Category: Politics

October 16, 2013

Laura Sjoberg — What’s Wrong with FETs? Thoughts from Gendering Global Conflict

The following is a post by Laura Sjoberg, author of Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. “The deployment of Female Engagement Teams seems ridiculous to me as a feminist scholar—women are not to be essentialized or instrumentalized;...

October 11, 2013

"Potency and Ontology: Heidegger and Spinoza," by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. For the final day of our week-long feature, we’ve excerpted Negri’s chapter comparing...

October 10, 2013

Antonio Negri in conversation with Gabriele Fadini

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. We’ve excerpted brief parts of a longer conversation between Antonio Negri and Gabriele...

October 9, 2013

Rocco Gangle on Spinoza and Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. Today, we have Rocco Gangle’s foreword to Negri’s text. In his essay, Gangle...

October 9, 2013

New Series in American-East Asian Relations

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the creation of the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Books on American–East Asian Relations series. The series is named after noted diplomatic historians and Columbia University Press authors Nancy Bernkopf Tucker...

October 8, 2013

"Spinoza and Us," by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity, by Antonio Negri, translated by William McCuaig and with a foreword by Rocco Gangle. Today, we have an excerpt from the introduction of Spinoza for Our Time,...

June 12, 2013

Gusher by Steve Coll — The Best Business Writing 2013

Steve Coll’s “Gusher,” published in The Best Business Writing 2013 offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tremendous influence ExxonMobil has in Washington and in shaping environmental and climate policy. In this excerpt, Steve Coll documents some of the early battles...

May 29, 2013

Interview with Stephanie Hepburn, author of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

The following is an interview with Stephanie Hepburn, coauthor (with Rita Simon) of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight (For more on the book, you can also watch a video of Stephanie Hepburn discussing the book.): Question:...

May 20, 2013

Kenneth Waltz, 1924-2013

We were sad to learn of the death of Kenneth Waltz, who passed away last week at the age of 88. Waltz was a longtime professor at Columbia University, among other places, and was the author of Man, the State,...

March 29, 2013

Introductions in the Insurrections Series

Read excerpts from titles in our critically acclaimed Insurrections series!

March 28, 2013

Part 2 of an Interview with Lawrence J. Friedman, author of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet

Read a Q&A with Lawrence J. Friedman, author of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet.

March 27, 2013

Part 1 of an Interview with Lawrence J. Friedman, author of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet

Read a Q&A with Lawrence J. Friedman, author of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet.