Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Why Intelligence Fails
Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics...
Living Weapons
Biological Warfare and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were the first weapon prohibited by an international treaty, yet the proliferation of these weapons increased after they were banned in 1972. Biological weapons are frequently called 'the poor man's atomic bomb,' yet they cannot...
Perilous Futures
On Carl Schmitt's Late Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Since his death, the writings of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) have been debated, cited, and adopted by political and legal thinkers on both the left and right with increasing frequency, though not without controversy given Schmitt’s unwavering support for National Socialism before and during World...
Blackness Visible
Essays on Philosophy and Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial...
Transcending Capitalism
Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as "capitalist," but instead preferred alternative terms such as "postcapitalist," "postindustrial," or "technological." Considering...
How Russia Really Works
The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In...
Rules for the World
International Organizations in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental...
by Martha Finnemore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do states know what they want? Asking how interests are defined and how changes in them are accommodated, Martha Finnemore shows the fruitfulness of a constructivist approach to international politics. She draws on insights from sociological institutionalism to develop a systemic approach to state...
Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below
Ending Conflict between Regional Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In Peacemaking from Above, Peace from Below, Norrin M. Ripsman explains how regional rivals make peace and how outside actors can encourage regional peacemaking. Through a qualitative empirical analysis of all the regional rivalries that terminated in peace treaties in the twentieth century—including...
The Altruistic Imagination
A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Social work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In The Altruistic Imagination, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories, seeking to understand the problems that face these two vital institutions in American...
Creative Reconstructions
Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism after 1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe’s governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and international...
The Impossible Border
Germany and the East, 1914–1922
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new...
Rural Radicals
Righteous Rage in the American Grain
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line...
A Union Forever
The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning...