Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Shaken Authority
China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines...
by Miroslav Nincic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Recent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to alter the behavior of other states. From public browbeating through economic sanctions to military invasion, the last several presidents have chosen to use coercion to advance U.S. interests when dealing with...
Making the Unipolar Moment
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America’s global primacy had...
A Colonial Affair
Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A Colonial Affair traces the 1716 conviction of Nayiniyappa, a Tamil commercial agent employed by the French East India Company, for tyranny and sedition, and his subsequent public torture, the loss of his wealth, the exile of his family, and his ultimate exoneration. Danna Agmon’s gripping microhistory...
The Control Agenda
A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.
Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to...
Architects of Occupation
American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story was more complicated, but the occupation did forge one of the most enduring relationships in the postwar...
Incidental Archaeologists
French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the...
A World of Regions
Asia and Europe in the American Imperium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable...
Borders among Activists
International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world—international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)—organizational...
Empire's Twin
U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government...
What Rebels Want
Resources and Supply Networks in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How easy is it for rebel groups to purchase weapons and ammunition in the middle of a war? How quickly can commodities such as diamonds and cocoa be converted into cash to buy war supplies? And why does answering these questions matter for understanding civil wars? In What Rebels Want, Jennifer M....
Rewolucja
Russian Poland, 1904–1907
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period. Drawing...
Laboratory of Socialist Development
Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet...
Violent Entrepreneurs
The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among...