Politics Spring/Summer 2025
Political Science
Confronting Illiberalism
A Canadian Perspective
Peter MacKinnon
Argues that the liberalism that has been a foundation of Canadian democracy is in decline, resulting in diminished freedom of expression, a deteriorating political and policy environment, and fraying social cohesion. Calls upon Canadians to challenge and resist illiberal influence and to restore liberalism to a central place in our public lives.
UTP Insights
29 November 2024 144pp 9781487561154 £15.99 / $24.95
Crusading for Globalization
US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a proglobalization agenda and to examine their methods for dealing with their opponents, Crusading for Globalization reveals the historical roots of today’s disparities in wealth and income distribution.
American Business, Politics, and Society
11 February 2025 320pp
9781512827156 £45.00 / $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City
Timothy P. R. Weaver
Looking closely at New York City’s political development since the 1970s, three “political orders”— conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism— emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power.
PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities
07 March 2025 122pp
9781439925638 £15.99 / $19.95 PB 9781439925621 £50.00 / $59.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
For Emplacement Political Ontology in Two Acts
Mario Blaser
Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience, Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that solutions to major crises should be based in the specificities of the places they emerge from rather than a single approach that only exacerbates the problem.
07 January 2025 256pp 8 illus
Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process Between Ideology and Political Realism
Gerald M. Steinberg & Ziv Rubinovitz
Focusing on the personality of Menachem Begin, Steinberg and Rubinovitz offer a new look into the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the 197s. Begin's role as a peace negotiator has often been marginalized, but this sympathetic and critical portrait restores him to the center of the diplomatic process.
Perspectives on Israel Studies
07 January 2025 282pp 9780253071279 £21.99 / $28.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Aristotle's Discovery of the Human
Piety and Politics in the "Nicomachean Ethics"
Mary P. Nichols
Offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts. Proceeding through each of the ten books of the Ethics, Nichols shows that this prequel to Aristotle’s Politics is as theoretical as it is practical.
15 February 2025 356pp
9780268205461 £35.00 / $45.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Limits of Liberalism
Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom
Mark T. Mitchell
Mitchell uses the philosophies of Michael Oakeshott, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Michael Polanyi to construct a compelling argument for a reconstructed view of tradition and, as a result, a reconstructed view of freedom. Only by finding an alternative to the liberal self can we escape the incoherencies and pathologies inherent therein.
15 February 2025 340pp
9780268104306 £35.00 / $45.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Islamists in a Zionist Coalition
The Political and Religious Origins
Uriya Shavit
This book argues that while the decision of the United Arab List to join a Zionist coalition led to dramatic consequences, it was grounded in decades of religious writings that prepared the ground for its legitimization, and aligned with a political orientation with which significant segments of the Arab population identified since the founding of the modern state of Israel.
11 March 2025 194pp
9781978842748 £25.99 / $32.95 PB 9781978842755 £100.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Apocalyptic Crimes Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be
Abolished
Ronald C. Kramer
In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight— the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic countdown to annihilation.
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
11 March 2025 314pp 7 images
9781978839335 £23.99 / $29.95 PB 9781978839342 £62.00 / $74.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Collapse of Venezuela
Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline, 2012–2020
Francisco Rodríguez
Documents Venezuela’s economic implosion as politicians adopted strategies that severely harmed the economy in their struggle for power. By charting Venezuela’s experience with scorched earth politics, Rodríguez reveals an essential cautionary tale for other democracies around the globe.
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
15 March 2025 506pp 52 b&w illus, 12 tables 9780268209018 £62.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
War in Syria and the Middle East
A Political and Economic History
Federico Manfredi Firmian
In War in Syria and the Middle East, Federico Manfredi Firmian uses historical, political, and economic lenses to examine how Syria’s civil war is part of a broad pattern of social breakdown increasingly prevalent across the Arab and Islamic worlds
01 April 2025 288pp 1 map
9781477331095 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
James Burnham
An Intellectual Biography
David T. Byrne
This intellectual biography of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century reveals the fascinating life of James Burnham. As Byrne shows, the political theorist's influence has stretched from George Orwell to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump's base. Burnham's ideas about the elite and power remain part of US political discourse and, perhaps, have more relevance than ever before.
15 March 2025 256pp 9781501780042 £27.99 / $33.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Power Shift
Keywords for a New Politics of Energy
Edited by Imre Szeman & Jennifer Wenzel
Foreword by David Nye
Analyses recent social and cultural shifts in how we understand and imagine energy, the environment, and the challenges of global warming.
Featuring brief essays on 101 key terms by scholars, artists, and activists from around the world and across disciplines offering new insights into the emergent politics of energy
01 April 2024 296pp 1 image
9781959000495 £20.99 / $27.99 PB
9781959000518 £47.00 / $55.99 HB WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Russia's World Order
How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
Paul Robinson
Explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. Robinson recounts how ideas of inevitable convergence once dominated Russian thought as well but were gradually pushed out by civilizational theories.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 April 2025 168pp
9781501780011 £23.99 / $28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chile Under Pinochet
Recovering the Truth
Mark Ensalaco
In this primary study of Chile under Pinochet, Mark Ensalaco maintains that Pinochet was complicit in the "enforced disappearance" of thousands of Chileans and an unknown number of foreign nationals. Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
15 April 2025 296pp
9781512827972 £23.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Price of the Common Good Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy
Mark Hoipkemier Hoipkemier offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests. He argues not that economic institutions should ideally embody communal purposes, but that they already do. Engaging with leading political economists, he shows the centrality of common goods in real-world institutions with examples such as Uber, corporation law, and globalized auto manufacturing.
