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U.S. Politics............................................2-5
Studies in the
Modern Presidency...............................6
Stanford Briefs....................................6-7
Middle East Politics.......................... 8-9
Emerging Frontiers in
the Global Economy.............................9
Political Economy................................ 10
Comparative Politics and IR....... 10-11
Studies of the Walter H.
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center....................................12
Studies in Asian Security............ 13-14
Political History............................... 14-15
Political Theory................................16-17
Political Anthropology..................17-18
Now in Paperback................................ 19
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Tyranny Comes Home
The Domestic Fate of
U.S. Militarism
Christopher J. Coyne and
Abigail R. Hall
Many Americans believe that
foreign military intervention is
central to protecting our domestic
freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne
and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged
citizens to think again. Under
certain conditions, policies, tactics,
and technologies that are used
overseas in the name of national
defense are re-imported to America,
changing the national landscape
and increasing the extent to which
we live in a police state.
Coyne and Hall examine this
pattern—which they dub “the
boomerang effect”—considering
a variety of rich cases that include
the rise of state surveillance, the
militarization of domestic law
enforcement, the expanding use of
drones, and torture in U.S. prisons.
Synthesizing research and applying
an economic lens, they develop a
generalizable theory to predict and
explain a startling trend. Tyranny
Comes Home unveils a new aspect
of the symbiotic relationship
between foreign interventions and
domestic politics.
280 pages, April 2018
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The High Cost of
Good Intentions
A History of U.S. Federal
Entitlement Programs
John F. Cogan
Federal entitlement programs are
strewn throughout the pages of U.S.
history, springing from the noble
purpose of assisting people who are
destitute through no fault of their
own. Yet as federal entitlement
programs have grown, so too have
their inefficiency and their cost.
The High Cost of Good Intentions is
the first comprehensive history of
these federal entitlement programs.
Combining economics, history,
political science, and law, John F.
Cogan reveals how the creation of
entitlements brings forth a steady
march of liberalizing forces that
cause entitlement programs to
expand. This process is as visible
in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries as in the present day. His
work provides a unifying explana-
tion for the evolutionary path
that nearly all federal entitlement
programs have followed over the
past 200 years, tracing both their
shared past and the financial risks
they pose for future generations.
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2 U.S. POLITICS
After the Rise and Stall of
American Feminism
Taking Back a Revolution
Lynn S. Chancer
Across the decades, the feminist
movement brought about signi-
ficant progress on workplace
discrimination, reproductive
rights, and sexual assault. Yet, the
proverbial million-dollar question
remains: why is there still so much
to be done?
With this book, Lynn S. Chancer
takes stock of the American feminist
movement and engages with a new
burst of feminist activism. She
articulates four common causes—
advancing political and economic
equality, allowing intimate and
sexual freedom, ending violence
against women, and expanding
the cultural representation of
women—considering each in turn
to assess what has been gained
(or not). It is around these shared
concerns, Chancer argues, that
we can continue to build a vibrant
and expansive feminist movement.
Ultimately, this book is about not
only redressing problems, but also
reasserting a future for feminism
and its enduring ability to change
the world.
232 pages, February 2019
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Ballot Blocked
The Political Erosion of the
Voting Rights Act
Jesse H. Rhodes
Over the past five decades, both
Democrats and Republicans in
Congress have consistently voted
to expand the protections offered
by the Voting Rights Act. And yet,
the administration of the VRA has
become more fragmented, and
judicial interpretation of its terms
has become much less generous.
Ballot Blocked argues that
conservatives adopt a paradoxical
strategy in which they acquiesce to
expansive voting rights protections
in Congress (where decisions are
visible and easily traceable) while
simultaneously narrowing the
scope of federal enforcement via
administrative and judicial ma-
neuvers (which are less visible and
harder to trace). Over time, this
strategy has enabled a conservative
Supreme Court to exercise prepon-
derant influence over the scope of
federal enforcement.
“Bold and richly detailed. Rhodes pro-
vides timely and crucial new insights.”
—Vesla Weaver,
Yale University
STANFORD STUDIES IN LAW
AND POLITICS
280 pages, 2017
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Judicial Independence and
the American Constitution
A Democratic Paradox
Martin H. Redish
The Framers of the American
Constitution established a judicial
branch to protect and enforce
constitutional limits. They recognized
that, paradoxically, only a counter-
majoritarian judicial branch can
ensure the continued vitality of our
representational government.
This paradox of American democracy
has been challenged and often ignored
by office holders and legal scholars.
Martin H. Redish defends the central-
ity of these special protections of
judicial independence. He explains
how the nation’s system of counter-
majoritarian constitutionalism cannot
survive absent the vesting of final
powers of constitutional interpretation
and enforcement in the one branch of
government expressly protected from
direct political accountability: the
judicial branch.
“Ignore Redish at your peril. This
well-written and accessible book is
sure to be oft-cited for decades.”
—Charles Geyh,
Maurer School of Law,
Indiana University
272 pages, 2017
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U.S. POLITICS 3
 The Transparency Fix
Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable
Government Information
Mark Fenster
Government information cannot
be controlled. The Transparency
Fix asserts that both transparency
movements and secrecy advocates
hold the mistaken belief that
government information can be
released or kept secure on command.
In truth, the world did not end
because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks,
and Edward Snowden released
classified information. But nor
was there a significant political
change. Using a variety of examples
to examine how government
information actually flows, Mark
Fenster describes how the legal
regime’s tenuous control over state
information belies the promise and
peril of transparency. He challenges
us to confront the implausibility of
controlling government information
despite our obsession with trans-
parency and secrecy.
“No one has done more than Mark
Fenster to challenge the premises and
policies of the open government move-
ment. This book will be foundational
in critical transparency studies.”
—David Pozen,
Columbia Law School
296 pages, 2017
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4 U.S. POLITICS
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Khiara M. Bridges
The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes
a simple, controversial argument:
Poor mothers in America are
deprived of the right to privacy.
