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Unreliable Watchdog The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy
By Ted Galen Carpenter Cato Institute
November 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 9522 2333 4 • $24.95 / £18.99
Unreliable Watchdog explores the news media’s poor performance in monitoring the blunders and abuses that have marked U.S. foreign policy and national security issues during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
American Foreign Policy
Economic Report of the President, April 2022 Together with the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers
By Executive Office of the President U.S. Government Reprints
July 2022 • 432 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1092 1 • $64.00 / £49.00
The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, motivated policies, and the results of those interventions.
American Government / Executive Branch
Rivals for Power Presidential-Congressional Relations, Seventh Edition
Edited by James A. Thurber Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 0077 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0783 3 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0079 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
Intended for students, scholars, public officials, and the general public, Rivals for Power offers an accessible and engaging analysis of executive and legislative rivalry across a span of eras, with particular attention to developments from the Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies.
American Government / Executive Branch
Trump and Mussolini
Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists
By Anna Camaiti Hostert and Enzo Antonio Cicchino
- Preface by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
December 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3366 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3670 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Trump and Mussolini depicts two historic individuals, though divided by a century—the former at the dawn of mass society, the latter of social networking—as men of beginnings, exploiting these unique moments to their advantage and utilizing rhetoric, mannerism, and body language as weapons of communication often against truth and common good.
American Government / Executive Branch
Campaign for President The Managers Look at 2020
By The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6678 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6796 6 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6680 2 • $33.00 / £25.00
In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2020 race for the Republican and Democratic nominations and general election, guiding us through each candidate’s campaign from through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day.
American
Government / Executive Branch
Presidential Leadership Politics and Policy Making, Twelfth Edition
By George C. Edwards III; Kenneth R. Mayer and Stephen J. Wayne Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 632 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 3610 2 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6119 9 • $80.50 / £62.00
With a focus on presidential leadership, the authors address the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. Richly illustrated with timely examples, this text examines all aspects of the presidency, up to and including the administration of President Joe Biden. American Government / Executive Branch
The Real World of American Politics A Documentary Introduction
By Chris Koski and Peter Steinberger
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 656 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 0546 7 ß • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0548 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
The first documentary introduction to American government allows students to experience directly the inner workings of American politics. A brief introductory headnote and guiding questions support each document, while carefully curated excerpts focus student’s attention on the most salient characteristics of each source.
American Government / Executive Branch
Partisanship and Polarization
American Party Platforms, 1840-1896
By Adam M. Silver
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8556 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5576 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume examines the national and state party platforms of the Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans in nineteenth-century America. Overall, each major party presents a consistent message to the voters and policy positions that often conflict with those of the other party, depicting partisanship and polarization.
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Understanding Presidential Doctrines U.S. National Security from George Washington to Joe Biden
By Aiden Warren and Joseph M. Siracusa
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5526 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5257 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5527 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This new and expanded edition of Presidential Doctrines offers a comprehensive analysis of past and present US presidential doctrine, from George Washington to the beginnings of the Biden administration.
American Government / General
Breaking the Promise of Brown The Resegregation of America’s Schools
By Stephen Breyer - Introduction by Thiru Vignarajah
Brookings Institution Press
April 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3166 5 • $19.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 8157 1887 7 • $15.99 / £11.99
FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980
By José Angel Gutiérrez
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Latinos and American Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1582 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5800 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1581 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Utilizing FBI surveillance documents this multi-chapter book reveals hidden histories of five persons, two organizations, and one event all related to Mexicans and their Chicanos in the U.S.
American Government / Local
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940–1980 The Eagle Is Watching
By José Angel Gutiérrez
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2455 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4536 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2454 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980 is a multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on multiple, well known Mexican and Chicanos, as well as the Texas Farm Workers Union and the American G.I. Forum and, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
American Government / National
Votes at 16 Youth Enfranchisement and the Renewal of American Democracy
By Niall Guy Michelsen
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1144 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1420 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1143 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Using voter turnout data and demographics, Niall Guy Michelsen argues that lowering the voting age to 16 would help young adults develop voting habits and raise voter turnout, closing the voting gap between college and non-college citizens and making the American electorate more representative of the country’s citizens.
American Government / General
A Social Theory of Congress Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century
By Brian Alexander
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 1 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0129 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1278 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0128 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Norms play an important role in the functioning of the U.S. Congress. The first book-length treatment of the topic in over fifteen years, A Social Theory of Congress addresses what are norms, what congressional norms exist, and what effects norms have, and adds a new theoretical perspective to consider Congress.
American Government / Legislative Branch
Hyperlocal Place Governance in a Fragmented World
Edited by Jennifer S. Vey and Nate Storring Brookings Institution Press October 2022 • 300 pages Paperback 978 0 8157 3957 9 • $34.99 / £27.00 eBook 978 0 8157 9586 6
Government / Local
Overcoming Trumpery How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
By Norman Eisen
Brookings Institution Press March 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3967 8 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9685 5 • $27.99 / £21.99
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American
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Presidential Swing States, Third Edition
Edited by David Schultz and Rafael Jacob
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 404 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1496 4 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4971 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Jacob and Schultz examine in this new and updated volume the phenomena of presidential swing states in the 2016 US presidential election. They explore the reasons why some states and, now counties, seem repeatedly to be the focus of candidate attention and capable of voting for either of the major candidates and being decisive in determining who wins the presidency.
American Government / National
The United States Government Manual 2021
Edited by National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. Government Reprints
April 2022 • 724 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1091 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
Known as the official handbook of the federal government, this annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and committees.
American Government / National
Book Banning in 21st-Century America
By Emily J. M. Knox
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Beta Phi Mu
Scholars series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7112 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 1672 2 • $98.00 / £75.00 eBook 978 1 4422 3168 9 • $33.00 / £25.00
Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries.
Censorship
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America
Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0067 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 6669 0699 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0068 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offer various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leaders
Civics & Citizenship
The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court
Perspectives on the Nondelegation Doctrine
Edited by Peter J. Wallison and John Yoo
AEI Press
April 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5042 2 • $110 / £85
Paperback 978 0 8447 0439 9 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 0 8447 5044 6 • $40.00 / £31.00
In this book, legal scholars outline how and why the Supreme Court should revitalize the nondelegation doctrine—which has not been invoked since 1935. If the Court does so, it will protect the constitutional separation of powers and require Congress to make the difficult political decisions that a legislature should make in a democratic society.
American Government / National
Freedom in the 50 States An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom, Sixth Edition
By William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens
Cato Institute
February 2022 • 312 pages
Paperback 978 1 9522 2326 6 • $24.95 / £18.99
The sixth edition of this study ranks the American states according to how their public policies affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.
American Government / State
Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship
Edited by Agnes Czajka and Áine O’Brien
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1278 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 Paperback 978 1 7877 3706 6 • $39.99 / £31.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1280 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited volume explores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the performance and production of radical democratic citizenship in Europe.
Civics & Citizenship
Doing Politics with Citizen Art
By Fawn Daphne Plessner
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5147 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1488 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book distinguishes ‘citizen art’ from within the field of social and activist art practices and examines how it performs new modes of citizenship.
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Political Refugees A New Perspective
By Armin Danesh and Alison Assiter
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6138 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1395 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Coupling existential themes with politics and psychology, this book tells the story of Iranian political refugees through case studies and coauthor Armin Danesh’s own personal narrative. All the refugees featured in this book were politically engaged and suffered as a consequence, but their stories demonstrate the human capacity to be transformed through crisis. Civics & Citizenship
Diplomatic Para-citations
Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Cohabitation
By Sam Okoth Opondo
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 662 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1584 8 • $195.00 / £150.00 eBook 978 1 7866 5862 2 • $75.00 / £58.00
This book combines poetry, prose, and theory in ways that speak to each other to offer new insight to the connectedness of the colonial world.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
A Critical Evaluation of “Territorial Separation” as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts
The Case of Kirkuk
By Ako S. Jalal
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1063 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0643 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Critical Evaluation of “Territorial Separation” as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts addresses the question of how to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk as a diverse multi-ethnic city. It analyzes territorial separation as a new untested method to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk.
Comparative Politics
The Rise of Regions
Conflict
and Cooperation
Edited by Ronald L. Tammen and Jacek Kugler
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 328 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7115 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 1879 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3188 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key regions across the globe. Tracking politico-economic trajectories, the contributors chart the resulting power dynamics likely to shape relationships within each region, offering a crucial guide to patterns of cooperation, conflict, and domination over the coming decades.
Comparative Politics
Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process
By Henry Flores
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Latinos and American Politics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9975 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9733 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9974 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process studies the public policy process of the state and how this process becomes racially biased, looking at the relationship between the state structure and the individual decision-maker.
Civics & Citizenship
Selective Responsibility in the United Nations Colonial Histories and Critical Inquiry
By Katy Harsant
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1028 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2971 1 • $39.95 / £31.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1030 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Why does the United Nations invoke its responsibility to protect through interventions in some instances but not others? This book challenges the dominant narrative of the UN as an institution of equality and progress by analyzing the colonial origins of the organization and revealing the unequal power relations it has perpetuated.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Rose Summerfield Australian Radical
By Steve J. Shone
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0940 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9418 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this seldom-studied labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a commune.
Comparative Politics
Corruption in the Americas
Edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna S. Kassab
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2723 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7216 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2722 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions.
Corruption & Misconduct
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Character in the American Experience An Unruly People
By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1450 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4511 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book tells the story of the American character, from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister detail how great events and daily life have both shaped and been shaped by a people committed to order and independence, community and conflict, as well as the triumphs and tragedies American unruliness produced.
General
Defining the Republic Early Conflicts over the
By William J. Nichols
Lexington Books
Constitution
August 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5536 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5370 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Some wish the Founders had all agreed on a coherent vision for the United States, especially on how to interpret the Constitution. Such agreement has never existed, and Defining the Republic documents the dispute between two of the most important Founders: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
General
John F. Kennedy’s 1957 Algeria Speech The Politics of Anticolonialism in the Cold War Era
By Gregory D. Cleva
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 284 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0130 6 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1313 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
John F. Kennedy’s 1957 speech calling for Algerian independence is one of his most important and controversial—but least recognized— speeches, although many Kennedy books are careful to mention it and indicate its importance. This book discusses all the major aspects of Kennedy’s speech from its preparation to its aftermath.
General
Power and Choice 16e and the Political Science
Student Writer’s Manual and Reader’s Guide 8e
Value Pack
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • pages
Multiple-item product 978 1 5381 7030 4 • $129.00 / £99.00
This Value Pack Includes: Scott and Garrison’s The Political Science Student Writer’s Manual and Reader’s Guide, Eighth Edition (9781442267107) and Shively and Schultz’s Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science, Sixteenth Edition (9781538151860) General
Civilization
Global Histories of a Political Idea
Edited by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte and Giovanni Borgognone
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4582 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5838 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
From the U.S. military intervention in the Middle East 2001, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the “clash of civilizations” theses have been widely used. What is their role in framework of identity politics? This book shows the flexible and multiple use of civilizational narratives in historical and political developments and geographical areas. General
Democracy
without Engagement? Understanding Political Participation in PostCommunist Romania
By Marius I. Tătar
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 3524 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5250 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that the fate of democracy in post-communist Romania largely depends on the goals and methods pursued by various organizations and social networks. These primarily act as recruitment and mobilization agents and channel citizen participation into political actions that can both challenge and strengthen democracy.
General
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema
By Pedro Blas González
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0622 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6233 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema addresses the relationship between human existence and sensual reality. Applying metaphysical/existential reflection to cinema, the author explores the philosophical clarity that cinema can offer reflective persons about the human experience. General
Power and Choice An Introduction to Political Science, Sixteenth Edition
By W. Phillips Shively and David Schultz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 496 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5186 0 • $89.00 / £68.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1877 7 • $84.50 / £65.00
Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics through the analysis of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political science and comparative politics.