15 March 2025 304pp 3 tables
9780268208974 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Struggles for Self-Rule
Beyond
State–Society Relations
Filippo Sabetti Struggles for Self-Rule explores key moments in Italian history through a comparative perspective – from the city republics to the challenge of self-rule in France, Spain, and Catalonia – to study the circumstances in which people are able to take control of decisions that affect their lives and to what extent.
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas 07 April 2025 288pp 4 diagrams, 1 table
9780228023920 £91.00 / $110.00 HB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The
Personality of Power
A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life
Brian Massumi
A political treatise on fascism and its precursor movements, coupled with a philosophical inquiry into becoming reactionary as a collective process. Brian Massumi retheorizes the conditions of contemporary fascism through the prism of Trump’s persona. Thought in the Act
28 April 2025 344pp 7 illus
9781478031598 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478028352 £90.00 / $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Controversial
Thomas
More
Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings
Travis Curtright
This groundbreaking book offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII. Travis Curtright shows how More’s prison writings best reveal his ideas of political unity and authority, and is a reconsideration of More’s legacy and place in the history of the Henrician Reformation.
The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics
28 April 2025 256pp
9780268209155 £29.99 / $38.00 PB 9780268209148 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Elections in Canada
People, Players, and Processes
Edited by Tamara Small & Royce Koop
Emphasizing the significant influence of the electoral process, Elections in Canada examines the intricate relationships between voter preferences, historical and legal frameworks, campaign dynamics, political figures, and media platforms. Organized into five comprehensive sections, the book provides a detailed exploration of Canadian electoral processes.
06 May 2025 336pp
9781487551346
£50.00 / $75.00 PB 9781487551322
£86.00 / $130.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Suffering Victory
Soviet Liberals and the Failure of Democracy in Russia, 1987–1993
Guillaume Sauvé Suffering Victory recounts the commitment of Soviet liberal intellectuals to democratic transition during the effervescent period of perestroika and in the first years of post-Soviet Russia to the rise of Boris Yeltsin and the dissolution of the USSR.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 May 2025 264pp 9781501781049 £24.99 / $31.95 PB 9781501781032 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Royal Histories
The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864-2022
Joel Z. Garrod Garrod presents a historical analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada, illustrating how Canadian capitalism and the Canadian banking industry have transformed as they have consolidated nationally and expanded abroad. Connecting the Canadian experience to the wider transformation of global capitalism illuminates the effects of globalization and the changing landscape of finance.
29 April 2025 368pp
9781487542610 £53.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Liberal Education and Democracy
Bob Pepperman Taylor Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. Bob Pepperman Taylor addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy and offers a compelling case for maintaining a strong commitment to this form of education as an essential good for all citizens.
15 May 2025 216pp
9780268209551 £33.00 / $40.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
War on Sacred Grounds
Ron E. Hassner
In this updated edition, Hassner reevaluates his findings and conclusions and surveys ongoing conflicts over holy sites. He investigates the causes and properties of struggles, and proposes ways for managing these disputes. He also analyses successful compromises that reduced conflict in Jerusalem in 1967 and in Mecca in 1979.
Religion and Conflict
15 May 2025 258pp 14 b&w halftones
Afterlives of Discovery
Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
Traces global and national histories as they entangle through the concept and material life of Discovery across Colombia’s evolution into a liberal settler colonial state. Given that Colombia’s national past, present, and future are grounded in Discovery, restrepo rhodes asks How is it possible to build futures that escape Discovery’s grasp?
02 May 2025 248pp 8 illus
9781478031765 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028543 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mirages of Reform
The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World
Steve L. Monroe
Drawing on elite interviews, firm and industry-level data, and evidence from Jordan to Morocco, Mirages of Reform reveals how international and domestic factors interact to shape the Arab world's rugged trade policy terrain. Insightful and well researched, this book imparts important lessons and warnings about the reprecussions of economic reform in the region.
15 May 2025 246pp 1 chart, 10 graphs 9781501780608 £40.00 / $48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Shari´a, Citizenship, and Identity in Aceh
Arskal Salim, Moch. Nur Ichwan, Eka Srimulyani & Marzi Afriko
Shari`a, Citizenship and Identity in Aceh presents both an ethnographic and a sociohistorical account of identity making among both the Muslim majority population and different minority groups in Aceh, Indonesia.
Contending Modernities
15 May 2025 246pp
Knowledge, Power, and Migration Contesting the North/ South Divide
Edited by Yasmeen AbuLaban, Mireille Paquet & Ethel Tungohan
Research on immigration can occasion reflections and practices that challenge epistemic injustices. Knowledge, Power, and Migration contributes to this ongoing project while offering insights on the practical organization of new forms of dialogue on migration in a largely unequal world.
McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
17 June 2025 416pp 13 tables, 9 diagrams 9780228024651 £34.00 / $42.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fortress Power
Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control
Derek S. Denman
Through a unique blend of architecture and design studies, political theory, international relations, geography, and migration studies, Denman presents a compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosure.
