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Comparative and
Regional Politics....................... 2-6
U.S. Politics.................................. 7-8
Democracy and
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Building Blocs

How Parties Organize Society

Edited by Cedric de Leon,
Manali Desai, and Cihan Tual

Do political parties merely represent

divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally
agreed that they do. But Building Blocs
argues the reverse: that some political
parties in fact shape divisions as
they struggle to remake the social
order. Drawing on the contributors
expertise in Indonesia, India, the
United States, Canada, Egypt, and
Turkey, this volume demonstrates
that the success and failure of parties
to politicize social differences has
dramatic consequences for democratic
change, economic development, and
other large-scale transformations.
When this politicization of divisions
becomes inconsistent, partisan calls
grow faint and the resulting vacuum
creates the possibility for other forms
of political expression. However,
when political parties exercise their
power efficiently, they are able to
silence certain interests. Building Blocs
exposes political parties as the most
influential agencies that structure
social divisions.
256 pp., 6 tables, 2 figures, 1 map, 2015
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C o m p a r ati v e a n d R e gi o n a l P o l itic s

Settlers in Contested Lands

Territorial Disputes and

Ethnic Conflicts

Edited by Oded Haklai and

Neophytos Loizides

Settlers feature in many protracted

territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts
around the world. This volume
illuminates how settler-related
conflicts emerge, evolve, and are
significantly more difficult to
resolve than other disputes.
Written by country experts, chapters
consider Israel and the West Bank,
Arab settlers in Kirkuk, Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara, settlers from
Fascist Italy in North Africa, Turkish
settlers in Cyprus, Indonesian settlers
in East Timor, and Sinhalese settlers
in Sri Lanka. Taken together, the cases
raise interrelated questions about the
role of settlers in conflicts in contested
territory. Then looking beyond the
similar characteristics, these cases also
illuminate key differences in levels of
settler mobilization and the impact
these differences can have on peace
processes to help explain different
outcomes of settler-related conflicts.
256 pp., 2015
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The Politics of Majority

Nationalism

Framing Peace, Stalemates,

and Crises
Neophytos Loizides

What drives the politics of majority

nationalism during crises and peace
mediations? This innovative work on
the comparative politics of majority
nationalism answers this important
questionfor both policy-makers and
scholarsby investigating how peacemakers succeed or fail in transforming
the language of ethnic nationalism and
war in their communities. The Politics
of Majority Nationalism focuses on the
Middle East and the Balkans to explore
crises, stalemates, and peace mediations
involving Turkey and Greece and including European Union, Kurdish, Cypriot,
Syrian and (Slav) Macedonian issues.
Exploring systematically, and for the
first time, the politics of majority
nationalism in its various manifestations, Neophytos Loizides shows how
ethnopolitical frames influence crisis
behavior, protracted stalemates, and
ultimately the choice of peace. He
provides a comprehensive account of the
failures and successes of accommodation mechanisms in the Middle East and
the Balkans and identifies the ideational
pre-conditions of peace and conflict
while highlighting for policy-makers
and mediators a set of tools to use when
communicating peace messages to local
and national constituencies.

Rights, Deportation,
and Detention in the Age
of Immigration Control
Tom K. Wong

Rights, Deportation, and Detention

in the Age of Immigration Control
focuses on what is arguably the most
contested, dynamic, and evolving set
of immigration policiesimmigration
controlby analyzing state efforts to
deter so-called unwanted immigration through the denial of rights to
non-citizens, their physical removal
and exclusion from the polity through
deportation, and their deprivation of
liberty and freedom of movement in
immigration detention.
In addition to answering the
question of why states do what
they do, the book describes contemporary trends in immigration
control, analyzes the determinants
of these trends, and examines
whether efforts to deter unwanted
immigration are actually working.
256 pp., 19 tables, 31 figures, 1 illustration, 2015
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Third Edition

Controlling Immigration

A Global Perspective

Edited by James F. Hollifield,

Philip L. Martin, and
Pia M. Orrenius

The third edition of this major work

provides a systematic, comparative
assessment of the efforts of a selection
of major countries, including the
U.S., to deal with immigration and
immigrant issues.
Retaining its comprehensive coverage
of nations built by immigrants and
those with a more recent history of
immigration, the new edition pays
particular attention to the tensions
created by post-colonial immigration
and explores how countries have
attempted to control the entry and
employment of legal and illegal
Third World immigrants, how they
cope with the social and economic
integration of these new waves of
immigrants, and how they deal with
forced migration.
The third edition of Controlling
Immigration: A Global Perspective
is the best so far. A must read for
academics and policymakers alike.
Susan Martin, Georgetown University

512 pp., 2014

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C o m p a r ati v e a n d R e gi o n a l P o l itic s

Imaginative Geographies
of Algerian Violence

Police Encounters

Ilana Feldman

Thomas Juneau

Jacob Mundy

From 1948 to 1967, Egyptian policing

of Gaza concerned itself not only
with crime and politics, but also with
control of social and moral order.
The police extended their reach into
private life, seeing Palestinians as
both security threats and vulnerable
subjects who needed protection.

The Islamic Republic of Iran faced

a favorable strategic environment
following the U.S. invasions of
Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
Its leadership attempted to exploit this
window of opportunity by assertively
seeking to expand Irans interests
throughout the Middle East. It fell far
short, however, of fulfilling its longstanding ambition of becoming the
dominant power in the Persian Gulf
and a leading regional power in the
broader Middle East.

Conflict Science, Conflict

Management, Antipolitics

The massacres that spread across Algeria

in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world,
both in their horror and in the international communitys failure to respond.
In the years following, the violence of
1990s Algeria has become a central case
study in new theories of civil conflict
and terrorism after the Cold War. Such
lessons of Algeria now contribute to a
diverse array of international efforts to
manage conflict.
With this book, Jacob Mundy raises a
critical lens to these lessons and sheds
light on an increasingly antipolitical
scientific vision of armed conflict. In
questioning the presumed lessons
of 1990s Algeria, Mundy shows that
the problem is not simply that these
understandingsthese imaginative
geographiesof Algerian violence
can be disputed. He shows that
todays leading strategies of conflict
management are underwritten by, and
so attempt to reproduce, their own
flawed logic. Ultimately, what these
policies and practices lead to is not a
world made safe from war, but rather a
world made safe for war.

Security and Surveillance in

Gaza under Egyptian Rule

Police Encounters explores this paradox

of Egyptian rule. In pursuit of security, Egyptian policing established a
relatively safe society, but also one that
blocked independent political activity.
Yet repression does not tell the entire
story. Policing also provided opportunities for people to make claims of
government, influence their neighbors,
and protect their families.
Stanford Studies in Middle
Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

224 pp., 8 illustrations, 1 map, 2015

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Official Stories

Politics and National Narratives

in Egypt and Algeria
Laurie A. Brand

Stanford Studies in Middle

Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

Stanford Studies in Middle

Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

280 pp., 2 tables, 1 figure, 12 illustrations, 2 maps, 2015

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Comparative and Regional Politics | Middle East

Squandered Opportunity

Neoclassical Realism and Iranian

Foreign Policy

In Squandered Opportunity, Thomas

Juneau develops a variant of neoclassical realism, a theory of foreign policy
mistakes, to explore the causes and
consequences of Irans sub-optimal
performance. Despite some gains,
Iran failed to maximize its power, its
security, and its influence in three
crucial areas: the Arab-Israeli conflict;
Iraq; and the nuclear program. Juneau
also predicts that, as the window of
opportunity steadily closes for Iran,
its power, security, and influence
will likely continue to decline in
coming years.
296 pp., 1 table, 2 figures, 2015
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Cities, Business, and the

Politics of Urban Violence
in Latin America
Eduardo Moncada

This book analyzes and explains the

ways in which major developing world
cities respond to the challenge of urban
violence. It introduces business as a
pivotal actor in the politics of urban
violence, and argues that how business
is organized within cities and its
linkages to local governments impacts
whether or not business supports or
subverts state efforts. Further, the
degree to which politiciansspecifically,
city mayorsrely upon clientelism to
secure and maintain power influences
whether they favor responses to violence that perpetuate or weaken local
political exclusion.
The book builds a new typology of
patterns of armed territorial control
within cities and shows that each poses
unique challenges and opportunities
for confronting urban violence across
Colombias three principal cities
Medellin, Cali, and Bogota. The analysis
demonstrates that the politics of urban
violence is a powerful new lens on
the broader question of who governs
in major developing world cities.
248 pp., 16 tables, 12 figures, 2016
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The Politics of Local

Participatory Democracy
in Latin America

Institutions, Actors, and

Interactions

The Shared Society

A Vision for the Global Future of

Latin America
Alejandro Toledo

Participatory democracy innovations

aimed at bringing citizens back into local
governance processes are becoming ever
more widespread. Yet, these innovations
have had mixed results in practice. Why
and how does success vary?

Latin America has gone through a

major transformation in the past two
decades. According to the United
Nations, Latin Americas economic
growth and development will only
continue, foreign investment will
increase, and the regions global influence will become greater and greater.

Drawing on the comparative case study

of four cities in Mexico and Brazil, Franoise Montambeault demonstrates that
the level of democratic success is best explained by an approach that accounts for
institutional design, structural conditions
of mobilization, and the configurations,
strategies, behaviors, and perceptions of
both state and societal actors.

Yet, as former Peruvian President

Alejandro Toledo points out, social
strife threatens to undermine this
progress. The specter of unsustainable
growth and greed threatens to compromise the environment. Economic
growth rates could slow and democracy
could deteriorate into familiar forms of
authoritarian populism.

Thus, institutional change alone does

not guarantee success: the way these
institutional changes are enacted by both
political and social actors is even more
important as it creates the potential for an
autonomous civil society to emerge.

In The Shared Society, Toledo develops

a plan for a future Latin America in
which its population is not only much
better off economically than today, but
in which the vast 40 percent of Latin
Americas poor and marginalized are
incorporated into a rising middle class,
democratic institutions work more
effectively, and the extraordinary
ecosystem of Latin America is
preserved. This is Toledos vision for
a just, sustainable, and prosperous
shared society.

Franoise Montambeault

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Continuity Despite Change

The Politics of Labor Regulation

in Latin America
Matthew E. Carnes
Social Science History

256 pp., 14 tables, 22 figures, 2014

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Comparative and Regional Politics | LATIN AMERICA

Chinas Futures

Disciplining Government Officials

Daniel C. Lynch

Chinese government officials have

played a crucial role in Chinas
economic development, but they are
also responsible for severe problems,
including environmental pollution,
violation of citizens rights, failure
in governance, and corruption. How
does the Chinese Party-state respond
in these instances? And how does it
balance the potential political costs of
disciplining its own agents versus the
loss of legitimacy in tolerating their
misdeeds? State and Agents in China
explores how the party-state addresses
this dilemma, uncovering the rationale
behind the selective disciplining of
government officials and its implications for governance in China.

Many Western thinkers and leaders

convey confident predictions about
the future of China. Typically missing
from these accounts is how people of
power and influence in China itself
imagine their countrys developmental
course. In Chinas Futures, Daniel
Lynch traces various possible national
trajectories based on how Chinas
own specialists are evaluating their
countrys current course and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of
predictioneering in Western social
science as applied to China.
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Electrifying India

Regional Political Economies

of Development
Sunila S. Kale

Sixty-five years after independence,

nearly 400 million Indians have no
access to electricity. Electrifying India
explores the political and historical
puzzle of the uneven development of
Indias vital electricity sectorexposing the political antecedents and social
consequences of electrification.
264 pp., 16 tables, 4 maps, 2014
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State and Agents in China

PRC Elites Debate Economics,

Politics, and Foreign Policy

Yongshun Cai

264 pp., 21 tables, 4 figures, 2014

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Patronage and Power

Local State Networks and PartyState Resilience in Rural China

Ben Hillman

216 pp., 6 illustrations, 2014

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Moscow in Movement

Power and Opposition in

Putins Russia

Protest Dialectics

State Repression and South Koreas

Democracy Movement, 1970-1979
Paul Y. Chang

In this groundbreaking work, Paul Y.