The U.S. Constitution is supposed
to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor
are subject to invasions of privacy
that are gross demonstrations of
governmental power. Khiara M.
Bridges investigates poor mothers’
experiences with the state—both
when they receive public assistance
and when they do not. Presenting
a holistic view of how the state
intervenes in all facets of poor
mothers’ privacy, Bridges turns
popular thinking on its head, arguing
that these women simply do not
have familial, informational, and
reproductive privacy rights. Further,
she asserts that until we disrupt
the cultural narratives that equate
poverty with immorality, nothing
will change.
“This book calls us to rethink the very
meaning of the right to privacy and
to end the unjust and unsupportable
moral condemnation of poverty.”
—Dorothy Roberts,
author of Killing the Black Body
296 pages, 2017
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The Balance Gap
Working Mothers and the
Limits of the Law
Sarah Cote Hampson
In recent decades, laws and
workplace policies have emerged
that seek to address the “balance”
between work and family. Millions
of women in the U.S. take time
off when they give birth or adopt
a child, making use of “family-
friendly” laws and policies.
The Balance Gap traces the
paths individual women take in
understanding and invoking work/
life balance laws and policies.
Conducting in-depth interviews
in two distinctive workplace set-
tings—public universities and the
U.S. military—Sarah Cote Hampson
uncovers how women navigate the
laws and the unspoken cultures
of their institutions. As Hampson
shows, these policies and women’s
abilities to understand and utilize
them have fallen short of alleviating
the tensions women experience.
“Elegantly written and timely,
The Balance Gap is a rigorous
call to action in transforming how
we view the ideal mother and the
ideal worker.”
—Renée Ann Cramer,
Drake University
184 pages, 2017
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Raised Right
Fatherhood in Modern
American Conservatism
Jeffrey R. Dudas
What, and who, holds together
the modern conservative move-
ment’s corporate interests, small-
government libertarians, social
traditionalists, and evangelical
Christians? Raised Right pursues
an answer through a study of three
iconic figures: National Review editor
William F. Buckley, Jr., President
Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas. Jeffrey R.
Dudas identifies a “paternal rights
discourse”—arguments about father-
hood and rights that permeate the
men’s personal lives and political
visions. Each argued that paternal
discipline produced autonomous
citizens worthy and capable of
self-governance, which provided the
cohesive agent for an entire move-
ment, uniting its celebration of its
“founding fathers,” past and present,
constitutional and biological.
“I began this book a skeptic and
finished it a convert. A true tour
de force.”
—Malcolm M. Feeley,
University of California, Berkeley
THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW
224 pages, 2017
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The “Catholicization” of the United
States is a recent phenomenon and
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Presidential Leverage
Presidents, Approval, and
the American State
Daniel E. Ponder
For scholars, pundits, the public,
and presidents themselves, presi-
dential approval is an evergreen
subject. Its actual impact, however,
is often unclear: all too frequently
approval is reported in a vacuum,
dissociated from the American
state writ large. Presidential Leverage
reaffirms the importance of this
contested metric. By situating ap-
proval within the context of public
trust in government, Daniel E.
Ponder reveals how approval shapes
presidential strategies for govern-
ing, providing a useful measure
of the president’s place in the
political system. Ponder examines
this contextualized approval from
John F. Kennedy’s administration
through Barack Obama’s, showing
how it has shaped presidential
capacity and autonomy, agenda
setting, landmark legislation, and
unilateral action.
“Engaging and thoughtful, rich
in its historical inquiry and
contemporary relevance.”
—Rodney Hero,
Arizona State University and
President, American Political
Science Association (2014-15)
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6 STUDIES IN THE MODERN PRESIDENCY
A SERIES EDITED BY SHIRLEY ANNE WARSHAW
The Dual Executive
Unilateral Orders in a Separated
and Shared Power System
Michelle Belco and
Brandon Rottinghaus
Popular perception holds that
presidents resort to unilateral orders
to promote an agenda and head
off unfavorable legislation. Little
research, however, has considered
the diverse circumstances in which
such orders are issued. The Dual
Executive reinterprets how and when
presidents use unilateral power by
illuminating the dual roles of the
president. Drawing from an original
data set of over 5,000 executive
orders and proclamations from the
Franklin D. Roosevelt to the George
W. Bush administrations, this book
situates unilateral orders within the
broad scope of executive–legislative
relations. Michelle Belco and Brandon
Rottinghaus recast the executive as
both an aggressive “commander”
and a cooperative “administrator”
who uses unilateral power not only
to circumvent Congress, but also to
support and facilitate its operations.
“Belco and Rottinghaus provide fresh
insight into the use and limits of
unilateral power.”
—Douglas L. Kriner,
Boston University
256 pages, 2017
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StanfordBRIEFS
What Is a Border?
Manlio Graziano
The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol
of the bipolar order that emerged
after World War II, seemed to
inaugurate an age of ever fewer
borders. The liberalization and
integration of markets, the creation
of vast free-trade zones, and the
birth of a new political and mon-
etary union in Europe, for instance,
all appeared to point in that
direction. Only thirty years later,
though, boundaries and borders
are expanding in number and being
reintroduced in places where they
had virtually been abolished. Is
this an out-of-step, deceptive last
gasp of national sovereignty or the
victory of the weight of history over
the power of place? The fact that
borders have made a comeback,
warns Manlio Graziano, does not
mean that they will resolve any
problems. His geopolitical history
and analysis draws our attention
to the ground shifting under our
feet in the present and allows us to
speculate on what might happen in
the future.
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Anchor Babies and
the Challenge of
Birthright Citizenship
Leo R. Chavez
Birthright citizenship has a deep
and contentious history in the
United States, one often hard to
square in a country that prides
itself on being “a nation of immi-
grants.” Recently, a provocative and
decidedly more offensive term than
birthright citizenship has emerged:
“anchor babies.” Leo R. Chavez
counters the often-hyperbolic
claims surrounding this term. He
considers how it is used as a political
dog whistle, how changes in the
legal definition of citizenship have
affected the children of immigrants
over time, and, ultimately, how
U.S.-born citizens still experience
trauma if they live in families with
undocumented immigrants. By
examining this pejorative term in
its political, historical, and social
contexts, Chavez calls upon us to
exorcise it from public discourse
and work toward building a more
inclusive nation.
