Tag: Extraordinary Justice

March 20, 2020

#AAS2020 Happy Hour Reads: Asian Politics and History

Well, it’s 4:00 PM EDT and normally you’d be taking advantage of your break between sessions at the AAS 2020 conference to browse our booth, and who are we to take that experience away from you? Or, maybe you just...

March 20, 2020

Join Caelyn Cobb on a Tour of Our New Books in Asian History and Politics!

Hi—happy Friday! I’m Caelyn Cobb, editor for global politics and global history. I acquire in all things global and international, but I handle all the incredible scholarship about Asia in these fields as well. We have several new releases that...

March 10, 2020

Announcing our 2020 Asian Studies Catalog

Letter from the editors: Columbia University Press has a long history of bringing the Asian classics to an Anglophone audience. The books we present to you in this 2020 catalog continue that tradition, while also paying close attention to the...

December 12, 2019

Book Excerpt! Extraordinary Justice, by Craig Etcheson

“In this absorbing, persuasively argued book, Craig Etcheson draws on over thirty years of involvement with Cambodia and on his prolonged association with the so-called Khmer Rouge Tribunal, giving his readers a clear idea of what happened at the Tribunal...

December 11, 2019

How to Catch a War Criminal

“Extraordinary Justice is hands down the final verdict on the UN’s controversial ‘mixed tribunal.’ . . . Simply put, nobody knows more about the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials than Etcheson. This is a remarkable, three-dimensional study of the legally simple...

October 29, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Mag Men, Extraordinary Justice, The Brain in Context and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mag Men Fifty Years of Making Magazines Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser; foreword by Gloria Steinem For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of...