stanford political science catalog 2012

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Table o Contents

Comparative Politics ......... 2- 6

Political Economy ................6-7

U.S. Politics ...............................7-8

International Relations .... 9-10

Security Studies ................11-15

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ofer on print books.Costly Democracy

Peacebuilding andDemocratizationAer War

Christoph Zrcher,Carrie Manning, Kristie D.Evenson, Rachel Hayman,Sarah Riese, andNora Roehner

Costly Democracymakes thecase that the preerences odomestic elites are greatlyshaped by the costs they incur inadopting democracy, as well asthe leverage that peacebuilderswield to increase the costs onon-adoption. Te book oerscomparative analyses o recentcases o peacebuilding romAghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo,

imor, Rwanda, Namibia,Mozambique, and ajikistanto deepen understanding opostwar democratization andbetter explain why peacebuild-ing missions oen bringpeace, but seldom democracy,to war-torn countries.

A consistent and rigorous ocus

across many dierent cases o in-

ternational peacebuilding makes

this a standout collection.

Benjamin Reilly,

Australian National University

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Social Movements

and the New StateTe Fate o Pro-DemocracyOrganizations WhenDemocracy Is Won

Brian K. Grodsky

Te worlds democracies cheeredas the social movements o theArab Spring ended the reignso longstanding dictators andushered in the possibility odemocracy. Yet these uniquetransitions also t into abroader pattern o democraticbreakthroughs around the globe,where political leaders emergerom the pro-democracy move-ment that helped aect change.In Social Movements and the New

State, Brian Grodsky examinesthe relationships betweennew political elites and thecivil society organizations thatbrought them to power in threeculturally and geographicallydisparate countriesPoland, South Arica,and Georgia.

A careully researched and theo-

retically innovative contribution

to comparative politics.

Laura Henry,

Bowdoin College

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Contested Welare

StatesWelare Attitudes inEurope and Beyond

Edited by Stean Svallors

Tis book analyzes peoplesattitudes toward welare policiesacross Europe, and oers a novelcomparison with the UnitedStates. Occupied with normative

orientations toward the redistri-bution o resources and publicpolicies aimed at amelioratingadverse conditions, the bookocuses on the interplay betweenindividual welare attitudes andbehavior, institutional contexts,and structural variables. Itprovides essential input into thecomparative study o welare

state attitudes and oers criticalinsights into the public legiti-macy o welare state reorm.

Contested Welfare States truly em-

bodies the state-o-the-art on the

topic o public attitudes towards

social protection and redistribu-

tion. It delivers resh perspective

on a distinctive set o questions

concerning welare debates and

will be o broad interest and use.Jonas Pontusson,

Princeton University

Studies in Social Inequality272 pp., 22 tables, 27 fgures, 20129780804782524 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale

Social Forces

and StatesPoverty and Distribu-tional Outcomes inSouth Korea, Chile,and Mexico

Judith A. eichman

Social Forces and States explainsthe reasons behind distinctdistributional and povertyoutcomes in three countries:South Korea, Chile, and Mexico.South Korea has successullyreduced poverty and has keptinequality low. Chile has reducedpoverty but inequality remainshigh. Mexico has conrontedhigher levels o poverty and highinequality than either o theother countries. Judith eichman

takes a comparative historicalapproach, ocusing upon theimpact o the interaction be-tween social orces and states.

Teichman employs a novel

analytical lens to understand

important human development

outcomes.

Wendy Hunter,

The University o Texas at Austin

272 pp., 14 tables, 11 fgures, 20129780804778268 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804778251 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale

Party-System

CollapseTe Roots o Crisis inPeru and Venezuela

Jason Seawright

o date, scholars have pointedto economic crises, the rise othe inormal economy, and thecharisma and political brillianceo Fujimori and Chavez to

explain the changes in Peruand Venezuela. Tis book useseconomic data, surveys, andexperiments to show that theseexplanations are incomplete.Integrating economic, organi-zational, and individual consid-erations, Seawright provides anew explanation and compellingnew evidence to present a uller

picture o voters decisions andactions in bringing about party-system collapse, and the riseo important outsider politicalleaders in South America.

Seawright oers the best expla-

nation Ive read or the collapse

o party systems in Peru and

Venezuela. He also provides an

exemplary study o the roles o

leadership and mass opinion inregime change.

