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BEST OF THE BACKLIST Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang

Unrest in China's West Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle

Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the ways in which propaganda and education can be generators and sources of conflict. Contributors link interethnic strife to economic growth and connect environmental degradation to increased instability.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-16999-8 $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-16998-1 2016 280 pages 2 illus.

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion

How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Jeffrey Israel Foreword by Martha C. Nussbaum

Jeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives..

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19017-6 $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19016-9 2019 392 pages

An Archaeology of the Political

Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Elías José Palti

Elías José Palti argues that the dimension of reality known as the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successively reconfigured from that period up to the present.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17993-5 $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-17992-8 2020 264 pages 10 illus.

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN POLITICAL THOUGHT / POLITICAL HISTORY

Al-Qaeda's Revenge

The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings Fernando Reinares Foreword by Bruce Riedel

Fernando Reinares tells the story of “3/11,” the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and discusses the preparations for and fallout from the attacks.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-70455-7 $55.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-70454-0 2017 288 pages

WOODROW WILSON CENTER PRESS / COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

BEST OF THE BACKLIST South Korea at the Crossroads

Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers Scott A. Snyder

South Korea at the Crossroads examines fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and offers predictions—and a prescription—for the future. Pairing a historical perspective with a shrewd understanding of today’s political landscape, Scott A. Snyder contends that South Korea’s best strategy remains a robust alliance with the United States.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18549-3 $37.00 / 30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18548-6 2018 376 pages 15 illus.

A COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS BOOK

Energy Kingdoms

Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf Jim Krane

WINNER, BOOK PRIZE, ASSOCIATION FOR GULF AND ARABIAN PENINSULA STUDIES

In Energy Kingdoms, Jim Krane takes readers inside the Gulf monarchies to consider the conundrum facing these states. He traces the history of their energy use and policies, looking in particular at how energy subsidies have distorted demand. Oil exports are the lifeblood of their politicaleconomic systems—and the basis of their strategic importance—but domestic consumption has begun eating into exports while climate change threatens to render the region uninhabitable.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-17931-7 $34.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17930-0 2019 224 pages 17 illus.

CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY SERIES

An Empire of Touch

Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal Poulomi Saha

WINNER, HARRY LEVIN PRIZE, AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION Poulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19209-5 $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19208-8 2019 344 pages

GENDER AND CULTURE SERIES

Desolation and Enlightenment

Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust Ira Katznelson Anniversary Edition

In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Karl Polanyi, and others. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19789-2 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19788-5 2020 208 pages