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On the ShelfALUMNI PUBLICATIONSThe New Global Rulers: The Privatization <strong>of</strong> Regulationin the World EconomyTim Büthe, Political Science Ph.D. (2002), <strong>and</strong> WalterMattli | Princeton University PressBüthe <strong>and</strong> Mattli examine the political processin three powerful global private regulators: theInternational Accounting St<strong>and</strong>ards Board, theInternational Organization <strong>for</strong> St<strong>and</strong>ardization, <strong>and</strong>the International Electrotechnical Commission. Theauthors <strong>of</strong>fer both a new framework <strong>for</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ingglobal private regulation <strong>and</strong> detailed empiricalanalyses <strong>of</strong> such regulation based on multi-country,multi-industry business surveys.Governing Global Finance: The Evolution <strong>and</strong> Re<strong>for</strong>m<strong>of</strong> the International Financial ArchitectureR. Anthony Elson, Economics Ph.D. (1973) | PalgraveMacmillanThis book examines the origins <strong>and</strong> evolution<strong>of</strong> financial globalization <strong>and</strong> the attemptsthat have been made at the international levelto establish a system <strong>of</strong> global financial governanceto safeguard the functioning <strong>of</strong> the internationalfinancial system. Elson explains how the internationalfinancial architecture has come to take the <strong>for</strong>m that ithas, <strong>and</strong> why it was unable to prevent the recent globalfinancial crisis.The Politics <strong>of</strong> Extremism in South AsiaDeepa Ollapally, Political Science Ph.D. (1991) |Cambridge University PressIn this book, Ollapally examines extremist groups inKashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan,Bangladesh, <strong>and</strong> Sri Lanka to <strong>of</strong>fer a fresh perspectiveon the causes <strong>of</strong> extremism. What accounts <strong>for</strong> itsrise in societies not historically predisposed to extremism?What determines the winners <strong>and</strong> losers in theidentity struggles in South Asia? What tips the balancebetween more moderate versus extremist outcomes?The book argues that politics <strong>and</strong> interstate <strong>and</strong> internationalrelations <strong>of</strong>ten play a more important rolein the rise <strong>of</strong> extremism in South Asia than religiousidentity, poverty, <strong>and</strong> state repression.A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught MeAbout Love, Friendship, <strong>and</strong> the Things That ReallyMatterWilliam Deresiewicz, English <strong>and</strong> Comparative LiteraturePh.D. (1998) | Penguin PressAself-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writerssuch as James Joyce <strong>and</strong> Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicznever thought Austen’s novels wouldhave anything to <strong>of</strong>fer him. But when he was assignedto read Emma as a graduate student, he began viewingthe world through Austen’s eyes <strong>and</strong> treating thosearound him as generously as Austen treated hercharacters. Weaving his own story around those inthe novel, Deresiewicz shows how Austen’s books areabout education <strong>and</strong> are an education themselves.Link back to contents page38 Superscript

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