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In this fascinating collection, Piki Ish-Shalom and the contributors interrogate the 'conceptions of concepts' in international relations. Using theoretical frameworks from Gramsci and Bourdieu, the authors show that not interrogating the meaning of the language we use to talk about international relations obscures the way we understand IR.

Ersin Kalaycioglu and Ali Carkoglu, who conducted surveys comparable to the American National Election Survey for the 2002 and 2007 national elections in Turkey, chart the dynamics that brought the pro-Islamist conservative Justice and Development Party to power in 2002, and that continue to influence electoral politics.

Explores the variety of cultural and commercial conversations between Europe and Ottoman Eurasia as they negotiated their competing economic and hegemonic interests. Brought about by travel, trade, diplomacy, and wars, these conversations were, by definition, 'cross-cultural' and diverse.

During his presidency, Thomas Jefferson both sponsored and wrote for his own newspaper, the National Intelligencer and Washington Adviser. Author Mel Laracey focuses on the newspaper's message during Jefferson's first term, showing how the third president used media to promote his administration and its goals.

A new, interdisciplinary way of looking at Chinese foreign policy

Examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice.

Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more heavily dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less dependent on intermediate goods for domestic production.

Explores perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period (1920s to 1940s). The book focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it.

Drawing on perspectives from anthropology and social theory, this book explores the quotidian routines of debt collection in nineteenth-century capitalism. Ultimately, the book advances an empirically grounded and theoretically informed history of quotidian legal practices in the everyday economy.

Offers an examination of sex offender legislation in the United States. Cary Federman focuses on the deliberative intentions of legislators, exploring the limits of judicial review and the rights of interested parties to influence lawmaking.

Why does the United States need European allies, and why is it getting more difficult for those allies to partner with Washington? This book addresses the economic, demographic, political, and military trends that are fundamentally upending the ability and willingness of European allies to work with Washington.

Responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance.

Illuminates the nature of the deteriorating security relationship between Europe and Russia, and the key implications for its future. Contributors also draw out long-term lessons from this era of diplomatic degeneration to show how increasing cooperation between two regions can devolve into rapidly escalating conflict.

Investigates the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. The book tracks the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity by following groups of professionals - funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers - and asking how they coped with stigmatization.

Drawing on German and French sources, Wolfgang Seibel traces the twisted process of political decision-making that shaped the fate of the Jews in German-occupied France during World War II. By analysing the German-French negotiations, he reveals the underlying logic as well as the actual course of the bargaining process as both the Vichy Regime and the Germans sought a stable relationship.

San Jose Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Alban was founded. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings.

Examines proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change.

Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the aim of singers who are part of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better.

Charting the divergent paths of paranoid and reparative affects through illness narratives, academic work, queer life, noise pollution, sonic torture, and other touchy subjects, William Cheng exposes a host of stubborn norms in our daily orientations toward scholarship, self, and sound. Cheng contends that reparative attitudes toward music and musicology can serve as barometers of better worlds.

Presents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyses the form and style of his wordplay.

Zapotec is one of the major hieroglyphic writing systems of ancient Mesoamerica. This volume explains the origins and spread of Zapotec writing, the role of Zapotec writing in the changing political agendas of the region, and the decline of hieroglyphic writing in the Valley of Oaxaca.

Traditional accounts of the 1787 Constitutional Convention gloss over the complicated coalition politics that produced important compromises. Founding Factions helps us understand the nature of shifting majorities and how they created the American government.

Offers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities.