Central Bank Capitalism
Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis
Joscha Wullweber
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
August 2024 248pp
9781503639621 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638969 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shadow banking—financial activity taking place outside existing regulatory frameworks—now serves as the backbone of the entire financial system, however, it is the main reason why the system has remained in crisis mode since 2008. Wullweber’s book offers a lucid account of our current state of permanent crisis with its new dilemmas that pose enormous challenges to economic stability.
China's Rising Foreign Ministry
Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy
Dylan M.H Loh
Studies in Asian Security
April 2024 280pp
9781503638204 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Loh upends conventional understandings of Chinese diplomacy by underlining the importance of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and its diplomats in contemporary Chinese foreign policy. Loh explains how MOFA gradually became the main interface of China's foreign policy and the primary vehicle through which the idea of 'China' is produced, articulated, and represented on the world stage.
Civic Education in Polarized Times
NOMOS LXVI
Edited by Eric Beerbohm and Elizabeth Beaumont
NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
July 2024 256pp
9781479829064 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book assesses the challenges of civic education in circumstances of extreme polarization, and how civic learning and political divisiveness can influence each other. In the latest installment of the NOMOS series, Beerbohm and Beaumont bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars, inviting us to think deeply about the complex promises and pitfalls of civic education.
Children of a Modest Star
Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman
April 2024 326pp
9781503637856 £23.99/ $28.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Deadly viruses and harmful pollutants cross the globe; the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This book not only challenges dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet and the political forms that presently govern it, but also present a new, innovative framework that corresponds to our inherently planetary condition.
China’s Asymmetric Statecraft
Alignments,
Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
Yuxing Huang
Contemporary Chinese Studies
January 2024 296pp 32 tables
9780774868129 £34.00/ $37.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Huang suggests that in an environment of numerous regional competitors and alignments, China has developed a form of asymmetric statecraft toward its many weaker neighbours. This perceptive interpretation of the different narratives and paradigms that constitute China’s foreign policy alerts us to the potential future of its diplomatic endeavours in a dramatically changing international environment.
Conspiracy/Theory
Edited by Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen
January 2024 512pp 2 illus.
9781478025559 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781478020813 £112.00/ $124.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, Conspiracy/Theory identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight.
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Cyber Sovereignty
The Future of Governance in Cyberspace
Lucie Kadlecová
June 2024 248pp
9781503638549 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
According to Lucie Kadlecová, governments must implement a more adaptive approach to keep up with rapid developments and innovations in cyberspace in order to truly retain their sovereignty. Through a study of the most advanced transatlantic cases of state sovereignty in cyberspace, she reveals how states have pursued new methods to fuel the distribution of authority in the cyber field.
Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy
Adam Lovett
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
May 2024 304pp 1 table
9781512825794 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Within this book, philosopher Lovett argues that the United States is a failed democracy as it has failed to advance equality and self-rule. Drawing on rich empirical research, Lovett focuses on real-world democratic failures and evaluates their philosophical and ethical consequences, shedding light on an increasingly troubled democratic ethos and how ordinary citizens can work to save it.
Dictatorship on Trial
Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
June 2024 248pp
9781503639409 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503635463 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2014, the NCPO carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932; justice—long tenuous in Thailand—disappeared entirely. Haberkorn traces the legal, social, and political impacts of authoritarianism, and foregrounds court decisions as both a history of repression and a site in which to imagine future justice.
Defective Institutions
A Protocol for the Republic
Jacques Lezra
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
March 2024 288pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531506919 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506902 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarchophilosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative to political institutionalism in an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition.
Democratic Quality in Southern Europe
France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
Tiago Fernandes
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
May 2024 370pp 49 b&w illus., 10 tables
9780268207755 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Fueled by new data from the Varieties of Democracy project, Democratic Quality in Southern Europe takes a close look at the democratic trajectories of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain over the past fifty years. Despite similar beginnings, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have experienced significant variations in the way their democracies have evolved.
Engaging the Evil Empire
Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
Simon Miles
March 2024 248pp
9781501776069 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities.
