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Man, the State, and War A Theoretical Analysis, Anniversary Edition Kenneth N. Waltz

Foreword by Stephen M. Walt

Conspiring with the Enemy The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare Yvonne Chiu

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. He explores works by both classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for peace.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18804-3 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18805-0 2016 336 pages Whistleblowing Nation The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy Edited by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The volume considers the growing power of the executive branch and its consequences for First Amendment rights, the protection and prosecution of whistleblowers, and the rise of vast classification censorship regimes within the national-security state. In Conspiring with the Enemy, Yvonne Chiu offers a new understanding of why and how enemies work together to constrain violence in warfare. Chiu argues that what she calls an ethic of cooperation is found in modern warfare to such an extent that it is often taken for granted.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18245-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18244-7

2019 360 pages United States Special Operations Forces Second Edition David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb

In this book, two national security experts put the exploits of America’s special operation forces in historical and strategic context. This second edition of United States Special Operations Forces, revised throughout to account for lessons learned in the twelve years since its first publication, includes two new case studies.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18389-5 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18388-8 2019 376 pages

Black Utopia The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism Alex Zamalin In the Ruins of Neoliberalism The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West Wendy Brown

Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18741-1 $80.00 / £66.00 cloth 9780-231-18740-4

2019 192 pages 6 illus.

Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution The Egyptian and Syrian Debates Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers a groundbreaking analysis of Egyptian and Syrian debates over enlightenment and their import for the 2011 uprisings. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution is the first book to document these debates for the Anglophone audience and to analyze their importance for contemporary intellectual life and politics. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab Wendy Brown explains the hard-right turn in Western politics. She argues that neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.

$25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19385-6 $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19384-9 2019 264 pages

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Struggle on Their Minds The Political Thought of African American Resistance

Alex Zamalin

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17633-0 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-17632-3 2019 240 pages Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice..

$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18111-2 $37.00 / £32.00 cloth 978-0-231-18110-5 2017 240 pages

Fearing the Worst How Korea Transformed the Cold War Samuel F. Wells Jr.

Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades. Drawing on newly available documents and memoirs—including previously restricted archives in Russia, China, and North Korea—Samuel Wells analyzes the key decision points that changed the course of the war.

$45.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-19274-3 2019 600 pages 20 illus.

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Chaos in the Liberal Order The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Robert Jervis, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse

Chaos in the Liberal Order explores the global trends that led to Trump’s stunning victory and the impact his presidency will have on the international political landscape. Contributors consider key issues, such as what Trump means for America’s role in the world, the relationship between domestic and international politics, and Trump’s place in the rise of the far right worldwide.

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18835-7 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18834-0 2018 448 pages 3 illus.