Faculty Books
René Magritte and the Art of Thinking
Lisa Lipinski, assistant professor of art history, explores the Surrealist artist René Magritte’s paintings as a form of thinking, probing the limits of our perception through ordinary objects rendered with illusionism. She argues that Magritte’s painting is about vision and the act of viewing, of perception itself and the process of how we see and experience things in the world, including paintings as things.
Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
James H. Lebovic, professor of political science and international affairs, compares and contrasts U.S. decision-making in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, identifying a pattern of failure and highlighting lessons we can learn from them. Combining historical writings and diverse social-scientific theories, he identifies four stages of intervention: First, policymakers chose unwisely to go to war. Then, they inadvisably sought to extend or expand the mission. Next, they pursued the mission, in abbreviated form, to suboptimal effect. Finally, they adapted the mission to exit from the conflict.
Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Henry Farrell, professor of political science and international affairs, co-authored this investigation of how the United States and the European Union have navigated their differing approaches to freedom and security in the face of issues like global terrorism and growing data networks. The first serious study of how the politics of surveillance has been transformed, it offers a fresh view of the role of information and power in a world of economic interdependence.
Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
Communication: A Post-Discipline
Silvio Waisbord, professor of media and public affairs, argues that communication studies is a post-discipline and that it is impossible to transcend fragmentation and specialization through a single project of intellectual unity in this important text for scholars, advanced students of communication studies and anyone interested in the state of the field.
Developments in Russian Politics 9
Henry E. Hale, professor of political science and international affairs, co-edited and contributed to this collection of essays from international experts discussing contemporary politics in the world’s largest nation. Reflecting the changing nature of Russian politics in a globalizing world and rising tensions with the West, this volume addresses the military, parliamentary politics, the economy, social inequality and media and political communication in the digital age.
Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work
Tara S. Behrend, associate professor of industrial-organizational psychology, co-edited this volume of contributions from leading scholars that argues that the large-scale multifaceted efforts required to ensure a reliable and strong supply of talent and skill in the U.S. workforce should be addressed systematically, simultaneously and systemically across disciplines of thought and levels of analysis.
Landfall
Thomas Mallon, English Professor Emeritus, completes a trilogy of novels on contemporary American politics with a fictionalized story set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years—amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina. The cast of characters includes the president’s crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; his eager-to-please secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice; the manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; and foreign leaders from Tony Blair to Vladimir Putin.
On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews
Vengeful Citizens, Violent States: A Theory of War and Revenge
Rachel M. Stein, assistant professor of political science, brings the study of revenge into the field of international relations, linking individual vengefulness to state behavior in examples from crusading in the Middle Ages and genocide in the 20th century to ancient blood feuds and modern urban riots. She argues that by employing strategically crafted rhetoric, leaders with highly vengeful populations can activate their citizens' desire for revenge and channel it into support for war.
Vengeful Citizens, Violent States: A Theory of War and Revenge
Rachel M. Stein, assistant professor of political science, brings the study of revenge into the field of international relations, linking individual vengefulness to state behavior in examples from crusading in the Middle Ages and genocide in the 20th century to ancient blood feuds and modern urban riots. She argues that by employing strategically crafted rhetoric, leaders with highly vengeful populations can activate their citizens' desire for revenge and channel it into support for war.
Race (The New Critical Idiom)
Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism
Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
John Sides, professor of political science, co-authored this in-depth account of the 2016 presidential election that explains Donald Trump’s victory. Taking readers from the bruising primaries to an election night whose outcome defied the predictions of the pollsters and pundits, he shows how fundamental characteristics of the nation and its politics―the state of the economy, the Obama presidency and the demographics of the political parties―combined with the candidates’ personalities and rhetoric to produce one of the most unexpected presidencies in history.
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