Assistant Professor of International Affairs David Long's Books

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

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Canada First, Not Canada Alone

A History of Canadian Foreign Policy

By: Adam Chapnick,Professor of Defence Studies Adam Chapnick,Asa McKercher,Assistant Professor of History Asa McKercher

The definitive history of Canadian foreign policy since the 1930s, Canada First, Not Canada Alone examines how successive prime ministers have promoted Canada's national interests in a world that has grown increasingly complex and interconnected. Case studies focused on environmental reform, Indigenous peoples, trade, hostage diplomacy, and wartime strategy illustrate the breadth of issues that shape Canada's global realm. Drawing from extensive primary and secondary research, Adam Chapnick and Asa McKercher offer a fresh take on how Canada positions itself in the world.

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0197653715

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Intrusive Impartiality

Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations

By: Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science Marion Laurence

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Intrusive Impartiality

Learning, Contestation, and Practice Change in United Nations Peace Operations

By: Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science Marion Laurence

Impartiality is a central norm in United Nations peace operations that has long been associated with passive monitoring of cease-fires and peace agreements. In the twenty-first century, however, its meaning has been stretched to allow for a range of forceful, intrusive, and ideologically prescriptive practices. In Intrusive Impartiality, Marion Laurence explains how these new ways of being "impartial" emerge, how they spread within and across missions, and how they become institutionalized across UN peace operations. In doing so, Laurence sheds light on controversial changes in peacekeeping practice and provides an innovative framework for studying authority and change in global governance.

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Oxford University Press

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0197747574

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9780197747575

Responsible Pleasure

The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

By: DR CAROLINE. RUSTERHOLZ,Assistant Professor in International History and Politics Caroline Rusterholz

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The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain

By: DR CAROLINE. RUSTERHOLZ,Assistant Professor in International History and Politics Caroline Rusterholz

This book offers a historical account of the public debates, institutional monitoring, and private experiences of youth sexuality in Britain between the 1960s to the 1990s. It uses the Brook Advisory Centre--a leading sexual health charity--as a case study to explore the changing British landscape of sexual politics during this period.

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Oxford University Press

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0192866273

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The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

By: Department of Religion Florida State University Bryan J. Cuevas Assistant Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies

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The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

By: Department of Religion Florida State University Bryan J. Cuevas Assistant Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies

In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199760446

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9780199760442

Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

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Arbitrating Empire

United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

By: Allison Powers,Assistant Professor of History Allison Powers

Arbitrating Empire uncovers how ordinary people used arbitral claims commissions to challenge state violence across the United States Empire during the first decades of the twentieth century and why the State Department attempts to erase their efforts remade modern international law.

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0190093005

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Choreographing in Color

Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

By: Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies J Lorenzo Perillo,J. Lorenzo Perillo

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Choreographing in Color

Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

By: Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies J Lorenzo Perillo,J. Lorenzo Perillo

In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to ask: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop?

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0190054271

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Of Ancestors and Ghosts

How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics

By: Adeana McNicholl,Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Adeana McNicholl

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Of Ancestors and Ghosts

How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics

By: Adeana McNicholl,Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Adeana McNicholl

In Part I of this book, I argued that preta narratives participated in a larger world-building process that negotiated the contours of the Buddhist cosmos and, with it, the place of the departed. Through stories about encounters between humans and pretas, Buddhist authors explored the place of the departed in a karmic cosmological system, worked out how to best assist them, and advocated for the importance of the sangha in facilitating these offerings. These tales do not merely reflect the process through which the preta as a specific entity and rebirth category became distinguished from the ancestral departed, but also participated in this process. This illustrates the importance of viewing narratives, in Rob Campany's terms, as argumentative. Stories are not merely the distillation of more abstract doctrine but are sites for the construction of religious worldviews. This illustrates that religious cosmologies are not laid down fully formed in doctrinal treatises. They are cumulatively built over time, and "popular culture" can do important work in the aggregative construction of cosmologies"--

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0197748902

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When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

By: K. David Harrison Assistant Professor of Linguistics Swarthmore College

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When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

By: K. David Harrison Assistant Professor of Linguistics Swarthmore College

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? Harrison spans the globe from Siberia, to North America, to the Himalayas and elsewhere, to look at the human knowledge that is slowly being lost as the languages that express it fade from sight. He uses fascinating anecdotes and portraits of some of these languages' last remaining speakers, in order to demonstrate that this knowledge about ourselves and the world is inherently precious and once gone, will be lost forever. This knowledge is not only our cultural heritage (oral histories, poetry, stories, etc.) but very useful knowledge about plants, animals, the seasons, and other aspects of the natural world--not to mention our understanding of the capacities of the human mind. Harrison's book is a testament not only to the pressing issue of language death, but to the remarkable span of human knowledge and ingenuity. It will fascinate linguists, anthropologists, and general readers.

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0198040172

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

By: Institute of Criminology Cambridge University David P. Farrington Professor of Psychological Criminology,Department of Criminal Justice University of Massachusetts Brandon C. Welsh Assistant Professor, Lowell

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus what America's national crime fighting priority ought to be. At a time when unacceptable crime levels in America, rising criminal justice costs, and a punitive crime policy have spurred a growing interest in the early prevention of delinquency, Farrington and Welsh here lay the groundwork for change with a comprehensive national prevention strategy to save children from a life of crime.

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0199719624

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The Book of Job in Wonderland

Making (Non)Sense of Job's Mediators

By: Ryan M Armstrong,Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible Ryan M Armstrong

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The Book of Job in Wonderland

Making (Non)Sense of Job's Mediators

By: Ryan M Armstrong,Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible Ryan M Armstrong

The Book of Job in Wonderland explores the theme of mediation in the biblical book of Job with a unique approach that examines the Hebrew language, the history of its interpretation, and a comparative literary analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Both of these classics relentlessly subvert genre expectations in order to protest didactic religious instruction. In addition to biblical studies, this book makes contributions to lexicography, hermeneutics, medieval Jewish thought, early and modern Christianity, literary theory, and Victorian literature.

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0197763677

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Book's by Assistant Professor of International Affairs David Long

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

Canada First, Not Canada Alone

Intrusive Impartiality

Intrusive Impartiality

Responsible Pleasure

Responsible Pleasure

The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Arbitrating Empire

Arbitrating Empire

Choreographing in Color

Choreographing in Color

Of Ancestors and Ghosts

Of Ancestors and Ghosts

When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

When Languages Die : The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

The Book of Job in Wonderland

The Book of Job in Wonderland

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