This collection features books and book contributions written by faculty in the Department of Politics at Fairfield University.
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The Encyclopedia of Tourism and Recreation in Marine Environments
Michael Lück and David Leonard Downie
David Downie is a contrbuting author, " Bahamas Reef Environmental Education Foundation", “Coral Reef Alliance”, “Global Coral Monitoring Network”, and "International Coral Reef Action Network".
Book description: With the increased use of marine environments comes the need for informed planning and sustainable management as well as for the education and training of planners, managers and operators. This encyclopedia presents the terms, concepts and theories related to recreational and tourism activities in marine settings.
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Bonnie G. Smith and Jocelyn M. Boryczka
Jocelyn M. Boryczka is a contributing author, “Democracy”, pp. 30-34.
Book description: The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history.
The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes.
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Global Environmental Politics, 4th Edition
Pamela Chasek, David Leonard Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown
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Ivory towers and nationalist minds: Universities, leadership, and the Development of the American State
Mark R. Nemec
Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds traces the rise of the great American universities through their formative years, 1862-1920, examining the role of these schools and their leadership in shaping American politics and public policy. Nemec's provocative study demonstrates that universities provided the intellectual and institutional apparatus needed to legitimize federal authority. His work challenges existing scholarship by documenting how the influx of academic expertise into the developing American state was fostered by campus entrepreneurs seeking to establish the social relevance of their institutions, rather than by the state itself.
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Encyclopedia of Globalization
Roland Robertson, Jan Aart Scholte, and David Leonard Downie
David Downie is a contributing author, "Persistent Organic Pollutants".
Book description: The Encyclopedia of Globalization provides a thorough understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of globalization as well as the various historical and analytical interpretations. Consisting of over 400 entries, coverage includes key cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, historical, political, psychological and social aspects of globalization.
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The Global Environment: Institutions, Law & Policy, 2nd Edition
Regina Axelrod, David Leonard Downie, and Norman Vig
In addition to co-editing this monograph, David Downie is a contributing author, "Global Environmental Policy: Governance through Regimes" and “Global Policy for Toxic Chemicals [with Jonathon Krueger and Henrik Selin]”.
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Charting Transnational Democracy : Beyond Global Arrogance
Janie Leatherman and Julie A. Webber
Book description: This collection explores transnational peace and social-justice movements, their implications for international relations, and their potential for democratizing global governance. Contributors examine case studies on issue areas including human rights, security, environments and social/economic justice. The core objective is to determine whether and how progressive actors are able to break free of the entrapments of global arrogance. – Publisher description.
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Northern Lights against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic
David Leonard Downie and Terry Fenge
In addition to co-editing, David Downie is a contributing author, “Global POPs Policy: The 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants" and (with Terry Fenge), "“Introduction".
Book description:
Representatives of 111 nations gathered in Stockholm in May 2001 to sign a legally binding convention to eliminate or reduce emissions of pesticides, insecticides, and other industrial combustion by-products. Long-range transport by air and water carries many of these pollutants to the circumpolar north, where they threaten the health and cultural survival of Inuit and other northern Indigenous peoples. Northern Lights against POPs tells the many-faceted scientific, policy, legal, and advocacy story that led to the Stockholm convention. Unique in its perspective, scope, and breadth, it reveals the key links among environmental and health science, international politics, advocacy, law, and global negotiations. Never before have public health concerns articulated by northern Indigenous peoples in Canada and throughout the circumpolar Arctic had such a direct impact on global policy-making. Authors show how research on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) in the Arctic from the mid-1980s influenced international negotiations and analyze the potential for the convention to be effective. Contributors include elected representatives, researchers, civil servants, Indigenous people who participated in the negotiations, and scientists who provided the compelling Arctic data that prompted the United Nations Environment Programme to sponsor negotiations.
