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Mobilization Politics reveals how activists in Philadelphia, working inside and outside the conventional political system, have effected important changes in criminal justice, immigrant rights, precarious labor, affordable housing, and community development while transforming how the city is governed.

Bringing together scholarly analyses of U.S. colonial wars in the American west and across Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Prehistories of the War on Terror reveals fundamental continuities between the contemporary War on Terror and earlier U.S. imperial conflicts.

Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around West Philadelphia’s University City, advocating a reorientation of redevelopment practice around the recognition that, despite their negligible worth in real estate terms, the time, care, and energy people invest in their local environments are precious urban resources.

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. Ethnocracy traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians and examines the consequences of settlement, land, development, and planning policies.

Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

Enrique Peñalosa Londoño’s book describes how cities can become powerful means to achieve equality and inclusion. It provides democratic and practical criteria for conceiving and constructing different and better cities, describes the obstacles that are confronted when doing so, and identifies ways to overcome them.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground details public and private efforts to gentrify and expand Bucharest’s subterranean Metro stations, basements, and cellars—amidst surging inequality—to expand the opportunities to live, work, and play in an overcrowded city for its new middle classes.

The effect of the Cuban diaspora on Miami has long been observed, but how this history fits into broader trends in American history has not been properly understood. Only a Few Blocks to Cuba shows how a story of migration, federal largesse, and Cold War priorities shaped not only South Florida but our broader national politics.

During the 1980s, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, and grassroots movements across the globe pursued the radical goal of nuclear abolition. Together, they reshaped U.S. and Soviet approaches to nuclear arms control and Europe in a way that brought the Cold War to an end.

Community Benefits explores how, and to what end, community residents leverage large-scale development projects for local benefits. Rosen shows that, without accountability, project advocates can neglect their community commitments, leaving the residents responsible for benefits delivery, but with few viable avenues to produce outcomes.