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Killing Civilians in Civil War: The Rationale of Indiscriminate ViolenceJürgen Brandsch Conventional wisdom tells us that targeting civilians in civil wars makes little sense as a combat strategy. Yet, the indiscriminate violence continues. Why?
To tackle this vexing question, Jürgen Brandsch looks closely at the on-the-ground impact of indiscriminate violence—and what he finds shows that there often is, in fact, a method to the madness. Making the provocative argument More > | |
Health Policy: The Decade AheadJames M. Brasfield James Brasfield explores the full gamut of health policy issues confronting the United States—ranging from Medicare and Medicaid, to the heated controversies surrounding health care reform, to the "sleeping giant" of long-term care.
Notable features of the text include balanced discussions of:
• how the real-world policy process works
• competing proposals for More > | |
The Affordable Care Act: At the Nexus of Politics and PolicyJames M. Brasfield In the more than a decade since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, questions about the law continue to be vigorously debated. What political dynamics led to its passage? Why has it been subject to so many existential threats? What accounts for its survival and growth? How can its performance best be evaluated?
Addressing these questions, James Brasfield eschews partisan rhetoric to More > | |
Power Politics in ZimbabweMichael Bratton Choice Outstanding Academic Book!
Zimbabwe's July 2013 election brought the country's "inclusive" power-sharing interlude to an end and installed Mugabe and ZANU-PF for yet another—its seventh—term. Why? What explains the resilience of authoritarian rule in Zimbabwe?
Tracing the country's elusive search for political stability across the decades, Michael More > | |
Voting and Democratic Citizenship in AfricaMichael Bratton, editor How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new forms of popular participation for citizenship and democracy? Drawing on a decade of research from the cross-national Afrobarometer project, the authors of this seminal collection explore the emerging role of mass politics in Africa's fledgling democracies. More > | |
Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Abridged Edition, with a New IntroductionBenjamin Braude, editor How did the vast Ottoman Empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this plural society, the two-volume Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, offered seminal reinterpretations of the empire's core institutions and has sparked more than a generation of innovative work since it More > | |
The Caribbean in the Pacific Century: Prospects for Caribbean-PacificCooperationJacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner, with W. Marvin Will, Dennis J. Gayle, and Ivelaw Griffith Despite the current global focus on prospects for the integrated European market, there are many in the policymaking and business communities who believe that the next century will be a Pacific, rather than a European, one. Not only does U.S. trade with East Asia far exceed its trans-Atlantic commerce, but recent figures show that the countries of Asia Pacific account for more than 40 percent of More > | |
The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual FrameworksJacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner Seeking to refocus thinking about the behavior of the global south ("third world") states in international affairs, this book explores contending explanations of global south foreign policy and strategy. The authors draw on both traditional approaches and newer conceptualizations in foreign policy analysis, contributing to the development of an integrated theoretical framework. Examples More > | |
Remembering Jewish AmsterdamPhilo Bregstein and Salvador Bloemgarten, editors translated from the Dutch by Wanda Boeke National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
When the Germans overpowered the Netherlands in 1940, there were some 140,000 Dutch citizens who were considered Jews by Nationalist Socialist standards; more than half of them, about 80,000, lived in Amsterdam. Remembering Jewish Amsterdam is a celebration of their lives. The book consists of selections from seventy-seven interviews with Holocaust survivors More > | |
Reforming the State: Managerial Public Administration in Latin AmericaLuiz Carlos Bresser Pereira and Peter Spink, editors Neoconservative proposals for a minimal state notwithstanding, it has become increasingly clear in Latin America (and elsewhere) that the state must in fact be strengthened and the civil service reformed. This book contributes to the debate about the optimum role of the state, advancing the managerial approach to improving state capacity as far more effective than the bureaucratic More > |