Stanford University Press: 1317 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since...
China's Futures
PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
China's Futures cuts through the sometimes confounding and unfounded speculation of international pundits and commentators to provide readers with an important yet overlooked set of complex views concerning China's future: views originating within China itself. Daniel Lynch seeks to answer the simple...
Busted Sanctions
Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are imposed....
Dividing the Domestic
Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
In Dividing the Domestic, leading international scholars roll up their sleeves to investigate how culture and country characteristics permeate our households and our private lives. The book introduces novel frameworks for understanding why the household remains a bastion of traditional gender relations—even...
Making the Transition
Education and Labor Market Entry in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education systems in preparing students for the "real world" changed. Though young people were freed from coercive state institutions, the shift to capitalism made the transition from school to work much more precarious...
Squandered Opportunity
Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Islamic Republic of Iran faced a favorable strategic environment following the US invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. Its leadership attempted to exploit this window of opportunity by assertively seeking to expand Iran's interests throughout the Middle East. It fell far short, however,...
Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially...
Social Forces and States
Poverty and Distributional Outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels...
Intra-Industry Trade
Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Intra-Industry Trade calls for us to rethink what trade most often looks like and how it shapes global institutions, fostering peace among states. Cameron G. Thies and Timothy M. Peterson argue that our understanding of trade has not kept pace with its changing nature in the 21st century; existing...
The Scramble for Citizens
Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
It is commonly assumed that there is an enduring link between individuals and their countries of citizenship. Plural citizenship is therefore viewed with skepticism, if not outright suspicion. But the effects of widespread global migration belie common assumptions, and the connection between individuals...
Decentering Citizenship
Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be victims...
The Gray Zone
Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "taking action" against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "gray zone", a space where legal and policy prescriptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place offers but also on the symbolic resources embedded in those places of production. Drawing...
Bureaucratic Intimacies
Translating Human Rights in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations. Nevertheless, with eyes worldwide trained on Turkish politics, and with accession to the European Union underway, Turkey's human rights record...