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Sanctuary Ordinances
The Contemporary Politics of Immigrant Assimilation in America
By Nicholas P. Lovrich; John C. Pierce and Christopher A. Simon - Foreword by Maria L.
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 356 pages
Chávez
Paperback 978 1 4985 7794 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7922 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7793 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
This mixed methods study of local pro- and anti-sanctuary actions taken in response to Latino in-migration features data for 3,000+ counties, a national survey, and two case studies in Twin Falls, ID and Hazleton, PA. Historical origins and contemporary circumstances combine to account for why localities are either welcoming or exclusionary.
General
The Politics of Being Afro-Latino/Latina Ethnicity, Colorism, and Political Representation in Washington,
D.C.
By Isreal G. Mallard
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0817 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8183 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the presumed social/racial factors that influence the electability of Afro-Latinos/as into political offices in Washington, DC. He argues that ethnicity and pigmentocracy as well as other social/ racial factors influence the pathway to political office for self-identified Afro-Latinos/as in Washington, DC.
General
The Holocaust in Romania The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944, Second Edition
By Radu Ioanid Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 664 pages • Part of the Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3808 3 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8090 0 • $30.50 / £22.99
Now in an updated edition that draws on a rich array of newly available sources, this book traces Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during its World War II fascist regime. Ioanid details the reality of the persecutions and the cruelty and blatant opportunism of the perpetrators.
Genocide & War Crimes
Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism A Return to the Margin?
By Aliaksei Kazharski
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9961 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9627 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines politics and international relations in Central Europe three decades after the fall of communism. It analyzes some of the most recent trends, including the European disagreements on migration and multiculturalism, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on political discourses in the region.
Geopolitics
The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook
By Gary Bullert - Foreword by Ernest B. Hook
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2748 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7490 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
General
Anthem of Misogyny
The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East
By Ibtissam Bouachrine
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6089 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0909 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that misogyny is too complex to eradicate with superficial changes. Like a national anthem, misogyny in the MENA region has acquired a sacred status. Rather than exaggerate Western agency, this book makes Muslim agency visible. Stories of violence need to be told boldly because the non-West, too, is deserving of feminist critique.
Genocide & War Crimes
The Rohingya Crisis and the Two-Faced God of Janus
What Lies Ahead
Edited by Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0595 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5960 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
A protracted Rohingya crisis is not desirable, both from the host country’s and international community perspectives. Thus, a precise understanding of ongoing predicaments might persuade others to engage in early crisis intervention, resulting in a negotiated conflict resolution.
Genocide & War Crimes
Hidden Geopolitics Governance in a Globalized World
By John Agnew Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5862 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8630 0 • $33.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5864 7 • $31.00 / £23.99
Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy.
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Sidney Hook’s controversial career as a public intellectual grounded in pragmatic liberalism solidified him as the leading liberal critic of liberalism. Hook forthrightly advocated American democratic principles against a legion of attackers. The controversies he addressed are very much at the center of public life today.
Geopolitics
POLITICAL SCIENCE
The Foreign Policy of the European Union Assessing Europe’s Role in the World, 3rd Edition
By Federiga Bindi
Brookings Institution Press
October 2022 • 366 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3811 4 • $41.99 / £32.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8121 1 • $32.99 / £25.00
A Politics of All Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy
By Dean Caivano
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5257 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2584 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by “the people” to obtain freedom and equality.
History & Theory
An Ancient Guide to Good Politics A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero’s De Republica
By Moryam VanOpstal
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5224 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2256 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero’s De Republica, Moryam VanOpstal argues that Cicero should be considered the great unifier of classical political thought, with fresh insight on pivotal issues such as the best way of life and how to preserve a good regime.
History & Theory
Between Empire and Republic America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination
By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3552 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5532 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural distinctions between 19th-century American and colonial Canadian societies echoed public attitudes towards the political systems of the US and the British Empire, and the ideologies that shaped them.
History & Theory
Global Servant-Leadership Wisdom, Love, and Legitimate Power in the Age of Chaos
Edited by Philip Mathew; Jiying Song; Shann Ray Ferch and Larry C. Spears
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 328 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2188 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1863 3 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2187 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
Servant-leadership scholars from around the globe present cutting-edge research, conceptual models, and practice-oriented case studies to address the leadership challenges of the twenty-first century in order to reveal a path toward more healthy and sustainable individuals, families, organizations, and nations.
Globalization
Alexandre Kojève A Man of Influence
Edited by Luis J. Pedrazuela
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5446 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4472 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Alexandre Kojève: A Man of influence offers a multi-faceted approach to the work of Alexandre Kojève in which 11 international scholars combine their perspectives on key aspects of the Russo-French thinker’s work. The result: an original reappraisal of its significance that prompts a better understanding of the contemporary world.
History & Theory
Another Love A Politics of the Unrequited
By Asma Abbas
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7677 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6758 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7676 5 • $99.50 / £77.00
Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.
History & Theory
Defenses Against the Dark Arts
The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends
By John S. Nelson
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 318 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9262 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2604 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9261 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that performances of magic in Harry Potter show us how to leap into political action, from high politics of governments and elections to everyday politics of private lives and popular cultures. It features learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
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Democracy in Its Essence
Hans Kelsen as A Political Thinker
By Sara Lagi
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0373 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3715 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0372 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Democracy in Its Essence analyzes Hans Kelsen’s political theory as a pluralist, relativist, constitutional, proceduralist, and liberal theory of representative democracy, characterized by its strong recall to the values of tolerance, responsibility, and respect toward “the other” as well as to the idea of politics as space for compromise.
History & Theory
Engaging Authority
Citizenship and Political Community
Edited by Trevor Stack and Rose Luminiello
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5910 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9118 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume explores different forms of citizen’s relationship to authority in political community.
History & Theory
Invisible Labour in Modern Science
Edited by Jenny Bangham; Xan Chacko and Judith Kaplan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Global Epistemics series Hardback 978 1 5381 5995 8 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9965 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.
History & Theory
Science Fiction and Political Philosophy
From Bacon to Black Mirror
Edited
by Timothy McCranor and Steven Michels
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8645 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 6436 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8644 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.
History & Theory
Democratic Theory Naturalized The Foundations of Distilled Populism
By Walter Horn
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 262 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2497 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4956 6 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2496 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Democratic Theory Naturalized, Walter Horn proposes his theory of “CHOICE Voluntarism” to distill populism to its core premise: giving people the power to govern themselves without the constraints imposed by those on the left or the right. Horn analyzes what makes for fair aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation.
History & Theory
Imaginaries of Connectivity
The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance
Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero; Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Global Epistemics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7408 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1376 6 • $133.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1138 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time.
History & Theory
Machiavelli’s Platonic Problems Neoplatonism, Eros, Mythmaking, and Philosophy in Machiavellian Thought
By Guillaume Bogiaris
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1645 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6432 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1644 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that Machiavelli’s thought entertains a more complex relationship to Platonic philosophy than previously assumed. Far from rejecting Platonism in bulk, Machiavelli actually engages with important Platonic tenets, the role of philosophical education for political leaders, and the relationship between mythmaking and policymaking
History & Theory
Sorcerer William Friedkin and the New Hollywood
By Mark Wheeler
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9612 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
William Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) has emerged in the popular and scholarly consciousness from enjoying a minor, cult status to becoming subject to a full-blown critical reconsideration in which it has been praised a major work by a key American filmmaker.
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The Free and the Virtuous Why the Founders Knew that Character Mattered
By Heather Dutton Dudley
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0162 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1605 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0161 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
For the American founding fathers, good character was not just important to the survival of liberty, it was the load bearing central pillar. Today this is no longer true. Good character doesn’t matter. The author examines why and how this complete abandonment of the founders’ value system came about.
History & Theory
The Politics of Twin Peaks
Edited by Amanda DiPaolo and James Clark Gillies
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7839 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8370 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7838 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. In this edited collection, the authors approach Twin Peaks from a variety of perspectives with the concept of the political at its center.
History & Theory
The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age
Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education
Edited by Justin Cruickshank and Ross Abbinnett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 414 pages • Part of the Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6140 1 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1418 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Authors from the social sciences and humanities discuss the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education and the possibilities for progressive change to the social production of knowledge (teaching and research) in universities.
History & Theory
The Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws
By Eli Friedland
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0370 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3685 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0369 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws is the first interpretation of the Laws to give sustained consideration to Megillos, the only character from Sparta that Plato created. Eli Friedland shows the profound importance of character to the Laws, and the rich drama of Plato’s longest, and supposedly driest, work.
History & Theory
The Politics of Knowledge When Loyalty Minimizes Learning
By Richard K. Laird
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7601 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5997 7 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7600 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability.
History & Theory
The Recurrence of the End Times Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements
By Michael J. Colebrook
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5134 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1358 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a postChristian society.
History & Theory
The Socratic Individual Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age
By Ann Ward
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0379 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3777 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0378 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in 19th century political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For Kierkegaard the Socratic indivdual in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the idiosyncratic public intellectual, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist.
History & Theory
Theology and Geometry Essays on John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
Edited by Leslie Marsh
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8549 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5477 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8548 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
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Unequal Encounters
A Reader in Early Latin American Political Thought
Edited by Katherine Hoyt Lexington Books
January 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2252 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2532 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents a selection of the most compelling political writings from early colonial Latin America that address the themes of conquest, colonialism, and enslavement. The anthology centers the voices of Indigenous peoples, whose writings constitute six of the fifteen chapters while also including women’s, African, and Jewish perspectives.
History & Theory
Dictionary of Environmental Health
By Frank R. Spellman Bernan Press
April 2022 • 650 pages
Hardback 978 1 6414 3398 3 • $189.00 / £146.00
Paperback 978 1 6367 1010 0 • $67.00 / £52.00 eBook 978 1 6414 3399 0 • $179.50 / £138.00
This book is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive reference that serves as both a dictionary and encyclopedia. It defines over 17,000 words illustrating the enormous magnitude of the environmental health field. This book is an indispensable resource for individuals throughout environmental and public health industries.
Environmental Science
The Justice Laboratory International Law in Africa
By Kerstin Bree Carlson
Brookings Institution Press
April 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3813 8 • $38.99 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8157 8145 5 • $30.99 / £23.99
Human Rights
Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies
Edited by Aleksandar Fatić; Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Studies in Social and Global Justice series
Paperback 978 1 7866 0589 4 • $40.00 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 5887 7 • $138.00 / £106.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0590 0 • $39.50 / £30.00
This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.
Human Rights
Unsettling the World Edward Said and Political Theory
By Jeanne Morefield Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 346 pages • Part of the Modernity and Political Thought series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6028 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8622 2 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 4422 6030 6 • $43.00 / £33.00
This is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said’s critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.
History & Theory
Freedom in the World 2021
The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
By Freedom House
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 1546 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5182 2 • $149.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1839 9 • $141.50 / £109.00
Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories. Human Rights
The North Korean Conundrum
By Robert R. King
Walter Shorestein
January 2022 • 238 pages
Paperback 978 1 9313 6865 0 • $34.99 / £27.00 eBook 978 1 9313 8681 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Human Rights
The Uses of Imperial Citizenship
The British and French Empires
By Jack Harrington
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 112 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7834 8921 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7834 9206 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7834 8922 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book examines how ideas of citizenship and subjecthood were applied in societies under British and French imperial rule in order to expand our understanding of these concepts.
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Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition
By Lin Lin and Seth Spaulding
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 768 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6904 9 • $290.00 / £223.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9056 6 • $275.50 / £215.00
Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on UNESCO’s initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments, and partners over the past 76 years.
Intergovernmental Organizations
Internet Diplomacy
Shaping the Global Politics of Cyberspace
Edited by Meryem Marzouki and Andrea Calderaro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Digital Technologies and Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6117 3 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1180 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book proposes the concept of Internet Diplomacy to study international cooperation in the digital domain. It captures the diverse and transnational diplomatic practices that have emerged in this field and includes a wide range of perspectives, actors and processes involved in negotiating global digital politics.
