Cornell University Press: 1150 books
The Forms of Historical Fiction
Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major...
by Kyle Beardsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights its long-term limitations. The result of this...
Power and Principle
The Politics of International Criminal Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power....
The NGO Game
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo. Using her years of fieldwork and interviews, McMahon argues that...
Developmental Mindset
The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial...
Ruling Capital
Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. Gallagher also...
Gangs of Russia
From the Streets to the Corridors of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file...
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists
The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese politics from the very inception of the country's...
The Authority Trap
Strategic Choices of International NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Not all international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are created equal, Some have emerged as "leading INGOs" that command deference from various powerful audiences and are well-positioned to influence the practices of states, corporations, and other INGOs. Yet Sarah S. Stroup and Wendy H. Wong...
The Government Next Door
Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese...
by Marc Abélès
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions...
Channels of Power
The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
When President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so without the explicit approval of the Security Council. His father's administration, by contrast, carefully funneled statecraft through the United Nations and achieved Council authorization for the U.S.-led Gulf...
Demanding Devaluation
Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Exchange rate policy has profound consequences for economic development, financial crises, and international political conflict. Some governments in the developing world maintain excessively weak and "undervalued" exchange rates, a policy that promotes export-led development but often heightens tensions...
Fighting for Foreigners
Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Although stereotypically homogenized and hostile to immigrants, Japan has experienced an influx of foreigners from Asia and Latin America in recent decades. In Fighting for Foreigners, Apichai W. Shipper details how, in response, Japanese citizens have established a variety of local advocacy groups—some...