Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
From Convergence to Crisis
Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues...
The New Masters of Capital
American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
In The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy—the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody's and Standard & Poor's, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging...
Proxy Wars
Suppressing Violence through Local Agents
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has...
Race against Empire
Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linkep to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international...
The Currency of Confidence
How Economic Beliefs Shape the IMF's Relationship with Its Borrowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its professional staff emerged from an insular set of American-trained economists. The IMF treats countries differently depending on whether that staff trusts the...
Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats
Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the...
Reasons of State
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to...
The Forms of Historical Fiction
Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major...
by Kyle Beardsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights its long-term limitations. The result of this...
Power and Principle
The Politics of International Criminal Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
On August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,400 people in a civil war that had already claimed the lives of more than 140,000. As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power....
The NGO Game
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo. Using her years of fieldwork and interviews, McMahon argues that...
Developmental Mindset
The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial...
Ruling Capital
Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the political and economic difficulty of doing so at the national level. Gallagher also...
Gangs of Russia
From the Streets to the Corridors of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Since their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file...