International Relations / Diplomacy
Searching for Peace A Memoir of Israel
By Ehud Olmert
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 320 pages
eBook 978 0 8157 3893 0 • $27.99 / £21.99
International Relations / Diplomacy
The Last Gentleman Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century
By Bruce Smith
Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 390 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3890 9 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8916 6 • $27.99 / £21.99
International Relations / Diplomacy
Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles Glaser; Austin Long and Brian Radzinsky
Brookings Institution Press
October 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3961 6 • $44.99 / £35.00 eBook 978 0 8157 9623 3 • $35.99 / £28.00
NATO and the Greater Maghreb Geopolitics, Threats, and Great Powers
Edited by David Garcia Cantalapiedra
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 1134 3 Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 1329 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1133 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
NATO and the Greater Maghreb offers a distinctive focus and study of NATO’s future policy in North Africa and the Sahel following the new 2022 Strategic Concept, expected to be published during the next NATO Summit in Madrid.
International Relations / Diplomacy
South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis
The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization
By Gi-Wook Shin - Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Ho-Ki Kim Walter Shorestein
April 2022 • 360 pages eBook 978 1 9313 6871 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
International Relations / Diplomacy
Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge
By Christopher M. Smith
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3924 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9258 8 • $31.99 / £25.00
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International Relations / Arms Control
Budget Superpower How Russia Challenges the West with An Economy Smaller than Texas
By John Ruehl Hamilton Books
December 2022 • 500 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7338 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3396 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Budget Superpower reveals how the Kremlin has applied and refined Russia’s military strength, intelligence agencies, natural resources, political influence, and much more to drastically increase its power on the cheap. Preparing for Russia’s next steps will be crucial for the United States to safeguard its own future.
International Relations / General
Confronting the Myth of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy
By Brent A. Lawniczak
Lexington
Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0952 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9531 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Despite the attractiveness of the idea, U.S. soft power is an unreliable source of influence in world politics. This book examines the lack of U.S. soft power influence, finding that target countries do not consider the attractiveness of the United States when deciding to participate in military interventions abroad.
International Relations / General
Democracy in Crisis around the
By Saliba Sarsar and Rekha Datta
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 282 pages
World
Paperback 978 1 7936 0168 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1667 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0167 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Democracies across the globe are in crisis as authoritarian regimes rise and populist leaders emerge worldwide. Democracy in Crisis across the World weaves threads of history and politics in two parts to analyze how long this trend may last and what the future may bring.
International Relations / General
Cases in International Relations Principles and Applications, Ninth Edition
By Donald M. Snow
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5343 7 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3444 4 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5345 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Designed to complement any introductory global politics course, Snow’s text presents original case studies that survey the state of the international system and look in-depth at current issues. The cases are geopolitically diverse, accessible, and timely with new coverage of the pandemic, election interference, China, cyberwar, and global warming. International Relations / General
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir
By Amya Agarwal
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1239 7 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7866 2403 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on rich empirical data, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented in the Kashmir valley. It broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in conflict.
International Relations / General
Domination Through Law
The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa
By Mohamed Sesay
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4997 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 6316 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4632 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
Through a comparative study of state reconstruction in Sierra Leone and Liberia, this book critically examines the impact of rule of law internationalization as a means of social domination in post-colonial Africa.
International Relations / General Engaging China
By Mel Gurtov
EU Conditionality in Turkey
When Does It Work? When Does It Fail?
Edited by Cenap Çakmak and Ali Onur Özçelik
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1069 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of essays discusses the concept of conditionality within the context of Turkey-EU relations. The contributors analyze the dynamics of conditionality focusing on how, when and under what conditions it works or fails.
International Relations / General
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Rebuilding Sino-American Relations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Asia in World Politics series Hardback 978 1 5381 7218 6 • $85.00 / £65.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 2193 3 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7220 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
International Relations / General
Eurasianism An Ideology for the Multipolar World
By Paolo Pizzolo - Foreword by Michael O. Slobodchikoff
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 1 pages • Part of the Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0481 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4798 8 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0480 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Eurasianism: An Ideology for the Multipolar World examines the ideology of Eurasianism – specifically neo-Eurasianist thought – and its implications for the international system.
International Relations / General
Introduction to International Relations Theory and Practice, Third Edition
By Joyce P. Kaufman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5892 0 • $104.00 / £80.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8937 7 • $41.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5894 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
This clear and concise text introduces four key theoretical frameworks that form the foundation of international relations and uses levels of analysis as the primary unifying force to explain contemporary global politics. Cases on climate change; gender, peace, and security; migration; and the rise of China illustrate Kaufman’s approach.
International Relations / General
Korea and the World New Frontiers in Korean Studies
Edited by Gregg A. Brazinsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9114 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1126 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9113 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides fresh perspectives on the historical development and contemporary problems of North and South Korea.
International Relations / General
Neutral Beyond the Cold Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System
Edited by Pascal Lottaz; Heinz Gärtner and Herbert R. Reginbogin
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0166 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1672 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the application of neutrality policies after the end of the Cold War with a focus on Eurasian states and international organizations. The 15 chapters discuss Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, the UN, ASEAN, and several theoretical neutrality developments between 1991 and 2021.
International Relations / General
Great Power Politics in Greater Eurasia Regional Alliances, Institutions, Projects, and Conflicts
Edited by Rahman Dağ and Özgür Tüfekçi
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1411 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
It seems that every single issue in Eurasia and the world becomes a battleground among the great powers. This book’s initiative is to categorize the battlegrounds as three aspects: national/regional/ international conflicts, institutions/alliances, and projects.
International Relations / General
Israel’s National Security, the Arab Position, and Its Complicated Relations with the United States
By Ehud Eilam
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0750 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7513 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that Israel, with help from the United States, should deal with Iran’s nuclear program, and by force, if necessary. Meanwhile, Israel is trying to disrupt Iranian bases in Syria with limited success. Israel also monitors Egypt and contains Hamas in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
International Relations / General
Making Russia and Turkey Great Again? Putin and Erdogan in Search of Lost Empires and Autocratic Power
By Norman A. Graham; Folke Lindahl and Timur Kocaoglu
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 278 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1024 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0225 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1023 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism. It is both historical and theoretical in it treatment of the politics, economics and international relations of Russia and Turkey.
International Relations / General
Normative Tensions
Academic Freedom in International Education
Edited by Kevin W. GrayLexington Books
June 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2033 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0347 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.
International Relations / General
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Pedagogy as Encounter Beyond the Teaching Imperative
By Naeem Inayatullah Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Creative Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6511 9 • $96.00 / £74.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5133 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6512 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Is teaching possible? Is learning possible? Pedagogy as Encounter proposes that new and diverse forms of learning will appear if we abandon teaching as an explicit goal. Through these largely autobiographical vignettes, all grounded in Lacanian theory and critical global political economy, the author inspires a radical form of pedagogy.
International Relations / General
Predicting Leader Survival in Covert Operations from Congo to Cuba
By Joy S. Patton
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4171 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1724 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines several Cold War political leaders and their ability to survive US-sanctioned covert operations. The author argues that by understanding the psychological profile and emotional intelligence of leaders, it is possible to influence their mindsets and decision-making abilities.
International Relations / General
Rethinking Masculinities Ideology, Identity and Change in the People’s War in Nepal and its Aftermath
By Heidi Riley Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1550 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 5510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focused on the case of the People’s Liberation Army in Nepal, this book examines changes in insurgent masculinity during conflict and in the transition to post-conflict.
International Relations / General
Tears of Theory International Relations as Storytelling
By Sungju Park-Kang Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Creative
Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6505 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5065 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Demonstrating how storytelling and experience can be integral parts of International Relations scholarship, this book is about failure, hurt, and survival. Focused on the author’s research journey on a mysterious Cold War-era spy, Park-Kang reflects on how to transform wounds and challenges into academically meaningful work.
International Relations / General
Politics Go to the Movies International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television
By Joel R. Campbell - With Daryl Bockett; Damien Horigan; Michael Mulvey; Barry Pollick and Cord A. Scott
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3516 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This examination of film genres discusses how various films in five genres reflect or comment on political themes and ideas. The author uses constructivist and feminist political theory to examine the development of the political discourse in these films, and considers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between film or television and politics.
International Relations / General
Religious Soft Diplomacy and the United Nations Religious Engagement as Loyal Opposition
Edited by Sherrie M. Steiner and James T. Christie
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9737 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 7357 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9736 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In our increasingly plural and interconnected world, employing the complex and nuanced vocation of religious diplomacy is increasingly critical to the resolution of global challenges and charting a future course for the human community. The editors and contributors in this volume make a compelling case for expanding the diversity of discourse.
International Relations / General
Scramble for the Skies
The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space
By Namrata Goswami and Peter A. Garretson
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 464 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8313 8 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3114 4 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8312 1 • $44.50 / £34.00
The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.
International Relations / General
The Belt and Road Initiative The Threat of an Economic Cold War with China
By Jerry M. Rosenberg
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0814 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8152 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
With roughly 140 nations, China’s BRI is an attempt to economically dominate the world. The European Union and United States are planning a financial response for developing nations with a Global Gateway and Build Back Better World. A new EU-U.S. Marshall Plan is proposed to assist in the effort to curb China’s advance.
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The Defender’s Dilemma Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression
By Elisabeth Braw AEI Press
March 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5039 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 0 8447 0408 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 8447 5041 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. In this book, Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how new tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents strategies for better defense against it.
International Relations / General
The International Politics of Superheroes
By Mariano Turzi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6494 5 • $84.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4969 9 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book covers the theories of international relations, pressing current issues, as well as the structures and main players in world politics through the medium of superheroes and supervillains.
International Relations / General
The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations The Korean Question Revisited
By Jongwoo Han
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8281 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 2827 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In tracing the history of U.S./Korea encounters, this book stresses that as America opened a Pandora Box with an initial raid, thereby unleashing the “Korean Question”, the United States now needs to uphold its initial peaceful treaty commitment by normalizing relations with Pyeongyang, thus bringing closure to the “Korean Question.”
International Relations / General
The Regional Impacts on Turkey’s Zero Problems with Neighbors Policy towards
By Zeravan Muhsin
Lexington Books
Iraqi Kurdistan
October 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1663 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6645 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book has two specific objectives. First is to examine the Kurdish regional impacts by looking at the engagement of non-state actors such as Kurds in Syria, the PKK, and ISIS; second is to analyze the challenges and the opportunities raised after 2011 for implementation of the ZPN policy towards Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkey.
International Relations / General
The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy The Case of the Yom Kippur War
By Robert W. Tomlinson
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6811 1 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8036 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents a comprehensive view on how the American military examined the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War and used that analysis to change doctrinal policies and equipment acquisitions. Ultimately, the learning that occurred as a result of the war dramatically improved quality and competency of American forces.
International Relations / General
The Lived International A Life in International Relations
By Stephen Chan, OBE
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 140 pages • Part of the Creative Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6497 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4990 0 • $40.00 / £31.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6498 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Demonstrating that a life of praxis—living international relations— yields more insight than a life of theory alone, Steven Chan provides an antidote to a purely conceptual approach to International Relations. It is also the work of a poet with a distinguished literary reputation, recounting travel and poetry, engagement and responsibility.
International Relations / General
The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
Edited by Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4992 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9508 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4951 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
Explores methods and concepts of political anthropology and explains how they can be used for the analysis of international relations and internationalized politics.
International Relations / General
The Tragedy of Australian Foreign Policy Voices of Dissent and Visions of Independence in the 21st Century
By Randall Doyle
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0422 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4231 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy is a book that reflects an anxious nation experiencing an historic transition. In 2021, Australians are finally prepared to not only make an historic break from its British colonial past, but from its subsequent roles within the former empire of Great Britain, and the present-day empire of America.
