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Mare Nostrum Group
A Medicated Empire
The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan
Timothy M. Yang
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
February 2025 354pp 25 b&w hfts, 3 b&w line drawings
9781501779176 £35.00/ $38.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s.
Across the Aisle
Why
Bipartisanship Works for America
Edited by Jill Long Thompson
August 2024 208pp
9780253070715 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253070708 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bipartisanship has been essential to America's success throughout its history. Today, however, there seems waning interest by politicians in both parties to work together to address pressing issues and find solutions. A compelling and inspirational reminder that a two-party system built on compromise and mutual respect is integral to a functioning democracy.
Arendt's Solidarity
Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World
David D. Kim
Cultural Memory in the Present
October 2024 352pp
9781503640771 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503640375 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Arendt's Solidarity, Kim illuminates Arendt's lifelong struggle by drawing upon her publications, unpublished documents, private letters, radio and television interviews, newspaper clippings, and more. Kim examines how Arendt refutes solidarity as an effective political force against anti-Semitism, racial injustice, or social inequality.
A Technomoral Politics
Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India
By examining scalar dimensions of good-governance politics, from the hyperlocal work of activists to global trends, A Technomoral Politics illuminates the paradoxes, limits, and risks of a system that is meant to spread liberal democratic principles but that also ends up promoting antidemocratic, populistauthoritarian forms of rule.
Africa and the Olympics
Winning Away from the Podium
Todd Cleveland
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
August 2024 208pp 16 b&w illus. 9780896803527 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780896803510 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rather than measuring Africa’s success at the Olympic Games in terms of sporting triumphs, this book examines how African states, athletes, and officials have utilized the Olympics to engage in transformative political activity, realize social mobility, and enhance the quality of life for individuals, communities, and entire nations.
Available Light
Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa
Daniel Magaziner
New African Histories
September 2024 324pp 84 color illus.
9780821425626 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9780821425619 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the story of an activist, an artist, a uniquely South African individual, and his community and family across the second half of the twentieth century. Magaziner chronicles how art and politics became intertwined in South Africa and explains what it takes to maintain a critical aesthetic approach to political crises in the past and present.
Beach Politics
Social, Racial, and Environmental
Injustice on the Shoreline
Edited by Setha Low
January 2025 336pp 26 b&w figures
9781479821952
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479821945 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. Focused on beaches, access to public space, and social justice, this book brings together powerful contributions illustrating how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice.
Boy with the Bullhorn
A Memoir and History of ACT UP
New York
Ron Goldberg
September 2024 512pp 32 b&w illus.
9781531508074 £19.99/ $22.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
Winner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards
2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography
A coming-of-age memoir of life on the front lines of the AIDS crisis with ACT UP New York.
Cities and the Constitution
Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need
Edited by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert & Nathalie Des Rosiers
Foreword by Alan Broadbent
McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
October 2024 264pp
9780228022077 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Canada’s largest cities have faced exponential growth, with the trajectory rising further still. The first volume of a complementary pair, authored by renowned Canadian scholars, Cities and the Constitution suggests solutions to one of our most pressing policy dilemmas.
9781978839854
9781978839861
Black Sporting Resistance
Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism
Joseph N. Cooper
Foreword by Gerald Horne Critical Issues in Sport and Society
January 2025 214pp 1 b&w figure and 1 table
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this text, Joseph N. Cooper introduces the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) as an analytic lens to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts.
Canadian Parties in Transition, Fifth Edition
Edited by Alain-G. Gagnon & Brian Tanguay
October 2024 592pp 17 b&w figures, 31 b&w tables
9781487554606 £55.00/ $70.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This fifth edition continues and enriches the work of earlier editions in bringing together a highly respected group of scholars to offer a comprehensive account of the development of party politics in Canada. The book addresses the origin and the evolution of the Canadian party system and discusses the impact of regionalism, brokerage politics, and political marketing in the party system.
Contours of Israeli Politics
Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy
There is no single Jewish ethnicity, and no single Jewish ethnic group constitutes a clear majority of Jewish Israelis. This book focuses on the socio-political ramifications of this hierarchy within the upper stratum of Israeli society. Using public opinion studies and qualitative data, Ridge examines attitudes on Israeli ethnicity and religious majoritarianism, support for Israeli democracy, and preference for an expanded territorial state and peace with its neighbors.
