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TABLE OF CONTENTS
New and Notable..........................2
Studies in the
Modern Presidency......................3
U.S. Politics.................................. 3-7
Stanford Briefs...............................8
Comparative Politics
and IR........................................... 9-10
Emerging Frontiers
in the Global Economy.............10
Asian Politics.................................. 11
Studies of the Walter H.
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center.................... 12-13
Middle East Politics..............13-14
Political Theory...................... 15-16
Political History............................ 17
Political Anthropology.............. 18
Stanford Studies
in Human Rights.................... 18-19
Now in Paperback.......................19
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2 NEW AND NOTABLE
Witnesses of the Unseen
Seven Years in Guantanamo
Lakhdar Boumediene and
Mustafa Ait Idir
This searing memoir shares Lakhdar
Boumediene and Mustafa Ait
Idirs time inside Americas most
notorious prison.In 2001, they
were arrested in Bosnia, wrongly
accused of participating in a terrorist
plot, and were flown, blindfolded
and shackled, to Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.For seven years, they endured
torture, harassment, force-feedings,
and beatings. They had no op-
portunity to argue their innocence
until 2008, when the Supreme
Court issued a landmark ruling
in their case, Boumediene v. Bush,
confirming Guantanamo detainees
constitutional right to challenge
their detention. Weeks later, a fed-
eral judge, stunned by the absence
of evidence against them, ordered
their release. Now living in Europe
and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar
and Mustafa share a story that every
American ought to know.
An intense, important read for
anyone interested in the American
governments misguided efforts at
Guantanamo.
Kirkus Reviews
288 pages, April 2017
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The High Cost of
Good Intentions
A History of U.S. Federal
Entitlement Programs
John F. Cogan
Federal entitlement programs are
strewn throughout the pages of U.S.
history, springing from the noble
purpose of assisting people who are
destitute through no fault of their
own. Yet as federal entitlement
programs have grown, so too have
their inefficiency and their cost.
The High Cost of Good Intentions is
the first comprehensive history of
these federal entitlement programs.
Combining economics, history,
political science, and law, John F.
Cogan reveals how the creation of
entitlements brings forth a steady
march of liberalizing forces that
cause entitlement programs to
expand. This process is as visible
in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries as in the present day. His
work provides a unifying explanation
for the evolutionary path that nearly
all federal entitlement programs have
followed over the past 200 years,
tracing both their shared past and
the financial risks they pose for
future generations.
512 pages, September 2017
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Presidential Leverage
Presidents, Approval, and the
American State
Daniel E. Ponder
For scholars, pundits, the public, and
presidents themselves, presidential
approval is an evergreen subject.
Its actual impact, however, is often
unclear: all too frequently approval
is reported in a vacuum, dissociated
from the American state writ large.
Presidential Leverage reaffirms the
importance of this contested metric.
By situating approval within the
context of public trust in government,
Daniel E. Ponder reveals how approval
shapes presidential strategies for
governing, providing a useful measure
of the presidents place in the political
system. Using a quantitative index
of presidential leverage, Ponder
examines this contextualized approval
from John F. Kennedys administration
through Barack Obamas, showing
how it has shaped presidential capacity
and autonomy, agenda setting, land-
mark legislation, and unilateral action.
Engaging and thoughtful, rich
in its historical inquiry and
contemporary relevance.
Rodney Hero,
Arizona State University and
President, American Political
Science Association (2014-15)
224 pages, December 2017
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STUDIES IN THE MODERN PRESIDENCY
A SERIES EDITED BY SHIRLEY ANNE WARSHAW
The Dual Executive
Unilateral Orders in a Separated
and Shared Power System
Michelle Belco and
Brandon Rottinghaus
Popular perception holds that
presidents resort to unilateral orders
to promote an agenda and head
off unfavorable legislation. Little
research, however, has considered
the diverse circumstances in which
such orders are issued. The Dual
Executive reinterprets how and when
presidents use unilateral power by
illuminating the dual roles of the
president. Drawing from an original
data set of over 5,000 executive
orders and proclamations from the
Franklin D. Roosevelt to the George
W. Bush administrations, this book
situates unilateral orders within the
broad scope of executivelegislative
relations. Michelle Belco and Brandon
Rottinghaus recast the executive as
both an aggressive commander
and a cooperative administrator
who uses unilateral power not only
to circumvent Congress, but also to
support and facilitate its operations.
Belco and Rottinghaus provide
fresh insight into the use and limits
of unilateral power.
Douglas L. Kriner,
Boston University
256 pages, May 2017
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Judicial Independence and
the American Constitution
A Democratic Paradox
Martin H. Redish
The Framers of the American
Constitution established a judicial
branch to protect and enforce
constitutional limits. They recognized
that, paradoxically, only a counter-
majoritarian judicial branch can
ensure the continued vitality of our
representational government.
This paradox of American democracy
has been challenged and often
ignored by office holders and
legal scholars.Martin H. Redish
defends the centrality of these special
protections of judicial independence.
He explains how the nations
system of counter-majoritarian
constitutionalism cannot survive
absent the vesting of final powers
of constitutional interpretation and
enforcement in the one branch of
government expressly protected
from direct political accountability:
the judicial branch.
Ignore Redish at your peril. This
well-written and accessible book is
sure to be oft-cited for decades.
Charles Geyh,
Maurer School of Law,
Indiana University
272 pages, March 2017
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U.S. POLITICS 3
 Broke and Patriotic
Why Poor Americans Love
Their Country
Francesco Duina
Why are poor Americans so
patriotic? In Broke and Patriotic,
Francesco Duina contends that the
best way to answer this question is
to speak directly to Americas most
impoverished. Spending time in
bus stations, Laundromats, senior
citizen centers, homeless shelters,
public libraries, and fast food
restaurants, he conducted over 60
revealing interviews in which his
participants explain how they view
themselves and their country.