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The United Nations as Leviathan Global Governance in the Post-American World
By Roland Rich Hamilton Books
November 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7372 3 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3730 0 • $23.50 / £18.99
The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Rich’s Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations and the first step of how to put it into place.
International Relations / General
Under Siege Counterterrorism and Civil Society in Hungary
By Scott N. Romaniuk
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 362 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9955 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9566 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book critically examines the effects of the Hungarian government’s counterterrorism and security policies and practices on the operational capacities of civil society organizations. It argues that the government’s security regime has significantly altered the autonomous space of organizations and severely strained state-society relations.
International Relations / General
Understanding Kim Jong-un’s North Korea Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement
Edited by Robert Carlin and Chung-in Moon
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 382 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 6669 0679 0 • $ / £
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 6776 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0678 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides broad, deep insight into how North Korea calculates, balances, and addresses key policy challenges. The authors—Korean, European, and American—have extensive experience in North Korea and with North Koreans, crucial to addressing the myths and misconceptions about how the North functions and perceives the world.
International Relations / General
September 2022 • 148 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6870 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8721 1 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6871 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing. This book does that and offers seven critical steps towards successful and sustainable police reform.
Law Enforcement
Trends and Transformations in World Politics
Edited by Özgür Tüfekçi and Rahman Dağ
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5023 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0245 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the state of global governance in the current geopolitical environment through the trends and transformations it is going through. It evaluates the main challenges and crises and discusses potential opportunities for global governance.
International Relations / General
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis’
Theoretical Approaches
By Halit M. E. Tagma and Paul E. Lenze, Jr.
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9308 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3069 9 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9307 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis’ analyzes the ‘crisis’ surrounding Iran’s nuclear program and explores the various aspects and dimensions of the international dispute using several academic perspectives, including realism, world-systems theory, liberal institutionalism, domestic politics, and multi-level games.
International Relations / General
Treaties in Force
A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2022
Edited by State Department U.S. Government Reprints
November 2022 • 570 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1097 6 • $55.00 / £42.00
Treaties in Force contains information on treaties and other international agreements to which the United States has become a party. The treaties presented here cover a wide range of subjects, including agricultural commodities, economic and technical cooperation, defense, education, general relations, and more.
International Relations / Treaties
Xi Jinping’s China and the International Nonprofit Community
China and Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, Foundations, and Think Tanks in a New Era
By Mark Sidel
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3920 3 • $49.99 / £38.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9210 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
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Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW Building Trust, Authentic Partnerships, and Safe Communities
By Kathleen O’Toole and Robert Peirce
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda From Global Promises to National Accountability
By Barbara K. Trojanowska - Foreword by Cynthia Enloe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Feminist Studies on Peace, Justice, and Violence series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5908 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9095 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the trajectory of gender equality in institutions’ engagement with the Women, Peace, and Security agenda at the intersection of global, regional, and national governance, shedding light on opportunities and challenges for a meaningful change in peace and security.
Peace
Forecasting Government Budgets Methods and Applications
By Aman Khan and Kenneth A. Kriz
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 300 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1310 3 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3110 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Written in a simple and easy to understand manner, Forecasting Government Budgets presents some of the frequently used methods, simple as well as advanced, in budget forecasting. Although written primarily for graduate students in public administration and management, students from other disciplines will also find it useful.
Political Economy
Men of Money Elite Masculinities and the Neoliberal Project
By Lynn Horton Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1371 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 3721 1 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1373 8 • $43.00 / £33.00
In this book, Lynn Horton explores how the most dynamic sectors of the global economy—finance and technology—are shaping new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the identity politics of gender and race.
Political Economy
June 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1100 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1024 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first criminological account of the relationship between international development, crime and security in nearly thirty-five years.
Political Economy
Sport for Development and Peace Foundations and Applications
Edited by Robert E. Baker; Craig Esherick and Pamela Hudson Baker
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6332 0 • $80.00 / £62.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 4864 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
This comprehensive, practical text examines both the overarching foundations and functional applications of Sport for Development and Peace, using managerial, sociological, historical, political, and other multidisciplinary frameworks.
Sociology of Sports
Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy
An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market DecisionMaking
Edited by Rosolino Candela; Rosemarie Fike and Roberta Herzberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the Economy, Polity, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6093 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0947 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making explores, both in theory and in practice, the consequences of using public policy as a tool to achieve specific individual and social goals, as well as its impact on private solutions to address such goals.
Political Economy
The Institutionalization of Indoctrination An Exploratory Investigation based on the
Romanian Case Study
By Paul Dragos Aligica and Simona Preda
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3549 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5501 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Combining a historical case study with theoretical framing, this book offers an exploratory contribution to our understanding of the institutionalization of indoctrination and propaganda, and of the associated social monitoring and control practices, both as they have manifested in the past, and as they may manifest in the future.
Political Economy
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle A Freedom
Gaze
By Anthony Sean Neal - Foreword by Leonard Harris
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 130 pages • Part of The Black Atlantic
Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
Hardback 978 1 7936 4051 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0529 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze analyzes the ways oppression and marginalization produced the philosophical space necessary for the development of a unique form of Black consciousness within the African Diaspora.
Political Freedom
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Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus By Jarrett Blaustein; Tom Chodor and Nathan W. Pino Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Party Leads All
The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party
Edited by Jacques deLisle and Guobin Yang
Brookings Institution Press
September 2022 • 365 pages • Part of the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs series
eBook 978 0 8157 3952 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Rise of the Far Right Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization
Edited by Melody Devries; Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5890 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4926 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1493 3 • $37.00 / £28.00
This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups.
Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Power Politics
Trump and the Assault on American Democracy
By Darrell M. West
Brookings Institution Press
August 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3959 3 • $26.99 / £20.99
eBook 978 0 8157 9609 9 • $26.99 / £20.99
Political Ideologies / Democracy
The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century
How the Past Informs the Present
Edited by Barbara Ann Chotiner and Linda J. CookForeword by Jack Snyder
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3609 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6102 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners highly relevant to contemporary events in Russia, Ukraine and other postcommunist states that are challenging the international order. Contributors provide new insights into the politics of these states, agendas driving their behavior, and how leaders’ differing perceptions produce
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities
Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Enquiries
Edited by Iulian Cananau and Peder Thalén
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6091 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0923 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Provides readers with an illustration of the role and relevance of the humanities in tackling contemporary political phenomena and social issues such as populism and its effects on democracy.
Political Ideologies / Democracy
Dynasty
By Kim Hakjoon
Walter Shorestein
July 2022 • 270 pages
eBook 978 1 9313 6847 6 • $27.50 / £20.95
Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
Ruling Bodies
A
Study
of Coercion and Punishment in Plato’s Republic, Laws, and Gorgias
By Robin Varma
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0729 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7308 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Plato theorized about coercion and punishment in the Republic, the Laws, and the Gorgias. It highlights a problem in the way we understand coercion in modern politics, and then offers a new framework and context for thinking about this.
Political Ideologies / General
Exploring Hate An Anthology
Edited by Joshua A. Geltzer; Dipayan Ghosh and Robert L. McKenzie
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 314 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3803 9 • $27.99 / £21.99
eBook 978 0 8157 8046 6 • $27.99 / £21.99
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Fighting the Last War Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right
By Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 474 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3937 0 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9387 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book argues that the political and security threats posed by the domestic radical right in Western countries have been consistently exaggerated since 1945. This has allowed governments to justify censoring and repressing their political opponents, including many who cannot be fairly described as being affiliated with the radical right.
Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Atlas of the 2020 Elections
Edited by Robert H. Watrel; Kimberly Johnson Maier; Ryan Weichelt; Fiona M. Davidson; John Heppen; Erin H. Fouberg; J. Clark Archer; Richard Morrill; Fred M. Shelley and Kenneth C. Martis Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5197 6 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1983 3 • $118.50 / £92.00
From presidential to congressional, state, and local tickets, this book explains the 2020 elections through more than 100 full-color maps that unleash the illustrative power of cartography. A mix of geographers, political scientists, and historians provide a comprehensive examination of the elections from the primary campaigns to the final results.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Change and Continuity in the 2020 Elections
By John H. Aldrich; Jamie L. Carson; Brad T. Gomez and Jennifer L. Merolla Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 432 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6481 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4822 2 • $49.95 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6483 9 • $47.00 / £36.00
This book analyzes and explains the voting behavior in the most recent election, setting the results in the context of larger trends and patterns in elections studies and discussing its importance and impact. Readers will gain a better understanding of the 2020 election and its implications for the future of American politics.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Political Volatility in the United States How Racial and Religious Groups Win and Lose
By Baodong Liu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Voting,
Elections, and the Political Process series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5128 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Uncertainty reigns in volatile political times. This book aims to provide a systemic model for understanding how political volatility throughout the U.S. history has had its root in the rise and fall of two competing racial and religious groupings.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
The Rise of Illiberalism
By Thomas J. Main
Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 351 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3849 7 • $34.99 / £27.00 eBook 978 0 8157 8503 3 • $27.99 / £21.99
Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Celebrities in American Elections Case Studies in Celebrity Politics
By Richard T. Longoria
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2315 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3162 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author explains why entertainment celebrities win and lose elections in the United States. Celebrities have the talent, fame, and resources to succeed in politics, but they often lose when the political environment is not favorable to their candidacy.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election
Edited by Jennifer C. Lucas; Christopher J. Galdieri and Tauna Starbuck Sisco
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0698 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6998 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
How did the 2020 election shape the major political parties in the U.S? This volume explores the opposing forces of party polarization and internal party factionalism during this tumultuous period. Leading authors demonstrate how factions within the parties reshaped, and responded to, the changing political environment.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
The Trifecta in Voting Barrier Causation Economics, Politics, and Race
By Shauna Reilly
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Voting, Elections, and the Political Process series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8901 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8997 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8900 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores fiscal, partisan and racial influences on the enactment of voting restrictions post-2008.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
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Policy Entrepreneurship A Guide to Shaping and Understanding Policy
By Lynn C. Ross
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 60 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 2736 1 • $12.00 / £8.99
eBook 978 0 8157 7378 8 • $8.99 / £6.99
Political Process / Political Advocacy
State of the Parties 2022
The Changing Role of American Political Parties
Edited by John C. Green; David B. Cohen and Kenneth M. Miller Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6484 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4853 3 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6486 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
Political Process / Political Parties
Postcolonial Surveillance Europe’s Border Technologies between Colony and Crisis
By Anouk Madörin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6503 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Linking Europe’s colonial era to today’s high-tech border crisis, this book offers a genealogical account of border technologies and excavates the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies and policies to emerge as such.
Privacy & Surveillance
Engagement for Equitable Outcomes A Practitioner’s Playbook
By Kathryn Newcomer; Quentin Wilson and Allyson
Criner Brown
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 3451 1 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4528 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 3453 5 • $28.00 / £21.99
This book provides practical suggestions for practitioners addressing urgent social problems and reducing inequities in their communities. Newcomer, Wilson, and Criner Brown offer approaches and models customized to local conditions and equity-focused guidance for innovating and adapting encouraging interventions.
Public Affairs & Administration
Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties, Third Edition
By Harold F. Bass Jr.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 490 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6952 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2990 0 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2300 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography; the dictionary section has over 500 entries on concepts, terms, labels, and individuals central to identifying and comprehending the key roles political parties have played in American political life.
Political Process / Political Parties
The Republican Resistance #NeverTrump Conservatives and the Future of the GOP
Edited by Andrew L. Pieper and Jeff R. DeWitt
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0747 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7454 4 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0746 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Republican Resistance studies the #NeverTrump Republicans who view Donald Trump as an existential challenge to the party that he claims to lead. The contributors argue that the #NeverTrump opposition represents a key feature of modern American politics: the rise of a populist insurgency intent on overtaking the Republican party from within.
