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Books by Our Scholars
2024–2025
Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption David Edelman Oxford University Press, 2024
Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America Ben Ross Schneider Oxford University Press, 2024	Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention Roger Petersen Oxford University Press, 2024
2022–2023
Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs Sarah Bidgood Stanford University Press, 2023	Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable? Linde Desmaele Routledge, 2023
China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion Ketian Zhang Cambridge University Press, 2023	At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts Michael MJ Fischer Duke University Press, 2023
The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland Noah L. Nathan Cambridge University Press, 2023	The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline Yasheng Huang Yale University Press, 2023
Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East Steven Simon Penguin Random House, 2023	Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid Evan Lieberman Princeton University Press, 2022
Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022	Seeking The Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation Vipin Narang Princeton University Press, 2022
2020–2021
The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power Kathleen Thelen, Jacob S Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Paul Pierson Cambridge University Press, 2021	Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century Chappell Lawson, Alan Bersin and Juliette N Kayyem MIT Press, 2020
Banks on the Brink: Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises Mark Copelovitch and David A Singer Cambridge University Press, 2020
2018–2019
Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community Richard J Samuels Cornell University Press, 2019	Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 M Taylor Fravel Princeton University Press, 2019
International Relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma Nazli Choucri and David D Clark MIT Press, 2019	Japan's Pivot in Asia Richard J Samuels and Corey Wallace Oxford University Press, 2018
China Steps Out Eric Heginbotham and Joshua Eisenman (Eds.) Routledge, 2018
2016–2017
Hidden Atrocities Jeanne Guillemin Columbia University Press, 2017	China's Evolving Nuclear Deterrent: Major Drivers and Issues for the United States Eric Heginbotham, Michael Chase, Jacob Heim, Bonny Lin, Mark R Cozad, Lyle J Morris, Christopher P Twomey, Forrest E Morgan, Michael Nixon, Cristina L Garafola, Samuel K Berkowitz RAND Corporation, 2017
Deadly Clerics Blocked Ambition and the Paths to Jihad Richard A Nielsen Cambridge University Press, 2017
2014–2015
Roots of Russia’s War in Ukraine Elizabeth A Wood, William E Pomeranz, E Wayne Merry, Maxim Trudolyubov Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Columbia University Press, 2015	Strategies for Social Inquiry Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2015
Designing Industrial Policy in Latin America: Business-State Relations and the New Developmentalism Ben Ross Schneider Palgrave, 2015	Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash John Tirman MIT Press, 2015
Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy Barry R Posen Cornell University Press, 2014	Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict Vipin Narang Princeton University Press, 2014
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity Kathleen Thelen Cambridge University Press, 2014
2012–2013
“Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Strategy” Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann (Eds.) Sameer Lalwani Oxford University Press, 2013	3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan Richard J Samuels Cornell University Press, 2013
The Promise and Limits of Private Power: Promoting Labor Standards in a Global Economy Richard M Locke Cambridge University Press, 2013	Making in America: From Innovation to Market Suzanne Berger MIT Press, 2013
Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development Ben Ross Schneider Cambridge University Press, 2013	“The Future of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program” Strategic Asia 2013-2014: Asia in the Second Nuclear Age Ashley J Tellis, Abraham M Denmark, Travis Tanner (Eds.) and Christopher Clary National Bureau of Asian Research, 2013
Alliance Formation in Civil Wars Fotini Christia Cambridge University Press, 2012	Cyberpolitics in International Relations Nazli Choucri MIT Press, 2012
Planning Ideas That Matter: Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence J Vale and Christina D Rosan (Eds.) MIT Press, 2012	Becoming Enemies: U.S.- Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988 James G Blight, Janet M Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman Rowman & Littlefield, 2012
2010–2011
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation’s Deadliest Bioterror Attack Jeanne Guillemin Times Books and Henry Holt and Company, 2011	Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict Roger D Petersen Cambridge University Press, 2011
The Deaths of Others: The Fate of Civilians in America’s Wars John Tirman Oxford University Press, 2011	Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2010
Buying National Security: How America Plans and Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home Cindy Williams with Gordon Adams Routledge, 2010
2008–2009
Women, Migration, and Conflict: Breaking a Deadly Cycle Susan Forbes Martin and John Tirman (Eds.) Springer Netherlands, 2009	Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China’s Territorial Disputes M Taylor Fravel Princeton University Press, 2008
Learning to Be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy Annette Miae Kim Oxford University Press, 2008	The Politics of Official Apologies Melissa Nobles Cambridge University Press, 2008
US Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy Harvey M Sapolsky, Eugene Gholz and Caitlin Talmadge Routledge, 2008	US Military Innovation since the Cold War Harvey M Sapolsky, Benjamin H Friedman and Brendan Rittenhouse Green (Eds.) Routledge, 2009
2006–2007
Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell Alice H Amsden MIT Press, 2007	Mapping Sustainability: Knowledge e-Networking and the Value Chain Nazli Choucri, Dinsha Mistree, Farnaz Haghseta, Toufic Mezher, Wallace R Baker, Carlos I Ortiz (Eds.) Springer, 2007
Accountability without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China Lily L Tsai Cambridge University Press, 2007	The New Global History Bruce Mazlish Routledge, 2006
The Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain In China: A Case Study of Cokemaking In the “Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries” Karen R Polenske Springer, 2006	Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia Richard J Samuels Cornell University Press, 2007
Regulating Capital: Setting Standards for the International Financial System David A Singer Cornell University Press, 2007	Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O’Leary and John Tirman (Eds.) Penn Press, 2007
Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change Edward Newman, Ramesh Thaker and John Tirman (Eds.) UNU Press, 2006	Service to Country: Personnel Policy and the Transformation of Western Militaries Curtis Gilroy and Cindy Williams MIT Press, 2007
2004–2005
How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today’s Global Economy Suzanne Berger Doubleday, Fall 2005	Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism Jeanne Guillemin Columbia University Press, 2005
The Encyclopedia of United States National Security Richard Samuels (Ed.) Sage Publications, 2005	The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After 9/11 John Tirman New Press, 2004
Locating China: Space, place, and popular culture In the series of “China in Transition” Jing Wang [Edited by David S. G. Goodman] Routledge, 2005	Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia Elizabeth A Wood Cornell University Press, 2005

Books by Our Scholars

2024–2025

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

David Edelman
Oxford University Press, 2024

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Ben Ross Schneider
Oxford University Press, 2024

Death, Dominance, and State-Building: The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

Roger Petersen
Oxford University Press, 2024

2022–2023

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Sarah Bidgood
Stanford University Press, 2023

Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

Linde Desmaele
Routledge, 2023

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Ketian Zhang
Cambridge University Press, 2023

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

Michael MJ Fischer
Duke University Press, 2023

The Scarce State:
Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Noah L. Nathan
Cambridge University Press, 2023

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Yasheng Huang
Yale University Press, 2023

Grand Delusion:
The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East

Steven Simon
Penguin Random House, 2023

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Evan Lieberman
Princeton University Press, 2022

Republics of Myth:
National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict

Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, and John Tirman
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022

Seeking The Bomb:
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

Vipin Narang
Princeton University Press, 2022

2020–2021

The American Political Economy:
Politics, Markets, and Power

Kathleen Thelen, Jacob S Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Paul Pierson
Cambridge University Press, 2021

Beyond 9/11:
Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century

Chappell Lawson, Alan Bersin and Juliette N Kayyem
MIT Press, 2020

Banks on the Brink:
Global Capital, Securities Markets, and the Political Roots of Financial Crises

Mark Copelovitch and David A Singer
Cambridge University Press, 2020

2018–2019

Special Duty:
A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Richard J Samuels
Cornell University Press, 2019

Active Defense:
China's Military Strategy since 1949

M Taylor Fravel
Princeton University Press, 2019

International Relations in the Cyber Age:
The Co-Evolution Dilemma

Nazli Choucri and David D Clark
MIT Press, 2019

Japan's Pivot in Asia

Richard J Samuels and Corey Wallace
Oxford University Press, 2018

China Steps Out

Eric Heginbotham and Joshua Eisenman (Eds.)
Routledge, 2018

2016–2017

Hidden Atrocities

Jeanne Guillemin
Columbia University Press, 2017

China's Evolving Nuclear Deterrent:
Major Drivers and Issues for the United States

Eric Heginbotham, Michael Chase, Jacob Heim, Bonny Lin, Mark R Cozad, Lyle J Morris, Christopher P Twomey, Forrest E Morgan, Michael Nixon, Cristina L Garafola, Samuel K Berkowitz
RAND Corporation, 2017