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Book SynopsisExamines the nature and consequences of US police training in Brazil and other Latin American countries. This book uncovers how US strategies to gain political control through police assistance - in the name of hemispheric and national security - has spawned torture, murder, and death squads in Latin America.Trade Review“Huggins clearly demonstrates the dangerous unintended consequences of U.S. police training.” - Dennis M. Rempe, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs“With vivid narrative and sharp analysis, Martha Huggins puts the police in its rightful place at the center of Latin American studies. . . . [A]ny look at the future requires an understanding of the past, and no such understanding is complete without the invaluable and pioneering contributions of Political Policing.” - Mark Ungar, Political Science Quarterly[A] scathing indictment of the Office of Public Safety in general and its particular application in Brazil. . . . Her three chapters on OPS and its relationship to the Brazilian military dictators who seized power in 1964 are . . . extraordinary.” - Stephen G. Rabe, The International History Review“Huggins presents the first detailed synthesis of U.S. efforts to penetrate, de-nationalize, and militarize the internal security forces of Latin America under the guise of making Latin American forces more efficient, professional, and democratic.” - W. Michael Weis, The Americas“Political Policing is a superb analysis, lucidly and compellingly written, of the US role in creating, training, and guiding Latin American police forces. - Kenneth Paul Erickson, Luso-Brazilian Review“Martha Huggins has written a major exposé of the CIA’s and AID’s promotion of state terrorism through political murder, disappearances, and institutionalized torture by civil and military police, and their affiliated death squads in Latin America. Every American concerned about our country’s role in the world should read this book.”—Philip Agee, author of Inside the Company“Written with scholarly precision and patriotic outrage, Political Policing is the most comprehensive investigation we have of the long and detestable U. S. involvement in police training in Latin America. Anyone who cares about the future of this hemisphere will want to read Professor Huggins’s brilliant exposé.”—Jack Langguth, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California“Political Policing is a superb analysis, lucidly and compellingly written, of the US role in creating, training, and guiding Latin American police forces. -- Kenneth Paul Erickson * Luso-Brazilian Review *“Huggins clearly demonstrates the dangerous unintended consequences of U.S. police training.” -- Dennis M. Rempe * Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs *“Huggins presents the first detailed synthesis of U.S. efforts to penetrate, de-nationalize, and militarize the internal security forces of Latin America under the guise of making Latin American forces more efficient, professional, and democratic.” -- W. Michael Weis * The Americas *“With vivid narrative and sharp analysis, Martha Huggins puts the police in its rightful place at the center of Latin American studies. . . . [A]ny look at the future requires an understanding of the past, and no such understanding is complete without the invaluable and pioneering contributions of Political Policing.” -- Mark Ungar * Political Science Quarterly *[A] scathing indictment of the Office of Public Safety in general and its particular application in Brazil. . . . Her three chapters on OPS and its relationship to the Brazilian military dictators who seized power in 1964 are . . . extraordinary.” -- Stephen G. Rabe * International History Review *

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Book SynopsisBringing together Mexican, Soviet, and North American (as well as British) perspectives, this book shows how the convergence of each country's domestic and foreign policies precluded them from a harmonious triangular relationship. It contributes to an understanding of the international dimension of the Mexican revolution.Trade Review“The Impossible Triange succeeds on many levels, but perhaps none more than in its innovative trilateral approach. The Mexico that emerges from Spenser’s narrative is both object—of the unequal struggle for influence between the United States and the Soviet Union—and subject, capable of dealing with these two ‘courtiers’ on its own terms. This engagingly-told story reminds us of the radical contingencies thrown up by the Bolshevik Revolution and how that revolution permanently altered the conduct of international relations.”—Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University“The Impossible Triangle documents a comedy of errors that tells us how, insimilar unforeseen situations, before pursuing reality, every diplomacy pursues its own phantoms.”—Adolfo Gilly, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoTable of ContentsForeword / Friedrich Katz ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part One- The Encounter of Two Revolutions, 1917-1924 1 The United States in Search of Its Mexican Policy 9 2 Mexico in Soviet Calculations 32 3 Soviet Russia in Mexican Politics 51 Part Two- The Revolutions Arrive at Cross-Purposes, 1924-1927 4 The United States Challenges Mexico 75 5 The Soviets Misunderstand Their Meixcan Friend 95 6 Mexico at the Crossroads 113 Part Three- The Revolutions Collide, 1928-1930 7 The United States as Good Neighbor 133 8 The Ideological Excesses of the Comintern 152 9 The Break in relations between Mexico and the USSR 170 Final Reflections 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 231 Index 251