This book offers a stirring portrait
of the people left out of the national
conversation. By giving them voice,
Duina sheds new light on a sector of
American society that we are only
beginning to recognize as a powerful
force in shaping the countrys future.
This is superlative ethnography,
allowing voices too little heard to
speak for themselves, and to do so
with pride. Social understandings
can be furthered more by this book
than by any other at present in
the marketplace.
John A. Hall,
McGill University
STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY
240 pages, October 2017
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4 U.S. POLITICS
Ballot Blocked
The Political Erosion of the
Voting Rights Act
Jesse H. Rhodes
Over the past five decades, both
Democrats and Republicans in
Congress have consistently voted
to expand the protections offered
by the Voting Rights Act. And yet,
the administration of the VRA has
become more fragmented, and
judicial interpretation of its terms
has become much less generous.
Ballot Blocked argues that conserva-
tives adopt a paradoxical strategy in
which they acquiesce to expansive
voting rights protections in Congress
(where decisions are visible and easily
traceable) while simultaneously
narrowing the scope of federal
enforcement via administrative and
judicial maneuvers (which are less
visible and harder to trace). Over
time, this strategy has enabled a
conservative Supreme Court to
exercise preponderant influence over
the scope of federal enforcement.
Bold and richly detailed. Rhodes
provides timely and crucial new
insights into the Voting Rights Acts
evolution and undoing.
Vesla Weaver,
Yale University
280 pages, September 2017
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SECOND EDITION
Democracy and Political
Ignorance
Why Smaller Government
Is Smarter
Ilya Somin
One of the biggest problems with
modern democracy is that most of
the public is ignorant of politics.
This creates a nation of people
with little political knowledge
and little ability to objectively
evaluate what they do know. The
second edition of Democracy and
Political Ignorance fully updates
its analysis to include new, vital
discussions on the Big Sort, the
link between ignorance and the
disproportionate influence of the
wealthy, proposed new strategies
for increasing political knowledge,
and up-to-date survey data. Ilya
Somin reveals political ignorance
as a major problem for democracy,
one best mitigated by decentral-
izing and limiting government.
A must-read for anyone wanting
to understand the pathologies of
American democracy and what we
can do about it.
Jason Brennan,
author ofThe Ethics of Voting
312 pages, 2016
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The Rights First Amendment
The Politics of Free Speech and
the Return of Conservative
Libertarianism
Wayne Batchis
Not so long ago, being aggressively
profree speech was as closely
associated with American political
liberalism as being pro-choice or
progun control. Yet today, for
many conservatives, free speech
represents a crucial shield that pro-
tects traditionalists from a perceived
scourge of political correctness and
liberal oversensitivity. Free market
conservatives have risen up to
embrace a now cherished liberty:
freedom of commercial expression.
Surveying six decades of writings
from the conservative publication
National Review, alongside the
evolving constitutional law and
ideological predispositions of
Supreme Court justices, Wayne
Batchis reveals how this keystone
of our civic beliefs now carries a
complex political identity.
An important and readable guide to
the transition from conservative mor-
alism to conservative libertarianism.
Mark Graber,
University of Maryland
School of Law
STANFORD STUDIES IN LAW
AND POLITICS
296 pages, 2016
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Raised Right
Fatherhood in Modern
American Conservatism
Jeffrey R. Dudas
What, and who, holds together the
modern conservative movements
corporate interests, small-government
libertarians, social traditionalists, and Obama administration. Over one-
evangelical Christians?
Raised Rightpursues an answer
through a study of three iconic
figures:National Revieweditor
William F. Buckley, Jr., President
Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas. Jeffrey R.
Dudas identifies a paternal rights
discoursearguments about father-
hood and rights that permeate the
mens personal lives and political
visions. Each argued that paternal
discipline produced autonomous
citizens worthy and capable of self-
governance, which provided
the cohesive agent for an entire
movement, uniting its celebration
of its founding fathers, past
and present, constitutional
and biological.
I began this book a skeptic and finished no one better positioned than
it a convert. A true tour de force.
Malcolm M. Feeley,
University of California, Berkeley
224 pages, March 2017
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In Rome We Trust
The Rise of Catholics in
American Political Life
Manlio Graziano
The Catholicization of the United
States is a recent phenomenon and
was particularly prominent in the
third of cabinet members, the Vice
President, the White House Chief
of Staff, the heads of Homeland
Security and the CIA, the director
and deputy director of the FBI, and
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff were all Roman Catholic.
Challenging received wisdom that
the American Catholic Church is
in crisis and that the political
religion in the United States is
Evangelicalism, Manlio Graziano
provides an engaging account of
the tendency of Catholics to play
an increasingly significant role in
American politics, as well as the
rising role of American prelates in
the Roman Catholic Church.
This fascinating and astonishingly
neglected subject is of immense
importance, and I can think of
Manlio Graziano to treat it in
all its complexity.
Stanislao G. Pugliese,
Hofstra University
256 pages, March 2017
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U.S. POLITICS 5
 The Transparency Fix
Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable
Government Information
Mark Fenster
Government information cannot
be controlled. The Transparency
Fix asserts that both transparency
movements and secrecy advocates
hold the mistaken belief that
government information can be
released or kept secure on command.
In truth, the world did not end
because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks,
and Edward Snowden released
classified information. But nor
was there a significant political
change. Using a variety of examples
to examine how government
information actually flows, Mark
Fenster describes how the legal
regimes tenuous control over state
information belies the promise and
peril of transparency. He challenges
us to confront the implausibility of
controlling government informa-
tion despite our obsession with
transparency and secrecy.
No one has done more than Mark
Fenster to challenge the premises and
policies of the open government move-
ment. This book will be foundational
in critical transparency studies.
David Pozen,
Columbia Law School
296 pages, July 2017
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6 U.S. POLITICS
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Khiara M. Bridges
The Poverty of Privacy Rightsmakes
a simple, controversial argument:
Poor mothers in America are
deprived of the right to privacy.
The U.S. Constitution is supposed
to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor
are subject to invasions of privacy
that are gross demonstrations of
governmental power. Khiara M.
Bridges investigates poor mothers
experiences with the stateboth
when they receive public assistance
and when they do not. Presenting
a holistic view of how the state
intervenes in all facets of poor
mothers privacy, Bridges turns
popular thinking on its head,
arguing that these women simply
do not have familial, informational,
and reproductive privacy rights.
Further, she asserts that until we
disrupt the cultural narratives that
equate poverty with immorality,
nothing will change.
This book calls us to rethink the very
meaning of the right to privacy and
to end the unjust and unsupportable
moral condemnation of poverty.
Dorothy Roberts,
author of Killing the Black Body
296 pages, June 2017
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The Balance Gap
Working Mothers and the
Limits of the Law
Sarah Cote Hampson
In recent decades, laws and workplace
policies have emerged that seek to
address the balance between work
and family. Millions of women in
the U.S. take time off when they give
birth or adopt a child, making use of
family-friendly laws and policies.
The Balance Gaptraces the paths
individual women take in
understanding and invoking
work/life balance laws and policies.
Conducting in-depth interviews
in two distinctive workplace
settingspublic universities and
the U.S. militarySarah Cote
Hampson uncovers how women
navigate the laws and the unspoken
cultures of their institutions. As
Hampson shows, these policies
and womens abilities to understand
and utilize them have fallen
short of alleviating the tensions
women experience.
Elegantly written and timely,The
Balance Gapis a rigorous call to
action in transforming how we view
the ideal mother and the ideal worker.
Rene Ann Cramer,
Drake University
184 pages, March 2017
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Voting Together
Intergenerational Politics and
Civic Engagement among
Hmong Americans
Carolyn Wong
Hmong American immigrants have
made a notable impact in American
political life. They have high voter
participation rates and have won seats
in local and state legislative bodies. Yet
the average level of education among
Hmong Americans still lags behind
that of the general U.S. population,
and high poverty rates persist.
Carolyn Wong analyzes how the
Hmong came to pursue politics as
a key path to advancement and
inclusion in the United States.
Drawing on interviews with
community leaders, refugees, and
the second-generation children of
immigrants, she shows that intergen-
erational mechanisms of social voting
underlie the political participation of
Hmong Americans.
Voting Togetherforces readers to
reconsider traditional theories of
community empowerment and
identity formation. Theoretically rich
and nuanced, this is a must-read for
those interested in ethnic politics.
Janelle Wong,
University of Maryland
ASIAN AMERICA
304 pages, June 2017
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My Journey at the
Nuclear Brink
William J. Perry
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is
a continuation of William J. Perrys
efforts to keep the world safe from
a nuclear catastrophe. Decades of
experience and special access to
top-secret knowledge of strategic
nuclear options have given Perry a
unique, and chilling, vantage point
from which to conclude that nuclear
weapons endanger our security
rather than securing it.
In clear, detailed, powerful prose, My
Journey at the Nuclear Brink tells the
story of Perrys seventy-year experience
of the nuclear age. Beginning with his
firsthand encounter with survivors
living amid vast wastes of fused
rubble in the aftermath of World War
II, his account takes us up to today
when Perry is on an urgent mission to
alert us to the dangerous nuclear road
we are traveling.
Jerry Brown,
The New York Review of Books
Redwood City, CA 94063
264 pages, 2015
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 StanfordBRIEFS
Anchor Babies and the
Challenge of Birthright
Citizenship
Leo R. Chavez
Birthright citizenship has a deep and
contentious history in the United
States, one often hard to square in a
country that prides itself on being
a nation of immigrants. Recently,
a provocative and decidedly more
offensive term than birthright
citizenship has emerged: anchor
babies. Leo R. Chavez counters the
often-hyperbolic claims surround-
ing this term. He considers how it is
used as a political dog whistle, how
changes in the legal definition of
citizenship have affected the chil-
dren of immigrants over time, and,
ultimately, how U.S.-born citizens
still experience trauma if they live in
families with undocumented immi-
grants. By examining this pejorative
term in its political, historical, and
social contexts, Chavez calls upon us
to exorcise it from public discourse
and work toward building a more
inclusive nation.
136 pages, October 2017
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8 STANFORD BRIEFS
BRICS or Bust?
Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
Hartmut Elsenhans and
Salvatore Babones
Economic growth has slowed or
stalled in Brazil, Russia, India,
China, and South Africa. BRICS or
Bust? argues that economic catch-up
requires direct government investment
in human infrastructure, policies that
increase wages and the bargaining
power of labor, and the strategic use
of exchange rates.
128 pages, September 2017
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Living Emergency
Israels Permit Regime in the
Occupied West Bank
Yael Berda
Living Emergency brings readers
inside Israel's permit regime and offers abortion, from streets to legislative
a first-hand account of how the
Israeli secret service, government,
and military civil administration
control the Palestinian population.
152 pages, November 2017
9781503602823 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale
How Civility Works
Keith J. Bybee
This book elegantly explores
the crisis in civility, looking
closely at how civility intertwines
with our long history of boorish
behavior and the ongoing quest
for pleasant company. Keith J.
Bybee argues that the very features
that make civility ineffective and
undesirable also point to civilitys
power and appeal.
88 pages, 2016
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The New States of
Abortion Politics
Joshua C. Wilson
This book outlines the decades
long effort by anti-abortion activists
to transform the very politics of
halls to courtrooms.
[This book] will change how
we think about abortion politics
in America.
