Leadership and Legacy
(March 2021)
Presidency of Barack Obama, The Tom Lansford - Editor Douglas M. Brattebo - Editor Robert P. Watson - Editor Casey Maugh Funderburk - Editor
Public Affairs and Democratic Ideals
(January 2021)
Critical Perspectives in an Era of Political and Economic Uncertainty Curtis Ventriss - Author
Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.
We live in an era where many citizens feel increasingly uncertain about their futures, having to deal with stagnant wages, globalization, and wealth and income inequality, while, at the same time, policymakers appea...(Read More)
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
Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.
Holidays of the Revolution explores a little-known chapter in the history of Mandatory Palestine and the State of Israel: the Israeli Communist Party and its youth movement, which posed a radical challenge to Zionism. Amir Locker-Biletzki examines the development of thi...(Read More)
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 Kathy Hochul - Foreword
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)