120 pages, 2017
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Living Emergency
Israel’s Permit Regime in the
Occupied West Bank
Yael Berda
In 1991, the Israeli government
introduced emergency legislation
canceling the general exit permit
that allowed Palestinians to enter
Israel. The directive, effective for
one year, has been reissued annually
ever since, turning the Occupied
Territories into a closed military
zone. Today, Israel’s permit regime
for Palestinians is one of the world’s
most extreme and complex appara-
tuses for population management.
Living Emergency brings readers
inside the permit regime, and offers
a first-hand account of how the
Israeli secret service, government,
and military civil administration
control the Palestinian population.
Through numerous interviews, Yael
Berda reconstructs the institutional
framework of the labyrinthine
permit regime, illuminating both
its overarching principles and its
administrative practices.
152 pages, 2017
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BRICS or Bust?
Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
Hartmut Elsenhans and
Salvatore Babones
Once among the fastest developing
economies, growth has slowed
or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India,
China, and South Africa. What
policies can governments enact
to jump-start the rise of these
middle-income countries? BRICS
or Bust? argues that economic
catch-up requires investment
in the productivity of ordinary
citizens. Diverging from the
popular narrative of increased
liberalization, it calls for direct
government investment in human
infrastructure, policies that
increase wages and the bargaining
power of labor, and the strategic
use of exchange rates to encourage
export-led growth. Examining
barriers to implementation,
Hartmut Elsenhans and Salvatore
Babones find that the main
obstacle to such reforms is an
absence of political will, stemming
from closely guarded elite privilege
under the current laws.
128 pages, 2017
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 Hamas Contained
The Rise and Pacification of
Palestinian Resistance
Tareq Baconi
Various accusations and critical
assumptions have been used to
justify extreme military action
against Hamas. The reality is, of
course, far more complex. Neither
a terrorist group nor a democratic
political party, Hamas is a multifaceted
liberation organization rooted in the
nationalist claims of the Palestinian
people. Hamas Contained offers
the first history of the group on its
own terms. Drawing on interviews
with organization leaders, as well as
publications from the group, that-
Tareq Baconi maps Hamas’s thirty-
year transition from fringe military
resistance towards governance. He
shows how the movement’s ideology
threatens the Palestinian struggle and,
inadvertently, its own legitimacy.
“Ground-breaking, rigorously
researched, and strikingly fair-
minded, Hamas Contained is
essential reading.”
—Avi Shlaim,
University of Oxford
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
368 pages, May 2018
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8 MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
For the War Yet to Come
Planning Beirut’s Frontiers
Hiba Bou Akar
Beirut is a city divided. Following
the Green Line of the civil war,
dividing the Christian east and
the Muslim west, today hundreds
of such lines dissect the city.
With unclear state structures
and outsourced public processes,
urban planning has become a
contest between religious-political
organizations and profit-seeking
developers. For the War Yet to Come
examines urban planning in three
neighborhoods of Beirut’s south-
eastern peripheries, revealing how
these areas have been developed to
reproduce poverty, displacement,
and urban violence. Hiba Bou Akar
argues these neighborhoods are
arranged according to the logic of
“the war yet to come,” playing on
fears and differences, rumors of
war, and paramilitary strategies to
organize everyday life.
“Fascinating, theoretically astute,
and empirically rich, For the War Yet
to Come enriches our understanding
of fragile cities in the Middle East
and beyond.”
—Asef Bayat,
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
264 pages, September 2018
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Hotels and Highways
The Construction of Modernization
Theory in Cold War Turkey
Begüm Adalet
The early decades of the Cold War
presented seemingly boundless
opportunity for the construction
of “laboratories” of American
society abroad. With this book,
Begüm Adalet reveals how Turkey
became both the archetypal model
of modernization and an active
partner for its enactment. In track-
ing the growth and transmission
of modernization as a theory and
in practice in Turkey, Hotels and
Highways offers not only a specific
history of a postwar development
model that continues to influence
our world, but also a widely relevant
consideration of how theoretical
debates ultimately take shape in
concrete situations.
“Hotels and Highways gives a clear
understanding how U.S. hegemony
was conceived and implemented in
the aftermath of World War II. Any-
body interested in twentieth-century
experiences of modernity and U.S.
power in the Middle East will need
to read this book.”
—Reşat Kasaba,
University of Washington
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
304 pages, April 2018
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Revolution without
Revolutionaries
Making Sense of the Arab Spring
Asef Bayat
The revolutionary wave that swept
the Middle East in 2011 was marked
by spectacular mobilization. However,
it has caused limited shifts in struc-
tures of power, leaving much of the
old political and social order intact.
In this book, Asef Bayat uncovers
why this occurred and what made
these uprisings so distinct from
those that came before.
Revolution without Revolutionaries
is both a history of the Arab Spring
and a history of revolution writ
broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings
side by side with the revolutions of
the 1970s, particularly the Iranian
Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound
global shift in the nature of protest:
protestors call for reform rather than
fundamental transformation.
“Asef Bayat is in the vanguard of a
subtle and original theorization of
social movements and social change
in the Middle East. Essential reading.”
—Juan Cole,
University of Michigan
STANFORD STUDIES IN MIDDLE
EASTERN AND ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
AND CULTURES
312 pages, August 2017
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Nanotechnology
Regulation at the Nexus of
Environmental Politics and
International Security
Kirsten Rodine-Hardy
Twenty years ago, scientists and
policymakers proclaimed that
nanotechnology would cure cancer,
remediate environmental destruction,
and boost the economy. Over
sixty countries created national
nanotechnology initiatives, yet
some countries succeeded more
than others in capitalizing on
these promises.
