Stanford Political Science Catalog 2012

2012
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Peacebuilding and Table of Contents Democratization Comparative Politics ......... 2- 6 After War
Political Economy ................6- 7 U.S. Politics...............................7- 8 International Relations .... 9-10 Security Studies ................11-15
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Costly Democracy
Christoph Zrcher, Carrie Manning, Kristie D. Evenson, Rachel Hayman, Sarah Riese, and Nora Roehner
Costly Democracy makes the case that the preferences of domestic elites are greatly shaped by the costs they incur in adopting democracy, as well as the leverage that peacebuilders wield to increase the costs of non-adoption. The book offers comparative analyses of recent cases of peacebuilding from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Timor, Rwanda, Namibia, Mozambique, and Tajikistan to deepen understanding of postwar democratization and better explain why peacebuilding missions often bring peace, but seldom democracy, to war-torn countries. A consistent and rigorous focus across many different cases of international peacebuilding makes this a standout collection.
Benjamin Reilly, Australian National University
The Fate of ProDemocracy Organizations When Democracy Is Won

Brian K. Grodsky
Social Movements and the New State
The worlds democracies cheered as the social movements of the Arab Spring ended the reigns of longstanding dictators and ushered in the possibility of democracy. Yet these unique transitions also fit into a broader pattern of democratic breakthroughs around the globe, where political leaders emerge from the pro-democracy movement that helped affect change. In Social Movements and the New State, Brian Grodsky examines the relationships between new political elites and the civil society organizations that brought them to power in three culturally and geographically disparate countries Poland, South Africa, and Georgia. A carefully researched and theoretically innovative contribution to comparative politics.
Laura Henry, Bowdoin College
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comparative Politics
Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond
Contested Welfare States

Edited by Stefan Svallfors
Social Forces and States
This book analyzes peoples attitudes toward welfare policies across Europe, and offers a novel comparison with the United States. Occupied with normative orientations toward the redistribution of resources and public policies aimed at ameliorating adverse conditions, the book focuses on the interplay between individual welfare attitudes and behavior, institutional contexts, and structural variables. It provides essential input into the comparative study of welfare state attitudes and offers critical insights into the public legitimacy of welfare state reform. Contested Welfare States truly embodies the state-of-the-art on the topic of public attitudes towards social protection and redistribution. It delivers fresh perspective on a distinctive set of questions concerning welfare debates and will be of broad interest and use.
Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University
Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico

Judith A. Teichman
Social Forces and States explains the reasons behind distinct distributional and poverty outcomes in three countries: South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. South Korea has successfully reduced poverty and has kept inequality low. Chile has reduced poverty but inequality remains high. Mexico has confronted higher levels of poverty and high inequality than either of the other countries. Judith Teichman takes a comparative historical approach, focusing upon the impact of the interaction between social forces and states.
The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela

Jason Seawright
To date, scholars have pointed to economic crises, the rise of the informal economy, and the charisma and political brilliance of Fujimori and Chavez to explain the changes in Peru and Venezuela. This book uses economic data, surveys, and experiments to show that these explanations are incomplete. Integrating economic, organizational, and individual considerations, Seawright provides a new explanation and compelling new evidence to present a fuller picture of voters decisions and actions in bringing about partysystem collapse, and the rise of important outsider political leaders in South America. Seawright offers the best explanation Ive read for the collapse of party systems in Peru and Venezuela. He also provides an exemplary study of the roles of leadership and mass opinion in regime change.
Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame
Party-System Collapse
Teichman employs a novel analytical lens to understand important human development outcomes.
Wendy Hunter, The University of Texas at Austin
272 pp., 14 tables, 11 figures, 2012 9780804778268 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale 9780804778251 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale
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Studies in Social Inequality
Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America

Edited by Cynthia J. Arnson
In the Wake of War
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in TwentiethCentury Mexico

The Other Half of the Centaur
Edited by Wil G. Pansters
Police Reform in Mexico
Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change

Daniel M. Sabet
This book assesses the consequences of civil war for democratization in Latin America, focusing on questions of state capacity. Contributors focus on seven countriesColombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peruwhere state weakness fostered conflict and the task of state reconstruction presents multiple challenges. In addition to case studies, the book explores cross-cutting themes including the role of the international community in supporting peace, the explosion of post-war criminal and social violence, and the value of truth and historical clarification. This book is invaluable and there is a need for it. It is important to try to assess the longer-term legacy of civil war in Latin America.
Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University
Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. Through nuanced, crossdisciplinary perspectives on violence, this volume considerably advances our understanding of Mexicos contemporary crises. In particular, it shows that chronic violence is not the result of state failure in Mexico, but rather is deeply embedded in historical processes of post-revolutionary state formation.
Ben Fallaw, Colby College
Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful? This book seeks to answer the question by focusing on Mexicos municipal police, which make up the largest percentage of the countrys police forces. Daniel Sabet argues that the problems of Mexican policing are really problems of governance. He finds that reform has suffered from a number of policy design and implementation challenges. More importantly, the informal rules of Mexican politics have prevented the continuity of reform efforts across administrations, allowed patronage appointments to persist, and undermined anti-corruption efforts. A thoughtful, careful, and analytically rigorous account of the vexing problem of police reform in Mexico....a timely and provocative must-read for all who care about Mexico and its future.
Diane E. Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Roots of the State

Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei
Benjamin L. Read
Roots of the State examines neighborhood-level structures in East and Southeast Asia that occupy a unique space between civil society associations and governmentsponsored organizations. Initially created as tools of control, such institutions may underpin a repressive regime such as Chinas, but they also can evolve to empower societies, as in Taiwan. This book engages broad and much-discussed questions about governance and political participation in both authoritarian and democratic regimes. An intimate glimpse into the life and work of the neighborhood organizations that are the states first thread of connection to its citizens.
Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
Adaptable Autocrats Middle East Regime Power in Authoritarianisms

Egypt and Syria
Joshua Stacher
Examining how power is structured in each country, Joshua Stacher shows how the uprisings and outcomes have been shaped by preexisting power configurations, allowing certain autocratic systems to adapt more easily than others. Power structures, elite alliances, state institutions, and governing practices are seldom swept away entirelyeven following successful revolutions so it is vital that we examine the various contexts for regime survival to understand ongoing events in the Middle East. This is one of the best, most concrete explorations of developments in Egyptian and Syrian politics over the last decade. Stacher provides an original look at the inner workings and dynamics of two vitally important regimes in the Arab world and lays out the implications for the future of the significant differences between these two political systems.
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University
Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran

Edited by Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders
The developments of early 2011 have left the political landscape of the Middle East changed but recognizable. Even as urgent struggles continue, it remains clear that authoritarianism will survive this transformational moment. The study of authoritarian governance, therefore, remains essential for our understanding of the political dynamics and inner workings of regimes across the region. The contributors to this volume consider the Syrian and Iranian regimeswhat they share in common and what distinguishes them. This book provides unparalleled insight into how the Syrian and Iranian regimes use economic, social welfare, judicial, and cultural policies to maintain their rule.
Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross
Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
328 pp., 4 figures, 2 tables, 2012 9780804783019 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale
The Lebanese The Emergence of Connection Modern Afghanistan Corruption, Civil War,
Reissued with a new introduction
Breakdown in Pakistan
Vartan Gregorian
Politics of Reform and Modernization
and the International Drug Traffic
How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

Masooda Bano
Breakdown in Pakistan identifies concrete measures to check the erosion of cooperation in foreign aid scenarios. Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of international development aid, and therefore the empirical details presented are particularly relevant for policy.
Jonathan V. Marshall
Using previously secret government records, The Lebanese Connection uncovers for the first time the story of how Lebanon's economy and political system were corrupted by drug profitsand how, by financing its many ruthless militia, Lebanons drug trade contributed to the countrys greatest catastrophe, its fifteen-year civil war from 1975 to 1990. In so doing, this book sheds new light on the dangerous role of vast criminal enterprises in the collapse of states and the creation of war economies that thrive in the midst of civil conflicts. Hard-hitting and hard-boiled investigative journalism that is cinematic in scope, The Lebanese Connection has troubling implications that should stimulate lively debate and future research.
Max Weiss, Princeton University
In this reissue, Vartan Gregorian offers a new introduction that places the key themes of the book in the context of contemporary events, addressing questions of tribalism, nationalism, Islam, and modernization, as well as the legacies of the Cold War and the various exit strategies of occupying powers. The book remains as distinctive today as when it was first published. It is the only broad work on Afghan history that considers ethnicity as the defining influence over the course of the countrys history, rather than religion. In light of todays ongoing struggle to develop a coherent national identity, the question of Afghan nationalism remains a particularly significant issue. Until Gregorian came, Afghanistan has in some ways been a country in search of a scholar. Such a scholar has now emerged in the person of Vartan Gregorian whose Armenian ancestry and education in first-class Middle Eastern and American institutions uniquely equip him for tackling the Afghan field.
Middle East Journal
Bano successfully brings the voices of those most affected by aid to the fore. By specifying the mechanisms both by which aid is failing and succeeding, she convincingly makes her case.
Jean E. Ensminger, California Institute of Technology
240 pp., 2 figures, 1 map, 2012 9780804781329 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
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The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