Michael Coppedge,

University o Notre Dame

336 pp., 26 tables, 10 fgures, 20129780804782364 Cloth $60.00 $48.00 sale


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Police Reorm

in MexicoInormal Politicsand the Challenge oInstitutional Change

Daniel M. Sabet

Why have reorm eorts inMexico been largely unsuccess-ul? Tis book seeks to answerthe question by ocusing on

Mexicos municipal police,which make up the largestpercentage o the countryspolice orces. Daniel Sabetargues that the problems oMexican policing are reallyproblems o governance. Hends that reorm has sueredrom a number o policydesign and implementation

challenges. More importantly,the inormal rules o Mexicanpolitics have prevented thecontinuity o reorm eortsacross administrations, allowedpatronage appointments topersist, and underminedanti-corruption eorts.

A thoughtul, careul, and ana-

lytically rigorous account o the

vexing problem o police reormin Mexico....a timely and provoc-

ative must-read or all who care

about Mexico and its uture.

Diane E. Davis,

Massachusetts Institute o Technology


In the Wake o War

Democratizationand Internal ArmedConict in LatinAmericaEdited byCynthia J. Arnson

Tis book assesses theconsequences o civil waror democratization in Latin

America, ocusing on questionso state capacity. Contributorsocus on seven countriesCo-lombia, El Salvador, Guatemala,Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, andPeruwhere state weaknessostered conict and thetask o state reconstructionpresents multiple challenges.In addition to case studies, thebook explores cross-cuttingthemes including the role othe international community insupporting peace, the explosiono post-war criminal and socialviolence, and the value o truthand historical clarication.

This book is invaluable and there

is a need or it. It is important to

try to assess the longer-term leg-

acy o civil war in Latin America.Cynthia McClintock,

George Washington University

Copublished with the Woodrow WilsonCenter Press320 pp., 20129780804776684 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804776677 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale

Violence, Coercion,

and State-Makingin wentieth-Century MexicoTe Other Hal othe CentaurEdited by Wil G. Pansters

Mexico is currently undergoinga crisis o violence and insecu-

rity that poses serious threats todemocratic transition and ruleo law. Tis is the rst book toput these developments in thecontext o post-revolutionarystate-making in Mexico andto show that violence inMexico is not the result o stateailure, but o state-making.

Through nuanced, cross-

disciplinary perspectives on vio-lence, this volume considerably

advances our understanding o

Mexicos contemporary crises. In

particular, it shows that chronic

violence is not the result o state

ailure in Mexico, but rather is

deeply embedded in historical

processes o post-revolutionary

state ormation.

Ben Fallaw,Colby College



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Middle East

AuthoritarianismsGovernance,Contestation, andRegime Resiliencein Syria and Iran

Edited by StevenHeydemann andReinoud Leenders

Te developments o early 2011have le the political landscapeo the Middle East changed butrecognizable. Even as urgentstruggles continue, it remainsclear that authoritarianismwill survive this transorma-tional moment. Te studyo authoritarian governance,thereore, remains essentialor our understanding o thepolitical dynamics and innerworkings o regimes across theregion. Te contributors to this

volume consider the Syrianand Iranian regimeswhatthey share in common andwhat distinguishes them.

This book provides unparalleled

insight into how the Syrian and

Iranian regimes use economic,social welare, judicial, and cultur-

al policies to maintain their rule.

Vickie Langohr,

College o the Holy Cross

Stanord Studies in Middle Eastern andIslamic Societies and Cultures328 pp., 4 fgures, 2 tables, 20129780804783019 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Roots o the State

NeighborhoodOrganization andSocial Networks inBeijing and aipei

Benjamin L. Read

Roots o the State examinesneighborhood-level structuresin East and SoutheastAsia that occupy a unique

space between civil societyassociations and government-sponsored organizations.Initially created as tools ocontrol, such institutions mayunderpin a repressive regimesuch as Chinas, but theyalso can evolve to empowersocieties, as in aiwan. Tisbook engages broad and

much-discussed questionsabout governance and politicalparticipation in both authori-tarian and democratic regimes.

An intimate glimpse into the

lie and work o the neighbor-

hood organizations that are the

states rst thread o connec-

tion to its citizens.