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Book SynopsisAnalysis of the nationally broadcast radio program "Focus on the Family" that argues that the Christian right's popularity stems from its resistance to the influence of market forces in the welfare state, the electoral system, and the public sphere.Trade Review“Apostolidis’s application of dialectical criticism to the evangelical radio program Focus on the Family is theoretically innovative and politically daring. Reading Christian conservatism as cultural critique, he discerns in its narrative structures the same utopian desire for ethical autonomy that animates ‘left’ criticisms of our post-Fordist social order. No apologist for the New Right but a democratic provocateur, Apostolidis challenges progressives to set aside their secular disdain for evangelicalism and consider how its powerful cultural idiom might provide intellectual and political radicalism with a new voice.”—Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities“Paul Apostolidis’s excellent study Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio provides one of the sharpest analyses yet to appear of the Christian right and its media politics. The book is also an important contribution to critical theory, applying and reconstructing T. W. Adorno’s approach to cultural criticism. Focusing on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, Apostolidis skillfully dissects the program’s messages, politics, and effects, producing a first-rate study of contemporary conservative religious culture.”—Douglas Kellner, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledments Introduction 1. Adorno on Mass Culture and Cultural Criticism 2. Adorno’s Critique of Christian Right Radio in the New Deal Era 3. Christian Professionals and the Fraying Fabric of Health and Human Services 4. Christian Politicians and the Decline of Democratic Accountability 5. Christian Victims in the Backlash Society 6. Negative Dialectics and Political Practice Appendix AComplete Listing of Focus on the Family Broadcasts Selected for Research Appendix BItenerary for Research Visit to Colorado Springs, 21–25 February 1996 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnalysis of the nationally broadcast radio program "Focus on the Family" that argues that the Christian right's popularity stems from its resistance to the increasing influence of market forces in the welfare state, the electoral system, and the public sphere. The book provides a needed contribution to sociopolitical studies of mass movements.Trade Review“Apostolidis’s application of dialectical criticism to the evangelical radio program Focus on the Family is theoretically innovative and politically daring. Reading Christian conservatism as cultural critique, he discerns in its narrative structures the same utopian desire for ethical autonomy that animates ‘left’ criticisms of our post-Fordist social order. No apologist for the New Right but a democratic provocateur, Apostolidis challenges progressives to set aside their secular disdain for evangelicalism and consider how its powerful cultural idiom might provide intellectual and political radicalism with a new voice.”—Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities“Paul Apostolidis’s excellent study Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio provides one of the sharpest analyses yet to appear of the Christian right and its media politics. The book is also an important contribution to critical theory, applying and reconstructing T. W. Adorno’s approach to cultural criticism. Focusing on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, Apostolidis skillfully dissects the program’s messages, politics, and effects, producing a first-rate study of contemporary conservative religious culture.”—Douglas Kellner, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledments Introduction 1. Adorno on Mass Culture and Cultural Criticism 2. Adorno’s Critique of Christian Right Radio in the New Deal Era 3. Christian Professionals and the Fraying Fabric of Health and Human Services 4. Christian Politicians and the Decline of Democratic Accountability 5. Christian Victims in the Backlash Society 6. Negative Dialectics and Political Practice Appendix AComplete Listing of Focus on the Family Broadcasts Selected for Research Appendix BItenerary for Research Visit to Colorado Springs, 21–25 February 1996 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSuitable for those interested in cultural studies, film and video studies, American studies, twentieth century history, German studies, rhetoric, and sexuality studies, this book investigates the influence of images of Nazism on debates about sexuality that are central to contemporary American political rhetoric.Trade Review“Slane writes elegantly, clearly, and with a careful rigor out of which come startling observations. A Not So Foreign Affair situates itself within a new and very important field in which contemporary conservatism is given the same kind of sophisticated theoretical treatment as avant-garde work has received in the past.”—Linda Kintz, author of Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America“This book had me riveted. With a careful balance of broad theoretical claims, historical specificity, and close textual readings, Slane makes connections across the history of sexuality and its surrounding political and cultural discourses that are indeed impressive. Hers is a subtle and penetrating critique.”—Sharon Willis, author of High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood FilmTable of ContentsList of Illustratioins Acknowledgments A Not So Foreign Affair: Introduction Section One: The Democratic Family 1. Nazi Nationalist Melodrama: Science, Myth, and Paternal Authority in Die Goldene Stadt 2. American Nationalist Melodrama: Tales of Hitler’s Children 3. “Family Values” and Naziana in Contemporary Right-wing Media Section Two: The Democratic Psyche 4. Nazism, Psychology, and the Making of Democratic Subjects 5. The American Nazi: Cold War Social Problem Films and National Psychobiography 6. Skinheads, Militiamen, and the Legacies of Failed Masculinity Section Three: Democratic Sex 7. The Iconology of the Sexy Nazi Woman: Marlene Dietrich as Political Palimpsest 8. Sexualized Nazis and Contemporary Popular Political Culture Epilogue Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMore than four million United States citizens live in five "unincorporated" US territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. This book addresses the problem of the US territories.Trade Review“I can hardly contain my enthusiasm for this project, which brings together an array of authoritative scholars in the field. “Foreign in a Domestic Sense” is the most important work of its kind of our generation, a book that advances the scholarship while having a material impact on current and future debates about Puerto Rico’s self-determination.”—Francisco A. Scarano, author of Puerto Rico: Cinco Siglos de HistoriaTable of ContentsPreface Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented / Christina Duffy Burnett and Burke Marshall I. History and Expansion Some Common Ground / José A. Cabranes Teutonic Constitutionalism: The Role of Ethno-Juridical Discourse in the Spanish-American War / Mark S. Weiner A Constitution Led by the Flag: The Insular Cases and the Metaphor of Incorporation / Brook Thomas Deconstructing Colonialism: The “Unincorporated Territory” as a Category of Domination / Efrén Rivera Ramos II. Expansion and Constitution Installing the Insular Cases into the Canon of Constitutional Law / Sanford Levinson Fulfilling Manifest Destiny: Conquest, Race, and the Insular Cases / Juan F. Perea U.S. Territorial Expansion: Extended Republicanism versus Hyperextended Expansionism / E. Robert Statham Jr. Constitutionalism and Individual Rights in the Territories / Gerald L. Neuman III. Constitution and Membership Partial Membership and Liberal Political Theory / Mark Tushnet Injustice According to Law: The Insular Cases and other Oddities / José Trías Monge One Hundred Years of Solitude: Puerto Rico’s American Century / Juan R. Torreulla A Tale of Distorting Mirrors: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rico’s Sovereignty Imbroglio / Roberto Aponte Toro IV. Membership and Recognition Law, Language, and Statehood: The Role of English in the Great State of Puerto Rico / José Julián Alvarez González Puerto Rican National Identity and United States Pluralism / Angel Ricardo Oquendo Puerto Rican Separatism and United States Federalism / Richard Thornburgh The Bitter Roots of Puerto Rican Citizenship / Rogers M. Smith A Note on the Insular Cases / Christina Duffy Burnett Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA special issue of 'PUBLIC CULTURE', this volume of essays explores the experiences and political economies of globalisation in various locales.Table of ContentsGrassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / Arjun Appadurai 1 At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa / Achille Mbembe 22 Mapping Concepts / Philippe Rekacewicz 52 Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia / Andreas Huyssen 57 On Foot / Boubacar Touré Mandémory 78 On Wheels / Ralf D. Hotchkiss 81 Toward an Ethics of the Future / Jérôme Bindé 90 A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung 114 Mediating Time: The "Rice Bowl of Youth" in Fin de Siècle Urban China / Zhang Zhen 131 Inside the Economy of Appearances / Anna Tsing 155 A Sweet Lullaby for World Music / Steven Feld 189 On the Uddered Breast 217 Prehistories of Globalization: Circassian Identity in Motion / Seteney Shami 220 On the Predicament of the Sign: The Modern African Women's Claim to Locality / Fatu Kande Senghor 251 From National Capital to Global Capital: Urban Change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini 253 Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization / Saskia Sassen 260 Globalizing the Regional, Regionalizing the Global: Mass Culture and Asianism in the Age of Late Capital / Leo Ching 279 The Paradoxical Invention of Economic Modernity / Jean-François Bayart 307 Contributors 335 Index 339

