Columbia University Press is expanding and deepening its list in Asian history, which is focused on modern Asia in the world with an emphasis on China, Japan, Tibet, and Korea. A valued addition to our list is Madeleine Zelin’s Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship In Early Modern China, winner of three awards, among them the American Historical Association's 2006 John K. Fairbank Prize. Other notable titles include Lhasa: Streets with Memories by Robert Barnett, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James Millward, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China by Gray Tuttle, and Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States by Alexis Dudden.
I handle our new Columbia Studies in International and Global History series edited by Matthew Connelly and Adam M. McKeown. We are interested in acquiring titles in international and world history that illuminate contemporary issues of globalization and can explain the transnational processes that have shaped and continue to shape the contemporary era. Books in the series include Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders by Adam McKeown, The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought by Cemil Aydin, and more recently The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture by Patrick Manning.
Nicholas Dirks's Cultures of History is a series that investigates the forms, understandings, genres, and histories of history, taking history as the primary text of modern life and the foundational basis for state, society, and nation. Recent additions include The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics by Charles Hirschkind and Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod.
The International Relations list is focused on comparative politics, security studies, public policy, terrorism and human rights. My collaboration with Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang on their book Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies led to a new series under their editorship, Contemporary Asia in the World. The series aims to address a gap in the public policy and scholarly discussion of Asia. It seeks to promote books and studies that are considered cutting edge in the advancement of their respective disciplines or in the promotion of multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research, but that are also accessible to a wider readership. We seek to showcase the best scholarly and public policy arguments on Asia, including those that consider politics, history, economics, and culture. The first book in this series is Victor Cha's Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. The second is The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online by Guobin Yang.
Our Middle East Studies list publishes crucial scholarship that illuminates the present conflicts now playing out so destructively throughout the region. The focus of the list is on work that explores both the underlying sources of conflict and accounts for the interplay of local and international interests and dynamics. Recent titles include Globalized Islam by Olivier Roy, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied by Toby Dodge, Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies by Baruch Kimmerling, A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein, and Shi’ite Lebanon: Transnational Religion and the Making of National Identities by Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr.
Bruce Hoffman’s second edition of Inside Terrorism has become a standard in the field. We are now collaborating on a new series with Professor Hoffman entitled Columbia Studies in Irregular Warfare. This series seeks to fill a conspicuous gap in the burgeoning literature on terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and insurgency. The series adheres to the highest standards of scholarship and discourse and publishes books that elucidate the strategy, operations, means, motivations, and threats posed by terrorist, guerrilla, and insurgent organizations and movements. It thereby provides a solid and expanding foundation of knowledge on these subjects for students, established scholars, and informed reading audiences alike.The first books in this series are Ami Pedahzur's The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism and Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger's Jewish Terrorism in Israel.
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