Mary Gallagher,

University o Michigan

Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacifc376 pp., 20 tables, 17 fgures, 20129780804775656 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804775649 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale

Adaptable Autocrats

Regime Power inEgypt and Syria

Joshua Stacher

Examining how power is struc-tured in each country, JoshuaStacher shows how the uprisingsand outcomes have been shapedby preexisting power congura-tions, allowing certain autocratic

systems to adapt more easily thanothers. Power structures, elitealliances, state institutions, andgoverning practices are seldomswept away entirelyeven ollow-ing successul revolutionsso it is vital that we examinethe various contexts or regimesurvival to understand ongoingevents in the Middle East.

This is one o the best, mostconcrete explorations o develop-

ments in Egyptian and Syrian poli-

tics over the last decade. Stacher

provides an original look at the

inner workings and dynamics o

two vitally important regimes in

the Arab world and lays out the

implications or the uture o the

signicant dierences between

these two political systems.

Samer Shehata,

Georgetown University

Stanord Studies in Middle Eastern andIslamic Societies and Cultures256 pp., 20129780804780636 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804780629 Cloth $80.00 $64.00 sale


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Reissued with a new introduction

Te Emergence oModern AghanistanPolitics o Reorm andModernizationVartan Gregorian

In this reissue, Vartan Gregorianoers a new introduction thatplaces the key themes o the bookin the context o contemporary

events, addressing questions otribalism, nationalism, Islam, andmodernization, as well as thelegacies o the Cold War and the

various exit strategies o occupy-ing powers. Te book remains asdistinctive today as when it wasrst published. It is the only broadwork on Aghan history thatconsiders ethnicity as the deninginuence over the course o the

countrys history, rather thanreligion. In light o todays ongo-ing struggle to develop a coherentnational identity, the questiono Aghan nationalism remainsa particularly signicant issue.

Until Gregorian came, Aghanistan

has in some ways been a country

in search o a scholar. Such a scholar

has now emerged in the person o

Vartan Gregorian whose Armenianancestry and education in rst-class

Middle Eastern and American

institutions uniquely equip him or

tackling the Aghan eld.

Middle East Journal

680 pp., 3 tables, 16 illustrations, 2 maps, 20139780804783002 Paper $34.95 $27.96 sale9780804782999 Cloth $100.00 $80.00 sale

Breakdown in

PakistanHow Aid Is ErodingInstitutions orCollective Action

Masooda Bano

Breakdown in Pakistan identiesconcrete measures to checkthe erosion o cooperation inoreign aid scenarios. Pakistan

is one o the largest recipientso international developmentaid, and thereore the em-pirical details presented areparticularly relevant or policy.

Bano successully brings the

voices o those most aected by

aid to the ore. By speciying the

mechanisms both by which aid is

ailing and succeeding, she con-

vincingly makes her case.Jean E. Ensminger,

Caliornia Institute o Technology

240 pp., 2 fgures, 1 map, 20129780804781329 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Business Networksin SyriaTe Political Economy

o AuthoritarianResilience

Bassam Haddad

Stanord Studies in Middle Eastern andIslamic Societies and Cultures280 pp., 20119780804785068 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804773324 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Te Lebanese

ConnectionCorruption, Civil War,and the InternationalDrug rac

Jonathan V. Marshall

Using previously secret govern-ment records, Te LebaneseConnection uncovers or the rsttime the story o how Lebanon's

economy and political systemwere corrupted by drug pro-itsand how, by nancing itsmany ruthless militia, Lebanonsdrug trade contributed to thecountrys greatest catastrophe,its een-year civil war rom1975 to 1990. In so doing, thisbook sheds new light on thedangerous role o vast criminal

enterprises in the collapseo states and the creation owar economies that thrive inthe midst o civil conicts.

Hard-hitting and hard-boiled

investigative journalism that is

cinematic in scope, The Lebanese

Connection has troubling implica-

tions that should stimulate lively

debate and uture research.

Max Weiss,Princeton University

Stanord Studies in Middle Eastern andIslamic Societies and Cultures272 pp., 2 maps, 20129780804781312 Cloth $35.00 $28.00 sale


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Side Eects

Mexican GovernanceUnder NAFAs Laborand EnvironmentalAgreements

Mark Aspinwall

Side Efects is a story aboutgovernance in Mexico aerthe labor and environmentalaccordscalled side agree-

mentsthat accompaniedthe NAFA treaty went intoeect. Tese side agreementsrequired member states touphold and enorce theirlabor and environmental laws;though never codied, it waswidely accepted that Mexico,in particular, had a problemwith law enorcement. Tebook explores how dierencesin institutional design (o theside agreements) and domesticcapacity (between the labor andenvironment sectors) inuencednorm socialization in Mexico.

With compelling insights and

quality case material, this is by

ar the best book that I have read

on NAFTA.

Carol Wise,University o Southern Caliornia


Te Not-So-Special

InterestsInterest Groups, PublicRepresentation, andAmerican Governance

Matt Grossmann

Advocacy organizationsmorethan 1,600 o themare nowan important component onational political institutions.

Tis book uses original datato explain why certain publicgroups, such as Jews, lawyers,and gun-owners, developsubstantially more representa-tion than others, and whycertain organizations becomethe presumed spokespersonsor these groups in governmentand media. In contrast to estab-

lished theory and conventionalwisdom, this book demon-strates that groups o all sizesand types generate advocates tospeak on their behal, thoughwith varying levels o success.

The book should be read by

everyone concerned about

whose voices really count in

Washington.

Kristin A. Goss,Duke University


Te New Gilded Age

Te Critical InequalityDebates o Our imeEdited by David B. Gruskyand amar Kricheli-Katz

Income inequality is an increas-ingly pressing issue in the UnitedStates and around the world. Tisbook explores ve critical issues tointroduce some o the key moral

and empirical questions about in-come, gender, and racial inequality:

Dowehaveamoralobligationtoeliminate poverty?

Isinequalityanecessaryevil?

Canweretainameaningfuldemocracy i the rich canpurchasepoliticalprivilege?

Willweseeanewgenderorder?

Howwillracialandethnicinequalitiesevolveasminoritypopulationsgroweverlarger?

Leading public intellectualsdebate these questions in ano-holds-barred explorationo our New Gilded Age.

The New Gilded Age is an essential

volume or scholars and citizens

worried about the direction we are

headed and the cost we will pay or

inaction on the inequality ront.

Katherine Newman,

Johns Hopkins University

Studies in Social Inequality312 pp., 11 tables, 26 fgures, 20129780804759366 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804759359 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale


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Te Failed Promise

o OriginalismFrank CrossTe primary point o the bookis an examination o the degreeto which originalism inuencesthe Courts decisions. Frank B.Cross tests this by examiningwhether originalism appearsto constrain the ideologicalpreerences o the justices, which

are a demonstrable predictor otheir decisions. Ultimately, hends that however theoreticallyappealing originalism may seem,the changed circumstancesover time and lack o reliableevidence means that its use isindeterminate and meaningless.

Tarr provides a plausible solution

to the particular ills o elected

judiciaries that does not requireeliminating them.

Sanord Levinson,

author oFramed: Americas 51

Constitutions and the Crisis o

Governance232 pp., 20139780804783828 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Whats Law Got toDo With It?

What Judges Do, WhyTey Do It, and Whatsat StakeEdited by Charles GardnerGeyhStanord Studies in Law and Politics376 pp., 4 tables, 13 fgures, 20119780804775335 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale9780804775328 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

Without Fear

or FavorJudicial Independenceand JudicialAccountability inthe States

G. Alan arr

Te impartial administrationo justice and the account-ability o government ofcials

are two o the most stronglyheld American values. Yetthese values are oen in directconict with one another.

At the national level, the U.S.Constitution resolves thetension between these two

values in avor o judicialindependence. But at the statelevel, debate has continued asto the proper balance betweenjudicial independence andjudicial accountability. In thisvolume, arr ocuses squarelyon that debate. In part, theanalysis is historical: how havethe reigning conceptions ojudicial independence andaccountability emerged. Inpart, the analysis is theoretical:

what is the proper understand-ing o judicial independenceand accountability?

