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National Security and Democracy in IsraelAvner Yaniv, editor The Arab-Israeli conflict in general and the Palestinian intifada in particular have given rise to a wave of critical reappraisals of the Israeli experience—reappraisals that increasingly have come from those who can only be described as mainstream Israelis. Situated within this emerging tradition of scholarly criticism, this book addresses a variety of problems that arise from the fact that More > | |
Citizen Power, Politics, and the "Asian Miracle": Reassessing the DynamicsO. Fiona Yap Departing from characterizations of Asian governments as benevolent overlords and Asian citizens as politically naive and/or docile, Fiona Yap explores the dynamic interactions between state and citizenry in the arena of economic policies.
Yap focuses on the cases of Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan to show that, with the strategic use of activities ranging from labor unrest to More > | ![]() |
The Politics of Human Rights in Egypt and JordanBosmat Yefet Why did human rights claims have such a limited impact on the authoritarian status quo in the Middle East prior to the Arab Spring—and why are they so often thwarted now? What factors have shaped human rights debates and outcomes in the region? Addressing these questions, Bosmat Yefet offers a comparative analysis, both empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, of the forces More > | ![]() |
Singular Stories: Tales from SingaporeRobert Yeo, editor At the beginning of the 1980s, Singapore’s public relied largely on a literary diet of traditional British and North American authors. By 1990, however, books by Singaporeans were rapidly replacing imports on the bestseller lists and in the review columns. Singular Stories exemplifies the range of the new Singaporean prose.
The pieces in this diverse collection explore the conflict between More > | |
1,001 Proverbs from TunisiaIssac Yetiv The son of a Tunisian Jewish family, Yetiv attempts to preserve some of the wisdom contained in a tradition that may be dying out. Each proverb is presented in transliterated Arabic, with both a literal English translation and an alternative translation that provides a context more familiar to a Western reader.
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White Shadows: A Dialectical View of the French African NovelCarroll Yoder European colonialists assumed the prerogative to interpret the experiences of their “charges” and to decide the legitimacy of creative expression among Africans. Yoder examines that assumption, frankly discussing the racism and cultural chauvinism of nineteenth-century France, as well as colonial practices and the reactions to them as reflected in West African novels. Using a More > | |
Women Behind Bars: Gender and Race in US PrisonsVernetta D. Young and Rebecca Reviere Today's prisons are increasingly filled with poor, dark-skinned, single mothers locked up for low-level drug involvement—with serious ramifications for the corrections system. Women Behind Bars offers the first comprehensive exploration of the challenges faced by incarcerated women in the United States.
Young and Reviere show conclusively that serving time in prisons designed by More > | ![]() |
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. PolicyColetta A. Youngers and Eileen Rosin, editors Although the US has spent more than $25 billion on international drug-control programs over the last two decades, it has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering the country. It has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences, most notably in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors of Drugs and Democracy in Latin America offer a More > | ![]() |
Europe and the Middle East: In the Shadow of September 11Richard Youngs In the wake of September 11, the European Union proclaimed a new commitment to encouraging processes of political liberalization in the Middle East, and a plethora of initiatives were introduced to that end. Richard Youngs offers a thorough analysis of the policies actually followed by the EU—by national governments, as well as collectively—in the intervening several More > | ![]() |
History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar JapanIokibe Kaoru, Komiya Kazuo, Hosoya Yūichi, Miyagi Taizō, and the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research’s Political and Diplomatic Review Project, editors Memories can be shared—or contested. Japan and Korea, just one case in point, share centuries of intertwined history, the nature of which continues to be disputed, particularly with regard to World War II.
The authors of History, Memory, and Politics in Postwar Japan explore Japan's historical narratives, and their impact on both domestic politics and diplomatic relations, as they More > | ![]() |