The innovation imbalance can be
explained by the fact that policy
entrepreneurs act through global
diffusion channels and national
regulatory regimes. Kirsten Rodine-
Hardy establishes a framework to
analyze trends in policies, markets,
and regulations. Comparative
case studies reveal the U.S.’s
market-oriented and decentralized
approach, the EU’s government-led
and precautionary approach, and
developing nations’ state-led—yet
fragmented—approach. The book
transforms our understanding
of the nexus of global markets,
environment, and security.
216 pages, February 2019
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EMERGING FRONTIERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
A SERIES EDITED BY J. P. SINGH
Globalization Under and
After Socialism
The Evolution of Transnational
Capital in Central and
Eastern Europe
Besnik Pula
The post-communist states of
Central and Eastern Europe have
gone from being among the world’s
most closed, autarkic economies
to some of the most export-
oriented and globally integrated.
Besnik Pula reaches deep into the
region’s history and comparatively
examines its long-run industrial
development to explain this shift.
In the 1970s, Central and Eastern
European socialist leaders intensified
engagements with the capitalist
West, which challenged the Stalinist
developmental model in favor of
exports and transnational integra-
tion. A new reliance on exports
launched the integration of Eastern
European industry into value
chains that cut across the East-West
political divide. This book enriches
our understanding of a regional
shift while also explaining the
distinct international roles that
Central and Eastern European
states have assumed in the globalized
twenty-first century.
272 pages, July 2018
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 Self-Regulation and
Human Progress
How Society Gains When
We Govern Less
Evan Osborne
Most of us are familiar with free-
market competition: the idea that
society and the economy benefit
when people are left to self-regulate,
testing new ideas in pursuit of profit.
Less known is the fact that this
theory arose after arguments for the
scientific method and freedom of
speech had gone mainstream—and
that all three share a common basis.
It was long thought that society was
better left to organize itself through
free markets as opposed to political
institutions. But, over the twentieth
century, we became less confident
in the notion of a self-regulating
socioeconomy. Evan Osborne traces
the rise and fall of this once-popular
concept. He argues that as society
becomes more complex, self-regula-
tion becomes more efficient and can
once again serve our economy well.
“Osborne’s argument and ability to
connect disparate tidbits expanded
my own knowledge a great deal.”
—Gary Wolfram,
Hillsdale College
272 pages, January 2018
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10 POLITICAL ECONOMY
Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in
Indian Microfinance
Sohini Kar
Microfinance is the business of
giving small, collateral-free loans to
poor borrowers that are paid back
in frequent intervals with interest.
While for-profit microfinance
institutions (MFIs) promise social
and economic empowerment, they
have mainly succeeded at enfolding
the poor—especially women—into
the vast circuits of global finance.
Financializing Poverty ethnographi-
cally examines how the emergence
of MFIs has allowed financial
institutions in the city of Kolkata,
India, to capitalize on the poverty of
its residents. Sohini Kar shows that
rigid forms of credit risk manage-
ment used by MFIs reproduce
the very inequality the loans are
meant to alleviate. Moreover, she
argues, the use of life insurance
to manage high mortality rates
of poor borrowers has led to the
collateralization of life itself.
“Kar has beautifully rendered much
hard-won and illuminating ethno-
graphic data into compelling prose.”
—Gustav Peebles,
The New School
SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION
280 pages, July 2018
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Under Contract
The Invisible Workers of
America’s Global War
Noah Coburn
War is one of the most lucrative job
markets for an increasingly global
workforce. Most of the work on
American bases has been outsourced
to private firms that then contract
out individual jobs, often to the
lowest bidder. An “American” base
in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed
with workers from places like Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines,
Turkey, Bosnia, and Nepal: so-called
“third-country nationals.”
Noah Coburn traces this unseen
workforce across seven countries,
following the workers’ often
zigzagging journey to war. He
confronts the varied conditions
third-country nationals encounter,
ranging from near slavery to more
mundane forms of exploitation.
Under Contract unspools a complex
global web of how modern wars are
fought and supported, narrating war
stories unlike any other. Coburn’s
experience forces readers to reckon
with the moral questions of a
hidden global war-force and the
costs being shouldered by foreign
nationals in our name.
408 pages, September 2018
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS
AND IR
Challenged Hegemony
The United States, China, and
Russia in the Persian Gulf
Steve A. Yetiv and
Katerina Oskarsson
Few issues in international affairs
and energy security animate thinkers
more than the classic topic of
hegemony, and the case of the
Persian Gulf is particularly fertile
ground for considering this concept.
Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina
Oskarsson offer a panoramic study
of hegemony and foreign powers
in the Persian Gulf, presenting
the most comprehensive, data-
driven portrait to date of their
evolving relations.
The authors argue that the United
States has become hegemonic in the
Persian Gulf, ultimately protecting
oil security for the entire global
economy. Through an analysis of
official and unofficial diplomatic
relations, trade statistics, military
records, and more, they provide a
detailed account of how U.S. hegemony
and oil security have grown in
tandem, as, simultaneously, China
and Russia have increased their
political and economic presence.
256 pages, January 2018
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The Power of Economists
within the State
Johan Christensen
The spread of market-oriented
reforms has been one of the major
political and economic trends of
the late twentieth and early twenty-
first centuries. Governments have
adopted policies that have led to
deregulation; yet, some countries
have embraced these policies more
than others. Johan Christensen
examines one major contributor to
this disparity: the entrenchment of
U.S.-trained, neoclassical economists in
political institutions the world over.
While previous studies have high-
lighted the role of political parties
and production regimes, Christensen
uses comparative case studies of
New Zealand, Ireland, Norway, and
Denmark to show how the influence
of economists affected the extent to
which each nation adopted market-
oriented tax policies. He finds that,
in countries where economic experts
held powerful positions, neoclassical
economics broke through with
greater force.
“A finely tuned and deeply knowl-
edgeable account. A page-turner
on tax policy is surely an event
to celebrate.”