Law, Politics, and the Media320 pp., 20129780804760409 Paper $27.95 $22.36 sale9780804760393 Cloth $85.00 $68.00 sale

Governing Security

Te Hidden Originso American SecurityAgencies

Mariano-Florentino Cullar

Te impact o public lawdepends on how politicianssecure control o the nationspublic organizations, and howthese organizations in turn are

used to dene national security.GoverningSecurity investigatesthe origins o two major ederalagencies that touch the lives oAmericans every day: theRoosevelt-era Federal SecurityAgency (which gave rise to thepresent-day Department oHealth and Human Services)and the more recently cre-ated Department o HomelandSecurity. Trough the stories oboth organizations, Cullar oersa compelling account o crucialdevelopments aecting the basicarchitecture o our nation.

Security is a simple word with a

complex and contested history. In

this learned, lucid, and provoca-

tive book, Cullar brilliantly illumi-

nates both the intellectual and theinstitutional evolution o Americas

oten troubled preoccupation

with security.

David Kennedy,

Stanord University



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East Asian

National IdentitiesCommon Rootsand ChineseExceptionalismEdited by Gilbert Rozman

Tis rigorous comparativestudy o national identity inJapan, South Korea, and Chinaexamines countries with long

histories inuenced by Conu-cian thought, surging national-ism, and ar-reaching ambi-tions or regional importance.East Asian National Identitiescompares national identitiesin terms o six dimensionsencompassing ideology;history; the salience o cultural,political, and economic ac-

tors; superiority as a modelnational community; displace-ment o the U.S. in Asia; anddepth o national identity.

The six-dimensional analysis

oers a novel approach to the

study o national identity, and

the comparative study should

be commended.

Gi-Wook Shin,

Director, Shorenstein Asia-PacicResearch Center

Copublished with the Woodrow WilsonCenter Press256 pp., 20129780804781176 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

National Identities

and BilateralRelationsWidening Gaps inEast Asia and ChineseDemonization o theUnited StatesEdited by Gilbert Rozman

Te second o Gilbert Rozmanscontributed volumes on East Asiannational identity traces how eortsto draw a sharp divide between onecountrys identity and that o anothershape relations in the post-ColdWar era. It examines the two-wayrelations o Japan, South Korea, andChina, introducing the concept o anational identity gap to estimate thedegree to which the identities o twocountries target each other as nega-

tive contrasts. Tis concept is thenapplied to Chinas reinterpretationrom 2009-11 o the gap betweenits identity and that o the UnitedStates. Each pairing represents a keyrelationship through which an Asiancountry has historically shaped itsidentity, and is striving to reshape it.

Invaluable to understanding how

dyadic relations across Northeast

Asia are evolving and are likely to do

so in the next decade or more.

T. J. Pempel,

University o Caliornia, Berkeley

Copublished with the Woodrow WilsonCenter Press264 pp., 20129780804784764 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Te Soviet Cuban

Missile CrisisCastro, Mikoyan,Kennedy, Khrushchev,and the Missiles oNovember

Sergo Mikoyan

Edited by SvetlanaSavranskaya

Based on secret transcripts o top-level diplomacy undertaken by thenumber-two Soviet leader, AnastasMikoyan, to settle the Cuban MissileCrisis in 1962, this book rewritesconventional history. Te missileso October and 13 days were onlyhal the story: the nuclear crisis actu-ally stretched well into November1962 as the Soviets secretly plannedto leave behind in Cuba over 100 tac-tical nuclear weapons, then reversedthemselves because o obstreperousbehavior by Fidel Castro. Tehighly-charged negotiations with theCuban leadership, who bitterly eltsold out by Soviet concessions to theUnited States, were led by Mikoyan.

Te author, Sergo Mikoyan, whoserved as his athers personal

secretary during these travels, vividlyrecalls how the Soviet relationshipwith revolutionary Cuba began andhow it was shaped by the crisis.

