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Beyond Preemption
Force and Legitimacy in a
Changing World
Ivo H. Daalder, ed.
Red and Blue Nation?
Characteristics and Causes of
America’s Polarized Politics
Pietro S. Nivola and David W. Brady
America’s three most
recent wars – in Kosovo,
Afghanistan, and Iraq
– have raised profound
questions about when to
use military force, for what
purpose, and who should
make the decision whether
to go to war. These crucial
questions have been
debated around the world
with increasing intensity,
and by beginning to provide important answers,
Beyond Preemption moves the debate forward in
significant ways.
Ivo Daalder and his colleagues make specific
proposals for how to forge a new international
consensus on the vexing questions about the use
of force, including its preemptive use, to address
today’s interrelated threats of terrorism, weapons
of mass destruction, and humanitarian crises. In
Beyond Preemption, the authors also consider the
critical matter of how these strategies could be
best legitimized and be made palatable to domestic
audiences and the international community at large.
Contributors
Bruce W. Jentleson (Duke University); Anne E. Kramer
(Brookings Institution); Susan E. Rice (Brookings Institution);
and James B. Steinberg (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public
Affairs, University of Texas at Austin)
2007, 180 pages, 6 x 9”
0-8157-1685-0 / 978-0-8157-1685-3
paper $24.95 CRO
Analysts and pundits
increasingly perceive a
widening gulf between
“red states” and “blue
states.” Yet the
research to support that
perception is scattered
and sometimes difficult
to parse. America’s
polarized politics, it is
said, poses fundamental
dangers for democratic
and accountable government. Heightened
partisanship is thought to degrade deliberation
in Congress and threaten the integrity of other
institutions, from the courts to the media. But, how
deep do the country’s political divisions actually
run? Are they truly wreaking havoc upon the social
fabric? Has America become a house divided? This
important new book, Red and Blue Nation?, gets to
the bottom of this perplexing issue.
Contents:
Alan I. Abramowitz (Emory University); David W. Brady
(Hoover Institution); Peter Beinart (The New Republic);
Sarah A. Binder (Brookings Institution); James Campbell
(State University of New York at Buffalo); Carl Cannon
(National Journal); E.J. Dionne; Jr. (Brookings Institution);
Gregg Easterbrook (Brookings Institution); Thomas B. Edsall
(Washington Post); Morris P. Fiorina (Hoover Institution);
William A. Galston (Brookings Institution); Hahrie C. Han
(Wellesley College); Gary C. Jacobson (University of
California; San Diego); Andrew Kohut (Pew Research Center
for The People & The Press); Matthew Levendusky (Stanford
University); Thomas E. Mann (Brookings Institution);
Diana C. Mutz (University of Pennsylvania); Pietro S.
Nivola (Brookings Institution); Tom Rosenstiel (Project for
Excellence in Journalism); and Alan Wolfe (Boston College)
2006, 250 pages, 6 x 9”
0-815-76083-3 / 978-0-8157-6083-2
paper $28.95 CRO
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