James Bennett-Levy (EDT)/ Gillian Butler (EDT)/ Melanie Fennell (EDT)/ Ann Hackmann (EDT)/ Martina Mueller (EDT)/ David A. Westbrook (EDT)/ Khadj Rouf (ILT)
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Westbrook (law, U. of Buffalo) explains why a politically responsible security policy will be more successful in the fight against Islamist violence, and advocates for a US security policy that is eff
As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise dimi
As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise dimi
In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national security establishment is outdated and entrenched in a model of defen
The great financial crisis of the first decade of the 21st century is due in large part to a failure of the common conceptual understanding of financial markets and modern risk management, suggests We
Former Federal Reserve chair Greenspan recently said that the risk management paradigm is broken; thus our understanding of financial regulation no longer makes sense. More generally, the current fina
David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the domin
Between Citizen and State is an intrepid and readable introduction to, and insightful commentary on, the role of the corporation in the modern world. Corporate actors have typical motivations, opportu
Behavioral experiments are one of the central and most powerful methods of intervention in cognitive therapy. Yet until now, there has been no volume to guide clinicians wishing to design and impleme