Debating China

Nina Hachigian

America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential. How they choose to cooperate and compete affects billions of lives. But U.S.-China relations are complex and often delicate, featuring a multitude of...

Strategy

Lawrence Freedman

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account...

China Across the Divide

Rosemary Foot

Counting Civilian Casualties

Jay D. Aronson , Baruch Fischhoff , Taylor B. Seybolt

A popular myth emerged in the late 1990s: in 1900, wars killed one civilian for every eight soldiers, while contemporary wars were killing eight civilians for every one soldier. The neat reversal of numbers was memorable, and academic publications and UN documents...

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

Christine B.N. Chin

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Through a new, innovative framework, Christine B.N. Chin shows that as neoliberal...

Back to Basics

Martha Finnemore , Judith Goldstein

No scholar better exemplifies the intellectual challenges foisted on the Neorealist school of international relations than prominent scholar Stephen Krasner (Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Studies, the Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School...

The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion

Katerina Linos

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves? Leading theories argue that international networks of technocratic elites develop orthodox solutions that they singlehandedly transplant across countries. But, in modern democracies, elites alone cannot press for...

Defending Humanity

George P. Fletcher , Jens David Ohlin

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is...

Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights

Ryan Goodman , Derek Jinks , Andrew K. Woods

In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods bring together a stellar group of contributors from across the social sciences to apply a broad yet conceptually unified array of advanced social science...

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers

Henry R. Nau , Deepa M. Ollapally

Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran. Featuring a leading regional scholar for each essay, each essay...

Intelligent Compassion

Catia Cecilia Confortini

Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder

Asif Efrat

From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? Governing Guns, Preventing...

Who Wins?

Patricia Sullivan

Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political objective in almost 40% of their military operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why are states...

A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS

Graeme B. Dinwoodie , Rochelle C. Dreyfuss

The TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), signed on April 15, 1994, introduced intellectual property protection into the World Trade Organization's multilateral trading system, and it remains the most comprehensive...

On the Frontlines

Naomi Cahn , Dina Francesca Haynes , Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is...

Uniting States

Joseph M. Parent

What causes a state to unify voluntarily with another state? If realists are right, voluntary union should never happen. In their view, states value their sovereignty above all else and would never give it up without a fight. Yet the United States and Switzerland are...

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk , Mark Juergensmeyer , Vesselin Popovski

A High Price

Daniel Byman

The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's...

Globalization and the National Security State

T.V. Paul , Norrin M. Ripsman

In the past two decades, many have posited a correlation between the spread of globalization and the decline of the nation-state.In the realm of national security, advocates of the globalization thesis have argued that states' power has diminished relative to...

After Khomeini

Said Amir Arjomand

For many Americans, Iran is our most dangerous enemy--part of George W. Bush's "axis of evil" even before the appearance of Ahmadinejad. But what is the reality? How did Ahmadinejad rise to power, and how much power does he really have? What are the chances of...