Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
by Stephen M. Walt
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. Walt makes a significant contribution to this topic, surveying theories of the origins of international alliances and identifying the most important causes of security cooperation between states. In addition, he proposes a fundamental change in the...
Warring Friends
Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention,...
Unclear Physics
Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Many authoritarian leaders want nuclear weapons, but few manage to acquire them. Autocrats seeking nuclear weapons fail in different ways and to varying degrees—Iraq almost managed it; Libya did not come close. In Unclear Physics, Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer compares the two failed nuclear weapons...
Catholics in the American Century
Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created...
by Richard Flathman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable...
by Bonnie Honig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In this book, Bonnie Honig rethinks that established relation between politics and political theory. From liberal to communitarian to republican, political theorists of opposing positions often treat political theory less as an exploration of politics than as a series of devices of its displacement....
Just Politics
Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many foreign policy analysts assume that elite policymakers in liberal democracies consistently ignore humanitarian norms when these norms interfere with commercial and strategic interests. Today's endorsement by Western governments of repressive regimes in countries from Kazakhstan to Pakistan and...
"Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposites. Imbued with a Christian culture in which a penniless preacher was also the King of Kings and the last were expected to be first, twelfth-century thinkers brought order to their lives through...
by David A. Lake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
International relations are generally understood as a realm of anarchy in which countries lack any superior authority and interact within a Hobbesian state of nature. In Hierarchy in International Relations, David A. Lake challenges this traditional view, demonstrating that states exercise authority...
by Barrington Moore Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes...
Lovesick Japan
Sex * Marriage * Romance * Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Lovesick Japan, Mark D. West explores an official vision of love, sex, and marriage in contemporary Japan. A comprehensive body of evidence—2,700 court opinions—describes a society characterized by a presupposed absence of physical and emotional intimacy, affection, and personal connections....
The Other Welfare
Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon’s daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI)...
American Biodefense
How Dangerous Ideas about Biological Weapons Shape National Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Biological weapons have threatened U.S. national security since at least World War II. Historically, however, the U.S. military has neglected research, development, acquisition, and doctrine for biodefense. Following September 11 and the anthrax letters of 2001, the United States started spending...
A Fiery Gospel
The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer...