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Middle East government, politics, policy
20 The Unintended Consequences of Peace
Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows Arie Marcelo Kacowicz | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Peaceful borders are generally a force for good, but also have unintended effects and consequences. This provocative and topical book argues that peace may actually facilitate illicit cross-border activities carried out by non-state criminal groups, including drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, and terrorism. • Explains how peaceful borders can sometimes enable crimes such as arms trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, and drug trafficking • Sets out a clear model in clear language, accessible to non-specialists • Draws on examples from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East,
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Southern Africa and Southeast Asia
320pp 7. 2021 9781316518823 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009003537
Theorizing World Orders
Cognitive Evolution and Beyond Piki Ish-Shalom | Hebrew University of Jerusalem We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve. This volume discusses how engaging with Emanuel Adler’s social theory of cognitive evolution could potentially achieve these objectives. • Evaluates the theory of cognitive evolution • Critically explores Adlerian Constructivism • Includes contributions from eminent scholars in the field
280pp 2 tables 11. 2021 9781316512289 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009058193
Undermining American Hegemony
Goods Substitution in World Politics Morten Skumsrud Andersen Study of the decline of the American-led international liberal order is gaining momentum, reacting to China’s rise, the Trump presidency, Brexit, and an assertive Russia. Stressing the provision of global public and private goods, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the future of US power and world politics. • Introduces a new framework to explain how hegemonies are challenged and erode • Innovative cases and new empirics including Central Asia, Latin
America and the Northern Atlantic region. Also a case study on the recently formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) • Comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international authors
270pp 6. 2021 9781108844970 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108954129 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Warning about War
Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy Christoph O. Meyer | King’s College London The authors develop a theoretical framework to explain how and when public and non-public warnings about future conflicts affect decisionmaking in Western states and international organisations. For scholars and practitioners working on conflict prevention, strategic surprise, and advocacy in peace, intelligence and communication studies. • Provides the first comprehensive answer to the warning-response problem in conflict prevention and peace studies • Provides a theoretical framework for studying persuasion in foreign policy, which could be applied beyond conflict warnings • Gives a comparative study of states and international organisations as responders/recipients of warnings
324pp 14 b/w illus. 7 tables 7. 2021 9781108713931 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 8. 2019 9781108486071 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108644006
We God’s People
Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations Jocelyne Cesari | Harvard University, Massachusetts The exportation of the nation-state worldwide went hand-in-hand with the diffusion of the western concept of religion. This dual dissemination of nation-state and religion has reshaped ideas, theologies, institutions which are at the core of the politicization of religion in countries as different as Syria, Turkey, India, China, and Russia. • Provides new perspectives for postcolonial studies and critical studies by focusing on the internal dynamics of power within the “oppressed” people and their specific appropriation of the western concepts of nation, sovereignty and law • Provides a groundbreaking theory and method to analyze politicization of religions in the international order • Offers a genealogy of religious and political ideas, actors, and institutions within a given national context which can be used for future research in the same context by scholars of politics and scholars of religion
200pp 11. 2021 9781108429290 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 11. 2021 9781108453745 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108554466
Latin American government, politics, policy
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
Sebastián L. Mazzuca Latin America is caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, with flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the development sequence -Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region’s quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States.
Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
75pp 2. 2021 9781108813990 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108878449
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Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change Lindsay Mayka | Colby College, Maine This book explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement. It argues that participatory institution building can happen when new participatory institutions originate in sweeping policy reforms that attract the support of powerful stakeholders who normally would not support participatory policymaking. • Proposes a new theory of reform coalitions in institutional change processes • Offers a rich description and analysis of policy reform processes in developing countries • Includes an extensive cross-national analysis of nationally-mandated participatory institutions
322pp 7. 2021 9781108456760 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108470872 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108598927
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Hybrid Regimes within Democracies
Fiscal Federalism and Subnational Rentier States Carlos Gervasoni Scholars, applied researchers, and government officials interested in understanding and improving democracy, subnational governance, fiscal federalism, and the management of rent-like revenues, will be interested in this book. It will particularly appeal to analysts of Argentina, and of subnational regimes in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, and the USA. • Presents the first in-depth descriptive and explanatory study of democracy and authoritarianism in all the subnational units of a federation • Develops two original strategies to measure subnational regimes • Extends the rentier-state explanatory logic to other sources of state revenue such as federal transfers to subnational governments
