POLITICS 2021 edinburghuniversitypress.com POLITICS Contents Intelligence & Security Studies 3 US & Anglo-American Politics 47 War, Peace & Critical Military Studies 8 Middle Eastern & Islamic Politics 52 Comparative & International Politics 14 Russian Politics 61 Democracy 18 Politics & the Arts 63 Ethics, Human Rights & Justice 21 Journals 70 Political Theory & Philosophy 25 How to Order 73 Scottish Politics 44 Letter from the team 2021 begins with an ongoing global pandemic, the end of the Brexit transition period and a new President in the White House. On a more local note, we are delighted to introduce our new Politics commissioning editor, Ersev Ersoy. Ersev has been with Edinburgh University Press for 5 years and is looking forward to working with both new and existing authors to grow our politics publishing programme during this time of global upheaval, when politics research has maybe never been so vital. In this catalogue, we have a host of new and new-in-paperback books for you to discover. If you’re interested in democratic theory, you might like the latest volume in the Taking on the Political series, Visions of Council Democracy (page 19). As ever, our political theory and philosophy section is the longest in the catalogue, starting on page 25 – don’t miss Biopolitics After Truth, Hans Kelsen’s Political Realism and The Prehistory of Private Property on pages 29, 30 and 31 respectively. If your interests lie in the field of international studies, we have new books in the Advances in Critical Military Studies series (pages 12–13) and an essential new edited volume Ethics of Drone Strikes (page 10). For those of you working on US politics, we have new books in the New Perspectives in the American Presidency series (pages 49–50) and the Edinburgh Studies in Anglo-American Relations series (page 51). And we’re delighted that The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress is now open access – download your copy from our website at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com We hope you enjoy browsing through this year’s politics catalogue. And if you’re working on a book that would be at home in a future edition, commissioning editor Ersev would love to hear from you. Send her an email at [email protected] Ersev Sarah Joannah Bekah Naomi Kirsty Ersoy Foyle Duncan Dey Farmer Crosbie Editorial Editorial Production Design Marketing Marketing Catalogue cover image: © Shutterstock Politics 2 POLITICS SECURITY STUDIES SECURITY & INTELLIGENCE PoliticsPolitics 3 POLITICS SERIES Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare Series Editors: Richard J. Aldrich, University of Warwick Rory Cormac, University of Nottingham Michael S. Goodman, King’s College London Hugh Wilford, California State University, Long Beach https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/isasw Explores the full spectrum of spying and secret warfare in a globalised world This series explores modern intelligence: its past, present and future, the manner in which it is gathered and the causes for which it is harnessed. Whether through rich empirical detail, conceptual development and/or theoretical expansion, books in this series provoke original questions for researchers and students alike. Available in the series Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis Testing the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses Method Martha Whitesmith, Ministry of Defence • Explains the underlying causes of cognitive biases, based on meta-analyses of existing research • Reveals that the analysis of competing hypotheses – a key element of current training for UK and US Hb & Ebook intelligence communities (and likely all 5-EYES and £80 | $105 several European agencies) – does not have a proven September 2020 ability to mitigate cognitive biases 304 pages • Proposes an alternative approach that focuses on 9781474466349 creating the optimum environment for analysis, challenging current leading theories Soviet Defectors Revelations of Renegade Intelligence Officers, 1924–1954 Kevin Riehle, National Intelligence University • Analyses the insider information and insights revealed by defectors during the first half of the Soviet period • Identifies 88 Soviet intelligence officer defectors from a Hb & Ebook variety of specialisations – the most comprehensive list £80 | $105 of Soviet intelligence officer defectors compiled to date September 2020 • Shows the evolution of Soviet threat perceptions and 248 pages the development of the ‘main enemy’ concept in the 9781474467230 Soviet national security system Politics 4 POLITICS New in paperback The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley Code Name ‘Grin’ Clive Jones, Durham University & NTNU • An academic biography of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and his intimate involvement in British secret service operations • Draws on extensive interviews and archival research, Pb, Hb & Ebook including 20 hours of interviews conducted with £24.99 | $34.95 Colonel David Smiley himself December 2020 • Addresses the wider issues of accountability and 380 pages control of clandestine operations, referring in 9781474441162 particular to operations in Albania, Oman and Yemen Chile, the CIA and the Cold War A Transatlantic Perspective James Lockhart, Zayed University • Reinterprets Chile and southern South America’s Cold War history from a transatlantic perspective • Blends US, European and Soviet relations with Latin America into a narrative that previously focused only Pb, Hb & Ebook on the CIA and the US government £19.99 | $24.95 • Highlights the importance of the rise of the Chilean February 2021 Communist Party, the professional officer corps 224 pages and indigenous anti-communist politics for Chile’s 9781474481823 involvement in the Cold War Outsourcing US Intelligence Contractors and Government Accountability Damien Van Puyvelde, University of Glasgow • Explores the evolving role of contractors in the US Intelligence Community, with an emphasis on the post-Cold War era • Expands the field of Intelligence Studies to include Pb, Hb & Ebook accountability for private-sector contractors £19.99 | $24.95 • Case studies: the Air Force, the CIA and the U-2 spy February 2021 plane; CIA and In-Q-Tel; FBI and virtual case file; 272 pages NSA and Trailblazer; contractors in the interrogation 9781474450232 room; contractors crossing the line The Problem of Secret Intelligence Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke, Norwegian Defence Intelligence School • Systematically develops a new concept of intelligence as a cognitive activity that needs to be understood holistically • Shows how classic intelligence analysis restricts our ability to perceive new threats and new variations of threats Pb, Hb & Ebook £24.99 | $29.95 • Rethinks intelligence analysis, arguing that good February 2021 intelligence is based on understanding the threats 272 pages that appear beyond our experience and are therefore 9781474481830 the most dangerous to society Politics 5 POLITICS Reconstructing Japan’s Security Policy The Role of Military Crises Bhubhindar Singh, Nanyang Technological University • Finds that external military crises were a key driver in the expansion of Japanese security policy • Unpacks the deep structures within the Japanese decision-making processes, especially during and Hb & Ebook after military crises £75 | $100 • Examines 5 key military crises: the 1990–1 Persian October 2020 Gulf War; the 1994 North Korean Nuclear Crisis; the 240 pages 1996 Taiwan Straits Crisis; the 1998 Taepodong Crisis; 9781474446228 and 9/11 US Intelligence and Al Qaeda Analysis by Contrasting Narratives Peter de Werd, Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda • Fills a gap in intelligence studies by setting out a new analytic methodology of analysis by contrasting narratives (ACN) • Argues that defining an enemy and attempting Hb & Ebook to counter threats can also contribute to the £85 | $110 manifestation of the threat October 2020 • Applies this methodology to the problem the US faced 256 pages in understanding and responding to Al Qaeda in the 9781474478069 1990s New in paperback Security as Politics Beyond the State of Exception Andrew W. Neal, University of Edinburgh • Gives an original perspective on security politics by engaging with debates in parliamentary studies and political science that have not previously been connected to security Pb, Hb & Ebook • Challenges founding assumptions in critical £24.99 | $29.95 security studies and securitisation theory about November 2020 the pathological relationship between security and 288 pages 9781474450935 politics • Argues that security is being normalised politically, migrating from the realm of exceptional politics to that of ‘normal politics’ Politics 6 POLITICS Spies, Spin and the Fourth Estate British Intelligence and the Media Paul Lashmar, University of Sussex Top investigative journalist Paul Lashmar exposes the turbulent relationship between British Intelligence and the media At its most fraught, interaction between spies and journalists has been a battle over the primacy of national security versus freedom of speech. The history of this dynamic has never before been fully documented or subjected to rigorous analysis. Combining his expertise as a national security correspondent and research academic, Paul Lashmar reveals how and why the media became more critical in its reporting of the Secret State. He explores a series of major case studies including Snowden, WikiLeaks, Spycatcher, rendition and torture and MI5’s vetting of the BBC – most of which he reported on as they happened. Over the course of