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Feeling Democracy
Emotional Politics in the New Millennium
Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
June 2024 224pp
9781978835450 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978835467 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Incorporating scholarship from law, political science, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and history,this bookconsiders how emotional rhetoric in politics can be a double-edged sword—often wielded by authoritarian populists who seek to undermine democracy but sometimes helping to bring about a genuine renewal of participatory democracy.
Foundations of Canadian Political Behaviour
Stability and Change in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Amanda Bittner, J. Scott Matthews and Stuart Soroka
December 2023 336pp 38 b&w illus., 41 b&w tables
9781487525118 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Featuring new work from an international group of scholars, this book assesses contemporary dynamics of parties, elections, and voting in Canada, and places Canadians experience in comparative perspective.
From 1st April 2024
Gender-Based Violence in Canadian Politics in the #MeToo Era
Edited by Tracey Raney and Cheryl N. Collier
May 2024 320pp 3 b&w illus., 6 b&w figures, 8 b&w tables
9781487540029 £25.99/ $32.50 PB
9781487540012 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book brings together leading experts to shine a light on a serious problem confronting Canada’s democracy: gender-based violence in politics.
From 1st April 2024
Fiscal Choices
Canada after the Pandemic
Michael M. Atkinson and Haizhen Mou
The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy
April 2024 288pp 18 b&w figures, 5 b&w tables
9781487547189 £23.99/ $32.50 PB
9781487545789 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on interviews with economic policymakers, Fiscal Choices examines the fiscal policies implemented by the Canadian government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic and political challenges that we face in the aftermath.
From 1st April 2024
Fracking Uncertainty
Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk
Heather Millar
Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
August 2024 256pp 1 colour figure, 21 b&w figures, 7 b&w tables
9781487552695 £23.99/ $32.50 PB
9781487552688 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Fracking Uncertainty investigates the politics of hydraulic fracturing regulation in and among Canada’s provinces.
From 1st April 2024
Ideology in Canadian Municipal Politics
Jack Lucas
April 2024 152pp 47 b&w figures, 23 b&w tables
9781487553692 £23.99/ $32.50 PB
9781487553685 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Investigating ideological debates between "left" and "right," this book reveals how municipal policy attitudes and election outcomes are structured across Canada.
From 1st April 2024
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Independence and Politics
Crossroads in the Shaping of Israel's Political System
Meir Chazan
Perspectives on Israel Studies
April 2024 252pp
9780253068682 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253068675 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A deep dive into the political landscape of Israel, 1947–1949. Insightful and informative, the book provides a fresh perspective on the establishment of the State of Israel. Chazan's analysis and expert commentary offer an unparalleled understanding of the challenges faced by the fledgling state and the decisions that shaped its future.
Jump
Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality
Sam C. Tenorio
April 2024 208pp 6 b&w images
9781479828296 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781479828289 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a period of increasing political mobilization, Jump attends to the layers of confinement that constitute the racial and gendered hierarchies of the antiblack world. Tenorio proposes a Black anarchist politics of refusal that helps us to think dissent anew and explores the voyages of the Black Star Line in defiance of the bordered authority of the nation state.
Liberating the United Nations
Realism with Hope
Richard A. Falk and Hans von Sponeck
April 2024 448pp
9781503639133 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503638211 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A thorough review of the United Nations (UN) founding and history that tracks critical junctures that obscured or diverted the path to a powerful and just UN that abides by international law. Based on the extensive expertise of two former UN-insiders, the book goes beyond critique and diagnosis, proposing ways to achieve a more effective and legitimate UN.
International Law and the Public
How Ordinary People Shape the Global Legal Order
Geoffrey P. R. Wallace
August 2024 372pp 5 b&w line drawings, 24 charts
9781501776533 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781501776526 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Defying conventional wisdom that sees governments, leaders, generals, lawyers, or elites from the upper echelons of society as the main international legal players, Wallace advances a "popular international law" where ordinary people are considered important legal actors in their own right alongside the usual focus on elites.
Leo Strauss and AngloAmerican Democracy A Conservative Critique Grant Havers
August 2024 264pp
9781501774386 £22.99/ $26.95 NIP
9780875804781 £37.00/ $40.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Havers states that Strauss was neither a man of the Far Right nor a conservative but in fact a secular Cold War liberal. He contends that Straussianism provides an ideological rationale for the aggressive spread of democratic values while ignoring the preconditions that make these values possible.
Liminal Minorities
Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
Günes Murat Tezcür
Religion and Conflict
April 2024 270pp 14 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 4 charts
9781501774683 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501774676 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Analyzing a variety of original sources, Tezcür reveals how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities.
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Marked Men
Black Politicians and the Racialization of Scandal
Nyron N. Crawford
May 2024 208pp 35 b&w images
9781479816330 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479816323 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Marked Men, Nyron N. Crawford offers a novel perspective on political scandal, corruption, and racial politics in the United States. Contrary to traditional beliefs, Crawford argues that Black Americans view political misdeeds by Black elected officials through a lens of suspicion towards the criminal legal system.
Moral Victories in the Battle for Congress
Cultural Conservatism and the House GOP
Marty Cohen
American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
March 2024 264pp 39 illus.
9781512826135 £25.99 / $29.95 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Cohen chronicles the significant political phenomenon of Christan Conservatism in U.S. politics, a story not only of the growing importance of moral issues but also of the way party coalitions change, and how this particular change began with religiously motivated activists determined to restore traditional morality to the country.
Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma
The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism
Marsha E. Barrett
August 2024 400pp 16 b&w halftones
9781501776236 £32.00/ $36.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals the fascinating and influential political career of the four-time New York State governor and US vice president. Barrett's portrayal of this multi-faceted political player details how the standard-bearer of moderate Republicanism lost the battle for the soul of the Party of Lincoln, leading to mainlining of whitegrievance populism for the post-civil rights era.
Mightier Than the Sword
Civilian Control of the Military and the Revitalization of Democracy
Alice Hunt Friend
April 2024 242pp
9781503629189 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The civilian role in managing the military has never been more important; civilian leadership of defense policy is challenged by the blurring line between war and competition and the speed of machine decisionmaking on the battlefield. A central question emerges: What does appropriate and effective civilian control of the military look like?
Near and Far Waters
The Geopolitics of Seapower
Colin Flint
July 2024 240pp
9781503639812 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503639645 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Flint offers an accessible introduction to the combination of economic and political relations that are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower to control near waters and project force into far waters.
On the Other Hand
Canadian Multiculturalism and Its Progressive Critics
Phil Ryan
April 2024 288pp
9781487552732 £31.00/ $39.95 PB
9781487552725 £66.00/ $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Confronting important issues within Canadian society, On the Other Hand examines progressive critiques of Canadian multiculturalism. From 1st April 2024
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One and All
The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty
Laikwan Pang
April 2024 264pp
9781503638815 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638228 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Laikwan analyzes the historical roots of Chinese sovereignty by surveying the four different political structures of modern China—imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist—and the dramatic ruptures between them. With the possibility of a new Cold War looming large and globalization disintegrating, Pang provides a timely reevaluation of the logic of sovereignty in China as power, discourse, and a basis for governance.
Our Nation at Risk Election Integrity as a National Security Issue
Edited by Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg
July 2024 256pp
9781479830916 £23.99/ $28.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Award-winning authors Zelizer and Greenberg bring together the nation’s top political scientists, historians, and scholars to examine how the electoral process has become a threat to national security. Our Nation at Risk is the preeminent book on election security and a must read for anyone invested in the fight for democracy.
People's Diplomacy
How
Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War
Kazushi Minami
The United States in the World
March 2024 270pp 20 b&w halftones
9781501774157 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501774140 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s. Drawing on extensive research at two dozen archives in the US and China, People's Diplomacy redefines contemporary US-China relations as a creation of the American and Chinese people. Americans reimagined China as a country of opportunities, while Chinese reinterpreted the United States as an agent of modernization.
One Word Shapes a Nation
Integration Politics in Germany
Johanna Schuster-Craig German and European Studies
August 2024 424pp
9781487551179 £31.00/ $39.95 PB
9781487551162 £73.00/ $95.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
One Word Shapes a Nation examines the cultural, political, social, and economic influences on German integration politics, the field of public policy that shapes attitudes toward immigrants and refugees.