Bassam Haddad
Business Networks in Syria
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Political Economy
Mexican Governance Under NAFTAs Labor and Environmental Agreements

Mark Aspinwall
Side Effects is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accordscalled side agreementsthat accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and environmental laws; though never codified, it was widely accepted that Mexico, in particular, had a problem with law enforcement. The book explores how differences in institutional design (of the side agreements) and domestic capacity (between the labor and environment sectors) influenced norm socialization in Mexico. With compelling insights and quality case material, this is by far the best book that I have read on NAFTA.
Carol Wise, University of Southern California
Side Effects
The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

Edited by David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz
The New Gilded Age
Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance

Matt Grossmann
The Not-So-Special Interests
Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty? Is inequality a necessary evil? Can we retain a meaningful democracy if the rich can purchase political privilege? Will we see a new gender order? How will racial and ethnic inequalities evolve as minority populations grow ever larger? Leading public intellectuals debate these questions in a no-holds-barred exploration of our New Gilded Age. The New Gilded Age is an essential volume for scholars and citizens worried about the direction we are headed and the cost we will pay for inaction on the inequality front.
Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins University
Advocacy organizationsmore than 1,600 of themare now an important component of national political institutions. This book uses original data to explain why certain public groups, such as Jews, lawyers, and gun-owners, develop substantially more representation than others, and why certain organizations become the presumed spokespersons for these groups in government and media. In contrast to established theory and conventional wisdom, this book demonstrates that groups of all sizes and types generate advocates to speak on their behalf, though with varying levels of success. The book should be read by everyone concerned about whose voices really count in Washington.
Kristin A. Goss, Duke University
Studies in Social Inequality
u. s. Politics
Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability in the States

G. Alan Tarr
The impartial administration of justice and the accountability of government officials are two of the most strongly held American values. Yet these values are often in direct conflict with one another. At the national level, the U.S. Constitution resolves the tension between these two values in favor of judicial independence. But at the state level, debate has continued as to the proper balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability. In this volume, Tarr focuses squarely on that debate. In part, the analysis is historical: how have the reigning conceptions of judicial independence and accountability emerged. In part, the analysis is theoretical: what is the proper understanding of judicial independence and accountability?
Without Fear or Favor
The Failed Promise of Originalism

Frank Cross
The primary point of the book is an examination of the degree to which originalism influences the Courts decisions. Frank B. Cross tests this by examining whether originalism appears to constrain the ideological preferences of the justices, which are a demonstrable predictor of their decisions. Ultimately, he finds that however theoretically appealing originalism may seem, the changed circumstances over time and lack of reliable evidence means that its use is indeterminate and meaningless. Tarr provides a plausible solution to the particular ills of elected judiciaries that does not require eliminating them.
The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies
Governing Security
Mariano-Florentino Cullar
The impact of public law depends on how politicians secure control of the nations public organizations, and how these organizations in turn are used to define national security. Governing Security investigates the origins of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency (which gave rise to the present-day Department of Health and Human Services) and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security. Through the stories of both organizations, Cullar offers a compelling account of crucial developments affecting the basic architecture of our nation. Security is a simple word with a complex and contested history. In this learned, lucid, and provocative book, Cullar brilliantly illuminates both the intellectual and the institutional evolution of Americas often troubled preoccupation with security.
David Kennedy, Stanford University
232 pp., 2013 9780804783828 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: Americas 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance
Law, Politics, and the Media
What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and Whats at Stake

Stanford Studies in Law and Politics
Whats Law Got to Do With It?
Edited by Charles Gardner Geyh
u. s. Politics
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis
Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November

Sergo Mikoyan
East Asian National Identities

Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism
Edited by Gilbert Rozman
This rigorous comparative study of national identity in Edited by Svetlana Japan, South Korea, and China Savranskaya examines countries with long Based on secret transcripts of tophistories influenced by Confulevel diplomacy undertaken by the cian thought, surging nationalnumber-two Soviet leader, Anastas ism, and far-reaching ambiMikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile tions for regional importance. Crisis in 1962, this book rewrites East Asian National Identities conventional history. The missiles compares national identities of October and 13 days were only in terms of six dimensions half the story: the nuclear crisis actu- encompassing ideology; ally stretched well into November history; the salience of cultural, 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned political, and economic facto leave behind in Cuba over 100 tac- tors; superiority as a model tical nuclear weapons, then reversed national community; displacethemselves because of obstreperous ment of the U.S. in Asia; and behavior by Fidel Castro. The depth of national identity. highly-charged negotiations with the The six-dimensional analysis Cuban leadership, who bitterly felt sold out by Soviet concessions to the offers a novel approach to the study of national identity, and United States, were led by Mikoyan. the comparative study should The author, Sergo Mikoyan, who be commended. served as his fathers personal Gi-Wook Shin, secretary during these travels, vividly Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center recalls how the Soviet relationship with revolutionary Cuba began and Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson how it was shaped by the crisis. Center Press
Cold War International History Project Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press
256 pp., 2012 9780804781176 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale
Widening Gaps in East Asia and Chinese Demonization of the United States
National Identities and Bilateral Relations
Edited by Gilbert Rozman
The second of Gilbert Rozmans contributed volumes on East Asian national identity traces how efforts to draw a sharp divide between one countrys identity and that of another shape relations in the post-Cold War era. It examines the two-way relations of Japan, South Korea, and China, introducing the concept of a national identity gap to estimate the degree to which the identities of two countries target each other as negative contrasts. This concept is then applied to Chinas reinterpretation from 2009-11 of the gap between its identity and that of the United States. Each pairing represents a key relationship through which an Asian country has historically shaped its identity, and is striving to reshape it. Invaluable to understanding how dyadic relations across Northeast Asia are evolving and are likely to do so in the next decade or more.
T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley
264 pp., 2012 9780804784764 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale
Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press
international Relations
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Time in the Shadows

Laleh Khalili
Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu Ghraib, Guantnamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.
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Militarizing Men
Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia

Maya Eichler
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Organized Violence in a Global Era, Third Edition

Mary Kaldor
New and Old Wars
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb

Feroz Khan
Eating Grass
Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats

Edited by James J. Wirtz
This third edition has been fully revised and updated. Kaldor has added an afterword answering the critics of the New Wars argument and, in a new chapter, Kaldor shows how old war thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq greatly exacerbated what turned out to be, in many ways, archetypal new warscharacterized by identity politics, a criminalized war economy and civilians as the main victims. Like its predecessors, the third edition of New and Old Wars will be essential reading for students of international relations, politics and conflict studies as well as to all those interested in the changing nature and prospect of warfare. A timely and important book. Putting the so-called revolution in military affairs firmly to one side, Mary Kaldor has provided us with a window into the future of war.
Martin van Creveld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
256 pp., 2012 9780804785495 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale
Copublished with Polity Press
and Peter R. Lavoy Written by a 30-year professional in the Pakistani Army who This volume brings together top played a senior role formulating international security experts and advocating Pakistans to examine the issues affecting security policy on nuclear and a dozen or so countries nuclear conventional arms control, weapons policies over the next Eating Grass tells the compelling decade. In Part I, National story of how and why Pakistans Decisions in Perspective, the government, scientists, and work describes the domestic military persevered in the face political consideration and of a wide array of obstacles to international pressures that acquire nuclear weapons. It lays shape national nuclear policies out the conditions that sparked of several key states. In Part the shift from a peaceful quest II, Fostering Nonproliferation, to acquire nuclear energy into a the contributors discuss the full-fledged weapons program, factors that shape the future details how the nuclear program motivations and capabilities was organized, reveals the of various states to acquire role played by outside powers nuclear weapons, and assess in nuclear decisions, and what the world community explains how Pakistani scientists can do to counter this process. overcame the many technical hurdles they encountered. Anyone seriously interested Going beyond the headlines, Khan in the problem of proliferationpractitioners in the worlds provides unique insights into the defense and arms control espolitical, technical and strategic tablishments, participants in the issues behind the untold story of Pakistans bomb. Essential reading NGO world, senior scholars, and newcomers to these questions for anyone interested in nuclear will want and need to keep a history, proliferation, or South copy at hand. Asian security.
Zachary S. Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Edward Rhodes, Dean, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
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Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, and Malcolm Dando

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors. This excellent book by top experts links in-depth analysis of the CBW prohibition regimes with recent scholarship on new wars, gives a critical assessment of biodefense policies and is based on a thorough review of the revolution in the life sciences.
Harald Mller, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt
Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race
Security Assurances Diversionary War Domestic Unrest and and Nuclear International Conflict Nonproliferation
Edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf
Amy Oakes
While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense of security, rather than by holding their security at risk. The most prominent use of these security assurances has been in conjunction with efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. This book represents the first study to explore the overall utility of assurance strategies, to evaluate their effectiveness as a tool for preventing nuclear proliferation, and to identify conditions under which they are more or less likely to be effective. This sophisticated and detailed study of security assurances provides new insights into the dynamics of nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation.
Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University
No book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective response to domestic discontent than appeasing opposition groups with political or economic concessions. Diversionary War addresses these questions by reinterpreting key historical examples of diversionary warsuch as Argentinas 1982 Falklands Islands invasion and U.S. President James Buchanans decision to send troops to Mormon Utah in 1857. It breaks new ground by demonstrating that the use of diversionary tactics is, at best, an ineffectual strategy for managing civil unrest, and draws important conclusions for policymakers. Oakes presents an innovative theoretical synthesis that has real explanatory power.
Jeffrey Pickering, Kansas State University
264 pp., 2012 9780804782753 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
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The Liberal Disconnect
NATO in Afghanistan
Sten Rynning
Theory and Practice
Deterring Terrorism
Edited by Andreas Wenger and Alex Wilner

During the Cold War, deterrence theory was the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, however, popular wisdom dictated that terrorist organizations and radical fanatics could not be deterredand governments shifted their attention to combating terrorism rather than deterring it. This book challenges that prevailing assumption and offers insight as to when and where terrorism can be deterred. It provides a foundation for developing effective counterterrorism policies to help states contain or curtail the terrorism challenges they face.
Theory, History, and Practice
Competitive Strategies for the 21st Century

Edited by Thomas G. Mahnken
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATOs role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and explains how NATO at first faltered but then improved its operations to become a critical enabler for the U.S. surge of 2009. One of the worlds leading experts on NATO, Sten Rynning provides the most detailed account to date of the alliances involvement in Afghanistan. With the combat mission coming to an end, Rynnings analysis will be indispensable for those thinking about NATOs future.
James Goldgeier, American University
This book uses the theory and practice of peacetime greatpower strategic competition to derive recommendations for the U.S. to adopt a long-term strategy for dealing with China; one that includes but is not limited to military means, and that fully includes U.S. allies in the region. After examining the theory of peacetime strategic competition, it assesses the U.S.-China military balance in depth, considers the role of America's allies in the region, and explores strategies that the U.S could adopt to improve its strategic position relative to China over the long term. This book makes an enormous contribution to the strategic studies literature. It is mandatory reading for anyone interested in grand strategy, the end of the Cold War, the emergence of China as a great power, and the influence of the Pentagons legendary Andrew Marshall on the study of strategy.
Ambassador Eric S. Edelman, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Represents the state of the art in the influencing of terrorist behavior. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, it integrates the most advanced thinking on deterrence with rich empirical studies of the handling of contemporary terrorist problems.
Paul R. Pillar, Georgetown University
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Foreign Powers and Intervention in Armed Conflicts

Aysegul Aydin
Intervention in armed conflicts is full of riddles that await attention from scholars and policymakers. This book argues that rethinking interventionredefining what it is and why foreign powers take an interest in others conflictsis of critical importance to understanding how conflicts evolve over time with the entry and exit of external actors. In a decade that includes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the NATO action in Libya it behooves us to understand when interventions are likely, when they make sense, and when they might work. This book puts on firmer foundation answers to those questions and should inform policy and future scholarship alike.
Patrick Regan, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons
Contractors and War
Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge
The Transformation of United States Expeditionary Operations

