letter from the editor: We are delighted to present the Columbia University Press Political Science Catalog for our new books in 2015. The titles featured here strengthen our lists in international relations in Asia and the Middle East, political theory, foreign policy, security studies, and terrorism. We offer two important books that speak to the current electoral debate. According to Gloria Steinem, The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, by Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl, is “the first book about high-level efforts to create a foreign policy as if women mattered.” The second book, Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections, by Michael H. Armacost, elucidates how the contours of the U.S. presidential-election system influence the content and conduct of American foreign policy. Other highlights include Karen Barkey and Elazar Barkan’s Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites, published in cooperation with the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University, and Étienne Balibar’s Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy. Our new Columbia Studies on Middle East Politics series, edited by Marc Lynch, seeks academically rigorous, well-written, relevant, and accessible books for an interested academic and policy audience. We begin it proudly with Marc Lynch’s critically acclaimed edited volume The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East and Frederic Wehrey’s Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings. We are also proud to announce our new partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, extending our program in publishing outstanding scholarly and public-policy books for a worldwide readership, beginning with Gabriel Weimann’s Terrorism in Cyberspace: The Next Generation and Saeid Golkar’s Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran. We are also pleased to announce the new CIAO database. The renowned international affairs website launched in 1998 and has now undergone a complete overhaul to enhance the user experience. The new CIAO features a redesigned user interface that standardizes the access and presentation of content, a live Twitter feed, and improved search functionality. The site has long been praised for its think-tank content, available nowhere else on the Web, and we are excited to bring this valuable research onto a new platform. The revamped website also features a new section of Columbia University Press books on international relations.
Sincerely Anne Routon, senior editor, Political Science
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