SPOTLIGHT
Asia Struggles with Democracy
Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
Routledge
From the Publisher: The book investigates the dynamics by which citizens embrace democratic rule and reject authoritarianism, compares these dynamics with those of consolidating democracies around the world. The book also discusses what it is about the nature of public opinion and the processes of day-to-day democratic participation that have made these countries vulnerable to repeated crises of legitimacy. Using Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand as case studies, this book highlights the uniqueness of the Asia’s path to democracy, and shows both the challenges and opportunities in getting there.
Giovanna Maria Dora Dore, visiting scholar, Southeast Asia Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, is a political economist with nearly 20 years of experience in international development and comparative politics.
SPOTLIGHT
Myths about Women’s Rights: How, Where, and Why Rights Advance
Feryal M. Cherif
Oxford University Press
From the Publisher: Two conventional wisdoms dominate debates about why women’s rights advance in some places but not others. While culture and religion are understood to be the primary barriers to gender equality, efforts by international institutions and women’s groups to change social norms are often seen as the most effective way to reduce discrimination. This book introduces a third, often overlooked explanation—the core rights framework—to account for how, where, and why women’s rights advance. It argues that female labor force participation and education serve as building blocks, or core rights, for the advancement of other women’s rights.
Feryal M. Cherif is assistant professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University, and she studies international relations and politics of the Middle East with an emphasis on gender and human rights.
Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions
Brian Wampler
University of Notre Dame Press
Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror
Barnett R. Rubin
Oxford University Press
American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Jack Citrin and David O. Sears
Cambridge University Press
Anthropology & Political Science: A Convergent Approach
Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik
Berghahn Books
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture
Jonathan Rynhold
Cambridge University Press
At the Cross: Race, Religion, & Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Melynda J. Price
Oxford University Press
Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Alice J. Kang
University of Minnesota Press
Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America
John Hultgren
University of Minnesota Press
Can Science End War?
Everett Dolman
Polity
Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
Robert A. Dowd
Oxford University Press
Coercion, Survival, and War: Why Weak States Resist the United States
Phil Haun
Stanford University Press
The Contemporary Conflict Resolution Reader
Tom Woodhouse, Hugh Miall, Oliver Ramsbotham, and Christopher M. Mitchell
Polity
Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System
Brandon Valeriano and Ryan C. Maness
Oxford University Press
Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights
Lisa Baldez
Cambridge University Press
Election Administration in the United States: The State of Reform after Bush v. Gore
R. Michael Alvarez and Bernard Grofman, eds.
Cambridge University Press
The Ethics of Immigration
Joseph Carens
Oxford University Press
Fourth Amendment Rights
Nancy S. Lind and Erik Rankin, eds.
ABC-CLIO
Freedom and Solidarity: Toward New Beginnings
Fred Dallmayr
University of Kentucky Press
From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
Alex Gourevitch
Cambridge University Press
The Future of the Euro
Matthias Matthijs and Mark Blyth, eds.
Oxford University Press
In It to Win: Electing Madam President
Lori Cox Han
Bloomsbury
Isolate or Engage: Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy
Geoffrey Wiseman
Stanford University Press
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman
Cambridge University Press
Making Policy Public: Participating Bureaucracy in American Democracy
Susan L. Moffitt
Cambridge University Press
Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia
Samuel A. Greene
Stanford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of the Political Economy of International Trade
Lisa I. Martin
Oxford University Press
Party and State in Post-Mao China
Teresa Wright
Polity
Political Polarization in American Politics
Daniel J. Hopkins and John Sides, eds.
Bloomsbury
The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Deva R. Woodly
Oxford University Press
The Politics of Major Policy Reform in Postwar America
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Sidney M. Milkis, eds.
Cambridge University Press
Presidential Leadership in Public Opinion: Causes and Consequences
Jeffrey E. Cohen
Cambridge University Press
Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics
Lakeyta M. Bonnette
University of Pennsylvania Press
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
Jacob T. Levy
Oxford University Press
Religion and the Struggle for European Union: Confessional Culture and the Limits of Integration
Brent F. Nelson and James L. Guth
Georgetown University Press
Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Ben Herzog
New York University Press
Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control
Tom K. Wong
Stanford University Press
Scapegoating Islam: Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Jeffrey Thomas
Praeger
Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics
David E. Campbell, John C. Green, and J. Quin Monson
Cambridge University Press
The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics
Myron J. Aronoff
Palgrave (e-book release)
Too Weak to Govern: Majority Power and Appropriations in the US Senate
Peter Hanson
Cambridge University Press
State and Agents in China: Disciplining Government Officials
Yongshun Cai
Stanford University Press
Voting in Old and New Democracies
Richard Gunther, Paul A. Beck, Pedro Magalhaes, Alejandro Moreno, Robert Mattes et al.
Routledge
War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice
Michael J. Shapiro
Polity
SPOTLIGHT
Power and Restraint: The Rise of the United States, 1898–1941
Jeffrey W. Meiser
Georgetown University Press
From the Publisher: This book explores why the United States—counter to widely accepted wisdom in international relations theory—chose the course of moderation. Using 34 carefully researched historical cases, Meiser asserts that domestic political institutions and culture played a decisive role in preventing the mobilization of resources necessary to implement an expansionist grand strategy. These factors included traditional congressional opposition to executive branch ambitions, voter resistance to European-style imperialism, and the personal antipathy to expansionism felt by presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. The web of resilient and redundant political restraints halted or limited expansionist ambitions and shaped the United States into an historical anomaly, a rising great power characterized by prudence and limited international ambitions.
Jeffrey W. Meister is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Portland and an adjunct professor at the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University.
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