First in International Relations

We are pleased to announce that Cambridge University Press received top ranking among publishers in the 2006/2007 TRIP Survey of International Relations Faculty in the United States and Canada. Published by the Program on the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William & Mary, Cambridge was ranked #1 by the 1,112 surveyed scholars in the categories of top publisher of books in International Relations, and top publisher of books in the scholars' respective areas of expertise. Additionally, International Organization, published by Cambridge, was ranked as the top journal in the field and in the surveyed scholars' respective areas of expertise.

We are honored by these results and are committed to continue publishing the finest work in International Relations and Political Science. To view the publication of the survey's findings online, please click here (PDF format).

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When Things Fell Apart
State Failure in Late-Century Africa

• Robert H. Bates
• In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms.

Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village

• Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.
• This book documents how China’s rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history.

China's Struggle for Status
The Realignment of International Relations

• Yong Deng
• At the end of the Cold War the People's Republic of China found itself in an international crisis, facing severe problems in both domestic politics and foreign policy.

Building the International Criminal Court

• Benjamin Schiff
• The ICC is the first and only standing international court capable of prosecuting humanity's worst crimes: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Political Women and American Democracy

• Christina Wolbrecht
• What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field.

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution

• Evan Gerstmann
• The revised and expanded second edition of Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution makes the case that the Constitution has long protected the right to marry, and that this protection includes the right to marry a person of the same gender.

The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence

• Frank R. Baumgartner
• Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment.

New Race Politics in America
Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics

• Edited by Jane Junn
• Foreign migration to the United State is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of all Americans are of non-white and non-European descent. Latinos and Hispanics have recently eclipsed African Americans as the largest minority group in the United States.

Against Throne and Altar
Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic

• Paul A. Rahe
• Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the republican experiment conducted in England between 1649, when Charles I was executed, and 1660, when Charles II was crowned.

From War to Democracy
Dilemmas of Peacebuilding

• Professor Anna K. Jarstad
• Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict?