Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

“Mercury Stories presents a conceptually novel, operationally useful systems framework for analyzing complex interactions among technology, society, and nature, showing how attention to knowledge and institutions can help manage such interactions in pursuit of sustainability.” — William C. Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development;  Director, Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

“In this impressive, well-documented anthology, Maurer and Goldstein provide insights into the interconnected problems and issues confronting the powers of Asia, Europe, and the United States during the interwar years, and the military and foreign policy dilemmas faced by their leaders. Indispensable to understanding the pathway to Pearl Harbor!” — J. Michael Wenger, co-author, Pearl Harbor Tactical Studies series

"Susan Eckstein has given the first comprehensive account of U.S. immigration policy’s treatment of Cubans, who for more than half a century enjoyed incredible privileges compared to other immigrants. Her account is an indispensable road map for understanding the growth of the Cuban diaspora in the United States and how it came to enjoy a powerful place in American politics." – William M. LeoGrande, American University

"A brilliant multi-level and cross-national study of why the Arab Spring resulted in dramatically different outcomes for the Arab countries involved. Fine-grained top down and granular bottom up analyses of the causes of violent versus nonviolent responses to legitimate protests. Critical insights into lessons for democratic possibilities /or authoritarian regime pathways in a vital and contested region of the world. Must read for students of history and the Middle East." – Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis

"In this powerful and subtle book, Rachel Brulé combs through an array of micro-level data for clues regarding the causes of and obstacles to gender inequality in India. One of her most stunning findings is that femicide actually increases when gender-equal inheritance laws are enforced – unless families are freed from the expectation that a daughter's property is forfeited to in-laws upon marriage. This book is a triumph of social science and a model for empirical scholarship on gender." -Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Yale University, Connecticut

"A textbook for the troubled times in which we live, placing those troubles at the very heart of the analysis. Exciting, innovative, timely and, above all, honest in its analysis, this is the new key reference for all students of European integration and disintegration." -Colin Hay, Professor of Political Sciences in the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris

"I have no hesitation in recommending this first-rate book to international and national policymakers, legal practitioners and scholars in the field of international financial law, international banking law and EU law... The book is constructive, enlightening, innovative and reader-friendly."

-Charles Ho Wang Mak, University of Glasgow, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation

"This pathbreaking book asks the critical yet curiously understudied question of how citizenship in Arab Gulf states is constructed - a question with great stakes given the benefits of nationality in the small, oil rich countries of the region. Lori identifies a new approach to dealing with domestic minorities while constructing national communities - the outsourcing of national membership." – Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

“Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda is a compelling and provocative critique of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s claim that it has used trials, re-education camps, curricular reform, and public memorials and commemorations solely to reunify a deeply divided nation. If you want to understand the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide without putting on rose-tinted glasses – and even if you don’t – you should read this book.” — Eric Stover, University of California, Berkeley

“Renata Keller’s engrossing study sets high standards for integrating Latin American history and international relations scholarship. In the process it fleshes out Mexico’s distinctive Cold War history at multiple levels of analysis, decoding the nation’s complicated, seemingly contradictory relationship with both Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the hemisphere’s powerful hegemon to the north. Mexico’s Cold War also provides an important optic for understanding the powerful legacy of Mexico’s twentieth-century revolution.”  — Gilbert M. Joseph, Yale University

“Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger’s new book, “ISIS,” should be required reading for every politician and policymaker…Their smart, granular analysis is a bracing antidote to both facile dismissals and wild exaggerations….Stern and Berger offer a nuanced and readable account of the ideological and organizational origins of the group.” — Washington Post

“Given the abject failure of neo-liberalism’s latest policy offering – austerity – to promote growth in Europe, why are neo-liberal ideas and policies still the only game in town? The answer to such a simple question involves multiple threads of explanation, linking powerful interests to ideational plasticity, and institutional stickiness. Schmidt, Thatcher, and their collaborators have delivered a volume that gives us powerful answers to these pressing questions.” — Mark Blyth, author, Austerity, the History of a Dangerous Idea

“Manjari Miller’s Wronged by Empire provides a refreshing complement to the standard materialist readings of why China and India conduct themselves as they do: by making colonialism the pivot for explaining both their pervasive defensiveness and their conspicuous sense of entitlement, she reminds the international community that it cannot escape China and India’s past any more than they themselves can. A rich and rewarding book.” — Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

“Denial is one of the most important books I have read in a decade….Brave, life-changing, and gripping as a thriller….A tour de force.” — Naomi Wolf