311pp 28 b/w illus. 30 tables 3. 2021 9781108451079 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 1. 2019 9781316510735 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00 eISBN 9781108590679
Patronage at Work
Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina Virginia Oliveros | Tulane University, Louisiana Using a mixed methods research design, Oliveros examines how patronage – the exchange of public sector jobs for political support – works. The book provides a detailed description of what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs, as well as a novel explanation of why they do it. • Explains how political patronage mechanisms work in the public sector • Uses a mixed method approach that includes survey data, survey experiments, and in-depth interviews • Uses accessible language throughout, clearly explaining the quantitative and qualitative data
280pp 11. 2021 9781316514085 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009082525
Prisons and Crime in Latin America
Marcelo Bergman This study of Latin America’s prison crisis is for students and analysts of law, crime, sociology, and political science. Featuring the testimony of thousands of inmates interviewed across eight Latin American countries, it provides an understanding of how crime and the justice system operate in the region. • Presents the first comparative empirical analysis of 8 Latin American countries regarding the state of prisons in the region • Rejects the notion that punishment and prisons are solutions to crime and offers policy guidelines for other alternatives • Provides a much-needed bridge between the study of crime and prisons in the U.S. and research on crime and violence in Latin America
250pp 3. 2021 9781108487887 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 3. 2021 9781108738194 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108768238
Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism
The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America Gabriel Ondetti | Missouri State University This book is for scholars and students of political economy, Latin American politics, and Latin American history. It examines the roots of contemporary differences in taxation and public sector size in Latin America, revealing the impact of historical episodes of redistributive reform and related anti-statist backlash. • Applies comparative historical analysis to explain the sources of crossnational tax burden variance • Provides an in-depth analysis of the politics of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico • Introduces readers to a new approach to understanding variance in the size and characteristics of Latin American states
300pp 1. 2021 9781108830850 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108914147
Resisting Extortion
Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America Eduardo Moncada | Barnard College, Columbia University Using ethnographic data gathered in violent locations across Latin America, Eduardo Moncada shares new insights into the widespread problem of criminal extortion. Despite living in settings where states cannot or will not enforce the rule of law, victims of crime find different ways to fight back. • Focuses on an understudied crime in Latin America: criminal extortion • Develops a new analytic framework to explain how and why victims resist criminals • Draws on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
300pp 11. 2021 9781108843386 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 11. 2021 9781108824705 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 0.00 eISBN 9781108915328
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State-Sponsored Activism
Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil Jessica A. J. Rich | Marquette University, Wisconsin State-Sponsored Activism proposes a new model of state-society relations, and explains how social movements can survive over time without falling prey to co-optation. For a broad audience of students, scholars, and policymakers, this is a definitive text for those interested in learning about Brazil’s movement to fight HIV/AIDS. • Proposes a new model of state-society relations • Shows how NGOs help to sustain policy successes through hidden forms of political advocacy • Provides the most complete history to date of Brazil’s AIDS movement
256pp 31 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108456807 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781108470889 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108626453
The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements
Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo Caitlin Andrews-Lee This book is for scholars, practitioners, and general readers interested in charismatic leadership and its influence on politics, particularly in Latin America. It also provides key insights about two recent global trends: the rise of ‘populist’ leaders and governments and the erosion of democracy. • Clearly explains the conditions and motivations that drive charismatic leaders and their followers to form bonds • Uses multiple methods and original evidence to empirically demonstrate the periodic revival of two of the world’s most prominent charismatic movements • Shows how charisma can persist in its original, personalistic form without undergoing routinization
300pp 7. 2021 9781108831475 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917353
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
Diana Kapiszewski | Georgetown University, Washington DC Latin America has a long history of political, socioeconomic, and ethnic exclusion. This book examines how enduring democracy, amid this inequality, engendered a movement toward greater inclusion across the region. Explaining unprecedented reforms and limits to further change, it will appeal to scholars of Latin American and comparative politics. • Provides a clear conceptual and theoretical framework that unifies diverse chapters • Includes a range of leading scholars, and offers readers a rich set of studies covering the theme of inclusion • Presents original arguments in a language accessible to undergraduates and other readers without specialized training in political science
420pp 2. 2021 9781108842044 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108895835
The Politics of LGBT Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Javier Corrales | Amherst College, Massachusetts The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBT rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for the expansion of rights and setbacks, especially since the mid 2000s. This Element concludes with an overview of the causes and possible future direction of the current backlash against LGBT rights.
Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
75pp 9. 2021 9781108995207 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108993609
Middle East government, politics, policy
After the Arab Uprisings
Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa Shamiran Mako | Boston University A holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests, this accessible study highlights the salience of regime type, civil society, women’s mobilizations, and external intervention across seven countries for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars. • Draws on political science, political sociology, feminist theorizing, and
Middle East studies for a cross-disciplinary approach • An accessible and organized study of the causes, course, and outcomes of the Arab Spring for undergraduate and postgraduate students • Uniquely presents women’s legal status, social positions, and organizational capacity as key elements in the Arab Spring
264pp 7. 2021 9781108429832 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 7. 2021 9781108454797 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108555357
Creating the Desired Citizen
Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey Ihsan Yilmaz | Deakin University, Victoria A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects in Turkey under both Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the concept of the desired, undesired and tolerated citizen. This shows how resulting historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, and fears have had influenced both state and society throughout these different periods. • A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects by Turkish regimes under Ataturk and Erdogan • Shows how many Turkish citizens have been marginalised as a result of the idea around the ‘desired’ citizen • Will appeal to those interested the history of state formation in the region
250pp 5. 2021 9781108741774 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108961295
Defending Iran
From Revolutionary Guards to Ballistic Missiles Gawdat Bahgat Offering a detailed and authoritative analysis of Iran’s defense doctrine and security policies, this examines Iran’s military capabilities and compares these with those of other regional powers, including Israel and Saudi Arabia for a broad analysis of security and political relations in the Middle East. • A detailed and authoritative analysis of Iran’s defense strategy: including its warfare doctrine and capabilities, threat perceptions, defense institutions, military-industrial complex, and armed capabilities • Draws on a wide range of primary sources in Persian, Arabic and
English • Frames Tehran’s threat perceptions following the revolution within its wider historical and geographical context
288pp 9. 2021 9781108476782 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 9. 2021 9781108701730 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108608510
Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution
Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings Zaynab El Bernoussi Based on interviews with Egyptian protesters who participated in the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, Zaynab El Bernoussi explores understandings of the concept of dignity, showing how protesters conceived of this concept in their organisation of protest and uprising, and their memories of karama in the aftermath of the protests. • Shows how identity discourses can be instrumentalized in political action • Provides insights into protesters’ motives in participating in the 2011
Egyptian revolution • Includes key perspectives on Egyptian and global society, politics, and economics by participants in the 2011 Egyptian revolution
232pp 7. 2021 9781108845854 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108991148
NEW IN PAPERBACK Drugs Politics
Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran Maziyar Ghiabi | University of Oxford Maziyar Ghiabi examines here the place of illegal substances, such as opium, heroin and methamphetamine in the politics of modern Iran, looking at government attempts to control and regulate the use of illicit drugs. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • Offers essential analysis concerning the role of drugs in Iranian politics and society, including government responses to addiction and consumption • Makes a connection between Iran’s drug policies and global ones, making sure to connect local and national with international trends and policy-making • Combines archival material with interviews with public officials and drug users themselves, making this a trove of primary material • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
363pp 5. 2021 9781108466936 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 6. 2019 9781108475457 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108567084
Experiencing the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict
Children, Peace Communication and Socialization Yael Warshel | Pennsylvania State University Determines the impact of ‘peace communication’ on fostering structural change. By focusing on Israeli and Palestinian versions of Sesame Street aiming to foster friendships among children, Yael Warshel explores whether such interventions affect audiences, offering recommendations to improve future interventions into political conflict worldwide. • Analyses whether how audiences of young children interpreted ‘peace communication’ versions of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street meaningfully impacted peace • Illuminates Jewish Israeli, Palestinian and Arab/Palestinian Israeli children’s socialization to and daily lives amid conflict • Offers scholarly and practitioner recommendations for improving future peace communication interventions into political conflict worldwide
490pp 7. 2021 9781108485722 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108622714
Fixing Stories
Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria Noah Amir Arjomand | Indiana University Examining the role and influence of news ‘fixers’ who mediate between foreign journalists and local sources, this book is based on vivid personal accounts and insider perspectives alongside analysis of the role fixers have played in bringing news of Turkey and Syria to international audiences.
• Deeply explores the unsung role of news ‘fixers’ in bringing stories to international audiences • Of interest to students and scholars thinking about journalism practice, cross-cultural communication, ethnographic methods, cultural sociology, and the contemporary Middle East • Provides gripping narratives of fixers’ careers in Turkey and Syria in the 2010s, when both countries were making international headlines
The Global Middle East
288pp 2. 2022 9781316518007 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049337
Immigration Nation
Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco Lorena Gazzotti | University of Cambridge How does migration control work beyond the spectacle of border violence? Examining the role of aid as a mode of migration control, this book, based on extensive research in Morocco, shows how migration control happens more in everyday sites away from state borders, through non-coercive and elusive means of containment. • An examination of foreign aid as an instrument for implementing border and migration control • De-essentialises the workings of border politics, as it reflects the contingencies and paradoxes characterizing its implementation • Of interest to students and researchers of migration, borders, EU politics, politics and donor aid in Africa and across the Mediterranean
256pp 8. 2021 9781316519707 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009024129
