Listed here are recent publications, articles and books by CES affiliates.
By Author
Arthur Goldhammer
Stephen Kalberg
Kris Manjapra
John Czaplicka
Daniel Goldhagen
Jytte Klausen
Jonhathan Laurence
Bempéchat Paul-André
Vlad Perju
Richard Rosecrance
Charles G. Cogan
Sebastian Royo
Helen Epstein
Jolyon Howorth
George Kaloudis
Erwan Lagadec
Hilary Silver
Jonathan Zatlin
David Art
Jocelyne Cesari
Karl Kaiser
Thomas Kühne
Vivien Schmidt
Kathrin Zippel
Claus Hofhansel
By Publication Date
Arthur Goldhammer
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels
University of Virginia Press, 2010
Edited by Olivier Zunz Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocrat of twenty-five, worried deeply about the future of France as well as his own fate in his native country, which had just experienced its second revolution in less than fifty years. Along with Gustave de Beaumont, a fellow magistrate, Tocqueville conceived the idea that by traveling to America he could penetrate the secret of the modern world, in which democracy and equality were destined to rule.
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Stephen Kalberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Oxford University Press, 2010
Max Weber Translated with Commentary by Stephen Kalberg
For more than 100 years, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. Now more timely and thought provoking than ever, this esteemed classic of twentieth-century social science examines the deep cultural "frame of mind" that existed at the birth of modern capitalism and to this day influences attitudes toward work in northern America and Western Europe.
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Kris Manjapra
Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism
Routledge India, 2010
This is a work of South Asian intellectual history written from a transnational perspective and based on the life and work of M.N. Roy, one of India’s most formidable Marxist intellectuals. Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Part, member of the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the rise of Indian communism, M.N. Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon of the interwar years. Exploring the intellectual production of this important thinker, this book traces the historical context of his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany, through the tumultuous period of world politics in the 1930s and 1940s, and on to post-Independence India.
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John Czaplicka
Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009
Edited by John J. Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis and Blair A. Ruble
Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re—imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic—national, European, Western, and global contexts.
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Daniel Goldhagen
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
PublicAffairs, 2009
“Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s latest book, Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, is essential reading whether one is a human rights activist, a policy wonk, or a member of the general public who has never given serious thought to what is, and has been, the most urgent issue to threaten our planet and the moral development of mankind. In addition to being a surprisingly good read for such a disturbing subject, the book is a wake-up call for government leaders and a gut check for ordinary citizens…Worse Than War is a monumental work of originality that offers interesting insights and prescriptions on nearly every page. And when the book is finally closed what must be done feels like a matter of great human and moral urgency–no longer unmentionable and hopelessly abstract. It is rare, indeed, when a book transcends the limitations of the written word and aspires to do no less than actually save the world–which, in this maddening, horrifying case, is precisely what genocide demands.” – Thane Rosenbaum, Huffington Post
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Jytte Klausen
British Counter-Terrorism After 7/7: Adapting Community Policing to the Fight Against Domestic Terrorism
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2009
After the Madrid and London train-bombings, perceptions of the sources of Islamic terrorism changed. The British response to domestic jihadism was to apply community-policing principles to counter-terrorism enforcement. This essay describes the origins and intentions of the community-based policing of terrorism and partnership programmes with Muslim faith organisations. Collaboration with Muslim partners has helped to build confidence within government agencies that Muslim leaders are keen to curb terrorism, but has failed to build trust among the general Muslim public. The application of community-policing principles is, it is argued, an effort to bridge steep trade-offs between effective prevention and the social and political integration of Britain's Muslims.
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Jonhathan Laurence
Nicolas Sarkozy’s Faith in the Republic
Brookings Press, 2009
CREDITS
This chapter appeared in Europe 2030, a volume edited by Daniel Benjamin: In April 2009 a futuristic novel by the Russian writer Elena Tchudinov was published in France titled The Notre Dame Mosque of Paris: Year 2048; it depicted Paris’s grandest cathedral transformed into a mosque. That same spring, in an article titled “In the Casbah of Rotterdam,” the Italian newspaper Il Foglio crowned Rotterdam the future capital of Eurabia. Since the advent of the 21st century, any number of scholars, journalists, and Internet populists have argued that, for Europe, demography is destiny—that the combination of runaway Muslim birthrates, suicidal native European fertility rates, and white flight will lead to a set of Western Islamic republics by mid-century…
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Paul-André Bempéchat
Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters
Ashgate , 2009
Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure. Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the French navy, scientist, inventor and moral philosopher, was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same stature and celebrity as Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. Since his death, however, both Cras and his music have been almost completely overlooked. In this, the first critical biography of Cras, Paul-Andre Bempechat, an Affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, situates Henri Duparc's protegé as a missing link between the French post-Romantic generation of composers and the Impressionists. The book explores, both historically and analytically, the methodology by which Cras evolved his eclectic brand of Impressionism, striking the delicate balance between Celtic folk idioms and exoticisms inspired by his travels
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Vlad Perju
Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice
Boston College Law School Faculty Papers, 2009
This Article makes the case for a discursive turn in European law. Contrary to the prevailing view, politicizing the judicial discourse of the European Court of Justice would strengthen, more than undermine, the Court's authority. This argument is made with reference to the ECJ's reason giving practice, specifically to the relation between the form and content of its decisions. Allowing its members to write separate opinions will enable the Court to redefine its role on the European institutional and political stages The Article then answers doctrinal, institutional and juriscultural objections to its central thesis.
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Richard Rosecrance
Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship
PublicAffairs, 2009
EDITED BY RICHARD ROSECRANCE AND GU GUOLIANG
Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China– U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the ascension of a great power has resulted in armed conflict. This group of scholars—experts in politics, economics, international security, and environmental studies—set out to establish consensus on potentially contentious issues and elaborate areas where the two nations can work together to achieve common goals. Featuring essays on global warming, trade relations, Taiwan, democratization, WMDs and bilateral humanitarian intervention, Power and Restraint finds that China and the United States can exist side by side and establish mutual understanding to better cope with the common challenges they face.
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Charles G. Cogan
La République de Dieu
2008
Editor Jacob Duvernet
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Sebastian Royo
Varieties of Capitalism in Spain: Remaking the Spanish Economy for the New Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Is globalization forcing non-coordinated market economies, such as Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal, to converge on an Anglo-American model? What explains national differences in social and economic policies? This book builds on recent literature on 'varieties of capitalism' to show the impact that institutions have on national economic policy.
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Jolyon Howorth
Security and Defence Policy in the European Union
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
This major new text by a leading authority on European security provides a full assessment of the historical, political and systemic reasons behind the rise of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The author argues that the key issues involved - the challenges of defining a more balanced partnership between the two sides of the Atlantic and of transforming the EU from a civilian power into a new type of crisis management actor - are the most significant since the creation of NATO and the EU at the end of World War 2.
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George Kaloudis
A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire,1800-1920
2007
Erwan Lagadec
Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses
Brookings Institution Press, 2007
CREDITS
Since the 1990s, North America and Europe have confronted a series of unconventional, catastrophic, or “hypercomplex” crises. On the one hand, the U.S. and Canada have faced 9/11, the anthrax crisis, the SARS outbreak, and Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, Europe has been hit by the “Mad Cow” disease, the 2003 heatwave, and 2007 forest fires in Greece. In addition, both sides were involved in the response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Hilary Silver
Social Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth
Middle East Youth Initiative, 2007
Most typically, analyses of youth have employed either the neo-classical economic framework of human capital or the socio-demographic framework of lifecourse research in the Middle East. While both have produced important findings and insights, their focus on supply-side processes of individuals is limited. The role of institutions on the supply side is especially important in understanding youth disadvantage in the Middle East.