Chang highlights the importance of
state repression in the 1970s in shaping democratic mobilization in South
Korea. Protest Dialectics provides
readers with an in-depth analysis of
the emergence and evolution of the
democracy movement in a highly
authoritarian context.
312 pp., 9 tables, 14 figures, 8 illustrations, 2015
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Global Talent

Skilled Labor as Social Capital

in Korea
Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi

Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners by focusing on

their social capital potential, especially
their role as transnational bridges
between host and home countries.
Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi
reveal the unique benefits that foreign
students and professionals can provide
to Korea by enhancing Korean firms
competitiveness in the global marketplace and by generating new jobs for
Korean citizens.

Samuel A. Greene

Studies of the Walter H.

Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center

296 pp., 8 tables, 1 figure, 2014

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Comparative and Regional Politics | ASIA and RUSSIA

The Polythink Syndrome

U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions

on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran,
Syria, and ISIS
Alex Mintz and Carly Wayne

The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, explains that groups

make sub-optimal decisions due to
their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure
to consider other relevant possibilities.
But presidential advisory groups
are often fragmented and divisive.
This book therefore scrutinizes
polythink, a group decision-making
dynamic whereby different members
in a decision-making unit espouse a
plurality of opinions and divergent
policy prescriptions, resulting in a
disjointed decision-making process or
even decision paralysis.
The book analyzes eleven U.S. national
security decisions and addresses implications of the polythink phenomenon,
including how to avoid or overcome it.
The authors further develop strategies
and tools for what they call Productive
Polythink and show the applicability
of polythink to business, industry, and
everyday decisions.
208 pp., 1 table, 1 figure, 2015
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The Diplomat in the

Corner Office

Your Rugged Constitution

Timothy L. Fort

Your Rugged Constitution was first

published sixty-four years ago. It
quickly became a go-to resource for
generations of young Americans (and
some older ones too) who wanted to
understand the guiding principles of
our nation. Now in reissue, this truly
rugged and much-admired classic
is sure to inform, and also delight
readers with its retro 1950s ethos. Your
Rugged Constitution proceeds through
the text of the Constitution with
descriptions that are put in clear, easyto-understand language, accompanied
by commentary and lively drawings
so you can easily grasp all the ideas
and concepts. Under each section and
clause, you (yes, you, fellow American!) learn which powers you give to
the federal government, and what you
get in return. Your Rugged Constitution
helps readers understand that the
Constitution is no mere historical
document, but an important contract
between you and your government.

Corporate Foreign Policy

In The Diplomat in the Corner Office,
Timothy L. Fort, one of the founders
of the business and peace movement,
reflects on the progress of the movement over the past 15 years. In the 21st
century global business environment,
says Fort, businesses can and should
play a central role in peace-building,
and he demonstrates that it is to
companies strategic advantage to do so.
224 pp., 2016
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The Politics of American

Foreign Policy

How Ideology Divides Liberals and

Conservatives over Foreign Affairs
Peter Hays Gries

The Politics of American Foreign

Policy shows how ideology powerfully divides the American public. It
provides in-depth examinations of
the psychological roots and foreign
policy consequences of the liberalconservative divide. It then explores
in detail why American liberals and
conservatives disagree over U.S. policy
relating to Latin America, Europe, the
Middle East, East Asia, and international organizations such as the UN.

Bruce FINDLAY and

Esther Blair Findlay

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U.S. Politics

Capitalism v. Democracy

Gruesome Spectacles

Money in Politics and the Free

Market Constitution

Botched Executions and

Americas Death Penalty

Timothy K. Kuhner

Austin Sarat

As of the latest national elections, it

costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become
a Senator, and $1 million to become
a Member of the House. High-priced
campaigns, an elite class of donors and
spenders, superPACs, and increasing
corporate political power have become
the new normal in American politics.
In Capitalism v. Democracy, Timothy
Kuhner explains how these conditions
have corrupted American democracy,
turning it into a system of rule that
favors the wealthy and marginalizes
ordinary citizens.

