Political Science 2018 Catalog

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Unrivaled Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower Michael Beckley

The United States has been the world’s dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower?

In Unrivaled, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations that, if used wisely, will allow it to remain the world’s sole superpower throughout this century. We are not living in a transitional, post-Cold War era. Instead, we are in the midst of what he calls the unipolar era—a period as singular and important as any epoch in modern history. This era, Beckley contends, will endure because the US has a much larger economic and military lead over its closest rival, China, than most people think and the best prospects of any nation to amass wealth and power in the decades ahead.

Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, this book covers hundreds of years of great power politics and develops new methods for measuring power and predicting the rise and fall of nations. By documenting long-term trends in the global balance of power and explaining their implications for world politics, the book provides guidance for policymakers, businesspeople, and scholars alike.

Michael Beckley is Fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

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“For those who think China is going to overtake the US, Michael Beckley says think again. Unrivaled shows that China can’t match America’s ability to generate wealth and military power. This masterful book backs up Bismarck’s quip that ‘God has a special providence for the United States.’”

—John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago “Michael Beckley offers a devastating and definitive critique of the idea that we are witnessing the end of the American era. In support of his case, Beckley’s book is conceptually clear, empirically unassailable, and analytically fair and objective. It will quickly become a classic.”

—Keir Lieber, Georgetown University “Michael Beckley’s research demolishes the current China hype, which fills a small library by now. ‘America’s edge will endure’ is the message of this piece, and it is argued with academic rigor, felicity of style, and compelling numbers. This piece will overturn many clichés about America’s ‘decline’ while greatly improving the intelligence of the debate.”

—Josef Joffe, Stanford University

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TERRORISM

The Smile of the Human Bomb New Perspectives on Suicide Terrorism Gideon Aran tr ansl ated by Jeffrey Green

In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world.

In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb site at the moment of the explosion, during the first few minutes after the explosion, and in the last moments before the explosion. Aran uncovers the suicide bomber’s final preparations before embarking on the suicide mission: the border crossing, the journey toward the designated target, penetration into the site, and the behavior of both sides within it. The book sheds light on the truth of the human bomb.

Aran’s gritty and often disturbing account is built on a foundation of participant observation with squads of pious Jewish volunteers who gather the scorched fragments of the dead after terrorist attacks; newly revealed documents, including interrogation protocols; interviews with Palestinian armed resistance members and retired Israeli counterterrorism agents; observations of failed suicide terrorists in jail; and conversations with the acquaintances of human bombs.

The Smile of the Human Bomb provides new insights on the Middle East conflict, political violence, radicalism, victimhood, ritual, and death and unveils a suicide terrorism scene far different from what is conventionally pictured. In the end, Aran discovers, the suicide terrorist is an unremarkable figure, and the circumstances of his or her recruitment and operation are prosaic and often accidental. The smiling human bomb is neither larger than life nor a monster, but an actor on a human scale.

And suicide terrorism is a drama in which clichés and chance events play their role.

Gideon Ar an is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is author, most recently, of Kookism: The Bloc of the Faithful, Jewish Settlers, Zionist Theology, and Contemporary Messianism.

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“By departing from the traditional political, military, economic, and theological analyses of terrorism, Aran presents an intriguing and novel view of the issue.”

—Publishers Weekly “This is a remarkable exploration of the meaning of suicide terrorism. It is an intellectual journey through personal accounts of victims and inside views of the Zaka movement of Orthodox Jews who locate bits of flesh remaining after suicide attacks. This is a thoughtful, sensitively written tour-de-force by one of Israel’s leading anthropologists, and the scope of his book is wide-ranging, touching on themes that are relevant to the many forms of religious extremism around the world.”

—Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God “This is a terrific book: fascinating, smart, and enlightening. Aran makes an important contribution to the field, and this is one of the best studies of the phenomenon of suicide terrorism and even of terrorism broadly conceived.”

—Barak Mendelsohn, author of The al-Qaeda Franchise

U S H I S TO RY

Borderline Citizens The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration Robert C. McGreevey

Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of US colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups—employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders—policing the borders of the US economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship.

At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a US territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the US mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding US empire and citizenship.

McGreevey demonstrates the value of an imperial approach to the history of migration. Drawing attention to the legal claims migrants made on the mainland, he highlights the agency of Puerto Rican migrants and the efficacy of their efforts to find an economic, political, and legal home in the United States. At the same time, Borderline Citizens demonstrates how colonial institutions shaped migration streams through a series of changing colonial legal categories that tracked alongside corporate and government demands for labor mobility. McGreevey describes a history shaped as much by the force of US power overseas as by the claims of colonial migrants within the United States.

Robert C. McGreevey is Associate Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. He is the co-author of Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century, with Christopher T. Fisher and Alan Dawley.

“Borderline Citizens is an excellent book on the early years of US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Robert McGreevey builds his account around debates and legal conflicts produced as people began crossing from Puerto Rico into the states. A terrific contribution to our understanding of the legal and conceptual frictions generated by colonialism in Puerto Rico.”

—Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan “Robert McGreevey offers original insights and deepens our understanding of the contours of US citizenship, and the multi-layered nature of labor migration.

Borderline Citizens brings together empire and migration, illustrates the complex and interconnected web of US migration history, and depicts the continuing legacy of US empire in the Caribbean well into the twentieth century in an effective manner.

This is a compelling contribution to the literatures on US empire, immigration history, legal history and labor history.”

—Mary Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences

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Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education Nathan M. Sorber

The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic context, and its influence on the origins, development, and standardization of land-grant colleges.

The first land-grant colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a modern, bureaucratized nation-state.

The new land-grant colleges contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that supported emerging industries.

During the populist revolts chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the center of American democracy.

Sorber’s history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century.

Nathan M. Sorber is Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for the Future of Land-Grant Education at West Virginia University. He is the co-author of LandGrant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education.

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“Nathan M. Sorber’s impressive study unearths the deep roots of the nation’s early land-grant colleges, revealing how the sector endured and thrived in the face of relentless political and social challenges.”

—Christopher Loss, author of Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century “Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt breaks new ground. It makes a significant contribution to a new line of scholarly inquiry that is developing a more nuanced and critical—and less naïve, linear, and romantic—understanding of the history of a key sector in American higher education.”

—Scott J. Peters, author of Democracy and Higher Education

PH I LOSO PHY

Perilous Futures On Carl Schmitt’s Late Writings Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy, given Schmitt’s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World War II. In Perilous Futures, Peter Uwe Hohendahl calls for critical scrutiny of Schmitt’s later writings, the work in which Schmitt wrestles with concerns that retain present-day relevance: globalization, asymmetrical warfare, and the shifting international order. Hohendahl argues that Schmitt’s work seems to offer solutions to these present-day issues, although the ambiguity of his beliefs means that Schmitt’s later work is a problematic guide.

Focusing on works Schmitt published after the war—including The Nomos of the Earth, Theory of the Partisan, and Political Theology II—as well as his posthumously published diaries, Hohendahl reads these works critically against the backdrop of their biographical and historical contexts. He charts the shift in Schmitt’s perspective from a German nationalist focus to a European and then international agenda, while attending to both the conceptual and theoretical continuities with his prewar work and addressing the tension between the specific circumstances in which Schmitt was writing and the later international appropriation. Crossing disciplines of history, political theory, international relations, German studies, and political philosophy, Hohendahl brings Schmitt’s later writings into contemporary discourse and forces us to reexamine what we believe about Carl Schmitt.

“Peter Uwe Hohendahl’s interpretive readings of Carl Schmitt’s later works are powerful, subtle, and illuminating. Perilous Futures is clearly a profound achievement.”

—Max Pensky, author of Ends of Solidarity: Discourse Theory in Ethics and Politics

Uwe Peter Hohendahl is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Among his many books are Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830–1870; Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory; and The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Revisited.

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RUSSIA

Politics under the Influence Vodka and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia Anna L. Bailey

The state is supposed to make policy in the national interest, to preserve the nation’s health against the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse. In fact, Anna L. Bailey shows, the Russian state is deeply divided, and policy is commonly a result of the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests. Politics under the Influence turns a spotlight on the powerful vodka industry, whose ties to Putin’s political elite have grown in influence since 2009. Bailey details how that lobby has used the anti-alcohol campaign as a way to reduce the competitiveness of its main rival—the multinational beer industry. Drawing on a wide range of sources including fieldwork interviews, government documents, media articles, and opinion polls, Bailey reveals the many ambivalences, informal practices, and paradoxes in contemporary Russian politics. Politics under the Influence exhibits the kleptocratic nature of the Putin regime; as a result, analysis of vested interests and informal sources of power is essential to understanding public policy in contemporary Russia.

This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on policy and corruption in Putin’s Russia.

Anna L . Bailey worked for the UK civil service for four years and then as an English teacher in Kazan before graduate study at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She has published papers in the volumes of the International Scientific-Practical Conference on Alcohol in Russia.

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“Anna Bailey’s book is relaxed and readable. Her concepts are clear, there is no unnecessary jargon, and she provides the reader with substantively rich, well-documented insights into the realm of Russian alcohol-policymaking.”

—Mark Schrad, Villanova University “Anna Bailey’s high-quality book helps us understand how formal and informal sources of power combine to produce the outcomes we see in the world. Her insights are relevant to courses on post-communist politics, economic development, and policy making and implementation.”

—Andrew Barnes, Kent State University

SECURIT Y STUDIES

Rising Titans, Falling Giants How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

As a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors, and what that means for the relationship between the two.

Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Itzkowitz Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a collision course, Itzkowitz Shifrinson declares instead that rising states often avoid antagonizing those in decline, and highlights episodes that suggest the US-China relationship may prove to be far less conflict-prone than we might expect.

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is Assistant Professor of International Relations with the Pardee School at Boston University, where his research focuses on US foreign policy, grand strategy, and international security. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor with the Bush School of Government. He has published in International Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Foreign Affairs, and other venues.

“Applying key insights from realism to the rise and fall of states, Itzkowitz Shifrinson offers a compelling analysis of predation in the international system. A theoretically sophisticated account, this is a book that every scholar of international relations and contemporary history must read.”

—Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency “Rising Titans, Falling Giants fills a gap in the literature that had until now not been properly researched: how do rising states formulate their strategy toward their declining peers. Its theory is precise; the historical evidence it presents is convincing and sometimes novel. A must-read for those interested in world politics.”

—Nuno Monteiro, Yale University “An insightful and innovative interpretation of international behavior. It should be read and pondered by all those wishing to understand American foreign policy today.”

—Jack Matlock, author of Reagan and Gorbachev

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When Right Makes Might Rising Powers and World Order Stacie E. Goddard

Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confront others, even at the risk of war?

When Right Makes Might proposes that the ways a rising power legitimizes its expansionist aims shapes great power responses.

Stacie E. Goddard theorizes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers attempt to divine the challenger’s intentions: does it pose a revolutionary threat to the system or can it be incorporated into the existing international order? Goddard departs from conventional theories of international relations by arguing that great powers come to understand a contender’s intentions not only through objective capabilities or costly signals but by observing how a rising power justifies its behavior to its audience. To understand the dynamics of rising powers, then, we must take seriously the role of legitimacy in international relations.

A rising power’s ability to expand depends as much on its claims to right as it does on its growing might. As a result, When Right Makes Might poses significant questions for academics and policymakers alike. Underpinning her argument on the oft-ignored significance of public self-presentation, Goddard suggests that academics (and others) should recognize talk’s critical role in the formation of grand strategy. Unlike rationalist and realist theories that suggest rhetoric is mere window-dressing for power, When Right Makes Might argues that rhetoric fundamentally shapes the contours of grand strategy. Legitimacy is not marginal to international relations; it is essential to the practice of power politics, and rhetoric is central to that practice.

Stacie E. Goddard is Jane Bishop ’51 Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland.

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“When Right Makes Might succeeds in engaging a major theoretical and politically relevant question: why do some power transitions occur peacefully while others end in conflict? Goddard presents a new theoretical take and provides a new interpretation of the evidence at hand.”

—Hendrik Spruyt, author of Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition “Insightful, deeply researched, and persuasive. When Might Makes Right takes on a classic question—how and when existing powers cope with rising powers—and offers a novel and important answer. It is sure to become required reading.”

—Ronald Krebs, University of Minnesota “As long as there have been systems of states, intellectuals and practitioners have debated how to deal with rising powers.

In When Right Makes Might the politics of legitimation have at last received the sustained analysis they clearly warrant.

Stacie Goddard ‘s bracingly smart and novel contribution upends a lot of today’s conventional wisdom.”

—William Wohlforth, coauthor of America Abroad

SECURIT Y STUDIES

Atomic Assurance The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation Alexander Lanoszka

Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons?

Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies.

Alexander Lanoszka finds that military alliances are less useful in preventing allies from acquiring nuclear weapons than conventional wisdom suggests. Through intensive case studies of West Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a series of smaller cases on Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan, Atomic Assurance shows that it is easier to prevent an ally from initiating a nuclear program than to stop an ally that has already started one; in-theater conventional forces are crucial in making American nuclear guarantees credible; the American coercion of allies who started, or were tempted to start, a nuclear weapons program has played less of a role in forestalling nuclear proliferation than analysts have assumed; and the economic or technological reliance of a security-dependent ally on the United States works better to reverse or to halt that ally’s nuclear bid than anything else.

Crossing diplomatic history, international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and nuclear strategy, Lanoszka’s book reworks our understanding of the power and importance of alliances in stopping nuclear proliferation.

Alex ander L anoszk a is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Waterloo. His research on alliance politics, theories of war, and European security has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, International Affairs, Survival, and other academic journals.

“Atomic Assurance addresses an important question: how do military alliances influence nuclear proliferation? Alexander Lanozska’s argument cuts against conventional wisdom and contains a wealth of information that will be new and thought-provoking to many readers.”

—Matt Fuhrmann, author of Atomic Assistance: How “Atoms for Peace” Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity “In this extremely timely book, Alexander Lanoszka, through a series of impressive case studies, illuminates nuances in how and when alliances can prevent nuclear proliferation. Given the growing debate in the US about its future alliance commitments abroad, this book could not have come at a more important time.” ­— Vipin Narang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Commander’s Dilemma Violence and Restraint in Wartime Amelia Hoover Green

Why do some military and rebel groups commit many types of violence, creating an impression of senseless chaos, whereas others carefully control violence against civilians? A classic catch-22 faces the leaders of armed groups and provides the title for Amelia Hoover Green’s book. Leaders need large groups of people willing to kill and maim—but to do so only under strict control. How can commanders control violence when fighters who are not under direct supervision experience extraordinary stress, fear, and anger? The Commander’s Dilemma argues that discipline is not enough in wartime. Restraint occurs when fighters know why they are fighting and believe in the cause—that is, when commanders invest in political education.

