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Our titles in political science cover a wide range of topics, dealing with the study of governments, public policies, systems, and political behavior, and in the subfields of political theory, comparative politics, and international relations. 

New in the James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics series is Growing Strong, Growing Apart: The Erosion of Democracy as a Core Pillar of NATO Enlargement, 1949–2023, by Eyal Rubinson, which explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

"This is a great addition to the literature on NATO enlargement. The specific issue Rubinson covers—the importance of democratization in NATO's enlargements throughout the organization's history—has received much less attention than other issues such as US-Russia relations. The argument is well-conceived and well executed." — James Goldgeier, author of Not Whether but When: The US Decision to Enlarge NATO

Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation: Youth and the Practice of Transitional Justice, by Caitlin Mollica, draws on the cases of South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands to examine how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have engaged with youth in ways that represent their stories and reflect their substantive participatory capacity as political stakeholders.

"Mollica offers a critical reflection on a still marginal, yet very important, subject in international politics: the concept of youth's agency and participation in peace and conflict situations. Clearly argued and well-written, her analysis of the case studies provides an enriching dialogue between theory and practice." — Jana Tabak, author of The Child and the World: Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress

Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy, by John G. Gunnell, traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

"Imagining the American Polity is a vivid and engaging study of the discourse of pluralist democracy in the history of political science. It tracks the varieties of twentieth-century pluralism out of debates over 'the state' and convincingly demonstrates the genealogical ties that bind Laski and the Progressive Era to the behavioral revolutionaries of the fifties to today's multiculturalists. There is nothing quite like it in the literature on democratic theory, much less on the history of political science that John Gunnell has already done so much to advance." ― James Farr, Northwestern University

New in paperback and in our African American Studies series, African American Coping in the Political Sphere, by Jas M. Sullivan & Moriah Harman, explores the influence coping has had on African Americans' political attitudes and behaviors.

SUNY Press publishes on a wide range of topics in education, including international and comparative education, multilingual and multicultural education, and urban and rural education.

New (and the first book) in the Education in Global Perspectives series is Translating Global Ideas: How Policy Legacies and Domestic Politics Shape Education Governance in Latin America, by Claudia Diaz-Rios, explores the varying influence of foreign policy recommendations on education reforms in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

"This book's comparative historical approach is innovative and theoretically sophisticated. Bridging political science and comparative education policy, Diaz-Rios is able to explain the most relevant processes of change and continuity in the governance of Latin American education systems and opens a long-haul line of future research." — Antoni Verger, coauthor of The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform

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