Gruesome Spectacles is a history of

botched, mismanaged, and painful
executions in the U.S. from 18902010.
Using new research, Austin Sarat
traces the evolution of methods of
execution that were employed during
this time and were meant to improve
on the methods that went before, from
hanging or firing squad to electrocution to gas and lethal injection. Even
though each of these technologies was
developed to perfect state killing
by decreasing the chance of a cruel
death, an estimated three percent of
all American executions went awry in
one way or another. Sarat recounts the
gripping and truly gruesome stories of
some of these deathsstories obscured by history and to some extent,
the popular press.

This book offers the key to understanding why corporations are now
citizens, money is political speech,
limits on corporate spending are a
form of censorship, democracy is a
free market, and political equality and
democratic integrity are unconstitutional constraints on money in politics.
It ultimately argues that nothing short
of a constitutional amendment can
set the necessary boundaries between
capitalism and democracy.
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America has no more incisive scholar of

capital punishment than Austin Sarat,
who always has something fresh to say.
Gruesome Spectacles offers readers
new and provocative insights.
Scott Turow, author of Ultimate
Punishment: A Lawyers Reflections on
Dealing with the Death Penalty

288 pp., 2014

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Failed Democratization
in Prewar Japan

Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime

Harukata Takenaka

This book presents a compelling case

study on change in political regimes
through its exploration of Japans
transition to democracy. By examining
Japans semi-democratic political
system from 1918 to 1932, the book
analyzes in detail why this system collapsed and discusses the implications
of the failure.
By referencing comparable cases
prewar Argentina, prewar Germany,
postwar Brazil, and 1980s ThailandHarukata Takenaka reveals that
the same factors responsible for the
breakdown of the Taisho democracy
in Japan were also at work in these
other places.
Studies of the Walter H.
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific
Research Center

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The Reckoning of Pluralism

Political Belonging and the

Demands of History in Turkey
Kabir Tambar

Stanford Studies in Middle

Eastern and Islamic Societies
and Cultures

232 pp., 2014

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Networked Regionalism as
Conflict Management

If God Were a Human

Rights Activist

Anna Ohanyan

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Most regions of the world are plagued

by conflicts that are made insoluble
by a confluence of complex threads
from history, geography, politics, and
culture. These frozen conflicts defy
conflict management interventions
by both internal and external agents
and institutions. Consequently, such
conflicts cry out for alternative
approaches to classic conflict management models that are practiced in
traditional diplomacy.

If God Were a Human Rights Activist

aims to strengthen the organization
and the determination of all those who
have not given up the struggle for a
better society, specifically those that
have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges
to human rights arising from religious
movements and political theologies
that claim the presence of religion in
the public sphere.

Drawing upon the cases of the South

Caucasus, the Western Balkans,
Central America, South East Asia, and
Northern Ireland, this book offers a
theoretical and practical solution to
this impasse by arguing for regional
collective interventions that involve a
long-term reengineering of existing
conflict management infrastructure
on the ground. Specifically, only the
cultivation and establishment of
regional peace systems can provide
an effective path toward conflict
management in these standoffs in such
intractably divided regions.
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Conventional or hegemonic human

rights thinking lacks the necessary
theoretical and analytical tools to
position itself in relation to such
movements and theologies. It applies
the same abstract recipe across
the board. As this strategy proves
increasingly lacking, this book aims to
demonstrate that only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can
adequately face such challenges.
Stanford Studies in
Human Rights

152 pp., 2015

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Help or Harm

The Human Security Effects

of International NGOs
Amanda Murdie

320 pp., 2014

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Democracy and Human Rights

Track Two Diplomacy in

Theory and Practice

Stasis

The Figure of the Migrant

Peter Jones

Giorgio Agamben

Track Two diplomacy consists of

informal dialogues among actors such
as academics, religious leaders, retired
senior officials, and NGO officials that
can bring new ideas and new relationships to the official process of diplomacy.

We can no longer speak of a state

of war in any traditional sense, yet
there is currently no viable theory
to account for the manifold internal
conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the worlds populations.
Meant as a first step toward such a
theory, Giorgio Agambens latest book
looks at how civil war was conceived
of at two crucial moments in the
history of Western thought: in ancient
Athens (from which the political
concept of stasis emerges) and later,
in the work of Thomas Hobbes. It
identifies civil war as the fundamental
threshold of politicization in the
West, an apparatus that over the
course of history has alternately
allowed for the de-politicization of
citizenship and the mobilization of
the unpolitical. The arguments herein,
first conceived of in the immediate
aftermath of 9/11, have become ever
more relevant now that we have
entered the age of planetary civil war.

