Gender, globalization, and postsocialism

How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Rep...

Russia before the full-scale war vol. i

This first volume reflects upon some critical characteristics of the late Soviet and post-Soviet elites, institutions, and society of Russia.

Responses to the covid-19 pandemic by the radical right

How has the radical right responded to the COVID-19 pandemic? This volume presents research by scholars from all around the world concentrating on the evolution of radical right-wing movements since the COVID-19 crisis began and their influence on mainstream and alternative narratives.

Revenge

Chronicles Russia's descent into an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship and the path leading to the escalation of Putin's imperialist war in 2022.

The state-building dilemma in afghanistan

This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace- and statebuilding interventions in Afghanistan since 2001. It presents Afghan perceptions and discourse on topics such as democracy, Islam, women’s rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divides, and democratic governmental design ...

Value capture and land policies

Value capture refers to a type of public financing where increases in private land values generated by public investments are “captured” or recouped by the public sector, rather than by individuals, to help pay for the initial investment needed for that development. This approach works in various...

Insurgents, terrorists, and militias

Since the end of the Cold War, conventional militaries and their political leaders have confronted a new, brutal type of warfare in which non-state armed groups use asymmetrical tactics to successfully fight larger, technologically superior forces. In order to prevent future bloodshed and politic...

Nolympians

“The need for critical writing about the Olympics has never been more important and no one does it more effectively or incisively than Jules Boykoff. Here he shows us not only the potential harm of the LA 2028 Summer Games but the activists who are bringing this reality to light.” — Dave Zirin

Zoning rules!

“Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times This best-selling book describes how zoning has been overused by local communities to block new housing development in ways that exacerb...

Journal of romanian studies

The biannual, peer-reviewed <i>Journal of Romanian Studies</i>, jointly developed by the Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as...

Active social capital

The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from sixty-nine villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital i...

China's democratic future

The end of communist rule in China will be one of the most momentous events of the twenty-first century, sounding the death knell for the Marxist-Leninist experiment and changing the lives of a fifth of humanity. This book provides a likely blow-by-blow account of how the Chinese Communist Party ...

Figuring out the doha round

The global economic and financial crisis has awakened protectionist sentiments around the world, and policymakers have failed to actively seek trade liberalization. In light of this, some have proposed abandoning the Doha Round and starting over with a new agenda. Figuring Out the Doha Round argu...

Democracy, plan, and market

This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970...

The power and limits of ngos

Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These NGOs are working on such diverse tasks as helping to establish competitive politica...

Governing the feminist peace

This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism.

The influence of economic interdependence on us-china relations

U.S.-China tensions have escalated in recent years, increasing the likelihood of a future conflict. However, an open conflict would have costly consequences for both sides due to the countries’ deep interconnectedness. This book addresses the incentives for both sides to avoid conflict and contin...

The integration policies of belarus and ukraine vis-à-vis the eu and russia

Belarus and Ukraine received proposals of integration from both the EU and Russia. Alla Leukavets analyzes how the simultaneity of European and Eurasian integration challenged the two countries to make a major strategic choice. The study sheds light on the reasons for and genesis of the Ukraine c...

Trade policy and global poverty

The stakes of the poor in trade policy are large: Free trade can help 500 million people escape poverty and inject $200 billion annually into the economies of developing countries, according to author William R. Cline. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the potential for trade liberal...

Child poverty and social protection in central and western africa

In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multidimensional child poverty and social protection in Central and Western Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection co...

The liberal moment

The rise of the radical right in italy

This book examines the recent rise of the radical right in Italian politics in the years 2018–2022.

Away from chaos

Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from ...

Centrifugal empire

Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People’s Republic of China has held together for decades. By analyzing Beijing’s strategies for maintaining control, Centrifugal Empire reveals the thinking...

Democratic citizenship in flux

Traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are being challenged by developments such as migration, populism, increasing polarization, social fragmentation, and digital communication technology. This book considers recent conceptions of citizenship by bringing together insights from differe...

Insurgent ecologies

A unique collection of stories about how movements against environmental and climate injustice globally converge into broader struggles for overcoming the racist, patriarchal and colonial structures of global capitalism while creating worlds of life, dignity and justice.

Post-soviet russia

Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but—for reaso...

Conserving state trust lands

This report presents and critiques tools and strategies for conserving western state trust lands with ecological and environmental value. A valuable resource for state trust managers and policy makers, it offers information on how to better monetize conservation activity and satisfy trust goals.

Politics of the possible

This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture, and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible.'

The role of local political elites in east central europe

This book considers local leadership in the countries of East-Central Europe. It uses a comparative method to examine the profile and the role of the local political elites (such as members of municipal councils) in six towns in six transitional democracies of the region.

The politics of inequality

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of Ame...

Live theory

Live Theory: The Stanley Aronowitz Reader brings together in thirteen seminal essays Aronowitz’s theoretical contributions.

British fascism

Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularl...

Lithuania transforms the west

This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, from liberation of Soviet occupation, the USSR's collapse, to its integration into NATO.

Smart growth policies

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy collaborated with 14 leading land use researchers and planners to measure and compare outcomes in four states with statewide smart growth programs (Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon) and four states without such programs (Colorado, Indiana, Texas, and ...

Presidential power

Richard Neustadt's seminal work Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership has endured for nearly four decades as the core of academic study of the American presidency. Now, building on and challenging many of the arguments in Neustadt's work, Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for th...

The february 2015 assassination of boris nemtsov and the flawed trial of his alleged killers

This book provides a detailed description of “the Russian crime of the twenty-first century” as well as a thorough examination of the eighty sessions of the nine-month-long trial (during 2016-2017) of Boris Nemtsov’s alleged killers.

Ballots, bullets, and bargains

Drawing on twenty-four years of experience in government, Michael H. Armacost explores how the contours of the U.S. presidential election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. He examines how the nomination battle impels candidates to express deference to the foreig...