Core Samples
A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood
Anna Farro Henderson
October 2024 208pp
9781517916046 £15.99/ $18.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Grounded in her experiences as a climate scientist, an environmental policy advisor to Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Governor Mark Dayton, and a constant juggler of the many roles and responsibilities of professional moms, Henderson’s eclectic, unconventional essays range from observations, confessions, and meditations on lab and fieldwork to a packing list for a trip to the State Capitol and a lactation diary.
Counting Matters
Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Edited by Christina Gabriel & L. Pauline Rankin
December 2024 304pp
9780774870177 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
The book’s contributors pose critical questions of the ways in which measurement culture manifests within the field of gender equality, asking how it is measured in different policy areas, how we might improve existing practices, and what is revealed through the examination and critique of the “technical turn” in policies that purport to promote gender equality.
Cyberlibertarianism
The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology
David Golumbia
Foreword by George Justice
November 2024 480pp
9781517918149 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781517918132 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, Cyberlibertarianism details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns.
Corporatocracy
How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
January 2025 336pp
9781479828326 £27.99/ $32.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Trump’s false claims of election fraud and the violence of the Capitol riot have made it unavoidably clear that the future of American democracy is in peril. Torres-Spelliscy reveals the role corporations play in this dire state of political affairs, and explains why and how they should be held accountable by the courts, their shareholders, and citizens themselves.
Crucible of Beliefs
Learning, Alliances, and World Wars
Dan Reiter
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
February 2025 264pp
9781501772078 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do foreign policy-makers learn from history? When do states enter alliances? Why have some small powers chosen to enter alliances whereas others have stayed neutral? In Crucible of Beliefs, Dan Reiter uses work in social psychology and organization theory to build a formative-events model of learning in international politics.
Cybernetic Capitalism
A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable
Jan Overwijk
Meaning Systems
January 2025 240pp
9781531508937 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531508920 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk shows how neoliberal capitalism’s version of rationalization depends on the organization and management of society on the basis of cybernetic principles.
Darkest Before the Dawn
Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Derek Hook, Leswin Laubscher & Robert Sobukwe
October 2024 456pp
9781776148561 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9781776148578 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This latest compilation complete with a biographical narrative by the editors and enriched with images from Robert Sobukwe’s life in this period of his life demonstrates the many challenges Sobukwe faced as well as his continued political resolve to fight for an end to apartheid.
Diplomacy and Disregard
The Hungarian Revolution and the United Nations 1956–1963
András Nagy
Studies in Hungarian History
July 2024 376pp 22 b&w illus.
9780253070289 £43.00/ $48.00 PB
9780253070272 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides an unprecedented look at the global reach and consequences of Hungary's 1956 Revolution and at how the UN's action and inaction during this political crisis ultimately defined its ability to maneuver the Cold War's fraught political landscape and live up to the ideals of its charter.
Far-Right Vanguard
The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism
John S. Huntington
Politics and Culture in Modern America
September 2024 312pp
9781512826951 £22.99/ $26.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Far-Right Vanguard chronicles the history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, its influence on Republican Party politics, and its centrality to America's rightward turn during the second half of the twentieth century.
September 2024 220pp
9781978835023
Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege
Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Edited by Sophie
Bourgault,
Maggie FitzGerald & Fiona Robinson
Carework in a Changing World
£34.00/ $37.95 PB
9781978835030 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Care ethics emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics, which were centered on a atomistic moral subject. Care ethics challenged this model by positing ethics as realized through practices rather than principles.
Ethnocracy
Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine
Oren Yiftachel
August 2024 368pp 35 maps
9781512826852 £29.99/ $34.95
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. In this book, he presents a new critical theory and comparative framework to account for the political geography of ethnocratic societies.
Free Listening
Naomi Waltham-Smith
Provocations
November 2024 198pp
9781496234520 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Free Listening offers a radical reframing of seemingly intractable debates and polarized positions on free speech, academic freedom, systemic injustice, and political dissent by shifting attention from our voices to our ears. A wide-ranging critical reflection on issues from civility to criticality, righteous anger to gentle listening, and silencing to streaming platforms.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Vyacheslav Karpov & Rachel L. Schroeder
January 2025 260pp 1 table
9781978822221 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978822238 £112.00/ $125.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book demonstrates how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion, and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost offers original theoretical and methodological perspectives on desecularization applicable far beyond the cases of Russia and Ukraine.
International Statebuilding in West Africa
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire
Abu Bakarr Bah &
Nikolas Emmanuel
August 2024 370pp 1 chart
9780253070630 £45.00/ $50.00 PB
9780253070623 £99.00/ $110.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Using these three countries as case studies, this manuscript sheds light on internationally driven state building in war-torn West African nations, the problematic nature of the postcolonial state, and the difficulties of securing its people's wellbeing.