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From Cold War to Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change and the OSCE
Janie Leatherman
On November 19, 1990, the participating states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) gathered in Paris to sign the Charter of Paris and celebrate an end to the Cold War. How did the thirty-five CSCE countries, escape the clutches of the Cold War without a violent confrontation? Janie Leatherman argues that by forging an understanding of cooperative security and embracing the protection of human rights, the primacy of democratic government, and free market economies, the CSCE led the participating states from Cold War confrontation toward a democratic peace. – Publisher description.
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The Global Environment in the 21st Century: Prospects for International Cooperation
Pamela Chasek, David Leonard Downie, and Marc Levy
David Downie is a contributing author (with Marc Levy), “The United Nations Environment Programme at a Turning Point: Options for Change".
Book description: "The Global Environment in the 21st Century: Prospects for International Cooperation examines the roles of different actors in the formulation of international and national environmental policy..the authors examine the roles of state and non-state actors in safeguarding the environment and advancing sustainable development into the 21st century. Each of five sections focus on a different actor: states, civil society, market forces, regional arrangements and international organisations. By examining the functions and capabilities of each of these actors, the authors analyse their effectiveness and their relationship with other actors both within and outside of the UN system, providing a useful framework for understanding the multi-actor, multi-issue nature of international environmental policy." -- Publisher description.
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Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources
J. Samuel Barkin, George Shambaugh, and David Leonard Downie
David Downie is a contributing author, “The Power to Destroy: Understanding Stratospheric Ozone Politics as a Common Pool Resource Problem”.
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Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Intrastate Crises
Janie Leatherman, Raimo Väyrynen, William Demars, and Patrick Gaffney
Breaking Cycles of Violence studies how the international community, working with local partners, can effectively pinpoint key breaking points and target resources for societies at risk of violent conflict. Provides policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students with a framework for recognizing and tackling the complexities of internal and intrastate conflicts in order to avert violence and mass human suffering. It presents guidelines for using early warning indicators to assess the causes of conflict; using preventative action to contain it; and using multidimensional strategies to rehabilitate societies through the cycle of post-conflict peacebuilding. – Publisher description
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International Organizations and Environmental Policy
Robert Bartlett, Priya Kurian, Madhu Malik, and David Leonard Downie
David Downie is a contributing author, “UNEP and the Montreal Protocol: New Roles for International Organizations in Regime Creation and Change”.
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Political Culture and Constitutionalism
Daniel P. Franklin, Michael Baun, and Marcie J. Patton
Marcie J. Patton is a contributing author, “Constitutionalism and Political Culture in Turkey” pp. 138-158.
Book description: This work is a cross-national examination of the relationship between political culture and constitutionalism in the nation state. Ten countries are studied: Nigeria, Turkey, Egypt, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, India, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. In addition to the editors, the authors are Rotimi Suberu(Nigeria), Marci Patton(Turkey), Nathan J. Brown and Roni Amit(Egypt), William B. Gwyn(Great Britain), John O. Haley(Japan), Sankaran Krishna(India), Howard J. Wiarda(Mexico), and Gregory Mahler(Canada). Questions to be explored include whether constitutions can be imposed from the top or must evolve; whether constitutionalism is only a western concept; and what the relationship is between colonialism and constitutionalism. -- Publisher description.
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Real Security: Converting the Defense Economy and Building Peace
Kevin Cassidy and Gregory A. Bischak
Kevin J. Cassidy is a co-editor and the contributor of the conclusion, "Real Security, Real Democracy".
Book description: With the end of the Cold War and the extraordinary military competition that characterized it, the meaning of national security is being redefined. This book participates in that task by proposing a new, demilitarized foreign policy based on collective security, and an industrial policy capable of shifting the country's major resources from military purposes to the revitalization of the economy. This reduction in military production will also make possible the reversal of the environmental legacy of the Cold War, analyzed at length here. – Publisher description.
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Privatization and Liberalization in the Middle East
Iliya Harik, Denis Sullivan, and Marcie J. Patton
Marcie J. Patton is a contributing author, "Constraints to Privatization in Turkey", pp. 106-122.
Book description: International specialists take stock of the problems and prospects for privatization of state-run economies and other liberalization efforts throughout the Middle East and North Africa. -- Publisher description.