Cold War International History ProjectCopublished with the Woodrow WilsonCenter Press360 pp., 20129780804762021 Paper $24.95 $19.96 sale9780804762014 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale


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ime in the

ShadowsConfnement inCounterinsurgencies

Laleh Khalili

ime in the Shadows investigatesthe two major liberal counter-insurgencies o our day: Israelioccupation o Palestine andthe U.S. War on error. In rich

detail, the book investigatesAbu Ghraib, Guantnamo Bay,CIA black sites, the KhiamPrison, and Gaza, among others,and links them to a history ocolonial counterinsurgenciesrom the Boer War and the U.S.Indian wars, to Vietnam, theBritish small wars in Malaya,Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and

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Militarizing MenGender, Conscription,and War in Post-SovietRussia

Maya Eichler



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New and Old Wars

Organized Violence ina Global Era,Tird Edition

Mary Kaldor

Tis third edition has been ullyrevised and updated. Kaldor hasadded an aerword answeringthe critics o the New Warsargument and, in a new chapter,

Kaldor shows how old warthinking in Aghanistan and Iraqgreatly exacerbated what turnedout to be, in many ways, arche-typal new warscharacterized byidentity politics, a criminalizedwar economy and civilians as themain victims. Like its predeces-sors, the third edition oNew andOldWarswill be essential reading

or students o internationalrelations, politics and conictstudies as well as to all thoseinterested in the changingnature and prospect o warare.

A timely and important book. Put-

ting the so-called revolution in

military aairs rmly to one side,

Mary Kaldor has provided us with

a window into the uture o war.

Martin van Creveld,Hebrew University o Jerusalem

Copublished with Polity Press256 pp., 20129780804785495 Paper $22.95 $18.36 sale

Eating Grass

Te Making o thePakistani BombFeroz Khan

Written by a 30-year proes-sional in the Pakistani Army whoplayed a senior role ormulatingand advocating Pakistanssecurity policy on nuclear andconventional arms control,EatingGrass tells the compelling

story o how and why Pakistansgovernment, scientists, andmilitary persevered in the aceo a wide array o obstacles toacquire nuclear weapons. It laysout the conditions that sparkedthe shi rom a peaceul questto acquire nuclear energy into aull-edged weapons program,details how the nuclear program

was organized, reveals therole played by outside powersin nuclear decisions, andexplains how Pakistani scientistsovercame the many technicalhurdles they encountered.

Going beyond the headlines, Khan

provides unique insights into the

political, technical and strategic

issues behind the untold story o

Pakistans bomb. Essential readingor anyone interested in nuclear

history, prolieration, or South

Asian security.Zachary S. Davis,

Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory


Over the Horizon

ProlierationTreatsEdited by James J. Wirtzand Peter R. Lavoy

Tis volume brings together topinternational security expertsto examine the issues aectinga dozen or so countries nuclearweapons policies over the nextdecade. In Part I, NationalDecisions in Perspective, thework describes the domesticpolitical consideration andinternational pressures thatshape national nuclear policieso several key states. In PartII, Fostering Nonprolieration,the contributors discuss theactors that shape the uturemotivations and capabilities

o various states to acquirenuclear weapons, and assesswhat the world communitycan do to counter this process.

Anyone seriously interested

in the problem o proliera-

tionpractitioners in the worlds

deense and arms control es-

tablishments, participants in the

NGO world, senior scholars, and

newcomers to these questionswill want and need to keep a

copy at hand.

Edward Rhodes,

Dean, School o Public Policy,

George Mason University



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Preventing a

BiochemicalArms RaceAlexander Kelle,Kathryn Nixdor, andMalcolm Dando

PreventingaBiochemicalArmsRace responds to a growingconcern that changes in thelie sciences and the nature

o warare could lead to aresurgent interest in chemicaland biological weapons(CBW) capabilities. By bring-ing together a wide range ohistorical material and currentliterature in the eld o CBWarms control, the book revealshow these two disparate eldsmight be integrated to precipi-

tate a biochemical arms raceamong major powers, roguestates, or even non-state actors.

This excellent book by top

experts links in-depth analysis

o the CBW prohibition re-

gimes with recent scholarship

on new wars, gives a critical

assessment o biodeense

policies and is based on a

thorough review o the revo-lution in the lie sciences.

Harald Mller,

Peace Research Institute, Frankurt

264 pp., 20129780804782753 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Security Assurances

and NuclearNonprolierationEdited by Jerey W. Knop

While policy makers and schol-ars have long devoted consider-able attention to strategies likedeterrence, which threatenothers with unacceptableconsequences, such threat-based

strategies are not always thebest option. In some cases, astate may be better o seekingto give others a greater sense osecurity, rather than by holdingtheir security at risk. Te mostprominent use o these securityassurances has been in conjunc-tion with eorts to prevent thespread o nuclear weapons. Tisbook represents the rst studyto explore the overall utility oassurance strategies, to evaluatetheir eectiveness as a tool orpreventing nuclear prolieration,and to identiy conditionsunder which they are moreor less likely to be eective.

