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America in Denial
(May 2021)
How Race-Fair Policies Reinforce Racial Inequality in America
Lori Latrice Martin - Author
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Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
In America in Denial Lori Latrice Martin examines the myth of a race-fair America by reviewing and offering alternatives to universal, race-neutral programs and policies as well as other allegedly race-neutral initiates. By considering policies and programs re...(Read More) |
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Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War
(May 2021)
Animals, Loss, and Spectral-Poetic Moments
Matthew Leep - Author
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Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.
In Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War, Matthew Leep develops a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, this ...(Read More) |
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Leadership and Legacy
(March 2021)
The Presidency of Barack Obama
Tom Lansford - Editor
Douglas M. Brattebo - Editor
Robert P. Watson - Editor
Casey Maugh Funderburk - Editor
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Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.
Historic, intriguing, and important in so many ways, the Obama presidency will be studied by scholars and students for years to come. With the rise in hyperpartisanship, legislative gridlock, political dysfunction, “fake news,” and other negative trends, it is i...(Read More) |
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Public Affairs and Democratic Ideals
(January 2021)
Critical Perspectives in an Era of Political and Economic Uncertainty
Curtis Ventriss - Author
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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) |
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Citizenship and Service
(December 2020)
The Politics of Civic National Service in Israel
Etta Bick - Author
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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) |
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Holidays of the Revolution
(December 2020)
Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965
Amir Locker-Biletzki - Author
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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) |
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The Specter of Babel
(November 2020)
A Reconstruction of Political Judgment
Michael J. Thompson - Author
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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) |
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Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
(September 2020)
Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Steven C. Roach - Editor
Amy E. Eckert - Editor
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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) |
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