I'm still finishing up my grading (3 classes down, 1 to go; but that one class has final papers AND exams), but I wanted to post something today. I've been pretty lax this week...sorry.
So, here's what I'll be reading this summer:
"The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century," Michael Mandelbaum; urges the US to use its power not as an empire but as a governing force in international politics.
"Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy," Stephen Walt; a response of sorts to Mandelbaum. Argues that the unilateral use of power by the US compromises its long-term interests.
"America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy," Francis Fukuyama; a founding neocon addresses where the Bush Administration went adrift from the tenets of true neoconservatism.
"The Cold War: A New History," John Lewis Gaddis; one of our preeminent Cold War historians looks back at the Cold War with new tools: the opened archives of the Soviet Union.
"Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats," Daryl Press; rejects the idea that backing down during a crisis adversely affects credibility in future actions and argues that reputation does not matter much in military crises.
"Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle," Stephen Biddle; argues that force employment [the doctrine and tactics with which force is used] is more important than ever before for determining military victory.
"Cry, the Beloved Country," Alan Paton; one of the finest novels of all-time. I haven't read it since high school....
If you've read any of these, or have some other books to recommend, please let me know in the comments.
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Seth,
I won't presume to recommend anything here to you, so...the following is a ‘reading list’ I’m working from, of books directly or indirectly related to topics in your blog. Some of the books I’ve already read and/or am using as reference works. My other ‘to read’ list concerns books in or around the fields and subjects of ‘criminal law, punishment and prisons,’ ‘democratic theory and praxis,’ ‘Islamic Studies,’ ‘legal theory and philosophy of law,’ ‘Indian philosophy,’ and ‘classical Chinese worldviews.’ In addition, I may pick up a book or two dealing with the philosophical and psychological study of the emotions; analogical and metaphorical reasoning; rhetoric; informal logic and argumentation theory & analysis; the philosophy of economics and philosophy of (natural and social) science generally; and anything about the lives and works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. If I become too miserable to live with, I will try to take some time off and read something from Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Gary Snyder, classical Chinese poets, Kenneth Rexroth, or Pico Iyer.
Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Aginam, Obijiofor. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Agyeman, Julian, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, eds. Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Alston, Philip and Mary Robinson, eds. Human Rights and Development: Toward Mutual Reinforcement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Anand, Sudhir, Fabienne Peter and Amartya Sen, eds. Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Appelbaum, Richard P. and William I. Robinson, eds. Critical Globalization Studies. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Archibugi, Daniele, ed. Debating Cosmopolitics. London: Verso, 2003.
Aronowitz, Stanley and Heather Gautney, eds. Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Baker, Dean, Gerald Epstein and Robert Pollin, eds. Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Bales, Kevin, ed. Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Barry, Brian. Why Social Justice Matters. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2005.
Barry, Brian and Robert E. Goodin, ed. Free Movement: Ethical Issues in the Transnational Migration of People and of Money. University Park, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.
Barry, Christian and Thomas W. Pogge, eds. Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Social Justice. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Basu, Kaushik. Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
Basu, Kaushik, Henrik Horn, Lisa Román and Judith Shapiro, eds. International Labor Standards. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Beitz, Charles. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.
Bottomore, Tom, ed. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1991, 2nd ed.
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Brock, Gillian and Harry Brighouse, eds. The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Brock, Gillian and Darrel Moellendorf, eds. Current Debates in Global Justice. Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Buchanan, Allen. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Byers, Michael, ed. The Role of Law in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Chang, Ha-Joon. Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual. London: Zed Books, 2004.
Chang, Ha-Joon, ed. Rethinking Development Economics. London. Anthem Press, 2003.
Chatterjee, Deen K., ed. The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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De Greiff, Pablo and Ciaran Cronin, eds. Global Justice and Transnational Politics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
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de Sousa Santos, Boaventura and César A. Rodríguez-Garavito, eds. Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Dryzek, John S. Deliberative Global Politics. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2006.
Dunn, Bill. Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Eatwell, John, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds. Marxian Economics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990 (first publ. 1987 as one of four volumes in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics).
Elster, Jon. Making Sense of Marx. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Elster, Jon and Karl Ove Moene, eds. Alternatives to Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Falk, Richard. Predatory Globalization: A Critique. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Falk, Richard. Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley, CA: University of
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Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Felice, William F. The Global New Deal: Economic and Social Human Rights in World Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
Fidler, David P. International Law and Public Health: Materials on and Analysis of Global Health Jurisprudence. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2000.
Follesdal, Andreas and Thomas Pogge, eds. Real World Justice: Grounds, Principles, Rights, and Social Institutions. Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Forsythe, David P. Human Rights in International Relations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Fox, Gregory H. and Brad R. Roth, eds. Democratic Governance and International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Franck, Thomas M. Fairness in International Law and Institutions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Gaus, Gerald F. Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Gaus, Gerald F. Contemporary Theories of Liberalism. London: Sage, 2003.
Goodin, Robert E. Protecting the Vulnerable: A Reanalysis of Our Social Responsibilities. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Goodin, Robert E. Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Gould, Carol C. Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2004.
Grusky, David B. and Ravi Kanbur, eds. Poverty and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.
Harrod, Jeffrey and Robert O’Brien, eds. Global Unions? Theories and Strategies of
Organized Labour in the Global Economy. London: Routledge: 2002.
Hatchard, John and Amanda Perry-Kessaris, eds. Law and Development: Facing Complexity in the 21st Century. London: Cavendish, 2003.
Hausman, Daniel M. and Michael S. McPherson. Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Held, David. Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Held, David. Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2004.
Hepple, Bob. Labour Laws and Global Trade. Portland, OR: Hart, 2005.
Holzgrefe, J.L. and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Jokic, Aleksander, ed. Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003.
Jones, Charles. Global Justice: Defending Cosmopolitanism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kaldor, Mary. Global Civil Society: An Answer to War. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003.
Kaul, Inge, et al., eds. Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2003.
Kent, George. Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
Kerbo, Harold R. World Poverty: The Roots of Global Inequality and the Modern World System. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Kuper, Andrew. Democracy Beyond Borders: Justice and Representation in Global Institutions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Kuper, Andrew, ed. Global Responsibilities: Who Must Deliver on Human Rights? New York: Routledge, 2005.
Lee, Kelley, ed. Health Impacts of Globalization: Towards Global Governance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Lee, Kelley, Kent Buse and Suzanne Fustukian, eds. Health Policy in a Globalising World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Lorenz, Edward. Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy.Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2001.
Mäler, Karl-Göran, and Jeffrey R. Vincent, eds. Handbook of Environmental Economics, Vol. 1: Environmental Degradation and Institutional Responses. Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier, 2003.
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Mandle, Jon. Global Justice. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2006.
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erratum above: the Franck title was of course published in 1995.
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