University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Post-Conflict Environment
Investigation and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management,...
Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century
Principles, Methods, and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In the past, arbitration, direct bargaining, the use of intermediaries, and deference to international institutions were relatively successful tools for managing interstate conflict. In the face of terrorism, intrastate wars, and the multitude of other threats in the post–Cold War era, however,...
by Jill Greenlee
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
American political activists and candidates have used motherhood to rally women’s interest, support, and participation throughout American history. Jill S. Greenlee investigates the complex relationship between motherhood and women’s political attitudes. Combining a historical overview of the...
Interpretive Quantification
Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp.
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by Rose McDermott
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
This outstanding book is the first to decisively define the relationship between political psychology and international relations. Written in a style accessible to undergraduates as well as specialists, McDermott's book makes an eloquent case for the importance of psychology to our understanding of...
From Sorrow's Well
The Poetry of Hayden Carruth
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Hayden Carruth survived isolation, mental health problems, and long struggle with drink and smoke to produce a vision of modern poetry rooted in the New England tradition but entirely his own. Many feel his best poems emerged from the isolation of rural Vermont, and his poems often are concerned with...
Czars in the White House
The Rise of Policy Czars as Presidential Management Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
When Barack Obama entered the White House, he followed a long-standing precedent for the development and implementation of major policies by appointing administrators—so-called policy czars—charged with directing the response to the nation’s most pressing crises. Demonstrating that the creation...
A Life Teaching Languages
A Memoir from Mississippi to the Bronx
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Everyone faces crossroads. While not everyone meets at the same crossroads, we all juggle multiple identities. It is these roles--sometimes conflicting and other times fitting together seamlessly--that Linda Watkins-Goffman explores in A Life Teaching Languages: A Memoir from Mississippi to the Bronx....
by E. Wayne Carp
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Jean Paton (1908–2002) fought tirelessly to reform American adoption and to overcome prejudice against adult adoptees and women who give birth out of wedlock. Paton wrote widely and passionately about the adoption experience, corresponded with policymakers as well as individual adoptees, promoted...
by Justin H. Kirkland, Jeffrey J. Harden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Lawmaking provides many opportunities for proposals to be altered, amended, tabled, or stopped completely. The ideal legislator should assess evidence, update his or her beliefs with new information, and sometimes be willing to change course. In practice, however, lawmakers face criticism from the...
The War in Their Minds
German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Historians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers’ experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home. Part...
Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies
Argentina in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Voting behavior is informed by the experience of advanced democracies, yet the electoral context in developing democracies is significantly different. Civil society is often weak, poverty and inequality high, political parties ephemeral and attachments to them weak, corruption rampant, and clientelism...
by Zachary Selden
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Although US foreign policy was largely unpopular in the early 2000s, many nation-states, especially those bordering Russia and China, expanded their security cooperation with the United States. In Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy, Zachary Selden notes that the regional power of these...
by Satsuo Yamamoto
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his participation...