Books published by Georgetown University Press

The post-Cold War era has been difficult for Japan. A country once heralded for evolving a superior form of capitalism and seemingly ready to surpass the United States as the world's largest economy lost its way in the early 1990s. The bursting of the bubble in 1991 ushered in a period of political and economic uncertainty that has lasted for over

"Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends. This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women's participation in nonstate armed groups in a range of contemporary political and social contexts: the civil war in Ukraine, the conflicts involving Kurdish groups in the Middle East, and the civil war in Colombia. In particular, the authors examine three important aspects of women's participation in armed groups: mobilization, participation in combat, and conflict cessation. In doing so, they shed light on women's pathways into and out of nonstate armed groups. They also address the implications of women's participation in these conflicts for policy, including postconflict programming. This is an accessible and timely work that will be a useful introduction to another side of contemporary conflict." --

This book is designed to provide foreign language teachers with very easy and practical changes they can make to their existing language teaching curriculum in order to provide students with professional skills to help them succeed in the workplace in the target language. Lear builds on the traditional curricula that foreign language teachers typically use and suggests very easy-to-implement tasks and assignments that will build students' skills in key areas. The book is organized by the type of professional skill, opening with an explanation of the content typically taught that can be tied to this skill (i.e., "here's what you are already doing"). Then, the chapter suggests how to layer professional skills over that content for career prep (i.e., "here's what to add"). Each chapter then closes with suggested materials to add to language curricula, formatted as class activities or lesson plans. Any materials that fall outside the bounds of a short format will be made available on our website. This book will be a very accessibile and practical one that crosses all language barriers. 

Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and to vote on where and how to spend public funds. In this brief introduction, the author provides readers with everything they need to understand this new form of inclusive governance.

With coverage ranging from phonology (how sounds are organized and used) to morphology (sound, syllable, and word structure), this title contains hints on how to master nuances in dialectical pronunciation, as well as the differences of meaning in their various forms. It is based on the dialect of Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, and Damascus.

Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.

Lobbyists in Washington aren't a new phenomenon. Since the early days of the republic, citizens and groups alike have hired professionals to press their interests with lawmakers. This book exposes how industry regulations fall short of ensuring principled behaviors and may actually incentivize unethical behavior.

Argues against recent calls for American restraint in international relations. Blending academic rigor with his experiences as former Director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council, the author instead calls for active investment in the centuries-old grand strategy of liberal order.

Alhawary makes a new contribution to the field of Arabic second language acquisition by examining Arabic second language acquisition data from two novel typological language pairings, namely adult L1 Chinese- and Russian-speaking learners of Arabic.

Community-based Language Learning offers a new framework for world language educators interested in integrating community-based language learning into their teaching and curricula. CBLL connects academic learning objectives with experiential learning, ranging from reciprocal partnerships with the community to one-directional learning situations.

In Charles E. Curran's latest book, Diverse Voices in Modern US Moral Theology, he presents the diverse voices of US Catholic moral theologians from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The book discusses eleven key individuals in the development and evolution of moral theology as well as the New Wine, New Wineskins movement.

Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and UN peacekeeping operations. The countries examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the UK, Israel, Australia, and South Africa.

Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and UN peacekeeping operations. The countries examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the UK, Israel, Australia, and South Africa.

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again. In doing so, he breaks with recent human rights scholarship that severs this important link and downplays the importance of the UDHR.

Russia Abroad introduces a theory of regional fracture to explain how and why regions come apart and examines how Russia employs regional fracture as a strategy to keep states on its periphery in Eurasia and the Middle East weak and dependent.

India and Nuclear Asia will fill a gap in the outside world's knowledge by focusing on the post-1998 evolution of Indian nuclear thought, its arsenal, its rivalry with Pakistan and China, and New Delhi's nonproliferation policy, and by showing how India's nuclear trajectory has evolved in response to domestic, regional, and global drivers.

In China's Global Identity, Hoo Tiang Boon embarks on the first sustained study of China's great power identity, examining Chinese sources to shed light on China's positioning of itself as a responsible power and on the underestimated role played by the United States in shaping this face.

Israel's Long War with Hezbollah is both the first complete military history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and an analysis of military innovation and adaptation. The book is based on unique fieldwork in Israel and Lebanon, extensive research into Hebrew and Arabic primary sources, and dozens of original interviews.

This volume examines whether the rivalry between China and India that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissipate in the twenty-first century, an important question because past experience has shown that when two rising great powers share a border, the relationship tends to be volatile and potentially dangerous.

This volume examines whether the rivalry between China and India that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissipate in the twenty-first century, an important question because past experience has shown that when two rising great powers share a border, the relationship tends to be volatile and potentially dangerous.