How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is…

Looks at how we have adapted to diversity and the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are…

Explains the relevance of framing effects for normative theories of democracy. Employing a behavioral approach, this book…

Sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic…

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s and is an essential part of both political…

Citizens are political simpletons - that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. This title…

Shows that concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. Developing theories of…

Examines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more…

Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over…

Examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. This title shows…

Presents an analysis of the rise and fall of US inflation after 1960. This book examines two explanations for the behavior…

Compares the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. This book traces the historical…

Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, this book analyzes how…

From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics…

Brings together seven of Wendy Brown's essays in political and cultural theory that range from explorations of politics…

Takes up topics of debate in higher education: What are the nature and objectives of a liberal education? What are the…

How did the federal judiciary transcend early limitations to become a powerful institution of American governance? This book…

Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This…

Refines and enlarges the author's theory of how social structure and culture emerge from the chaos and uncertainty of social…

Examines how and when politicians play the race card and then manage to plausibly deny doing so. This book analyzes the…

Brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia that highlight a wide…

Argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. This book contends that, in…

Reveals how the Muslim world is in the throes of an ideological struggle that extends far beyond the Middle East, and how…

Examines the works of selected bilingual and bicultural writers of the United States (including Oscar Hijuelos, Maxine Hong…

Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? This book argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style…

Examining theories of human evolution and of prenatal hormonal determination of "gender-role" behavior, of sex differences…

Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking…

Offers an overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. This…

American universities serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that can create new industries, drive…

Kant has acted as a lens - sometimes a distorting lens - between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual…

Offers an inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what…

Mortality forecasting is used in a wide variety of academic fields, and for policymaking in global health, social security…

Makes important inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century…

The media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story. This book draws on…

Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the…

Seeking to break the deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science, this text…

The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of…

Argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role…

Offering an introduction to the ethical aspects of war and peace, this collection of essays explores the reasons for waging…

School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage student…

Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings - a superabundance indicated by…

Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, this book challenges the assumption…

Social behavior has long puzzled evolutionary biologists, since the classical theory of natural selection maintains that…

Seeks to restore the jurisprudence of the late Justice of the Supreme Court George Sutherland - a jurisprudence anchored in…

Examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusing especially on the relationship between ordinary…

Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us…

Argues that the contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural; it is distinctively modern.…

From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, this title traces four thousand years of speculation…