Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. Transformation to a renewable-based society requires leaders who connect social justice to climate and energy. During the Trump era, connections among white, male power; environmental destruction; and fossil fuel dependence have become more conspicuous. The inadequate and ineffective framing of ......
Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it.
In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron ......
Progress, Retrenchment and Ambiguity Amidst Liberalization
The optimism provoked by Myanmar's political reforms in 2011-2012 has now given way to a sense that the uneven nature of change in this nation of 54 million has lead to instability and uncertainty. The liberalization of critical sectors and expansion of certain freedoms - such as political and legal opportunities for expression and mobilization ......
American Strategies to Change, Contain, or Engage Regimes
In the Bush era Iran and North Korea were branded 'rogue' states for their flouting of international norms, and changing their regimes was the administrations goal. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call the countries nuclear 'outliers' and has proposed means other than regime change to bring them back into 'the community of nations.' ......
A collection of writings by a fascinating thinker in the history of Marxism, Antonio Gramsci, who wrote on subjects from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. The volume features an introduction by a leading Marxist historian, a biographical introduction and a glossary.
Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics
But ultimately, Making Schools American argues, upholding education as a potential solution to virtually every societal problem has hamstrung broader attempts at social reform while overburdening schools.
The first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current system, its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, the challenges posed by cyber threats, and the need to modernize the United States' Cold War-era system of systems.
Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb provides a groundbreaking account of Pakistan's rise as a nuclear power by drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary sources to reveal how bureaucratic politics shaped the nuclear program's development-and where it stands today.
