Bridging the pacific

The terrain of the world trading system is shifting as countries in Asia, Europe, and North America negotiate new trade agreements. However, none of these talks include both China and the United States, the two biggest economies in the world. In this pathbreaking study, C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Cly...

Slipping loose

Martin Westlake argues that focus on the short-term causes of the Brexit vote has overshadowed a series of longer-term trends that were leading or pushing the UK away from full membership of the European Union. He shows that the UK was an increasingly semi-detached member, requiring ever more ela...

Violent peace

When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive t...

Town-gown collaboration in land use and development

Once considered enclaves of intellectual pursuit, they now play a much broader role in their neighborhoods and cities. The character of communities near expanding educational institutions drives a need for collaboration between public officials and school administrators. The evolution of universi...

Economics, bureaucracy, and race

In this hard-hitting analysis of the war on poverty, Judith Russell charges that since FDR's New Deal, the U.S. government has introduced many public policies attempting to address poverty, yet it has failed to produce coherent programs to combat it. Focusing on the genesis of the Economic Opport...

Popular is not enough: the political voice of joan baez

Markus Jaeger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez’s work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavors as a political activist throughout the last sixty years. This revised and updated edition includes an additional chapter on Baez’s artistic and political endeavors in the 2010s.

The ends of resistance

Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer a clear-eyed critical account of how neoliberalism has redefined resistance to thwart social movements and consolidate power.

Rethinking property tax incentives for business

State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness, and makes recommendations for reforming their use to help policy makers and local government offic...

Contesting cyberspace in china

Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China’s survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power.

Soviet fates and lost alternatives

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen show...

Annihilation from within

In this eloquent and impassioned book, defense expert Fred Iklé predicts a revolution in national security that few strategists have grasped; fewer still are mindful of its historic roots. We are preoccupied with suicide bombers, jihadist terrorists, and rogue nations producing nuclear weapons, b...

Revolutions, nations, empires

In this concise, provocative, and trenchant book, Alexander J. Motyl argues that social scientists must pay more rigorous attention to the formulation of concepts, as they provide the basis for clear thinking, good research, and intelligent formulation of theories. Before even contemplating the q...

Russia and modern fascism

This book gathers leading experts in the first scholarly study of a new Russian fascism that draws on distinctly modern forms of control and violence as much as on historical precedents.

Delegated diplomacy

David Lindsey develops a new theory of diplomacy that illuminates why states find ambassadors indispensable. He argues that the primary diplomatic challenge countries face is not simply communication—it is credibility. Diplomats can often communicate credibly with their host countries even when t...

The implications of china-taiwan economic liberalization

China and Taiwan have built one of the most intertwined and important economic relationships in the world, and yet that relationship is not mutually open, compliant with World Trade Organization norms, or even fully institutionalized. What's more, despite massive trade and investment flows, the b...

Winning the peace

Political power

Although the concept of power is central to the study of politics, there is no agreement as to what exactly power is. Power is often viewed negatively, as domination, though it is also the case that power is created by people acting in concert, in which case it can have positive effects. Making s...

Who are the fighters?

This book discloses the micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and tactics of irregular armed groups fighting the war in Ukraine.

The diplomacy of the crucial decade

Although the foreign policy decisions made by Kennedy and Johnson determined the final form of postwar diplomacy and laid the foundation for the tumultuous worldwide political changes of the last five years, until now no book has examined American diplomacy during 1960s as a whole.During his pres...

China's rise

China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the rest of the world better comprehend t...

Man, the state, and war

In this landmark work of international relations theory, first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz offers a foundational analysis of the nature of conflict between states.

The liberal conscience

"A new liberal theory awaits, one that properly acknowledges the fundamental values and commitments of theocrats and liberals alike."—from The Liberal of ConscienceIn recent years, the battle between liberalism and theocracy has taken center stage around the globe. To many it is a dispute that ca...

Reinventing development regulations

In this practical guide, two well-known experts argue that municipal leaders can dramatically improve the quality of life in their communities by adjusting local land use regulations. Barnett, one of the pioneers of the modern practice of city design, and Blaesser, a land use and real estate lawy...

Reinventing the chinese city

Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.

Contested language diversity in contemporary ukraine

This collected book focuses on the language situation in wartime Ukraine. shedding light on the processes of language shifts that occur in Ukraine and are accelerated by the war situation.

Portugal and slovakia in comparative perspective

This book contributes to European comparative history through Portugal and Slovakia, and thus the larger geographies of Iberia and Slavic Central Europe.

Russian voices on post-crimea russia

This volume presents a collection of articles by Russian scholars and experts on a broad range of subjects from the Russian political scene and state-society relations to the politics of culture and the realm of ideas and symbols, offering insights into Russia’s multifaceted development after the...

Socialisme ou barbarie

An anthology from the radical group that reoriented critical revolutionary theory by affirming that social change emerges through ordinary people’s everyday lives and struggles.

Europeanised defiance – czech euroscepticism since 2004

Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Eurosceptici...

Has globalization gone too far?

Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market—the apparent "winners"—and those without. These apparent "losers" are increasingly anxious about their standards of living and their precarious place in an in...

Conjecturing hong kong’s future

1975–1984: the decade leading up to the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration witnessed the rise of China from an isolated country to a serious economic player on the world stage and the decline of the British empire. Torn between the two was Hong Kong, a stable and prosperous British col...

Every war must end

"Mission accomplished," George Bush famously proclaimed in reference to the defeat of Saddam Hussein's military organization. However, as recent events in Iraq have once again demonstrated, it is much easier to start a war than it is to end it. Every War Must End, which Colin Powell credits in hi...

Everyday democracy

Everyday Democracy is a groundbreaking study of bottom-up organizations in China, arguing that even in an authoritarian state, they nurture the skills and habits of democracy.

Local content requirements

In the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–09, economists feared that protectionist policies might sweep the world economy, echoing the wave of tariff escalations during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To some surprise, officials were more restrained and largely avoided traditional forms of pr...

The democracy makers

Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and vari...