08 July 2025 232pp 11 b&w illus
9781517917937 £19.99 / $25.00 PB
9781517917920 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
American Corruption Talk A Political Etymology
Robert G. Boatright & Molly Brigid McGrath
Underneath our talk about corruption lie deeper claims and concerns about how we organize our common life. American Corruption Talk presents a study of corruption and corruption talk that seeks to understand those deeper claims and concerns.
Boatright and McGrath focus on the role corruption talk plays in American political discourse.
27 June 2025 318pp
9781439916896 £32.00 / $39.95 PB 9781439916889 £104.00 / $125.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bankers' Trust
How Social Relations
Avert Global Financial Collapse
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe Sahasrabuddhe challenges the idea that central banking is purely apolitical and technocratic. By calling attention to the influence personal relationships can have on whether countries sink or swim during crises, Bankers' Trust asks us to reconsider the transparency and democratic accountability of global financial governance today.
Cornell Studies in Money
15 July 2025 252pp 2 charts 9781501782589 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Territories of Inequality
How Federalism and Redistribution Interact
Edited by Olivier Jacques & Alain Noël
The rise of income and wealth inequality and the possibilities of redistribution animate contemporary social and political debates, but much of the scholarship on the issue is limited to the individual level. In Territories of Inequality leading political scientists propose a territorial approach to inequality and redistribution, informed by political economy, political geography, and a comparative analysis of federalism and multilevel governance.
Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series
12 August 2025 360pp 23 diagrams, 11 tables 9780228024576 £35.00 / $44.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Resilience beyond Rebellion
How Today's Rebels Become Tomorrow's Parties
Sherry Zaks
Innovative in approach and rich in evidence, Resilience beyond Rebellion advances our understanding of rebel group dynamics both during and after conflict by showing that partybuilding begins not with the last bullet fired, but the very first.
15 August 2025 300pp 12 b&w halftones, 1 map, 3 charts, 7 graphs 9781501783357 £29.99 / $37.95 PB 9781501782473 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contested Taiwan Sovereignty, Social Movements,
and
Party Formation
Lev Nachman Series edited by James Lin, William Lavely & Madeleine Yue Dong Contested Taiwan offers a new approach to understanding contested statehood, movement party formation, and what motivates individuals to take political action across the world.
Taiwan and the World
01 July 2025 216pp 7 charts
9780295753928 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780295753911 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
The Making of a Black Communist
The Selected Writings of Eugene Gordon
Edited by Louis J. Parascandola
Catalogues the life of Eugene Gordon who was a major writer involved in the development of the burgeoning Black literary scene in Boston in the 1920s, and a longtime member of the Communist Party. This new collection, demonstrates his range and his skill while establishing his importance as a critical voice of his time.
31 July 2025 313pp 3 illus
9781625348685 £28.99 / $36.95 PB 9781625348692 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
Trade in War
Economic Cooperation across Enemy Lines
Mariya Grinberg
An urgent, insightful study of a puzzling wartime phenomenon: states doing business with their enemies. Grinberg's findings reveal that economic cooperation can thrive even in the most hostile of times—and that interstate conflict might not be as easily deterred by high levels of economic interdependence as is commonly believed.
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
15 August 2025 264pp 1 chart, 7 graphs 9781501782442 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Politics and Government
Why Not Build the Mosque?
Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece
Dimitris Antoniou
Why Not Build the Mosque? tells the story of the Greek state’s centuries-long attempt to build a central mosque. After the fall of Ottoman Empire, Greek Orthodoxy entwined with Greek nationalism, and by the 2th century, the state came to imagine Islam as incompatible with a Greek-speaking Orthodox Christian identity.
Contemporary Ethnography
11 February 2025 248pp 25 b&w images 9781512827163 £35.00 / $44.95 PB 9781512827170 £83.00 / $99.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Making Sanctuary Cities
Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance
Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation. Through long-term fieldwork across the sanctuary cities of San Francisco, Sheffield, and Toronto, Humphris investigates the complexity of sanctuary city policy.
Anthropology of Policy
15 April 2025 184pp 2 tables
9781503642393
9781503642218
£19.99 / $28.00 NIP
£83.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Politics of Higher Education in Minority Nations Insights from Quebec
Hannah Moscovitz
Critically examines the connection between higher education policy and nationalism in Quebec, tracing its trajectory from the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 2022. Using the Quiet Revolution as a starting point, the book highlights specific policy arenas and events where nationalism and higher education have intersected over time.
28 April 2025 176pp
9781487558543
£33.00 / $50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy
David M. Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer & Volker Haarmann
Highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy, and to foster the exclusion of individuals and communities from citizenship, political representation, and a role in determining public policy.
15 February 2025 238pp
9780268200619 £27.99 / $35.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
States Without People
Revolt and Defeat in the Middle East
Billie Jeanne Brownlee & Maziyar Ghiabi States Without People explores how revolts that preceded the outbreak of war in the Middle East have fostered a right-wing political culture. Brownlee and Ghiabi take readers into the phenomenological depths of citizen politics in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt, across the Arabian Peninsula, and beyond.
McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
07 April 2025 272pp
9780228024156 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Startup Capitalism New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Robyn Klingler-Vidra & Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Explores the place of startups in contemporary East Asian economies. Rich with empirical detail, Startup Capitalism reveals how and why startups can end up working with—or even for—large firms to drive a country's technological capabilities.
