Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Trained in law at Harvard Law School, she is the author of many books on the role of science and technology in the politics of modern democratic societies, including Science at the Bar, The Fifth Branch, and Risk Management and Political Culture. Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized...

"Co-Winner of the 2017 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology" Joshua D. Kertzer is assistant professor of government at Harvard University. Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run? The answer given by policymakers, pundits, and political scientists usually relates to issues of resolve. Yet, though we...

In the aftermath of 9/11, America has been haunted by one question: why do they hate us? This book answers that question, tracing the roots of the crisis back to American's involvement in the Middle East, and in particular Lebanon. Journalist Lawrence Pintak was a correspondent for CBS in Beirut in the 1980s, where he witnessed the birth of the current 'terror'. In Seeds of Hate, he explores how America's flawed policy in the Lebanon transformed...

"¡Si pudiéramos nosotras, las mujeres, sacudir nuestro continente!", le escribió en 1931 la cubana Ofelia Domínguez Navarro a Paulina Luisi, la médica uruguaya que para entonces era una veterana de la lucha feminista en América Latina. Este libro es la historia de esa sacudida: Katherine M. Marino recorre aquí la singular forma de entender los derechos de la mujer que se dio en nuestro continente en la primera mitad del siglo XX. El feminismo...

In its march to becoming the world's first hyper-power, the United States has been as dependent on its soft power, the allure of American lifestyles and culture, as it has been on the hard power of military might. In Weapons of Mass Distraction, Matthew Fraser examines the role of American pop cultural industries in international affairs. Fraser focuses on the major areas of soft power, movies, television, pop music, and fast food, and traces the...

The main objective of the work 'Power, Structure and Hegemony: Guidelines for the study of the international governance' is to analyze the incidence of the change of the structural positioning of the most powerful States on the international governance. To proceed in this labor, the first step has been to define the concept of international governance and to decompose it into simpler factors. One of the above mentioned factors is the national power....

From the centuries-long prejudices against Catholics in America, to the efforts of Fascism, Communism and modern terrorist organizations to "break the cross and spill the wine," this book brings to life the Catholic Church's role in world history, particularly in the realm of diplomacy. Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney provides a comprehensive guide to the remarkable path the Vatican has navigated to the present day, and a first-person...

First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it...

This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official. It is in fact, a critical, indispensable debriefing of a UN insider's account as it follows the life of a development practitioner for more than three decades within the global aid sector. It also goes where few others have dared to go before, providing first-hand insights into the realities of...

"Winner of the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize, Society of Policy Scientists" "Winner of the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association" "Winner of the 2010 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies" Michael C. Horowitz is assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and...