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Book SynopsisBartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing socio-cultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico's cultural and political relationship to the US.Trade Review“I can think of no other Mexican thinker who has so consistently crossed disciplinary and national boundaries nor so effectively integrated intellectual and political milieus, laying bare the contradictions of the postrevolutionary state and the Mexican Left in the process. Blood, Ink, and Culture pulls no punches. It should be read by anyone seeking to understand Mexico's postnational condition in the new millennium.”—Gilbert M. Joseph, editor of Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History“Roger Bartra is one of Latin America’s premier cultural critics. With this intriguing, provocative, and insightful volume, an English-language audience will have the pleasure of reading some of his best and most challenging commentary.”—Irene Silverblatt, author of Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial PeruTable of ContentsPreface I. Blood and Ink The Mexican Office: Miseries and Splendors of Culture Tropical Kitsch in Blood and Ink The Bridge, the Border, and the Cage: Cultural Crisis and Identity in the Post-Mexican Condition Method in a Cage: How to Escape from the Hermeneutic Circle? II. The Post-Mexican Condition The Malinche’s Revenge: Toward a Postnational Identity Missing Democracy The Political Crisis of 1982 Journey to the Center of the Right The Crisis of Nationalism From the Charismatic Phallus to the Phallocratic Office III. Miseries and Splendors of the Left Our Own Nineteen Eighty-Four Between Disenchantment and Utopia Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism Is the Left Necessary? Lombardo or Revueltas? Marxism on the Gallows? Great Changes, Modest Proposals Postscript: The Dictatorship Was Not Perfect Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAsks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradoxTrade Review“Extraordinarily engaging, Confronting the American Dream is far and away the best work ever written on the convoluted path of elite/Conservative disenchantment with the U. S. imperial project in Nicaragua. Its relevance to broader historical and contemporary phenomena throughout Latin America and well beyond is really quite remarkable.”— Lowell Gudmundson, coauthor of Central America, 1821–1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform“This is a beautifully argued and researched book—one of the most important and revealing case studies we have in U.S.–Latin American relations. But it goes far beyond that. Without ever significantly moving past the 1930s, Michel Gobat has provided an indictment of the early-twenty-first-century embrace of ‘American empire’ and, in a model of scholarship, provided stunning insights into the ironies—and tragedies—of the misuse of U.S. power.”—Walter LaFeber, author of America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–2002Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I: Manifest Destinies, 1849–1910 19 1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker 21 2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality 42 Part II: Restoration, 1910–1912 73 3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact 75 4. Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912 100 Part III: Dollar Diplomacy, 1912–1927 123 5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street’s “Feudal” Regime 125 6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy’s Socioeconomic Impact 150 7. Cultural Anit-Americanism: The Caballeros Catolicos’ Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the “Modern Woman,” and the “Bourgeois Spirit” 175 Part IV: Revolution, 1927–1933 203 8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism 205 9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua 232 Epilogue: Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution 267 Notes 281 Selected Bibliography 325 Index 351

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Book SynopsisAsks how a virulent anti-Americanism developed in a Nicaraguan society that also seemed to embrace Americanization fervently and explores the historical roots of this paradoxTrade Review“Extraordinarily engaging, Confronting the American Dream is far and away the best work ever written on the convoluted path of elite/Conservative disenchantment with the U. S. imperial project in Nicaragua. Its relevance to broader historical and contemporary phenomena throughout Latin America and well beyond is really quite remarkable.”— Lowell Gudmundson, coauthor of Central America, 1821–1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform“This is a beautifully argued and researched book—one of the most important and revealing case studies we have in U.S.–Latin American relations. But it goes far beyond that. Without ever significantly moving past the 1930s, Michel Gobat has provided an indictment of the early-twenty-first-century embrace of ‘American empire’ and, in a model of scholarship, provided stunning insights into the ironies—and tragedies—of the misuse of U.S. power.”—Walter LaFeber, author of America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–2002Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Tables x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I: Manifest Destinies, 1849–1910 19 1. Americanization through Violence: Nicaragua under Walker 21 2. Americanization from Within: Forging a Cosmopolitan Nationality 42 Part II: Restoration, 1910–1912 73 3. Challenging Imperial Exclusions: Nicaragua under the Dawson Pact 75 4. Bourgeois Revolution Denied: U.S. Military Intervention in the Civil War of 1912 100 Part III: Dollar Diplomacy, 1912–1927 123 5. Economic Nationalism: Resisting Wall Street’s “Feudal” Regime 125 6. Anxious Landlords, Resilient Peasants: Dollar Diplomacy’s Socioeconomic Impact 150 7. Cultural Anit-Americanism: The Caballeros Catolicos’ Crusade against U.S. Missionaries, the “Modern Woman,” and the “Bourgeois Spirit” 175 Part IV: Revolution, 1927–1933 203 8. Militarization via Democratization: The U.S. Attack on Caudillismo and the Rise of Authoritarian Corporatism 205 9. Revolutionary Nationalism: Elite Conservatives, Sandino, and the Struggle for a De-Americanized Nicaragua 232 Epilogue: Imperial Legacies: Dictatorship and Revolution 267 Notes 281 Selected Bibliography 325 Index 351

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Trade Review"Hearn renders a book that is well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *"An important book. . . . Diaspora and Trust deserves thoughtful consideration from scholars of Asia's transpacific communities as well as those who study immigration, anthropology, and history." -- Grace Pena Delgado * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"A unique blending of macrolevel economic analysis and microlevel ethnographic work, Adrian Hearn moves fluidly between different scales of analysis, steeping readers in a discussion of international trade agreements and shifting national economic policies, while inviting them into the ramshackle building of a Chinese association in Havana’s barrio chino, or a Tijuana taxi cab where local actors humanize statistics and acronyms. . . . Well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Cuba, China, and the Long March to the Market 29 2. Mexico, China, and the Politics of Trust 65 3. Havana's Chinatown and the Quest for Synergy 99 4. Trust and Treachery in Mexico's Chinese Diaspora 163 Conclusion. China and the Future of History 209 Notes 223 References 227 Index 255

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Trade Review"Hearn renders a book that is well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *"An important book. . . . Diaspora and Trust deserves thoughtful consideration from scholars of Asia's transpacific communities as well as those who study immigration, anthropology, and history." -- Grace Pena Delgado * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"A unique blending of macrolevel economic analysis and microlevel ethnographic work, Adrian Hearn moves fluidly between different scales of analysis, steeping readers in a discussion of international trade agreements and shifting national economic policies, while inviting them into the ramshackle building of a Chinese association in Havana’s barrio chino, or a Tijuana taxi cab where local actors humanize statistics and acronyms. . . . Well researched, refined, important, and timely. Most impressive of all, Diaspora and Trust is accessible without lacking complexity or sophistication. It will appeal to academics and nonacademics equally." -- Dalia Antonia Muller * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Cuba, China, and the Long March to the Market 29 2. Mexico, China, and the Politics of Trust 65 3. Havana's Chinatown and the Quest for Synergy 99 4. Trust and Treachery in Mexico's Chinese Diaspora 163 Conclusion. China and the Future of History 209 Notes 223 References 227 Index 255

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Book SynopsisExamining the evolution of the Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven), which aspires to a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social divides, the contributors show how it has shaped China's political organization, foreign policy, and worldview from the Han dynasty to the present.Trade Review“Chinese Visions of World Order is the best kind of edited volume; it gives the impression that its diverse array of contributions have been curated rather than commissioned.” -- Salvatore Babones * MCLC Resource Center *"Compiles a fascinating multiplicity of philosophical thoughts and historiographic accounts of the Chinese tianxia . . . . A good read for anyone interested in Chinese intellectual history and philosophy." -- Nele Noesselt * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Ban Wang 1 Part I. Tianxia, Confucianism, and Empire 1. Tianxia and the Invention of Empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-yu 25 2. From Empire to State: Kang Youwei, Confucian Universalism, and Unity / Wang Hui 49 3. The Chinese World Order and Planetary Sustainability / Prasenjit Duara 65 Part II. Tianxia, Cross-Cultural Learning, and Cosmopolitanism 4. The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the Great Community / Ban Wang 87 5. Greek Antiquity, Chinese Modernity, and the Changing World Order / Yiquan Zhou 106 6. Realizing Tianxia: Traditional Values and China's Foreign Policy / Daniel A. Bell 129 Part III. Tianxia and Socialist Internationalism 7. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy 149 8. China's Lost World of Internationalism / Lin Chun 177 9. China's Tianxia Worldlings: Socialist and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel 212 Part IV. Tianxia and Its Discontents 10. The Soft Power of the Constant Soldier: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the PLA / Haiyan Lee 237 11. Tracking Tianxia: On Intellectual Self-Positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen 267 Bibliography 293 Contributors 319 Index 323

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Book SynopsisA thorough examination of U. S. economic relations with Cuba, this text discusses the history of the embargo policy as well as current changes in attitudes. It demonstrates the serious effects domestic politics can have on foreign policy.

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Book SynopsisExamines American attitudes on issues of national and international security. Based on over 13,000 in-depth interviews conducted over a ten-year period. Provides surprising insights into public opinion on nuclear deterrence, terrorism, and other security issues.

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Book SynopsisTransnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions assembles leading scholars to debate the role and impact of transnational actors and presents a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region.Trade Review“This volume is the first encompassing and theoretically oriented statement on the diverse ways transnational actors and factors could be included in the analysis of change in Central and Eastern Europe. It represents a major common statement by the representatives of the new approach, fills a gap, and will serve as a baseline for further debates in the field.” —Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute“Offers a wide-ranging assessment of both the mechanisms of transnational influence and the extent of this influence in various issue areas. It will be useful to those new to the area of transnational influence as well as offering detailed essays for those interested in certain specific areas. It is to be commended for its breadth of coverage and willingness to encompass competing views.” —Slavonic and East European Review

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Book SynopsisThe role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.

