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WORLD HISTORY & GEOPOLITICS 2019 1 Dear Reader: I invite you to browse our classics as well as our new titles in world history and geopolitics. Our catalogue features several magisterial histories: The Secret World, Christopher Andrew’s sweeping account of intelligence from Moses to the present day, which the Financial Times hailed as “a crowning triumph of one of the most adventurous scholars of the security world;” Royal Historical Society Fellow Andrew Lambert’s Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires, and the Conflict That Made the Modern World; Yale historian Abbas Amanat’s Iran: A Modern History, “a majestic work that goes a long way in unraveling for an American audience the country’s enigmas and apparent contradictions,” according to the New York Review of Books; and Sudipta Sen’s Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River, praised by MacArthur Genius Sunil Amrith as “stunningly original and beautifully crafted.” Those interested in globalization and international relations may be drawn to eminent Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer’s The Great Delusion, and to the newly issued paperback editions of New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter’s The Chessboard and the Web, chosen by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of the past year; Brookings Institution Fellow Thomas Wright’s All Measures Short of War, shortlisted for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Award; and Stephen D. King’s Grave New World, praised by bestselling author Peter Frankopan as “prophetic, brilliant and disturbing.” Please visit our website, yalepress.yale.edu, for a complete list of our titles, which are available in both print and e-book formats. I would be happy to hear from you if you would like to pitch a book idea or submit a proposal or manuscript, too. Broad, synthetic histories intended for general readers interested in global history, geopolitics, and international relations and groundbreaking crossover and scholarly books in these fields are especially welcome. With best wishes, Jaya Aninda Chatterjee ([email protected]) Editor 2 Editor’s Letter 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com New New The Secret World Urban Rage A History of Intelligence The Revolt of the Excluded CHRISTOPHER ANDREW MUSTAFA DIKEC The long history of spying in international An expert on urban unrest examines affairs has gone remarkably undocument- revolts from Los Angeles to Paris to ed, with the result that past successes Istanbul, tracing these uprisings to the (and failures) are quickly forgotten. In this politics of exclusion. This engaging book, historian Christopher Andrew gives account makes it clear that change is us the first-ever history of intelligence, only possible if we address the failures of from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day. democratic systems to make their citizens Hardcover 2018 960 pp. 83 color + 20 b/w illus. feel equal and politically included. 978-0-300-23844-0 $40.00 Hardcover 2018 264 pp. 16 col. illus. 978-0-300-21494-9 $26.00 Earthly Mission The Catholic Church and World Development Now available in paperback ROBERT CALDERISI War In this lively investigation of the Catholic An Enquiry Church and its controversial social mission A. C. GRAYLING in the developing world, the author A renowned philosopher challenges weighs the Church’s various missteps long-held views on just wars, ethical and poor decisions against its positive conduct during war, the causes of war, contributions to education, health, and how violent conflict alters people and social justice. societies, and more. He envisions just Paper 2016 pp. war theory in new moral terms, ad- 978-0-300-20542-8 $27.50 dressing today’s most perplexing and inflammatory issues, including religious Now available in paperback violence, preemptive actions, collateral Migrant Brothers damage, and war crimes. A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity VICES AND VIRTUES PATRICK CHAMOISEAU; TRANSLATED BY MATTHEW Paper 2018 288 pp. AMOS AND FREDRIK RÖNNBÄCK 978-0-300-23445-9 $16.00 One of the most acclaimed and influen- tial voices in Caribbean literature offers New a powerful treatise arguing for a newly Invisible Countries humanist approach to migrants seeking Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood refuge and opportunity at our shores. JOSHUA KEATING PB-with Flaps 2018 144 pp. 1 b/w illus. In this lively book, journalist Joshua 978-0-300-23294-3 $12.00 Keating offers a thoughtful analysis of how our world’s borders came to be, and New how the current controversial status of How to Rig an Election “countries” such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, NIC CHEESEMAN AND BRIAN KLAAS and Somaliland is a sign that our world An engaging and provocative analysis may be emerging from a lengthy period of corrupted politics from Argentina to of cartographical stasis. Zimbabwe, this fascinating study explores Hardcover 2018 296 pp. 8 b/w illus. the strategies that despots use to ensure 978-0-300-22162-6 $26.00 their election victories, and exposes the limitations in the electoral process that hinder its ability to combat authoritarian subversion and promote democratization. & = RECOMMENDED FOR COURSE USE HC - Paper over Board 2018 320 pp. 12 figs. 978-0-300-20443-8 $26.00 World History & Politics 3 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com Now available in paperback New The Virtual Weapon and Restraining Great Powers International Order Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era LUCAS KELLO T. V. PAUL The cyber revolution brings with it both Since the end of the Cold War, leading promise and peril. Drawing on a broad world powers have largely eschewed tra- range of cyber attacks—including the ditional balance-of-power in favor of “soft Estonian crisis and the Sony Pictures balancing.” T.V. Paul’s insightful new work hack—this innovative work adapts and brings balance-of-power theory in line applies international relations theory with twenty-first century realities. to create new conceptual benchmarks Hardcover 2018 256 pp. 4 b/w illus. for understanding and addressing 978-0-300-22848-9 $30.00 unprecedented security challenges. Paper 2018 336 pp. 5 b/w illus. New 978-0-300-23449-7 $20.00 The Kremlin Letters Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Now available in paperback Churchill and Roosevelt Grave New World EDITED BY DAVID REYNOLDS AND VLADIMIR PECHATNOV The End of Globalization, the Return This penetrating and vivid study of the of History more than six hundred written messages STEPHEN D. KING that Stalin exchanged with Churchill The fate of globalization is anything but and Roosevelt offers fascinating insights certain. As Western economies wrestle into the wartime machinations and the with low growth rates, nation states personal relationships of World War II’s are increasingly looking inward and historic Allied triumvirate. turning away from the potential of shared Hardcover 2018 660 pp. 24 b/w illus. + 3 maps prosperity. Economist Stephen D. King 978-0-300-22682-9 $35.00 discusses how and why this march to isolationism will be difficult to halt. Now available in paperback Paper 2018 304 pp. & Charter of the North Atlantic 978-0-300-23450-3 $20.00 Treaty Organization Together with Scholarly Commentaries and New Essential Historical Documents Seapower States EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and IAN SHAPIRO AND ADAM TOOZE the Conflict That Made the Modern World This guide to the most important military ANDREW LAMBERT alliance in the world provides the essen- One of the most eminent historians of tial founding documents, and unpub- our age investigates the extraordinary lished essays that explore debates about success of five small maritime states, its evolving governance, its role in nuclear Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch politics, and its appropriate mission Republic, and Britain. This highly original during the Cold War and since. work demonstrates how their identities BASIC DOCUMENTS IN WORLD POLITICS as “seapowers” made them more Paper 2018 376 pp. dynamic, open, and democratic than 978-0-300-22852-6 $25.00 their lumbering continental rivals. Hardcover 2018 400 pp. 9 b/w + 8pp color illus. & One World Now 978-0-300-23004-8 $30.00 The Ethics of Globalization PETER SINGER Singer presents a new way of looking at & = RECOMMENDED FOR COURSE USE contemporary global issues—through the prism of ethics—that poses bold challenges and creative alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes current international theory and relations. Paper 2016 280 pp. 978-0-300-19605-4 $16.00 4 World History & Politics 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com Now available in paperback New & The Chessboard and the Web Critique of Religious Discourse Strategies of Connection in a Networked World NASR HAMID ABU ZAYD; TRANSLATED BY ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER JONATHAN WRIGHT; WITH A SCHOLARLY Just as Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of INTRODUCTION BY CAROOL KERSTEN Conflict radically reenvisioned U.S.-Soviet First published in Arabic in 1994, pro- relations in 1961, Anne-Marie Slaughter gressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu now applies modern network theory to Zayd’s controversial work of contemporary international relations. In this succinct, Islamic thought argues against the pro- groundbreaking work, she demonstrates grammatic use of Islamic religious texts how network theory informed President to support fundamentalist beliefs. Obama’s foreign policy—and how it will WORLD THOUGHT IN TRANSLATION likely shape that of the next administration. HC - Paper over Board 2018 320 pp. Paper 2018 304 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20712-5 $85.00 978-0-300-23466-4 $16.00 The Criterion for Distinguishing Now available in paperback Legal Opinions from Judicial & Twitter and Tear Gas Rulings and the Administrative The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest Acts of Judges and Rulers ZEYNEP TUFEKCI SHIHAB AL-DIN AHMAD IBN IDRIS AL-QARAFI; Thanks to social media, protests grow TRANSLATED BY MOHAMMAD H.