Citizenship and Service
(December 2020)
The Politics of Civic National Service in Israel Etta Bick - Author
Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.
All citizens in a democracy are promised the same guaranteed rights, but should they have the same obligations? Should minorities with different attitudes toward the state be obliged to do national service in the name of equality? And what are the social and political consequences for minor...(Read More)
Holidays of the Revolution
(December 2020)
Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965 Amir Locker-Biletzki - Author
The Specter of Babel
(November 2020)
A Reconstruction of Political Judgment Michael J. Thompson - Author
Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.
In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate cri...(Read More)
Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.
Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is an applicative concept that seems,...(Read More)
Suffrage and Its Limits
(September 2020)
The New York Story Kathleen M. Dowley - Editor Susan Ingalls Lewis - Editor Meg Devlin O'Sullivan - Editor Kathy Hochul - Preface
Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women’s social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.
Suffrage and Its Limits offers a unique interdisciplinary overview of the legacy and limits of suffrage for the women of New York State. It commemorates the state suffrage centennial of 2017, yet arrives in time to contribute ...(Read More)
Bending the Arc
(August 2020)
Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War Steve Breyman - Editor John W. Amidon - Editor Maureen Baillargeon Aumand - Editor
Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.
Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region’s premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Med...(Read More)
Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.
Reconstructing the Civic examines the civic activism of the homeland Palestinian minority in Israel. Employing a multi-methodological and empirically rich approach, Amal Jamal blends historical description with interviews of Palestinian elites drawn ...(Read More)
The Politics of Presidential Impeachment
(August 2020)
Daniel P. Franklin - Author Stanley M. Caress - Author Robert M. Sanders - Author Cole D. Taratoot - Author
Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.
The Politics of Presidential Impeachment takes a distinctive and fresh look at the impeachment provision of the US Constitution. Instead of studying it from a legal-constitutional perspective, the authors use a social science approach incorporating extensive case studies and qua...(Read More)
The Politics of Right Sex
(August 2020)
Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights Courtenay W. Daum - Author
Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.
While the growing attention to trans rights and the development of trans-specific interest groups suggest that the time is right for a trans rights movement akin to prior civil rights movements, The Politics of Right Sex explores the limitations of rights-based mobilizati...(Read More)
China in Ethiopia
(April 2020)
The Long-Term Perspective Aaron Tesfaye - Author
Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.
This comprehensive study of China-Ethiopia relations examines why China—an economic and emerging global power—has built relations with Ethiopia and why Ethiopia has responded by singling out China as a partner in its quest for economic development. Using middle-range theory and field research, Aaron Tesfaye...(Read More)