Political Process / Political Parties
Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual Power and Privacy in the Digital Age
By Juan D. Lindau
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7350 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7352 7 • $42.50 / £34.99
This book investigates the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, especially mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. Lindau argues that the quest for prediction, certainty, and control at the heart of the state’s security apparatus destroys an essential component of human dignity and fundamentally undermines liberalism.
Privacy & Surveillance
Targeting Commitment Interagency Performance in New Zealand
By Rodney Scott and Ross Boyd
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Brookings / Ash Center Series, “Innovative Governance in the 21st Century” series
Paperback 978 0 8157 3918 0 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9197 7 • $35.99 / £28.00
Public Affairs & Administration
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The Trump Effect Disruption and Its Consequences in US Politics and Government
Toward the Theory of Administrative Tethering Re-thinking Child Welfare Training amid Rationally Bounded Administrative Decision-Making and Collaborative Governance Processes
Edited
by Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4930 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9324 4 • $32.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4931 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book reveals the effects of the Trump administration’s efforts to unsettle and reshape American governance through public opinion, media coverage, Congressional relations, executive branch management, and more. The guiding focus of the chapters concerns the successes and failures of the administration’s aspirations during Trump’s presidency.
Public Affairs & Administration
Slow Culture and the American Dream A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
By Mary Caputi
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4240 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2417 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In making its case for the philosophy of slow, this book first chronicles the origins of the Slow Food movement in Italy in the 1980s followed by various outgrowths: e.g., Cittaslow (slow cities), slow fashion, slow travel, and slow parenting. The book explains why the slow movement is in many ways at odds with the prevalent American Dream.
Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy
History of the Housing Crisis
By Rebecca Searle
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Polemics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1624 1 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7866 6265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, focusing on the development of the politics of the property-owing democracy, the growth of housing finance, the history of property crashes, and the rise and fall of a different vision of housing policy, which enabled far more people to realize their right to housing.
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Borders and Immigration
The Geo-Politics of Marketplace Demands and Ethnic Relations
By Laurence Armand French and Magdaleno Manzanárez
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 208 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8406 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 4043 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8405 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.
Public Policy / Cultural Policy
By Kevin Marino and Robert James Wright
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4294 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2950 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Toward a Theory of Administrative Tethering is the culmination of a seven-year commitment to investigate and explore the nature of collaboration, specifically in child protective services (CPS).
Public Affairs & Administration
Fixer-Upper
How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By Jenny Schuetz
Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3928 9 • $29.99 / £22.99 eBook 978 0 8157 9296 6 • $23.99 / £17.99
Political Economy of Public Education Finance Equity, Political Institutions, and Inter-School District Competition
By Nandan K Jha
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9072 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0709 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9071 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Contested Representation
Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public Sphere
By Dhananjay Rai
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 268 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0133 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1344 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The crises in material spheres and the hegemonic singularity of the social sphere shape the Dalit Representation in Hindi Cinema.
Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries
Edited
by Bola Akanji and Funmi Soetan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 410 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5266 9 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2676 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book studies the use of gender responsive budgeting (GRB) as a tool to further global and regional gender equality goals in developing countries. Through analyses of budgets and the budgeting process in Nigeria from 2000-2020 as a case study, the book analyzes why GRB has failed to gain traction in developing countries and provides solutions.
Public Policy / Economic Policy
Reconstructing Environmental Governance The Chance to Choose a Better Future
By Rick Reibstein
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6003 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0046 6 • $44.95 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6005 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book takes a creative approach to policymaking, urging citizens to engage fully with democratic governance to create more effective environmental protection programs. The technical and economic feasibility of transforming our practices to develop more sustainable and nurturing societies encourages us to jointly envision a better future.
Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Environmental Agencies in the United States
The Enduring Power of Organizational Design and State Politics
By JoyAnna Hopper
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7349 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3474 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7348 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Environmental Agencies in the U.S., the author considers mandates assigned to environmental agencies and how those mandates shape environmental enforcement. Arguing the importance of structure, organizational norms, and state politics, the author crafts a nuanced explanation of the policy differences that shape Americans’ well-being.
Public Policy / General
The Migration Mobile Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance, and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants
Edited by Vasilis Galis; Martin Bak Jørgensen and Marie Sandberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Challenging
Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6516 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5171 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, including cases from Greece, the Austrian-Italian border, and Northern Europe.
Public Policy / Immigration
Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate
Change Prospects for an Alternative Future
By Andrew Kolin
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 126 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0199 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2006 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The irrational social system known as capitalism has, over time, led to the destruction of the environment. A possibility exists to replace capitalism with a form of rational socialism that doesn’t necessitate conquering the environment.
Public Policy / Economic Policy
American Federalism and Individual Rights
By
Stephanie Mora Walls
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8946 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9444 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8945 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
American Federalism and Individual Rights presents the founding concepts of federalism and individual rights, and facilitates a discussion of their compatibility. Through the lens of policy analysis, the author discovers ways in which federalism has both helped and hindered the protection of individual rights in the United States.
Public Policy / General
US Health Policy and Market Reforms An Introduction
By James C. Capretta
AEI Press
September 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5045 3 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 0 8447 0460 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 0 8447 5047 7 • $28.50 / £22.99
The book provides an overview of the major features of US health care and an outline of the reforms required to impose more discipline on costs without compromising quality and innovation.
Public Policy / Health Care
China and America’s Tech War from AI to 5G The Struggle to Shape the Future of World Order
By A. B. Abrams
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1240 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2418 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Assessing key areas of Sino-U.S. technological competition such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, green tech and defense, the ability of both countries’ industries and tech sectors to compete, and the likely consequences primacy in each area will have.
Public Policy / Military Policy
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Growing Fairly How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development
By Stephen Goldsmith and Kate Markin Coleman
Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 279 pages • Part of the Brookings / Ash Center Series, “Innovative Governance in the 21st Century”
Paperback 978 0 8157 3948 7 • $32.99 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 8157 9494 4 • $25.99 / £19.99
Public Policy / Regional Planning
Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
By Brynna Jacobson
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3528 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This research examines the trajectory of the contested field of geoengineering through critical discourse analysis of relevant science policy reports, news media journalism, and congressional hearings. The analysis reveals the evolution of notions of normalcy, legitimacy, and imperative around the controversial field of geoengineering.
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Social Security Handbook 2022
Overview of Social Security Programs
Edited by Social Security Administration Bernan Press
April 2022 • 714 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1056 3 • $89.00 / £68.00
This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn’t covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
Public Policy / Social Security
The Fifth Freedom Guaranteeing an Opportunity-Rich Childhood for All
By David Erickson
Brookings Institution Press
November 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3963 0 • $24.95 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 8157 9647 7 • $19.99 / £14.99
The status quo doesn’t work for millions of Americans, and the consequences of millions of failures are expensive for everyone. This book advocates a smarter social safety net that will catch kids heading toward incarceration or educational failure, and society will reap the benefits of healthier and more productive generations to come.
Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Digitally Invisible How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
By Nicol Turner Lee
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3898 5 • $25.99 / £19.99
eBook 978 0 8157 8992 2 • $19.99 / £14.99
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
The Cyber Meta-Reality Beyond the Metaverse
By Joshua A. Sipper
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0925 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
You live in the cyber meta-reality. You and your family probably spend more time in this reality than any other. This book will help anyone who lives in the cyber meta-reality to understand where they live, how this world is evolving, and how we will likely evolve along with it.
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Social Security Handbook 2022
Overview of Social Security Programs, LARGE PRINT EDITION
Edited by Social Security Administration Bernan Press
April 2022 • 838 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1057 0 • $89.00 / £68.00
This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn’t covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
Public Policy / Social Security
The United States Government Internet Directory 2022
Edited by Mary Meghan Ryan
Bernan Press
August 2022 • 612 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1064 8 • $89.00 / £68.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0655 5 • $84.50 / £65.00
The United States Government Internet Directory serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web.
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Analysis of the FY 2022 Defense Budget Funding Trends and Issues for the Next National Defense Strategy
By Todd Harrison and Seamus P. Daniels
Center for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 32 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0505 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report assesses the Biden administration’s FY 2022 defense budget request. It outlines the priorities and potential effects of ongoing strategic reviews, tracks current congressional action on FY 2022 defense appropriations, and identifies key issues for FY 2023.
Security (National & International)
Communicating with Intelligence Writing and Briefing for National Security, Third Edition
By M. Patrick Hendrix
and James S. Major
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6066 4 • $150.00 / £115.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0671 1 • $72.00 / £55.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6068 8 • $68.00 / £52.00
This book outlines the foundations of good intelligence communication, a toolkit for writing these documents, the briefing process, and a guide to citations and classified materials.
Security (National & International)
Constructive Conflicts From Emergence to Transformation, Sixth Edition
By Bruce W. Dayton and Louis Kriesberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 378 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6099 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1005 5 • $56.00 / £43.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6101 2 • $54.50 / £42.00
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Security (National & International)
Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian
Security
Edited by Sumit Ganguly and Dinshaw Mistry
Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 238 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3884 8 • $36.99 / £28.00 eBook 978 0 8157 8855 5 • $28.99 / £21.99
Security (National & International)
Atomic Friends How America Deals with Nuclear-Armed Allies
By Zachary Keck
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6970 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9711 1 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6972 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Through a close analysis of key cases, Keck examines the impact that acquiring nuclear arsenals had after US allies developed them. By examining existing and recently declassified documents, original archival research, and interviews with US officials, this important study challenges conventional wisdom on Washington’s nuclear containment strategy. Security (National & International)
Complex Air Defense Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat
By Tom Karako and Masao Dahlgren
Center for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 68 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4053 6 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0543 3 • $43.00 / £33.00
Hypersonic missiles are not unstoppable. This CSIS report argues how numerous efforts tailored to exploit key vulnerabilities of the hypersonic flight regime can make hypersonic defense a tractable problem.
Security (National & International)
Defense Acquisition Trends 2021
By Gregory Sanders; Won Joon Jang and Alexander Holderness
Center for Strategic & International Studies
June 2022 • 38 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4059 8 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0604 4 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report examines trends in what the DoD is buying, how the DoD is buying it, and from whom the DoD is buying based on analysis of data from the Federal Procurement Data System.
Security (National & International)
Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the IndoPacific Region
By Michael J. Green; Nicholas Szechenyi and Hannah Fodale
Center for Strategic & International Studies
February 2022 • 78 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4047 5 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0482 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
Democratic governance is a critical element of the U.S. strategy to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This CSIS report catalogues regional efforts to support democracy and recommends ways the United States can partner with like-minded countries in the region.
Security (National & International)
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Europe Alone
Small State Security without the United States
Edited by David Schultz; Aurelija Pūraitė and Vidmantė Giedraitytė
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 464 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6728 1 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7298 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Europe Alone explores the prospects of European security in a future when the United States may no longer be a reliable partner. Leading security scholars offer a multifaceted approach to the changing role and meaning of national security into the future from the perspective of small states.
Security (National & International)
Future NATO Enlargement Force Requirements and Budget Costs
By Mark F. Cancian - With Adam Saxton
Center for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 120 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4041 3 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0420 0 • $42.50 / £33.00
Past NATO enlargement helped produce a Europe whole, free, and at peace, but future enlargement, facing a hostile Russia, could require billions of dollars in additional defense spending. NATO and the United States should weigh these costs in future enlargement decisions.
Security (National & International)
Influence
and Escalation
Europe’s High-End Military Challenges The Future of European Capabilities and Missions
By Seth G. Jones and Rachel Ellehuus
Center for Strategic & International Studies
February 2022 • 72 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4043 7 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0444 4 • $42.50 / £33.00
This CSIS report from CSIS’s International Security Program and Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program examines the evolution of European military capabilities over the next decade and the types of missions states will be able (and unable) to perform by 2030.
