Category: Politics

June 17, 2021

Which Way for the Biden/Blinken World Liberal Order?

By Leon Fink

In the spring 2017, Antony Blinken, then a resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, taught a seminar on America’s role in the world. Against a background of growing doubt among many Americans about the advantages of...

June 17, 2021

Browse Our SHAFR 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Stephen Wesley

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 Historians of American Foreign Relations annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on...

April 5, 2021

Not Doing Global Fieldwork (At Least Not Right Now)

By Jesse Driscoll

Many graduate students imagine their comparative advantage will be original data collection. Fieldwork, in this idealized conception, provides an opportunity to (try to) break free of the rigid, sometimes cruel, hierarchical status structures imposed by the ivory tower in a...

April 5, 2021

Q&A: Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young on Tortured Logic

Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans think that torture can be acceptable for counterterrorism purposes. In this Q&A, Erin M. Kearns and...

April 5, 2021

Browse Our ISA 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Caelyn Cobb

Hello, and welcome to the second annual (and hopefully the last) Columbia University Press International Studies Association Virtual Exhibit Booth! I’m Caelyn Cobb, the editor for global and international politics, coming to you live from my apartment in Queens, New...

December 8, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Vineland Reread, Research Exposed, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Rereadings series Vineland Reread Peter Coviello Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing...

December 7, 2020

Three Questions That Make One

By Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh

“Drawing on philosophy, politics, poetry, psychoanalysis, and history, and extending from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe and North America, this powerful book poses the Arab and Jewish questions as inextricable, intimate, and hybrid forces that shape our desires...

November 13, 2020

Resisters in the 2020 Election and Beyond

By Dana R. Fisher

“American Resistance is an important book, not only as a portrait of our moment but also as a challenge to traditional understandings of protest politics. Dana R. Fisher shows how wrong it is—especially in the Trump era—to draw sharp lines between...

October 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference...

October 8, 2020

Join Wendy Lochner for a Tour of our SPEP Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, philosophers of all stripes and types. I’m Wendy Lochner, the philosophy editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the fall/winter conferences—the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association Eastern...

September 13, 2020

The Rebirth of Praxis

By Bernard E. Harcourt

“With his typical combination of erudition, eloquent argument, and theoretical clarity, Bernard Harcourt now gives us a complete account of his reading of contemporary critical philosophy, articulating it with immediate issues in the field of human rights and democratic politics....

September 13, 2020

Q&A Sam Jackson on Oath Keepers

“A groundbreaking study of how antigovernment extremism is reaching new audiences with fear-based stories that call supporters to vigilante action. Oath Keepers is a must-read for anyone concerned with this growing threat to the foundations of democratic governance.” ~Kathleen Blee, author of...