generally recognized exemplars of explanation and explanatory superiority in three of the core debates in the disciplines: Why do states pursue policies of nuclear proliferation? Why do states choose to form the alliances they do? And why do liberal democratic states behave the way they do toward other liberal democracies?The book reveals that authors in the debates that have shown the most progress use similar criteria in arguing for and against the key explanations. In thTrade Review"Rigorous theory appraisal within IR is fairly rare; this book sets a new benchmark on how to evaluate research programs. It is the best book on progress within IR since the work of Elman and Elman. I highly recommend it for scholars and students alike." -- John A. Vasquez, Thomas Mackie Scholar in International Relations * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"The main body of the book thoroughly examines three major debates in security studies: nuclear proliferation, alliance formation, and the democratic peace . . . As a theoretical and methodological work that looks inward at the field, this book will appeal primarily to academics in political science and international relations. Those readers, however, will value the comprehensive analysis of these major issues areas and the sophistication and accessibility of the book's overall findings . . . Summing Up: Recommended." -- A. G. Reiter * CHOICE *"Why do theoretical debates in international relations get recycled rather than resolved? Why does the cumulation of evidence fail to generate scholarly consensus, as it does in the natural sciences? How can we enhance scientific progress in international relations? In this wide-ranging, sophisticated, and innovative study, Chernoff offers a persuasive answer to these critical questions." -- Jack S. Levy, Board of Governors' Professor * Rutgers University *"This is an extraordinarily important work that offers an original insight into why the social sciences in general, and the fields of international relations and security studies in particular, have failed to coalesce into a paradigm. It provides an informative addendum to Kuhn's seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." -- James J. Wirtz, Dean, School of International Graduate Studies * Naval Postgraduate School *
£22.49
Stanford University Press Strategy in Asia
Book SynopsisSome of the United States' greatest challenges over the coming decades are likely to emanate from the Asia-Pacific region. China and India are rising and Militant Islam continues to take root in Pakistan, while nuclear proliferation threatens to continue in fits and starts. If America is to meet these challenges comprehensively, strategists will have to learn more about Asia, and Asian scholars, policymakers, and analysts will need to understand better the enduring and timeless principles of strategy. Based on the premise therefore that the increasing strategic weight of the Asia-Pacific region warrants greater attention from both scholars and practitioners alike, Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security aims to marry the fields of strategic studies and Asian studies in order to help academics and practitioners to begin addressing these challenges. The book uses the lenses of geography, culture, and economics to examine in depth the strategic context that Trade Review"In an effort to facilitate American policy making in the region, Mahnken and Blumenthal provide an in-depth strategic overview of the Asia-Pacific. They explore the region from a geographical, cultural and economic perspective, predicting the key developments likely to impact its near future. ."—Survival"This short volume on a very large subject might best be thought of as the Pacific Pivot Primer. Readers without extensive practical military planning or academic experience in this subject would do well to start their regional familiarization with this book . . . [T]he editors render good service in compiling a worthwhile series of essays outlining the challenges to American strategy in the Pacific . . . While this Pacific Pivot Primer is well suited for officers headed for U.S. Pacific Command for the first time, it is also useful to the 'old hands' in that it helps to articulate those pressing strategic questions necessary in formulating—and executing—American strategy in this critical part of the world."—Col. Eric M. Walters, Military Review"The most interesting chapters in this collection reflect on how geography affects the war-fighting options of Asian states."—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs"This is a uniquely successful exploration of East Asia through the dual lens of strategic studies and Asian regional studies. An all-star cast of experts from both disciplines have written short but compelling essays on every facet of Asian security strategy. A valuable contribution; kudos to Mahnken and Blumenthal."—RADM Michael McDevitt, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow, CNA Corporation"A new generation of strategic thinkers, focused on Asia, is emerging, and they are brilliantly represented in this volume. The issues are very different from those that engaged their predecessors: the focus here on maritime issues and strategy requires knowledge, and ways of thinking, that go beyond familiarity with a region whose dynamics are very different than those of Europe. A superb, and—unusually for an edited volume—a coherent work, which deserves reading by student, scholar, and practitioner alike."—Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University"Strategy in Asia should be at the top of the list for anyone thinking about Asia's future. Policy makers, Asia scholars and others with an interest in that important region will find its unique blending of strategic and Asian studies timely, relevant, thought-provoking and useful."—Gary Roughead, Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired), Former Chief of Naval Operations"The volume is a great introductory primer for those interested in applying strategic studies to the Asian context...Comprised of 14 chapters and 6 maps, the volume opens windows into the key lenses of strategic studies namely, history, geography and politics, and secondarily, culture and economics."—Donovan C. Chau, Asian Politics and Policy
£25.19
Stanford University Press Chinese Hegemony
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an ambitious book that speaks to important theoretical debates and has an empirical contribution that moves beyond the existing literature on pre-modern East Asian international relations. It will be debated and discussed at length in the field." -- David C. Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business * University of Southern California *"Ambitious and innovative, this book proposes a 'relational approach' to the study of the early Ming's foreign relations and introduces into the debate the Confucian ethics of mutual affection and obligation in inter-polity relations. This is a much-needed move in a business dominated by Eurocentric ideas, perspectives and theories...It might well galvanize historians of East Asia and lead to renewed dialogue with IR scholars in the years to come."––Yangwen Zheng, Journal of Chinese Overseas"Chinese Hegemony is a fascinating, well-written, carefully constructed and researched book. I am impressed by its intellectual sweep and the diverse audiences to which it should appeal." -- Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, Department of War Studies * King's College London *
£52.70
Stanford University Press The Polythink Syndrome
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Much attention has been paid to the consequences of groupthink; however, very little has been paid to this other end of the decision making spectrum: polythink. This book elaborates on the antecedent conditions, processes and consequences of polythink in decision making, and concludes with a discussion of the conditions that mitigate it and leverage it for effective decision making. In doing so, it adds an important element to the discourse on decision-making and policy making at all levels."—Peter T. Coleman, Director, Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University"This book offers impressive evidence in favor of polythink as a major factor impacting foreign policy decision-making. Case material from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with the Iranian nuclear dispute, is treated in an original and stimulating way. A major contribution to foreign policy analysis."—Patrick James, Dornsife Dean's Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California"Americans excel in most things, from technology to music. But they keep failing in foreign policy. It is desperately important to understand why. The Polythink Syndrome offers a novel explanation—and possible remedies. This book is a major contribution and it will be influential."—Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DCTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Polythink Syndrome chapter abstractIn this chapter, we introduce the Polythink phenomenon, using the contrasting examples of Pearl Harbor and September 11 to demonstrate the critical effect that group dynamics can have on national security policy. We explain how Polythink is essentially the opposite of Groupthink on a continuum of decision making from "completely cohesive" (Groupthink) to "completely fragmented" (Polythink). We introduce the main symptoms and causes of Polythink and outline the organization of the book. 2Causes, Symptoms, and Consequences of Polythink chapter abstractIn this chapter, we outline the main symptoms, causes, and consequences of the Polythink phenomenon. We also introduce key explanations and predictors of Polythink. We then show how analysts can assess whether Polythink or Groupthink exists in a group. Finally, we compare the Polythink dynamic with the Groupthink dynamic and with a dynamic we call Con-Div, the middle point between these two extremes. 3Polythink in National Security: The 9/11 Attacks chapter abstractThis chapter provides an in-depth review of the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks, analyzing the decision-making processes of key diplomatic and security decision-making groups, including the CIA, the Presidential Cabinet or advisory team, the State Department, and more, to assess the key signs and symptoms of Polythink that were present in the decision-making processes of these groups and ultimately contributed to the failure to prevent this staggering attack. 4Polythink and Afghanistan War Decisions: War Initiation and Termination chapter abstractIn this chapter, we analyze the group dynamics in the Bush and Obama Administrations that fundamentally shaped and guided their policy decisions regarding the entrance to and exit from the Afghanistan War. While the initial invasion period was characterized by a deeply ingrained Groupthink mentality that had been shaped by the traumatic and devastating September 11 attacks, the decision to withdraw from the war was fraught with internal divisions and discordant worldviews of the national security policy-making complex—a Polythink process that deeply inhibited the development of a cohesive strategy for the successful conclusion of the war. 5Decision Making in the Iraq War: From Groupthink to Polythink chapter abstractIn this chapter we continue our analysis of the detrimental effects of flawed group decision-making processes surrounding decisions of war and peace. Specifically, using the Iraq War as a case study, we analyze the implications of Groupthink and Polythink on decisions made by the U.S. government in this controversial theater. Breaking down the group dynamics in the Bush and Obama Administrations, we demonstrate the effects of the decision-unit group dynamic on the decisions to initiate the war, adopt the Surge, and ultimately, withdraw from Iraq. 6Polythink in the Iranian Nuclear Dispute: Decisions of the U.S. and Israel chapter abstractThis chapter expands the range of national security decisions that can be affected by Polythink, examining the impact of Polythink on diplomacy, strategy, and negotiations. Specifically, we will assess the Obama Administration's 2009 Iran Policy Review concerning the Iranian nuclear program, and Israel's 2012 decision not to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The chapter begins with the U.S. Administration's decision-making dynamic in addressing the Iranian threat during President Obama's first two years in office, specifically focusing on Obama's 2009 Iran Policy Review. In the second section, we analyze the decision-making processes that occurred in the Israeli government regarding the Iranian nuclear program in early 2012 as the government weighed a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Interestingly, we find that in the Israeli case, the Polythink dynamic was mainly triggered by disagreement among three sub-decision-making groups: Israeli political leaders, the Israeli military establishment, and the U.S. Administration. 7Recent Challenges: The Syria Debate, the Renewed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, and the ISIS Decision chapter abstractThis chapter provides three examples of the application of Polythink to recent decisions and events in the international arena. Specifically, we analyze three recent developments in the Middle East: the tragedy in Syria and the UN and U.S. 2012 debate over sanctions against the Assad regime, the 2013<->14 peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians known as the "Kerry Process," and the summer 2014 U.S. decision to attack ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. These three cases demonstrate the global nature of Polythink and its relevance and applicability to U.S. and UN decisions (i.e., with multiple players), to negotiation processes (decisions in strategic interaction) and to tactical versus strategic decisions (as in the ISIS decision). We discuss the deliberate decision-unit architecture of Obama's second-term advisory team, establishing the critical importance a leader plays in influencing whether the unit will have a Groupthink, Con-Div, or Polythink group dynamic. 8The Global Nature of Polythink and Its Productive Potential chapter abstractIn this chapter, we discuss the implications of Polythink, Con-Div, and Groupthink beyond the realm of foreign policy, extending it to business decisions, research and development (R&D) decisions, marketing and sales decisions, production chain decisions, finance and budgeting decisions, domestic policymaking, voluntary and not-for-profit decisions, and small-group decisions in individuals' daily lives. We also detail strategies for transforming Destructive Polythink into Productive Polythink, such as engineering the decision unit to ensure a more balanced evaluation of policy alternatives en route to "good" decisions. Understanding these dynamics is crucial to explaining, predicting, and improving national security and foreign policy decisions, business and corporate decisions, and individual decisions.
£17.99
Stanford University Press No Miracles
Book SynopsisTrade Review"No Miracles<\i> is a readable and valuable contribution to the existing body of work about the Soviet-Afghan War. It is a must and relevant read for international security practitioners and scholars because its conclusions have implications for civil-military relations and strategy for the current war in Afghanistan, which is a protracted stalemate." -- Robert Cassidy * The Russian Review *"Fenzel's analysis offers a valuable reassessment of earlier studies....This well-researched analysis is strongly recommended to students, researchers, and policy makers—military and civilian." -- R.P. Peters * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction chapter abstractThis book analyzes the decisions made by the Soviet Politburo, which contributed to the failure of the Afghan mission, in light of these three general issues. The focus is not on the bureaucratic character of the decision-making process itself, but rather on its results: the concrete decisions that defined the USSR's Afghan policy and strategy throughout the conflict. Utilizing the minutes of Politburo meetings from the period in question (1978–1989) as a basis for evaluating the interaction between key members of the Politburo over the issue of Afghanistan provides a critical perspective on how the Soviet-Afghan War began, how it was fought, and how and why it was ultimately lost. Analyzing the war by focusing on the interrelated issues of Soviet civil-military relations, leadership instability, and concerns about prestige sheds new light on how the Soviet Union failed. 2The Soviet Failure in Afghanistan chapter abstractThe primary responsibility for Soviet failure in Afghanistan begins at the center of power in Moscow. It is essential to take account of the decisions made by Soviet political leaders before and during the war. The decision to remain in Afghanistan after achieving the initial objective of regime change in 1979 was made not by Soviet military leaders or diplomats, but by Leonid Brezhnev. Continued occupation was reaffirmed by subsequent General Secretaries until Mikhail Gorbachev finally ordered a withdrawal in February 1989. There is no current explanation for this dimension of the Soviet failure. Instead, the focus has been on specific stages of the war, from initial intervention through the occupation and withdrawal. This book makes the argument that Soviet failure at the political level was attributable to a civil-military divide, the rapid succession of leadership, and a persistent fear of damaging the USSR's international reputation. 3Setting the stage: Evolution of Party-military Relations chapter abstractIn the decades before the invasion, the Soviets over-estimated their capacity to invade Afghanistan and create a pro-Soviet government with the ability to convert the population to socialism. There seemed to be no disagreement about these goals and strategies between Soviet party leaders and the military, nor about the need to create strategic buffers on the USSR's frontiers. Soviet civil-military relations had also benefitted from a generally stable transfer of power from one General Secretary to the next, as well as the international prestige of being a superpower inherited in the wake of World War II, reinforced by nuclear weapons and an extremely powerful conventional army. The invasion of Afghanistan occurred at a time when the USSR appeared to be at the height of its military power and international influence, and at a time of generally friction-free civil-military relations. 4Getting In: Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Decision to Invade Afghanistan chapter abstractIn a spasm of nineteenth century geopolitical determinism, the Western media mistakenly believed that the Soviet goal in Afghanistan was either to obtain access to a warm-water port or to dominate oil interests in the Persian Gulf. Moscow's aim was actually pure cold war—-prevent Afghanistan from providing a base for American meddling in the region, or from succumbing to an Iran-style Islamic revolution that might contaminate the USSR's own Muslim population and potentially destabilize parts of the USSR. The Soviets had provided substantial foreign aid and military assistance to Afghanistan over the years, which reinforced their belief that they simply could not afford to lose the country to an Islamist revolution abetted by Washington. The Soviets did not see an independent Afghanistan as dangerous; but they expected that it would remain a stable and friendly client state that they could protect from antagonistic ideological and political influences. 5No retreatNo miracles: Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko in Afghanistan (1980 – 1985) chapter abstractThe instability in the Soviet system from one General Secretary to the next in 1980–1985 prevented any political or diplomatic momentum from building. The first act of each new General Secretary was not going to be bringing home the troops and accepting defeat. After five years of conflict, the damage inflicted to the Soviets' international reputation far exceeded the destruction on the ground and casualties in their ranks. The Afghanistan campaign was also having a significantly negative impact on the prestige of the Soviet Army. The Red Army lost its image of invincibility. The image of defeat slowly imprinted itself into the Soviet public mind, including the minds of soldiers and officers who served in Afghanistan. Both domestically and internationally, and in advance of the start of Gorbachev's rule, the Soviet Union suffered far beyond what they expected or yet even fully understood. 6Gorbachev's Quest for "Reluctant, Silent Agreement" to Withdraw from Afghanistan (1985) chapter abstractWhen Gorbachev took over as General Secretary in March 1985, his agenda was to modernize the Soviet economy so that the communist regime might sustain itself and its international prestige. However, before the new General Secretary could do this, he had first to resolve the situation in Afghanistan. In the wake of Chernenko's death, Gorbachev sought to re-evaluate Moscow's Afghan commitment. Disturbed by the failure of the Soviet military to consolidate gains after five years of fighting and unmet promises, he was anxious to withdraw Soviet forces. Nevertheless, he preferred to move slowly on Afghanistan, and settle into office by first dealing with other less contentious issues. He was not yet, nor could he afford to be, the visionary and radical reformer he would later become, so initially he deviated very little from existing Afghan policy and strategy. 7Getting Out: Gorbachev and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (1986-1989) chapter abstractMikhail Gorbachev recognized that a Soviet military victory in Afghanistan was a chimera, and began to explore an expeditious political exit from the war. On February 26 1986, in a dramatic presentation to the 27th Soviet Communist Party Congress, Gorbachev made his case for war termination. Afghanistan, he told them, was a "bleeding wound." The protracted conflict was damaging Soviet morale and political will. The Soviet military had forced resistance fighters onto the defensive, but the political struggle for Afghanistan was irretrievably compromised. The Afghan people and international opinion unequivocally supported a resistance that, although beleaguered, endured in the mountains and villages with grim determination. He declared his intention to immediately develop a detailed timeline for withdrawal and he made clear that the Afghan government must prepare for a future without direct Soviet military assistance. The central question addressed in this chapter is: what took him so long? 8Losing Afghanistan chapter abstractBy the end of the adventure in Afghanistan, after nearly ten years of fighting, the Soviets realized that they had accomplished very little. Like the British before them, the Soviets had moved confidently into Afghanistan in order to thwart challenges from developing on the borders of their empire. They never considered the consequences of a failed invasion, indeed the decisions they made governing the war reflected confidence to the point of hubris. What was more interesting still, intervention actually degraded the political, strategic and military status of Afghanistan from Moscow's perspective, or at the very least, failed to improve it. The Soviet war proved to be a political mistake, an economic affliction, and a strategic failure, which had dire consequences in the context of a USSR in the throes of systemic failure and faltering legitimacy.
£52.20
Stanford University Press Courting Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, this unique combination of international relations theory and analysis of science policy enlightens and entertains. At a minimum, readers will have a better appreciation for the dynamics underlying national science policy and global cooperation on scientific issues. Some, hopefully, will find something more: motivation to lobby elected officials to prioritize science both in terms of funding and regarding foreign policy goals and strategies." -- David Priess * Skeptic *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1A Second American Century chapter abstractThe question of whether there will be a second American Century is placed in the context of established literatures on balance of power and fleeting hegemony in the history of international relations. One way for the United States to break the Thucydidean cycle of rise and fall for great powers is to work toward Robert Gilpin's ideal of the Scientific State. In an era of globalization, this means not only promoting science for harvesting superior technologies but appreciating all important pathways connecting achievement in science to international influence. Case studies are introduced to illustrate three civilizational pathways. Domestic science and technology policy shows how American democracy tightens the noose on pure science for purposes of state. Similar overemphasis on exclusive technology undermines U.S. diplomacy with rising power Brazil as well as U.S. efforts to foster transnational stewardship in the utilization of outer space. 2Science and the Hegemon: Speaking Truth to Power chapter abstractThe problem of how Science relates to world power is part of a more profound reflection on how truth claims in general fare amidst the necessities of state organization. The truth-power dialectic is as old as Western political theory. Indeed, it infuses most canonical treatments of ideal political order from Plato's philosopher-king to the United States Constitution and beyond. Democratic regimes thrive on transparency and accountability while modern scientific truth advances on professionalism, which requires specialization. Democracies, then, face significant hurdles before they can arrive as a Scientific State. Specifically, they must learn to manage a pervasive principal-agent dilemma, permitting scientists autonomy to be productive, even when commercial or military technology might be deferred in the process. For democracy to strike the proper balance between expert discretion and public accountability requires a citizenry educated enough to know how to invest its trust. 3Power, Polarity, and Hegemony in the 21st Century chapter abstractA hegemonic turn toward Science makes sense as a strategy for preserving international influence if hegemony involves more than imperial control over nominal states, if power distribution in the system is multipolar rather than unipolar, and if power itself derives from something beyond superior military and economic resources. Acknowledging that power is contextual—that it also depends on the medium through which it influences target states—leads system analysis away from unipolarity and toward the more sensible reading of a multipolar distribution of power. Multipolarity places greater premium on hegemony as a mode of influence, which connotes legitimacy to solve global problems, versus empire as material control. Under present structural conditions of a loose, multipolar system that dissipates much of the energy from a preeminent state's military action, circumstances are ripe for fresh consideration of three civilizational pathways by which Science relates to international influence. 4Science and the American State: Mobilizing Democracy chapter abstractThe U.S. Science Establishment has responded more to the demands of a consumer oriented democracy than to solving modern dilemmas involving the professions. The United States' purest engagement with Science may have been shortly after World War II when much of the best scientific work was being supported by a single agency: the Office of Naval Research. As more mission agencies came on line, pressures increased from Congress and ultimately the American people to crowd out basic research in favor of technology development. This shift undermined the value of national science as a kind of elixir, or moderating influence, on the rougher edges of American democracy. Restoring balanced national investment across scientific achievement and pursuit of technology will be more feasible if democracy is mobilized through improvements in general education, building trust between science professions and the American people. 5Science and Diplomacy: U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of the Rest chapter abstractDiplomatic relationships between the U.S. hegemon and rising powers depend on many variables, but U.S. insistence on putting technology first in its scientific diplomacy highlights present power disparities and disdains opportunities for building trust through joint scientific achievement, thereby exacerbating predictable suspicion on the part of candidate strategic partners. The case of Brazil, an emerging power ostensibly within the fold of U.S. regional hegemony, illustrates how competitive or predatory technology policies can poison the well, even for a confident partner with a robust scientific tradition. Concerns attending U.S. science & technology on offer seep into general bilateral relations, complicating cooperation on major economic issues like trade and investment, and political issues like reining in Iran's nuclear program or engaging China. At the international level, between states, neglecting Science makes U.S. hegemony more costly to sustain. 6Science and Global Governance at the Final Frontier chapter abstractScientific achievement on the part of a hegemon facilitates cooperation among heterogeneous stakeholders attempting to address transnational challenges. With technological progress and increasing globalization, more economic, environmental, and human security problems are recognized as demanding coordination among states and non-governmental organizations in multiple regions of the world. In such forums, classic accoutrements of power and influence do not function as normal. Indeed, they function better if the United States appears qualified to tackle transnational challenges with high scientific content, and if the hegemon's clear commitment to Science as a human enterprise extends beyond the narrow purpose of leveraging proprietary technology for national power advantage. Governance of the global commons, including economically significant orbits in space, involves both cooperation and competitive impulses. Hard core technological approaches impede consensus and ultimately frustrate the United States, since even the U.S. hegemon cannot protect the commons on its own. 7Science, Grand Strategy, and Prospects for American Influence chapter abstractThis project draws deeply from schools of thought on international relations and world order, especially realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Liberal institutionalism, in particular, is implicated because a hegemon's venture to embrace Science—like liberal institutions to expand freedom and celebrate the dignity of the individual—is a variant of grand strategy to escape the old Thucydidean cycle, which condemns all great powers and their empires, once they arise, to decline and fall. Scientific excellence, however, thrives in tension with some liberal and communitarian ideals. If American democracy is to remain hegemonic for a second century, U.S. citizens need to open their eyes to certain political responsibilities of a Scientific State. It is for them to elect strategic leaders who balance domestic investment in science apart from technology, bear a system leader's diplomatic sensibility for other states' welfare, and accept a generous share of costs in resolving transnational challenges.
£98.60
Stanford University Press Courting Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, this unique combination of international relations theory and analysis of science policy enlightens and entertains. At a minimum, readers will have a better appreciation for the dynamics underlying national science policy and global cooperation on scientific issues. Some, hopefully, will find something more: motivation to lobby elected officials to prioritize science both in terms of funding and regarding foreign policy goals and strategies." -- David Priess * Skeptic *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1A Second American Century chapter abstractThe question of whether there will be a second American Century is placed in the context of established literatures on balance of power and fleeting hegemony in the history of international relations. One way for the United States to break the Thucydidean cycle of rise and fall for great powers is to work toward Robert Gilpin's ideal of the Scientific State. In an era of globalization, this means not only promoting science for harvesting superior technologies but appreciating all important pathways connecting achievement in science to international influence. Case studies are introduced to illustrate three civilizational pathways. Domestic science and technology policy shows how American democracy tightens the noose on pure science for purposes of state. Similar overemphasis on exclusive technology undermines U.S. diplomacy with rising power Brazil as well as U.S. efforts to foster transnational stewardship in the utilization of outer space. 2Science and the Hegemon: Speaking Truth to Power chapter abstractThe problem of how Science relates to world power is part of a more profound reflection on how truth claims in general fare amidst the necessities of state organization. The truth-power dialectic is as old as Western political theory. Indeed, it infuses most canonical treatments of ideal political order from Plato's philosopher-king to the United States Constitution and beyond. Democratic regimes thrive on transparency and accountability while modern scientific truth advances on professionalism, which requires specialization. Democracies, then, face significant hurdles before they can arrive as a Scientific State. Specifically, they must learn to manage a pervasive principal-agent dilemma, permitting scientists autonomy to be productive, even when commercial or military technology might be deferred in the process. For democracy to strike the proper balance between expert discretion and public accountability requires a citizenry educated enough to know how to invest its trust. 3Power, Polarity, and Hegemony in the 21st Century chapter abstractA hegemonic turn toward Science makes sense as a strategy for preserving international influence if hegemony involves more than imperial control over nominal states, if power distribution in the system is multipolar rather than unipolar, and if power itself derives from something beyond superior military and economic resources. Acknowledging that power is contextual—that it also depends on the medium through which it influences target states—leads system analysis away from unipolarity and toward the more sensible reading of a multipolar distribution of power. Multipolarity places greater premium on hegemony as a mode of influence, which connotes legitimacy to solve global problems, versus empire as material control. Under present structural conditions of a loose, multipolar system that dissipates much of the energy from a preeminent state's military action, circumstances are ripe for fresh consideration of three civilizational pathways by which Science relates to international influence. 4Science and the American State: Mobilizing Democracy chapter abstractThe U.S. Science Establishment has responded more to the demands of a consumer oriented democracy than to solving modern dilemmas involving the professions. The United States' purest engagement with Science may have been shortly after World War II when much of the best scientific work was being supported by a single agency: the Office of Naval Research. As more mission agencies came on line, pressures increased from Congress and ultimately the American people to crowd out basic research in favor of technology development. This shift undermined the value of national science as a kind of elixir, or moderating influence, on the rougher edges of American democracy. Restoring balanced national investment across scientific achievement and pursuit of technology will be more feasible if democracy is mobilized through improvements in general education, building trust between science professions and the American people. 5Science and Diplomacy: U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of the Rest chapter abstractDiplomatic relationships between the U.S. hegemon and rising powers depend on many variables, but U.S. insistence on putting technology first in its scientific diplomacy highlights present power disparities and disdains opportunities for building trust through joint scientific achievement, thereby exacerbating predictable suspicion on the part of candidate strategic partners. The case of Brazil, an emerging power ostensibly within the fold of U.S. regional hegemony, illustrates how competitive or predatory technology policies can poison the well, even for a confident partner with a robust scientific tradition. Concerns attending U.S. science & technology on offer seep into general bilateral relations, complicating cooperation on major economic issues like trade and investment, and political issues like reining in Iran's nuclear program or engaging China. At the international level, between states, neglecting Science makes U.S. hegemony more costly to sustain. 6Science and Global Governance at the Final Frontier chapter abstractScientific achievement on the part of a hegemon facilitates cooperation among heterogeneous stakeholders attempting to address transnational challenges. With technological progress and increasing globalization, more economic, environmental, and human security problems are recognized as demanding coordination among states and non-governmental organizations in multiple regions of the world. In such forums, classic accoutrements of power and influence do not function as normal. Indeed, they function better if the United States appears qualified to tackle transnational challenges with high scientific content, and if the hegemon's clear commitment to Science as a human enterprise extends beyond the narrow purpose of leveraging proprietary technology for national power advantage. Governance of the global commons, including economically significant orbits in space, involves both cooperation and competitive impulses. Hard core technological approaches impede consensus and ultimately frustrate the United States, since even the U.S. hegemon cannot protect the commons on its own. 7Science, Grand Strategy, and Prospects for American Influence chapter abstractThis project draws deeply from schools of thought on international relations and world order, especially realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Liberal institutionalism, in particular, is implicated because a hegemon's venture to embrace Science—like liberal institutions to expand freedom and celebrate the dignity of the individual—is a variant of grand strategy to escape the old Thucydidean cycle, which condemns all great powers and their empires, once they arise, to decline and fall. Scientific excellence, however, thrives in tension with some liberal and communitarian ideals. If American democracy is to remain hegemonic for a second century, U.S. citizens need to open their eyes to certain political responsibilities of a Scientific State. It is for them to elect strategic leaders who balance domestic investment in science apart from technology, bear a system leader's diplomatic sensibility for other states' welfare, and accept a generous share of costs in resolving transnational challenges.
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John Wiley & Sons Diplomacy Shot Down The U2 Crisis and
Book SynopsisThe history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down, E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned?Trade ReviewIn this deeply researched book, Bruce Geelhoed persuasively shows the pivotal impact of the U-2 incident, which set off a string of events, including the cancelation of President Eisenhower's trip to the Soviet Union, that precluded a possible thawing of the Cold War at a critical juncture in international history."" - William A. Taylor, author of Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
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John Wiley & Sons Coming Full Circle The Seneca Nation of Indians
Book SynopsisThe disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, Laurence Hauptman traces Seneca history to the New Deal.
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John Wiley & Sons The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare
Book SynopsisToday more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration.
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LSU Press Righteous Realists Political Realism Responsible
Book SynopsisJoel Rosenthal's survey of five noteworthy self-proclaimed political realists explores the realists' overarching commitment to transforming traditional power politics into a form of “responsible power” commensurate with American values.
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Louisiana State University Press American Sectionalism in the British Mind
Book SynopsisExploring the many complexities of transatlantic politics and culture, Peter O'Connor examines developing British ideas about US sectionalism, from the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina to the Civil War.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Eisenhower and Latin America The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism
Book SynopsisExamines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent “Eisenhower revisionism”. In portraying Eisenhower as a virulent anti-Communist and cold warrior, Stephen Rabe challenges the Eisenhower revisionists who view the president as a model of diplomatic restraint.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The American Union and the Problem of Neighborh The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empire 17831829
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Modernization as Ideology American Social
Book SynopsisA discussion of the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, revealing how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. It demonstrates how the concept of global modernization became a motivating ideology behind policy decisions.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The African American Encounter with Japan and Ch
Book SynopsisFocusing on African-American attitudes towards China and Japan, this study examines the rise and fall of black internationalism. The failed quest for support, the author argues, foretold the difficulty black society would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina No Higher Law American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776
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University of Pennsylvania Press Autonomy Sovereignty and SelfDetermination
Book SynopsisDemands for autonomy or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international legal norms and an examination of several specific case studies-including Hong Kong, India, the transnational problems of the Kurds and Saamis, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the Sudan-this book identifies a framework in which ethnic, religious, and regional conflicts can be addressed.Trade Review"With the end of the Cold War, ethnic conflict appears to be reemerging as subnational groups fight to be heard and represented. Hence the value of this well-researched volume. Focusing on individuals and groups rather than states, the author searches for means of accommodating conflicting claims. Government legitimacy is seen as resting on more than simple majority rule, on respect for human rights and the effective participation of all the various segments of society in the decision-making process." * Foreign Affairs *"A very useful, comprehensive, and important contribution to the study of international relations, international law, and comparative politics. . . . Impressive." * Choice *"A right of autonomy within international law might help resolve intrastate conflicts between ethnic groups before they escalate into civil war and demands for secession. So Hurst Hannum argues in this excellent book. . . . These are important suggestions about how to use a flexible approach to sovereignty and the right to ethnic self-determination to create a just and ordered multination-state system." * Political Science Quarterly *"This valuable volume chronicles the issues that arise from disputes over minority rights when the state is seen to represent majority groups better. . . . Must reading for scholars interested in the legal dimension of minority conflicts with the state. It should also be required reading for the leadership of nations currently confronting such issues or international actors who could be helpful in resolving them." * American Political Science Review *"A remarkable treatise." * American Journal of International Law *"Hannum has long combined scholarship with involvement in the making of practical policy. The present work displays this most useful combination of perspectives." * Journal of Asian and African Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 3 2. Sovereignty, Statehood, and Nationalism 14 3. Self-Determination 27 4. The Rights of Minorities 50 5. Indigenous Rights 74 6. Human Rights 104 7. Hong Kong 129 8. India and the Punjab 151 9. The Kurds 178 10. The Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua 203 11. Northern Ireland 226 12. The Saami (Lapp) People of Norway, Sweden, and Finland 247 13. Spain—The Basque Country and Catalonia 263 14. Sri Lanka 280 15. Sudan 308 16. Federal or Quasi-Federal Structures 337 —Eritrea (1952-1962) —Greenland —Netherlands Antilles —Switzerland (1848-1874) —Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 17. Territories of International Concern 370 —Aland Islands —Free City of Danzig —Memel Territory —New Zealand—The Associate States of the Cook Islands and Niue and the Territory of Tokelau —The Saar (1920-1935) —The Saar (1945-1955) —Free Territory of Trieste 18. Other Situations of Interest 407 —Belgium —Indian Peoples in Brazil —China —Fiji —Italy—the South Tyrol —Malaysia 19. Conclusion 453 Recent Developments 479 Postscript 495 Selected Bibliography 509 Index 515
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University of Pennsylvania Press Creating East and West
Book SynopsisBisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity.-James Hankins, Harvard UniversityTrade Review"Creating East and West is carefully researched and develops a nuanced and subtle argument that portrays the complexity and variability of the West's intellectual response to the Ottoman challenge. It also underscores the importance of this period for the evolution of concepts such as East and West, Europe and Asia, and suggests how these Renaissance views influenced early modern attitudes, and indeed may still inform the modern discourse on Islam and the West." * Renaissance Quarterly *"A fruitful, engaging exploration of a formative moment in Western culture, a moment that simultaneously gave rise to the vilified image of "the Turk" and witnessed the self-fashioning of European modernity." * Bulletin of the Royal Institute For Inter-Faith Studies *"A beautifully written and fascinating study that evokes an aspect of Renaissance Italian humanist writings long neglected by historians: the humanist responses to the perceived, and often real, threat of the Ottoman Turks (and Islam generally) to Europe in the wake of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453." * Comitatus *"Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time and place for the formation of Western cultural identity." * James Hankins, Harvard University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences Chapter 2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the Turks in Classical Terms Chapter 3. Straddling East and west: Byzantium and Greek Refugees Chapter 4. Religious Influences and Interpretations Epilogue: The Renaissance Legacy Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Womens Human
Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of U.S. relations with the Muslim world since 1979Americans'' concerns about women''s human rights in Muslim countries were triggered by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and have evolved within the context of long-standing Western stereotypes about Muslims, as well as transnational feminism and the global human rights movement. As these frameworks simultaneously competed against and reinforced one another, U.S. public conversations about Muslim women intensified, culminating in feminist campaigns and U.S. policies that aimed to defend women''s rights in Islamic countries—such was the case with the Clinton administration''s decision not to recognize the Taliban regime after they seized control of Afghanistan in 1996.U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women''s Human Rights provides a fresh interpretation of U.S. relations with the Muslim world and, more broadly, U.S. foreign relations history and the history of human rights. Kelly J. ShTrade Review"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights represents a welcome addition to an important historiography . . . Shannon breaks new ground, not only because she covers the late twentieth century-when women wielded real policymaking power-but also because she analyzes discourse, activism, and policymaking in a single frame." * Diplomatic History *"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights is a timely addition to the corpus of texts on US foreign policy, human rights, and US relations with Muslim states. In the current political climate of fading human rights commitments and the rhetoric that emboldens anti-Muslim practices, the book offers a powerful reminder of the role of human rights in the US national identity and lessons that can be used for charting its way forward." * H-Diplo *"This book is excellent: cautious but cogent in its arguments, comprehensive in its research, and balanced, but not bland, in its conclusions. Kelly Shannon demonstrates that issues of women and gender have infiltrated U.S. policymaking circles concerned with the Muslim Middle East since 1979, and, while she is not the first to suggest this, she is emphatically the first to trace these issues systematically through recent history and to elucidate them so fully." * Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University *"This important and persuasively argued book challenges much recent literature on the United States and the Middle East to reveal how women's rights emerged as an important lens for imagining the Islamic world. While some policymakers have cynically sought to justify intervening in the Middle East in the name of women, Shannon shows how activists both at home and abroad sought to reshape conceptions of U.S. National Security to place women at the center, sometimes challenging U.S. empire in the process." * Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution Chapter 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979 Chapter 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam Chapter 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi "Gender Apartheid" Chapter 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s Chapter 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration Chapter 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11 Notes Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press In This Land of Plenty