Security (National & International)
Human Security Theory and Action, Second Edition
By David Andersen-Rodgers and Kerry F. Crawford
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 368 pages • Part of the Peace and Security in the 21st Century series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5992 7 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9934 4 • $44.95 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5994 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This thoroughly revised second edition of a popular text explores the theory and application of concepts central to human security, the protection of individuals from harm. Through an examination of the critical questions and priorities, it grounds students in the conceptual roots as well as applications and challenges both in war and peacetime.
Security (National & International)
Information War
Implications
of Russian and Chinese Influence Operations for Crisis Management
By Rebecca Hersman; Eric Brewer; Lindsey Sheppard and Maxwell Simon
Center for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 72 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4045 1 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0468 8 • $42.50 / £33.00
Technology-enabled influence operations, including disinformation, will likely figure prominently in adversary efforts to impede U.S. crisis response and alliance management in high-risk, high-impact scenarios under a nuclear shadow.
Security (National & International)
Integrated Arms Control in an Era of Strategic Competition
By Rebecca K.C. Hersman; Heather Williams and Suzanne Claeys
Center for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 68 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4051 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0529 9 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report explores how arms control remains an essential partner of deterrence and strategic stability. The competitive security environment, rise of disruptive technologies, and limited resources call for recoupling arms control with deterrence to address integrated, crossdomain threats today.
Security (National & International)
How Artificial Intelligence Is Driving U.S.-China Military Competition
By Tom Stefanick
Brookings Institution Press
August 2022 • 280 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3882 4 • $38.99 / £30.00 eBook 978 0 8157 8831 1 • $30.99 / £23.99
Security (National & International)
Leveraging Networks in Future Operations
DISA’s Changing Role in Battle Networks
By Gregory Sanders and Rhys McCormick
Center for Strategic & International Studies
April 2022 • 36 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4057 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0581 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report explores the important choices that the Department of Defense has to make about the future mission and organization of the Defense Information Systems Agency—the organization created in the Cold War to unify its top-level communications—as it adapts to the challenges of a changing world.
Security (National & International)
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Nuclear Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Survival, Order, and Justice
By Thomas E. Doyle, II
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6413 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 6604 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 4422 7661 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Using a constructivist approach, the book addresses international security studies’ concerns about the relevance of moral reasoning to strategic and political thinking.
Security (National & International)
Principles of Maritime Power
By Bruce A. Elleman - Foreword by S. C. M. Paine
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6104 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1067 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This concise but exhaustive treatment of sea powers examines the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, expeditionary warfare, piracy, commerce raiding, and soft power operations. Throughout, Elleman analyzes the competition between land power and sea power strategies.
Security (National & International)
On the Horizon, Vol. 4
A Collection of Papers from the Next Generation of Nuclear Professionals
Edited by Reja Younis
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7047 2 • $75.00 / £58.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0489 9 • $71.25 / £55.00
These papers explore a range of crucial debates such as the future of arms control and deterrence, emerging technologies, SSBN vulnerability, public opinion, cyber norms, and the role of regional dynamics including China and India in nuclear security.
Security (National & International)
Rescuing Aid in Syria
By Natasha Hall
Center for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 80 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4055 0 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0567 7 • $43.00 / £33.00
Eleven years into the Syrian conflict, needs continue to rise. Yet, violence, uncertainty, and the Syrian government’s manipulation of the aid sector continues to plague the aid response. This CSIS report articulates the challenges to assistance and how to overcome them.
Security (National & International)
The
Academic-Practitioner
Divide in Intelligence Studies
Edited by Rubén Arcos; Nicole K. Drumhiller and Mark Phythian
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4446 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4473 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
The profession of intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However, this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an academic-practitioner divide. This book provides a range of international approaches to navigate the academic-practitioner divide.
Security (National & International)
The Future of National Intelligence How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities
By Shay Hershkovitz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6069 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0701 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6071 8 • $32.50 / £25.00
The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities provides a blueprint for the future of national intelligence agencies by exploring emerging technologies and collaborative strategies for intelligence gathering and managing data. Essential reading for students of national security and professionals.
Security (National & International)
The Challenge of European Political Will, CSIS Report
By Rachel Ellehuus and Seth G. Jones
Center for Strategic & International Studies
September 2022 • 56 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7051 9 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0526 6 • $42.50 / £34.99
Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has galvanized Europe and triggered a renewed focus on hard security and defense. This latest CSIS report analyzes whether European political will to conduct military missions and operations worldwide will be sustained in the coming years.
Security (National & International)
The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures
Edited by Ryan Shaffer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5999 6 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0008 8 • $133.00 / £102.00
The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures explores the historical and contemporary influences that have shaped Asian intelligence cultures as well as the impact intelligence service have had on domestic and foreign affairs.
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The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures
Edited by Florina Cristiana Matei; Carolyn Halladay and Eduardo E. Estévez
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 414 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6081 7 • $140.00 / £108.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0824 4 • $133.00 / £102.00
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture that converts the former military regimes’ repressive security apparatuses into democratic intelligence communities.
Security (National & International)
The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament A Power-Analytical Approach
By Nik Hynek and Anzhelika Solovyeva
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 228 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4987 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1659 9 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1166 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes.
Security (National & International)
Trends in Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Usage, CSIS Report
By
Rhys
McCormick and Gregory Sanders
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 50 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7053 3 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0540 0 • $42.50 / £34.99
This report examines trends in Other Transaction Authority (OTA) usage across the DoD to provide insights into how the DoD is using OTAs to pursue innovation, how DoD spending under an OTA is organized, and to whom the majority of OTA obligations go.
Security (National & International)
U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022 Peering into the Abyss
By Mark F. Cancian
Center for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7043 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0441 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report is a compilation of the “U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022” white paper series, covering in detail the overall strategy and priorities of the DOD by service as well as SOF, contractors, and DOD civilians. Security (National & International)
The Kremlin Playbook 3 Keeping the Faith
By Heather A. Conley and Donatienne Ruy
Center for Strategic & International Studies
April 2022 • 116 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7045 8 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0465 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
The Kremlin Playbook 3: Keeping the Faith aims to expose a new front of Russian malign influence in Europe and Eurasia: the instrumentalization of values, traditions, and religious beliefs to exploit or sow divisions among Western societies.
Security (National & International)
Toward a U.S.-Japan Technology Alliance
Competition and Innovation in New Domains
Edited by Michael J. Green; Nicholas Szechenyi and Hannah Fodale
Center for Strategic & International Studies
December 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7055 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0564 4 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7057 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This edited volume is an anthology of nine essays from Japanese and U.S. scholars examining the technology policy landscape in both countries with an eye toward developing recommendations for bilateral cooperation in the years ahead. Topics include U.S. and Japanese technology strategy, economic security, and rulemaking for the digital economy.
Security (National & International)
U.S. Defense Posture in the Middle East, CSIS Report
By Seth G. Jones and Seamus P. Daniels
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 102 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7049 6 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0502 2 • $42.50 / £34.99
There are growing calls for a decrease in the United States’ military presence in the Middle East. This new CSIS report assesses posture options in the context of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other threats in the region.
Security (National & International)
United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968 The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and Lies
By Michael Wayne Santos
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 358 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0219 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2176 6 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0218 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
There are many studies of the Cold War, but none has sought to understand the period in the broader context of human history as this one does. Michael Wayne Santos examines the interplay of the longstanding limits on human decision-making, our propensity for storytelling, and need for certitude in a period of chaos and confusion.
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Foreign Fighters and International Peace Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home
By Cholpon Orozobekova
Hamilton Books
September 2022 • 254 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7370 9 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3716 6 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.
Terrorism
Veiled Threats Women and Jihad
By Mia Bloom
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3143 6 • $24.99 / £18.99
Terrorism
Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa
Designing for Gender Equality
Edited by Amanda Gouws Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6008 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0091 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the question if gender equality can be designed and applying an analysis related to this question to the South African Commission for Gender Equality.
Women in Politics
Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020
Edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 322 pages • Part of the African
Governance, Development, and Leadership series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4966 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9676 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and contestation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China for diplomatic recognition on the Africa continent. It examines China and Taiwan’s presence and active involvement in African affairs.
World / African
How Terror Evolves The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques
By Yannick
Veilleux-Lepage
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 198 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4981 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 8789 9 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7866 0879 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book contextualizes the use of terror as part of wider movements of political contention, demonstrating that terroristic innovation occurs as part of wider historical processes rather than in a vacuum.
Terrorism
Rethinking Utopia Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Ebru Deniz Ozan
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0695 0 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6967 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of the book believe that utopia is a multidimensional concept, hence best understood with a multidisciplinary perspective. The book seeks utopian thinking in political theory (in Kant and Derrida), international law, populism, Turkish Islamism, and it dilates on the themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopias. Utopias
Africa’s International Relations in a Globalising World Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond
Edited by Usman A. Tar and Sharkdam WapmukForeword by Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4690 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6910 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Africa’s International Relations in a Globalising World: Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond address essential questions about Nigeria’s foreign policy such as how well the policy and its practice of diplomacy have served national interest, and what more needs to be done to assure of better results now and into the future.
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America’s Other Muslims
Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam
By Muhammad Fraser-Rahim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9021 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 0198 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9020 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Fraser-Rahim spotlights the emergence of an American school of Islamic thought, which was created and established by the son of the former Nation of Islam leader.
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Bantu Authorities Apartheid’s System of Race and Ethnicity
By Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 388 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3126 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1275 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides the first holistic study of Bantu Authorities (BA), the system South Africa created to implement rural apartheid. Based on interviews with Zulus and former commissioners and archival research, Bantu Authorities proves the primary objective of the system was to protect white capital, with white racial purity secondary.
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Cameroon-Nigeria Relations Trends and Perspectives
Edited by Osita Agbu and C. Nna-Emeka Okereke
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3594 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the trends and dynamics associated with Cameroon–Nigeria relations. It offers rich perspectives for understanding the objectives and drivers of diplomatic relations between both countries.
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Civil Wars in Africa
Edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh Jr.
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4933 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9348 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that civil wars in Africa stem from the contradictions and crises that have been generated by the post-colonial state as the result of the adverse effects of colonialism and the failure of successive generations of African leaders to lead the process of changing the state’s nature, character, and mission.
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Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa
By Carlson Anyangwe Lexington Books
August 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1036 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0377 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines land and maritime boundary conflicts, intra and inter-state armed conflicts, transboundary terrorism, and conflict resolution arrangements in Africa. It provides an important contribution to a deeper understanding of conflicts on the continent.
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Black Women’s Rights Leadership and the Circularities of Power
By Carole Boyce Davies
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1238 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2397 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of “rights” and “power” to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future.
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Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in Zimbabwe
By Chenai G. Matshaka
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4534 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5357 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on civil society perspectives, Chenai G. Matshaka captures how narratives of violence based on particular norms and values have impacted the transitional justice trajectory and agenda in Zimbabwe.
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Conflict at the Edge of the African State The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland
By Lindsay Scorgie
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 338 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6169 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 1709 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book looks at one of the oldest and most secretive rebel groups in the eastern Congo warscape: the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Moving away from traditional state-centric concepts of cross-border conflict, the author examines how their deeply embedded position in local borderland histories has fueled their surprising resiliency.
World / African
Copper King in Central Africa Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rhokana Corporation
By Hyden Munene
Rowman & Littlefield International
January 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Africa: Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4642 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6439 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the corporate structure, labour relations, and profitability of an individual mining company on the Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Copperbelt.
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Economic Growth and Democracy in PostColonial Africa
Cabo Verde, Small States, and the World Economy
Edited by João Resende-Santos and Aminah N.
Pilgrim
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5383 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides an analysis of the political economy of Cabo Verde from its independence in 1975 to the present. The collection serves as both a primary source and sociopolitical study, featuring some of the most accomplished scholars and policy practitioners on the subject matter of the nation’s political economy.
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Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa Shifting Mobilization
Edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. JacqueminLexington Books
September 2022 • 334 pages • Part of the Africa:
Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1792 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7932 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book interrogates how identities are politicized, transformed, and mobilized throughout the African continent to demonstrate alternatives for nation building. It examines ways of transforming identity and provides concrete options where institutions and technology mobilize for education and empowerment around issues of African identities.
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Indigenous Knowledge An Alternative for Food Security and Wellness in Africa
By Emmanuel O. Oritsejafor
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1508 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5091 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Indigenous food systems have been neglected in regards to current global food security challenges. The author argues that use of indigenous methods will reduce the vulnerabilities of food insecure households in Africa.
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Interrogating Xenophobia and Nativism in Twenty-First-Century Africa
Edited by Emmanuel Matambo
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4531 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5326 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines immigration policies and politics in Africa, the social impacts and history of xenophobia and nativism in African life and culture, and the effects of xenophobia and nativism on PanAfricanism. The chapters also offer suggestions for reducing xenophobia and nativism in Africa through social and economic policies.
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Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa
Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle
Edited by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi; Tshepo Moloi and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Africa: Past, Present & Prospects series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4844 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 5602 2 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1561 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection brings together essays on the role that radio played in political resistance against oppressive regimes during the period of the armed struggle in the region.
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Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
Ten Measured Steps into the Future
By Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1417 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4184 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun explore measures for improving the capacity of the Nigerian national government to implement regional and global treaties and laws related to disability that are human rights-centric and that support the potential of persons living with disabilities.
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Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa
Zimbabwe and Namibia
Edited by Everisto Benyera
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9284 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2826 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9283 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores indigenous and traditional, non-state transitional justice mechanisms used in two South African countries where there were no formal transitional justice mechanisms after protracted violence. It details how communities delve into their history and modes of everyday living in order to resolve conflict and achieve reconciliation.
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Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa
Edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni - Foreword by Julia Sebutinde
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 446 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3267 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2685 5 • $50.00 / £38.99
This book examines women’s access to justice in both traditional and statutory courts through an intersectional lens. It analyzes the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges).
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Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and PanAfricanism Reinterpreted, 1909–1972
By A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-AssensohForeword by Damien Ejigiri
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the African Governance, Development, and Leadership series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0674 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6752 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
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National Narratives of Mali Fula Communities in Times of Crisis
By Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba Konaré
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 120 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0267 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2657 7 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0266 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Studying the reactions from Fula communities in West Africa that have created narratives of their own, Narratives of Mali: Fula Communities in Times of Crisis analyzes the various narratives employed in Mali as the country faces a lasting political, social, and security crisis that threatens the country’s sense of identity.
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Nigerian Media Industries in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Unwana Samuel Akpan
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2285 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2868 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.
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Pastoralist-Farmer Conflicts in Nigeria A Human Displacement Perspective
By Adeola Aderayo Adebajo Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Africa: Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1457 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 4582 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The book provides the readers a deeper understanding on how the conflict management mechanisms adopted in pastoralist-farmer conflict affect the protection of internally displaced persons in Benue and Nasarawa states.
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Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora
By Akinloyè Òjó
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4471 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4725 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues for centrality of language to address Africa’s developmental challenges. It contends for the empowerment of African languages to serve in all domains, and it propagates ways to empower African languages for African socio-cultural and economic development in the twenty-first century.
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Nigeria in the Fourth Republic Confronting the Contemporary Political, Economic, and Social Dilemmas
Edited by E. Ike Udogu - Foreword by A. B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh Lexington Books
April 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0049 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0507 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides ways to tackle the political, economic, and social dilemmas in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic to promote national cohesion, political stability, and peaceful coexistence.
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Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa
Edited by Martin Munyao - Foreword by George John Law
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1606 5 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6072 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that universities need to adapt to technology-mediated communication learning to thrive. Looking at case studies in Africa, the contributors call for a rich combination of twenty-first century pedagogical skills, education technology, and institutional collaboration to achieve optimum learning outcomes through ODEL.
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Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement
Edited by Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad Dawud - Foreword by Solomon Ehigiator Arase
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 494 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5380 2 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3819 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book critically examines the insecurity crises in Africa propelled by the complexity of the changing wave of crime and insurgency on the continent and policing and law enforcement patterns.
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Religion and Global Politics
Soft Power in Nigeria and Beyond
Edited by Olusola Ogunnubi and Sheriff FolarinForeword by Jeffrey Haynes
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4561 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5623 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies. World / African
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles
Edited by Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4525 8 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume uses post-/de-colonial approaches to examine subalternity in online media representations, specifically the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland. The editors argue that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.
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The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya Memory, Identity, and Heritage
By Herman Ogoti Kiriama
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4615 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through analysis of two communities in coastal Kenya, The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya argues that heritage construction is a discursive and selective process, that the landscape—both physical and mental—is the arena in which this process takes place, and that there are many conflicting and contested views of heritage.
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The PhD Experience in African Higher Education
Edited by Ruth Murambadoro; John Mashayamombe and uMbuso weNkosi
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4537 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides insights on the state of higher education in Africa, focusing on South Africa, the hub for doctoral training. It depicts the competing realities shaping the doctoral process and the resulting learning outcomes for African students pursuing studies in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
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Taiwan in Africa
Seven Decades of Certainty and Uncertainties
Edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5092 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0931 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Once a doyen of African governments, Taiwan is today diplomatically isolated on the continent. This book examines gaps in the literature on Taiwan-African relations by historicizing Taiwan’s seven-decade relationship with Africa to address Taiwan’s role in the growth and development of the continent.
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The Islamist Challenge and Africa
By Samory Rashid
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6444 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4427 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6443 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Islamist Challenge and Africa examines Islamist militancy among Africans historically and at present, a topic largely ignored in the United States. It examines Islamist militancy’s longstanding presence in Africa and its diaspora, Islamist militancy’s distinct ideological features among Africans, and ways to minimize its violence.
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The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics Culture and Ideology in Oromia and Ethiopia
By Asafa Jalata
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0339 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3371 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0338 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book critically examines the dialectical relationship between Ethiopian colonialism, Oromo culture, and the collective grievances of the Oromo nation. It identifies the chains of sociological and historical factors that developed the Oromo national movement and demonstrates how that movement is transforming Ethiopian imperial politics.
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The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria Missed Opportunities and a Continuing Crisis
By Ucheoma Nwagbara
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 372 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3375 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3767 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, poverty, inequality, crime, and insurgency to show how poor leadership in the post-independence era has failed to use the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives.
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The War on Drugs in Tanzania Prohibition and Punishment
By Dane Degenstein
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5419 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4205 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the war on drugs in Tanzania, enacted through policy change and constructed narratives, and how it has contributed to the continuation of war on drugs ideology in East Africa and internationally. Centering the perspectives of people who use drugs themselves, the author argues for a radical rethinking of global drug policy.
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International Relations of Asia, Third Edition
Edited by David Shambaugh Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 514 pages • Part of the Asia in World
Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6284 2 • $130.00 / £100.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2859 9 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6286 6 • $46.50 / £36.00
In this comprehensive study, leading scholars offer the most current and definitive analysis of Asia’s regional dynamics. They set developments in Asia in historical and theoretical context, assess the leading powers, and consider subregional actors and intraregional linkages. Students and practitioners will find this book invaluable.
World / Asian
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma
By Carol Ann Boshier
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5988 0 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9897 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information.
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Japan as an Immigration Nation Demographic Change, Economic Necessity, and the Human Community Concept
By Hidenori Sakanaka - Translated by Robert D. Eldridge and Graham B. Leonard
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 286 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1495 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 4933 3 • $121.00 / £93.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1494 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this treatise by veteran Japanese immigration specialist, Hidenori Sakanaka—the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau—proposes sweeping changes to Japan’s immigration policy to address the interrelated problems of a rapidly declining population and a decrease in working-age adults.
World / Asian
Kim Jong-un’s
Strategy for Survival A Method to Madness
By David W. Shin
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 482 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0822 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8208 8 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0821 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
In this book, David W. Shin argues that North Korean leader Kim Jongun, who is often labeled a madman by the press, is actually a competent strategist who has been consistently underestimated.
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Poverty and Pacification
The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class
By Dorothy J. Solinger
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5495 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4960 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
This groundbreaking book explores China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program, which was extended in the hopes of quieting the protests of millions of laid-off workers. Solinger replays the duet that unfolded between the state and the ranks of the proletariat and documents the progressively more silent drama as workers have struggled to survive.
World / Asian
Peace as Government The Will to Normalize Timor-Leste
By Ramon Blanco
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 278 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8179 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 1776 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8178 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
The author argues that peace operations have a precise function in the international scenario – the maintenance of a neoliberal order in the international society. The author, analyzing the United Nations’ engagement with Timor-Leste, evinces that this function is developed through the will to normalize the Timorese state and population.
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Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State
Edited by Hank Johnston and Sheldon Zhang
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 356 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6502 7 • $40.00 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5003 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6501 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection analyses Chinese protest movements and state responses.
World / Asian
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Social Economy in Asia
Realities and Perspectives
Edited by Euiyoung Kim and Hiroki Miura
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9896 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8941 1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9895 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, thirteen specialists discuss the multi-dimensional characteristics and challenges of the social economy in Asia, arguing for its unique effectiveness as a political economic system in the twenty-first century.
World / Asian
The Political Logic of the US–China Trade War
Edited by Shiping Hua
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2498 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection examines the political logic of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The contributors examine a number of theories behind the trade war, the historical background in which the trade war emerged, and the international contexts.
World / Asian
A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul Cultural Politics in Colombia, 1930–1946
By Catalina Muñoz-Rojas
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Social Movements in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1811 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul examines the implementation of state cultural intervention in Colombia between 1930 and 1946. It explores the multi-vocal debates about the role of culture in shaping the relationship between the ruler and the ruled in a country undergoing deep socioeconomic transformations.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Decolonizing Patagonia
Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina
By Lucas Savino
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 218 pages
In Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina, Lucas Savino examines Indigenous efforts for selfdetermination, territorial autonomy, and decolonization in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific
Edited by Michael Clarke; Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 254 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8277 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2759 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8276 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates to what extent the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents an achievable vision of a China-centric order in Asia, exploring its major security implications for the region.
World / Asian
US-China Relations
Perilous Past, Uncertain Present, Fourth Edition
By Robert G. Sutter
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 420 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5716 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7176 6 • $48.00 / £37.00
This comprehensive and balanced assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations explains the conflicted engagement between the two countries. Offering a rich discussion and analysis, Robert G. Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past two hundred years.
World / Asian
Affect, Archive, Archipelago Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives
By Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 298 pages • Part of the Rethinking the Island series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5144 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1457 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, comprised of historical-political figures and communitarian, activist, and artistic work, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic and the sea, thus furthering emancipatory and reparatory horizons.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Dictatorships
in Twenty-First-Century Latin America
Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador
By Osvaldo Hurtado - Translated by Barbara Sipe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7107 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1080 0 • $41.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7109 7 • $38.50 / £30.00
This book explores the most important Latin American political phenomenon to emerge in the twenty-first century: democratic governments have become autocratic governments not by military coups but by politicians manipulating the system after a fair election. Through five countries, the book examines this new generation of Latin American dictators.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
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Hardback 978 1 7936 3021 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0223 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Latin America since Independence Two Centuries of Continuity and Change, Second Edition
By Thomas C. Wright and Robert L. Smale Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 396 pages • Part of the Latin American Silhouettes series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6621 5 • $125.00 / £96.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 6222 2 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6623 9 • $37.50 / £29.00
This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies, showing how crucial they have been in shaping contemporary political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions in a richly diverse region.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Selective Security in the War on Drugs The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico
By Alke Jenss Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 288 pages • Part of the Transforming Capitalism series Hardback 978 1 5381 5109 9 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 1105 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book offers an analysis of security practices within the scope of the war on drugs, through the lens of political economy and coloniality. It juxtaposes the contexts of Colombia and Mexico to show that security practices of the 2000s were highly ambiguous and selective.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond Actuality and Pertinence
Edited by Lorenzo Fusaro and Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3823 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8243 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through this edited collection, the contributing authors examine the pertinence and actuality of Marx’s general law while analyzing past and present issues in political economy in Latin America and beyond.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Globalization and Regime Change
Lessons from the New Russia and the New Europe
Edited by Robin Alison Remington and Robert K. Evanson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 434 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6648 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback
978 0 7425 8049 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4422 2679 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This timely book examines postcommunist developments in Russia and Europe, emphasizing foreign and security policies and their domestic linkages. Comparing how different countries responded to the end of the cold war, the contributors assess the prospects for further regime change from democracies to hybrid systems and the implications for the EU.
World / European
Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence
Edited by Steve Ellner; Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6394 8 • $94.00 / £72.00 Paperback 978 1 5381 3955 5 • $39.00 / £30.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6396 2 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book examines the tensions and convergences between social movements and progressive Latin American governments. Leading scholars present a well-rounded picture on a controversial topic and argue against the accepted view that robust social movements are independent of the state. This is an invaluable supplement for Latin American studies.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
By Jennifer N. Collins
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7233 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 2347 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes: Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective, Jennifer N. Collins examines why the new left took the form of radical populism in Ecuador and Bolivia and how social movements were impacted by this development.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Brave New Hungary
Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”
Edited by János Matyas Kovács and Balazs Trencsenyi
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 454 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 4368 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3668 8 • $144.00 / £111.00 eBook 978 1 4985 4367 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines the rise and main structural features of a “brave new” anti-liberal regime in Hungary during the past decade. The transition to authoritarian rule in a member state of the European Union may serve as a warning for other countries that suffer from comparable deadlock of liberal democracy.
World / European
Hungary in State of Exception
Authoritarian Neoliberalism from the AustroHungarian Monarchy to the COVID-19 Crisis
By Attila Antal
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5227 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2287 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Neoliberalism as an economic and political ideology defined the history of Hungary, not just in the 21st century, but in the troubled 20th century. Contemporary authoritarian populist tendencies in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European nations rely on this historical embedded neoliberalism.
World / European
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Splitting Europe The EU, Russia, and the West
By Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5079 5 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0801 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores and analyses the deep political crisis, new fragmentation and splitting that takes place both within Europe and between Russia and the West.
World / European
A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4846 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 6507 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4651 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book provides a new model for sustainable peace and security in the Middle East. It provides detailed analyses and roadmaps to the political quandaries in the Middle East, particularly with respect to Iran and Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
World / Middle Eastern
Breaking Intersubjectivity A Critical Theory of Counter-Revolutionary Trauma in Egypt
By Vivienne Matthies-Boon
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Radical
Subjects in International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1032 4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 0331 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Rejecting the concept of PTSD, Matthies-Boon develops an alternate theory of trauma using the Egyptian revolution as a case. The testimonies of Cairene activists explain how multileveled traumatic status subordination inflicted on them destroyed the potentiality of revolutionary collective becoming, resulting in demoralized, depoliticized silence.
World / Middle Eastern
Continuity and Change in Political Culture Israel and Beyond
Edited by Yael S. Aronoff; Ilan Peleg and Saliba Sarsar
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0572 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5726 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0571 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology.
World / Middle Eastern
The Coloniality of Asylum Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
By Fiorenza Picozza
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the New Politics of Autonomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5011 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0092 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5010 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book offers a critique of asylum in Europe from the standpoint of autonomous border struggles, enacted both by refugees and those in solidarity with them.
World / European
Accountability in Syria Achieving Transitional Justice in a Postconflict Society
Edited by Radwan Ziadeh
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 1191 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1896 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 1190 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the patterns of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria since 2011. The contributors also discuss the possibilities of achieving accountability through the international system and the linkages between the transition and the new justice system that should emerge in Syria.
World / Middle Eastern
Circular Economy
Multidisciplinary Approaches from Turkey
Edited by Natalya Ketenci
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2108 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1090 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reviews different industries and sectors that are becoming active players in the circular economy, on example of Turkey.
World / Middle Eastern
Europeanisation in Turkish Water Management Policy
A Sociological Institutionalism Perspective
By Burçin Demirbilek
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0163 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1641 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book aims to test the explanatory value of such a sociological institutionalism perspective for Europeanization in Turkish water policy.
World / Middle Eastern
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Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism
The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914)
By Deniz Ekici
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1261 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2595 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1260 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914), Deniz Ekici argues that the Kurdish periodicals of the late Ottoman period served as a communicative space in which Kurdish intellectuals constructed, negotiated, and disseminated an unambiguous Kurdish ethnic nationalism.
World / Middle Eastern
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads Caught between Sect and Nation
By Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 170 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2276 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2748 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2275 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation in Lebanon due to the division between religious and civil law. Consequently, a dual struggle is necessary, the first for women’s equal political and civil rights and the second for women’s equal legal rights in relation to personal status law.
World / Middle Eastern
Postrevolutionary Iran The Leader, The People, and the Three Powers
By R. R. Asaadi
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2032 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0309 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2031 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
How have Iran’s political institutions evolved since the revolution? This book is first a study of the structure of Iran’s political institutions, of their composition and function in theory; and second an analysis of their evolution in practice over the first forty years of the Islamic Republic regime.
World / Middle Eastern
Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances Change and Continuity in the U.S.-Kurdish Relationship
By Ozum Yesiltas
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4591 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5920 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances explores how the Kurds’ interactions with the U.S. transformed them into a considerable player in the Middle East while addressing how these transformations reshape the U.S. foreign policy. The book investigates the agency of non-state actors by putting the U.S.-Kurdish relationship within the broader International Relations context.
World / Middle Eastern
Kurds and Their Struggle for Autonomy Enduring Identity and Clientelism
By Mehran Tamadonfar and Roman Lewis
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 462 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7118 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1197 7 • $50.00 / £38.99
Kurds and their Struggle for Autonomy: Enduring Identity and Clientelism is a comprehensive study of the roots of Kurdish identity, the processes of identity formation among the Kurds, and the Kurds’ seemingly never-ending struggle for self-determination.
World / Middle Eastern
Palestine and the Great Feud A Land Torn in Two, Zionism and the Infancy of Ideas
(1897–1918)
By Dr. Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2405 3 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 4060 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume analyzes the early period of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1897–1948), which encompasses the emergence of the Zionist movement, the spread of Western colonialism, and the end of the First World War.
World / Middle Eastern
Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity through a Feminist Lens The Case of Lebanon
By Jessy Abouarab
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1393 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3912 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1392 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Capturing the unique dynamics of a Global South-South forced migration case, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of Syrian refugee insecurity in Lebanon. It applies a transnational feminist approach to explore the plight of Syrian women who are often absent from and generally neglected in refugee securitized practices.
World
/ Middle Eastern
Saudi Arabia
A SWOT Analysis of a Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study
By Gadi Hitman
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0931 9 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9326 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the process of national development in Saudi Arabia through the use of the SWOT model, which examines the kingdom’s strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats it faces in internal and external arenas. This book combines a historical and contemporary analysis of Saudi politics and society.
World / Middle Eastern
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The Evolution of the Turkish School Textbooks from Atatürk to Erdogan
By Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 1698 0
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 6966 6 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1697 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book highlights Turkey’s transformation from Atatürk to Erdogan by providing a comprehensive insight on the indoctrination process of the dominant political ideologies through the history, religion, civics, and national security studies textbooks.
World / Middle Eastern
Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence
By Muhammet Koçak
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1573 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Turkey-Russia Relations in the twenty-first century. It analyzes the complex interactions between Turkey and Russia within the wider regional and global dynamics.
World / Middle Eastern
Turkish-Qatari Relations From Past to Present in a Turbulent Geopolitical Landscape
By Özgür Pala and Khalid Al-Jaber
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0172 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1733 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Turkish-Qatari relations from the nineteenth century to the present. The authors argue that conducive structural dynamics and ambitious geopolitical goals facilitated critical foreign policy convergences between Ankara and Doha, eventually developing into a strategic partnership between the two countries.
World / Middle Eastern
Conflict Areas in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Edited by Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu and Arda Özkan
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 468 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5125 9 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1266 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
The aim of the study is to make sense of the political problems experienced in two regions that are economically, socially and politically similar, such as the Caucasus and Central Asia. For this purpose, frozen conflict zones produced by ethnic / religious conflicts faced by the countries of the region will be examined.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Turkey and the Post-Pandemic World Order
Edited by Ahmet Salih Ikiz
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3850 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the post-pandemic era with special emphasis on Turkey. It evaluates the current role of Turkey with respect to economic, security, and foreign policy perspectives.
World / Middle Eastern
Turkish-American Relations since 1783
Edited by Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç and Bestami S. Bỉlgiç
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0832 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8336 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The recent turbulence in Turkish-American relations has once more drawn attention to the nature of the seventy-year-old alliance between Turkey and the United States. This elaborative study demonstrates that turbulence is not a novelty in bilateral relations.
World / Middle Eastern
Belarus Prospects of a Middle Power
By Piotra P. Murzionak
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5491 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4922 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Belarusian history since the ninth century CE. The author analyzes issues surrounding Belarusian society regarding identity, religion, elites, and recent events since 2020 and argues for a Western-oriented identity.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Post-Soviet Conflicts
The Thirty Years’ Crisis
Edited by Ali Askerov; Stefan Brooks and Lasha Tchantouridze
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 398 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9656 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 6541 1 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9655 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Thirty years have passed since the emergence of the first conflicts in the Soviet Union. Some of them have been successfully resolved, but those that persist promise no peace for Russia and its neighbors.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
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Putin’s Russia, Eighth Edition
Edited by Darrell Slider - With Stephen K. Wegren Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 454 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4867 9 • $104.00 / £80.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8686 6 • $49.00 / £38.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4869 3 • $47.00 / £36.00
Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the domestic and international problems Russia confronts, considering a comprehensive array of economic, political, foreign policy, and social issues.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Conservatism Managing Change under Permanent Revolution
By Glenn Diesen
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5000 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9980 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4999 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
An analysis of Russian conservatism from the 19th century to contemporary Russia.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Long Telegram 2.0 A Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia
By Peter Eltsov
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 198 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0240 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2381 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0239 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Inspired by the telegram that the legendary American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan sent from Moscow to Washington in February 1946, The Long Telegram 2.0 provides an original explanation of contemporary Russia, exploring its resurgent imperial character and predicting its forthcoming disintegration.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
By Brian J. Robinson
Fortress
Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul’s use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians, showing that the apostle consistently undermines first-century Roman norms of masculinity.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Russia’s Foreign Policy Change and Continuity in National Identity, Sixth Edition
By Andrei P. Tsygankov
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6148 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1494 4 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6150 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book focuses on Russia’s distinct concepts of the national interest and attempts to cooperate and compete with the West. It explains foreign policy by changes in Russia’s identity and interaction with the Western powers. It also evaluates Russia’s international accomplishments and losses, and it draws lessons for policy makers.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology
Edited by Guoli Liu and Joanna Drzewieniecki
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 482 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0635 6 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6363 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
This collection presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies. The contributors examine governance issues in Russia in comparative perspective and examine key theoretical issues, such as incorporating the philosophies of science and technology into political studies.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies Perspectives on Racial Justice
Edited by Loni Bramson and Layli Maparyan
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0016 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0170 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides new material on the members of the Bahá’í Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahá’ís’ efforts to address America’s “most challenging issue.”
Baha’i
Gender and Second-Temple Judaism
Edited by Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0788 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7863 3 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0787 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Gender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
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Subordinate Men Paul’s Rhetoric of Gender and Power in
Corinthians
Being
1
Academic August 2022 • 282 pages Paperback 978 1 9787 0335 3 • $39.99 / £31.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3339 9 • $122.00 / £94.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0334 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
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