Join the Conspiracy
How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York
Jonathan Butler
September 2024 384pp 68 b&w illus.
9781531508159 £29.99/ $34.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American history: the late 1960s. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and a nation grappling with internal conflict, this compelling narrative follows the life of George Demmerle, a factory worker whose political odyssey encapsulates the era’s tumultuous spirit.
Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime
Marlene Laruelle
January 2025 312pp
9781503641594
9781503631397
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
£27.99/ $32.00 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
This book provides an innovative, multi-method analysis of the Russian regime's ideological production process and the ways it is operationalized in both domestic and foreign policies. By placing the current Russian regime into a broader context, this book gives readers key insights into how the Russo-Ukrainian War became possible.
It’s Nation Time
A Progressive Defence
Jerry White
October 2024 344pp
9780228022961 £27.99/ $32.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Broadly internationalist but also deeply insightful about the particular cultures and politics of small nations, It’s Nation Time defends an idea of nation, and a form of nationalism that are rooted in the potential for diversity, flexibility, and progressive politics.
Judicial Territory
Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
Shaina Potts
September 2024 304pp
9781478030720 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026488 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals how the American empire has benefitted from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Potts argues that law is an essential tool for US geopolitical and economic interests.
Law Without Future
Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right
Jack Jackson
August 2024 200pp
9781512826876 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing upon legal scholarship and critical theory, Law Without Future offers a provocative and sobering analysis of how events in the 2000s have contoured U.S. political life in the twenty-first century in profound ways— and seeks to think beyond the impasse they have created.
Local Governance in Transition
Toward Sustainable Canadian Communities
Mary Louise McAllister
August 2024 300pp 21 b&w photos, 2 charts, 2 maps
9780774870320 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Presents a framework for conversations around technological, ecological, and economic challenges –and encourages innovative thinking for those interested in exploring sustainable solutions. This text is for students, leaders, civil servants, and anyone working toward sustainable cities.
Masculinity in American Politics
Edited by Monika L. McDermott & Dan Cassino
February 2025 352pp 57 b/w
Little attention has been paid to the specific role of masculinity in politics beyond the conventional wisdom that it, rather than femininity, is the dominant force. The contributors push the field to look “beyond the binary” and illuminate a brave, new world of political conflict and possibility.
Examining welfare rules across eight different states, as well as 19,000 state and local interest groups, Whitesell shows how we determine who is—and who isn't—deserving of government assistance. Highlights how harmful stereotypes about the race, gender, and class of welfare recipients filter into our highly polarized political arena to shape public policy.
Making Republicans Liberal
Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise
Kristoffer Smemo
Politics and Culture in Modern America
August 2024 312pp
9781512826234 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
As poor and working people organized themselves during the mid-twentieth century, they forced Republicans to consider demands for political and social citizenship in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. While rightwing Republicans mobilized, this book explores how another wing of the party responded to intensifying mass movement pressure.
Master Peace
Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
The Ethnography of Political Violence
December 2024 224pp 6 b&w illus., 1 table
9781512826739 £27.99/ $32.50 PB
9781512826753 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, Master Peace examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence in post–civil war Lebanon. Through research, interviews, and UN agencies Kosmatopoulos argues that so-called experts have often misrepresented the violence they are tackling.
Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War
How Leaders of Great Powers
Cope
with Status Decline
Matthieu Grandpierron
McGill-Queen's/Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Studies in Leadership, Public Policy, and Governance
March 2024 288pp 24 tables, 1 photo
9780228020363 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780228020165 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book presents new ways of thinking about power politics and military intervention in the world. Consulting newly declassified documents, this book uses the framework of nostalgic virility to provide surprising ways of thinking about current conflicts.
Political Institutions and Military Change
Lessons from Peripheral Wars
Deborah D. Avant
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
February 2025 180pp
9781501771644 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Even powerful states face disaster if their armies do not adapt military doctrine to meet new challenges. Comparing the cases of the United States Army in Vietnam and the British Army during the Boer War and the Malayan Emergency, Political Institutions and Military Change offers an account of the conditions that help shape doctrine within military organizations.
January 2025 400pp
9781496241054
9781496233011
Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Julie Brugger
Anthropology of Contemporary North America
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism
Paradigm Lost
From Two-State Solution to OneState Reality
Ian S. Lustick
August 2024 232pp
9781512826869 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Lustick shows how the combination of Zionism’s “Iron Wall” strategy for dealing with Arabs and the influence of U.S. foreign policy toward Israel scuttled the two-state solution. Yet, he demonstrates, they have also, unintentionally, set the stage for new struggles and “better problems” for Israel.
Prehistories of the War on Terror
A Critical Genealogy
Edited by A. J. Yumi Lee & Karen R. Miller
Power, Politics, and the World
September 2024 256pp
9781512825169 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book examines the longstanding American project of classifying enemies who challenge U.S. power abroad as terrorists. From colonial wars in the nineteenth-century to wars of conquest in Asia and the Pacific, the collection’s essays argue that the US has drawn both materially and ideologically on older systems of empire.
Redefining the Political
Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life
Alex J. Moffett-Bateau
September 2024 318pp 12 figures
9781439921180 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781439921173 £107.00/ $119.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moffett-Bateau uses radical Black feminist political theory and develops a framework called the political possible-self, which argues that belonging to a community and developing political imagination foment change. Moffett-Bateu shows how political engagementat both the individual and community levels can be fruitful for nontraditional political contributions.
Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe
Edited by Rachel Chin & Samuel Clowes Huneke
Foreword by Anna von der Goltz
February 2025 324pp 3 b&w hfts, 1 chart
9781501779190 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501779183 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens to London. Even as Europe struggled to rebuild, new forms of identity, and statehood were beginning to take shape.
Reproductive Labor and Innovation
Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype
Jennifer Denbow
November 2024 232pp 3 illus.
9781478030997 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026785 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By drawing connections between innovation discourse, the rise of neoliberalism, financialized capitalism, and the social and political degradation of reproductive labor, Denbow illustrates what needs to be done to destabilize the overvaluation of innovation and to offer collective support for reproduction.
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Dennis Leo Fisher
August 2024 200pp 16 b&w photos
9780774868471 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Tells the modern history of Kitigan Zibi, the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada. Drawing on archival sources and interviews with community members, Fisher demonstrates that the contest over recognition of treaty rights and traditional lands is longer, broader, and deeper than previously understood.
Religion in the Public Square
Sheen, King, Falwell
James M. Patterson
August 2024 248pp
9781512826906 £21.99/ $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Although they differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, they shared an approach to public ministry that aimed directly at changing how Americans understood the nature and purpose of their country.
Republic of Dreams
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan
Nicole F. Watts
January 2025 352pp 18 b&w images
9781479823062 £29.99/ $35.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Watts, a former journalist and now professor of political science, has spent over a decade researching the struggles of the Kurdish people in Iraq, and in vivid, lyrical prose, she tells their story through the eyes of Peshawa, a young Muslim Kurd whose family barely survived the Halabja Massacre and then fled for their lives.
Rethinking Geopolitics
Jeremy Black
July 2024 232pp 9780253071613 £16.99/ $20.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jeremy Black argues in this timely new volume that the 2020s may be history's next great pivot point. The geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period and if current trends continue, we may be witnessing a tectonic realignment unseen in more than a century.
Robed Representatives
How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts
Taneisha Means Davis
June 2025 320pp
9781503641341 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640627 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Robed Representatives, Taneisha Means Davis offers new insights into the lives, identity politics, and actions of Black state court judges. The narratives centered in the book reveal an identity-topolitics link that exists among Black judges that lead them to represent their group interests.
Seapower in the Post-modern World
Basil Germond
April 2024 216pp 8 tables, 10 diagrams
9780228020882 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
While naval operations, maritime security, and ocean governance are increasingly relevant in world politics, seapower is largely neglected by international relations scholarship. Seapower in the Post-modern World fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the concept and practice of seapower from antiquity to the contemporary era.
Shades of Blue
Claiming Europe in the Age of Disintegration
Félix Krawatzek, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimcev & Gregor
Feindt
February 2025 306pp
9781501779329 £55.00/ $61.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the political project of 'Europe' as it oscillates between the extremes of expectations of an ever-wider integration and fear of disintegration. The authors interrogate and chart the space between these polarities by tracking the many competing conceptions of 'Europe' in European public discourse and relate these meanings to national, regional, and ideological divisions
Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order
RT as Populist Pariah
Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley & Marie Gillespie
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
October 2024 342pp 8 color line drawings
9781501777639 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through the first comprehensive account of RT, this book sheds new light on the provenance and nature of disinformation's threat to democracy. Examining the communications strategies of authoritarian states, this book observes today's global politics.
