Books published by Georgetown University Press

Brings together key experts from the United States, Europe, and Australia to provide a unique contribution to ongoing debates over the theory and practice of creating, measuring, and assessing public value. The book is suitable for stakeholders across society interested in creating public value to advance the common good.

Offering engaging ideas from business, marketing, and economics, this book takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society.

Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance.

Offers an annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad. This volume includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

Christians are taught that God is love and are commanded to love, their neighbors and their enemies. These truths are not controversial. What is controversial is the meaning of this love. This book explores the tradition of Christian reflection on the meaning, and experience of love, loving, and being loved.

Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, this book examines wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics.

Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, this book examines wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics.

What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions.

Drawing on sources only available since the Cold War ended, The Image of the Enemy breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries gathered, analyzed, and used intelligence to deepen their understanding of their adversaries.

Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation.

Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation.

Drawing on the constructivist strand of political philosophy, the author shows that it is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians to keep faith with human rights. She argues, the Christian tradition as the wellspring of many of the ethical commitments considered central to human rights must embrace its role in the project.

Drawing on a plethora of sources, including decades of contact with senior Soviet figures, Raymond Garthoff offers the most authoritative assessment to date of how Soviet leaders and intelligence chiefs understood-and misunderstood-the United States during the Cold War.

Designated a critical language by the US Department of Defense, Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and is commonly spoken in parts of Pakistan. This volume offers students with basic knowledge of Pashto with a thematically organized approach that develops strong speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

Analyzes twenty ethical issues that address education and culture, labor and economy, democracy and cosmopolitanism and life and death. In this book each chapter describes a concrete example showing the relevance of the fundamental ethical question. It provides an explanation between personal, professional, and institutional ethics.

Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.

Provides readers with a theoretical and practical overview of key aspects of regional integration and regional organizations.

Emphasizing their manhaj (methodology) toward politics, this book offers a survey on Salafists' ideological transformation from opponents to supporters of political engagement, while demonstrating how activists and jihadi Salafists have threatened regional and international security by endorsing violence and jihad.

Examines the question of whether the US Department of Defense (DOD) has assumed too large a role in influencing and implementing US foreign policy while confronting the challenges arising from terrorism, Islamic radicalism, insurgencies, ethnic conflicts and failed states.

Helps you examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data.

Looks at the constitutional rights of federal employees from the nation's founding to the present. This book concludes that the current status of constitutional rights may reflect a shift to a model based on private sector practices.

Analyzes the strategies that different states have used to engage a rising India, their successes and failures, as well as India's responses. This book also assesses India's own strategies to engage with Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Central Asian republics.

Presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this region. This book concludes with a comparative assessment of these options and a discussion of their implications for US policymakers.

What role should human dignity play in guiding the mission of international institutions? This book concludes with a final section that lays out a path for a cross-cultural dialogue on human dignity that could successfully achieve the transformation of global politics into service of the individual.

What role should human dignity play in guiding the mission of international institutions? This book concludes with a final section that lays out a path for a cross-cultural dialogue on human dignity that could successfully achieve the transformation of global politics into service of the individual.

Examines the question of whether the US Department of Defense (DOD) has assumed too large a role in influencing and implementing US foreign policy while confronting the challenges arising from terrorism, Islamic radicalism, insurgencies, ethnic conflicts and failed states.

Includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

Brings together the rhetorical traditions of the communications field and the best practices of adult second language instruction to facilitate superior-level proficiency in the Russian language.

Analyzes the strategies that different states have used to engage a rising India, their successes and failures, as well as India's responses. This book also assesses India's own strategies to engage with Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Central Asian republics.

Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force.