Kristin Luker,
University of California, Berkeley
128 pages, 2016
9780804792028 Paper $12.99 $10.39 sale
Challenged Hegemony
The United States, China, and
Russia in the Persian Gulf
Steve A. Yetiv and
Katerina Oskarsson
Few issues in international affairs
and energy security animate thinkers
more than the classic topic of
hegemony, and the case of the
Persian Gulf presents particularly
fertile ground for considering this
concept. Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina
Oskarsson offer a panoramic study
of hegemony and foreign powers in
the Persian Gulf, offering the most
comprehensive, data-driven portrait
to date of their evolving relations.
The authors argue that the United
States has become hegemonic in the
Persian Gulf, ultimately protecting
oil security for the entire global
economy. Through an analysis of
official and unofficial diplomatic
relations, trade statistics, military
records, and more, they provide a
detailed account of how U.S. hege-
mony and oil security have grown in
tandem, as, simultaneously, China
and Russia have increased their
political and economic presence.
264 pages, January 2018
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The Politics of Weapons
Inspections
Assessing WMD Monitoring and
Verification Regimes
Nathan E. Busch and
Joseph F. Pilat
Given recent controversies over
suspected WMD programs in
proliferating countries, there is an
increasingly urgent need for effective
monitoring and verifications
regimesthe mechanisms intended
to clarify the status of WMD programs
in suspected proliferators. The
Politics of Weapons Inspections
examines the successes, failures,
and lessons that can be learned
from past WMD monitoring and
verification regimes in order to help
determine how best to establish and
maintain such regimes in the future.
In addition to examining these
regimes technological, political, and
legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and
Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track
record of monitoring and verification
in the historical cases of South
Africa, Libya, and Iraq. They further
apply the lessons learned from these
cases to contemporary controversies
over suspected or confirmed
programs in North Korea, Iran,
and Syria.
400 pages, March 2017
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND IR
Beyond the Euromaidan
Comparative Perspectives on
Advancing Reform in Ukraine
Edited by Henry E. Hale and
Robert W. Orttung
Beyond the Euromaidan examines
the prospects for advancing reform in
Ukraine in the wake of the February
2014 Euromaidan revolution and
Russian invasion. It examines six
crucial areas where reform is needed,
providing one chapter that focuses
on Ukraines own experience and
one chapter that examines the issue
in the broader context of interna-
tional practice.
Placing Ukraine in comparative
perspective shows that many of the
countrys problems are not unique
and that other countries have been
able to address many of the issues
currently confronting Ukraine.
Ultimately, the authors propose a
series of reforms that can help
Ukraine make the best of a bad
situation. The book stresses the
need to focus on reforms that
might not have immediate effect,
but that comparative experience
shows can solve fundamental
contextual challenges.
336 pages, 2016
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 The Power of Economists
within the State
Johan Christensen
The spread of market-oriented
reforms has been one of the major
political and economic trends of the
late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries. Governments have adopted
policies that have led to deregulation;
yet, some countries embraced
these policies more than others.
Johan Christensen examines one
major contributor to this disparity:
the entrenchment of U.S.-trained,
neoclassical economists in political
institutions the world over. While
previous studies have highlighted
the role of political parties and
production regimes, Christensen
uses comparative case studies of
New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, and
Denmark to show how the influence
of economists affected the extent to
which each nation adopted market-
oriented tax policies. He finds that,
in countries where economic experts
held powerful positions, neoclassical
economics broke through with
greater force.
A finely tuned and deeply knowledge-
able account. A page-turner on tax
policy is surely an event to celebrate.
Mark Granovetter,
Stanford University
232 pages, April 2017
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10 COMPARATIVE POLITICS
AND IR
Sweet Talk Breaking the WTO
Paternalism and Collective Action How Emerging Powers Disrupted
in North-South Trade Relations the Neoliberal Project
J. P. Singh Kristen Hopewell
Developed nations strive to create The world economic order has been
the impression that their hearts and upended by the rise of the BRIC
pockets bleed for the developing nations and the attendant decline
world. Yet, the global North contin- of the United States international
ues to offer unfavorable trade terms influence. This book provides a
to the global South. groundbreaking analysis of how
power shifts in the world economic
Using a mixed-methods approach,
order have played out in the World
J. P. Singh exposes the actual position
Trade Organization. Historically, the
beneath the Norths image of
U.S. has pressured other countries to
benevolence and empathy:
open their markets while maintaining
either join in the type of trade
its own protectionist policies. But,
that developed countries offer, or
over the course of the Doha Round
be cast aside as obstreperous and
negotiations in 2008, China, India,
unwilling. Through case studies,
and Brazil challenged Americas
Singh reveals how the global North
hypocrisy, causing negotiations
ultimately bars developing nations
to collapse. Probing the tensions
from flourishing. His findings
between the WTOs liberal principles
chart a path forward, showing that
and the underlying reality of power
developing nations can garner
politics, Kristen Hopewell explores
favorable concessions by drawing
what the Doha conflict tells us about
on unique strengths and through
the current and coming balance of
collective advocacy. Sweet Talk offers
power in the global economy.
a provocative rethinking of how
far our international relations have Hopewells analysis is invaluable to
come and how far we still have to go. understanding one of global neoliber-
alisms key institutions.
This riveting analysis shows the
pernicious effects that culture clashes Peter Evans,
University of California, Berkeley
can have on the well-being of billions.
288 pages, 2016
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EMERGING FRONTIERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
A SERIES EDITED BY J. P. SINGH
Hard Target
Sanctions, Inducements, and the
Case of North Korea
Stephan Haggard and
Marcus Noland
This book captures the effects of
sanctions and inducements on
North Korea and reconstructs the
role of economic incentives around
the countrys nuclear program.
Stephan Haggard and Marcus
Noland draw on an array of evidence
to show the reluctance of the North
Korean leadership to weaken its grip
on foreign economic activity. They
argue that inducements have limited
effect on the regime, and instead
urge policymakers to think in terms
of gradual strategies. Hard Target
connects economic statecraft to the
marketization process to understand
North Korea and addresses a larger
debate over the merits and demerits
of engagement with adversaries.
An innovative study of the evolving
political economy of North Korea.
Amid an increasing application of
sanctions, Hard Target contributes
much needed sophistication and
nuance to over-simplified debates
about dealing with North Korea.
John S. Park,
Harvard University
STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY
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The Indonesian Way
ASEAN, Europeanization,
and Foreign Policy Debates in
a New Democracy
Jrgen Rland
On December 31, 2015, the ten-
member Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) founded the
ASEAN Community (AC). Political
commentators and media outlets,
however, greeted its establishment
with little fanfare. Implicitly and
explicitly, they suggested that the AC
was only the beginning: Southeast
Asia, they seemed to say, was taking
its first steps on a linear process of
unification that would converge on
the model of the European Union.
In The Indonesian Way, Jrgen
Rland challenges this previously
unquestioned diffusion of European
norms. Focusing on the reception of
ASEAN in Indonesia, Rland traces
how foreign policy stakeholders have
responded to calls for ASEANs Euro-
peanization, ultimately fusing them
with their own distinctly Indonesian
form of regionalism.
An essential study of comparative
regionalism and Indonesias role in
the ASEAN Charter.
Randall Schweller,
Editor-in-Chief, Security Studies
STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY
328 pages, December 2017
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Taiwans China Dilemma
Contested Identities and Multiple
Interests in Taiwans Cross-Strait
Economic Policy
Syaru Shirley Lin
China and Taiwan share one of the
worlds most complex international
relationships. Although similar cultures
and economic interests promoted an
explosion of economic ties between
them since the late 1980s, these ties
have not led to an improved political
relationship. Taiwans China Dilemma
explains the divergence between
the development of economic and
political relations across the Taiwan
Strait through the interplay of national
identity and economic interests. Using
primary sources, opinion surveys, and
interviews with Taiwanese opinion
leaders, Syaru Shirley Lin paints
a vivid picture of one of the most
unsettled and dangerous relationships
in the contemporary world.
The combination of a fresh theoretical
approachfocusing on the role of
national identityand strong empirical
analysis makes Taiwans China Dilemma
a must-read for anyone interested in
the dynamic cross-Strait relationship.
Scott L. Kastner,
University of Maryland, College Park
304 pages, 2016
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Uneasy Partnerships
Chinas Engagement with Japan,
the Koreas, and Russia in the
Era of Reform
Edited by Thomas Fingar
Uneasy Partnerships presents the
analysis and insights of practitioners
and scholars who have shaped and
examined Chinas interactions with
key Northeast Asian partners
Japan, the Koreas, and Russia.
This text analyzes the perceptions,
priorities, and policies of China and
its partners to explain why dyadic
relationships evolved as they have
during Chinas rise.
A masterful examination of
Chinas complex interactions with
its immediate neighbors. The fine-
grained strands of this complex
story are woven into a compelling
macro-level analysis of Northeast
Asia that will be applauded by
experts and generalists alike.
T.J. Pempel,
University of California, Berkeley
264 pages, April 2017
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The New Great Game
China and South and Central Asia
in the Era of Reform
Edited by Thomas Fingar
360 pages, 2016
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A SERIES EDITED BY ANDREW G. WALDER
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a
Chinese County
Edited by Jean C. Oi and
Steven M. Goldstein
China has undergone dramatic
change in its economic institutions
in recent years, but surprisingly
little change politically. Somehow,
the political institutions seem
capable of governing a vastly more
complex market economy and a
rapidly changing labor force. One
possible explanation, examined in
Zouping Revisited, is that within the
old organizational molds there have
been subtle but profound changes
to the ways these governing bodies
actually work. The authors take as
a case study the local government
of Zouping County and find that it
has been able to evolve significantly
through ad hoc bureaucratic adapta-
tions and accommodations that
drastically change the operation of
government institutions.
Grounded in the soil of rural China,
this book examines the startling ways
old institutional structures are repur-
posed to perform new functions.
David M. Lampton,
Johns Hopkins University
232 pages, February 2018
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The Colonial Origins of
Ethnic Violence in India
Ajay Verghese
The neighboring north Indian
districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are
identical in language, geography,
and religious and caste demogra-
phy. But in recent decades, these
multiethnic communities have
displayed differing patterns of
ethnic conflict. Using archival
research and elite interviews in five
case studies across India, as well
as a quantitative analysis of 589
districts, Ajay Verghese shows that
the legacies of British colonialism
are key drivers of contemporary
conflict. Additionally, because
India served as a model for British
colonial expansion into parts of
Africa and Southeast Asia, this
book links Indian ethnic conflict
to violent outcomes in states as
diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia.
Outstanding.Verghese offers fresh
hypotheses about the sources of
different types of ethnic violence
across India.
James Mahoney,
Northwestern University
296 pages, 2016
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Divergent Memories
Opinion Leaders and the
Asia-Pacific War
Gi-Wook Shin and
Daniel Sneider
Debate over the history of World
War II in Asia remains surprisingly
intense, and this book examines
the opinions of powerful indi-
viduals to pinpoint the sources of
conflict: from Japanese colonialism
in Korea and atrocities in China
to the American use of atomic
weapons against Japan. Rather
than labeling others views as
distorted or ignoring dissenting
voices to create a monolithic
historical account, Gi-Wook Shin
and Daniel Sneider pursue a more
fruitful approach: analyzing how
historical memory has developed,
been formulated, and even been
challenged in each country.
Mobilizing evidence from inter-
views to pop culture to textbooks,
the authors show how personal
experience, political change,
regional diplomacy, and national
identity shaped war narratives;
they also suggest a path to armistice.
Essential reading.
Peter Duus,
Stanford University
376 pages, 2016
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Contested Embrace
Transborder Membership Politics
in Twentieth-Century Korea
Jaeeun Kim
Contested Embrace explores how a
state relates to people it views as
external members, such as
emigrants and diasporas. Jaeeun
Kim analyzes disputes over the
belonging of Koreans in Japan and
China, focusing on their contested
relationship with the colonial and
postcolonial states in the Korean
peninsula. Through a comparative
analysis of transborder membership
politics in the colonial, Cold War,
and postCold War periods, the
book shows how the configuration of
geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques,
and actors agency shapes the
making, unmaking, and remaking of
transborder ties. Kim demonstrates
that being a homeland state or a
member of the transborder nation
is a precarious, arduous, and revo-
cable political achievement.
A brilliant and bracing analysis
of transborder membership politics.
It is a great book to think with.
John Lie,
University of California, Berkeley
360 pages, 2016
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Revolution without
Revolutionaries
Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Asef Bayat
The revolutionary wave that swept
the Middle East in 2011 was marked
by spectacular mobilization. How-
ever, it has caused limited shifts in
structures of power, leaving much
of the old political and social order
intact. In this book, Asef Bayat
uncovers why this occurred and what
made these uprisings so distinct from
those that came before.
Revolution without Revolutionaries
is both a history of the Arab Spring
and a history of revolution writ
broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings
side by side with the revolutions of
the 1970s, particularly the Iranian
Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound
global shift in the nature of protest:
protestors call for reform rather than
fundamental transformation.
Asef Bayat is in the vanguard of a
subtle and original theorization of
social movements and social change in
the Middle East. Essential reading.
Juan Cole,
University of Michigan
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EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
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 Morbid Symptoms
Relapse in the Arab Uprising
Gilbert Achcar
In this eagerly awaited book,
foremost Arab world and inter-
national affairs specialist Gilbert
Achcar analyzes the factors of the
post-2011 relapse in the Middle
East. Focusing on Syria and Egypt,
Achcar assesses the present stage
of the Arab Uprising and the
main obstacles, both regional
and international, that prevent
any resolution. Events in Syria
and Egypt offer salient examples
of a pattern of events happening
across the Middle East. Morbid
Symptoms offers a timely analysis
of the ongoing Arab uprising
that will engage experts and
general readers alike. Drawing on
a unique combination of scholarly
and political knowledge of the
Arab region, Achcar argues that,
short of radical social change, the
region will not reach stability any
time soon.
One of the best analysts of the
contemporary Arab world.
Le Monde
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EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
240 pages, 2016
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Soundtrack of the Revolution
The Politics of Music in Iran
Nahid Siamdoust
Music was one of the first casualties
of the Iranian Revolution. It was
banned in 1979, but it quickly crept
back into Iranian culture and politics.
Drawing on her research in Iran,
including during the 2009 protests,
Nahid Siamdoust closely follows
the work of four musicians, each
with markedly different political
views and relations with the Iranian
government. Taken together, these
examinations shed light on issues at
the heart of debates in Iranabout
its future and identity, changing
notions of religious belief, and the
quest for political freedom.
A groundbreaking study of a potent
cultural register in post-revolutionary
Iran. For both the casual reader and
the aficionado, Siamdousts pioneering
insights are revelatory.
Hamid Dabashi,
author of Iran: A People Interrupted
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AND CULTURES
368 pages, January 2017
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Circuits of Faith
Migration, Education, and the
Wahhabi Mission
Michael Farquhar
This book offers the first examination
of the Islamic University of Medina
and the efforts undertaken by Saudi
actors and institutions to exert religious
influence beyond their borders.
Through transnational networks, this
state-funded religious mission relies
upon, and has in turn been influ-
enced by, far-reaching circulations
of persons and ideas.
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
288 pages, 2016
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Copts and the Security State
Violence, Coercion, and
Sectarianism in Contemporary Egypt
Laure Guirguis
This book considers how the Egyptian
state, through its subjugation of
Coptic citizens, reproduces a political
order based on religious difference.
The leadership of the Coptic Church,
in turn, has taken more political
stances. Authoritarianism and
sectarianism are then used to justify
the expanding Egyptian security state.
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
256 pages, January 2017
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The Art of Revolt
Snowden, Assange, Manning
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
When not decried as traitors,
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange,
and Chelsea Manning are seen
as whistle-blowers whose crucial
revelations are meant to denounce
a problem or correct an injustice.
Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they
are much more than that. They are
exemplars who have reinvented an
art of revolt. Consciously or not,
they have inaugurated a new form
of political action and a new identity
for the political subject.
Anonymity as practiced by
WikiLeaks and the flight and
requests for asylum of Snowden
and Assange break with traditional
forms of democratic protest. As
Lagasnerie suggests, such solitary
choices challenge us to question
classic modes of collective action,
calling old conceptions of the state
and citizenship into question. In
the process, he pays homage to
the actions and lives of these
three figures.
A striking and radical new perspective
on truth-tellers in the Internet age.
Sarah Harrison,
Director of the Courage Foundation
and WikiLeaks Associate
128 pages, September 2017
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Popular Democracy
The Paradox of Participation
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and
Ernesto Ganuza
In the United States, three-fourths
of all cities have developed oppor-
tunities for citizen involvement in
strategic planning. But even as these
opportunities have become more
popular, many contend that they
have also become less connected
to actual centers of power and the
jurisdictions where issues relevant
to communities are decided.
With this book, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
and Ernesto Ganuza consider the
opportunities and challenges of
democratic participation. Examining
how participation has traveled the
worldwith its inception in Porto
Alegre, Brazil, and spread to Europe
and North Americathey show
how participatory instruments have
become more focused on the
formation of public opinion and are
far less attentive to actual reform.
Though the current impact and
benefit of participatory forms of
government is ambiguous, Popular
Democracy concludes with sugges-
tions of how participation could better
achieve its political ideals.
224 pages, 2016
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Classical Geopolitics
A New Analytical Model
Phil Kelly
Geopolitics is the study of how the
projection of power (ideological,
cultural, economic, or military) is
effected and affected by the geographic
and political landscape. Despite the
real world relevance of geopolitics,
a common understanding of what
classical geopolitics is and how it
works still lies beyond the reach of
both researchers and practitioners.
In Classical Geopolitics, Phil Kelly
attempts to build a common theo-
retical model, incorporating a host of
variables that reflect the complexity of
the modern geopolitical stage. He then
analyzes thirteen pivotal but widely
differing historical events to test the
efficacy of his model as a comprehen-
sive geopolitical analytical tool that can
be used across a broad spectrum of
geopolitical contexts and events.
This book makes an important
contribution to the current literature
on geopolitics. The theoretical
approach it takes is both innovative
and stimulating, and it displays an
impressive synthesis of existing
theoretical ideas. A milestone
reinterpretation of geopolitical theory.
Geoff Sloan,
University of Reading
224 pages, 2016
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 Selfish Libertarians and
Socialist Conservatives?
The Foundations of the Libertarian-
Conservation Debate
Nathan W. Schlueter and
Nikolai G. Wenzel
Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G.
Wenzel present a lively debate over the
essential questions that divide two
competing political philosophies.
Wenzela libertarianand Schlueter
a conservativeexplore the funda-
mental similarities and differences
between their respective positions,
introducing readers to the foundations
of each political philosophy.
232 pages, 2016
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SECOND EDITION
The Max Weber Dictionary
Key Words and Central Concepts
Richard Swedberg and
Ola Agevall
This fully updated and expanded
edition reflects current scholarly
threads of inquiry and introduces
the most recent translations and
references to Webers work. A wealth
of new entries on various topics have
been added, making this book is
an invaluable resource to students,
scholars, and general readers alike.
472 pages, 2016
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16 POLITICAL THEORY
Queer Theory
The French Response
Bruno Perreau
In 2012 and 2013, masses of
French citizens took to the streets
to demonstrate against a bill on
gay marriage. But demonstrators
were not merely denouncing gay
marriage; they were also claiming
that its origins lay in gender
theory, an ideology imported
from the United States. What are
the various facets of the French
response to queer theory, from
the mobilization of activists and
the seminars of scholars to the
emergence of queer media and
the decision to translate this or
that kind of book? By examining
mutual influences across the
Atlantic, Bruno Perreau analyzes
changes in the idea of national
identity in France and the United
States. In the process, he offers a
new theory of minority politics: an
ongoing critique of norms is not
only what gives rise to a feeling of
belonging; it is the very thing that
founds citizenship.
A signature contribution to
contemporary political and
critical theory.
Bernard Harcourt,
Columbia University
288 pages, 2016
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The Prince of This World
Adam Kotsko
The most enduring challenge to
traditional monotheism is the
problem of evil: God is all-good
and all-powerful, and yet evil
happens. The Prince of This World
traces the story of the offloading of
responsibility for evil onto one of
Gods rebellious creatures. In this
striking reexamination, the devil
emerges as a theological symbol
who helps justify oppression at the
hands of Christian rulers. And he
evolves alongside the biblical God,
who at first presents himself as the
liberator of the oppressed but ends
up a cruel ruler. This is the story,
then, of how God becomes the
devila devil who remains with
us in our ostensibly secular age.
This diabolically gripping geneal-
ogy offers a stunning parable of
Western politics, religious and
secular. With the ironic wisdom
of a postmodern Beatrice, Kotsko
guides us through the sequence of
hells that leads to our own.
Catherine Keller,
Drew University
240 pages, 2016
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Jimmy Carter in Africa
Race and the Cold War
Nancy Mitchell
In the late 1970s, the Cold War
overseas seemed to take a backseat
to more contentious domestic issues,
including race relations. Racism
at home undermined Americans
efforts to win hearts and minds
abroad and provided potent propa-
ganda to the Kremlin. As President
Carter confronted Africa, American
foreign policy slammed up against
the most explosive and raw aspect of
American domestic politicsracism.
Drawing on candid interviews with
Carter, as well as key diplomats, and
on an array of international archival
sources, Nancy Mitchell offers a
timely reevaluation of the Carter
administration and of the man
himself. Mitchell reveals an admin-
istration not beset by weakness and
indecision, but rather constrained
by Cold War dynamics and by the
presidents own temperament as he
wrestled with a divided public and
his own human failings.
A truly definitive account of one of
the most challenging and important
aspects of my presidency.
Jimmy Carter,
Former President of the United States
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT
880 pages, 2016
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Trust, but Verify
The Politics of Uncertainty and the
Transformation of the Cold War
Order, 19691991
Edited by Martin Klimke,
Reinhild Kries, and
Christian F. Ostermann
Trust, but Verify uses trustwith its
emotional and predictive aspects
to explore international relations
in the second half of the Cold War.
The dtente of the 1970s led to the
development of some limited trust
between the United States and the
Soviet Union, but it also created
uncertainty in other areas, espe-
cially on the part of smaller states
that depended on their
alliance leaders for protection.
The contributors to this volume
look at how the emotional side
of the conflict affected the dynamics
of various Cold War relations.
An insightful explanation for one
of the great puzzles of recent history:
how the Cold War, a seemingly inde-
structible international regime, came
to an end. The essays take seriously
the mission of relating the political,
economic, and cultural factors to
emotions history.
Frank Costigliola,
University of Connecticut
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT
272 pages, 2016
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The Politics of Rights and the
1911 Revolution in China
Xiaowei Zheng
Chinas 1911 Revolution was a
momentous political transformation.
Its leaders, however, were not rebellious
troublemakers on the periphery of
imperial order. On the contrary, they
were a powerful political and economic
elite deeply entrenched in local society.
The revolution they spearheaded
produced a new, democratic political
culture that enshrined national sover-
eignty, constitutionalism, and the rights
of the people as indisputable principles.