Book SynopsisOn August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American relief workers and policy analysts, bound for Ethiopia''s border with Sudan. This was Leland''s seventh official humanitarian mission in his nearly decade-long drive to transform U.S. policies toward Africa to conform to his black internationalist vision of global cooperation, antiracism, and freedom from hunger. Leland''s flight never arrived at its destination. The plane crashed, with no survivors.When Leland embarked on that delegation, he was a forty-four-year-old, deeply charismatic, fiercely compassionate, black, radical American. He was also an elected Democratic representative of Houston''s largely African American and Latino Eighteenth Congressional District. Above all, he was a self-proclaimed citizen of humanity. Throughout the 1980s, Leland and a small group of former radical-activist African American colleagues inside anTrade Review"This masterful work underscores how a deeply talented historian can artfully weave a tapestry of transnational diasporic history, one that balances African history and U.S. history, individual stories and broad historical currents, clashes of Cold War triumphalism and human rights activism, and transnational networks and domestic politics, all while returning the important, remarkable story of U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland to our collective understanding…We all should thank Talton for his remarkable efforts to resurrect Leland’s life and work, and for the ways in which Talton connects that life to reveal broader currents in African and United States relations and history." * African Studies Review *"In This Land of Plenty helps fill two gaps in the literature. First, the book rescue's the legacy of a significant figure in the fight against famine from obscurity. Leland is a model for those transitioning from outsider status to inside player without compromising ideals. Second, it reminds us that human rights and humanitarian aid cannot be separated from the political context in which they operate. Effects, whether they be political prisoners or starving children, always have causes. We ignore those causes at our peril." * Human Rights Quarterly *"In this fascinating biography, Benjamin Talton situates Leland firmly in the pantheon of Pan-African leaders with diasporic backgrounds and transnational global reach… In This Land of Plenty is an extraordinary book [that] deserves a wide readership." * The Journal of Southern History *"[A]n important and engaging examination of the life, activism, and political tenacity of Texas Congressman Mickey Leland...In This Land of Plenty provides a welcome examination of a man that many people outside of Texas may know little about or understand his importance to US foreign policies regarding Africa. Furthermore, this is an extremely smart and important work that should deeply alter the way we conceptualize African Americans’ participation in and shaping of American foreign policy, as well as the important role Africa has played within African American politics and activism. " * The Journal of African American History *"In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics challenges its readers to reconsider the history of U.S. foreign policy to Africa during the 1980s." * Diplomatic History *"[A] fascinating history of U.S. involvement in Africa...Talton’s narrative operates both as a biography of the charismatic Leland and his political evolution from a radical activist in Houston to a well-established Washington insider and as an insightful history of the role that groups such as the Congressional Black Caucus played in U.S. policy toward Africa during the later years of the Cold War." * Foreign Affairs *"Benjamin Talton's compelling new book focuses our attention on a forgotten, heroic American: Representative Mickey Leland. Talton deftly shows how Leland brought the sensibilities and concerns of the 1960s African American freedom movements to the politics of the 1980s. In doing so, Leland played a key role in crafting American humanitarianism, in rethinking U.S. policy toward Africa, and in bringing a powerful African American perspective to U.S. politics. By placing Leland at the center of a number of vital policy issues, Talton helps us better understand American politics and foreign policy in the 1980s." * Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany *"Benjamin Talton makes an important intervention that ought to reset the scholarship on U.S. foreign policy in postcolonial Africa, on Black Power and its concrete effects in Africa, and on the rise and fall of African American commitment to and influence on government-led humanitarian intervention on the continent." * Gregory Mann, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. "The Low Rising Against the High and Mighty": Radicalism and Protest in Addis Ababa and Houston Chapter 2. Redefining Black Politics: The Third World Spirit and Black Internationalism in Congress Chapter 3. "Horrendous Are the Hard Times": Western Food Aid and Ethiopia in the Age of Reagan Chapter 4. Activists on the Inside: The Black Caucus Battles White Rule and U.S. Anticommunism in Southern Africa Chapter 5. Ending Hunger in Africa: Humanitarianism Against Austerity Chapter 6. "Flying in the Face of the Storm": Ethiopia, the United States, and the End of the Cold War Conclusion. The Tragic Demise of Third World Politics in the United States Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press NGOs and Human Rights Promise and Performance
Book SynopsisHow do nongovernmental organizations affect the world of human rights?
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University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations
Book Synopsis"Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand why human rights advocacy has failed in international relations."-Asia and PacificTrade Review"Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand why human rights advocacy has failed in international relations." * Asia and Pacific *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Libya and the United States Two Centuries of
Book SynopsisDiplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife provides a unique and up-to-date analysis of U.S.-Libyan relations, assessing within the framework of conventional historical narrative the interaction of the governments and peoples of Libya and the United States over the past two centuries.Drawing on a wide range of new and unfamiliar material, Ronald Bruce St John, an expert with over thirty years of experience in international relations, charts the instances of ignorance, misunderstanding, treachery, and suffering on both sides that have shaped and limited commercial and diplomatic intercourse.St John argues that Cold War strategies resulted in a paradoxical and ambiguTrade Review"Ronald Bruce St John provides a comprehensive, meticulously researched history of US-Libyan relations of the last 200 years. His book succeeds well in describing the sources of tension, conflicting interests, and misperceptions that have determined the course of interaction between the two countries." * Journal of North American Studies *"Balanced, very informational. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This is a wonderfully measured, insightful, comprehensive treatment of the subject that will, in my estimation, become a standard not only for the academic community but also for the policy and intelligence community." * Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Dismal Record 2 Desert Kingdom 3 In the Beginning 4 Postwar Gridlock 5 Independence at a Price 6 One September Revolution 7 Reagan Agonistes 8 U.S.-Libyan Relations in the Post-Cold War Era Select Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion
Book SynopsisFrom 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese as a critical element in their imperial dominion.Yamamuro Shin''ichi''s extraordinary book rereads this occupation under new light. The author shows that right-wing Japanese military and civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being done in their name. Yamamuro examines the policies and events unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to the ChiTrade Review"Long-awaited . . . well done . . . elegant . . . timely." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Introduction 1. Japan's "Sole Road for Survival": The Range of Views Within the Guandong Army over the Seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia 2. Transforming Manchuria-Mongolia into a Paradise for Its Inhabitants: Building a New State and Searching for State-Building Ideals 3. Toward a Model of Politics for the World: The Banner of Moral State Creation and the Formation of Manzhouguo Politics 4. "The Long-Term Policy of National Management Will Always Be in Unison with the Japanese Empire": The Paradise of the Kingly Way Stumbles and the Path Toward the Merging of Japan and Manzhouguo 5. Conclusion: Chimera, Reality, and Illusion Afterword Interview: How Shall We Understand Manchuria and Manzhouguo? Appendix: On the Historical Significance of Manchuria and Manzghouguo Chronology on the Modern History of Manchuria and East Asia Notes Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Architects of Delusion
Book SynopsisThe commencement of war on Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of reactions around the globe. This work presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision to wage war was endorsed by some of America's main European allies, especially Britain, and opposed by others, especially France and Germany.Trade Review"A masterful analysis of America and Europe: insightful, trenchant, brilliantly conceived, and elegantly written. Drawing his lessons from America's post-World War II engagement with allies in Europe, Simon Serfaty has captured with chilling precision the dilemmas and symmetries that will dominate America's and Europe's security concerns in this generation." * General Wesley K. Clark *"Simon Serfaty shows why America has more to fear from a weak Europe than a strong Europe. This powerful account of leadership failure in four countries explains not only how Iraq split the West but what a new set of leaders must do to repair the damage." * Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics *"This is an impressive work of policy analysis and scholarship. Serfaty's knowledge of politics and personalities in the four capitals he considers is extensive. The interpretations of interactions among them are subtle. And there is a fine sense of historical background as well as today's global context." * Michael Brenner, University of Pittsburgh *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Terms of Estrangement Chapter 2. Terms of Endearment Chapter 3. Terms of Disparagement Chapter 4. Terms of Entanglement Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press China and Africa
Book SynopsisThe recent growth in relations between China and the nations of Africa is one of the most important geopolitical phenomena of our time. China and Africa presents a unique, comprehensive view of this relationship. This monumental study, the first since the 1970s, examines China's ties with all of Africa's 54 countries.Trade Review"Fascination with China's role in Africa continues to be strong. . . . This volume stands out for the breadth of its coverage, as signaled by the subtitle 'a century of engagement', and by its sheer heft. It is the closest we have to an encyclopedia on China and Africa, with a wealth of detail and examples." * International Affairs *"Major investments by China's state-controlled companies have been accompanied by the arrival of the million or so Chinese citizens working in Africa today and by a major diplomatic initiative that has sent numerous high-level Chinese government missions to African countries in recent years. Shinn and Eisenman's book usefully situates these developments in a broad historical context, showing important areas of continuity with earlier Sino-African links. . . . [The authors] describe in comprehensive detail the diplomatic, commercial, and security facets of the new Chinese presence, with sections on every African country. The book is particularly strong when clarifying the evolution of Chinese diplomatic and security strategies in the region." * Foreign Affairs *"Without doubt, China and Africa; A Century of Engagement presents, in depth, all facets of intercourse between China and the African continent during the last century. . . . Given its exhaustive scope, the book could be subtitled "Everything You Wanted To Know about China and Africa," with much valuable reference material for Africanists, especially." * Executive Intelligence Review *Table of ContentsForeword by George T. Yu 1. Introduction 2. A Historical Overview of China-Africa Relations 3. Political Relations 4. Trade Relations 5. Investment and Assistance 6. Military and Security Ties and Peacekeeping Missions 7. Media, Education, and Cultural Relations and Ties with Chinese Communities in Africa 8. China's Relations with North Africa and the Sahel 9. China's Relations with East Africa, the Horn, and the Indian Ocean Islands 10. China's Relations with West and Central Africa 11. China's Relations with Southern Africa 12. Conclusion: Looking Forward Appendix 1. Establishment of PRC Relations with African Countries Appendix 2. Trade Between Africa and China, 1938-2010 Notes Index Acknowledgments
£67.15
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights and the Negotiation of American
Book SynopsisThrough careful archival research, Glenn Mitoma reveals how the U.S. government, key civil society groups, Cold War politics, and specific individuals led to America's emergence in the twentieth century as an ambivalent yet central player in establishing an international rights ethic.Trade Review"Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power is carefully crafted and beautifully written, delving into the historical origins of the modern framework of international human rights as an organizing principle of the postwar order. In revealing new historical material on the influence of U.S. nongovernmental organizations in the 1940s, Mitoma provides a more complicated intellectual history for the UN human rights system than previously assumed. This is a major contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and how it has been both embraced and contested." * Richard A. Wilson, University of Connecticut *"Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power seeks to illuminate further the emergence of the postwar human rights order and to clarify and explain the tension between U.S. exceptionalism and its self-declared leadership in the promotion of international human rights. . . . A worthwhile and important endeavor." * Roland Burke, author of Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Human Rights Hegemony in the American Century Chapter 1. The Study of Peace, Human Rights, and International Organization Chapter 2. A Pacific Charter Chapter 3. Carlos Romulo, Freedom of Information, and the Philippine Pattern Chapter 4. Charles Malik, the International Bill of Rights, and Ultimate Things Chapter 5. The NAACP, the ABA, and the Logic of Containment Conclusion: Toward Universal Human Rights Notes Index Acknowledgments
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press Truth Commissions
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s a number of countries have established truth commissions to come to terms with the legacy of past human rights violations, yet little is known about the achievements and shortcomings of this popular transitional justice tool. Drawing on research on Chile''s National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Peru''s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and exploring the scholarship on thirteen other transitional contexts, Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting policy reform, human rights accountability, and the public recognition of human rights violations. He argues that although political elites often see a truth commission as a convenient way to address past atrocities, the findings, historical narratives, and recommendations of such commissions often surprise, upset, and discredit influential political actors. Even when commissions produce only modest change as a result of political constraints, Bakiner contends, they open up new avenueTrade Review"Onur Bakiner has written a first-rate book that speaks to concerns and debates among students of transitional justice, qualitative methodologists and ethical-normative theorists. Moving well beyond the illuminating-but highly limited-descriptive literature on truth commissions, Bakiner develops a broader argument that captures their operation and impact, highlighting the politics at play. The argument is then tested in a series of narratives that are not only well written, but methodologically self-aware-a rare combination. For all the talk of 'mechanisms' and 'process tracing,' it is refreshing to read a book where they are analytic tools doing real work." * Jeffrey T. Checkel, Simon Fraser University *"Truth Commissions is a wonderful contribution to the increasingly robust scholarship on transitional justice. It brings a fresh perspective on why truth commissions are formed, how they operate under domestic political constraints, and what-if anything-their impact is on post-conflict societies. Through a detailed study of dozens of truth commissions around the world, Onur Bakiner carefully considers not only the pragmatic aspects of truth commissions, but also their ethical and normative impact on societies coming to terms with legacies of mass violence." * Jelena Subotic, author of Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans *"Truth Commissions makes an important contribution to scholarship on truth commissions, as well as scholarship on memory politics. It offers an original and compelling argument regarding the role and influence of truth commissions and a useful set of conceptual tools for framing analyses of truth commissions." * Bronwyn Anne Leebaw, University of California, Riverside *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Benevolent Empire
Book SynopsisStephen Porter''s Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War, opening an important window onto the short American century. Chronicling both international relief efforts and domestic resettlement programs aimed at dispossessed people from Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Porter asks how, why, and with what effects American actors took responsibility for millions of victims of war, persecution, and political upheaval during these decades. Diverse forces within the American state and civil society directed these endeavors through public-private governing arrangements, a dynamic yielding both benefits and liabilities. Motivated by a variety of geopolitical, ethical, and cultural reasons, these advocates for humanitarian action typically shared a desire to portray the United States, to the American people and international audiences, as an exceptiTrade Review"[T]here can be an almost indistinguishable line between humanitarian aid that is benevolent and that which is weaponized...Porter sets out this story masterfully. Alternating between bird’s-eye overviews and fascinating individual stories and details, the author shares a vivid history of the complexities of U.S. humanitarian efforts to address displaced people over the decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." * American Historical Review *"Benevolent Empire is an important book that should be widely read due to its ability to translate a multidimensional, transnational phenomenon into an engaging narrative that speaks to a variety of both contemporary and historical issues...[O]ne cannot help but be struck by the importance of this book to current debates about refugees and asylum-seekers within the context of the U.S. role in the world." * Diplomatic History *"Standing at the intersection of several historiographical fields, Benevolent Empire makes important contributions to each of them. By adding to a growing literature on the histories of U.S. humanitarian assistance and . . . human rights, the book will be essential reading for historians of immigration, American political development, and U.S. international relations." * Journal of American History *"Benevolent Empire makes key contributions to a growing body of scholarship on the 'United States in the world' and across the fields of immigrant and refugee studies, humanitarianism and human rights, and US foreign policy through its illumination of a largely understudied dimension of US globalism — namely, the role that international relief and refugee initiatives have come to play in the making of a deterritorialized American empire...Porter’s insights into the developments of decades past present potential pathways for how a truly humane and humanitarian policy in relation to the world’s dispossessed might be forged." * International Migration Review *"Benevolent Empire interweaves a vast and growing literature on humanitarian relief, the international dimensions of American civil rights reform, immigration, and American political development...[A] well-crafted study...If there is any moral in Porter’s account, it would be the imperative need to more fully awaken the humanitarian sensibility among host-nation populations to admit extensive and long-lasting responsibilities for those unfortunate peoples whose homelands have been torn asunder." * H-Diplo *"Benevolent Empire is a wonderful and important book that makes original contributions on multiple fronts. Immigration and refugee historians, of course, will have this book on their shelves but so will scholars of American political development, of human rights and humanitarianism, and of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy." * Carl Bon Tempo, State University of New York at Albany *
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Small Countries
Book SynopsisHow does smallness shape a country and its relations with other countries? In comparative case studies that cover a diverse set of regions, Small Countries describes a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters.Trade Review"Small Countries is a remarkably fresh and engaging contribution to the anthropology of the nation-state. While such macroanthropology has often been understood to stand in tension with more traditionally localized sorts of ethnographic practice, the authors use the very smallness of the 'small country' to show how ideas and practices of national cultural intimacy disrupt received ideas of scale that still haunt our understandings of what is, and is not, anthropological. Through a fascinating set of cases presented by an impressive set of contributors, this stimulating book arrives at a distinctive and original perspective on the nation-state." * James Ferguson, Stanford University *"Small Countries is unique: its chapters cover a range of societies that do not get much analyzed anthropologically, a potpourri of far-flung places from New Zealand to Sierra Leone to Norway to Palestine united by the common trope of smallness. It is also remarkable because of the down-to-earth quality of its prose: its chapters are a delight to read. Not just anthropologists, but anyone who reads the Economist or Foreign Affairs, or for that matter a daily newspaper, can enjoy and learn from this collection of essays." * Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong *
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press US Foreign Policy and Muslim Womens Human Rights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights represents a welcome addition to an important historiography . . . Shannon breaks new ground, not only because she covers the late twentieth century-when women wielded real policymaking power-but also because she analyzes discourse, activism, and policymaking in a single frame." * Diplomatic History *"U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights is a timely addition to the corpus of texts on US foreign policy, human rights, and US relations with Muslim states. In the current political climate of fading human rights commitments and the rhetoric that emboldens anti-Muslim practices, the book offers a powerful reminder of the role of human rights in the US national identity and lessons that can be used for charting its way forward." * H-Diplo *"This book is excellent: cautious but cogent in its arguments, comprehensive in its research, and balanced, but not bland, in its conclusions. Kelly Shannon demonstrates that issues of women and gender have infiltrated U.S. policymaking circles concerned with the Muslim Middle East since 1979, and, while she is not the first to suggest this, she is emphatically the first to trace these issues systematically through recent history and to elucidate them so fully." * Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University *"This important and persuasively argued book challenges much recent literature on the United States and the Middle East to reveal how women's rights emerged as an important lens for imagining the Islamic world. While some policymakers have cynically sought to justify intervening in the Middle East in the name of women, Shannon shows how activists both at home and abroad sought to reshape conceptions of U.S. National Security to place women at the center, sometimes challenging U.S. empire in the process." * Brad Simpson, University of Connecticut *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution Chapter 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979 Chapter 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam Chapter 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi "Gender Apartheid" Chapter 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s Chapter 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration Chapter 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11 Notes Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tricia Bacon was one of the State Department's finest terrorism analysts-deeply knowledgeable and sensitive to the myriad factors that condition extremist groups' behavior. She has now written a scholarly study of the relationships between terrorist organizations that is nothing short of superb. Because of her time in government, she has an empirical knowledge of her subject that few can match, and she has now crafted a theoretical framework to explain the phenomenon of terrorist alliances that is tremendously useful. A great contribution to the literature on terrorism." * Ambassador Daniel Benjamin (ret.), Coordinator for Counterrorism, Department of State, 2009-2013 *"Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances is an important endeavor that advances the literature in terrorism studies." * Victor Asal, University at Albany, State University of New York *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Theory of Alliance Hubs and Alliance Formation Chapter 2. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Pioneering Partnerships Chapter 3. The Red Army Faction: Pursuing Palestinian Partners Chapter 4. Al-Qaida Before 9/11: Building Alliances One Dollar at a Time Chapter 5. Al-Qaida After 9/11: Calling in Debts and Capitalizing on Cachet Chapter 6. Egyptian Jihadist Groups: Divergent Solutions, Similar Problems Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Visas and Walls
Book SynopsisBorders traditionally served to insulate nations from other states and to provide bulwarks against intrusion by foreign armies. In the age of terrorism, borders are more frequently perceived as protection against threats from determined individuals arriving from elsewhere. After a deadly terrorist attack, leaders immediately encounter pressure to close their borders. As Nazli Avdan observes, cracking down on border crossings and policing migration enhance security. However, the imperatives of globalization demand that borders remain open to legal travel and economic exchange. While stricter border policies may be symbolically valuable and pragmatically safer, according to Avdan, they are economically costly, restricting trade between neighbors and damaging commercial ties. In Visas and Walls, Avdan argues that the balance between economics and security is contingent on how close to home threats, whether actual or potential, originate. When terrorist events affect the residents of a couTrade Review"With its combination of social science theory, rigorous empirical testing, and readily evident policy implications, Visas and Walls stands to make a significant impact on the debates regarding immigration and border policies." * Christopher Rudolph, American University *"Given current policy debates in Europe and the United States, the sophisticated and quantitative analysis in Visas and Walls is not only timely but especially needed." * Amanda Murdie, University of Georgia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Globalization, Security, and Border Control Chapter 1. Harder Borders in a New Security Climate Chapter 2. Terrorism, Trade, and Visa Restrictions Chapter 3. Terrorism, Trade, and Visa Policies in the European Union Chapter 4. Terrorism, Trade, and Border Fences Chapter 5. Turkey's Migration Policy: An Illustrative Case Study Conclusion: Improving Theory and Policy Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press In This Land of Plenty Mickey Leland and Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This masterful work underscores how a deeply talented historian can artfully weave a tapestry of transnational diasporic history, one that balances African history and U.S. history, individual stories and broad historical currents, clashes of Cold War triumphalism and human rights activism, and transnational networks and domestic politics, all while returning the important, remarkable story of U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland to our collective understanding…We all should thank Talton for his remarkable efforts to resurrect Leland’s life and work, and for the ways in which Talton connects that life to reveal broader currents in African and United States relations and history." * African Studies Review *"In This Land of Plenty helps fill two gaps in the literature. First, the book rescue's the legacy of a significant figure in the fight against famine from obscurity. Leland is a model for those transitioning from outsider status to inside player without compromising ideals. Second, it reminds us that human rights and humanitarian aid cannot be separated from the political context in which they operate. Effects, whether they be political prisoners or starving children, always have causes. We ignore those causes at our peril." * Human Rights Quarterly *"In this fascinating biography, Benjamin Talton situates Leland firmly in the pantheon of Pan-African leaders with diasporic backgrounds and transnational global reach… In This Land of Plenty is an extraordinary book [that] deserves a wide readership." * The Journal of Southern History *"[A]n important and engaging examination of the life, activism, and political tenacity of Texas Congressman Mickey Leland...In This Land of Plenty provides a welcome examination of a man that many people outside of Texas may know little about or understand his importance to US foreign policies regarding Africa. Furthermore, this is an extremely smart and important work that should deeply alter the way we conceptualize African Americans’ participation in and shaping of American foreign policy, as well as the important role Africa has played within African American politics and activism. " * The Journal of African American History *"In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics challenges its readers to reconsider the history of U.S. foreign policy to Africa during the 1980s." * Diplomatic History *"[A] fascinating history of U.S. involvement in Africa...Talton’s narrative operates both as a biography of the charismatic Leland and his political evolution from a radical activist in Houston to a well-established Washington insider and as an insightful history of the role that groups such as the Congressional Black Caucus played in U.S. policy toward Africa during the later years of the Cold War." * Foreign Affairs *"Benjamin Talton's compelling new book focuses our attention on a forgotten, heroic American: Representative Mickey Leland. Talton deftly shows how Leland brought the sensibilities and concerns of the 1960s African American freedom movements to the politics of the 1980s. In doing so, Leland played a key role in crafting American humanitarianism, in rethinking U.S. policy toward Africa, and in bringing a powerful African American perspective to U.S. politics. By placing Leland at the center of a number of vital policy issues, Talton helps us better understand American politics and foreign policy in the 1980s." * Carl Bon Tempo, University at Albany *"Benjamin Talton makes an important intervention that ought to reset the scholarship on U.S. foreign policy in postcolonial Africa, on Black Power and its concrete effects in Africa, and on the rise and fall of African American commitment to and influence on government-led humanitarian intervention on the continent." * Gregory Mann, Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. "The Low Rising Against the High and Mighty": Radicalism and Protest in Addis Ababa and Houston Chapter 2. Redefining Black Politics: The Third World Spirit and Black Internationalism in Congress Chapter 3. "Horrendous Are the Hard Times": Western Food Aid and Ethiopia in the Age of Reagan Chapter 4. Activists on the Inside: The Black Caucus Battles White Rule and U.S. Anticommunism in Southern Africa Chapter 5. Ending Hunger in Africa: Humanitarianism Against Austerity Chapter 6. "Flying in the Face of the Storm": Ethiopia, the United States, and the End of the Cold War Conclusion. The Tragic Demise of Third World Politics in the United States Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press Landscapes of Law
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Landscapes of Law offers fresh interrogations of the concept and dynamics of culture, illuminating the mutually reinforcing dynamics of state sovereignty, populism, and transnationalism. It is an important and entirely original contribution to the social sciences, political theory, legal studies, and the interdisciplinary study of law." * Jothie Rajah, The American Bar Foundation *
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Diplomacy and Capitalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"African American economists in Haiti, U.S. cooperative businessmen in India, and corporate productivity boosters in Japan—Diplomacy and Capitalism follows all sorts of Americans all over the world. Just as important, it studies the foreigners who worked to tame U.S. power and bend U.S. capital to their own needs. This teachable volume enriches our understanding of U.S. empire, as well as the conflicts endemic to U.S. capitalism in the twentieth century." * Amy C. Offner, University of Pennsylvania *
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press The Dragon and the Snake
Book SynopsisTrade Review"China watchers will find much of interest in the day-to-day maneuverings and observations of the envoys in the period before the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the U.S. and in the authors' perspective on a significant era." * Publishers Weekly *""This memoir by his widow and a historian covers the period during which Thomas S. Gates served as head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing. Since that was before the resumption of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and China, the post was an important one. Gates began the project for the book, but died in 1983. Though Millicent Gates adds the personal bits, the overall tone of the book is analytical. Most of the chapters present U.S. official analyses of Chinese politics. Yet these accounts are fascinating because Gates's tenure coincided with tumultuous events: the great North China earthquakes, Mao Zedong's death, the fall of the Gang of Four, the annunciation of Hua Guofeng, and the reemergence of Deng Xiaoping." * Library Journal *
£48.60
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Central Asia and the Caucasus After the Soviet U
Book SynopsisIn this text leading Western, Russian, and Central Asian scholars examine the domestic and international dynamics of Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. They also address the circumstances that continue to affect the Muslim states of the former Soviet Union.Table of ContentsThe Emerging Muslim States of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Mohiaddin Mesbahi. Part 1 Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus - Ethnicity and Islam: The Ethnohistorical Dynamics of Muslim Societies Within Russia and the CIS, Sergei A. Panarin; The Emerging Central Asia - Ethnic and Religious Factions, Eden Naby; Muslim Central Asia - Soviet Development Legacies and Future Challenges, M. Nazif Shahrani. Part 2 The New Muslim States - The North Caucasus and Azerbaijan: The ""Internal"" Muslim Factor in the Politics of Russia - Tatarstan and the North Caucasus, Marie Bennigsen Broxup; Azerbaijan, Yuri N. Zinin and Alexei V. Maleshenko. Part 3 The New Muslim States - Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Martha Brill Olcott; Uzbekistan, Zahid I. Munavvarov; Kyrgyzstan, Alexander O. Filonyk; Tadjikistan, Aziz Niyazi; Turkmenistan, Andrei G. Nedvetsky. Part 4 Russia and the Former Soviet South - The New Geopolitics: The Disintegration of the Soviet Eurasian Empire - an Ongoing Debate, Milan L. Hauner; Great Power Ideology and the Muslim Nations of the CIS, Arthur Sagdeev; Central Asia and the Middle East - the Emerging Links, Anthony Hyman; Russia and the Geopolitics of the Muslim South, Mohiaddin Mesbahi.