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Book SynopsisA study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo's scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a buffer zone on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti through the establishment of state institutions and an ideological campaign against what was considered an encroaching black, inferior, and bellicose Haitian state.

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Book SynopsisChildren have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos that characterizes life for refugees and internally displaced persons. This book features experts from many troubled parts of the world to consider the scope of the problem, and the tools needed to address the crisis.Trade Review"Even in Chaos should be required reading for everyone concerned about the desperate plight of too many children in the world. As many voices in this book remind us, education is our most powerful weapon in this war." -- -Tom Brokaw " I have done voluntary work for UNICEF and other UN agencies during military conflicts and afterwards. I found this book enthralling reading -a hands on fresh account and examination of both achievements and on-going mistakes. Children's education has always been a passion of mine. A huge thanks to all the writers and especially to Doctor Cahill." -- -Vanessa Redgrave "I thank Dr. Cahill for bringing together the important contributions to this book and am confident that it will make us feel strong and more prepared in our commitment to better protect our learners, their teachers and all those involved in the delivery of their right to education. I believe these efforts have enabled us to make progress toward these important goals and see increasing awareness of right to education in emergencies as part of the legacy of my Presidency." -- -H.E. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann President of the Sixty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, from the foreword

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Book SynopsisIn this brief but comprehensive book, Francis Deng offers a creative analysis of the situation, aimed at addressing, and hopefully resolving, the complex dilemmas confronting Sudan, Africa, and the international community over the critical choice the South will make in January 2011--unity or secession.Trade Review"Francis Deng and I worked intensively with the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and successive governments in Khartoum for years to promote the cause of peace and unity in the Sudan. I know no other Sudanese who has devoted so much to bridging the gulf that has torn his country apart. Francis is a strong believer in unity, but one based on equality and justice for all. This book sheds important light on the challenges facing the Sudan and should be taken seriously by all concerned with the developments in the country." -- -Olusegun Obasanjo Former President of Nigeria "The title of this book spotlights the challenges confronting the Sudan. This book should act as a catalyst in the debate on these vitally important issues. It is insightful and forward-looking. I hope all Sudanese, Southern and Northern, as well as those concerned about the future of the country and people, will read this book." -- -Haile Menkerios Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Sudan "'This book is a timely reminder of Francis Deng's lifelong efforts to advance peace and cooperation among Sudanese. It provides a strong basis for dialogue on the future of Sudan and insight on how the country's most challenging questions can be answered." -- -former President Jimmy Carter Nobel Peace Laureate "I first met Francis Deng when he presented a concept paper for a meeting of all the Sudanese parties organized by the Carter Center and which I chaired. I was deeply impressed by Francis Deng's intellectual and diplomatic ability to bridge the wide gulf dividing the parties in Sudan's conflict. This book reflects that quality, which is tragically very rare in countries torn apart by conflict. hope it will be widely read and taken seriously, especially by his fellow Sudanese." -- -Bishop Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Laureate "As an old Sudanese proverb so rightly says, a difficult path necessitates a competent guide and there could be no better guide through the complexities of the forthcoming referendum on Sudan's future than Francis Deng. With customary skill and candor, he outlines the road ahead without failing to warn of dangerous turns and treacherous shortcuts. His book is a timely comment on a situation of grave concern to Africa and the international community." -- -Kofi Annan former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Laureate "Over the last several decades, Francis Deng has been one of our major sources of insight into developments in Sudan. I have always been impressed by Deng's ability to analyze the situation compassionately but objectively with a remarkable ability to see the point of view of adversaries. Deng's perspective on his country is an exceptional one that should be given serious attention by all concerned with developments in the Sudan." -- -Congressman Donald M. Payne Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa "This book reflects a penetrating analysis of the problems and a refreshing optimism without which we would be defeated before we even try. I strongly recommend that this book be compulsory reading for all the stakeholders in the peace process in Sudan.' -- -Ibrahim Gambari Joint Special Representative of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operations in Darfur "Dr. Deng has written a book of extraordinary importance, one that is rich in well-documented information, gives insight beyond any prior publication, and points the way toward practical solutions." -- -Salim Ahmed Salim President of the Julius Nyerere Foundation Sudan is at a critical juncture, as the 2011 referendum in the South will determine whether the country will remain united or be partitioned. But as Francis Deng argues in this insightful and thoughtful book, unity and partition are but varying degrees of ongoing relationships which can be strengthened or weakened according to the will of the people and their leaders. Mutual interests that will endure dictate that the Sudanese parties work on developing sustainable and mutually beneficial cooperation beyond the referendum and whatever its outcome. Brief as the book is, it is an eloquent expression of Francis Deng's dedication of long standing to the cause of peace and unity for his country and people. His penetrating views will undoubtedly contribute to the debate on these issues of vital importance to the destiny of Sudan and Africa. -- -President Thabo Mbeki Chairman of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan "Dr. Deng has written a book of extraordinary importance, one that is rich in well-documented information, gives insight beyond any prior publication, and points the way toward practical solutions." -- -David A. Hamburg, M.D. President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of NY

