Lynne Rienner Publishers remains one of the few independent scholarly publishers in the United State. 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).
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?
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