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Books published in 2006-2007 by CIS-affiliated faculty:

Alice Amsden

  • Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell (MIT Press, 2007).

David A. Singer

  • REGULATING CAPITAL: Setting Standards for the International Financial System. (Cornell University Press, 2007).

Bruce Mazlish

  • The New Global History (Routledge, 2006).

Karen Polenske

  • The Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain In China: A Case Study of Cokemaking. In the "Alliance of Global Sustainability Bookseries" (Springer, 2006). [Edited]

Richard Samuels

John Tirman

  • Terror Insurgency and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (Penn Press, 2007).
  • Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change (UNU Press, 2006).

Cindy Williams

  • Service to Country: Personnel Policy and the Transformation of Western Militaries (MIT Press, 2007).

Books published between 2004 and 2005 by CIS-affiliated faculty:

Suzanne Berger

  • How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in the Global Economy (Doubleday, Fall 2005).

Luise Druke

Jeanne Guillemin

  • Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism (Columbia University Press, 2005).

Balakrishnan Rajagopal

  • “Reparations: A Dialogue between Human Rights Academics and Activists.” Edited volume published under the auspices of the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice (2004).

Richard Samuels

  • The Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security (General Editor) (Sage Publications, 2005).

John Tirman

  • The Maze of Fear: Security & Migration After September 11th: (New York: New Press, 2004). [Edited]

Jing Wang

  • Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture. In the series of “China in Transition” [Edited by David S. G. Goodman] (London and New York: Routledge, 2005). [Edited]

Elizabeth Wood

  • Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Books published between 2003 and 2004 by CIS-affiliated faculty:

Alice H. Amsden

  • Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies (MIT Press 2003).

Robert Art

  • A Grand Strategy for America, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Robert Art and P. Cronin (eds.)

  • The United States and Coercive Diplomacy, (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2003).

Robert Art and K. Waltz (eds.)

  • The Use of Force, (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

Suzanne Berger

  • Notre Première Mondialisation: Leçons d'un échec oublié, (Paris: Seuil, 2003).

JoAnn Carmin and Stacy D. Van Deveer

  • EU Enlargement and the Environment: Institutional Change and Environmental Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge 2004).

Diane E. Davis

  • Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Diane Davis and A. Pereira (eds.)

  • Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation, (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Kenneth Keniston (ed.)

  • IT Experience in India: Bridging the Digital Divide (Delhi: Sage, 2004). [Edited with Deepak Kumar]

Philip S. Khoury (ed.)

  • The Modern Middle East.  New and Revised Edition (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).  [Edited with Albert Hourani and Mary C. Wilson]

Chappell Lawson

  • Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (Stanford and La Jolla, CA: Stanford University Press and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego 2003). [Edited with Jorge I. Domínguez]

Bruce Mazlish

  • Civilization and Its Contents (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Balakrishnan Rajagopal

  • International Law from Below Development: Social Movements and Third World Resistance, (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Jonathan Rodden

  • Fiscal Decentralization and Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (MIT Press, 2003).

Richard Samuels

  • Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, (Cornell University Press, 2003).

Books published between 2000 and 2002 by CIS-affiliated faculty:

William Keller and Richard Samuels (eds.)

  • Crisis and Innovation in Asian Technology, (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Chappell Lawson

  • Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).

Roger Peterson

  • Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Bernd Widdig

  • Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
 
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