Based upon previously untapped
Qing and Republican sources,
The Politics of Rights and the 1911
Revolution in China is a nuanced and
colorful chronicle of the revolution
as it occurred in local and regional
areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the
ideas that motivated the revolution,
the popularization of those ideas,
and their animating impact on the
Chinese people at large. The focus
of the book is not on the success or
failure of the revolution, but rather
on the transformative effect that
revolution has on people.
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 The Social Life of Politics
Ethics, Kinship, and Union
Activism in Argentina
Sian Lazar
A central motor of Argentine historical
and political development since the
early twentieth century, unions have
been the site of active citizenship
in both political participation and
the distribution of social, economic,
political, and cultural rights. The
Social Life of Politics examines the
intimate, personal, and family
dimensions of two political activist
groups: the Union of National Civil
Servants (UPCN) and the Association
of State Workers (ATE). Sian Lazar
examines how activists in both
unions create themselves as particular
kinds of militants and forms of
political community. She places the
lived experience of political activism
into historical relief and shows how
ethics and family values deeply
inform the process by which political
actors are formed and understood.
Sian Lazar provides fresh insight into
the moral foundations of political
commitment and collective identity.
This book opens up fertile new terrain.
Webb Keane,
author of Ethical Life: Its
Natural and Social Histories
256 pages, June 2017
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Contraband Corridor
Making a Living at the Mexico
Guatemala Border
Rebecca Berke Galemba
The MexicoGuatemala border has
emerged as a geopolitical hotspot
of illicit flows of both goods and
people. Contraband Corridor seeks
to understand the border from
the perspective of its long-term
inhabitants, including petty smug-
glers of corn, clothing, and coffee.
Challenging assumptions regarding
security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca
Berke Galemba details how these
residents engage in and justify
extralegal practices in the context
of heightened border security,
restricted economic opportunities,
and exclusionary trade policies.
Rather than assuming that extralegal
activities necessarily threaten the
state and formal economy, Galembas
ethnography illustrates the complex
ways that the formal, informal, legal,
and illegal economies intertwine.
This grounded, bottom up account
draws much-needed attention to this
too often overlooked border while
carefully avoiding the alarmism
and sensationalism found in popular
depictions of cross-border smuggling.
Peter Andreas,
Brown University
320 pages, December 2017
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Campaigning for Children
Strategies for Advancing
Childrens Rights
Jo Becker
Campaigning for Childrenfocuses
on contemporary childrens rights,
identifying the range of abuses
that affect children today, including
early marriage, female genital
mutilation, child labor, sex traf-
ficking, corporal punishment,
the impact of armed conflict, and
access to education. Jo Becker
traces the last 25 years of the chil-
drens rights movement, including
the evolution of international laws
and standards to protect children
from abuse and exploitation. From
a practitioners perspective, Becker
provides careful case studies of the
organizations and campaigns that
are making a difference in the lives
of children.
This book examines initiatives
and strategies to show that change
for children is possible, and that
remarkable transformation is
achievable.With its most
compelling evidence, it will go
a long way in ensuring that
human rights of children are
protected worldwide.
Kailash Satyarthi,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
and Childrens Rights Activist
232 pages, August 2017
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Just Violence
Torture and Human Rights in
the Eyes of the Police
Rachel Wahl
Stark revelations about police
brutality have stoked heated debates
about the use of force. Despite
public interest, we know little about
the police officers who commit
violence such as torture. Through
interviews with law enforcers in
India, Rachel Wahl uncovers what
motivates officers to use and sup-
port torture, and how these beliefs
shape their responses to human
rights norms. While human rights
workers attempt to both persuade
and coerce police officers into
compliance, these strategies can
undermine each other, leaving the
movement with complex dilemmas
regarding whether to work with or
against violent state officials.
Just Violence offers an alternative
explanation of police violence and the
misfit between local conceptions of
justice and the general principles of the
human rights system. This provocative
book offers new insights into human
rights education and the enduring
tensions between rights and security.
Sally Engle Merry,
New York University
264 pages, January 2017
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A SERIES EDITED BY MARK GOODALE
Rights after Wrongs
Local Knowledge and Human
Rights in Zimbabwe
Shannon Morreira
Rights After Wrongs ethnographically
explores the chasm between the ideals
and the practice of human rights,
detailing the ways in which the
global framework of human rights is
locally interpreted, constituted, and
contested among Zimbabweans, in
both Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Presenting the stories of those who
lived through the violent struggles
of the past decades, Shannon
Morreira shows how supposedly
universal ideals become localized
in the context of post-colonial
Southern Africa. She uncovers the
disconnect between the ways human
rights appear on paper and the ways
in which it is possible for people
to use and understand them in
everyday life.
The global movement of refugees
and migrants is the human rights
issue of the twenty-first century.
Shannon Morreira elegantly docu-
ments the struggles of Zimbabwean
refugees and exiles in South Africa,
drawing out the wider implications
for concepts of personhood, rights,
and migration.
Richard A. Wilson,
University of Connecticut
216 pages, 2016
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Crook County
Racism and Injustice in Americas
Largest Criminal Court
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Crook County bursts open the
courthouse doors and enters the
hallways, courtrooms, judges
chambers, and attorneys offices
to reveal a world of punishment
determined by race, not offense.
It urges all citizens to take a closer
look at the way we do justice in
America and to hold our arbiters of
justice accountable to the highest
standards of equality.
272 pages, 2016
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The Global Rise of Populism
Performance, Political Style, and
Representation
Benjamin Moffitt
This book argues for the need to
rethink the concept of populism.
While still based on the classic
divide between the people and
the elite, populisms reliance on
new media technologies, its shifting
relationship to political representa-
tion, and its increasing ubiquity
have seen it transform in nuanced
ways that demand explaining.
240 pages, 2016
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