—Mark Granovetter,
Stanford University
232 pages, 2017
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COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND IR
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque,
Nicolas Martin, David Picherit,
Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud, and
Clarinda Still
“Mafia” has become an indigenous
South Asian term. Like Italian
mobsters, the South Asian “gangster
politicians” are known for inflicting
brutal violence while simultaneously
upholding vigilante justice—inspiring
fear and fantasy. But the term also
refers to the diffuse spheres of
crime, business, and politics operat-
ing within a shadow world that is
popularly referred to as the rule of
the mafia, or “Mafia Raj.”
Through intimate stories of the lives
of powerful and aspiring bosses in
India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,
this book illustrates their personal
struggles for sovereignty as they
climb the ladder of success.
Ethnographically tracing the par-
ticularities of the South Asian case,
the authors theorize what
they call “the art of bossing,”
providing nuanced ideas about
crime, corruption, and the lure of
the strongman across the world.
SOUTH ASIA IN MOTION
360 pages, December 2018
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11
 Dynasties and Democracy
The Inherited Incumbency
Advantage in Japan
Daniel M. Smith
Although democracy is, in principle,
the antithesis of dynastic rule,
families with multiple members
in elective office continue to be
common around the world. In most
democracies, the proportion of such
“democratic dynasties” declines
over time, and rarely exceeds ten
percent of all legislators. Japan is
a startling exception, with over a
quarter of all legislators in recent
years being dynastic. In Dynasties
and Democracy, Daniel M. Smith
sets out to explain when and why
dynasties persist in democracies,
and why their numbers are
only now beginning to wane in
Japan—questions that have long
perplexed regional experts. His
findings extend far beyond Japan,
shedding light on the causes and
consequences of dynastic politics
for democracies around the world.
“It is hard to think of a sharper
evaluation of the effects of political
institutions on the quality and
nature of democratic competition.”
—Frances McCall Rosenbluth,
Yale University
384 pages, July 2018
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12 STUDIES OF THE WALTER H. SHORENSTEIN ASIA-PACIFIC RESEARCH CENTER
A SERIES EDITED BY ANDREW G. WALDER
Zouping Revisited
Adaptive Governance in a
Chinese County
Edited by Jean C. Oi and
Steven Goldstein
China has undergone dramatic
change in its economic institutions
in recent years, but surprisingly little
change politically. Somehow, the
political institutions seem capable
of governing a vastly more complex
market economy and a rapidly
changing labor force. One possible
explanation is that within the old
organizational molds there have
been subtle but profound changes
to the ways these governing bodies
actually work. This book takes the
local government of Zouping County
and finds that it has been able to
evolve significantly through ad hoc
bureaucratic adaptations and accom-
modations that drastically change
the operation of government
institutions. The picture that emerges
is one of institutional agility and
creativity as a new form of resilience
within an authoritarian regime.
“Grounded in the soil of rural China,
this book examines the startling ways
old institutional structures are repur-
posed to perform new functions.”
—David M. Lampton,
Johns Hopkins University
248 pages, February 2018
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Uneasy Partnerships
China’s Engagement with Japan,
the Koreas, and Russia in the
Era of Reform
Edited by Thomas Fingar
Uneasy Partnerships presents the
analysis and insights of practitioners
and scholars who have shaped and
examined China’s interactions with
key Northeast Asian partners—
Japan, the Koreas, and Russia.
Using the same empirical approach
employed in the companion
volume, The New Great Game,
this text analyzes the perceptions,
priorities, and policies of China and
its partners to explain why dyadic
relationships evolved as they have
during China’s rise. The findings are
used to identify patterns and trends
and to develop a framework that
can be used to illuminate and
explain Beijing’s engagement with
the rest of the world.
“A masterful examination of China’s
complex interactions with its immedi-
ate neighbors. The fine-grained strands
of this complex story are woven into
a compelling macro-level analysis of
Northeast Asia that will be applauded
by experts and generalists alike.”
—T. J. Pempel,
University of California, Berkeley
264 pages, 2017
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Rebranding China
Contested Status Signaling in the
Changing Global Order
Xiaoyu Pu
China is intensely conscious of its
status, at home and abroad. Contradic-
tory posturing as a fragile developing
country and a nascent global power
makes decoding China’s foreign policy
a challenge, generating uncertainty
in many parts of the world. Using the
metaphor of rebranding to understand
China’s varying displays of status,
Xiaoyu Pu analyzes a rising China’s
challenges and dilemmas on the
global stage.
Rebranding China demystifies how
the state represents its global position
by analyzing recent military trans-
formations, regional diplomacy, and
international financial negotiations.
Drawing on a sweeping body of
research, including original Chinese
sources and interdisciplinary ideas
from sociology, psychology, and
international relations, this book puts
forward an innovative framework for
interpreting China’s foreign policy.
“This is a must-read for anyone inter-
ested in China’s foreign relations and
China’s domestic political development “An enlightening and unbiased read.”
in the reform era.”
—Thomas J. Christensen,
Columbia University
208 pages, February 2019
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The Reputational Imperative
Nehru’s India in Territorial Conflict
Mahesh Shankar
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal
Nehru, left behind a legacy of both
great achievements and surprising
defeats. Most notably, he failed to
resolve the Kashmir dispute with
Pakistan and the territorial conflict
with China. Mahesh Shankar offers
a compelling and novel under-
standing of these puzzling foreign
policy missteps: reputation. India’s
investment in its international
image powerfully shaped the state’s
negotiation and bargaining tactics
during this period.
The Reputational Imperative
proves not only that reputation is a
significant driver in these conflicts
but also that it’s about more than
simply looking good on the global
stage. Shankar answers longstanding
questions about Nehru’s territorial
negotiations and provides a deeper
understanding of how a state’s global
image works. He highlights the
pivotal—yet often overlooked—
role reputation can play in a broad
global security context.
