Lynne Rienner Publishers remains one of the few independent scholarly publishers in the United States. Founded in 1984, the press is known for its high-quality, carefully peer reviewed, and relevant-to-today’s- pressing-issues books in the fields of international relations, comparative world politics, U.S. politics and public policy, criminal justice, disability studies, and military history.
Its offerings also include English-language translations of work by such notable authors as Naguib Mahfouz, Ghassan Kanafani, Maryse Condé, Derek Walcott, and Tawfiq al-Hakim, as well as the Kumarian Press imprint (focusing on development).
Key Subject Areas
Comparative Politics
International Relations
Peace and Conflict
US Politics
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Lynne Rienner Highlights
Measuring Soft Power in International Relations
Soft power typically gets short shrift in foreign policy strategy because it is considered difficult to measure. To what degree do student-exchange programs matter to international politics? How exactly does a diaspora network affect a country's influence abroad?
Political Economy, Power, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World
The authors of this groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection are concerned with the growing politicization of cultural heritage in the Arab world. Adopting the unifying concept of political economy, they explore how regimes manipulate cultural heritage—and sometimes even deliberately erase it—to support their own legitimacy.
Hedging the China Threat
The United States has never formally recognized Taiwan as a sovereign state, yet it has provided the country with security assistance since the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) government there in 1949. What accounts for this equivocal stance? And how is the US leveraging Taiwan against China?
Explaining Success in Africa
What does it take for African countries to achieve political and economic successes? Scholarship on Africa tends to focus on the barriers to reaching desired outcomes. While recognizing that these barriers are very real, Erin Hern takes a contrary, unabashedly optimistic approach: rather than treating countries that perform well as “miracles,” she seeks to normalize their success, analyzing the performance of those that have made good choices in the face of adverse circumstances.
The Metrics of Faith: Rethinking Religion's Role in US Politics
While existing scholarship addresses the influence of religious affiliation on political attitudes and behaviors in the United States, a number of puzzling questions remain unanswered. In response, Matthew Miles demonstrates that a more complete conceptualization of religion as a social identity can help to explain many of those puzzles. As he explores the impact, both positive and negative, of religious identity on political attitudes, he also shows that the religion-politics relationship is not a one-way street.
Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland
In both Germany and Poland—primary locations of the Holocaust—the legacy of antisemitism remains a major obstacle to reconciliation with the past. Thomas Just asks: How does antisemitism typically manifest in these countries? What counterstrategies are being employed? And with what effect? Addressing these questions, Just contributes to a deeper understanding of the disturbing influence of antisemitic hatred worldwide and identifies best practices to combat it.
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