15 April 2025 252pp 7 charts
9781501781391
£20.99 / $26.95 PB
9781501780295 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Our Subversive Voice
The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020
John Street, Oskar Cox Jensen, Alan Finlayson, Angela McShane & Matthew Worley Investigating five centuries of English history, Our Subversive Voice establishes that the protest song is not merely the preserve of singer-songwriters; it is a mode of political communication that has been used to confront many systems of oppression across its many genres, from street ballads to art song, grime to hymns, and music hall to punk.
McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
21 April 2025 296pp 18 photos
9780228023722 £26.99 / $32.95 HB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Statecraft
Canadian Prime Ministers and Their Cabinets
Stephen Azzi & Patrice Dutil
Delves into the intricate relationships between Canadian prime ministers and their cabinets since Confederation. Through twenty critical essays, leading scholars systematically analyse the challenges and decisions faced by individual prime ministers. At its core, the book examines statecraft – the art of decisive leadership in the face of shifting social, economic, and cultural realities.
IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
05 May 2025 496pp 22 b&w figures
9781487558970
The
Battle for Boston
How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers
Don Gillis
Captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in 1983 marked the beginning of a profound shift in the city’s political and social landscape. Gillis chronicles the inspiring journey of a city that dared to challenge the entrenched power brokers—including developers, landlords, and banking industry leaders—through powerful grassroots campaigns.
Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies 06 May 2025 432pp 39 b&w illus, 15 charts 9781531509835 £28.99 / $34.95 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reshaping the Mosaic
Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Ninette Kelley, Jeffrey G. Reitz & Michael J. Trebilcock
Offers an insightful exploration of Canada's immigration policy, ranging from its historical roots to contemporary developments. Sheds light on the legal, political, economic, and social paradoxes inherent in Canadian immigration policy, highlighting shifts in exclusion powers, deportation practices, settlement support, and citizenship rules, as well as their implications for Canadian ideals.
UTP Insights
13 May 2025 336pp
9781487562977 £23.99 / $36.95 PB
9781487562960 £63.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Future-Generation Government
How to Legislate for the Long Term
Nicholas Chesterley
In the decades preceding COVID-19 there were 9 pandemics or nearpandemics. Despite this, many governments were unprepared for the recent pandemic and remain ill-equipped for the next. Future-Generation Government offers a fresh perspective on short-termism and proposes clear, practical reforms that can help leaders respond to tomorrow’s challenges without compromising today’s democratic rights and freedoms.
20 May 2025 344pp 1 diagram 9780228024750 £28.99 / $34.95 HB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sodomy's Solicitations A Right to Queerness
Joseph J. Fischel
Builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twentyfirst century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities.
Sexuality Studies
13 June 2025 318pp
9781439915851
£32.00 / $39.95 PB 9781439915844 £104.00 / $125.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Artificial Democracy
The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity
Edited by Cecilia Biancalana & Eric Montigny
Explores the ways in which data collection and analytics, and their application, are changing political practices, government policies, and even democratic polities themselves. With an international roster of multidisciplinary contributors, this highly topical collection takes a comprehensive approach to big data’s effect on democracy.
15 May 2025 200pp 2 tables, 1 chart
9780774871013 £91.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
The Canadian Environment in Political Context, Third Edition
Andrea Olive & Heather Millar Offers an accessible introduction to environmental politics for undergraduate readers. The third edition features new chapters on environmentalism, climate governance, biodiversity, and oceans, while also integrating key topics such as political economy and environmental justice into the existing twelve-chapter structure.
20 May 2025 288pp
9781487554613 £45.00 / $67.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Canadian Ecopolitics
Rosalind Warner, Peter Stoett & Wilfrid Greaves
Canadian Ecopolitics provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between environmental issues and political processes in Canada. It explores key concepts, historical developments, and contemporary challenges in environmental governance, highlighting the diverse world views that shape ecopolitical discourse.
30 May 2025 416pp
9781487525705 £41.00 / $61.95 PB
9781487508166 £76.00 / $115.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Social Resilience and International Migration in the Canadian City
Edited by Valerie Preston, John Shields & Tara Bedard
Draws attention to disparities in outcomes for migrants and proposes strategies to enhance their participation in cities of all sizes. Focused on Ontario and Quebec, chapters pinpoint factors that affect the settlement and integration of immigrants, as well as growing numbers of international students, foreign workers, and refugee claimants.
McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance 10 June 2025 288pp 2 tables, 1 diagram 9780228024682 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Climate Bridge
An International Perspective on How to Enact Climate Action at the Government Public Interface
Edited by Wolfram Höfer, Sebastian Schlecht, Frank Gallagher, Arianna Lindberg & Angela Oberg
Contributors to this landmark volume include planners, designers, scholars, public administrators, and decisionmakers on both sides of the Atlantic. Together, the chapters bring interdisciplinary approaches and diverse perspectives to the environmental, economic, political, and social dimensions of planning and design in the context of climate change.
17 June 2025 242pp 60 b&w images, 3 tables 9781978837621 £28.99 / $36.99 PB 9781978837638 £100.00 / $120.00 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Hidden Face of Local Power Appointed Boards and the Limits of Democracy
Mirya R. Holman
Explicates the purpose, role, and consequences of appointed boards in U.S. cities. Holman examines the role of boards in the development of urban political institutions, the allocation of power in local politics, and the persistence of inequality.
