Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
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...
Capital as Will and Imagination
Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
With this book, Mark Metzler continues his investigation into the economic history of twentieth-century Japan that he began in Lever of Empire. In Capital as Will and Imagination, he focuses on the successful stabilization of Japanese capitalism after the Second World War. How did a defeated and heavily...
The Petroleum Triangle
Oil, Globalization, and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
In The Petroleum Triangle, Steve A. Yetiv tells the interconnected story of oil, globalization, and terrorism. Yetiv asks how Al-Qaeda, a small band of terrorists, became such a real and perceived threat to American and global security, a threat viewed as profound enough to motivate the strongest...
Power, Protection, and Free Trade
International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Why do nations so frequently abandon unrestricted international commerce in favor of trade protectionism? David A. Lake contends that the dominant explanation, interest group theory, does not adequately explain American trade strategy or address the contradictory elements of cooperation and conflict...
In the Hegemon's Shadow
Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The relationship between established powers and emerging powers is one of the most important topics in world politics. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated how the leading state in the international system responds to rising powers in peripheral regions—actors that are not yet and might never...
With Sails Whitening Every Sea
Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions...
Living with Animals
Bonds across Species
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Living with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides—a playful and accessible look at different human-animal relationships around the world. Anthropologists and their co-authors have written accounts of how humans and animals interact in labs, in farms, in zoos, and in African forests,...
State Erosion
Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
State failure is a central challenge to international peace and security in the post-Cold War era. Yet theorizing on the causes of state failure remains surprisingly limited. In State Erosion, Lawrence P. Markowitz draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Central Asian republics—Tajikistan, where...