This sophisticated and detailed

study o security assurances

provides new insights into the

dynamics o nuclear prolieration

and non-prolieration.

Scott D. Sagan,

Stanord University

320 pp., 20129780804778275 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Diversionary War

Domestic Unrest andInternational Conict

Amy Oakes

No book has so ar tackledthe key questions o whetherleaders deliberately provokeconicts abroad to distract thepublic rom problems at home,or whether such gambles oer

a more eective responseto domestic discontent thanappeasing opposition groupswith political or economicconcessions. DiversionaryWaraddresses these questions byreinterpreting key historicalexamples o diversionarywarsuch as Argentinas 1982Falklands Islands invasionand U.S. President JamesBuchanans decision to sendtroops to Mormon Utah in1857. It breaks new groundby demonstrating that the useo diversionary tactics is, atbest, an ineectual strategyor managing civil unrest,and draws important conclu-sions or policymakers.

Oakes presents an innovativetheoretical synthesis that has

real explanatory power.

Jefrey Pickering,

Kansas State University



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NAO in

AghanistanTe LiberalDisconnect

Sten Rynning

Te war in Aghanistan hasrun or more than a decade,and NAO has become in-creasingly central to it. In thisbook, Sten Rynning examines

NAOs role in the campaignand the difcult diplomacyinvolved in ghting a war byalliance. He explores the his-tory o the war and its chang-ing momentum, and explainshow NAO at rst altered butthen improved its operationsto become a critical enableror the U.S. surge o 2009.

One o the worlds lead-

ing experts on NATO, Sten

Rynning provides the most

detailed account to date o

the alliances involvement in

Aghanistan. With the com-

bat mission coming to an

end, Rynnings analysis will

be indispensable or those

thinking about NATOs uture.

James Goldgeier,American University


Deterring

errorismTeory and PracticeEdited by AndreasWenger and Alex Wilner

During the Cold War,deterrence theory was thecornerstone o U.S. oreignpolicy. Following the 9/11terrorist attacks, however,

popular wisdom dictated thatterrorist organizations andradical anatics could not bedeterredand governmentsshied their attention tocombating terrorism ratherthan deterring it. Tis bookchallenges that prevailingassumption and oersinsight as to when and whereterrorism can be deterred. Itprovides a oundation ordeveloping eective coun-terterrorism policies to helpstates contain or curtail theterrorism challenges they ace.

Represents the state o the art

in the infuencing o terrorist

behavior. With contributions

rom leading researchers in the

eld, it integrates the most ad-vanced thinking on deterrence

with rich empirical studies o

the handling o contemporary

terrorist problems.

Paul R. Pillar,

Georgetown University


Competitive

Strategies or the21st CenturyTeory, History,and PracticeEdited by Tomas G.Mahnken

Tis book uses the theory andpractice o peacetime great-power strategic competition toderive recommendations or theU.S. to adopt a long-term strategyor dealing with China; one thatincludes but is not limited tomilitary means, and that ullyincludes U.S. allies in the region.Aer examining the theory opeacetime strategic competition,it assesses the U.S.-China militarybalance in depth, considers the

role o America's allies in the re-gion, and explores strategies thatthe U.S could adopt to improveits strategic position relativeto China over the long term.

This book makes an enormous

contribution to the strategic stud-

ies literature. It is mandatory read-

ing or anyone interested in grand

strategy, the end o the Cold War,

the emergence o China as a greatpower, and the infuence o the

Pentagons legendary Andrew

Marshall on the study o strategy.

Ambassador Eric S. Edelman,

Center or Strategic and

Budgetary Assessments



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Contractors

and WarTe ransormationo United StatesExpeditionaryOperations

Edited by ChristopherKinsey and MalcolmHugh Patterson

odays armed orces are athird smaller than they wereduring the Cold War, and yetare expected to do as much inot more than they did duringthose years. As a result, atransormation is occurring inthe way the U.S. governmentexpects the military to conductoperations. Contractors andWarexplains the reasonsbehind this transormationand evaluates how the privatesector will shape and beshaped by uture operations.