Seized by Uncertainty
The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19
Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore & Brianna Wolfe
November 2024 504pp 26 diagrams, 30 tables
9780228022893 £45.00/ $49.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, the COVID-19 virus was an uncertain threat. This book studies the pandemic response through the contexts in which it emerged, exposing uncomfortable truths about a fragmented society and governance problems that predated the threat.
She Changed the Nation
Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics
Mary Ellen Curtin
Politics and Culture in Modern America
September 2024 480pp 13 b&w hft, 2 maps
9781512825800 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In She Changed the Nation, biographer Mary Ellen Curtin offers a new portrait of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in Congress. This important new biography explores Jordan’s life, showing how she navigated the extraordinary pressures of office whilst seeking social change and betterment.
Sovereignty and Extortion
A New State Form in Mexico
Claudio Lomnitz
Public Planet Books
August 2024 240pp 1 illus.
9781478030737 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026495 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war on drugs” or a “failed state.” Through this critical examination, Lomnitz offers a new theory of the state, its forms of sovereignty, and its shifting relation to capital and militarization.
Stormy Weather
Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate Wreckage
William E. Connolly
September 2024 272pp
9781531509217 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531509200 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Composed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and earth scientists until late in the day.
The Adaptable Country
How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century
Alasdair Roberts
Canadian Essentials
September 2024 192pp 1 diagram
9780228022008 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alasdair Roberts outlines straightforward reforms to improve adaptability and reminds us about the bigger picture: in a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. Canada’s challenge is to show how political systems built to respect diversity and human rights can also respond nimbly to existential threats
Sovereignty Suspended
Building the So-Called State
Rebecca Bryant & Mete Hatay
The Ethnography of Political Violence
October 2024 360pp 15 illus.
9781512826944 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It traces the process by which a “north” began to emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized space after the island’s violent partition in 1974.
Martin investigates a fundamental political challenge faced by post-conflict states: how to create obedient national militaries from the remnants of insurgent forces. Martin argues that how field commanders of non-state armed groups governed during the war explains this variation. Rebel commanders who build accountable governance systems gain strong social support from rebel-ruled communities, becoming locally embedded.
The Authoritarian Divide
Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization
Orçun Selçuk
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
July 2024 346pp 24 b&w illus., 21 b&w tables
9780268208073 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In the context of the global decline of democracy, this book analyzes the tactics that populist leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador have used to polarize their countries. Selçuk argues that, polarization is driven by dominant populist leaders who deliberately divide constituents by cultivating a dichotomy of inclusion and exclusion.
The Best Defense Policy
Alternatives for U.S.
Nuclear Security from the 1950s to the 1990s
David Goldfischer
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
February 2025 288pp
9781501779053 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Best Defense considers fundamental questions regarding the United States and the Soviet Union acquiring capabilities to destroy each other in a nuclear war. Was it inevitable? Or could they have agreed instead to address the nuclear danger through mutual emphasis on defenses? Might such an approach be a feasible option for nuclear powers in today's world?
The Cancel Culture Panic
How an American Obsession Went Global
Adrian Daub
September 2024 224pp
9781503640849 £15.99/ $18.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this incisive new work, Daub compares the global spread of cancel culture discourse to moral panics past, showing that talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism.
The Nature of Law
Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good
Daniel Mark
August 2024 364pp
9780268208219 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This philosophically coherent view of legal obligation offers a viable framework for analyzing important and seemingly paradoxical puzzles about the law, such as why civil disobedience is punished as lawbreaking or why warcrimes trials for legal but immoral acts present a moral quandary.
The Book of Politics
China in Theory
Michael Dutton
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
September 2024 440pp 46 illus.
9781478030195 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478025948 £106.00/ $117.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
From the Chinese revolution to the global rise of right-wing movements, Dutton rethinks politics in the contemporary world. He juxtaposes ancient Chinese cosmology, medicine, and Maoism against the monuments of early capitalist modernity such as the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower to highlight the differences in political investments and intensities.
The Great Right North
Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada
Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Samuel Tanner & Aurélie Campana
Most politicians have been quiet about the phenomenon of far-right extremism in Canada, insisting it is imported activism financed elsewhere. This book provides an essential primer for understanding its vast and urgent challenges.
The New Political Islam
Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice
Emmanuel Karagiannis
Haney Foundation Series
August 2024 280pp 6 illus.
9781512826883 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam.
The Other Public Lands
Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States' Natural Resource Lands
Steven Davis
February 2025 256pp
9781439925539 £99.00/ $110.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Davis focuses on how states prioritize competing claims related to conservation, resource development, tourism, recreation, and finances. As there has been a demand to transfer some federal lands to the states, Davis concludes with an appraisal of whether states could handle this transfer and goes on to suggest ways to ensure adequate access in an era of increased demand.
The Politics of Coercion
State and Regime Making in Cambodia
Neil Loughlin
September 2024 186pp 1 map
9781501776588 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781501776571 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades. It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with state-dependent tycoons, have come to control Cambodia's politics and its economy.
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
Gerald Roche
November 2024 264pp 8 b&w hfts, 3 maps
9781501777783
£32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501777776 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.
Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of China.
The Pitfalls of Family Rule
Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond
In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from non-democracy, as well as the conceptual divide separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones. Focusing on patronage, endemic to post-Soviet Eurasia, but also present the world over, she untangles the spoils agreements that bind elites to strong-man presidents.
The Politics of Hate
How the Christian Right Darkened America's Political Soul
Angelia
R. Wilson
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics
January 2025 310pp 12
9781439926383 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781439926376 £116.00/ $129.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christian Right organizations have darkened America’s political soul by constructing a theological justification for hate. Wilson supports this claim by detailing how they have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Trump. Wilson carefully documents their strategies of political warfare, and the impact of this war that has forever changed American politics.
The Roots of Resilience
Party Machines and Grassroots
Politics in Southeast Asia
Meredith L. Weiss
February 2025 288pp
9781501779169 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimes—regimes that blend politically liberal and authoritarian features to evade substantive democracy.
The Time of the Cannibals
On Conspiracy Theory and Context
Elizabeth Anne Davis
Thinking from Elsewhere
November 2024 320pp 8 color and 23 b&w illus.
9781531508852 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531508845 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. This book reconsiders this history and the public discourse to examine how we think about conspiracy theory, and what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.”
To Be a Jewish State
Zionism as the New Judaism
Yaacov Yadgar
November 2024 248pp
9781479832408 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Yadgar delves into what the designation “Jewish” amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. Deeply informs the democratic crisis in Israel, discussing whether Jewish laws put into effect by the state or political moves made to ensure a Jewish majority can be seen as undermining democracy.
True Blues
The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party
Adam Hilton
American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
August 2024 280pp
9781512826890 £25.99/ $29.95
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Tracing the rise of the advocacy party from the fall of the New Deal order through the presidency of Barack Obama, True Blues explains how and why the Democratic Party has come to its current crossroads and suggests a bold new perspective for comprehending the dynamics driving American party politics more broadly.
The War on Rescue
The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis
William Plowright
December 2024 240pp 1 map, 2 graphs
9781501778353 £44.00/ $48.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The War on Rescue documents how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis. Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015 to 2022 to address the reasons why governments do this, William Plowright discusses the strategies employed which prevent suffering people from receiving help.
Translating Worlds, Defending Land
Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia
Casey High
February 2025 224pp
9781503641464 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503640481 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High explores how Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands, and what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities.
Vacationing in Dictatorships
International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco's Spain
Examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Despite sharp economic and political differences at the start of the Cold War, significant similarities existed as both states used international tourism to improve their image abroad and pursued processes of economic modernization.
War-Making as Worldmaking
Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Samar Al-Bulushi
November 2024 248pp
9781503640917 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503639744 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
War-Making as Worldmaking explores the entanglement of militarism, imperialism, and liberaldemocratic governance in East Africa today. Attending to the cultural politics of security, AlBulushi illustrates that the war against Al-Shabaab has become a means to produce new fantasies, emotions, and subjectivities about Kenya's place in the world.
Words of War
Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict
Eric Min
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
February 2025 276pp 6 maps, 1 chart, 18 graphs
9781501779220 £40.00/ $44.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting. By revealing that diplomacy can sometimes be counterproductive to peace, Words of War compels us to rethink the assumption that it "cannot hurt" to promote diplomacy during war.
What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy
Jane Cooper Footprints Series
September 2024 224pp 11 figures
9780228022558 £22.99/ $26.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering a practical framework for exploring the many things that can go right or wrong during an election, What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy is an insider’s view of election monitoring that sheds light on Canada’s support for international democracy.
Xenophon's Socratic Education
Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics
Dustin Sebell
August 2024 240pp
9781512826845 £21.99/ $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Xenophon's Socratic Education, through a careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, Dustin Sebell shows how Socrates ascended, with his students in tow, from moral or political opinion to knowledge.
