IICAS Research Grant Publications

Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance
IR/PS Professor Miles Kahler has edited a new book entitled, Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance. The book was produced by a project sponsored by IICAS, the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, and the Center of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and received financial support from the IGCC. It is available here.

Description: The concept of network has emerged as an intellectual centerpiece for our era. Network analysis also occupies a growing place in many of the social sciences. In international relations, however, network has too often remained a metaphor rather than a powerful theoretical perspective. In Networked Politics, a team of political scientists investigates networks in important sectors of international relations, including human rights, security agreements, terrorist and criminal groups, international inequality, and governance of the Internet. They treat networks as either structures that shape behavior or important collective actors. In their hands, familiar concepts, such as structure, power, and governance, are awarded new meaning.

National Insecurity and Human Rights 
IICAS director Gershon Shafir and Professor Alison Brysk from the University of California, Irvine have edited a book entitled National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism. The book is available here.

Description: All too often, the first casualty of national insecurity is human rights.  How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights?  This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany.  It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperations are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.