27 June 2025 270pp
9781439926710 £25.99
Blue Skies over Wuhan
The Evolution of Environmental Protection Policy in Hubei, 1970s–80s
Yun Liu
Uses Hubei Province –particularly its sprawling industrial capital, Wuhan City – as a case study of growing environmental awareness in China in the 1970s and ’80s. The attention that Blue Skies over Wuhan gives to newly uncovered evidence reveals a symbiotic relationship between communities and state actors that shaped the trajectory of environmental governance.
Contemporary Chinese Studies
01 July 2025 210pp 15 photos, 5 maps, 2 tables
9780774870818 £62.00 / $75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Unequal Access
Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes
Natalie Welfens
Unequal Access reveals the inequalities embedded in the categorization practices of resettlement and humanitarian admission programs, demonstrating how these practices profoundly shape access to protection for refugees. Focusing on Europe and programs admitting people to Germany from Lebanon and Turkey, Natalie Welfens explores multilevel policy developments, from the national to the global.
McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
15 July 2025 288pp 16 diagrams, 4 tables 9780228024606 £31.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Digital Rights at the Periphery Making Brazil's Marco Civil
Guy T. Hoskins
Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet appeared to offer pioneering legislation for a digital bill of rights that addressed issues like network neutrality and privacy. Guy T. Hoskins chronicles the Marco Civil’s development and its failure to confront the greatest concentration of power in the digital age: informational capitalism.
Geopolitics of Information
08 July 2025 288pp 1 chart, 4 tables
9780252088773 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252046674 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond
Emmett Macfarlane Brings together political scientists and legal scholars to explore rights and their limitations, along with the governmental and legislative processes affecting them, within Canada’s parliamentary system. It also examines how these elements shape broader institutional relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and in comparative perspective.
18 July 2025 256pp
Canadian Federalism Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, Fifth Edition
Edited by Grace Skogstad & Herman Bakvis
Stands as the leading text on federal institutions and processes, analyzing the performance, effectiveness, and legitimacy of the federation’s core components. The fifth edition features contributions from twenty experts, including six new authors, who explore the socioeconomic foundations, institutions, and intergovernmental relations that shape Canadian federalism.
11 July 2025 576pp
9781487557195 £56.00 / $85.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Revolution of Rules
The Regulatory Reform of India’s Nonprofit Sector
Erica Bornstein
Erica Bornstein argues that the scrutiny of nonprofits in India must be understood in a wider, global context of political judicialization and regulatory reform. She examines how members of nonprofit organizations are the unsung heroes of democracy as they navigate a shrinking stage for rights-based work and struggle to protect civil society.
12 August 2025 296pp 8 tables
9781503643192 £24.99 / $32.00 PB 9781503642287 £108.00 / $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Human Rights
The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights
Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials
Edited by Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba & Dirk Moses
The case studies in this book illuminate the convergences between Holocaust and human rights museums in their demands for social justice and reparation, educational and activist purpose, design principles, and curatorial choices.
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
28 January 2025 312pp 44 b&w illus.
9780812253221 £62.00 / $74.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Compromised Bodies
Cultural Imperialism, Agency, and the Ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in Senegal
Sarah O'Neill
By way of the many stories of ordinary women and men caught up in debates around the value of the practice and meaning of FGC, Compromised Bodies reveals the personal struggles and difficult decisions Fulani face, be they traditional cutters, religious leaders, mothers, husbands, divorced women, or anti-FGC activists.
Contemporary Ethnography 25 March 2025 272pp 9781512827231 £31.00 / $39.95 PB 9781512827248 £83.00 / $99.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Wrong Winds
Ahmad Almallah
Writing during the first months of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, PalestinianAmerican poet Ahmad Almallah traverses European cities, Almallah encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies. The poems in Wrong Winds discover the world again and form an impossible dialogue with the dead and dying.
07 April 2025 70pp
9781964499482 £13.99 / $17.95 PB 9781964499499
Chile Under Pinochet Recovering the Truth
Mark Ensalaco
In this primary study of Chile under Pinochet, Mark Ensalaco maintains that Pinochet was complicit in the "enforced disappearance" of thousands of Chileans and an unknown number of foreign nationals. Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
15 April 2025 296pp
9781512827972
£23.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Everyday Activists
Undocumented Immigrants' Quest for Justice and Well-Being
Christina M. Getrich
Since Trump’s attempted termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, over 825,000, young adults have endured a rollercoaster of legal battles. Getrich reveals how these young activists’ strategies are instructive for thinking creatively about how to show up in our everyday lives for immigrants and others who are subjected to social exclusion.
22 April 2025 296pp 8 b&w images 9781479832231 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479832224 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Abolitionist Intimacies
Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State
Eithne Luibhéid
Examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. Luibhéid highlights the new understandings that emerge when the experiences of queer and trans people are centered.
20 May 2025 256pp 1 illus 9781478031239 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478028024 £86.00 / $102.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thoughts That Burned
William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery
Steve Gowler
The first comprehensive biography of William Goodell, one of the most significant leaders of the antebellum antislavery movement, whose powerful political and theological arguments grounded abolition within the concept of human rights.
15 April 2025 288pp 11 b&w halftones
9781501780332 £43.00 / $51.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Ingu Hwang
The first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s. Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
15 April 2025 360pp 9 b&w illus.
9781512827989 £27.99 / $34.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Reparations and the Human
David L. Eng
Investigates a history of reparations across the Transpacific. David L. Eng analyzes how concepts of reparation established during colonial settlement and the European Enlightenment shape contemporary configurations of the human and human rights, establishing who can be recognized as victims, who must be seen as perpetrators, and who deserves repair.