—Alex Weisiger,
University of Pennsylvania
256 pages, September 2018
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STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY
A SERIES EDITED BY AMITAV ACHARYA AND DAVID LEHENY
The Indonesian Way
ASEAN, Europeanization,
and Foreign Policy Debates in
a New Democracy
Jürgen Rüland
On December 31, 2015, the ten-
member Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) founded the
ASEAN Community (AC). Political
commentators and media outlets,
however, greeted its establishment
with little fanfare. Implicitly and
explicitly, they suggested that the AC
was only the beginning: Southeast
Asia, they seemed to say, was taking
its first steps on a linear process of
unification that would converge on
the model of the European Union.
In The Indonesian Way, Jürgen
Rüland challenges this previously
unquestioned diffusion of European
norms. Focusing on the reception of
ASEAN in Indonesia, Rüland traces
how foreign policy stakeholders
have responded to calls for ASEAN’s
Europeanization, ultimately fusing
them with their own distinctly
Indonesian form of regionalism.
“An essential study of comparative
regionalism and Indonesia’s role in the
ASEAN Charter.”
—Randall Schweller,
Editor-in-Chief, Security Studies
328 pages, 2017
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 Hard Target
Sanctions, Inducements, and the
Case of North Korea
Stephan Haggard and
Marcus Noland
This book captures the effects of
sanctions and inducements on North
Korea and reconstructs the role of
economic incentives around the
country’s nuclear program. Stephan
Haggard and Marcus Noland draw
on an array of evidence to show
the reluctance of the North Korean
leadership to weaken its grip on
foreign economic activity. They
argue that inducements have limited
effect on the regime, and instead
urge policymakers to think in terms
of gradual strategies. Hard Target
connects economic statecraft to the
marketization process to understand
North Korea and addresses a larger
debate over the merits and demerits
of “engagement” with adversaries.
“An innovative study of the evolving
political economy of North Korea.
Amid an increasing application of
sanctions, Hard Target contributes
much needed sophistication and nu-
ance to over-simplified debates about
dealing with North Korea.”
—John S. Park,
Harvard University
344 pages, 2017
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14 STUDIES IN
ASIAN SECURITY
Between Containment
and Rollback
The United States and the
Cold War in Germany
Christian Ostermann
In the aftermath of World War II,
American diplomats and policymakers
turned to the task of rebuilding Europe
while keeping Communism at bay,
confronting a divided Germany. Based
on recently declassified documents
from American, Russian, and German
archives, this book tells the story of
U.S. policy toward East Germany
from 1945 to 1953. As the American
approach shifted between the policy
of “containment” and more active
“rollback” of Communist power,
the Truman and Eisenhower
administrations worked to undermine
Soviet-backed Communist rule
without compromising economic
and nation-building interests in West
Germany. There was a darker side to
American policy in East Germany:
covert operations, propaganda, and
psychological warfare. This interna-
tional history tracks relations between
East German and Soviet Communists,
providing new perspectives on U.S.
foreign policy as Cold War
tensions coalesced.
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT
416 pages, February 2019
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POLITICAL HISTORY
Risen from Ruins
The Cultural Politics of
Rebuilding East Berlin
Paul Stangl
This book combines political analy-
sis with spatial and architectural
history to examine the urban land-
scape of East Berlin from the end of
World War II until the construction
of the Berlin Wall. Following the
destruction of the war, decision
makers balanced historic preserva-
tion against the opportunity to
model the Socialist future and reject
the example of the Nazi dictatorship
through architecture and urban
design. The political and ideological
agenda of East German elites and
the ruling Socialist Unity Party
(SED) had a profound effect on the
built environment. Paul Stangl’s
analysis expands our understand-
ing of urban planning, historic
preservation, and Socialist Realism
in East Berlin.
“A comprehensive analysis of the
politics of urban space in East Berlin.
A book of great breadth and depth,
it deserves a wide readership among
scholars of memory, urban space,
and Soviet Communism.”
—Michael Meng,
Clemson University
STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL AND
EASTERN EUROPE
352 pages, April 2018
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The Deepest Border
The Strait of Gibraltar and the
Making of the Modern Hispano-
African Borderland
Sasha D. Pack
The Deepest Border tells the story of
how a borderland society formed
around the Strait of Gibraltar, bring-
ing historical perspective to one of
the contemporary world’s critical
border zones. Sasha D. Pack draws
out connections often invisible to
national and mono-imperial histo-
ries. In conceptualizing the Strait
of Gibraltar region as a borderland,
Pack reconsiders the region’s major
tensions and conflicts, including the
Rif Rebellion, the Spanish Civil War,
the European phase of World War
II, the colonization and decoloniza-
tion of Morocco, and the ongoing
controversies over the exclaves
of Gibraltar, Ceuta, and Melilla.
Integrating these threads into a long
history of the region, The Deepest
Border speaks to broad questions
about how sovereignty operates on
the “periphery,” how borders are
constructed and maintained, and the
enduring legacies of imperialism and
colonialism.
368 pages, December 2018
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The Hijacked War
The Story of Chinese POWs
in the Korean War
David Cheng Chang
The Korean War lasted for three
years, one month, and two days—
but armistice talks occupied more
than two of those years, as 14,000
Chinese prisoners of war refused
to return to Communist China,
effectively hijacking the negotiations
of world leaders at a pivotal moment
in Cold War history. In The
Hijacked War, David Cheng Chang
vividly portrays the experiences
of Chinese prisoners in the dark,
cold, and damp tents of Koje
and Cheju islands in Korea and
how their decisions derailed the
high politics being conducted in
Washington, Moscow, and Beijing.
Drawing on newly declassified
archival materials from China,
Taiwan, and the United States and
interviews with surviving Chinese
and North Korean prisoners of
war, Chang depicts the struggle
over prisoner repatriation that
dominated the second half of the
Korean War—and changed the
course of the Cold War in East
Asia—in the prisoners’ own words.
528 pages, March 2019
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The Politics of Rights and the
1911 Revolution in China
Xiaowei Zheng
China’s 1911 Revolution was a
momentous political transforma-
tion. Its leaders, however, were not
rebellious troublemakers on the
periphery of imperial order. On
the contrary, they were a powerful
political and economic elite
deeply entrenched in local society.
The revolution they spearheaded
produced a new, democratic political
culture that enshrined national
sovereignty, constitutionalism,
and the rights of the people as
indisputable principles.
Based upon previously untapped
Qing and Republican sources,
The Politics of Rights and the 1911
Revolution in China is a nuanced
and colorful chronicle of the
revolution as it occurred in local
and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng
explores the ideas that motivated
the revolution, the popularization
of those ideas, and their animating
impact on the Chinese people at
large. The focus of the book is
not on the success or failure of
the revolution, but rather on the
transformative effect that revolution
has on people.
376 pages, January 2018
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POLITICAL HISTORY 15
 The Sexual Contract
30th Anniversary Edition,
With a New Preface by the Author
Carole Pateman
Thirty years after its initial publication,
The Sexual Contract remains a
groundbreaking work that chal-
lenges the standard view of the
implications of the idea, deeply
embedded in Western thought,
that we should think of the state as
if it were derived from an original
contract. This award-winning book,
by leading feminist political theorist
Carole Pateman, provides a critique
of the traditional social contract that
continues to be relevant to discussions
about the marriage contract and
the employment contract, as well as
to newer cases, such as the welfare
contract and the environmental
contract. With an updated preface
by the author, this book speaks to
ever-important questions about
freedom and subordination.
“The Sexual Contract is one of the
most challenging and thought-
provoking books that I have read…
it has significant implications for
contemporary feminist debates.”
—Feminist Review
280 pages, September 2018
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16 POLITICAL THEORY
Neoliberalism’s Demons
On the Political Theology
of Late Capital
Adam Kotsko
Neoliberalism is usually considered
an economic policy agenda, but
Neoliberalism’s Demons argues
that it is much more than that. A
complete worldview, neoliberalism
presents the competitive market-
place as the model for true human
flourishing, transforming every
aspect of our shared social life.
The book explores the sources of
neoliberalism’s remarkable success
and the roots of its current decline.
Neoliberalism’s appeal is its promise
of unfettered free choice, but that
freedom is a trap. If we choose
rightly, we ratify our own exploita-
tion. If we choose wrongly, we are
demonized as the cause of social
ills. By tracing the political and
theological roots of the neoliberal
concept of freedom, Adam Kotsko
offers a fresh perspective, one that
emphasizes the dynamics of race,
gender, and sexuality. He accounts
for the rise of right-wing populism,
arguing that, far from breaking
with the neoliberal model, it actually
doubles down on neoliberalism’s
most destructive features.
176 pages, September 2018
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The Political Theory
of Neoliberalism
Thomas Biebricher
Neoliberalism has become a dirty
word. Yet the term remains necessary
for understanding the varieties of
capitalism across space and time.
Arguing that neoliberalism
is widely misunderstood when
reduced to a doctrine of markets
and economics alone, this book
shows that it has a political dimen-
sion that we can reconstruct and
critique. By examining the views
of state, democracy, science, and
politics in the work of six major
figures—Eucken, Röpke, Rüstow,
Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan—
The Political Theory of Neoliberalism
offers the first comprehensive
account of the varieties of neoliberal
political thought. The book also
interprets recent neoliberal reforms
of the European Union to diagnose
contemporary capitalism more
generally. The latest economic
crises hardly brought the neoliberal
era to an end. Instead, as Thomas
Biebricher shows, we are witnessing
an authoritarian liberalism whose
reign has only just begun.
CURRENCIES: NEW THINKING FOR
FINANCIAL TIMES
264 pages, February 2019
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The Time of Money
Lisa Adkins
Speculation is often associated with
financial practices, but The Time
of Money makes the case that it
not be restricted to the financial
sphere. It argues that the expansion
of finance has created a distinctive
social world, one that demands a
speculative stance toward life in
general. Speculation changes our
relationship to time and orga-
nizes our social worlds to maximize
productive capacities around flows
of money. Defining features of
our age are hardwired to specula-
tive practices—stagnant wages,
indebtedness, the centrality of
women’s earnings to the household,
workfarism, and more. Examining
five features of our contemporary
economy, Lisa Adkins moves
beyond claims that indebtedness is
intrinsic to contemporary life and
vague declarations that the social
world has become financialized.
She delivers a precise examination
of the relation between finance and
society, one that is rich in empirical
and analytical detail.
CURRENCIES: NEW THINKING FOR
FINANCIAL TIMES
240 pages, September 2018
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The Art of Revolt
Snowden, Assange, Manning
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
When not decried as traitors,
Edward Snowden, Julian
Assange, and Chelsea Manning
are seen as whistle-blowers whose
crucial revelations are meant to
denounce a problem or correct
an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de
Lagasnerie, they are much more
than that. They are exemplars who
have reinvented an art of revolt.
Consciously or not, they have
inaugurated a new form of political
action and a new identity for the
political subject.
Anonymity as practiced by
WikiLeaks and the flight and
requests for asylum of Snowden and
Assange break with traditional forms
of democratic protest. As Lagasnerie
suggests, such solitary choices
challenge us to question classic
modes of collective action, calling
old conceptions of the state and
citizenship into question. In the
process, he pays homage to the
actions and lives of these three figures.
“A striking and radical new
perspective on truth-tellers in the
Internet age.”
—Sarah Harrison,
Director of the Courage Foundation
and WikiLeaks Associate
128 pages, 2017
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POLITICAL THEORY
Remote Freedoms
Politics, Personhood and
Human Rights in Aboriginal
Central Australia
Sarah E. Holcombe
This book investigates how universal
human rights are understood, prac-
ticed, negotiated, and challenged
in concert and in conflict with
Indigenous rights. Moving between
communities, government,
regional NGOs, and international
UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe
addresses how the notion of rights
plays out within the distinctive and
ambivalent sociopolitical context
of Australia, focusing specifically
on Indigenous women and their
experiences of violence. Engaging
in a translation of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights into
the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular
and observing various indigenous
interactions with law enforcement
and domestic violence outreach
programs, Holcombe reveals how,
in the postcolonial Australian
context, human rights are double-
edged. They enforce assimilation
to a neoliberal social order at the
same time that they empower and
enfranchise the Indigenous citizen
as a political actor.
STANFORD STUDIES IN
HUMAN RIGHTS
384 pages, July 2018
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ANTHROPOLOGY
 Contraband Corridor
Making a Living at the Mexico–
Guatemala Border
Rebecca Berke Galemba
The Mexico–Guatemala border
has emerged as a geopolitical
hotspot of illicit flows of both
goods and people. Contraband
Corridor seeks to understand the
border from the perspective of
its long-term inhabitants, includ-
ing petty smugglers of corn,
clothing, and coffee. Challenging
assumptions regarding security,
trade, and illegality, Rebecca
Berke Galemba details how these
residents engage in and justify
extralegal practices. Rather than
assuming that extralegal activities
necessarily threaten the state
and formal economy, Galemba’s
ethnography illustrates the
complex ways that the formal,
informal, legal, and illegal
economies intertwine.
“Contraband Corridor dares to
humanize those involved with
the trafficking of contraband. An
intimate approach to the lives
of Mexico–Guatemala border
inhabitants and their struggles to
survive in neoliberal times.”
—R. Aída Hernández Castillo,
author of Histories and Stories
from Chiapas
320 pages, 2017
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18 POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Campaigning for Children
Strategies for Advancing
Children’s Rights
Jo Becker
Campaigning for Children focuses
on contemporary children’s rights,
identifying the range of abuses that
affect children today, including
early marriage, female genital
mutilation, child labor, child sex
tourism, corporal punishment,
the impact of armed conflict, and
access to education. Jo Becker traces
the last 25 years of the children’s
rights movement, including the
evolution of international laws and
standards to protect children from
abuse and exploitation. From a
practitioner’s perspective, Becker
provides readers with careful
case studies of the organizations
and campaigns that are making a
difference in the lives of children,
and the relevant strategies that
have been successful—or not.
“Campaigning for Children, with
its most compelling evidence, will
go a long way in ensuring that
human rights of children are
protected worldwide.”
—Kailash Satyarthi,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and
Children’s Rights Activist
232 pages, 2017
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The Social Life of Politics
Ethics, Kinship, and Union
Activism in Argentina
Sian Lazar
A central motor of Argentine his-
torical and political development
since the early twentieth century,
unions have been the site of ac-
tive citizenship in both political
participation and the distribution
of social, economic, political, and
cultural rights.
The Social Life of Politics examines
the intimate, personal, and family
dimensions of two political activist
groups: the Union of National
Civil Servants (UPCN) and the
Association of State Workers
(ATE). These two unions represent
distinct political orientations
within Argentina’s broad and active
labor movement. Sian Lazar shows
how activists in both unions create
themselves as particular kinds of
militants and forms of political
community. The Social Life of
Politics places the lived experience
of political activism into historical
relief, and shows how ethics and
family values deeply inform the
process by which political actors
are formed, understood, and joined
together through collectivism.
256 pages, 2017
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Broke and Patriotic
Why Poor Americans Love
Their Country
Francesco Duina
Why are poor Americans so
patriotic? In Broke and Patriotic,
Francesco Duina contends that
the best way to answer this
question is to speak directly to
America’s most impoverished.
Spending time in bus stations,
Laundromats, senior citizen
centers, homeless shelters,
public libraries, and fast food
restaurants, he conducted over
60 revealing interviews in which
his participants explain how they
view themselves and their coun-
try. By giving them voice, Duina
sheds new light on a sector of
American society that we are
only beginning to recognize as
a powerful force in shaping the
country’s future.
“This is superlative ethnography,
allowing voices too little heard to
speak for themselves, and to do
so with pride. Social understand-
ings can be furthered more by this
book than by any other in
the marketplace.”
—John A. Hall,
McGill University
STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY
240 pages, 2017
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Witnesses of the Unseen
Seven Years in Guantanamo
Lakhdar Boumediene and
Mustafa Ait Idir
In 2001, Lakhdar Boumediene
and Mustafa Ait Idir were arrested
in Bosnia, wrongly accused of
participating in a terrorist plot,
and were flown, blindfolded
and shackled, to Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. For seven years, they
endured torture, harassment,
force-feedings, and beatings.
They had no opportunity to
argue their innocence until
2008, when the Supreme Court
issued a landmark ruling in their
case, confirming Guantanamo
detainees’ constitutional right to
challenge their detention. Weeks
later, a federal judge, stunned by
the absence of evidence against
them, ordered their release. Now
living in Europe and rebuilding
their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa
share a story that every American
ought to know.
“An intense, important read for
anyone interested in the American
government’s misguided efforts
at Guantanamo.”
—Kirkus Reviews
288 pages, 2017
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Jimmy Carter in Africa
Race and the Cold War
Nancy Mitchell
In the late 1970s, racism in the U.S.
undermined Americans’ efforts
to “win hearts and minds” abroad
and provided potent propaganda
to the Kremlin. As President Carter
confronted Africa, American foreign
policy slammed up against the
most explosive and raw aspect of
American domestic politics—racism.
Drawing on candid interviews with
Carter, as well as key diplomats,
and on an array of international
archival sources, Nancy Mitchell
offers a timely reevaluation of
the Carter administration and of
the man himself. Mitchell reveals
an administration not beset by
weakness and indecision, but
rather constrained by Cold War
dynamics and by the president’s
own temperament as he wrestled
with a divided public and his own
human failings.
“A truly definitive account of one of
the most challenging and important
aspects of my presidency.”
—Jimmy Carter,
Former President of
the United States
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL
HISTORY PROJECT
808 pages, 2016
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