BOOKS

Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor
Shawn Chandler Bingham and Sara E. Green

Exploring a paradox, Shawn Bingham and Sara Green show how humor has been used both to challenge traditional views of disability and to reinforce negative stereotypes and social    More >

EU Enlargement and the Transatlantic Alliance: A Security Relationship in Flux
Sven Biscop and Johan Lembke, editors

What is the interplay between EU enlargement and a fluctuating transatlantic security partnership? Will the accession of new EU members reinforce this partnership, or instead increase the    More >

Great Powers in the Changing International Order
Nick Bisley

What does it mean to be a great power? What role do great powers have in managing international order, and is that role still relevant in a globalizing world? Are new great powers likely to    More >

Inequity in the Global Village: Recycled Rhetoric and Disposable People
Jan Knippers Black

Jan Black shows us how the narrow distribution of benefits from globalization has created a yawning gap in wealth and power both among and within states—a gap that she attributes to a    More >

Hands Off Our Grants: Defending the Constitutional Right to Social Protection
Black Sash

In 2012, South Africa's social welfare system came under attack. Enormous sums of money were siphoned from South African Social Security Agency accounts—allegedly with the    More >

Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?
Judith R. Blau

Winner of the ASA Oliver Cromwell Cox Award Judith Blau's disturbing study presents strong evidence that our schools, assumed by many to be an equalizing force in U.S. society, are in    More >

Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the Grassroots
Jutta Blauert and Simon Zadek, editors

Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate    More >

Weavers of the Songs
edited and translated by Mishael Maswari Caspi and Julia Ann Blessing

A collection of songs sung by Arab women, compiled by Caspi during field research in the West Bank and Israel. The songs, in English translation, are divided into three sections: bridal    More >

Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined
James G. Blight and Peter Kornbluh, editors

The defeat of the attempted April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) was one of the worst foreign–policy disasters in U.S. history. Since then, explanations of the    More >

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