This book offers a much-needed new

political theory of an old phenomenon.
The last decade alone has marked
the highest number of migrations
in recorded history. Constrained by
environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on
the move. But other sorts of changes
from global tourism to undocumented
laborhave led to the fact that to
some extent, we are all becoming
migrants. The migrant has become the
political figure of our time.

Sadly, those involved in official

diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for the
complex and nuanced role that Track
Two can play. And many Track Two
practitioners are often unaware of
the realities and pressures of the
policy and diplomatic worlds.
A need therefore exists for a work to
bridge the divides between these constituenciesand this book crosses disciplines and traditions in order to do just
that. It explores the various dimensions
and guises of Track Two, the theory
and practice of how they work, and
how both practitioners and academics
could more profitably assess Track Two.
256 pp., 2015
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Civil War as a Political Paradigm

Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

96 pp., 2015
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Political Theory and History

Thomas Nail

Rather than viewing migration as

the exception to the rule of political
fixity and citizenship, Thomas Nail
reinterprets the history of political
power from the perspective of the
movement that defines the migrant
in the first place. Applying his
kinopolitics to several major historical conditions (territorial, political,
juridical, and economic) and figures of
migration (the nomad, the barbarian,
the vagabond, and the proletariat), he
provides fresh tools for the analysis
of contemporary migration.
312 pp., 2015
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State Phobia and

Civil Society

The Political Legacy of

Michel Foucault
Mitchell Dean and
Kaspar Villadsen

This book draws extensively upon the

work of Michel Foucault to argue for
the necessity of the concept of the
state in political and social analysis. In
so doing, it takes on the large interpretative literature on Foucault, which
claims that he displaces the state for a
de-centered analytics of power. Foucaults own view is highly ambiguous:
he claims to be concerned with the
exercise of political sovereignty, yet his
work cannot make visible the concept
of the state.
Moving beyond Foucault, the authors
outline new ways of conceiving the
states role in establishing social
order and in mediating between
an inequality-producing capitalist
economy and the juridical equality
and political rights of individuals.
Arguing that states and their cooperation remain of vital importance to
resolving contemporary crises, they
demonstrate the interdependence of
state and civil society and the necessity
of social forms of governance.
224 pp., 2016
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Foucault and the

Politics of Rights

The Regional Cold Wars in

Europe, East Asia, and the
Middle East

Ben Golder

In his early career, Foucault had been

a great critic of the liberal discourse
of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976
onward, he makes increasing appeals
to rights in his philosophical writings,
political statements, interviews, and
journalism. He not only defends
their importance; he argues for rights
new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does
Foucault simply revise his former
positions and endorse a liberal politics
of rights? Ben Golder proposes an
answer to this puzzle, which is that
Foucault approaches rights in a spirit
of creative and critical appropriation.
He uses rights strategically for a range
of political purposes that cannot be
reduced to a simple endorsement of
political liberalism.
264 pp., 2015
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Crucial Periods and

Turning Points
Lorenz Lthi

This book systematically explores the

crucial turning points of the Cold War
on all of its diverse fronts. The simplistic U.S. vs. Soviet analysis can obscure
the fact that this war was fought by
blocs of nations and in various regions
around the world. This volume corrects this by revealing the agency of
smaller powers in the development
and end of the Cold War.
Cold War International
History Project

416 pp., 2015

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The Euromissile Crisis and

the End of the Cold War
Edited by Leopoldo Nuti,
Frederic Bozo,
Marie-Pierre Rey, and
Bernd Rother

In the late 1970s, new generations of

nuclear delivery systems were proposed
for deployment across Eastern and
Western Europe. The ensuing controversy grew to become a key phase in the
late Cold War. This book explores the
origins, unfolding, and consequences of
that crisis.
Cold War International
History Project

352 pp., 2015

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