25 April 2025 176pp 3 illus
9781478031864 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478028628 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Canadian Human Rights Champions
The Arduous Journey
Beverly A Sabourin & Peter Globensky Recounts the inspiring stories of a select group of advocates who have fought to secure civil, social, and political rights for all Canadians. The book profiles thirty-eight remarkable individuals, delving into their motivations, the challenges they overcame, and the opportunities they seized, while underscoring the crucial importance of defending human rights.
06 May 2025 320pp
9781487550622 £15.99 / $24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Dignity in America
Transforming Social Conflicts
Erin Daly
Erin Daly explores how we can resolve the social conflicts that divide us as a nation by transforming them under the lens of human dignity. If we pay attention to the core needs of people in society, we can make political choices that better protect us all, allowing us to flourish as individuals while living in communities based on justice for all.
10 June 2025 200pp 1 figure 9781503642188 £16.99 / $20.00 PB 9781503642171 £74.00 / $80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Good Kids
Why Children Demand the Right to Work with Dignity
Isabel Jijon
In Good Kids, Isabel Jijon reveals how global campaigns against child labor are often met with resistance from the very children they are meant to protect. Conducting interviews in Bolivia and Ecuador with children who defend their labor, Jijon explores what they mean by "value," "rights," and "dignity" in this context.
Culture and Economic Life
29 July 2025 200pp 2 tables, 5 figures 9781503643062 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503641860 £91.00 / $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
Eros and Empire
The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States
Alexander Stoffel
In this ambitious and interdisciplinary work, Stoffel reconsiders the United States' revolutionary sexual past and creates new opportunities for the study of sexual formations in relation to questions of capital accumulation, empire, and resistance.
25 February 2025 276pp
9781503641662 £58.00 / $70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fabricating Homeland Security
Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel
Rhys Machold
Through a focus on the often unseen and overlooked political struggles at work in the making of homeland security, Rhys Machold details how homeland security is a universalizing project, which seeks to remake the world in its image, and tells the story of how claims to global authority are fabricated and put to work.
24 September 2024 277pp 29 halftones 1 map
9781503640719 £27.99 / $35.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Prisoners’ Bodies
Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985
Oisín Wall
Wall charts the rise and fall of prisoners' organizations, their changing social networks, tactics, and splits, and the effect that they had on life inside prison, public policy, and society at large. Considering the public discourse around prisons and prisoners during this period, Wall investigates how it shaped and was shaped by the movement.
12 November 2024 264pp 2 photos 1 table 9780228022954 £32.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Racing to Justice
Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
John A. Powell
A thought-provoking book that offers readers a look into the issues that continue to plague our society. It is reminder that we have yet to address and reckon with the challenges we face in providing equal opportunities for all people in this country and the world.
19 November 2024 384pp
9780253069740 £21.99 / $28.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forced Migration in/to Canada
From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement
Edited by Christina R. Clark-Kazak
Situating Canada within broader international trends, norms, and structures – both today and historically –Forced Migration in/to Canada provides the tools we need to evaluate information we encounter in the news and from government officials, colleagues, and non-governmental organizations. It also proposes new areas for enquiry, discussion, research, advocacy, and action.
22 October 2024 600pp 9 figures 2 tables 9780228022176 £32.00 / $39.95 PB MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
The War on Rescue
The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis
William Plowright Documents how governments block assistance to people in times of crisis. Focusing on the European Migration Crisis of 2015–2022 to address the reasons why governments do this, William Plowright discusses the strategies employed that prevent suffering people from receiving help.
15 December 2024 252pp 1 map 2 graphs 9781501778353 £40.00 / $48.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Security Studies
Apocalyptic Crimes
Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished
Ronald C. Kramer
In 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to 9 seconds to midnight— the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic countdown to annihilation.
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
11 March 2025 314pp 7 images
9781978839335 £23.99 / $29.95 PB
9781978839342 £62.00 / $74.95 HB RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disruption
Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History
Aki J. Peritz
Al-Qaeda did not stop after 9/11. Its reign of terror continued but its frustration grew as the group failed to fundamentally undermine America. Five years later one veteran operative set in motion a new operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. Disruption is the not-to-bemissed account of the race to stop a terrorist conspiracy that would have remade our world—forever.
01 April 2025 408pp 20 photos, 2 maps, index 9781640126466 £20.99 / $26.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Tough Streets, Rough Skies, and Sunday Sidelines
Larry A. Wansley & Carlton Stowers
As one of the FBI's first long-term undercover agents, Larry Wansley served as Global Security Director for American Airlines during 9/11 and walked among those searching Ground Zero. This riveting autobiography runs the emotional gamut from terrifying to heartbreaking to laugh-out-loud funny with the dangerous and high drama situations that are often only found in fiction.
30 April 2025 324pp 40 images 9780875658896 £19.99 / $24.95 PB TCU PRESS
Manifesting Violence
White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and the Rhetoric of Replacement
Casey Ryan Kelly & William Joseph Sipe
Explores the digital world as a fertile location where white supremist groups spread manifestos and screeds about a supposed white genocide. Through analysis of white supremacist manifestos, online rhetoric, Kelly and Sipe uncover the disturbing ways in which digital culture facilitates the spread of racist ideology and the radicalization of individuals.
