2005

Deborah Avant, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, Institute for Global and International Studies

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security, (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

The flourishing role of the private sector in security management over the last twenty years has challenged state control of the legitimate use of force. Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers--including states, non-government organizations and commercial transnational corporations. Avant also charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, and suggests a new way to think about the control of force.

Ersel Aydinli, Visiting Professor

James N. Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs

Security and the Nation State: Paradigms in Transition, (Co-Eds. Ersel Aydinli, James N. Rosenau, Suny Press, 2005).

This volume studies the links among the concepts of globalization, security, and the authority of the nation state, drawing attention to why and how these three concepts are interrelated and why they should be studied together. Contributors explore the connections between security and global transformations, and the corresponding or resulting changes in state structures that emerge. Probing and extending existing paradigms, the book offers three regional cases studies: the periphery states of the Middle East and North Africa, the second world states of the Russian Federation, and the core states of the European Union. It concludes with three chapters that synthesize the above themes to identify corresponding changes in the patterns of international politics.

Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs

Working for Change: Making a Career in International Public Service (co-authored with Derick Brinkerhoff, Kumarian Press Inc., 2005)

“In Working for Change, Derick and Jennifer Brinkerhoff explore career paths in international public service, focusing on development management positions. They offer practical and inspiring guidance on finding the right mix of public service objectives, degree programs, job opportunities, and personal lifestyle choices.

The Brinkerhoffs’ concept of career evolution is encapsulated in a framework they call the service-choice spiral. This model rejects standard set-the-goal, plot-the-steps planning and pulls one's personal values, skills, professional goals, and sense of altruism into a solid career choice. Through profiles of six public service professionals, the Brinkerhoffs illustrate how real people have faced the choices that confronted them in the course of their careers.

Working for Change will assuredly become the ideal guide and resource for anyone considering work in public service and mid-career professionals looking for a change in direction. It will also serve as a powerful resource for university career development officers and faculty advisors.”

Maurice A. East, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs

Diplomacy and Developing Nations, Post Cold War foreign policy-making structures and processes, (Co-edited with Justin Robertson) Routledge 2005

Diplomacy and Developing Nations maps out the range of contemporary foreign policy-making structures and processes found in developing nations, incorporating the activities of a range of state actors and no-state actors. The authors collected in this volume discuss key issues such as:

• Foreign policy orientation in the developing world, with regard to management of international economic and governance issues, regional leadership, growing citizen awareness and the application of information technology.
• How changing foreign policies may represent accommodations to the interests of international bodies, the United States or global capitalism.
• Continuity rather than change in foreign policy-making and the predominant influence of national factors.

David Grier, Associate Professor of International Science and Technology Policy and International Affairs

When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press 2005)

When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press 2005) is a sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.

The book won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), in the Computer/Internet Category, Independent Publisher.

Dane K. Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs

The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World, (Harvard University Press, 2005).

This book offers a fresh and compelling examination of Burton and his contribution to the widening world of the Victorians. He advances the view that the Victorians’ efforts to attach meaning to the differences they observed among other peoples had a profound influence on their own sense of self, destabilizing identities and reshaping consciousness. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, The Highly Civilized Man is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs

And So Flows History, by Hahn Moo-Sook, (Trans. by Young-Key Kim-Renaud, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005).

A deeply compelling saga of love, jealously, honor, and greed, And So Flows History (Yôksanûn hûrûnda, 1947) depicts the relentless power of exterior forces on the individual lives of three generations of the illustrious Cho family--from the waning years of the Choson dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the tumultuous postliberation era.

Melani McAlister, Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs

Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000, University of California Press., 2005 rev. ed. (o. 2001).

Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their “interests” in the Middle East. In this innovative book--now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war--Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history.

The new chapter, titled “9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire,” considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since--to paraphrase her new preface--we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.

James N. Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs

On the Cutting Edge of Globalization: an Inquiry into American Elites, (Co-authored by James N. Rosenau, Rowan and Littlefield, 2005).

Woefully little systematic knowledge is available about leaders who shape and sustain globalization. On the Cutting Edge of Globalization is the first systematic study to investigate elite attitudes toward the emergent structures of world affairs. Surveys of more than 1700 American leaders before and after 9/11 yield compelling and provocative findings that depict the attitudes and activities of an important group of people who, even as they collectively influence the course of events, are not linked and coordinated in their efforts. Full of original data, the book’s unique contribution is enhanced by an entertaining narrative explanation that casts a Cutting Edger, an Other Leader, and a Researcher in a good natured argument about the meaning of social science inquiry and the validity of survey data. From an author group as powerful as the targets of their inquiry comes this one-of-a-kind, intriguing, and thoroughgoing analysis.

David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, China Policy Program

The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures(Co-authored with Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott; University of Washington Press, August 2005)

The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures traces the three-thousand-year history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous history of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and conquest, and civil war, resulting in valiant attempts to rescue and preserve the collection. Throughout history, different Chinese regimes used the imperial collection to bolster their own political legitimacy, domestically and internationally.

Stephen C. Smith Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Ending Global Poverty (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2005)

Ending Global Poverty explains how the world's poorest people, even those not fortunate enough to live in high-growth economies such as China, can escape from the scourge of extreme poverty, helped by innovative and effective strategies. The book explains sixteen major poverty traps affecting the poor, and describes the key capabilities and assets that the poor need to escape from poverty. Effective, innovative programs, were selected through three screens: systematic interviews with practitioners, juried prizes and awards for poverty programs, and reviews of rigorous impact assessments. The book demonstrates that progress can be made through incentives for local innovation and scaling-up of programs relevant to resolving local constraints to poverty reduction. Many of the best strategies for breaking out of poverty traps have been devised on the ground by people from the developing world, though generally with outside assistance. Forty selected case studies of programs providing the basic capabilities and assets needed by the poorest and most isolated of the poor are presented, from Africa, the Andes and Central America, and Bangladesh and elsewhere in rural Asia. The final part of the book shows how citizens, donors, church members, communities, and businesses can meaningfully and effectively participate in the struggle to free those still caught in poverty traps.

“The world’s leaders have repeatedly promised to tackle poverty on a massive scale, but they always seem to find excuses for failing to mobilize the necessary resources. Stephen Smith shows convincingly that even the poorest of the poor can help themselves - with a little help from the rest of us. Anyone who wants to understand why so many remain trapped in poverty, and what they and we can do about it, should read this inspiring book.” --Ann Florini, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative

Economic Development, 9th Edition, with Michael Todaro, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley and Essex, England: Pearson, 2005.

Todaro and Smith believe that development economics should foster a student’s ability to understand real problems faced by developing countries. Unlike other texts, Economic Development , Ninth Edition, introduces economic models within the context of countries and issues, so that students learn to analyze and engage in ongoing policy debates.

Praised for its even, balanced coverage, this text helps students to evaluate issues using the best available cross-sectional data, economic theory, and institutional and structural perspectives. Keeping pace with current data and events, the Ninth Edition includes the latest research in development as well as extensive country-specific examples of topics such as transition economics and urban policy.

Top