Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Securing Japan
Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. Korea's nuclear program, China's rise, and the relative decline of U.S. power have commanded...
by Matthew M. Carlson, Steven R. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan.
Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese...
Networked Politics
Agency, Power, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked...
When Small States Make Big Leaps
Institutional Innovation and High-Tech Competition in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
At the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-tech competition. In When Small States Make Big Leaps, Darius Ornston reveals how these historically low-tech countries managed to assume leading positions in new industries such as biotechnology,...
Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take...
The Hungry Steppe
Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of this...
From Convergence to Crisis
Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues...
The New Masters of Capital
American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging...
Proxy Wars
Suppressing Violence through Local Agents
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has...
Race against Empire
Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linkep to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international...
The Currency of Confidence
How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel...
Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats
Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the...
Reasons of State
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to...