Drawing on extraordinary evidence about state and nonstate groups in El Salvador, and extending her argument to the Mano River wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Hoover Green shows that investments in political education can improve human rights outcomes even where rational incentives for restraint are weak— and that groups whose fighters lack a sense of purpose may engage in massive violence even where incentives for restraint are strong. Hoover Green concludes that high levels of violence against civilians should be considered a “default setting,” not an aberration.

Amelia Hoover Green is Assistant Professor of Politics at Drexel University and a consultant to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). For HRDAG, she has consulted on wartime rights violations in Kosovo, Liberia, El Salvador, and other places.

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“Amelia Hoover Green’s project has been carried through with scrupulous attention to detail. I am extremely impressed by the care with which she developed her theory on how military commanders succeed (or fail) in socializing soldiers to exercise violence in battle yet treat civilians in a deliberately nonviolent way.”

—Leigh Binford, coeditor of Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Community, and the Nation-State in Twentieth Century El Salvador “The Commander’s Dilemma is a must-read book that makes a novel contribution to the literature of civilian victimization during civil war. Focusing on repertoires of armed group violence, Hoover Green focuses on the links between political education and practices of both violence and restraint. Beyond the fact that the analysis and findings are compelling, Hoover Green also provides a model for how an author can engage in ethical and personal reflections while presenting a coherent and well-defended argument. I highly recommend it.”

—Erica Chenoweth, coauthor of the awardwinning Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

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Covert Regime Change America’s Secret Cold War Lindsey A. O’Rourke

States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.

In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene.

Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways.

Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?

Lindsey A. O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, and US foreign policy.

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“Covert Regime Change is an important addition to the new literature on intelligence and international relations.

Lindsey O’Rourke convincingly shows that covert action has been a regular feature of American statecraft for decades, and that the United States chooses regime change not for idealistic reasons but out of ruthless pragmatism.”

—Joshua Rovner, author of Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence “Covert action to change foreign governments is exceptionally controversial, hard to research, and usually explored only by journalists. All who read this book will be impressed with the depth, detail, and clarity of Lindsey O’Rourke’s analysis. No other academic study of the question tops this one.”

—Richard Betts, Columbia University “Every government library from the White House to the C.I.A. needs copies of this book on their shelves.”

—Michael Desch, author of Cult of the Irrelevant

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SOCIO LOGY

Good Governance Gone Bad How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess Darius Ornston

If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent countries from making strikingly poor policy choices and suffering devastating results.

Home to three of the “big five” financial crises in the twentieth century, Nordic Europe in the new millennium has witnessed a housing bubble in Denmark, the collapse of the Finnish ICT industry, and the Icelandic financial crisis.

Ornston argues that the reason for these two seemingly contradictory phenomena is one and the same. The dense, cohesive relationships that enable these countries to respond to crisis with radical reform render them vulnerable to policy overshooting and overinvestment. Good Governance Gone Bad tests this argument by examining the rise and decline of heavy industry in postwar Sweden, the emergence and disruption of the Finnish ICT industry, and Iceland’s impressive but short-lived reign as a financial powerhouse as well as ten similar and contrasting cases across Europe and North America. Ornston demonstrates how small and large states alike can learn from the Nordic experience, providing a valuable corrective to uncritical praise for the “Nordic model.”

Darius Ornston is Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of When Small States Make Big Leaps. His work has also been published by Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Review of Policy Research, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the OECD, and the World Bank.

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“In this well-written and ambitious book, Darius Ornston situates the experience of economic governance in the Nordic countries, and argues persuasively that these small states have, on several occasions, engaged in radical restructuring of their economies. Ornston’s corrections of the conventional wisdom are important ” —Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva “Darius Ornston breaks through the stereotypes and provides new insights into the Nordic economies, whose qualities—high levels of trust in dense socio-economic networks—deliver rapid innovation but also ‘over-shooting’ and crisis. Networked governance, often lauded in theory, can have a real-world downside, as Ornston ably demonstrates.”

—Martin Rhodes, University of Denver

N AT I O N A L I S M

National Secession Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns Philip G. Roeder

How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states give rise to mayhem in the politics of existing states? National secession has been explained by reference to identities, grievances, greed, and opportunities. With the strategic constraints most national-secession campaigns face, the author argues, the essential element is the campaign’s ability to coordinate expectations within a population on a common goal—so that independence looks like the only viable option.

Philip G. Roeder shows how in most well-known national-secession campaigns, this strategy of programmatic coordination has led breakaway leaders to assume the critical task of propagating an authentic and realistic nation-state project.

Such campaigns are most likely to draw attention in the capitals of the great powers that control admission to the international community, to bring the campaigns’ disputes with their central governments to deadlock, and to engage in protracted, intense struggles to convince the international community that independence is the only viable option.

In National Secession, Roeder focuses on the goals of national-secession campaigns as a key determinant of strategy, operational objectives, and tactics. He shifts the focus in the study of secessionist civil wars from tactics (such as violence) to the larger substantive disputes within which these tactics are chosen, and he analyzes the consequences of programmatic coordination for getting on the global agenda. All of which, he argues, can give rise to intractable disputes and violent conflicts.

Philip G. Roeder is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Roeder has published books on Kremlin politics, the Soviet state, and national-secession disputes and conflicts around the world. His articles have appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and International Studies Quarterly.

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“Philip G. Roeder has produced a novel argument that serves as an important corrective to the general tendency to over-focus on structural factors in analyzing popular mobilization, and his theoretical contribution greatly advances our understanding of how campaigns for independence develop and are sustained. As a result, National Secession will appeal to scholars in all branches of the social sciences.”

—Dmitry Gorenburg, author of Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation “Roeder’s highly original analysis examines conditions that give rise to significant and often protracted campaigns for separatism.

As he shows, separatists can win against the odds through persistent efforts aimed at demonstrating the impracticality of the status quo and the viability of sovereign statehood.”

—Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University “Inspired by Lenin’s political theory of revolution, Philip Roeder, focusing on the challenge of programmatic coordination, offers an equally compelling political theory of national secession.”

—David D. Laitin, Stanford University

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MIDDLE EAST

Winning Hearts and Votes Social Services and the Islamist Political Advantage Steven T. Brooke

In non-democratic regimes around the world, non-state organizations provide millions of citizens with medical care, schooling, childrearing, and other critical social services. Why would any authoritarian countenance this type of activism? And under what conditions does the private provision of social services generate political mobilization?

In Winning Hearts and Votes, Steven T. Brooke argues that authoritarians often seek to manage moments of economic crisis by offloading social welfare responsibilities to non-state providers. But while providers who serve poorer citizens will be constrained in their ability to mobilize voters because the poor depend on the state for many different goods, organizations that serve paying customers with high quality services can generate powerful, reputation-based linkages with a middle-class constituency more likely to support the provider on election day.

Brooke backs up his novel argument with an in-depth examination of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the archetypal organization that combines social service provision with electoral success. With a fascinating array of historical, qualitative, spatial, and experimental data, he traces the Brotherhood’s provision of medical services from its origins in the 1970s, through its maturation under the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, to its apogee during the country’s brief democratic interlude, 2011–2013. In addition to generating new insights into authoritarian regimes and the relationship between political parties and social movements, Winning Hearts and Votes details the history, operations, and political effects of the Muslim Brotherhood’s much discussed but little understood social service network.

Steven Brooke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville and Associate Fellow (Non-Resident) at the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.

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“Winning Hearts and Votes is a tour de force. Steven T. Brooke’s historical research is sublime, and he makes important and concrete interventions on a number of topics within political science and the field of Egypt studies. This book will be the definitive account on this topic for years to come.”

—Joshua Stacher, Kent State University “Steven Brooke’s book will sit comfortably on the shelf next to several recent classics in the political science literature by Egyptian specialists, and will be discussed alongside those by many.”

—Daniel Corstange, Columbia University “In his study of the Egyptian Islamic Medical Association, Steven Brooke asks why authoritarian regimes allow non-state actors to provide services and how service delivery builds support for the Islamist opposition. This highly engaging book breaks new ground on a critically important topic.”

—Melani Cammett, Harvard University

C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S

Empire of Hope The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline David Leheny

Empire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a diverse array of cases from recent Japanese history, David Leheny shows how sentimental portrayals of the nation and its global role reflect a durable story of hopefulness about the country’s postwar path. From the medical treatment of conjoined Vietnamese children, victims of Agent Orange, the global promotion of Japanese popular culture, a tragic maritime accident involving a US Navy submarine, to the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster; this story has shaped the way in which political figures, writers, officials, and observers have depicted what the nation feels.

Expressions of national emotion do several things: they construct the boundaries of the national body, they inform and discipline appropriate expression, and they depoliticize messy problems that threaten to produce divisive questions about winners and losers. Most important, they work because they appear to be natural, simple and expected expressions of how the nation shares feeling, even when they paper over the extraordinary divergence in how the nation’s citizens experience each incident. In making its arguments, Empire of Hope challenges how we read the relations between emotion and politics by arguing—unlike those who build from the neuroscientific turn in the social sciences or those developing affect theory in the humanities—that the focus should be on emotional representation rather than on emotion itself.

David Leheny is Professor in the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University. He is the author of Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan and Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure.

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“David Leheny’s inimitable prose is deployed at full throttle in Empire of Hope, a sweeping historical reading of the agency and symbolism of sentiment in depoliticized ‘long post war’ Japanese society.”

—Jennifer Robertson, author of Robo Sapiens Japanicus “Empire of Hope is a superb book. Emotion and emotional representation in politics is vitally important in light of the dawning realization that political and economic ‘rationality’ does not always do well in helping us understand political outcomes. Vividly illustrated, well-articulated, and persuasive, this book is a joy to read.”

—Henry C. W. Laurence, author of Money Rules: The New Politics of Finance in Britain and Japan “I wish I could write like Leheny. He possesses the gift of being able to marry complex ideas with rich empirical detail in a style that is accessible, edifying and entertaining. This is evident in this book, which explores the points at which politics and emotions intersect in Japan.”

—Hugo Dobson, University of Sheffield “David Leheny, one of the most creative scholars of international relations today, explores how national narratives arise, change, and constrain views of ourselves and others. This provocative book is necessary for understanding Japan and international relations in general.”

—David Kang, University of Southern California

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ECONOMIC S

Taming Japan’s Deflation The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy Gene Park, Saori K atada, Giacomo Chiozza, and Yoshiko Kojo

Bolder economic policy could have addressed bouts of deflation in post-bubble Japan. But despite warnings from economists, intense political pressure, and “unconventional monetary policy” options to address this problem, Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), resisted taking the bold action.

With Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s return to power, Japan shifted course in early 2013 with the launch of his “Abenomics” economic agenda to reflate the economy and his appointment of new leadership at the BOJ to achieve this goal. As Taming Japan’s Deflation shows, the BOJ’s resistance to bolder policy stemmed from entrenched policy ideas that were hostile to activist monetary policy. These policy ideas had evolved over the BOJ’s long history and gained dominance due to the closed nature of the policy network.

The explanatory power of policy ideas and networks suggests an inadequacy in the dominant framework for analysis of the politics of monetary policy. Taming Japan’s Deflation shows that central bankers’ views can be decisive in determining monetary policy. Addressing the challenges through institutional analysis, quantitative empirical tests, in-depth case studies, and structured comparison of other countries to Japan, the authors show that the adoption of aggressive monetary policy depends on bankers’ established policy ideas and policy network structure.

Gene Park is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Spending without Taxation. Saori N. Katada is Associate Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Banking on Stability. Giacomo Chiozza is co-author, most recently, of Leaders and International Conflict.

He teaches at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Yoshiko Kojo is Professor in the Department of Advanced Social and International Relations at the University of Tokyo.

She is the author of Japan in International Politics.

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“Taming Japan’s Deflation provides interesting new insights on the making of monetary policy in Japan.”

—Ben S. Bernanke, The Brookings Institution, former chairman of the Federal Reserve “Taming Japan’s Deflation provides the most detailed and up-to-date Englishlanguage examination of the Bank of Japan as an institution. One of the most puzzling macroeconomic stories of the last two decades has been the BOJ’s failure to effectively address the challenge of deflation. The authors thoroughly and clearly address this puzzle, to which political scientists and economists have often pointed but never really explored comprehensively.”

—William Grimes, author of Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism

ECONOMIC S

The Venture Capital State The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia Robyn Klingler-Vidra

Silicon Valley has become shorthand for a globally acclaimed way to unleash the creative potential of venture capital, supporting innovation and creating jobs. In The Venture Capital State Robyn Klingler-Vidra traces how and why different states have adopted distinct versions of the Silicon Valley model.

Venture capital seeks high rewards but is enveloped in high risk. The author’s deep investigations of venture capital policymaking in East Asian states (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore) show that success does not reflect policymakers’ ability to replicate the Silicon Valley model. Instead, she argues, performance reflects their skill in adapting a highly lauded model to their local context. Policymakers are “contextually rational” in their learning; their context-rooted norms shape their preferences.

The normative context for learning about policy—how elites see themselves and what they deem as locally appropriate—informs how they design their efforts.

The Venture Capital State offers a novel conceptualization of rationality, bridging diametrically opposed versions of bounded and conventional rationality. This new understanding of rationality is simultaneously fully informed and context based, and it provides a framework by which analysts can bring domestic factors to the very heart of international diffusion of policy.

Klingler-Vidra concludes that states have a visible hand in constituting even quintessentially neoliberal markets.

Robyn Klingler-Vidr a is Lecturer in Political Economy in the Department of International Development at King’s College London.

“Klingler-Vidra gives an empirically rich account of three country cases detailing how their venture capital policies have varied over time and continue to differ from one another. This book has the potential to make a valuable contribution to the political economy literature.”

—Linda Weiss, author of America, Inc.?

“Klingler-Vidra draws knowledgably and substantially on an extensive and broadly eclectic body of literature spanning multiple disciplines and theoretical approaches.

She uses this material effectively to provide a synthetic and heuristic explanation for the absence of neoliberal convergence and presence of locally diverse and interventionist policies in the diffusion of the Silicon Valley venture capital model.”

—Karl Fields, University of Puget Sound

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The Migrant Passage Clandestine Journeys from Central America Noelle K ateri Brigden

At the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage analyzes how people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala navigate the dangerous and uncertain clandestine journey across Mexico to the United States. However much advance planning they do, they survive the journey through improvisation. Central American migrants improvise upon social roles and physical objects, leveraging them for new purposes along the way. Over time, the accumulation of individual journeys has cut a path across the socioeconomic and political landscape of Mexico, generating a social and material infrastructure that guides future passages and complicates borders.

Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state.

To trace the continuous renewal of the transit corridor, Noelle Kateri Brigden draws upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States. In so doing, she shows the value of disciplinary and methodological border crossing between international relations and anthropology, to understand the relationships between human security, international borders, and clandestine transnationalism.

Noelle K ateri Brigden is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.

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“The Migrant Passage is an excellent ethnographic work, sure to be a major contribution to the literature on international migration. Noelle Brigden vividly details the lived experiences of migrants transiting Mexico towards the United States with nuanced, non-sensationalists accounts.”

