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From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive PartyShelley Rigger On March 18, 2000, Taiwan's voters stunned the world by choosing Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to be their president. A host of new issues quickly became the subject of debate. What is the DPP? Where did it come from and what does it stand for? How will it use its newly won power? Will it risk war with mainland China in pursuit of More > | |
NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United StatesAnn E. Kingsolver Ann Kingsolver presents stories people have told about NAFTA—young people and old, urban and rural, with differing political perspectives, occupations, and other markers of identity—that demonstrate their expectations and imaginations of the sweeping trade agreement.
NAFTA, Kingsolver contends, both before and after its passage, became a catch-all in public discourse for tensions More > | |
On the German Art of War: Truppenführungtranslated and edited by Bruce Condell and David T. Zabecki A Selection of the Military Book Club
Truppenführung, the twentieth-century equivalent of Sun Tzu's Art of War, served as the basic manual for the German army from 1934 to the end of World War II. This astonishing document provided the doctrinal framework for blitzkrieg and, as a consequence, for the victories of Hitler's armies.
Rather than giving German military leaders a More > | |
Contending Liberalisms in World Politics: Ideology and PowerJames L. Richardson This wide-ranging critique of current endeavors to construct a world order based on neoliberal ideology comes not from a standpoint opposed to liberalism, but from within liberalism itself.
After introducing the theme of contending liberalisms, Richardson traces the emergence over time of a distinctive liberal view of international relations and reviews the present state of liberal IR theory. He More > | |
Peacemaking in Rwanda: The Dynamics of FailureBruce D. Jones Bruce Jones investigates why the wide-ranging efforts to forestall genocidal violence in Rwanda in 1994 failed so miserably.
Jones traces the individual and collective impact of both official and unofficial mediation efforts, peacekeeping missions, and humanitarian aid. Providing theoretical and empirical evidence, he shows that the failure of the peace process was not the result of lack of More > | |
Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International RegimeMarcus Franda Governing the Internet explores the many complex issues and challenges that confront governments, technocrats, business people, and others as they try to create and implement rules for a truly global, interoperable Internet.
Though focusing on those countries that have the most advanced information technology infrastructures, Franda also discusses the development of the Internet in China as a More > | |
The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the NileHaggai Erlich The ongoing Egyptian-Ethiopian dispute over the Nile waters is potentially one of the most difficult issues on the current international agenda, central to the very life of the two countries. Analyzing the context of the dispute across a span of more than a thousand years, The Cross and the River delves into the heart of both countries' identities and cultures.
Erlich deftly weaves together More > | |
Electing Jesse Ventura: A Third-Party Success StoryJacob Lentz While many commentators and political scientists dismissed Jesse Ventura's rise to the governorship as a fluke of celebrity, Jacob Lentz shows that it was Minnesota's unique electoral rules, coupled with on-target campaign dynamics, that enabled a third-party candidate to reach office.
In this first complete account of Ventura's victory, Lentz draws on tantalizing details from the More > | |
The Latino Male: A Radical RedefinitionDavid T. Abalos What does it mean to be a Latino man in the United States today? David Abalos shows how the traditional cultural stories—the male roles of the mujeriego (the womanizer), the macho, and the patriarch—are becoming unlivable. Too many men choose manipulation, power, or violence in response, in an effort to restore the old order. But there is an alternative, argues Abalos.
Demonstrating More > | |
White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights EraEduardo Bonilla-Silva Co-Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award of the ASA Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section!
Is a racial structure still firmly in place in the United States? White Supremacy and Racism answers that question with an unequivocal yes, describing a contemporary system that operates in a covert, subtle, institutional, and superficially nonracial fashion.
Assessing the major perspectives that social More > |