This book brings together

several relevant views on a very

important contemporary issue.

It provides a oundation or the

development o new theory by

oering a way to see the chal-lenges associated with the con-

temporary use o contractors

in support o U.S. expeditionary

operations.

Claude Christianson, LtGen,

US Army (Retired)


Foreign Powers

and Interventionin ArmedConfictsAysegul Aydin

Intervention in armed conictsis ull o riddles that awaitattention rom scholars andpolicymakers. Tis bookargues that rethinking inter-

ventionredening what it isand why oreign powers takean interest in others con-ictsis o critical importanceto understanding how conictsevolve over time with the entryand exit o external actors.

In a decade that includes the

wars in Iraq and Aghanistan

and the NATO action in Libya

it behooves us to understand

when interventions are likely,

when they make sense, and

when they might work. This

book puts on rmer oundation

answers to those questions and

should inorm policy and uture

scholarship alike.

Patrick Regan,

Binghamton University (SUNY)

216 pp., 20129780804782814 Cloth $45.00 $36.00 sale

Beyond Great

Powers andHegemonsWhy Secondary StatesSupport, Follow, orChallengeEdited by Kristen P.Williams, Steven E. Lobell,and Neal G. Jesse

Beyond Great Powers andHegemons seeks to explainwhy weaker states ollow morepowerul global or regionalstates or tacitly or openlyresist their goals, and howthey navigate their relation-ships with the hegemon. Teauthors explore the interests,motivations, objectives, andstrategies o these ollow-

ersincluding whether theycan and do challenge thepolicies and strategies or thecore position o the hegemon.

This book examines how sec-

ondary and tertiary states re-

spond to the policies o primary

states, a still understudied topic

o immense contemporary im-

portance. Drawing on diverse

historical and regional cases,

the authors provide compelling

insights or the management o

Americas international power.

David A. Lake,

University o Caliornia, San Diego



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Te Nexus o

Economics,Security, andInternationalRelations inEast AsiaEdited by Avery Goldsteinand Edward D. Manseld

Tis book sheds new light

on the growth o economicregionalism in East Asia bycomparing the current era withthe recent past in the region, bydrawing some comparisons withevidence rom the Europeanexperience, and by addressingthe increasingly prominent roleo China. It explores a varietyo security issues linked with

regional economic develop-ments, and discusses and evalu-ates leading theories that oerexplanations or the connectionbetween economic and securityaairs in international politics.

This is a rst-rate volume with

distinguished contributors writ-

ing on an important subject.

East Asia is the worlds most im-

portant region or strategic andeconomic stability, but the nexus

between economic and security

aairs is poorly understood.

Robert Ross,

Boston College


Looking or Balance

China, the United States,and Power Balancing inEast Asia

Steve Chan

Debate surrounding Chinas rise,and the prospects o its possiblechallenge to Americas preemi-nence in international relationsin East Asia, has ocused on

two questions, rooted in power-balancing theory: whether theUnited States should containor engage China; and whetherthe rise o Chinese power hasinclined other East Asian statesto balance against Beijing byalignment with the United States.

By drawing on alternativetheoretic approaches, Steve Chan

is able to create an explana-tion o what is in motion inthe region that diers widelyrom the traditional strategic

vision o national interest.

Compellingly argues or serious

change in prevalent American or-

eign policy thinking about power

dynamics in world aairs, and

thus or how to deal with China

and East Asia. It should cool thezealots or additional U.S. pursuit

o military dominance in distant

regions.

Davis B. Bobrow,

University o Pittsburgh

Studies in Asian Security304 pp., 3 tables, 20129780804778206 Cloth $50.00 $40.00 sale

Fighting Back

What GovernmentsCan Do AbouterrorismEdited by Paul Shemella

Terrorism is a devilish problem

because it ranges across so

many perspectives. Paul Shem-

ella and his ellow authors put

a range o the pieces together

in a way that advances under-

standing or policymakers and

provides a comprehensive

guide or students.Gregory Treverton,

Director, RAND Center or

Global Risk and Security


ReducingUncertaintyIntelligence Analysisand National Security

Tomas Fingar


U.S. Presidentsand ForeignPolicy MistakesStephen G. Walker andAkan Malici



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