Monthly Archive: December, 2011

December 30, 2011

Happy New Year and What's Coming in 2012

We wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and thank readers of our blog and Columbia University Press titles for their interest in our books and our authors. In a seemingly ever-shifting publishing environment, we are grateful for the...

December 29, 2011

Michael Dummett, 1925-2011

We were sad to hear of the recent death of notable philosopher Michael Dummett, author of The Nature and Future of Philosophy (2010) and other titles. Both the Guardian and the Telegraph published excellent obituaries on Michael Dummett highlighting his...

December 23, 2011

American Force: Richard Betts on Possible Future Threats to the United States

In the conclusion to his book American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, Richard Betts explores some of the possible dangers that might confront the United States in the coming years. In particular he considers issues and possible...

December 22, 2011

American Force, by Richard Betts, Reviewed in Foreign Affairs

American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National , by Richard Betts recently received a serious and glowing review in Foreign Affairs: Betts describes himself as a Cold War hawk who became a post–Cold War dove. In this collection of...

December 21, 2011

Richard Betts on Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer

Earlier this year, Richard Betts, author of American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, wrote a much-discussed article in Foreign Affairs exploring the controversial visions of world politics put forth by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer....

December 21, 2011

Interview with Partha Chatterjee

“The non-scholarly and unstoppably influential book of all time for me is The Communist Manifesto. Even today, reading it gives me a thrill.”—Partha Chatterjee We have been fortunate enough to publish in the United States books from the great Indian...

December 20, 2011

North Korea: Analysis from Columbia University Press Authors

A variety of Columbia University Press authors have been asked to comment on recent events in North Korea, including Victor Cha coauthor of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies, who appeared on PBS Newshour to discuss the death...

December 20, 2011

Richard Betts on How Defense Cuts Might Affect American Force

“I think we overestimate our soft power. Americans understandably like to think of themselves as a model for the world, as a society that other societies want to be like. To some extent, this is true, but we tend to...

December 20, 2011

New Book Tuesday: American Theatre and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available: American Theatre: History, Context, Form Theresa Saxon The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature John D. Lyons Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature, and the South African...

December 19, 2011

Christopher Hitchens on Unanswerable Prayers

Last week brought the very sad news of Christopher Hitchens’s passing after a struggle with cancer. We were fortunate enough to have been able to include some of his writing in The Best American Magazine Writing series. In 2007, his...

December 19, 2011

Richard Betts on American Force

This week will be featuring American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, by Richard Betts. In the book, Betts takes a skeptical look at the use of American force in the postwar era and analyzes, sometimes critically, the...

December 16, 2011

The Unfinished Greatest Grid

In conjunction with The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, edited by Hilary Ballon, The Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with their exhibit on the grid is also presenting The Unfinished Grid: Design Speculations...