Ukraine and its western allies

This bookfocuses not only on Ukraine and the current war, but above all on Germanyʼs role—in economic, political, and media terms—in relation to the country invaded by Russia.

Russian nationalism, foreign policy and identity debates in putin's russia

The contributors to this book discuss the new conjunctions that have emerged between foreign policy events and politicized expressions of Russian nationalism since 2005. The 2008 war with Georgia, as well as conflicts with Ukraine and other East European countries over the memory of the Soviet Un...

The international defense of workers

This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, assessing its efficacy in protecting workers’ rights over the entire period it was in effect and demonstrating its broader significance for the role of trade and labor standards in U.S. f...

Confronting the climate challenge

Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of U.S. climate-policy options. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can reduce emissions at low cost but also can avoid burdening low-income house...

The politics of medicaid

In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded...

Geopolitical rivalries in the “common neighborhood”

Vasif Huseynov argues that if nuclear-armed powers compete to expand their sphere of influence, they use soft power as a major instrument while military power remains a tool to back up their foreign policies. He focuses on the rivalries between Russia and the West over the states located between ...

Al-qaeda's revenge

Fernando Reinares tells the story of 3/11—the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. His full analysis links the Madrid bombings to al-Qaeda’s senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11.

Our others

Our Others is an award-winning exploration of the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks, Meskhetian Turks, Swedes, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, ‘Liptaks’, Gagauzes, Germans, Vlachs, Poles, Cr...

Boundaries of toleration

Distinguished novelists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, and political scientists propose a new approach to settling multicultural tensions in the modern world.

The indivisible globe, the indissoluble nation

Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he conceives as “the primal scene of postcoloniality”—the Haitian Revolution. He unpacks and critiques poststructuralist penchants and undercurrents of ...

Russia's capitalist revolution

The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the ...

Smugglers and states

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the political economy of smuggling.

The putin predicament

Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin’s third and fourth terms in office, arguing that they have rested on Putin’s highly personalized blend of strongman-image projection and presentation as the embodiment of Russia’s great power myth.

The eu and the south caucasus

This book studies complex and contradictory relations between the South Caucasus and the European Union (EU).

Rust belt union blues

Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol provide timely insight into the relationship between the decline of unions and the shift of working-class voters away from Democrats.

Reforming democracies

A noted political scientist revises our understanding of the institutions essential for representative democracy.

Infrastructure and land policies

More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence patterns of urban development. While infrastructure is as old as cities, technological changes and pu...

Opening access to scenario planning tools

In the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty, planners, public officials, and community residents need new tools to anticipate and shape the future. Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools examines the current state of scenario planning and scenario planning tools that can help communit...

Doing democracy differently

Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. This book attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.

Eu: beyond the crisis

Though crises arise organically in all political systems, this volume treats the current challenges facing the EU as a unique situation. It takes stock of its losses, gains, and opportunities and what constitutes a viable solution to the EU's current predicament. By envisioning the EU as an evolv...

Social policy, poverty, and inequality in central and eastern europe and the former soviet union

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of postsocialist countries across central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Authors from different disciplines address key aspects of social protection including health care, poverty reduction measures, labor ma...

Civic activism in south korea

Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling.

Making hong kong china

Will the Hong Kong so deeply held in the people’s identity and the world’s imagination be lost? Michael C. Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in this city for over three decades, and has been one of its closest observers, takes us on this constitutional journey.

Revolution and war in contemporary ukraine

What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including...

Red swan

China's exceptional development trajectory challenges conventional wisdom as well as conventional models of political change. This book explains policy making in China's governmental system as an open-ended process with an uncertain outcome, driven by conflicting interests, recurrent interaction...

Economic sanctions reconsidered

Economic sanctions continue to play an important role in the response to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, military conflicts, and other foreign policy crises. But poor design and implementation of sanctions policies often mean that they fall short of their desired effects. This landmark study, f...

Political choices

These essays written since the catastrophic events of 9/11 try to come to terms with the violence that shapes our everyday lives.

Implementing value capture in latin america

This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture instruments including: property taxation and betterment contributions; exactions and charges for building...

Property rights and land policies

The Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explored the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. The chapter authors discuss a range of topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in l...

Triadic coercion

As states find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors, they often target other states that harbor or aid these challenging opponents. Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili investigate this strategy, which they term triadic coercion: why states pursue it and the conditions under which it succeeds, ...

God, guns, and sedition

Winner, 2025 Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize, Airey Neave TrustShocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These inc...

Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society

The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a biannual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new origi...

The scandal of reason

Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution...

China’s transition

With more than one billion people, China represents both an ocean of economic opportunity and a frustrating backwater of continuing brutal political repression. What are the prospects for democratic evolution in a nation with one of the world's poorest human rights records? How have other nations...

The naqab bedouins

The Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in th...

Crowded orbits

Crowded Orbits offers readers a valuable primer on space policy from an international perspective. This second edition is thoroughly updated to cover events of the decade following the book’s original publication in 2014.

Maghreb regional and global integration

Increasing terrorist activity has led the Maghreb countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya—to focus on antiterrorism efforts, unintentionally at the expense of full-fledged economic reform. These countries have tightened their border restrictions on the flow of people and goods,...

A good tax

In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers rec...

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