Category: International Relations

September 12, 2020

Book Giveaway! Stories from the Field

“The breadth of life experience captured in this collection is the reason this volume has great pedagogical potential. A lot of graduate students will flip to find their academic heroes and crushes and then keep reading. Authors are writing with...

August 25, 2020

Announcing our 2020-2021 Politics and International Affairs Catalog

Letter from the editors: The year 2020 has been one of unprecedented political challenges, and we are pleased to offer here some new books that may help make sense of them. Our political theory list features some timely books that...

July 3, 2020

Book Excerpt! Conspiring with the Enemy, by Yvonne Chiu (preface)

“Chiu shows that the ethic of cooperation in warfare is a major normative feature of war-fighting, today as well as in the distant past. Other writers on just war theory sometimes drop hints of this, but the great accomplishment of...

July 1, 2020

Why Enemies Cooperate in Times of War

By Yvonne Chiu

“War is the fiercest form of human competition, yet it often involves cooperation among adversaries, even as they try to slaughter one other. Drawing on an impressive survey of military history—ancient and modern, Eastern and Western—Yvonne Chiu distinguishes among numerous...

June 20, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our SHAFR 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Society for the History for American Foreign Relations annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits...

March 28, 2020

ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books About Global Politics

Today is the last day of our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit, but we’re not done yet. We are ending with a book sampled from each of our series in international relations. Explore jihadism in Tunisia, nuclear policy in North Korea,...

March 28, 2020

New Books in International Affairs from Agenda Publishing, Verlag Barbara Budrich, and Ibidem Press

No trip to the Columbia University Press booth would be complete without a look at what’s new from our distribution partners around the world! This year, we’re very excited to launch a robust list of titles on a wide swath...

March 28, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our Featured Book Series at ISA 2020!

Mahalo for continuing to follow our virtual International Studies Association exhibit! Today I’d like to talk to you about our global politics series. We have a lot of series in this field, because you political scientists love your series. Don’t...

March 27, 2020

ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: Books for Courses

Start your weekend off strong with this selection of excerpts from our ISA 2020 virtual exhibit! As Caelyn Cobb mentioned earlier today, these books would make great additions to a class, so settle in for some course reading inspiration. • ...

March 27, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on an Exploration of Our ISA 2020 Books for Courses

Aloha from Not-Hawaii, friends! Today in our virtual International Studies Association (ISA) booth, I want to share some of our international politics books that would be great choices for courses. Obviously, I think all of our global politics books have...

March 26, 2020

ISA 2020 Happy Hour Reads: New Books on Current Events

Welcome to day 2 of our ISA 2020 virtual booth! Caelyn Cobb started the afternoon off with a tour of our books on current events and now we’re delving deeper with these book excerpts. So once again, grab a drink...

March 26, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our New Books in Current Events

If I was at our International Studies Association (ISA) booth right now, I’d probably be fielding a dozen questions like, “What do you have about [insert current event here]?’ The great thing about this field is that you folks are...