£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida BRITAIN AND BARBARY 15891689
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis important and fascinating study of early modern England’s relationship to North Africa by the foremost expert on the topic is magisterial in its reach and groundbreaking in the implications it holds for seventeenth-century English culture and political history."--Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami
£18.86
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer The Making of Europe
Book SynopsisIn this work, Christopher Dawson concludes that the period called the Dark Ages was not a barren prelude to the creative mediaeval world. Instead, he argues that it is better described as ""ages of dawn"", for it was in this period that the foundation of a unified European culture was laid.
£22.46
Rutgers University Press Water Wisdom Preparing the Groundwork for
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is a vast literature on water in the Middle East, but few studies that take on such a balanced approach as Water Wisdom. The book makes a great addition to academic libraries around the world and for scholars involved in water policy studies." -- Aaron Wolf * director of the Program in Water Conflict Management, Oregon State University *"This comprehensive, informed, and balanced volume provides invaluable insights into the roots of the water management challenges in the Middle East and charts a course for resolving this pressing issue." -- James D. Wolfensohn * former Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement *"Water Wisdom holds considerable comparative interest for agricultural historials of arid lands and regions with histories of military conflict and occupation." * Agricultural History *
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Rutgers University Press PostCommunist Malaise Cinematic Responses to
Book SynopsisFocuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, this book asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology.Trade Review"Forging upstream against critical currents, Samardzija’s book stubbornly holds out for the principle of aesthetic hope, extracted from the carapace of political modernism with a set of sharp theoretical tools. Within the unique neither-quite-West-nor-anymore-East terrain of Europe’s post-communist countries, he finds a set of films capable of giving shape to the 'post-communist malaise' by capturing and making visible the gap between the expired promises of universal utopia and the disenchantments and exclusions of neoliberal Euro markets. His ingenious close readings bring the revisionist contours of such latent hope to light." -- Nataša Durovicová * co-editor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Eastern European New Waves and Political Modernism 2 What Happens After the End of History? Part I From Communism to Capitalism Part II From Capitalism to Nationalism 3 Slow Cinema and The Escape From Capitalist Realism Part I The Materiality of Cinematic Time from Andrei Tarkovsky to Béla Tarr Part II Cristi Puiu Between Slow Cinema and Transcendental Style 4 Theo Angelopoulos, Greece, and The Ends of Europe Part I A New Collective Dream Part II Cinema As Past and Future Conclusion Acknowledgements Index
£26.09
Rutgers University Press PostCommunist Malaise Cinematic Responses to
Book SynopsisFocuses on how select cinemas from Eastern Europe and the Balkans critique the neoliberal integration of Europe whose failures fuel the rise of nationalism and right-wing politics. By politicizing art cinema from the regions, this book asks fundamental questions about film, aesthetics, and ideology.Trade Review"Forging upstream against critical currents, Samardzija’s book stubbornly holds out for the principle of aesthetic hope, extracted from the carapace of political modernism with a set of sharp theoretical tools. Within the unique neither-quite-West-nor-anymore-East terrain of Europe’s post-communist countries, he finds a set of films capable of giving shape to the 'post-communist malaise' by capturing and making visible the gap between the expired promises of universal utopia and the disenchantments and exclusions of neoliberal Euro markets. His ingenious close readings bring the revisionist contours of such latent hope to light." -- Nataša Durovicová * co-editor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Eastern European New Waves and Political Modernism 2 What Happens After the End of History? Part I From Communism to Capitalism Part II From Capitalism to Nationalism 3 Slow Cinema and The Escape From Capitalist Realism Part I The Materiality of Cinematic Time from Andrei Tarkovsky to Béla Tarr Part II Cristi Puiu Between Slow Cinema and Transcendental Style 4 Theo Angelopoulos, Greece, and The Ends of Europe Part I A New Collective Dream Part II Cinema As Past and Future Conclusion Acknowledgements Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which Caribbean individuals and communities have recurred to art and visual creativity to create and sustain public spaces of discussion and social interaction. The book analyzes contemporary Caribbean art in relation to broader discussions of citizenship, cultural agency, critical geography, migration, and social justice.Trade Review“This book is not only valuable for breaking ground as a scholarly approach to Caribbean contemporary art and art curation as a whole, but for doing so in a much needed radical way, confronting prevailing stereotypes about the region and its cultures. Its discourse assumes the implicated complexities instead of reducing them. This is probably due to a manifold approach based both on thorough research and on the author's own direct, committed involvement with the diverse artistic practices in the islands, and with socially engaged art in particular.”— Gerardo Mosquer, Founder of the Havana Biennale, Independent art critic, historian and curator “Reading this book immediately impressed upon me new ways of interpreting Caribbean art and art practices. Garrido Castellano has not created a framework for prescriptive viewing but challenges us to find different spaces of enunciation that our artists allow us to enter through their imaginative freedoms.”— Patricia Mohammed, author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation Critique d'art excerpt of Beyond Representation by Carlos Garrido Castellano — Critique d'artTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Being Here and There. Curatorial-specific Approaches to Caribbean Reality 2 Caribbean Art Institutions, Critique and the Public Sphere 3 Art Melting in Site-Specificity. Performance Art and Public Space in the Dominican Republic 4 Towards a Diasporic Counterstreaming Caribbean Imagination 5 Subversive Alliances. Collaborative Agency beyond Representation Coda: Artistic Agency, Space, and the Praxis of Caribbean Studies Bibliography Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which Caribbean individuals and communities have recurred to art and visual creativity to create and sustain public spaces of discussion and social interaction. The book analyzes contemporary Caribbean art in relation to broader discussions of citizenship, cultural agency, critical geography, migration, and social justice.Trade Review“This book is not only valuable for breaking ground as a scholarly approach to Caribbean contemporary art and art curation as a whole, but for doing so in a much needed radical way, confronting prevailing stereotypes about the region and its cultures. Its discourse assumes the implicated complexities instead of reducing them. This is probably due to a manifold approach based both on thorough research and on the author's own direct, committed involvement with the diverse artistic practices in the islands, and with socially engaged art in particular.” -- Gerardo Mosquer * Founder of the Havana Biennale, Independent art critic, historian and curator *“Reading this book immediately impressed upon me new ways of interpreting Caribbean art and art practices. Garrido Castellano has not created a framework for prescriptive viewing but challenges us to find different spaces of enunciation that our artists allow us to enter through their imaginative freedoms.” -- Patricia Mohammed * author of Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation *Critique d'art excerpt of Beyond Representation by Carlos Garrido Castellano * Critique d'art *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Being Here and There. Curatorial-specific Approaches to Caribbean Reality 2 Caribbean Art Institutions, Critique and the Public Sphere 3 Art Melting in Site-Specificity. Performance Art and Public Space in the Dominican Republic 4 Towards a Diasporic Counterstreaming Caribbean Imagination 5 Subversive Alliances. Collaborative Agency beyond Representation Coda: Artistic Agency, Space, and the Praxis of Caribbean Studies Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Parcels Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Book SynopsisAnastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.Trade Review"This book is sociologically important and politically urgent. It reveals, through powerful and convincing prose, the ways in which imperialist interventions of the past are shaping the immigration crises of the present. With a compelling analysis of migrants’ memories, Anastario re-centers humanity in the brutal history of US-Salvadoran relations." -- Leah Schmalzbauer * co-author of Immigrant Families *"Parcels is a powerful book. Sociologist Mike Anastario has crafted a timely, deeply researched, and beautifully rendered account that captures the critical role of transnational couriers in diasporic life and in the making of diasporic memories. Anastario’s sharp focus on the ubiquitous and intimate movement of objects, from money, to food, to photographs, brilliantly opens up new and exciting areas of inquiry around memory studies, postwar, state violence, and the queering of the rural diaspora. It is a compelling and engrossing read that invites an ample audience across borders." -- Irina Carlota Silber * author of Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador *"In this remarkable study Mike Anastario reveals a world that is hidden from most US citizens—a world that challenges the very notion of borders. As Anastario traces the movement of humans and goods across borders from tiny towns in rural El Salvador to migrant enclaves in the urban United States, he also presents an authoritative example of how the past influences the present. With unprecedented access to Salvadoran couriers and their networks, Anastario unpacks the tremendous power of memory—and the hazards of forgetting. Parcels is not only a positive model of engaged research; it is a heartening call to accountability for the US Fugue State." -- Molly Todd * author of Beyond Displacement *“Parcels is relevant to the interdisciplinary fields of Central American studies and Latina/o/x studies to a general readership attentive to the context around contemporary battles over Central American immigrants.” * Aztlan *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Diasporic Remembering 1 Es barata y es cara: couriers and parcels in transnational space 2 A sequence of undocumented migrant memories 3 Diasporic intimacy and nostos imaginaries 4 We don’t have to learn to be what we are not: Memory and imagination in the rural diaspora Part II The US Fugue State 5 Silence and systematic forgetting 6 Fields of violence 7 Deferments of voice, myopic reflections Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
