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The Greater Second World War
The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These conflicts bookended a "central paroxysm" defined by the intervention of the United States into every theater of the war, rendering it genuinely global. The essays within this volume bring top-level accounts of US, European, and Axis strategic maneuvering into conversation with social histories of "bottom-up" agency in ways that destabilize conventional narratives. Working with novel and overlapping scales of time and space and attuned to ongoing an...
Grand Strategies of the Left
Why are progressives often critical of US foreign policy and the national security state? What would a statecraft that pulls ideas from the American left look like? Grand Strategies of the Left brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice. It argues that American progressives think durable security will only come by prioritizing the interconnected conditions of peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. US statecraft – including defense policy – should be retooled not for primacy, endless power accumulation, or a political status quo that privileges elites, but rather to shape the context that gives rise to perpetual insecurity. Progressive worldmaking has its own risks and dilemmas but expands how we imagine what the world is and could be.
Democracy's Think Tank
In Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating military strategy, the "peace intellectuals" at IPS developed blueprints for an alternative to the U.S.-led world order. As the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, a triumphalist Cold War narrative emerged proclaiming victory for freedom, democracy, and free enterprise over totalitarianism. Yet for the peace intellectuals at IPS, the occasion did not merit celebration. Since its doors opened in 1963, IPS refus...
Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009)
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture" that was published in Religions
Inside New York
For more than 25 years, Columbia University students have written and published The Columbia Guide to New York. Inside New York continues that tradition as the ultimate guidebook to the ultimate city--it makes newcomers into true New Yorkers.
Inside New York 2005 Edition
For over 25 years, Columbia University students have written and published the Columbia Guide to New York. Seven years ago, the guide expanded its markets and changed its name to Inside New York. Inside New York is the guidebook for the active, curious and adventurous New Yorker. This isn't your grandmother's guidebook - no tourist traps here. The book is chock full of fun, funky and popular spots to eat, shop, dance, drink, meet people, learn and recreate. Unlike other guides, Inside New York has been written by students and young professionals. It's the insider's guide - put together for what moves New Yorkers to explore their own city. Pick up the 26th Edition of Insid New York today! We make newcomers into true New Yorkers.
Columba Guide to New York 2005 Edition
Inside New York is the most up-to-date guidebook for NYC. Packed with information on the essentials for surviving and thriving in the city, Inside New York also reveals the secrets New Yorkers guard closely about the very best places to eat, drink and unwind. The target readers for Inside NewYork are New Yorks 18-35 year old newcomers. The witty and unconventional wisdom that the guide offers is invaluable for any newcomer to New York.Inside New York is a non-profit guide produced at Columbia University. Each year, over 100 New York-area schools, law firms, investment banks, and other businesses purchase Inside New York for their newest students and employees.
Democracy in Exile
In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy. Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert-driven approach to foreign policymaking that American elites institutionalized during and after World War II. A key figure in a transatlantic network of émigré policymakers and analysts, Speier helped establish novel institutions such as the RAND Corporation that transformed how U.S. foreign policy was made. Democracy in Exile highlights how social scientists like Speier left academia to create a "military-intellectual complex" that insulated American decision making from public opinion and that continues to shape U.S. defense policy today.
Eliyahu's Branches
"After decades of research, a noted Israeli genealogist has produced a book about the Vilna Gaon that contains a rare portrait of the illustrious 18th-century Eastern European sage, a discussion of his substantial influence on the Jewish world and a thoroughly-documented family tree listing more than 20,000 descendants of the rabbi and his siblings ... Besides exploring the life and times of the Vilna Gaon, the 704-page book identifies, provides documentation for more than 20,000 descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his siblings. There is an index listing all persons in the book. The Gaon's descendants seem as diverse as the Jewish people itself, Freedman said. Some descendants were prominent rabbis and academicians. Some were involved in a rare agricultural settlement experiment in Russia, while others variously served in the American Civil War and emigrated to places like England and Australia well before the mass migrations of the 1880s.
