Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Reforming New Orleans
The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city’s recovery and assess how successfully officials at the...
Hunger in the Balance
The New Politics of International Food Aid
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive...
The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management
On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries—such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo,...
Empire of Water
An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation’s largest municipal water system, the task of providing water to New Yorkers transformed the natural and built environment of the city, its suburbs,...
Planning for Empire
Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet...
Two Crises, Different Outcomes
East Asia and Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Two Crises, Different Outcomes examines East Asian policy reactions to the two major crises of the last fifteen years: the global financial crisis of 2008–9 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98. The calamity of the late 1990s saw a massive meltdown concentrated in East Asia. In stark contrast,...
Survival Migration
Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats...
The Right Kind of Revolution
Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting...
Internal Affairs
How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influence the norms of human rights? Internal Affairs shows how the organizational structures of human rights NGOs and their campaigns determine their influence...
by James G. March
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
"The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources...
Varietals of Capitalism
A Political Economy of the Changing Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Varietals of Capitalism shows that politics is an omnipresent part of the economics of wine and of economic activity in general. Based on a four-year research project encompassing fieldwork in France, Spain, Italy, and Romania, Xabier Itçaina, Antoine Roger, and Andy Smith examine the causes and...
Scrambling for Africa
AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities...
Exporting the Bomb
Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries...
Atomic Assistance
How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge...