Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Nested Security
Lessons in Conflict Management from the League of Nations and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Why does soft power conflict management meet with variable success over the course of a single mediation? In Nested Security, Erin K. Jenne asserts that international conflict management is almost never a straightforward case of success or failure. Instead, external mediators may reduce communal tensions...
The Will to Imagine
A Justification of Skeptical Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where other works treat...
Mirrors of the Economy
National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
As international institutions multiply and more governments sign on to standardized ways of organizing economies and societies, resistance to globalization persists. In Mirrors of the Economy, Yoshiko M. Herrera explores the variance in implementation of international institutions through an examination...
Heading Out
A History of American Camping
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young...
Stopping the Bomb
The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s...
Swedish Design
An Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2019
Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following around the world. Design in Sweden has more than just an aesthetic component, however. Since at least the late nineteenth century, Swedish politicians and...
Outsourcing War
The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing War, Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether...
Site Fights
Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with...
Love's Wounds
Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourteenth-century Italy, this book shows how Petrarch established a pattern of inequality between suffering poet and exalted Beloved rooted in political parrhēsia....
Qatar
Small State, Big Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international...
Continent by Default
The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in...
Cities for Profit
The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive...
by Martin Seel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film’s connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema’s singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films—from...
A Scrap of Paper
Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
A century after the outbreak of the Great War, we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflict's origins and conduct. In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision-making in Germany, Great Britain,...