BOOKS

Shaping German Foreign Policy: History, Memory, and National Interest
Anika Leithner

Reconciling the imperatives of Germany’s national identity and its national interest has been a challenge for the country’s policymakers since the end of the Cold War. Anika    More >

Electing Jesse Ventura: A Third-Party Success Story
Jacob Lentz

While many commentators and political scientists dismissed Jesse Ventura's rise to the governorship as a fluke of celebrity, Jacob Lentz shows that it was Minnesota's unique    More >

Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
David K. Leonard and Scott Straus

This thoughtful discussion probes the international roots of Africa's civil conflicts and lackluster economies. Analyzing an unwitting system that creates a set of incentives inimical to    More >

Sexual Harassment Online: Shaming and Silencing Women in the Digital Age
Tania G. Levey

Women who use social media are often subjected to blatant sexual harassment, facing everything from name calling to threats of violence. Aside from being disturbing, what does this abuse    More >

Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry’s Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945
Dov Levin, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Dina Cohen

Fighting Back chronicles the activities of the Lithuanian Jews who fought against the Nazis—in the Soviet army, in the forests, in the ghettos of Vilna, Kovno, Shavli, and Svencian,    More >

Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America
Daniel H. Levine

Long assumed to be an unchanging and unquestioned bulwark of established power and privilege, religion in Latin America has diversified and flourished, while taking on new social and    More >

Children of a Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cape Winelands
Susan Levine

Sharing more than a hundred interconnected stories, Susan Levine memorably documents moments in the everyday lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa's wine industry    More >

The Quality of Democracy in Latin America
Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina, editors

In considering the nature and future prospects of the current wave of democracies in Latin America, analysis has shifted from a concern with regime change, transitions, and consolidation    More >

Conversion to Islam
Nehemia Levtzion, editor

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Coping with Crisis in African States
Peter M. Lewis and John W. Harbeson, editors

Although large-scale conflicts, political upheavals, and social violence are common problems throughout Africa, individual countries vary greatly in both their susceptibility to these crises    More >

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