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Jonathan Zatlin
The Currency of Socialism
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2007
There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly an instrument of economic exploitation and spiritual alienation. In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Zatlin explores the East German attempt to create a perfect society by eliminating money and explains the reasons for its failure. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including unpublished communist reports, secret police files, literature, jokes, letters written by ordinary people, and conversations with key German politicians, this book shows how the communist regime undermined the political authority of socialism and created the material conditions for its demise. By exploring both the economic and the cultural function of money, Zatlin challenges traditional approaches to economic planning by offering a novel explanation for the collapse of communism in East Germany and a highly original interpretation of German unification. Written in an engaging and lucid style, The Currency of Socialism brings to life the scurrilous competition for power among communist officials and the everyday burdens experienced by ordinary East Germans.
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David Art
The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS , 2006
This book argues that Germans and Austrians have dealt with the Nazi past very differently--with important consequences for political culture and partisan politics. David Art analyzes how public debates about the "lessons of history" created a culture of contrition in Germany that prevented a resurgent far right from consolidating itself in German politics after unification. By contrast, public debates in Austria nourished a culture of victimization that provided a hospitable environment for the rise of right-wing populism. The volume is for those interested in the memory of Nazism and the Holocaust, the rise of European far right parties and contemporary German and Austrian politics.
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Jocelyne Cesari
When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
CREDITS
Exploring the woefully neglected reality of Islam as a major cultural and religious facet of American and European politics and societies, Cesari examines how Muslims in the West are challenging the notion of an inevitable clash or confrontation. Comparing the interaction of Muslims with their new countries, this book addresses the implications of increased Islamic visibility, violent clashes, beneficial cooperation, and questions within the Muslim community about their role and the role of Islam in democratic states. Pursuing a holistic approach to Muslims as a new minority within western democracy, Cesari provides important insights.
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Karl Kaiser
Jahrbuch Internationale Politik 2003/2004
Oldenbourg Wissensch, 2006
Luis Alberto Urrea (Author)
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Thomas Kühne
Kameradschaft
2006
Vivien Schmidt
Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities
Oxford University Press, 2006
Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies. It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level of the European Union per se as at the national level. This is because national leaders and publics have yet to come to terms with the institutional impact of the EU on the traditional workings of their national democracies.
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Kathrin Zippel
The Politics of Sexual Harassment
Oxford University Press, 2006
Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross-national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace? Why was the United States on the forefront of policy and legal solutions, and how did this affect politicization of sexual harassment in the European Union and its member states? Exploring the way sexual harassment has become a global issue, Kathrin Zippel draws on theories of comparative feminist policy, gender and welfare state regimes, and social movements to explore the distinct paths that the United States, the European Union and its member states, specifically Germany, have embarked on to address the issue. This comparison provides invaluable insights on the role of transnational movements in combatting sexual harassment, and on future efforts to implement the European Union Directive of 2002.
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Claus Hofhansel
Multilateralism, German Foreign Policy and Central Europe
Routledge, 2005
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Pippa Norris
Britain Votes 2005
Oxford University Press, 2005, $35.00, ISBN: 0198569408
Edited by Pippa Norris (Harvard University) and Christopher Wlezien (Oxford University)
Britain Votes 2005 provides a balanced, comprehensive and topical overview of the campaign leading up to the 2005 British General Election and an analysis of the results presented in a straightforward, clear and lively style for students, colleagues and practitioners. This is the fourth volume in the Oxford series which started in the election of 1992. Part I provides insights into the strategies and tactics adopted by the major parties; news coverage on the television, in newspapers, and on the internet; and the dynamics of the opinion polls leading up to polling day. Part II analyses the outcome including the results in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; race and gender issues; economic voting; the working of the electoral system, and the outcome for the new Parliament. Produced by a well-known team of experts on British elections and voting behaviour, the book is written in a vivid and accessible style. The book will be essential reading for all students, scholars, and practitioners of British elections and voting behaviour, party politics, public opinion, political behaviour and political sociology.
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