15 May 2025 168pp
9780817362072
£27.99 / $34.95 PB 9780817322359 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Recent Highlights
Near and Far Waters
The Geopolitics of Seapower
Colin Flint
Examining the histories of three naval powers (the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States), this book distills the past and present patterns of seapower and their tendency to trigger repercussive conflict and war. Drawing on decades of experience, Flint urges readers to take seriously the dilemma of near/far waters as a context for an alternative understanding of global politics.
30 July 2024 277pp 5 halftones 18 maps 9781503639812 £20.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503639645 £87.00 / $105.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
International Relations
Contested Airwaves
American Radio at Home and Abroad, 1914-1946
Michael A. Krysko
Controversial American-led radio initiatives sparked a kaleidoscope of conflicts and rivalries from the medium’s earliest days through the end of World War II. Michael A. Krysko explores how the medium engaged the knowledge, assumptions, and prejudices that fueled listeners’ and policymakers’ objections to foreign and unwelcome radio content.
The History of Media and Communication
25 February 2025 280pp 14 b&w photos 9780252088476 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780252046391 £91.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Glocalized Security
Domestic and External
Issues
in International
Security
Edited by Abu Bakarr Bah
By focusing on ethnicity, religion, poverty, governance, and the other most common motivators of violent conflicts, Glocalized Security provides a crucial conceptual basis for understanding international relations in the twenty-first century.
03 June 2025 312pp 1 b&w illus, 2 b&w tables
9780253072894 £35.00 / $45.00 PB 9780253072887 £79.00 / $95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship
Security, Development, and Local Membership in China
Samantha A. Vortherms Vortherms examines the crucial case of China—where internal citizenship regimes control who can and cannot become a local citizen through the household registration system (hukou)—and uncovers how autocrats use such institutions to create particularistic membership in citizenship.
15 October 2024 277pp 15 tables 19 figures 7 halftones
9781503640184 £63.00 / $75.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Migration
in the Time of
Revolution
China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
Taomo Zhou
Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world's most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. Taomo Zhou asks probing questions of this important period in the histories of the People's Republic of China and Indonesia.
15 March 2025 318pp 20 b&w halftones 9781501781445 £25.99 / $32.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bracketed Belonging
Gurkha Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives
Kelvin E. Y. Low
This book offers fresh perspectives on studying global security, migration and diasporic lives. It sets a new agenda by analytically bridging empire, military and security maneuvers, and migratory pathways and options. In doing so, it serves as a novel contribution to current scholarship on migration and transnationalism, and on police and security studies.
Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
15 July 2025 300pp 7 b&w halftones, 2 maps 9781501781629 £29.99 / $37.95 PB 9781501781612 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Words of War
Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict
Eric Min
Combining statistical and computational text analyses with qualitative case studies ranging from the War of the Roman Republic to the Korean War, Min shows that negotiations are more likely to occur with strong external pressures. By revealing that diplomacy can sometimes be counterproductive to peace, Words of War compels us to rethink the assumption that it "cannot hurt" to promote diplomacy during war.
15 February 2025 294pp 6 maps 1 chart 18 graphs
9781501779220 £38.00 / $44.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Power
of
Systems
How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
Eglļ RindzeviĶi¹tļ Explores how computer modeling, cybernetics, and the systems approach challenged Soviet governance by undermining the linear notions of control on which Soviet governance was based and creating new objects and techniques of government.
15 March 2025 306pp 8 halftones 9781501782206 £21.99 / $27.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Breach
Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Alan McPherson
The 1980s Iran-Contra scandal of the ReaganBush era is analysed in this gripping blow-byblow account of the efforts the US went to in order to illegally trade arms with Iran, fund rebels in Central America, and dodge political and legal consequences once the truth emerged.
31 March 2025 352pp 20 halftones
9781469686349 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781469686332 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Negotiating
ArabIsraeli Peace Patterns, Problems, Possibilities
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg & Neil Caplan
By measuring contemporary diplomatic episodes against the pattern of counterproductive negotiating habits, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace makes possible a coherent comparison of almost eighty years of Arab-Israeli negotiations and gives readers a framework with which to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of peace-making attempts in the past, present, and future.
22 April 2025 484pp 44 b&w illus., 13 maps
9780253072559 £36.00 / $46.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bankers' Trust
How Social Relations
Avert Global Financial Collapse
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe Sahasrabuddhe challenges the idea that central banking is purely apolitical and technocratic. By calling attention to the influence personal relationships can have on whether countries sink or swim during crises, Bankers' Trust asks us to reconsider the transparency and democratic accountability of global financial governance today.
Cornell Studies in Money
15 July 2025 252pp 2 charts 9781501782589 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia
US Hegemony and Local Agency
Edited by Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Shin Kawashima & Somei Kobayashi
A distinctive look at the Cold War through the research and perspectives of scholars from East Asia, Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia insightfully highlights the role of knowledge production, normalization, and resistance in the Cold War era, contributing to a fuller understanding of international relations.
01 April 2025 348pp 2 b&w photos
9780253072061 £39.00 / $50.00 PB 9780253072054 £91.00 / $110.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Secrets I Won't Take with Me
Home, War, and the Struggle for Peace in Israel
Yossi Beilin
Yossi Beilin, a key Israeli political leader puts forward his riveting first-hand account of pivotal moments from recent Israeli history, including the Oslo Peace Accords, the founding of the Birthright Initiative, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the rise of the Israeli far right.
30 April 2025 360pp 16 images
9780817362027 £23.99 / $29.95 PB
9780817322304 £100.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
The Province of All Mankind
How Outer Space Became American Foreign Policy
Stephen Buono
Bucking a half-century of "space race" scholarship, Buono argues that despite waging a totalizing Cold War, the United States achieved stunning diplomatic successes that heralded the cosmos as a realm of peace and cooperation.
15 July 2025 348pp 20 b&w halftones 9781501782923 £27.99 / $34.95
Russia's World Order
How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
Paul Robinson
Explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. Robinson recounts how ideas of inevitable convergence once dominated Russian thought as well but were gradually pushed out by civilizational theories.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 April 2025 168pp
9781501780011 £23.99 / $28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Work of Empire War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Justin F. Jackson
On the eve of the Spanish-American Warin 1898 - the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, its soldiers defeated Spain and pacified nationalist insurgencies in Cuba and the Philippines. This book reveals how labor forged the politics, economics, and culture of American colonialism in these respective territories.
06 May 2025 400pp 14 halftones 8 maps
9781469660325 £29.99 / $34.95 PB 9781469660318 £100.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Ethnicizing Europe
Hate and Violence After Versailles
Edited by Éva Kovács, Raul Cârstocea & Gábor Egry
Rather than concentrating on either political violence or ethnonationalism, this collection brings these two literatures together to show how ethnicization, the legal concepts of citizenship, and violence were intertwined in postVersailles Europe, not only shaping the period between the wars, but also the Europe we know today.
15 July 2025 308pp 9781626711211 £44.00 / $54.99 PB 9781626711204 £83.00 / $99.99 HB PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ties That Bind
People and Perception in U.S. and Korean Transnational Relations, 1905–1965
Hannah Kim Narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans were aware of Korea’s geopolitical significance.
Studies in Pacific Worlds
01 August 2025 320pp 29 photos, 1 illus, 3 tables, index 9781496213327 £54.00 / $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Seeds of Exchange
Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921–1935
Maria Fedorova
Examines the US and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period. Fedorova challenges the perception of the Soviet Union as a passive recipient of American technology and expertise and shows agricultural modernization was not the exclusive domain of Western countries.
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
15 August 2025 240pp 7 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map 9781501782794
£42.00 / $49.95 HB 9781501782794 / CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
International Statebuilding in West Africa
Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire
Abu Bakarr Bah & Nikolas Emmanuel
Bah and Emmanuel argue that there is a clear nexus between the concepts and practices of peace building and statebuilding; that peace building and statebuilding are not domestic matters alone but also matters of global intervention; and that civil wars can be viewed as opportunities for state building through creative postwar partnerships and organization.
6 August 2024 370pp
9780253070630
£40.00 / $50.00 PB
9780253070623 £91.00 / $110.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Trade in War Economic Cooperation across Enemy Lines
Mariya Grinberg
An urgent, insightful study of a puzzling wartime phenomenon: states doing business with their enemies. Grinberg's findings reveal that economic cooperation can thrive even in the most hostile of times—and that interstate conflict might not be as easily deterred by high levels of economic interdependence as is commonly believed.
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs 15 August 2025 264pp 1 chart, 7 graphs 9781501782442 £40.00 / $47.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Political Anthropology of Yemen
Concept and Critique
Edited by Ross Porter
Provides an insight into the ethnographic fieldwork in Yemen (based on decades of work) and will be of interest to students and scholars seeking an intimate and nuanced account of life in the country. At a time when Yemen was ravaged by war, the writings in this collection serve as a timely reminder of the need for grounded anthropological study in even the harshest of circumstances.
Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
31 August 2025 268pp 4 b&w illus 9780815638599 £32.00 / $39.95 PB 9780815638599 £75.00 / $90.00 HB SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS
It’s Nation Time
A Progressive Defence
Jerry White
National identity and nationhood are too often easily dismissed as retrograde populism or racist exclusion. Broadly internationalist but also deeply insightful about the particular cultures and politics of small nations, It's Nation Time defends an idea of nation, and a form of nationalism that are rooted in the potential for diversity, flexibility, and progressive politics.
1 October 2024 330pp
9780228022961 £26.99 / $32.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Flowing Progress
Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure
Edited by Stefan Dorondel & Luminita Gatejel
Explores how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Drawing particular attention to the concerted efforts to contain and optimize the Danube's flow, adding layer after layer of dams, channels, and pipes that could potentially escalate the power the river.
Central European Studies
15 August 2025 276pp 9781626711174 £40.00 / $49.99 PB 9781626711174 £83.00 / $99.99 HB PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
Vacationing in Dictatorships
International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain
Adelina Stefan Examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Stefan reveals a new perspective on the Cold War that reveals not only the developmental similarities between Eastern and Southern Europe but also the ideological struggle that pitted socialist East against capitalist West.
Histories and Cultures of Tourism 15 December 2024 277pp 11 b&w halftones 9781501778513 £26.99 / $33.95 PB 9781501778506 £108.00 / $130.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me About Democracy
Jane Cooper
Long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in the mid-sized city of Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a practical framework for exploring the many things that can go right or wrong during an election, at the core of this story is the inspirational struggle of the poll workers at the bottom of the electoral pyramid to keep the election honest.
Footprints Series
3 September 2024 216pp 11 figures
9780228022558 £20.99 / $26.95 PB MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
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