Political Science
Sites of Statelessness
Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.
State Power and Governance in Early Imperial China
Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.
Popular Sovereignty in a Digital Age
Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.
Frustrated Nationalism
Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.
Growing Strong, Growing Apart
Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.
Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition
Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.
The Republican Hero
Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
The China Record
Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.
Making the Public Service Millennial
Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.
Adventures in Chinese Realism
Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.
Technologies of Human Rights Representation
Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.
How Trump and the Christian Right Saved LGBTI Human Rights
Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.
Amnesia
Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.
Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.
Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?
Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.
Democracy at the Ballpark
Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.
The Nation or the Ummah
Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.
FDR's Budgeteer and Manager-in-Chief
First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945.
Return to Point Zero
Analyzes Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.
Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.
Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity
A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.
America in Denial
Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
Public Affairs and Democratic Ideals
Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.
Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.