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Book SynopsisBuilding on almost two decades of fieldwork, Aurora Donzelli describes how the growing influence of transnational lending agencies is transforming the ways in which people desire and voice their expectations, intentions, and entitlements within the emergent participatory democracy and restructuring of Indonesia's political economy.

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Book SynopsisExplores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Knaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and the knowledge that there is life to be found beyond Hawaii's shores. It is both a symbol of ancestral connection and the potential that comes with remembering and acting upon that connection.

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Book SynopsisExamines the leadership of Hawai’i’s longest reigning monarch, King Kamehameha III. The book highlights the early 1840s, when Kauikeaouli secured recognition from the United States, Britain, and France that he ruled over an independent and sovereign Hawaiian state.

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Book SynopsisThrough a study of the Border Patrol Police’s transformations, Indigenizing the Cold War shows how the Thai ruling elite unfailingly pursued their nation-building. With an introduction of the ‘indigenization’ concept and an in-depth analysis of postcolonial nation-building, this work challenges conventional Cold War studies.Trade ReviewIn this highly original and engaging book, Sinae Hyun offers a new account of the hot Cold War in Thailand through a rich, detailed analysis of the genesis and consolidation of the Border Patrol Police (BPP). Initially funded by the CIA and crafted with collaboration from the US government, Thai military, and Thai monarchy, the BPP is a repressive paramilitary force that went to great lengths to prevent communism from succeeding in Thailand. What makes this book so exciting is that Hyun uses the history of the BPP to develop new arguments about the Cold War in and beyond Thailand. By questioning the very border the BPP was policing—one that was at once psychological and human as well as physical—she develops a new theoretical optic that illustrates how counterinsurgency functioned as a project of creating a new nation and new national subjects." —Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Book SynopsisIn this study, the author demonstrates that rather than simply being reactive in bringing about an end to the Cold War, it was the US President who first sought a rapprochement, calling for ""dialogue, co-operation and understanding"". She examines the possible theories for this reversal in policy.

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Book SynopsisThis well-documented book analyzes the possibilities and constraints of regulatory cooperation between the EU and the US (particularly California) with a specific focus on environmental protection, food safety and agriculture, biosafety and biodiversity.Trade ReviewIn this increasingly globalised regulatory environment there is a need to better understand how the world s two most active trade-blocks are cooperating especially with regard to pending complicated regulations be it REACH or the proposed revision of US TSCA. In this most timely book, Vogel and Swinnen bring together an outstanding group of scholars to help explain the delicate and important intricacies of present policy debates, making the volume essential reading for policy researchers, regulators and consultants active in the area. Ragnar Lofstedt, King's College London, UK David Vogel and Johan Swinnen have assembled a first-rate book on regulatory cooperation between the US and EU. The case studies provide detailed and nuanced analyses of policy areas from water to climate change and biotechnology, and the concluding chapters offer well-judged and balanced assessments of the regulatory challenges for future transatlantic relations. - Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation represents a cutting-edge contribution to the study of economic regulation, and in particular the prospects for cooperation between the US and the EU as the world's dominant economic blocs. The authors, among the leading scholars in their fields, provide theoretically and empirically informed studies of transatlantic cooperation and conflict in areas such as the environment, climate change, food safety, and genetically modified foods, deriving provocative and compelling policy recommendations from each. The discussion of federalism, and the opportunities and constraints it presents for international cooperation, is superb. --- Mark A. Pollack, Temple University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Heddy Riss, Johan F.M. Swinnen and David Vogel PART I: FEDERALISM AND COOPERATION AT THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS 1. Legal Guidelines for Cooperation between the EU and American State Governments Daniel Farber 2. Transatlantic Environmental Regulation-making: Strengthening Cooperation between California and the EU Christina G. Hioureas and Bruce E. Cain 3. California Motor Vehicle Standards and Federalism: Lessons for the EU Ann E. Carlson PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 4. Rivers of Diversity: Water Regulation in California and the EU Gabrielle Bouleau and Matt Kondolf 5. Reshaping Chemicals Policy on Two Sides of the Atlantic: The Promise of Improved Sustainability through International Collaboration Megan R. Schwarzman and Michael P. Wilson 6. Climate Change Policy in California: Balancing Markets versus Regulation Michael Hanemann and Chris Busch PART III: FOOD SAFETY AND AGRICULTURE 7. US versus EU Biotechnology Regulations and Comparative Advantage: Implications for Future Conflicts and Trade Gal Hochman, Gordon C. Rausser and David Zilberman 8. Circuits of Regulation: Transatlantic Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Chris Ansell and Jörg Balsiger 9. How to Get Out of the Transatlantic Regulatory Deadlock Over Genetically Modified Organisms? Alberto Alemanno PART IV: THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY COOPERATION 10. Food Labels and the Environment: Towards Harmonization of EU and US Organic Standards David E. Winickoff and Kendra Klein 11. EU–US Horizontal Regulatory Cooperation: Mutual Recognition of Impact Assessment? Anne C.M. Meuwese PART V: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 12. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Conclusions and Implications Axel Marx and Jan Wouters 13. Lessons Learned and Suggestions for Improving Regulatory Cooperation between California and the EU Ian Clark Index