Edited by Christopher Kinsey and Malcolm Hugh Patterson
Todays armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S. government expects the military to conduct operations. Contractors and War explains the reasons behind this transformation and evaluates how the private sector will shape and be shaped by future operations. This book brings together several relevant views on a very important contemporary issue. It provides a foundation for the development of new theory by offering a way to see the challenges associated with the contemporary use of contractors in support of U.S. expeditionary operations.
Claude Christianson, LtGen, US Army (Retired)
Edited by Kristen P. Williams, Steven E. Lobell, and Neal G. Jesse

Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons seeks to explain why weaker states follow more powerful global or regional states or tacitly or openly resist their goals, and how they navigate their relationships with the hegemon. The authors explore the interests, motivations, objectives, and strategies of these followersincluding whether they can and do challenge the policies and strategies or the core position of the hegemon. This book examines how secondary and tertiary states respond to the policies of primary states, a still understudied topic of immense contemporary importance. Drawing on diverse historical and regional cases, the authors provide compelling insights for the management of Americas international power.
David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego
216 pp., 2012 9780804782814 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale
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The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia
Looking for Balance Fighting Back
China, the United States, What Governments and Power Balancing in Can Do About East Asia Terrorism
Steve Chan
Edited by Paul Shemella
Edited by Avery Goldstein and Edward D. Mansfield
This book sheds new light on the growth of economic regionalism in East Asia by comparing the current era with the recent past in the region, by drawing some comparisons with evidence from the European experience, and by addressing the increasingly prominent role of China. It explores a variety of security issues linked with regional economic developments, and discusses and evaluates leading theories that offer explanations for the connection between economic and security affairs in international politics. This is a first-rate volume with distinguished contributors writing on an important subject. East Asia is the worlds most important region for strategic and economic stability, but the nexus between economic and security affairs is poorly understood.
Robert Ross, Boston College
Debate surrounding Chinas rise, Terrorism is a devilish problem because it ranges across so and the prospects of its possible many perspectives. Paul Shemchallenge to Americas preemiella and his fellow authors put nence in international relations a range of the pieces together in East Asia, has focused on in a way that advances undertwo questions, rooted in powerstanding for policymakers and balancing theory: whether the provides a comprehensive United States should contain guide for students. or engage China; and whether Gregory Treverton, the rise of Chinese power has Director, RAND Center for inclined other East Asian states Global Risk and Security to balance against Beijing by 416 pp., 2 tables, 5 figures, 2011 alignment with the United States. 9780804777087 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale By drawing on alternative theoretic approaches, Steve Chan is able to create an explanation of what is in motion in the region that differs widely from the traditional strategic vision of national interest. Compellingly argues for serious change in prevalent American foreign policy thinking about power dynamics in world affairs, and thus for how to deal with China and East Asia. It should cool the zealots for additional U.S. pursuit of military dominance in distant regions.
Davis B. Bobrow, University of Pittsburgh
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2012

The Fate of ProDemocracy Organizations When Democracy Is Won

Social Movements and the New State

208 pp., 2012 9780804781978 Cloth $40.00 $32.00 sale

Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond

Contested Welfare States

Social Forces and States

Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico

The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela

Studies in Social Inequality

Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America

In the Wake of War

Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in TwentiethCentury Mexico

Police Reform in Mexico

Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change

Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Roots of the State

Adaptable Autocrats Middle East Regime Power in Authoritarianisms

Governance, Contestation, and Regime Resilience in Syria and Iran

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Politics of Reform and Modernization

and the International Drug Traffic

How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

272 pp., 2 maps, 2012 9780804781312 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

Business Networks in Syria

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Mexican Governance Under NAFTAs Labor and Environmental Agreements

The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

The New Gilded Age

Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance

The Not-So-Special Interests

Studies in Social Inequality

Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability in the States

Without Fear or Favor

The Failed Promise of Originalism

The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies

232 pp., 2013 9780804783828 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Law, Politics, and the Media

What Judges Do, Why They Do It, and Whats at Stake

Whats Law Got to Do With It?

Edited by Charles Gardner Geyh

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis

Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November

East Asian National Identities

Edited by Gilbert Rozman

National Identities and Bilateral Relations

Edited by Gilbert Rozman

264 pp., 2012 9780804784764 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Copublished with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press

Examination Copy Policy

Time in the Shadows

Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia

Organized Violence in a Global Era, Third Edition

New and Old Wars

The Making of the Pakistani Bomb

Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats

256 pp., 2012 9780804785495 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale

Copublished with Polity Press

Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, and Malcolm Dando

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race