—David Spener, author of Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border “Noelle Brigden has produced the sort of book I have long thought should be written—an insightful account of the ways migrants navigate their identities as they travel to the United States. Brigden fills in unknown spaces, spaces of uncertainty, oases of previously untapped information.”

—Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dark Pasts Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan Jennifer M. Dixon

Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands to recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have apologized for past crimes, others continue to silence, deny, and relativize dark pasts. What explains the tremendous variation in how states deal with past crimes? When and why do states change their stories about their dark pasts?

Dark Pasts argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in official narratives about dark pasts, but domestic considerations determine the content of such change.

Rather than changing with the passage of time, persistence, or rightness, official narratives of dark pasts are shaped by interactions between political factors at the domestic and international levels. Unpacking the complex processes through which international pressures and domestic dynamics shape states’ narratives, Jennifer M. Dixon analyzes the trajectories over the past sixty years of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915–17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937–38 Nanjing Massacre. While both states’ started from similar positions of silencing, relativizing, and denial, Japan has come to express regret and apologize for the Nanjing Massacre, while Turkey continues to reject official wrongdoing and deny the genocidal nature of the violence.

Dark Pasts unravels the complex processes that construct and contest narratives, and offers an innovative way to analyze narrative change. Dixon’s book highlights the persistent presence of the past and reveals how domestic politics shape the ways states’ narratives change—or do not—over time.

Jennifer M. Dixon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University. She has published articles in Perspectives on Politics, South European Society and Politics, and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

“The quality of Dark Pasts is excellent.

Dixon’s work is unique in its comparison of the denial of violence in both Turkey and Japan, and in its analytical rigor. Well-conceived, based on a wealth of resources, this book is a significant contribution.”

—Fatma Göçek, author of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against Armenians “In this fascinating study, Jennifer Dixon investigates when and how official narratives about political violence actually change. Her findings are eye-opening and reveal how the dynamic interplay between international pressure and domestic contestation influences the politics of memory.

This book should be read by scholars of human rights, transitional justice, and comparative politics.”

—Bronwyn Leebaw, author of Judging State Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change “Dark Pasts is required reading for those interested in how and why governments engage in historical mythmaking about their own past human rights atrocities, and how they suppress others’ efforts to reveal these atrocities. This is a fine book.”

—Stephen Van Evera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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URBAN STUDIES

The One-Way Street of Integration Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities Edward G. Goetz

THE ONE-WAY STREET OF INTEGRATION EDWARD G. GOETZ

The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn’t see the solution to racial injustice as the government moving poor and nonwhite people out of their communities, and by tracing the tensions involved in housing integration and policy across fifty years and myriad developments he shows why.

Goetz’s core argument, in a provocative book that shows today’s debates about housing, mobility, and race have deep roots, is that fair housing advocates have adopted a spatial strategy of advocacy that has increasingly brought it into conflict with community development efforts. The One-Way Street of Integration critiques fair housing integration policies for targeting settlement patterns while ignoring underlying racism and issues of economic and political power. Goetz challenges liberal orthodoxy, determining that the standard efforts toward integration are unlikely to lead to racial equity or racial justice in American cities. In fact, in this pursuit it is the community development movement rather than integrated housing projects that has the greatest potential for connecting to social change and social justice efforts.

Edward G. Goetz is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely, including, most recently, New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy.

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Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities

“A courageous work.... Goetz gives clear guidance about what he believes to be the way forward.”

—Journal of Planning Education and Research “Edward G. Goetz uses extensive evidence to support the community building position. This is an important book because it shows why dogmatic support for racial integration may cut against racial justice.”

—Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City “Goetz’s explanations of the conflicts between community development and fair housing are clear, comprehensive, and powerful. The One-Way Street of Integration is a necessary read, especially for Goetz’s wise and achievable prescriptions for resolution of those conflicts.”

—Henry Cisneros, former U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of San Antonio “A must read for twenty-first-century urban and metropolitan scholars, policy makers, and students interested in pursuing racial and economic equity.”

—Derek Hyra, author of Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

I N T E R N AT I O N A L R E L AT I O N S

Troubled Waters Insecurity in the Persian Gulf Mehran K amrava

Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security; the inherent instability involved in reliance on the United States and the exclusion of Iraq and Iran; the international and security policies pursued by inside and outside actors; and a suite of overlapping security dilemmas. These four factors combine and interact to generate long-term volatility and ongoing tensions within the Persian Gulf.

Through insights from Kamrava’s interviews with Gulf elites into policy decisions, the consequences of security dilemmas, the priorities of local players, and the neglect of identity and religion, Troubled Waters examines the root causes of conflicts and crises that are currently unfolding in the region. As Kamrava demonstrates, each state in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar, has embarked on vigorous security-producing efforts as part of foreign policy, flooding the area with more munitions—thereby increasing insecurity and causing more mistrust in a part of the world that needs no more tension.

Mehr an K amr ava is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University–Qatar. He is the author of, among other books, The Impossibility of Palestine and Qatar: Small State, Big Politics.

“A succinct and accessible, yet nuanced and conceptually sophisticated, guide to the fundamental dynamics that shape inter-state security relations in the contemporary Gulf.... No other survey of Gulf affairs gives readers a more cogent and insightful foundation for understanding current trends in this part of the world.”

—The Key Reporter “Troubled Waters brings together Kamrava’s expertise in international relations in the Middle East with insights gained from interviews with Gulf elites to offer a new understanding of developments in the region.”

—Gulf Times “Mehran Kamrava is one of the greatest authorities on the Persian Gulf. I am delighted to see that he has distilled all the knowledge and experience he has accumulated in this new book on the causes of lingering insecurity in the region.”

—Anoush Ehteshami, Durham University

PERSIAN GULF STUDIES

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SECURIT Y STUDIES

Twilight of the Titans Great Power Decline and Retrenchment Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent

In this bold new perspective on the United States–China power transition, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine all great power transitions since 1870. They find that declining and rising powers have strong incentives to moderate their behavior at moments when the hierarchy of great powers is shifting. How do great powers respond to decline? they ask. What options do great powers have to slow or reverse their descent?

In Twilight of the Titans, MacDonald and Parent challenge claims that policymakers for great powers, unwilling to manage decline through moderation, will be pushed to extreme measures. Tough talk, intimidation, provocation, and preventive war, they write, are not the only alternatives to defeat. Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction. What retrenchment does encourage is resurrection. Only states that retrench have recovered their former position.

Using case studies that include Great Britain in 1872 and 1908, Russia in 1888 and 1903, and France in 1893 and 1924, Twilight of the Titans offers clear evidence that declining powers have a wide array of options at their disposal and offers guidance on how to use the right tools at the right time. The result is a comprehensive rethinking of power transition and hegemonic war theories and a different approach to the policy problems that declining states face.

Paul K. MacDonald is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of Networks of Domination.

Joseph M. Parent is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Uniting States and coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories.

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“Twilight of the Titans provides perhaps the strongest counter to current pessimistic conventional wisdom on the dangers and challenges of the United States’s decline vis-à-vis China as well as overall pessimism on the ability of major powers to act rationally and prudently. In lively prose, the authors provide comprehensive empirical evaluation and are appropriately transparent about their methods. Twilight of the Titans will be relevant to a large swath of academic literature and has general implications for policy debates.”

—William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College “Twilight of the Titans is an important contribution to the literature on the grand strategies of great powers. It is a must read for those participating, or interested, in the debate about America’s 21st century grand strategic options.”

—Christopher Layne, Texas A & M University

H I S TO RY

Laboratory of Socialist Development Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan Artemy K alinovsky

Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinovsky places the Soviet development of central Asia in a global context.

Connecting high politics and intellectual debates with the life histories and experiences of peasants, workers, scholars, and engineers, Laboratory of Socialist Development shows how these men and women negotiated Soviet economic and cultural projects in the decades following Stalin’s death. Kalinovsky’s book investigates how people experienced new cities, the transformation of rural life, and the building of the world’s tallest dam. Kalinovsky connects these local and individual moments to the broader context of the Cold War, shedding new light on how paradigms of development change over time. Throughout the book, he offers comparisons with experiences in countries such as India, Iran, and Afghanistan, and considers the role of intermediaries who went to those countries as part of the Soviet effort to spread its vision of modernity to the postcolonial world.

Laboratory of Socialist Development offers a new way to think about the post-war Soviet Union, the relationship between Moscow and its internal periphery, and the interaction between Cold War politics and domestic development. Kalinovsky’s innovative research pushes readers to consider the similarities between socialist development and its more familiar capitalist version.

Artemy K alinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies, University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and co-editor of five books, among them The End of the Cold War and the Third World.

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“Laboratory of Socialist Development grapples with how universal ideas were negotiated locally and ultimately reshaped.

Throughout the book, Kalinovsky demonstrates how the modernizing paradigm changed, as large-scale investment failed to yield the hoped for result for both European and Soviet modernizers, who sought to recreate European style modernity in the Third World and Central Asia.”

—Europe Now “Kalinovsky’s work offers rich illustration through the voices of the Tajiks who lived through and participated in the Nurek dam project, and in Tajikistan’s wider efforts at development. Laboratory of Socialist Development is an opening salvo for a new focus in central Asian studies—examining the final forty years of Soviet rule in central Asia.”

—Marianne R. Kamp, Indiana University ”Artemy Kalinovsky has achieved what other scholars have only talked about: using development to link international, domestic political, and social history. A true tour de force.”

—David C. Engerman, Brandeis University

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Venice’s Intimate Empire Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean Erin Maglaque

Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean.

Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice’s Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, humanist teachers and their students that were the crucible for self-definition and political decision making.

Venice’s Intimate Empire thus illuminates the experience of imperial governance by drawing connections between humanist education and family affairs. From marriage and reproduction to childhood and adolescence, we see how intimate life was central to the Bembo and Coppo families’ experience of empire.

Maglaque skillfully argues that it was within the intimate family that Venetians’ relationships to empire—its politics, its shifting social structures, its metropolitan and colonial cultures—were determined.

Erin Magl aque is a teaching fellow of early modern European history at the University of St. Andrews.

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“Venice’s Intimate Empire is a fresh and innovative work. Advancing discussions about the role of families in empire building, as well as the abilities and limitations of humanism as an imperial ideology, it will transform the way that historians view the structures of early modern empires.”

—Monique O’Connell, coauthor of The Mediterranean World: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon “A wonderful book and a real tour de force. Meticulously researched and vividly written, broadly accessible yet making important analytical interventions, Venice’s Intimate Empire turns much received wisdom about humanist culture on its head, bringing family history and critical imperial studies seamlessly together.”

—Natalie Rothman, author of Brokering Empire: Trans-imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul

GEOGR APHY

Limits to Decolonization Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco Penelope Anthias

Penelope Anthias’s Limits to Decolonization addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary indigenous politics: struggles for territory. Based on the experience of thirty-six Guaraní communities in the Bolivian Chaco, Anthias reveals how two decades of indigenous mapping and land titling have failed to reverse a historical trajectory of indigenous dispossession in the Bolivian lowlands. Through an ethnographic account of the “limits” the Guaraní have encountered over the course of their territorial claim—from state boundaries to landowner opposition to hydrocarbon development—Anthias raises critical questions about the role of maps and land titles in indigenous struggles for self-determination.

Anthias argues that these unresolved territorial claims are shaping the contours of an era of “post-neoliberal” politics in Bolivia. Limits to Decolonization reveals the surprising ways in which indigenous peoples are reframing their territorial projects in the context of this hydrocarbon state and drawing on their experiences of the limits of state recognition. The tensions of Bolivia’s “process of change” are revealed, as Limits to Decolonization rethinks current debates on cultural rights, resource politics, and Latin American leftist states. In sum, Anthias reveals the creative and pragmatic ways in which indigenous peoples contest and work within the limits of postcolonial rule in pursuit of their own visions of territorial autonomy.

Penelope Anthias holds a postdoctoral position in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen.

“With this book Penelope Anthias has the potential to shape scholarly debates around indigenous struggles, neoliberalism, and postcolonial rule in important ways. Limits to Decolonization is a thoughtful challenge to the prevailing scholarship.”

—Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Whitman College “Limits to Decolonization is a sensitive account of a peoples’ struggle for land and livelihood against the weight of centuries of colonialism and the power of the new extractivism. It is a great piece of work.”

—Bret Gustafson, Washington University “Anthias offers an entirely new and compelling account of the relations between hydrocarbons, identity, and space. Ethnographically rich, historically framed, and theoretically sophisticated, Limits to Decolonization is a provocative and powerful account of contemporary extractivism, movements from below and the operations of power in indigenous struggles.”

—Michael J. Watts, University of California, Berkeley

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The Revolution of ’28 Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal Robert Chiles

The Revolution of ’28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith.

Robert Chiles peers into Smith’s work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth century. The book charts the rise of that idiomatic progressivism during Smith’s early years as a state legislator through his time as governor of the Empire State in the 1920s, before proceeding to a revisionist narrative of the 1928 presidential campaign, exploring the ways in which Smith’s gubernatorial progressivism was presented to a national audience. As Chiles points out, newstock voters responded enthusiastically to Smith’s candidacy on both economic and cultural levels.

Chiles offers a historical argument that describes the impact of this coalition on the new liberal formation that was to come with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, demonstrating the broad practical consequences of Smith’s political career. In particular, Chiles notes how Smith’s progressive agenda became Democratic partisan dogma and a rallying point for policy formation and electoral success at the state and national levels.

Chiles sets the record straight in The Revolution of ’28 by paying close attention to how Smith identified and activated his emergent coalition and put it to use in his campaign of 1928, before quickly losing control over it after his failed presidential bid.

Robert Chiles is a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Maryland.

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“May galvanize readers currently feeling cheated by a shortage of contemporary political heroes. I, for one, can never get enough of New York’s 1920s governor Alfred E. Smith, whom Robert Chiles... reanimates in The Revolution of ’28.”

—New York Times “Dispensing with the too-simple dichotomies on which scholars have so often relied, Chiles demonstrates that Smith was both a machine politician and a Progressive, a social and a structural reformer, a cultural symbol and a champion of working-class interests.”

—James J. Connolly, Ball State University “The Revolution of ’28 is an engaging, boldly argued critique of Albert Smith’s influence on American politics and policy making.”

—Daniel O. Prosterman, Salem College “The most finely-nuanced portrait of Smith as legislator, administrator, and presidential candidate that I have ever read, and the most thoughtful and balanced account of the 1928 presidential campaign and election.”

—John D. Buenker, author of Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform

LITER ARY STUDIES

Populating the Novel Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life Emily Steinlight

From the teeming streets of Dickens’s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life.

In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics.

In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the Victorian novel, dislodging the longstanding idea that its central category is the individual by demonstrating how fiction is altered by its emerging concern with population.

By overpopulating narrative space and imagining the human species perpetually in excess of the existing social order, she shows, fiction made it necessary to radically reimagine life in the aggregate.

Emily Steinlight is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Populating the Novel is a tremendously impressive book. Steinlight expertly demonstrates how thoroughly the Victorians—famous for their ‘individualism’—conceived of human life in the aggregate. Her book will quickly become a touchstone in nineteenth-century literary studies, and the definitive study of biopolitics in Victorian fiction.”

—David Kurnick, Rutgers University “This is a magnificent book, elegantly conceived and luminously executed. Populating the Novel is an enormously important, fruitful, and relevant book, and Steinlight meticulously turns every stone in pursuing it.”

—Jules Law, Northwestern University “Steinlight deftly reveals the many ways in which poets, theorists, and novelists, from Wordsworth to Hardy, sought to accommodate an ostensible surplus of life, at the same time enfolding numerous readers in their representations.”

—Audrey Jaffe, author of The Victorian Novel Dreams of the Real

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TERRORISM

Why Terrorists Quit The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists Julie Chernov Hwang

Why do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit.

Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang conducted more than one hundred interviews with current and former leaders and followers of radical Islamist groups in Indonesia. Using what she learned from these radicals she examines the reasons they rejected physical force and extremist ideology, slowly moving away from, or in some cases completely leaving, groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah, Mujahidin KOMPAK, Ring Banten, Laskar Jihad, and Tanah Runtuh. Why Terrorists Quit considers the impact of various public initiatives designed to encourage radicals to disengage, and follows the lives of five radicals from the various groups, seeking to establish trends, ideas, and reasons for why radicals might eschew violence or quit terrorism.

Chernov Hwang has, with this book, provided a clear picture of why Indonesians disengage from jihadist groups, what the state can do to help them reintegrate into nonterrorist society, and how what happens in Indonesia can be more widely applied beyond the archipelago.

Julie Chernov Hwang is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Goucher College. She is the author of Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World.

“In contrast with studies of terrorism based on group-level inferences, Hwang’s study derives from interviews with 55 Indonesians who quit. Their stories offer telling insights into the motivations that foster and sustain terrorism.”

—Choice “Julie Chernov Hwang has given us an intelligent, sensitive, nuanced, and persuasive analysis of the process through which Indonesian jihadis are disengaging from violence. Why Terrorists Quit will help shape US, Indonesian, and other governments’ policies toward disengagement and reintegration of terrorists into society.”

—R. William Liddle, The Ohio State University “Chernov Hwang has produced a superb analysis that should be required reading for anyone interested in countering violent extremism. Highly readable and full of insights from interviews with former terrorists, the book is a model of good research with clear policy applications.”

—Sidney Jones, Director, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict

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Participation without Democracy Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia Garry Rodan

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it.

Participation without Democracy uses Rodan’s long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones.

Garry Rodan is Professor of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University.

He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is, most recently, coauthor of The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia.

“This exceptional book makes an outstanding contribution to the literature on democratization, authoritarian resilience, and Asian politics. Rodan has developed his ‘modes of participation’ framework to its explanatory peak, making Participation without Democracy essential reading for students of democratization everywhere.”

—Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London “Garry Rodan’s book is theoretically innovative, empirically rich, and overall a pleasure to read. Rodan’s biggest contribution is the development of the twin concepts of Ideologies of Political Representation and Modes of Participation. These new tools help us understand why states facing similar pressures from capitalist development opt for different combinations of formal and informal institutions.”

—Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

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ECONOMIC S

Traders in Motion Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace edited by Kirsten W. Endres and Ann Marie Leshkowich

With essays covering diverse topics from street vendors in Hanoi to the waste-trading community in the Red River Delta, Traders in Motion covers the fields of anthropology, political science, and development sociology in Southeast Asia. Focusing on smallscale traders, editors Kirsten W. Endres and Ann Marie Leshkowich demonstrate how the emerging capitalist market in Vietnam is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials.

The contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam’s socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders experience, reflect on, and negotiate state policies and regulations that affect the traders’ lives and work. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals’ notions of self and personhood not just as economic actors but also in terms of gender, region, and ethnicity. Traders in Motion affords rich comparative insight into how markets form and transform and what those changes mean.

Kirsten W. Endres heads the research group Traders, Markets, and the State in Vietnam at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross.

Contributors Lisa Barthelmes, Christine Bonnin, Gracia Clark, Annuska Derks, Kirsten W. Endres, Chris Gregory, Caroline Grillot, Erik Harms, Esther Horat, Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Hy Van Luong, Minh T. N. Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Thanh Bình, Linda J. Seligmann, Allison Truitt, Sarah Turner

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“Traders in Motion is well conceived, well organized, and well written. The essays provide an impressive empirical snapshot of the social, political, and economic changes taking place in Vietnam.”

—Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Wilfred Laurier University “The chapters in this volume reflect the lively and bustling informal sector of modern Vietnam through the eyes of observers and the voices of insiders. Traders in Motion demonstrates a profound understanding and close observation of socioeconomic changes in Vietnam. This book is a substantial contribution to the study of modern markets in Vietnam. It is a comprehensive book.”

—Anh Tran, Indiana University

RELIGION

Patriotic Ayatollahs Nationalism in Post-Saddam Iraq Caroleen Marji Sayej

Patriotic Ayatollahs explores the contributions of senior clerics in state and nation-building after the 2003 Iraq war. Caroleen Sayej suggests that the four so-called Grand Ayatollahs, the highest-ranking clerics of Iraqi Shiism, took on a new and unexpected political role after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Drawing on previously unexamined Arabic-language fatwas, speeches, and communiqués of Iraq’s four grand ayatollahs, this book analyzes how their new pronouncements and narratives shaped public debates after 2003. Sayej argues that, contrary to standard narratives about religious actors, the Grand Ayatollahs were among the most progressive voices in the new Iraqi nation.

She traces the transformative position of Ayatollah Sistani as the “guardian of democracy” after 2003. Sistani was, in particular, instrumental in derailing American plans that would have excluded Iraqis from the state-building process—a remarkable story in which an octogenarian cleric takes on the United States over the meaning of democracy.

Patriotic Ayatollahs’ counter-conventional argument about the ayatollahs’ vision of a nonsectarian nation is neatly realized.

Through her deep knowledge and long-term engagement with Iraqi politics, Sayej advances our understanding of how the post-Saddam Iraqi nation was built.

Caroleen Marji Sayej teaches government and international relations at Connecticut College. She is co-editor of The Iraq Papers.

$39.95 978-1-5017-1521-1 hardcover 236 pages, 6 x 9, 1 map

“The author provides a descriptive picture of Shi’ite Islam and superb characterization of the post-2003 political situation in Iraq. This deeply sourced narrative is a comprehensive, comparative political study of the internal political dynamics in Iraq and to a lesser extent the influence from neighboring Iran. This is a clear contribution to an understanding of contemporary politics in Iraq.”

—Choice “Patriotic Ayatollahs sheds light on the religious establishment in Najaf and its role in Iraqi politics. Sayej writes with clarity and straight-forwardness, and it is highly readable.”

—Robert Lee, Colorado College “Patriotic Ayatollahs challenges the simplistic narrative viewing Iraq in exclusively ethno-sectarian and claiming that the Iraqi state is completely artificial and its population has no sense of national identity.

Second, it highlights the role played by informal actors, the Ayatollahs, in shaping the post-2003 state and addressing political conflicts and issues of legitimacy, identity, and governance.”

—Harith Hasan al-Qarawee, Brandeis University

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SECURIT Y STUDIES

Stopping the Bomb The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy Nicholas L. Miller

Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the key to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s onwards.

The Chinese and Indian nuclear tests in the 1960s and 1970s forced the US government, Miller contends, to pay new and considerable attention to the idea of nonproliferation and to reexamine its foreign policies. Stopping the Bomb explores the role of the United States in combating the spread of nuclear weapons, an area often ignored to date. He explains why these changes occurred and how effective US policies have been in preventing countries from seeking and acquiring nuclear weapons. Miller’s findings highlight the relatively rapid move from a permissive approach toward allies acquiring nuclear weapons to a more universal nonproliferation policy no matter whether friend or foe.

Four in-depth case studies of US nonproliferation policy— toward Taiwan, Pakistan, Iran, and France—elucidate how the United States can compel countries to reverse ongoing nuclear weapons programs. Miller’s findings in Stopping the Bomb have important implications for the continued study of nuclear proliferation, US nonproliferation policy, and beyond.

Nichol as L . Miller is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has previously published articles in the American Political Science Review, Security Studies, International Organization, and International Security.

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“This book offers elegant theory and compelling evidence on the sources and efficacy of US nonproliferation efforts.

Countering the claim that ‘sanctions don’t work,’ Miller outlines the conditions under which they can be consequential. A musthave resource for experts and a growing audience attentive to these issues.”

—Etel Solingen, University of California Irvine “An intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons proliferation, beginning with America’s introduction of the Atomic Age. [Miller’s] book provides a full explanation of America’s policy with a time sequence necessarily focusing on the domino effect of states acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and the import of bureaucratic decisions on international political behavior.”

—Choice

SOCIO LOGY

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan Mat thew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed

Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan.

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese politics for more than half a century and attempts to show how reforms have evolved to counter the problems. What causes political corruption to become more or less serious over time? they ask. The authors examine major political corruption scandals beginning with the early postwar period until the present day as one way to make sense of how the nature of corruption changes over time. They also consider bureaucratic corruption and scandals, violations of electoral law, sex scandals, and campaign finance regulations and scandals.

In the end, Carlson and Reed write, though Japanese politics still experiences periodic scandals, the political reforms of 1994 have significantly reduced the levels of political corruption. The basic message is that reform can reduce corruption. The causes and consequences of political corruption in Japan, they suggest, are much like those in other consolidated democracies.

Mat thew M. Carlson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is author of Money Politics in Japan.

Steven R. Reed is Professor of Policy Studies at Chuo University. He is author of many books, including Making Common Sense of Japan.

$39.95 978-1-5017-1565-5 hardcover 200 pages, 6 x 9, 5 tables, 2 graphs

“Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan breaks ground in new and interesting areas of analysis in Japanese politics and comparative corruption. Carlson and Reed have a practicality and clarity in both their writing and their insights that make the book refreshing to read.”

—Raymond Christensen, Brigham Young University “Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan is a very creative analysis of political scandals and corruption in a country with a bad reputation for them. The authors make a convincing case that different means are needed to combat each type of scandal or corruption. Carlson and Reed have produced an excellent systematic study of corruption and scandal and how to deal with it.”

—Ellis Kraus, University of California, San Diego “Carlson and Reed offer a persuasive argument that structural reforms adopted in 1994 have improved Japanese politics, with greater transparency helping the media in its ability to reveal—and thereby discourage—political scandal.”

—Choice

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WOMEN’S STUDIES

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Özge Çelik Russell, and Sarah A. Tobin

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim identity in uniquely American ways.

Transcending contemporary political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy, exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women themselves.

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, smoothly integrating the results of nearly two thousand survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine states.

Seventy-two in-depth interviews help to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating topic.

Bozena C. Welborne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Smith College.

Aubrey L . Westfall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wheaton College. Özge Çelik Russell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Gazi University.

Sar ah A. Tobin is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is the author of Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan.

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The Evils of Polygyny Evidence of Its Harm to Women, Men, and Society Rose McDermot t and Kristen Renwick Monroe with commentary by B. J. Wr ay, Robert Jervis, and Valerie Hudson

Why do men act violently toward women?

What are the consequences of “normal violence,” not only for women and children but also for the men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it?

The Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful structural factor that instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance: the practice of polygyny. From more than a decade’s worth of study, Rose McDermott uncovers the violent impact of polygyny on women, children, and the nation-state and adds fundamentally to the burgeoning focus on gender concerns in political psychology and international relations. Integrating these fields, as well as domestic policy and human rights, the author urges us to address the question of violence toward women and children. If we do not, a system that tells young women they must marry whom their elders dictate and devote their entire lives to serving others will continue to plague the contemporary world, and restrict development.

McDermott’s book reflects the mission of the Easton Lectures at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality at the University of California, Irvine, which charges its lecturers to produce work that is creative, controversial, and cutting-edge, and offers substantial real-world impact.

Rose McDermot t is the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations and is Professor of Political Science at Brown University.

Kristen Renwick Monroe is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.

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$19.95 978-1-5017-1804-5 paperback 158 pages, 6 x 9, 23 graphs

“The Evils of Polygyny is important for our society and the world. I do hope it will be read and taken seriously by policymakers.

McDermott and Rose have provided an important piece on an emerging discussion on the societal and political consequences of gender inequality that is well overdue.”

—Casey Klofstad, University of Miami “McDermott’s book is provocative and presents an argument of great importance for prescribing novel political policies to quell violence within and between nations.

The Evils of Polygyny pushes beyond traditional ‘clash of civilizations’ explanations for violence between and within nations to focus on the role of how women are treated.”

—Marijke Breuning, University of North Texas “This book is a worthy successor to David Easton’s scholarship. Rose McDermott and her co-authors combine his insistence on scientific rigor with his commitment to social change. Kristin Monroe and her colleagues chose wisely.”

—Judy Baer, Texas A&M University

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Wars of Law Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict Tanisha M. Fazal

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of wars over the course of the past one hundred fifty years.

Why have states stopped issuing formal declarations of war?

Why have states stopped concluding formal peace treaties? Why are civil wars especially likely to end in peace treaties today?

Addressing such basic questions about international conflict, Fazal provides a lively and intriguing account of the implications of the laws of war.

By using the laws of war strategically, Fazal suggests, belligerents in both interstate and civil wars relate those laws to their big-picture goals. In Wars of Law, we learn that, as codified IHL proliferates and changes in character—with an ever-greater focus on protected persons—states fighting interstate wars become increasingly reluctant to step over any bright lines that unequivocally oblige them to comply with IHL. On the other hand, Fazal argues, secessionists fighting wars for independence are more likely to engage with the laws of war because they have strong incentives to persuade the international community that, if admitted to the club of states, they will be good and capable members of that club.

Tanisha M. Fazal is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, winner of the Best Book Award of the APSA Conflict Processes Section.

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“You know what states rarely do nowadays?

Issue formal declarations of war. You know why? Of course you don’t, because you’re not Tanisha Fazal, who knows more about the laws of war than you do. So you should read her book.”

—Washington Post “Wars of Law will be important to both academics working in the field and to policymakers. Fazal’s work will be recognized as a valuable contribution to academic work and pushes the analysis both theoretically and empirically in new directions relative to important other recent books in this area.”

—Paul Huth, University of Maryland, College Park ”In this profound, provocative book, Tanisha Fazal reveals the unintended consequences of trying to tame war through law.

She explodes many myths about peace and war, statehood and secession, and cements her reputation as one of our subtlest scholars of international affairs.”

—David Armitage, author of Civil Wars

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