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book will be of enormous interest to scholars, researchers and students focusing on comparative environmental policy and politics, contemporary public policy in Russia, and international politics.Trade Review‘A fresh and up-to-date discussion of Russia’s manifold environmental crises, using the results of an elite survey and a framework based on the civil society literature. I believe this is the best treatment of its subject that is presently available and, given Russia’s enormous territorial extent, it is a study that has important implications for everyone who has any concern for the future of Planet Earth.’ -- Stephen White, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Civil Society, Environment and Russian Politics Post-1991 2. Russia’s Environmental Challenges and their Management 3. Environmental Civil Society through Russian Eyes: Stakeholder Views 4. Case Studies and their Insights into Civil Society Growth: Lake Baikal, Chelyabinsk and Genetically Modified Food 5. Interpreting Civil Society: Challenges, Change and Environmental Significance 6. Conclusions: The Bad, the Good and the Uncertain Appendix A: Summary of Survey Findings Appendix B: Questionnaire – Decision Making on Environmental and Natural Resource Issues References Index

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Book SynopsisThere is no shortage of opinion about the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Those involved in international financial institutions and national monetary institutions will also find it to be an impartial and illuminating study.Trade ReviewRecent events in advanced and emerging markets have rendered IMF reform more urgent than ever. Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands, two of our most trenchant observers of the Fund, have thus done a singular service by bringing together their collected works on the IMF and its critics. Some of these essays are previously published, while others are new, but all are very much worth reading by anyone concerned to create an International Monetary Fund fit for the 21st century. --Barry Eichengreen, University of California, BerkeleyStudents of the IMF take note! This monograph provides a timely and comprehensive account of the functioning of the Fund, ranging from an analysis of what determines access to its loans to the consequences of its programs. Written by leading experts, this will soon become an authoritative source of reference on the IMF. --Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction and Overview: The Purposes and Operations of the IMF 2. IMF Quotas 3. The IMF's Lending Facilities 4. Aggregate IMF Lending 5. Participation in IMF Programs 6. The Implementation of IMF Programs 7. The Effects of IMF Programs on Economic Growth 8. IMF Programs and Private Capital Flows 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fall considerable contemporary resonance.Trade ReviewThe essays provide new insights into the question of Habsburg endurance, while offering perceptive suggestions about its ultimate collapse... [The book] represents a valuable attempt to publish new research and new perspectives on familiar questions. Carefully edited and with an excellent set of maps and a solid bibliography, the book offers students and specialists alike fresh thoughts about the Habsburg Monarchy, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. The International History ReviewConcise and varied angles... Its lucid and informative contributions make it good value. Robin Okey, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of Contents List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Terminology 1. Introduction - MARK CORNWALL 2. The Foreign Policy of the Monarchy - F.R. BRIDGE 3. 'Well-tempered Discontent': Austrian Domestic Politics - LOTHAR HÖBELT 4. The Bohemian Question - CATHERINE ALBRECHT 5. The Hungarian Political Scene - F. TIBOR ZSUPPÁN 6. The Southern Slav Question - JANKO PLETERSKI 7. The Eastern Front - RUDOLF JEŘÁBEK 8. Disintegration and Defeat: The Austro-Hungarian Revolution - MARK CORNWALL Appendix. Documents: The Final Meetings of the Common Ministerial Council Further Reading (in English) Index

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