Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Cooperation under Fire
Anglo-German Restraint during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Why do nations cooperate even as they try to destroy each other? Jeffrey Legro explores this question in the context of World War II, the "total" war that in fact wasn't. During the war, combatant states attempted to sustain agreements limiting the use of three forms of combat considered barbarous—submarine...
by John J. Mearsheimer
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1985
Conventional Deterrence is a book about the origins of war. Why do nations faced with the prospect of large-scale conventional war opt for or against an offensive strategy? John J. Mearsheimer examines a number of crises that led to major conventional wars to explain why deterrence failed. He focuses...
by Dorothee Bohle, Bela Greskovits
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the collapse of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in 1991, the Eastern European nations of the former socialist bloc had to figure out their newly capitalist future. Capitalism, they found, was not a single set of political-economic relations. Rather, they each had to decide what sort...
Allegories of America
Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s...
Russian Hajj
Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials...
Small States in World Markets
Industrial Policy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what...
Land and Loyalty
Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand's policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting...
Whose Ideas Matter?
Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the...
Putting the Barn Before the House
Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that...
Condemned to Repeat?
The Paradox of Humanitarian Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention...
The Concerned Women of Buduburam
Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the rise and fall of social protests in a long-standing refugee camp. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the host government of Ghana established the Buduburam Refugee Camp in 1990 to...
Deaf in the USSR
Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively—...
Spheres of Intervention
US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials...
The Image before the Weapon
A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the principle of distinction. The principle of distinction is invoked in contemporary conflicts as if there were an unmistakable and sure distinction to be...