International Affairs

To Catch a Dictator

The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré Reed Brody

To Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider’s account of the hunt for Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, and his momentous trial. The Human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims went on a quest for justice.

$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20258-9 November 2022 296 pages Universal Food Security

How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet Glenn Denning

This book provides an accessible guide to making healthy diets from sustainable food systems available to all. Glenn Denning bridges the divisive worlds of science, policy, and practice and shares personal perspectives and insights gained over four decades working in more than fifty countries.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19761-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19760-1 January 2023 432 pages

States and the Masters of Capital

Sovereign Lending, Old and New Quentin Bruneau

Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent phenomenon— the outcome of a pivotal shift in the social composition of financial markets.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20469-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20468-2 December 2022 240 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND POLITICS

Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy

Venezuela in Context David R. Mares

David R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo Chávez.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20295-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20294-7 October 2022 312 pages

CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY SERIES

Global Environmental Politics

The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies Johannes Urpelainen

This book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international cooperation. Johannes Urpelainen argues that, although emerging economies continue to prioritize economic growth, innovative bargaining and institutional design offer a way forward.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20077-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20076-9 2022 344 pages

Wallerstein 2.0

Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century Edited by Frank Jacob

Immanuel Wallerstein, a twentieth-century sociologist and economic historian, developed a world-systems theory that can help us better understand and describe developments of the twenty-first century. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Wallerstein’s ideas, highlighting the expansive nature and the enduring value of his work.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-6044-9 December 2022 170 pages 5 illus.

TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING

Gastronativism

Food, Identity, Politics Fabio Parasecoli

Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, this book is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and why food has become a powerful political tool.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20207-7 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20206-0 2022 248 pages

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

Future Tense

Globalism After the Pandemic Edited by Catherine Fieschi

What can we anticipate beyond the current Covid-19 emergency? This collection of essays considers the crossroads where we find ourselves and explores the tensions between the pull of isolationism and nationalism on the one hand and that of globalization and multilateralism on the other.

$90.00 cloth 978-1-778821-321-9 September 2022 256 pages

AGENDA PUBLISHING

Making War on the World

How Transnational Violence Reshapes Global Order Mark Shirk

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. He considers a series of crises that plagued the state system: piracy in the eighteenth century, anarchist “propagandists of the deed” at the turn of the twentieth, and al-Qaeda in recent years.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20187-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20186-5 2022 256 pages

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND POLITICS

Exhuming Violent Histories

Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past Nicole Iturriaga

Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology intersect with human rights and collective memory.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20113-1 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20112-4 2022 256 pages 25 illus. Education

A Global Compact for a Time of Crisis Edited by Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco

This book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20435-4 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20434-7 2022 424 pages 19 illus.

Undoing the Liberal World Order

Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II Leon Fink

Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. A diplomatic history that emphasizes the roles of class, labor, race, and grassroots activism, this book suggests new directions for progressive foreign policy.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20225-1 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20224-4 2022 320 pages 10 illus.