BOOKS
The Morality of War: A ReaderDavid Kinsella and Craig L. Carr, editors When and why is war justified? How, morally speaking, should wars be fought? The Morality of War confronts these challenging questions, surveying the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it. The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing More > | ![]() |
The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 2, The Asian Development BankNihal Kappagoda The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the "regional development banks" are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. This book looks specifically at the policies More > | ![]() |
The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 1, The African Development BankE. Philip English and Harris M. Mule The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the "regional development banks" are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. This book looks specifically at the policies More > | ![]() |
The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 3, The Caribbean Development BankChandra Hardy The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the "regional development banks" are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. This book looks specifically at the policies More > |
The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 4, the Inter-American Development BankDiana Tussie The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the "regional development banks" are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. This book looks specifically at the policies More > |
The Multilateral Development Banks: Volume 5, Titans or Behemoths?Roy Culpeper The multilateral banks are powerful forces in the international community, providing loans of more than $250 billion to developing countries over the last half-century. The best-known of these, the World Bank, has been studied extensively, but the "regional development banks" are little understood, even within their own geographic regions. This book synthesizes the insights of four More > | ![]() |
The Music Criticism of Hugo WolfHenry Pleasants, editor and translator Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), the renowned composer of German lieder, left another legacy to musical world. His musical criticism, which first appeared in the Wiener Salonblatt from 1884 to 1887, is now available to the English-speaking world, complete with annotations by music critic and author Henry Pleasants. More > | ![]() |
The Muslims of Latin America and the CaribbeanKen Chitwood Winner of the Religion News Association's Award for Best Nonfiction Religion Book! The "Muslim World" is often narrowly conceived as tied to the Middle East and North Africa, or more broadly as encompassing Africa’s Sahel region, South and Southeast Asia, and parts of the Balkans. But what about Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It is this question that inspired Ken More > | ![]() |
The Myth of the Free Market: The Role of the State in a Capitalist EconomyMark A. Martinez Mark Martinez reveals how the myth of the "invisible hand" has distorted our understanding of the development and actual performance of modern capitalist markets. Martinez draws on historical cases to make it clear that political processes and the state are not only instrumental in making capitalist markets work, but that there would be no capitalist markets or wealth creation without More > | ![]() |
The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics, 2nd EditionWalter C. Opello, Jr. and Stephen J. Rosow This engaging introduction to contemporary politics examines the historical construction of the modern territorial state. Opello and Rosow fuse accounts of governing practices, technological change, political economy, language, and culture into a narrative of the formation of specific state forms. This revised edition reinforces their central argument that the current neoliberal state does not More > | ![]() |