From 1st April 2024
Pakistan and American Diplomacy
Insights
from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame
Theodore Craig
April 2024 288pp 3 maps, index
9781640126008 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Through the lens of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, former senior U.S. embassy official Ted Craig offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through U.S.-Pakistan relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Politicizing Islam in Austria
The Far-Right Impact in the Twenty-First Century
Farid Hafez and Reinhard Heinisch
March 2024 228pp 1 b&w figure, 23 tables
9781978830448 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9781978830455 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In their innovative study, Hafez and Heinisch show how the far-right Austrian Freedom Party adapted anti-Muslim discourse to their political purposes and how that discourse was then appropriated by the conservative center-right Austrian People’s Party.
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Politics and the Pink Tide
A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America
Kathleen Bruhn
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
April 2024 244pp 2 b&w illus., 22 tables
9780268207687 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Investigates the ways in which protest varied across five Latin American countries that elected leftist presidents during the Pink Tide. Bruhn compares the differences in protest that occurred under the new leftist governments to their conservative, neoliberal predecessors, offering a wide-angle view into the complex relationships between neoliberalism, political party structures, and protest.
Post-Soviet Graffiti
Free Speech in Authoritarian States
Alexis Lerner
April 2024 240pp 95 b&w illus.
9781487525422 £22.99/ $29.95 PB
9781487507879 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse, particularly in authoritarian states.
From 1st April 2024
Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by James L. Perry
Contributions
by Paul A. Volcker
May 2024 312pp 7 illus.
9781512826142 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The collection of essays in this book offers expert analysis of American governance challenges and recommendations for reform and explore the notion that two big ideas — the diminishing capacity for effective governance and Americans' expectations — are veering in opposite directions.
Politics in Captivity
Plantations, Prisons, and WorldBuilding
Lena Zuckerwise
Just Ideas
June 2024 288pp
9781531507039 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531507022 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Black Americans have, through time, resisted racial regimes in extraordinary and everyday ways. This book is about Black rebellion in captivity and the ways that many of the conventional well-worn constructs of academic political theory render its political dimensions obscure and indiscernible.
Predicting the Winner
The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting
Ira Chinoy
May 2024 392pp 18 photos, 1 illus., index
9781640125964 £35.00/ $38.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.
Red Tape
Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
Rosamund Johnston
Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
March 2024 312pp
9781503638693 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503635166 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. Johnston explores the dynamic between radio reporters and the listeners in Czechoslovakia who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment.
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Resistance as Negotiation
Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India
Uday Chandra
South Asia in Motion
June 2024 304pp
9781503638112 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects.
Secularism as Misdirection
Critical Thought from the Global South
Nivedita Menon
Theory in Forms
May 2024 384pp
9781478030423 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478026204 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
Sentimental Empiricism
Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France
Davide Panagia
June 2024 288pp 8 b&w illustrations
9781531506711 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506704 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Panagia’s book reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century radical empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of “French theory.”
Rethinking the End of Empire
Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics
Lynn M. Tesser
May 2024 320pp
9781503638891 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638105 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ordinary inhabitants tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new states? This book upends conventional wisdom by demonstrating that nationalism often existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local activists and insurgents.
Securing Canada’s Future
Vital Insights from Women Experts
Edited by Aisha Ahmad
UTP Insights
March 2024 208pp 2 b&w figures
9781487542030 £22.99/ $2995 PB
9781487542023 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Securing Canada’s Future tackles the most pressing national and international security challenges that Canada will face in the decade ahead, with insights from women who are leaders in the field of security studies.
From 1st April 2024
Struggles for the Human
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Lara Montesinos Coleman
Global and Insurgent Legalities
January 2024 264pp
9781478025566 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020820 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lara Montesinos Coleman presents an ethnographic exploration of contemporary human rights discourse that reorients debates on legality, ethics, and humanity within anticapitalist and decolonial struggles.
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The Banker Ladies
Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
May 2024 288pp 14 b&w illus., 1 b&w map, 5 b&w tables, 6 b&w figures
9781487557034 £25.99/ $32.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book sheds light on the activism of the Black women who act as Banker Ladies in their communities, educating readers about their contributions to economic cooperation.
From 1st April 2024
The City Is Ours Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey
Muna Güvenç
August 2024 258pp 29 b&w halftones, 6 maps
9781501776373 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781501774355 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakır, Turkey. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer "wiggle room", turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations.
The Kremlin's Noose
Putin's Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia
Amy Knight
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
May 2024 288pp 28 b&w halftones
9781501775086 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who forged a relationship in the early years of the Yeltsin era.
The Catholic Case against War
A Brief Guide
David Carroll Cochran
March 2024 208pp
9780268207892 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Over the last five decades, the Catholic Church has emerged as a powerful critic of war and as an advocate for its alternatives. At the same time, researchers of armed conflict have produced a considerable body of scholarship on war and its prevention. The Catholic Case against War compares these seemingly disparate lines of thought and finds a remarkable harmony between the two.
The Geopolitics of Culture
James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia
John Van Oudenaren
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
June 2024 372pp 15 b&w halftones
9781501775765 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book to chronicle James Billington's influence on US engagement with Russia as it transitioned from communism to democracy under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and back to authoritarianism under Yeltsin and Putin. Drawing on published and archival sources (including recently released papers), John Van Oudenaren casts new light on this era.
The Latecomer's Rise
Policy Banks and the Globalization of China's Development Finance
Muyang Chen
Cornell Studies in Money
June 2024 234pp 16 charts, 17 graphs
9781501775857 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chen pinpoints the distinctiveness of Chinese bilateral development finance, explains its origins, and analyzes its effects. Rich with empirical detail and penetrating insights, The Latecomer's Rise demystifies the littleknown workings of Chinese development finance to revise our conceptions of China's role in the international financial system.
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The Nature of Politics
State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana
Annette A. LaRocco
Research in International Studies, Africa Series
April 2024 392pp 15 b&w
9780896803343 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780896803336 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation’s political and state building impacts in postcolonial Africa and challenges our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or environmental endeavor.
The Political Thought of David Hume
The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination
Aaron Alexander Zubia
February 2024 400pp
9780268207809 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume has had an outsized impact on the political thinkers who came after him, from the nineteenth-century British Utilitarians to modern American social contract theorists. In this thorough and thoughtful new work, Aaron Alexander Zubia examines the forces that shaped Hume’s thinking within the broad context of intellectual history.
The Power to Persuade
Strategic Arguing at the World Trade Organization
Angela Geck
July 2024 256pp 2 b&w tables, 17 b&w figures
9781487540692 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The Power to Persuade examines the relationship between arguing and power and considers how states argue strategically to advance their interests within international institutions.
From 1st April 2024
The Political Outsider
Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism
Srirupa Roy
South Asia in Motion
March 2024 374pp
9781503637986 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503636460 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Roy argues that the long 1970s were a crucial turning point in Indian politics, when democracy was suspended by the declaration of a national emergency and then subsequently restored. This book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.
The Politics of Perverts
The Political Attitudes and Actions of Non-Traditional Sexual Minorities
Charles Anthony Smith, Shawn R. Schulenberg and Connor B. S. Strobel
LGBTQ Politics
June 2024 288pp 49 b&w images
9781479822744 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479822737 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reveals the underexplored politics and activism of individuals who identify with non-traditional sexual orientations and practices, such as Polyamory, BDSM, the Furry Fandom, Nudism, and the large bisexual population within these communities.
The Rage of Replacement
Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear
Michael Feola
June 2024 232pp 11 b&w illus.
9781517916800 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781517916794 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The “Great Replacement” narrative, which imagines that historic white majorities are being replaced through immigration policies, has effectively mobilized nativist movements in the United States and Europe. The Rage of Replacement tracks how this narrative has shaped the far right, binding its various camps into a community of rage obsessed with nostalgia for a white-supremacist past.
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The Revolting Masses
José Ortega y Gasset’s Liberalism Against Populism
Brendon Westler
June 2024 256pp
9781512826005 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. Westler’s book reconstructs Ortega’s political theory, underscoring its historical origins as well as the ways in which it might be instructive to us today.
