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Recently published works by Mason faculty and staff
Understanding Homeland Security: Foundations of Security Policy
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Ehsan Zaffar, adjunct faculty, Criminology, Law and Society Routledge, November 2019
This textbook on homeland security blends the latest research from the areas of immigration policy, counterterrorism research, and border security with practical insight from homeland security experts and leaders such as Tom Ridge and Janet Napolitano, former secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security.
Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field
Anne Nicotera, chair and professor, Communication Routledge, 2020
This book provides an overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, as well as offering an explanation and demonstration of a communicational approach to the study of organization.
Negotiation: Moving from Conflict to Agreement
Kevin Rockmann, Claus Langfred, and Matthew Cronin, School of Business SAGE Publication, January 2020 Using everyday and business examples, the authors explain how to negotiate with an emphasis on when and why to use certain tactics and approaches. Focusing on the psychology of negotiation levers, such as reciprocity, uncertainty, power, and alternatives, the text helps students understand all the ways they can negotiate to create value.
Network Origins of the Global Economy
Hilton Root, professor, Schar School of Policy and Government Cambridge University Press, April 2020 The upheavals of recent decades show that traditional models of understanding processes of social and economic change are failing to capture real-world risk and volatility. This has resulted in flawed policy that seeks to capture change in terms of the rise or decline of regimes or regions. This book uses the tools of network analysis to understand great transitions in history, particularly those concerning economic development and globalization.
Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space
Mark C. Hopson, associate professor, Communication and African and African American Studies, with Mika’il Petin, editors Rowman & Littlefield, October 2020 This collection addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and well-being, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities.
Inclusive Public Speaking: Communicating in a Diverse World
Melissa Broeckelman-Post, associate professor, Communication, with Kristina Ruiz-Mesa Fountainhead Press, 2020 The text is designed to serve students across the nation, using rural, urban, and suburban examples to connect students to familiar situations and to varied classroom experiences. Each chapter is written in accessible language and engages student experiences and prior knowledge as the starting place for learning.
Bassam Haddad, associate professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies, with Joel Beinin and Sherene Seikaly, editors Stanford University Press, December 2020 This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East.
Path to Sustainable Development Goals: An African Vantage Point
Obed Hugh Ligate, adjunct faculty, School of Business Book Publisher International, December 2020
Africa has multiple challenges to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, Sub-Saharan African countries may achieve giant strides in development by adopting new ways of thinking and deploying different applications due to Africa’s late-comer position with other regions. No single strategy is a panacea for the continent’s development, but rather a multipronged, holistic view of these challenges is needed, which is the essence of this book.
No Other Rome
Heather Green, assistant professor, School of Art University of Akron Press, March 2021 In No Other Rome, the title’s “o’s” are islands (wholes) or holes, lacunae or apertures, through which we view the past or future. The poems in this collection engage contemporary art and modern literature, alongside texts from Classical Greece and Rome, in an embodied, intertextual worry.
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BUILDING PEACE IN AMERICA
When George Mason University doctoral student Emily Sample (above) and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, assistant professor and director of the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program at Mason’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, were editing the volume Building Peace in America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), the United States was a hotbed of unrest, and it was as if their predictions had come true.
What inspired you to put together this book?
ES: This book is the result of a conference we hosted at the Carter School called “Building an Architecture of Peacebuilding in the United States,” and it focused on bringing together different peacebuilding scholars and practitioners to discuss how some of the peacebuilding methods we’ve all been using internationally can and should be used here in the United States as well. To that end, we gathered up a diverse group of authors who could speak to a variety of the “hot spot” issues facing the United States in 2018— when the conference was held—and look forward to what needed to be done to mitigate the risk of a mass-atrocity event in the United States in the coming years.
How did you decide who to include?
DI: The contributors to the book were some of the workshop participants, and I am proud that we were able to assemble a volume that includes so many diverse voices and takes seriously the real need in the United States for authentic conflict resolution and peacebuilding efforts.
Was there anything that surprised you when working on the book?
ES: Over the 18 months that it took to write, edit, and publish the book, some of the warnings (and some of the recommendations) came to pass, most notably that issues of racial justice and police brutality in the United States were ready to come to a head—several chapters focused on exactly that. I was not surprised, per se, but rather frustrated that the warning signs had all been there and yet it still took the deaths of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor, among others, to get policymakers to finally take notice. I hope U.S. peacebuilders and policymakers will take the other warnings and recommendations in the book seriously.
What are you working on next?
ES: Right now, I am working on a few articles focused on environmental racism and am in the midst of editing a special issue for Genocide Studies and Prevention on the intersection of environmental destruction and mass atrocities. And, of course, I’m working on my dissertation. That research looks at structural mass atrocity prevention through the lens of climate change adaptation and gendered empowerment.
