|
|
|
 |
 |
||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|||||||
|
Foreign Rights: Forthcoming: Political ScienceDemocratic Institutions in Decline? by Tobrjorn Bergman and Kaare Strom The Fog of Peace by Janine Davidson The New Progressivism by Kelly Candaele Obama for President by Hanes Walton, Josephine Allen, Donald Deskins, and Sherman Puckett Democratic Institutions in Decline?Tobrjorn Bergman and Kaare Strom Rights: World Tobrjorn Bergman and Kaare Strom, two major scholars of comparative politics, have assembled a team of the leading scholars in their field to provide a comprehensive look at parliamentary politics in the Scandinavian countries. Given the general belief that countries like Sweden are among the most advanced democracies in the world, and the further sense that Finland and other states of the region offer us a look in the future of multiparty, multiethnic political societies, Bergman and Strom's book will become the benchmark for much future comparative work on the subject. Tobrjorn Bergman is Professor of Political Science at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and is currently a visiting professor at the University of North Caolina. Kaare Strom is Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. He is the author of Minority Government and Majority Rule (CUP, 1990); and coeditor with Laws Svåsand of Challenges to Political Parties, Policy, Office, or Votes? (UMP, 1997), and with Gabriel Almond, Bingham Powell, and Russell J. Dalton, of the textbook Comparative Politics Today: A World View (Addison-Wesley, 8th ed. 2004). August 2008 Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of IraqMichael Musheno and Susan M. Ross Rights: World Deployed draws upon the life stories of 46 citizen soldiers of the 893rd Army Reserve MP Company who are called to extraordinary service just after 9/11 and explores how they handle two long deployments, including nearly a year of working in an overcrowded, makeshift prison outside Baghdad, while coping with the combination of family relations, military duties and civilian careers. Drawing substantially on their own voices, Deployed tells how and why these soldiers joined the Army Reserve; how they dealt with the seismic changes in their lives during and after their deployments; the evolution of their relationships, inside and outside their military unit; and their perspectives on the U.S. Army. With their lives as no longer their own, we see them as the new conscripts of the 21st Century U.S. Army. Michael Musheno is Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University, and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California at Berkeley. Susan M. Ross is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lycoming College. Spring 2008 The Fog of PeaceJanine Davidson Rights: World The Fog of Peace looks at what the US military calls "stabilization and reconstruction operations" and the military's ability to learn and adapt. As we know, the military's responsibilities have steadily expanded under the Clinton and Bush administrations to include peacekeeping, reconstruction, stability- and institution-building. It is no longer uncommon for soldiers and officers who were trained for the traditional battlefield to be charged with running an election or rebuilding a city's sewage system. American officers have managed schools in Iraq, hospitals in Kosovo, and civilian airports in Afghanistan, generally without training or even the guidance of formal policy. Despite the fact that nearly every generation of U.S. military professionals has been called to conduct such missions, the military has remained focused on traditional warfare. The result of failing to acknowledge these missions sets as "core competence" has been ad hoc adaptation by officers in the field and the uneven application of U.S. power. The Fog of Peace aims to explain "how military organizations that are organized, trained, and equipped for conventional war, adapt—or fail to adapt—to the task of irregular operations at the tactical and operational levels." When is rebuilding a road a counterinsurgency tactic, and when is it a civilian reconstruction effort? How do officers and enlisted soldiers survive the blurring of military and so-called stabilization and reconstruction operations? How does a military force learn from experience, and change its tactics and strategies to cope with postwar realities? Janine Davidson is a former C-130 and C-17 pilot and Brookings Institute Fellow, who has just been hired to advise the Pentagon on humanitarian and stability operations issues. August 2008 The New ProgressivismKelly Candaele Rights: World Over the last seven years American progressives and liberals have become almost hopelessly bogged down in their opposition to George W. Bush. Indeed, there were times in recent memory when American liberalism seemed in serious danger of defining itself solely in terms of what it was not: not Bush, not neoconservative, not fundamentalist, not corporate. Inside the Democratic Party, strategists have been laboring to define their movement more positively, as a position for something: for social welfare, for a sane foreign policy, for personal liberty, privacy, equal opportunity, access to healthcare. Much of the rhetoric has been about big-tent politics: how do we accommodate these disparate ideas within a coherent philosophy, a realistic vision of America's future? Much of the excitement around Barack Obama's rapid rise to national prominence has been fueled by a sense that Obama may be one expression—indeed, in some of the more ecstatic version, practically the sole human embodiment— of a new liberal ideal. Through the individual stories of union organizers, workers, immigrants, progressive evangelicals, grassroots politicians, public pension officials and others striving in the trenches of political change, The New Progressivism is a composite portrait of the new face of American progressivism and fuels urgently-needed discussion about the future direction of liberal politics. Kelly Candaele is a writer, filmmaker, and elected official in Los Angeles, CA. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Nation, among other publications. Spring 2008 Obama for President: The 2008 ElectionHanes Walton, Josephine Allen, Donald Deskins, and Sherman Puckett Rights: World Obama for President will describe Obama's current campaign in the context of his political history, spanning 14 elections, and compare his candidacy to the experiences of previous black presidential contenders, including Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. The goal will be to provide a full political account of Obama's rise, and his effect on the 2008 race—the so-called "Obama effect". Hanes Walton, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He also holds positions as Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Political Studies and as a faculty member in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. Josephine Allen is Associate Professor in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. She is also Vice President of the Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development; a Trustee of the National Association of Social Workers's Insurance Trust; and a member of the Council on Social Work Education's International Commission. Donald Deskins is a political geographer and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Sherman Puckett is manager of the Wayne County Geographic Information System's Department of Technology. August 2009 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Copyright © University of Michigan. University of Michigan Press homepage. ESL/ELT Michigan homepage. |
|||
