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2003 Faculty Books

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Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs;

John Forrer, Adjunct Professor of International Business and Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization;

Hildy Teegen, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs;

Jiawen Yang, Professor of International Business and International Affairs

Economic Sanctions: Examining Their Philosophy and Efficacy (Praeger Publishers, February 2003)

This is the first of three related, empirically based studies examining the broad range of issues raised by the use of economic sanctions. This volume addresses the philosophy behind economic sanctions: why they are used and what they are meant to achieve.

Ashari, Forrer, Teegen, and Yang go back through history to analyze whether or not these case studies in economic sanctions had been successful by measuring their historical impact and modeling their effectiveness. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, researchers, and the public policy community involved with international business and economics and international relations.

Case Studies of U.S. Economic Sanctions: The Chinese, Cuban and Iranian Experience (Praeger Publishers, 2003)

This is the second of three related empirically-based studies examining the broad range of issues raised by the use of economic sanctions. This volume provides a detailed examination of the impact of U.S. economic sanctions on China, Cuba, and Iran as well as the impact on the United States itself.

Ashari, Forrer, Teegen, and Yang analyze whether or not these case studies in economic sanctions had been successful by measuring their historical impact and modeling their effectiveness. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, researchers, and the public policy community involved with international business and economics and international relations.

William Becker, Professor of History and International Affairs

The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000 (Co-authored with William McClenahan, Jr.; Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Based on archival sources, this history of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), focuses on its role in the growing involvement of the U.S. in the international economy. Over the last two decades the Bank has carried on its congressionally-mandated mission in an increasingly complicated environment; brought on by changes in private capital markets, congressional constraints on its budgets, major financial crises in Latin America and Southeast Asia. It has survived despite the latest developments in communications and information technology, and the demands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) devoted to environmental protection.

Edward D. Berkowitz, Professor of History and Director of the Program in History and Public Policy

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)

In the second half of the twentieth century, no one exerted more influence over Social Security than Robert Ball, who in 1947 wrote what became the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance program. This policy-oriented biography surveys the history of Social Security from 1950 to the present through the eyes of the public servant most crucial to its development. Drawing on exclusive access to Robert Ball's papers and Ball's own extensive oral memoir created for this project, Edward D. Berkowitz explains how Social Security came to be America's most important social welfare program. Ball's role in expanding coverage to more workers during the period between 1950 and 1972, as well as in supporting the indexing of benefits to the rate of inflation, directly affected the lives of senior citizens and the overall U. S. economy.

Berkowitz demonstrates how Robert Ball used the conservative means of social insurance toward the liberal end of expanding the welfare state. He considers octogenarian Robert Ball's legacy in the face of the George W. Bush administration's goal of replacing Social Security with private accounts.

Michael E. Brown, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs and Political Science

Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century, (Editor, Georgetown University Press 2003).

The optimism that arrived at the end of the Cold War and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. In the aftermath of that event it is not unwarranted pessimism that lines the pages of Grave New World, it is unavoidable reality. Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for national and international security, and the contributors to this volume not only warn us, but reward us as well with the clarity of their views into—and possible solutions for-a difficult, complicated future. They speak convincingly of the numerous military and non-military challenges that create security problems-whether those are interstate, intrastate, or transnational-many of which are being dangerously overlooked in public policy debates.

Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (University of California Press, 2003)

This timely and critically important work does what hostilities in the Middle East have made nearly impossible: it offers a measured, internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing emerging political patterns from the Palestinian point of view rather than through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork, interviews with Palestinian leaders, and an extensive survey of Arabic-language writings and documents, Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords presents the meaning of state building and self-reliance as Palestinians themselves have understood them in the years between 1993 and 2002.

Providing a clear and urgently needed vantage point on most of the issues of Palestinian reform and governance that have emerged in recent policy debates – issues such as corruption, constitutionalism, democracy, and rule of law – Brown's book helps to put Palestinian aspirations and accomplishments in their proper context within a long and complex history and within the larger Arab world.

William K. Cummings, Professor of International Education and International Affairs

The Institutions of Educations: A Comparative Study of Educational Development in the Six Core Nations (Symposium Books, 2003)

At many times in educational history including the past decade, there are reports of crisis and cries for reform. The successes of foreign competitors are pointed to, new moneys are sought and laws passed. Occasionally these reform efforts make a difference. Just as often, they end up as mere rhetoric and the educational indicators continue to slide. Education is a dynamic sector with its ups and downs. To understand these ups and downs and to gain a clearer grasp of the essentials of reform, we need to look deeply into the origins and development of successful and failed reforms. This book seeks to answer that need. To do so, it stresses two important themes: first, the essence of educational practice lies in the institutionalized ideals and norms of an educational system, not in how much is spent on education or how many people are involved in education; and second, while many contemporary observers of education tend to think that sound educational practice is pretty much the same around the world, this book argues that there are at least six distinctive educational institutions currently in place in the modern world, each with its unique strengths and weaknesses.

Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

It has become a truism that continued economic reform in China will contribute to political change. Policy makers as well as many scholars expect that formation of a private sector will lead, directly or indirectly through the emergence of a civil society, to political change and ultimately democratization. The rapidly growing numbers of private entrepreneurs, the formation of business associations, and the cooperative relationships between entrepreneurs and local officials are seen as initial indicators of a transition from China's still nominally communist political system. This book focuses on two related issues: whether the Chinese Communist Party is willing and able to adapt to the economic environment its reforms are bringing about, and whether China's "red capitalists," private entrepreneurs who also belong to the communist party, are likely to be agents of political change.

Martha Finnemore, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs About the Use of Force (Cornell University Press, 2003)

Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its members' priorities.

Martha Finnemore uses one type of force, military intervention, as a window onto the shifting character of international society. She examines the changes, over the past 400 years, in why countries intervene militarily as well as in the ways they have intervened. It is not the fact of intervention that has been altered, she says, but rather the reasons for and meaning behind intervention the conventional understanding of the purposes for which states can and should use force.

Finnemore looks at three types of intervention: collecting debts, addressing humanitarian crises, and acting against states perceived as threats to international peace. In all three, she finds that what is now considered "obvious" was vigorously contested or even rejected by people in earlier periods for well-articulated and logical reasons. A broad historical perspective allows her to explicate long-term trends: the steady erosion of force's normative value in international politics, the growing influence of equality norms in many aspects of global political life, and the increasing importance of law in intervention practices.

The American Political Science Association gave the 2004 Woodrow Wilson Award for the "best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics, or international affairs," to Martha Finnemore for The Purpose of Intervention.

James M. Goldgeier, Professor of Political Science and International affairs

Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Co-authored with Michael McFaul, Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, Brookings, 2003).

This book traces the evolution of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, and later Russia from 1991-2003. Drawing on extensive interviews with senior U.S. and Russian officials, the authors explain George H. W. Bush's response to the dramatic coup of August 1991 and the ensuing Soviet breakup, examine Bill Clinton's efforts to assist Russia's transformation, and analyze George W. Bush's policy toward Russia after September 11. The book focuses on the benefits and perils of America's efforts to promote democracy and markets in Russia as well as to reorient Russia from security threat to security ally.

Goldgeier and co-author Michael McFaul received the Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations published in 2003. The Lepgold Prize is awarded by Georgetown University.

Hope M. Harrison, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 (Princeton University Press, 2003)

The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivalled, and from these sources she builds a highly original and provocative argument: the East Germans pushed the reluctant Soviets into building the Berlin Wall.

This fascinating work portrays the different approaches favored by the East Germans and the Soviets to stop the exodus of refugees to West Germany. In the wake of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviets refused the East German request to close their border to West Berlin. The Kremlin rulers told the hard-line East German leaders to solve their refugee problem not by closing the border, but by alleviating their domestic and foreign problems. The book describes how, over the next seven years, the East German regime managed to resist Soviet pressures for liberalization and instead pressured the Soviets into allowing them to build the Berlin Wall. Driving the Soviets Up the Wall forces us to view this critical juncture in the Cold War in a different light. Harrison's work makes us rethink the nature of relations between countries of the Soviet bloc even at the height of the Cold War, while also contributing to ongoing debates over the capacity of weaker states to influence their stronger allies.

In 2004, the Marshall Shulman Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies was awarded to Harrison, citing that the book is a "fascinating combination of probing archival history and solid political science."

Stuart Johnson, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs

New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking (Co-authored with Martin Libicki, and Gregory F. Treverton; RAND 2003).

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. This book outlines the dimensions of that transformation and sketches new tools for dealing with the policy challenges from modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.

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

Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth through the Twentieth Centuries (M.E. Sharpe, 2003)

This book introduces important contributions in the humanities by a select group of traditional and modern Korean women, from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The literary and artistic works of these women are considered Korean classics, and the featured artists and writers range from a queen, to a courtesan, to a Buddhist nun, to unknown women of Korea. Although women's works were generally meant only to circulate among women, these creative expressions have caught the attention of literary and artistic connoisseurs. By bringing them to light, the book seeks to demonstrate how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their very diverse, yet common artistic responses to the details and drama of everyday life in Confucian Korea. The stories of these women and their work give us glimpses of their personal views on culture, aesthetics, history, society, politics, morality and more.

John Logsdon , Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs and Director, Space Policy Institute

Gordon Adams, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of Security Policy Studies Program

Space Weapons: Are They Needed?(Editors, Space Policy Institute an Security Policy Studies, the Elliott School of International Affairs, 2003).

The United States is currently the dominant global space power. An important question for the early years of the 21st Century is how it will choose to use that power. In particular, will the United States choose to develop and deploy "space weapons" - devices to apply force to targets in space, or from space to targets on Earth? This book contains seven papers addressing this issue from varying perspectives that resulted from a Security Space Forum organized by the Elliott School's Space Policy Institute and Security Policy Studies Program. Copies of the book can be obtained free of charge by contacting the Space Policy Institute at spi@gwu.edu.

Cynthia McClintock, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

The United States and Peru: Cooperation At A Cost (Co-authored with Fabian Vallas, Routledge, 2003)

The early 1990s were a critical turning point in the relationship between the United States and Peru, as historically contentious relations dramatically improved. During President Albert Fujimori's rule, he sought to cooperate with the U.S. government on most issues, including security threats, free-market reform, and narcotics control. Fujimori's government did not meet international standards for democracy and human rights, but relations with the U.S. were more cooperative than they had been since the beginning of the Cold War. Why did the Clinton administration place a relatively low priority on democracy and human rights in Peru? The United States and Peru traces the changes in the relationship between the two countries from the 1980s through the 1990s, examining economic, political, and military issues. Attention is given to the problems of drug-trafficking, guerrillas, human rights violations, and to the 1995 war between Peru and Ecuador and the U.S. role in the resolution of the conflict.

Shawn McHale, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam(University of Hawaii Press, 2003)

Print and Power is an elegantly written and beautifully argued study of how the rise of a modern print culture in Vietnam in the last years of French colonialism stimulated a far more pluralistic and transnational recasting of Vietnamese thought than we previously believed. McHale's book is a major contribution both to modern Southeast Asian history and to our rethinking of the history of colonialism.
— Alexander Woodside, University of British Columbia

Mike Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea (Co-authored with Michael O'Hanlon; McGraw-Hill, 2003)

In Crisis on the Korean Peninsula, foreign policy scholars and opinion leaders Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki introduce a broad and ambitious program designed to answer once and for all the stubborn North Korea question. Detailing a grand bargain by which the United States and its allies could defuse North Korea's military threat without resorting to Iraq-style war, this probing and timely examination outlines a step-by-step process that would:

– Address the nuclear weapons issue that so clouds North Korea's present and future global status and northeast Asia's security
– Reduce conventional military forces, begin to rebuild the nation's shattered economy, and solve its ongoing humanitarian crisis
– Provide face-saving and nerve-calming security assurances to North Korea's embattled leaders, who show signs they might welcome such pledges

North Korea has been a smoldering volcano for far too long. Crisis on the Korean Peninsula provides a convincing, authoritative program for extinguishing that volcano.

Marie Price, Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs

Diversity Amid Globalization, World Regions, Environment and Development (Second Edition) (Co-authored with Lester Rowntree, San Jose State University; Martin Lewis, Stanford University and William Wyckoff, Montana State University; Prentice Hall, 2003, 633 pp)

Diversity Amid Globalization is an exciting contemporary approach to World Regional Geography that explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. The book's unique approach gives students access to the latest ideas, concepts and theories in geography while concurrently developing a strong foundation in the fundamentals of world regions. The book helps professors engender a strong sense of place, and an understanding of the connections within and between world regions.

Peter Reddaway, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs

The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin's Reform of Federal-Regional Relations, Vol.1 (Co-edited with Robert Orttung, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)

Who rules Russia? President Vladimir Putin's most ambitious reform program to date – his attempt since 2000 to reshape the Russian federation, to centralize much of the power lost by the Kremlin to the 89 regional governors during the 1990s, and to strengthen his weak grip on Russian institutions and political elite – begs this question.

In The Dynamics of Russian Politics a team of Russian and Western authors from the fields of political science, economics, ethnology, law, and journalism examines key areas of Russian life, including big business, law enforcement, corruption, political party development, health care, local government, small business, and ethnic relations. Volume 1 presents the historical context and an overview of Putin's reforms, then tracks how his plans were actually implemented – and resisted – across each of the seven new federal okrugs, or megaregions, into which he divided Russia: the Northwest, the North Caucasus, the Central okrug, the Urals, the Volga, Siberia and the Far East. In particular, the authors analyze the goals and contrasting political styles of his seven commissars, and how their often-concealed struggles with the more independent and determined governors played out.

Fernando Robles, Professor of International Marketing and International Affairs

Winning Strategies for the New Latin Markets (Co-authored with Françoise Simon, and Jerry Haar; Prentice Hall, 2003).

Companies worldwide are discovering the enormous potential of the Latin markets. Succeeding in the new Latin markets is challenging because of the dramatic changes sweeping the region. Winning Strategies for the New Latin Markets systematically reviews those changes ?and offers guidelines for effective strategies that meet the changing market needs. The authors – each a long-time expert in Latin and global business – challenge popular views of Pan American markets. Powerful transformations ranging from privatizations and economic reforms to rapid adoption of the Internet are allowing major companies to create powerful business networks from New York to Sao Paulo. But success in the region also requires an understanding of market and consumer variations across countries. The book unlocks the opportunities that emerge – including the golden triangle of the Brazilian, Mexican and U.S. Latin markets, which represent two-thirds of the region's market power.

James Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs

Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2003)

The recently bygone bipolar world of the Cold War looks simple in comparison to the complexities of today's globalizing era. Professor James Rosenau, in this wide-ranging masterwork of conceptual synthesis, develops a new vocabulary – distant proximities, fragmegration, glocalization – to help us explore the contradictory impact on our times of worldwide economic and electronic integration; religious, ethnic, and tribal hatreds; information overload; and terrorism. Individuals, communities, nation-states, and international structures are all struggling to accommodate the dynamics of today's unprecedented social and economic change. Rosenau's powerful yet nuanced analysis encompasses the agenda of our times – income disparities, human rights violations, corruption, high tech violence – and he leaves us pondering whether global and community governance will be able to cope with the challenges of a fragmegrative world.?
— Richard H. Solomon, President, U.S. Institute of Peace.

Susan Sell, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Susan K. Sell's book shows how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than governments. In 1994 the WTO adopted the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by twelve powerful CEOs of multinational corporations who wished to mould international law to protect their markets. The author examines the politics leading up to TRIPS, the first seven years of its implementation, and the political backlash against TRIPS in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Focusing on global capitalism, ideas, and economic coercion, this work explains the politics behind TRIPS and the controversies created in its wake. It is a fascinating study of the influence of private interests in government decision-making, and in the shaping of the global economy.

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

Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems and Prospects (University of California Press, 2003)

David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities – questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public.

Stephen C. Smith, Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Economic Development (8th Edition) (Co-authored with Michael P. Todaro; Addison-Wesley, 2003)

Economic Development offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the new edition of this best-selling text uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation of opposing viewpoints on today's major policy debates.

The authors have streamlined this edition and have included coverage of new and critical topics. The text contains extensive country-specific examples, with particular attention given to economic dislocations throughout Asia, Russia, and Brazil and updated Country Case Studies and Comparative Case Studies that allow students to apply concepts to specific developing nations.

Hildy Teegen, Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs

Globalization and NGOs Transforming Business, Government, and Society (Eds. Hildy Teegen and Jonathan P. Doh, 2003)

Description: Globalization has seismically shifted the relative balance of power between governments and corporations. The influence of NGOs—nongovernmental organizations—on business, government, and society has increased dramatically in recent years, yet their role in the process and outcome of the globalization debate calls for further examination. This is the first book to comprehensively examine NGOs as institutional players in the formulation of public policy and the implementation of corporate strategy. The delicate balance between governments and the private sector in managing globalization and influencing broader societal interests is also explored.

Richard Thornton, Professor of History and International Affairs

The Reagan Revolution, I: The Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy (Trafford 2003)

This is a book about strategy and politics ?in particular, the strategy and politics of the first two years of the Reagan administration. The Reagan years constituted a watershed in American history, the point in time when the United States took up the challenge from the Soviet Union and not only defeated that challenge, but also rose to preeminence as sole global superpower.

The first of four volumes, this book recounts and analyzes the political struggle to formulate American strategy and policy. It is the story of conflicting strategic visions and of the personalities who espoused them. It is the political history of the American decision-making process at a time of crisis. It is the record of decisions that would, despite continuing opposition to them from the political establishment, set in motion the events which would in a remarkably brief period of time lead to the demise of the Soviet Union and the beginning of a new era in world history.

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