Recent Additions

Conflict Resolution

Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking, by Marc Gopin. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. (291.1 Gop)

Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping, edited by Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts, and Jane Parpart. Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005. (303.6 Gen)

The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, by John Paul Lederach. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. (303.6 Led)

Religion and Peacebuilding, edited by Harold Coward and Gordon S. Smith. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004. (291.1 Rel)

Terrorism

The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East, by Robert Satloff. Washington, D.C., Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004. (303.625 Sat)

Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror, by Mary R. Habeck. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006. (303.625 Hab)

The Road to Martyrs’ Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber, by Anne Marie Oliver & Paul F. Steinberg. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. (956.94 Oli)

The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons, by Gary Hart. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. (355.03 Har)

Middle East

Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa, edited by Philip Mattar. Farmington Hills, MI, Thomson Gale, 2004. (Ref. 956.03 Enc)

Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, edited by Philip Mattar. New York, Facts On File, 2005. (Ref. 956.94 Enc)

Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East, by Marc Gopin. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. (956.05 Gop)

The Middle East (Tenth edition). Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2005. (Ref. 956 Mid)

The Military Balance in the Middle East, by Anthony H Cordesman. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2004. (956 Cor)

The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967-2005, by Amal Jamal. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. (956.94 Jam)

Political Handbook of the Middle East 2006. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2006. (Ref. 956 Pol)

Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East, by Robert G. Rabil. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Security International, 2006. (327.7305 Rab)

Islam

Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, From Baghdad to Timbuktu, by Yaroslav Trofimov. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2005. (956.04 Tro)

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy, by Khaled Abou El Fadl. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2004. (297 Abo)

Modernization, Democracy, and Islam, edited by Shireen T. Hunter and Huma Malik. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2005. (297 Mod)

Religion and Peace

Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking, by Marc Gopin. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. (291.1 Gop)

God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, by Marci A. Hamilton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (342.7308 Ham)

Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East, by Marc Gopin. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. (956.05 Gop)

Religion and Peacebuilding, edited by Harold Coward and Gordon S. Smith. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004. (291.1 Rel)

Arms Control

Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, by Paul Lettow. New York, Random House, 2006. (358.1 Let)

Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History, edited by Eric A. Croddy and James J. Wirtz. Santa Barbara, California, ABC-CLIO, 2005. (Ref. 358.3 Wea)

Civil Rights

“Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, by Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2006. (305.8 MCC)

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Raymond Arsenault. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. (323.4 Ars)

Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism, by Geoffrey R. Stone. New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. (323.44 Sto)

Education

The Almanac of American Education 2005, edited by Deirdre A. Gaquin and Katherine A. Debrandt. Lanham, MD., Bernan Press, 2005. (Ref. 370 Alm)

Human Rights

The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Ref. 364.138 Tor)

International Relations

American Encounters with Arabs: The “Soft Power” of U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East, by William A. Rugh. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Security International, 2006. (327.56 Rug)

American Foreign Policy since the Vietnam War: The Search for Consensus from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, by Richard A. Melanson. Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 2005. (327.73 Mel)

At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, by David Rieff. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2005. (327.1 Rie)

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor Saunders. New York, The New Press, 1999. (327.1 Sau)

Cultural Exchange & the Cold War: Raising the Iron Curtain, by Yale Richmond. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. (303.48 Ric)

The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, by Richard T. Arndt. Washington D.C., Potomac Books, 2005. (327.73 Arn)

The Mighty & The Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, by Madeleine Albright. New York, HarperCollins, 2006. (327.73 Alb)

The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course, by Richard N. Haass. New York, Public Affairs, 2005. (327.73 Haa)

The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas P.M. Barnett. New York, Berkley Books, 2005. (355.03 Bar)

Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Robert M. Entman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004. (327.73 Ent)

Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power, by David J. Rothkopf. New York, PublicAffairs, 2004. (355.03 Rot)

Selling Intervention & War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public, by Jon Western. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. (327.73 Wes)

Thicker Than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia, by Rachel Bronson. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. (327.7305 Bro)

U.S. Foreign Policy: The Paradox of World Power, by Steven W. Hook. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2005. (327.73 Hoo)

Journalism

Arab Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio, and Television in Arab Politics, by William A. Rugh. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger, 2004. (070.4 Rug)

The Making of Arab News, by Noha Mellor. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. (070.4 Mel)

Law

God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law, by Marci A. Hamilton. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (342.7308 Ham)

The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11, by John Yoo. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. (343.73 Yoo)

Politics

American Voter Turnout: An Institutional Perspective, by David Hill. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2006. (324.973 Hil)

Campaigns and Elections American Style, edited by James A. Thurber and Candice J. Nelson. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 2004. (324.7 Cam)

Change and Continuity in the 2004 Elections, by Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde. Washington, D.C. CQ Press, 2006. (324.973 Abr)

Congressional Deskbook 2005-2007 (109^th Congress), by Judy Schneider and Michael L. Koempel. Alexandria, VA, The Capitol.Net, 2005. (Ref 328.73 Sch)

The Elections of 2004, edited by Michael Nelson. Washington D.C., CQ Press, 2005.

(324.973 Ele)

Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and Legislative Policy Formulation, by Andrew Rudalevige. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2002. (352.25 Rud)

Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism, by Michael Walzer. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004. (320.51 Wal)

Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House, by Ari Fleischer. New York, William Morrow, 2005. (973.931 Fle)

Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-2006, by Harold W. Stanley and Richard G. Niemi.

Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2006. (Ref. 320.973 Vit)

The Voting Rights: Securing the Ballot, edited by Richard M. Valelly. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2006. (Ref. 324.6 Vot)

Women and Political Participation: Cultural Change in the Political Arena, by M. Margaret Conway, Gertrude A. Steuernagel and David W. Ahern. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2005. (306.2 Con)

Society

The Arab Americans, by Randa A. Kayyali. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press. 2006. (973.04 Kay)

Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, by Morris P. Fiorina. New York, Pearson Longman, 2005. (306.2 Fio)

Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem – And What We Should Do About It, by Noah Feldman. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. (322.1 Fel)

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, edited by Immanuel Ness. (4 volumes). New York, Sharpe Reference, 2004. (Ref. 300.973 Enc)

Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, by Suzanne Mettler. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. (305.9082 Met)

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas L. Friedman. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. (303.48 Fri)

Youth Justice in America, by Maryam Ahranjani, Andrew G. Ferguson and James B. Raskin. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2005. (345.73 Ahr)

Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam, by David Farber. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2005. (955 Far)

Terror and Liberalism, by Paul Berman. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. (303.625 Ber)

Updated: December 2007