Books published by Stanford University Press

After border crossings, Vietnamese migrants in Berlin identify with the ethnic nation, but have transformed their commitments to ethnic nationalism.

This book is a comprehensive account of Korean history from early times to December 2020.

How the various, often contradictory, images of the Tokaido Shinkansen prompted a reimagination of identity on the levels of individual, metropolis, and nation in a changing Japan.

If no one is born hating another person, does it mean we can unlearn racism?

What would America's Constitutions have looked like if each generation wrote its own?

The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Treatment follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.

What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.

The first in-depth exploration of the persistence and pervasiveness of a dangerous legal fiction about people who cross borders: the binary distinction between migrant and refugee.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East. Yet, these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities of the contemporary Middle East, addressing topics from international politics to political Islam, hip hop to human security. This book engages six themes to understand the contemporary Middle East-the spread of sectarianism, abandonment of principles of state sovereignty, the lack of a regional hegemonic power, increased Saudi-Iranian competition, decreased regional attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout from the Arab uprisings-as well as offers individual country studies. With analysis from historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, and up-to-date discussions of the Syrian Civil War, impacts of the Trump presidency, and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this book will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the current state of the region.